Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-27

| Farm home and factory have no need
to be idle when such demonstration or
| her possibilities is manifest. Here the
products of the factories in the eastern
and central states have found their way
to the fields of the South and Southwest
to make glad the heart of the husband
| men. Then we went into the acres OF
carriage, wagon and bicycle buildings
where Indiana and Ohio had stored her
best and richest skill and workmanship.
We delighted to lnger in the poultry
building and view its handsome fowl so
| rich in plumage and so noble in breeding
form. Here was poultry common to
every state arranged in pairs in their
separate cages, the male moving in glad
ness and pride at the prize tag outside.
while the female shook her feathers and
wished to be admired for her beauty.
We walked down through the many sta
bles with the stalls full of the noble
stock of Texas cattle, swine and sheep;
not the wild, untamed breed that knew
not the power of man but the outgroWth
of his kindness, care and Skill that are
but beginning to Gull their noblest pro-
duct from the herds that once roamed
wild over her prairies, chased by savage
Indians and housed in the WildnesS of
nature here were the long horns so
famous the world over Thence through
the stalls for draft and speed horses
where Texas, Mississippi and the blue
grass country of Tennessee. had their
best stock; slender-limbed lonS-necked
racers ana Square-hipped, broad-necked
workers. There were few of the latter
for the mongrel mule is the draft animal
of the South.
| There is no need to mention all the side
issues OF the fair; the show tents. the
fakr stands, the lunch counters, the
freak tents, the balloon man. the lemon
ade man and all the accomplishments of
every fair the music, the noise and hub
bub; for we are concerned not with the
pleasure side of man but with his intel
lectual advancement and the progress of
America Surely there is much of inter-
est to a northerner mid the blooming
flowers and green vegetation of autumn
to view all this varied and rich product
of other lands than his own. tbs but to
enlarge his mind, to develop his knowl-
edge, to open his heart and magnify his
patriotism. There is much to De told of
Texas pioneer history, of the character
of her people. of her traditions, her pres
ent and her future.
The one suggestive thing to me during
the whole of the two weeks exposition
was the spirit of enterprise that char
acterZed every department and demon
strated that the Southwest is advancing
| rapidly in all phases of modern civilza-
ton and improvement. Her facilities are
many and rich, her spirit progressive and
patriotic her dignity chivalric and gem
erous. Though young in all the political
side issues that go to make up state,
she stands alone and unaided upon the
pedestal of her own inherent strength
and wealth. confident of her power en-
bodied in the extent of her fertile lands;
yet she is ever ready to welcome within
her hospitable bosom any who may wish
to seek honest fortune with her loyal
sons. Here every man stands alone on
his honor and dignity, his word and mer-
| it and counts only for what he is worth
in the market of human progress. Here
freedom of thought, speech and press are
embodied in a noble, patriotic generous
nature. warm in kindness and as ready
to hurl antagonsm upon dishonest foes
or loiterers around it's sacred hearth.
when it's honest freedom is encroached
upon. Here no tread-mill, society func-
tionaries nor political jingoists find well
come in her reception halls, whose doors
stand wide open only for honesty and
virtue. Here reality is supreme, no
painted idol of political or social buffoon-
cry sits il! her temples of peace and
wealth to mock the endeavors of honest
noble culture. She nobly cherishes the
struggles of her ancestors and pioneers
against unjust taxation, arrogance and
usurpation of Mexican tyranny. Her
sons and daughters have inlbibed this ell
ement of patriotic ardor and nobility of
enterprise. so akin to the patriotism of
New Englanders, and in their enforce
ment and production l can read the pro-
phetic signs of a grand future. 1 can
see her citizens bearing their honestly
won laurels high in the march of human
progress and well up in the van of Amer
lean civilization The art. science and
professional schools of the North East