The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-09

\ Texas most capable and satisfactory ad-
4 minlstration.' Mr. and Mrs. Pearce re-.
turned aomc last night.
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,rllE RESULTS or TOBACCO.
judge I<IttrclPs Remarks Mt tho To-
hRccO Groyvcrs' Convention. X
The following ndii'ess WIS delivered by
i n. Ct klJtreil ut Turner hall Wednesday
4 night:
Members Of THE Tobacco Raiscrs assoc
citation. promoters OF domestic discord, foes
Of long suffering wives, purveycrs to mans
bad taste and temptors OF his artlficisl APP
rstite, rs a citizen Of Houston, and 4 con-
Gunner by fire Of tho products OF your skill
and labor. ! GLADLY greet YOU.
Tho culture Of tobacco and tho trade In
Ithut commodity is confirmatory of an
economic Truth. viz. that man often labors
hardest with hnnd and BRAN and more
libeqaIly invests his capital and receives
,arpSir returns from enterprises connected
with Tho production of those things which
are not essential 10 human happiness aud
that sCra not naturally luXuries, and OF
which man might be deprived without IL
jury TO himself individually or 10 soclsty
In the aggregate.
j Wlaen Jean Nicot stmit from Portugal TO
France In 1860 the seeds OF tho plant which
by It's botanical designation ''nIcotana
! tab1cun' PREREQUISITES his name. II Is char
i stable 10 believe that he did not realize
what dhro resulus wculI follow from hls
act.
Had ho known that In generations TO
come patient wives preserved in tobacco
smoke w1ubd pronounce him Anathemu,
t5At email boys who had taken their first
chew would vomit,a az they curse him and
curse him az they vodnited, and that he
who, in the cxtreinity OF financial depres-
1on. had invested In "2 for q s" inn
+ Dorhed from Connecticut, and With the
fumes thereof committed assault on Ills
neigEbor. and done violence TO his own
nervous system would cherish grudgc
against him. such thought must have given
him pause,
\ He planted ilttc seed from which have
ccme a mighty harvest. And In 83S years
driS act has started more fires. caused more
SEX siomacbs. shaken more neryea. raieed
the wlaih OF moro w0psen, deflled NOR.
tioors provoked more profanity. raised
mc.e revenue. given employment to m9St
labor, built more great fortunes, mad,
valuable more land otherwise worthless
| than any one act since the dawn OF tilnc
Msngeu. Moot sent nut seed OF "a PLAN
OF which tlo did not know the name bu
IL he were alive again no would not know
IL vet for Inc botanists. With n urseio,
technical yocabulary imam rtbe doctors In N,
Invested 81 With more names tha,, wor,
ever possessed by n SpanIgb prinne The,
tell us II is of tine spec,es of Nicoliana' 1
gNnus Of tho solanacn of The night ghad,
family and trippingly frDm thcr tongues
rolls "Nicotiaira Riistica." NIcotians Chi,
nensg.' "Nicotlapa Pery.lca.' .sNicotlana
Repends." 'Nicoilana Quadrlyalyls," until
we arc not gurprleed that when me AMER.
4 into hig saljyary Glands mr. hIs sinmach
THAT he throws no lbis boot heels. ree.
aenth near ait hsrpd. and when no and,
himself at,rors his mothc1.y ,opees. with he,
1 slipper playing m n int on r,ds anatatny
he rsoaially finds the position a rolace and
4 relief.
When We learn that The world was With
o,pt ..nicctiana dobsaun,', and iii ia w.
1iols diffemntiations Tor nbo,,, Ann v.,rs
mo feel that il has Ind IN ro,ne ~ o,,1h
TO have started "a tbe ,ra,,3en ~ Ed.n ha
cy,aiso II eve had niven MOI, woc-s, INA
oaew of "Nireer. uc.dv or n ,b~root Oh,
would have knockrd hdm an. IN ,hn fi,s
round and me world have hern SAVED "woet
,inntimbfred,1 though perchanca' thar ca
lamlty might have resulted In our iIrissir,
the Fruit Flower and veastabln Eestiv
and tais festive occasion
The most cas,,ni rpnalinp of tho h,stor,
OF our country Will show 1baa torrance I,a.
been ,,ssociated most Intimately with OH,
National ldfsv,Ionmeut. IL INA oorjv hts.
tcfy Of the country tba most nrnminenI
politicians ana the man NJ ,I,e most poi.
"srt sem IN" ofteuert hui The man whe
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