The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-18

country town with 27,00o people. But The
Houston Post was born. and with II was
born a new era for the Bayou City. Look
at the clty's progress through the last ff-
teen years! Look at the busy population
of 10000 souls. its network OF railroads,
its big car wheel works. its huge railroad
shops, its big cotton seed mills. its coop
erage establishments. its fine electric
lines its creosoting works. its carriage
and wagon works. Its furniture and box
factory. Its mammoth congresses, What
wrought this wonderful change? Look over
the files OF that tireless worker for Texas
advancement. The Post. for your answer
Take the history Of Galveston. What
was Galveston in 1912. the birthday Of that
great paper, the Galveston Daily News?
A low, marshy island with a few shabby
business houses, a lot OF Dollhouse resi-
dences, filthy streets with little sandcrah
nests and fish ponds at every corner. The
population then was $4,000 We have all
read the News for years. We know what
grand w-rk 1t has done, not only for
Galveston, but for Texas Look at the re-
suits; population OF 90 900 a $4,000 600
harhor magnificent stone and brick
business blocks, massive hotels. great
wholesale houses miles Of electric rail-
ways, beautiful beach improvements and
driveways, and miles OF wharves, at which
the ships of every nation lie at anchor
waiting for the wealth Of grand old Texas
TO be poured into their holds Where is
the Key TO this phenomenal change? Read
the iiles of the News from 1912 to date
Take the history Of Dallas. that great
North Texas metropolis with its popula-
ton Of $4,000 people Up TO the early
SOs Dallas was small town with t:ss
IMAM 20 600 people. 1t had no large en-
terprises. But there came a change There
was an event in the News family that
meant new life to Dallas--a little sister 10
the Galveston News was born, and she was
sent to the big North Texas town. Here
IN Waco 50 close to Dallas, It Is useless
10 tell the result. We all know what Dali
las 49, with its public enterprises, its mills
ana factories, its fine street railways, lis
churches and schools, and It's wholesale
houses
San Antonio has made all OF It's growth
in A, last fifteen years. About 1880 the
san Antonio Express put out its tow line
to- factoriesi and after Will have finished
reading to you here list Of the enter
prises of that city you Will agree with ME
that the Express has done great work for
its town.
But another thing: Many OF the earlier
/ settlers in Texas were lured here by do
sire for speculation. Texas was a Klon-
dlke-cotton was the ore All man had
TO do was TO plant a big acreage OF cotton
I t1D1llO0
was not permanent. There came a change
and king cotton took a fall Here was
more work for newspaper The atten-
4 ton of the farmer had to be diverted from
the one-erop ideA TO diversifcation How
! well the press has succeeded can not be
| more foroefully illustrated than by the
statement that Southwest Texas is today
shipping truck by the train load
| have the honor to represent what
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great coast region traversed by the san
Antonio and Aransas Pass railway Down
| IN my country ten years ago, a man would
/ have been laughed at If he had predicted
that at the close OF the present century
that that vast cotton field would be con.
verted into truck patch with buyers from
all over the United States struggling {,
buy our produce The idea was unpopular
but the newspapers worked untirlngly, un
oeasingly. Their energy was inexhaustiye
Ihey talked truck year in and year out
In the meantime the real estate man ap
peared upon the scene and these TIVE
powerful agencies for development toinet
hands. Look at Southwest Texas today
From the list OF March to the LIST OF Jul,
Kansas City, New York, Chicago and othe
Northern cities draw on us for their fruit
and vegetables From Galveston to Cor
pus Christi from Kennedy to San An
tonic, from foalum 10 Waco there is
vast territory that Is shipping whole trail
loads of truck daily That is Oversize,
farming That is development. Thereir
lies the key to Texas future greatness
and II the press of my end # the Stat
had done nothing else in the advancement
OF the State that grand work alone woulc
entitle it to crown OF glory.
Why. In few more years Southwes
Texas Will rival the great garden region o
the Carolinas. of New York and Nav Jer
sey' and that vast region will be VERT
able Garden of Eden. We have in GU
portion of the State two institutions tina
have done more to develop Texas than al
other agencies combined, and they are
, the San AntoAh and Arkansas Pass rail.
way and the San Antonio and Aransa:
Pass Railway immigration association
There are Lupton. Rannev Skaggs, Buehel
Swami, Penfeld. Tom Richardson and 1
Few others ! know of--men who work da,
and night for the advancement of Texas
and for Southwest Texas In particular
with such workers Texas can not fail tc
take It's place In the front ranks OF agrl.
: cultural and horticultural regions I am
proud TO number these men among IN,
citizens OF that portion OF the State which
l represent, and | know that they apnre.
eiate the work done by the newspapers.
me newspapers as @ rule. are appre.
elated, They have done a grand work 10,
=, 80, '~-.ttH1- Nhe Peupie OF ieNas are mol
SLOW IN recognizing their friends Il Is
true that our legislators have seen At in
their wisdom to refused us a lust libel
law However, some OF these 2y4 poli.
tlolans will learn before the ides OF No
vemher 1900 that the newspapers have a
little hand wagon OF their own. The men
who fought us in the legislature are men
who also admit that they have a grievances
and their conduct Inspires me to call down
upon them the invocation Of our Lord
Father, forgive them for they know
not what they DOT
I REAL ESTATE DEALERS.
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