The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-23
col. FORMERS WITTY SPEECH.


toionel Jerry VI Porter OF Kentucky wan
one OF the distinguished speakers who adj
dressed the drummers at Dallas Travellers
Protective Association cav Iits thcme
was Texas As the Drummer Sees 1t. and
De san among many other things:
! don't know how long the world h,s
been made, don't know how ,orc ,h,.
bell has been whirling among the world,
SINCE goa made 1t aud threw 1t out from his
mana to take its place in the great plane
tary system around us In the ages n,.,
philosophers have figured on 1t. scientists
haSe planned about 1t. but | hayo mayor
oeeh able TO more than imagine how II was
oohe' and that's about the best I'm doing
on TINS good day. But in olden times ,ybsn
languages were only grunts and rro,ns
and dialects We're signs made win h,n,.
"en Noa $1,000 lace to face 10 hold con
se Win mah--when u new country was
DO Opened up for his people, he d select
soma sooa man whom he could trust. and
-. n' ~, 'nto the Wilderness to drive a
seoo or lay down stone to mark Tho nlaco
anu have Just been thinking mar /, 7
ever scale the walls of the Celestial ON
anu get nome 10 the place where All tbe ola
patT'archs and prophets dwell thint
.Le my tTst ambitions shall be TO find
the old saint that drove down tha stoh sr.
the Lone Star tSate of Tex,s 49, 49,, 'or
st4nd at his front gate and fertiliyn ana
warm the grass IN his front yard with nv
own GENIAL smiles OF satisfaction and water
the same With my most dewy tears of erat
i.uae. ! Ike Texas! But I don't propose
10 furnish tears 10 water the whoIa So,
When | received an invltarion 10 a,'os,
upon this occasion Drummers' tiay of yo,r
great fair--l selected for my theme, "rcxns
AS tho Drummer Sees H." and I ncy,,',
realized the job had on my hands unttt
got hero and looked at 1t for myself
Texas Is undoubtedls the biggest sin.,n
thing ever saw The associated schoisrs
OF the literary world are beginning svs-
TEN ct authorizations and short cut wnvs
70 spell our words, that bids fair To revo-
iutionize the unabridged dictionary into n
vest POCKET vocabulary OF the English lam
6uage and enable the printing nress "a M,
the biggest daily on a thumb card pr n,
wei enamored OF this gooi day. and n
some genius will invent some way 10 ah.
previate Texas so that man can cross inc
state on the ligh tnins's flash in less than
cross the State. "
One popularity about our people who
nave left Kentucky for other States. ali
except those who came To Texas ALWAYS
come back But when they have packed I'm
tneir cnattels 70 move. II they are starting
- Ss~~>'t w ShVu many tears ana bid them
an eternal farewell. for the "cat never
comes back" from Texas--and there's nm.
other fact worthy OF eternal praise Of
Texas and that Is: You may move Tho
mcanest man we've got in Kentucky 10
Texas and he'll be good citizen when we
hear from him again. Men used to steal
horses in Kentucky and go to Arkansas
and steal bank and 60 to Texas and be
FATE. The meanest boys we have ever raised
10 ken;ucky have many OF them moved ~
Texas, and are big preachers today
Brother Homer +. wilsoa came from nv
own town. The smaller the town the blr.
ger the preacher. This Is a wonderful
world out here! And II Texas was az large
every way - It Is any one way. she would
touch upon and cover under her broad
smiles twenty-seven States and Territories
g the Union today. Think OF II, The
unstsd States OF Texas. How would IL re IA
g you: Why. you may drive down pin
- TexIine on the north. tie cord 10 IL |
ana stretch the cord across the state 10
MoH4svilie % The South ssd then start |
Ssss ane csre!e Around the pin 1t Texlsne.
- you'll take 81 half % The repubJi. 81 |
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