Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-13

within your gift and thus honored the
association. He served you with con,
scientious rectitude OF purpose, anu
managed the AFFAIRS OF Oie association
with distinguished ability. You now
very benttingly honor him with TINS
beautiful painting, but the NOBLE on
man has answered the last roll call'
He too has passed over the river to
greener pastures. Peace TO his ashes.
You have many reasons for being
satisfied with the achievements OF your
organization. You have brought sys-
TEN and safety out Of chaos ana con-
fusion You have Improved the breeds
of your herds, you have educated all
classes concerned in stock raising, ana
maveroking is no longer prof
liable vocation In Texas. You have re-
covered many thousands OF dollars
worth of stolen STOCK and in many In
stances punished the thieves, and your
detective system is now SO complete
and so extensive that 1t is nearly i'm
possible for a depredator to get away
with his plumber or escape punishment
You have been instrumental in SCI
curing valuable legislation for the pro-
lection of the live stock Interests. and
you have paid into the treasury of the
state several hundred thousand dollars
for the privilege OF grazing your herds
on the wasting grasses OF the I'M
patented pralries. You have planted
wealth. culture, the church and the
school house throughout a vast empire
OF territory that but little while ago
was the home of the buffalo and DOM
mated by the savage. You have placed
the cattle industry OF Texas in the fore
most front and made it worth the While
OF the largest dealers on the continent
to make your acquaintance and the
largest capitalists engaged in the busi-
ness to establish packing houses at
your door.
By your conservatism, forbearance,
manly magnanimity and high appre-
citation of justice, you have preserved
kindly relations with the man with the
hoe, and you are at this very hour the
prime factor in harmoni2lng the three
great controlling industries Of the state,
agriculture, live stock and railroads,
and bringing them to a proper under
standing OF their mutual dependence
and to forcsee a period Of prosperity
unparalleled In the history Of the ma
tons in the unity OF the policies inter-
ests and rights of all, recognized In
legislation, respected by the people and
enforced by the Is. What promotes
the interests of agriculture advances
the prosperity Of the railroads, and
what benefits these two great indus-
tries can but conserve the stock-ralsing
interest, and vice versa, the policy and
the legislation that enhance the stock
raisers profits must rebound to the
benefit of other kindred industries.
What we want, therefore, and what
is your mission to propagate, is not
factionAl strife for the political I'D
vancement Of the demagogue, Of class
legislation for the benefit of the few
at the expense OF the many but we
want peace and harmony among the
people. We want legislation that will
recognize the rights, guard the indus
tries and subserye the best interests OF
the whole people. We want a harmoni-
Gus, property respecting, law-abiding.
peaceful, prosperous people, with laws
friendly TO capital and labor and
Christian sentiment friendly to all de-
sirablc immigration.
We are a great people, and as Texans
may be pardoned for boasting of our
achievements and present status among
the states. But we in Texas are YET
in the building age, and we should
hold out every inducement to capital
and labor to come In and help us COM
plete the grand structure, of which you
laid the foundation and have contrib
uted 50 much in carrying on the mag
nihcent work to It's present noble and
imposing proportions.
We have room for more capital, more
ranch enterprises, more railroads, more
cotton and wool mills. more iron foun-
dries and implement factories, more
cotton gins cotton-seed oil and Touring
mills, more industries of every class
and character, and last, but not least,