The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-11
THEY saw HOUSTON YESTERDAY.
Four Hundred Delegates the Farmers National Congress and
Their Ladies Entertained by Citizens Committee.
Address by Hon whitney
LastN Night, Will Here Today

want you Ia feel that IN the virtues OF
courtesy and hospitality at least we are
not deficient. You will find US intensely
! devoted to Texas because all we have we
had to fight for
axe had to whip In,lians and Mexicans Ia
| get II. Within sixteen niles Of tho city
| lies d battlefield. wherein 800 Texans de-
tSaIct an army OF e000 Mexicans In ons
Of the most decisive battles OF his ory,
which gave to the United STATES as sover-
4 an state this Imperial common wealth,
i the faiiyst and the COOLEST land that ever
GCd gave rs an habitat for N an. You hear
/ u faee troubles here. There is nothing In
| ali that cry. my friends. There Is NJ race
! conflict here. The only race va know OF
! Is the race for agricultural and CONNER
| sial stirremacy--to SEQ who can get most
out OF Texas soil ard Texas resources. The
coorei man Is protected nero In bis every
| right. The biackest negro in Texas can
get as fair a trial In her courts as the
whitest man In her borders. know VIII re-
| OF speak, because for nearly seven years
| | filled an office, the duties of which rl-
| quired ne to Try members OF the gro race
tor every grade OF offense. Texas has spent
! zen millions OF dollars in the last sixteen
years In educating the negro, and we
| educate teachers Tor the colorad schools.
| There can be no confict for political or
| governmental supremacy between the
| Saxon md men of any other race. The
Anglo Saxon has led the advance guard OF
eu pregftSs ln every age. and The
/ white-sklrned and blue-veined man has
a.MAya rbled ard viii always rule IN this
end OF this Republic. We want you 10 see
whe. we are going TO have deep water.
| We will have it at our whaives in Ave
! Year II your representatives In CO gress
Z have enough q al n NVaghjtyf0n
AID back. We do moi extend you a form ii
| 90 perIunctcry welcome. but SOU hern
| eso Me- an earneet greet ng as fellow
citizeis ani representatives OF the great
agricultural interests Of the Nat on. AID
nlw present to you the repres NATIVE Of
/ tho secretary OF agriculture. Hon. Milton
| " hitney"
| After more music Hon. Milton Whitney
of Waahhtg,on. D. c.. spoke as follows:
vt was with a great dead OF pleasure
| 'iaet rccaAved Instructions from this Sec
| retaay of agriculture TO come to Texas and
repreSent him. net only ait the National
FuimeGs' congress to be Eaad ali Fort
Worth. but also at Tobacco association
meets g to be hela In Houston about the
| same time The secretary has long recog-
| llzta the Immense importance OF tho to-
bacco interests OF this country. the diver
SIZED tastes OF our people and the foreign
markets. We have TO SUPPLY and he nas
taken steps to inaugu,,Ade a ,iooaeeo in
| vasiiRalsSn 'd.slt 1 Sm sure will be of very
grest bement to the people OF this COLL
try j came ta Houston twl9 days IT, .'rt
going to Fort Worth, and | received, ii
a rep seseneattye OF ulye department. OF agri-
u'htlise. most rcyal entalbalnmiant. | an
Auis TINT TX you have o,aa- leath par: me
a!tst rtian shown YOU that have had since
! have been IN tte Sbate "a Texas, you wdI
go away very we'll pbseused with the hvSpi-
TIL " OF TIE Si re.
AT the Tobssaoo association hat uet
here two days ago taere were rep.v.en'a-
lives from all OF the tobacco grovlng coun-
ties. ana they inauguatej the StA:e To-
baos, GgeNsfs' association. They Rad with
NJ M sone Of the finest Tobacco that i
ever Seen. tcibacco that comDstys with
Naihi IN Its fragrance and Sggmaira IN lis
Alaess ] am sure THE CONDITIONS ale
favorable Ter THE prodnatlon OF 81 tins .ype
Of cigar tsb1cco. which will compete favor
l. eby Witt tn, SO foreign countries.
| "1lhls depaf iusglt OF agriculture "a 1lure
In t,aie, with the farmers OF tho 60 iniiy
| cd " THAN II ever has been before. II Is
! wSrb.rg width slhl m; IL Is sem Ing men out
lin ITO fields who are asspc!utlng with the
| .arire- aIn ssttllng their p.ollbems and
| bringing relief wherever II Is possible. When
! ! reached Ib,uson again. with tile excur-
| SION about 2 o'clock this morning. I was
aslcSi to sreak again before the citizens
here, and was highly oompllmented, be-
use they have aiready hsd one session
| with me, NJ seemed to me. gentlerI en-,
| from the talks that e,ave had with many
of YOU, and especially those from the West,
| that II w,uih not be amlss TO say son,s-
| thing OF the work OF the departmoni On
the a'kali Question Of the West. This is
| q subisct we have recently taken up, and
! we have ALREADY obtained scne interest
| ne end valuable Information. THIS allsali
| pr;ibhm Ia one OF the most important and
ene OF the most serious problems TO the
| Wetern acsrlculhtrist. II Is a problem
| thid ~ present In all irrigated distr. cts the
| world over 1t IL not only present in the
Wet, but In all parts OF Eur.pe. OF Assn.
OF Africa. and In all uf Australia wheee an
arid climate exists and hu@rafton Is ne
cotnarv Scr agricultural prosperity. We
ave tlsoid In cur Investigations the source
Ct. the Ftheli. AlIssli salts an's moaHsv hen-
pNc!a' IS rlant fools. Tev ac'une,fore Ia
the SSH BY reason OF the arid ~ o. the
"cin'afe- In THIS shslr'eg'ut'on - rocks in
che Feet With forty ~ sixty inches NJ vain
fal. feir o. me rairrari learhrs down
shrnugh the UNDERGROUND and c,r,ries nlem
into thu ocean. We In the East with an
ar g,dnn' ralnAaM have not this gitsi cues
ton 'w'sach y c'nce-ntpg the penple Q: tho
Wet b'r re~f1err>n. this very fart o.
,a'r eIbun6ert roints'i In leaossng ont Ills
ps@rt h,rf % thev form has stn-~i ,iD in
,<sar svdl IN the West and leave IN album
n-ircs ~ plant rod which. n r-,periy at
tended W and administered. will s cid IN
tod rr'fs and wealth TO the West, n
c'Tfsss, asst. gsntlerrsm that pris,ia. OF r.
r,radinn which rs at present ns,f win >. !,
fndr II Naa becsassa wnu DO no. unde- stand
IRE condin'ens ~ nature and The fortunes
at your fert. and YOU fo not realize thaf
r. a few wears you may undo and wash nut
the v5iws which have arannn' s.e;l
til'cl'gh Rao'oac eges. Lands are bsinc
ruined today and In I'VE years in ten years
after they Rave raicsn UP the eou which
fMve been stored through ccunffirss ages
win ths most precious kinds Of FOOD n,S
teriai-
1.-THE rocks composing these Western
praires.' continued Mr.. whitney, "ths
rocks lifted up In tlsss Western mountains.
Are al what Il known as ssdlmentary
rocks. They have bean laid down under
water. thsy have been laid down In in
land seas. As the rocks have cdsIntesrAtad
and have broken damn the plant