The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-14

was the one ever fresh and tender men,
DRY, never touched by time nor lost in
his years of bitter strife. Every one 1
have ever met who had made and sus-
tanned great success ascribed it all to
the impelling influence and restraining
hand of a sainted mother. He went one
Sunday to the Church of the Strangers
and saw a congregation made up of the
clerks, statesmen. bookkeepers and porters
in the big wholesale stores of the neigh
borhood., Fellows who are helping them
selves he said. and sent the pastor, DR..
Deems, $4,000. Unlike most self
| made men, he placed the highest value
/ upon liberal education and emphatic
ally lamented his own lack of II.
| while an uncompromising friend of
the Union during the civil war. he was
deeply interested in harmonizing the
sections and developing the south when
1t was over. To Bishop Mc1'yeire's
plain presentation of the enormous ben
eht of a university in the south he
gave hospitabe hearing. A sound
| education equips young men for broader
work and greater usefulness. Such an
institution of learning was in the line
OF his motto of helping people to take
care of themselves, and he endowed
| Vanderbilt university with a million
|
sociates. forseeing the future had
demonstrated the necessity for larger
sum they would have received II.
| The peril to parties and good govern
ment and the dangers threatening prop
erty and vested rights are greatly aug-
mented by the neglect of their duties
as citizens by men of affairs and of
wealth; l have no sympathy for the
men who avoid the caucus and stay
away from the polls and then complain
OF politicians and taxes. In politics. as
In everything else the commodore was
intensely practical and efficient He
revered Washington and believed in
| Henry Clay.
| THE Merrimac and the Monitor revo-
| lutionized naval architecture. When
| this first ironclad. sailing into Hamp-
ton Roads, crushed and sunk the fed
eral frigates one after another there
was panic in New York. A company
of merchants, bankers and capitalists
| from New York appeared the next morn
| ing at the White House and were at
once given audience by the president.
Within week. said their spokesman,
the confederate ram will be in our
harbor and burn or levy tribute upon
our city. We have taken the bonds of
the government and done everything in
our power to aid in its defense We
represent in the men here present 3d.
O0O,OOO. and demand. as we think we
have the right to, the fullest protec-
tion against this peril Mr.. Lincoln
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