The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-11
Mr.. LAMB OF MASSACHUSETTS
SAYS TExAs SHOULD HAVE rae
TORIES AND LOWER RATES.
OF New England Who IL Here on
Business and Pleasure.

w. j. Lamb and wife OF West somer-
vile. Mass, have apartments at the Law
lor hotel
Mr.. Lamb is making combined bust
ness and pleasure trip through the South
and West, and after visiting number OF
places in Texas will go to California. His
business town Is just outside of the city
OF Boston, and there he is engaged ex-
tenslyely in the handling of beeswax,
which is an important Industry in that
boot and shoe manufacturing country.
He is visiting the principal places in the
South making contracts for next season,
and Incidentally is viewing that which to
him is an "unexpIored South. . His
former visits to the warmer cline have
never brought him as far as New Orleans,
and he IL making close observation of
that which he is for the first time coming
in contact with.
II watched the rain today" remarked
Mr., Lamb to The Post representative,
and To me IL appeared to rain easier than
| ever saw II. In New England, where
we need rain so badly and where 1t has
been denied us so long, the rain you are
now having throughout Texas would be a
great blessing. Your rain here appears
| TO come to you as a natural right, and It
appears 10 be without effort / like Hous
ton as much as | have seen of 1t. Your
paved streets are great benefit to your
| town, and 1t Is a commendabe enter
! prise which should be extended. 1t is a
business aid which will reap benefits to
] the con nenity.
with the vast resources of the State
| il would be better for you to have more
| lnfD but 10 h f,,sv An
not have until you can get freigh. rates
which win Justify interstate trade. In
our country when the freight rates do not
| give us an opportunity 10 do business We
I 20 TO our legislatures aud get them regu-
lated. No class OF business can prosper
! il the freight rates are so high as TO be
against its prosperity We can ship cot
/ ton TO New England manufacture II and
ship IL back to you cheaper than you can
manufacture it here and ship 1t TO us.
This is because Of the high rates. " Is
purely a matter or legislation to correct
this evil and until 1t is corrected you can
not build the factories which you so badly
need"
What do you think of the Philippine
/ situation? ?" he was asked
! Il think the Philippine situation is one
/ which is costing this country great
deal Of money aud many lives and with
out any prospect OF a realization upon the
investment. Our commissioners 10 the
/ Paris convention should have been salts
4 ned with coaling station and chance
to turn loose instead of paving high
J price for an Improbable war which We
have no right whatever TO prosecute
am directly in line with Senator Hoar GU
| the question That country Is too far
| away for US and while am a gold stand.
ard advocate do not follow the admins
tratton into the ar East"
Being an Eastern man, " would he
/ interesting to know what your sentiment
lis regarding the Transvasl war was
suggested
II look upon the Transvaal war Just the
same as | do that in the Philippines.
England has no more right in that South
African republic than we have in the East,
ern archipelaE GO
Mr.. Lamb is an interesting person and
he and his good wife discuss financial af-
fairs in the New England States, the i'm
provements in Boston, the Hub. and mat
ters of political nature with a knowledge
that indicates study of things current
Speaking OF Texas, Mr. Lamb became rem
iniseent. lie said Il have wanted to se3
the State OF Texas ever since first saw
ons OF its great men. On one occasion
when | was in Waship gton [ saw A man
wearing a wide brimmed hat till of stat
ure and without the fancy and frills OF
| estheticlsm.' The man he referred to
was old Dave" Culberson whom he
afterwards saw on one or two occasions
and heard him speak. Later he read some
OF his speeches He became convinced
as soon as he saw the man that he was
one OF power intellectually and he asked
his name, He had become interested in a
State which could send such a man to
congress, and he is now visiting the South
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb will leave today
for North Texas, where they will spend
some time visiting the towns which are
smaller than Houston. coming first to the
metropolis of the State.