The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-09
Business Men Who Are Touring the State
Arrived Here Last Night.
THEY WERE GIVEN A CORDIAL WELCOME
Were Shown the Attwater Exhibit and Later Enter
tanned at the Eks' Club-Trp to Beaumont
Was Resumed at Midnight.

monwealth could not have lain SO close
I 10 Texas and been so Intimately connected
with her people Ia business without no
! sorhing greatness. Texas Just now L. In
the missionary business on large scale
She has just sent home a representative
body OF Now Workers. delighted, surprised
and In large measure enlightened. ana
| We propose 20 send you away hlicd with
like sensations and emotions; and IN mag
inAtion we soc the business men Of he
! WINDY City packing their grips filling
their inskS and preparing to come hithcr
to the Land ~ Promise, because VIC know
! Chicago never intends to let ST. Louis heat
Great is The triimie you draw from this
Southwestern empire. ST. Louis drummctS
! are rs thick hero MS cockieburs In tho
BRACES bottom and every other man an1
woman wears shoes made in St Louis A.
| talk to Won stand IN pair made there
and received by me with the compliments
| Of one Of your party. with whom ! trust
| my relations will always stand upon nc
same footing, appreciated the fitness q
this gift rs soou rs pmt them on.
We are looking forward TO ST. Louis and
1903 with pleasure and hope yes with SUI
preme confidence because We do not per
mil ourselves "a indulge In even tho pos
sihility If failure of the magnificent con
coption of an exposition IN celebrate the
centennial Of one nf zinc greatest achieve
ments recorded IN the annals OF diplomacy
and statesmauShip.
geneaoloCy uf the people of 81 Louis nun
lind that they are lin'al Descendants of
the tribe Of I'll, for they always get there
and with Dave Francis In the lead you
win WIN out hands down.
| Presidents have coDe mp from the mani
and wedge from the pillow handles and tnc
tow path. aud as the era Of the politician
and the drmngogue Is passing and that OF
me statesman ana the business man rs nj
hand, ! see no reason why a path Is not
open from the gates Of the Louisiana Fur
chase exposition to the White House.
All the nations Of the world viii respond
70 your bidding to strive in generous eInula-
zion for in tho m 81
science. manufactures and inventions at
Your great exposition We aopc Texas will
hrt EiaiYeiouS resources Won VIII have 10
extend your grounds and enlarge your
buildings, fo' II she goes into the game II
cXhibltimg she vii take OF the bride and
play with the sky for a limit. You will
perceive I adopt my me!apher TO he com
stacks mp her eighteen loot corn stalks.
her thirteen.foot cotton stalks, her oats
hearing 125 bushels 70 the acre, and pens
them In with marble and ONYX and granite
and graphite and asbestos, aud anoints her
offerings with oil She viii make even Mis-
souri, hard 10 catch"
Tho South viii be with YOU in the great
panorama OF human progress which st.
louis energy, pluck llbrrality and on
lightcnmcnt VIII spread before the gaze Of
an awed and wondering world. She wll
show what brave, true and patriotic peo-
pic can do In a single generation under
adverse environments She will illnstrai .
the fact that her people possess a power
| OF rccupCraton ana measure Of CONNER
cinl and industrial Ability which has been
the wonder Of tho nations She will not
, shrink from the contest with her more
favored Northern sister states. hut will
meet them In bold, but genuine rivalry
cherishlng the halloned memories Of a
glorious past, rejoicing. IN the abundant
prosperity OF a marvellous present. ana
looking with an abiding confidence to the
/ splendid future, nj which ''even soaring
) which Missouri and 81, Louis Will do may
/ bind all the states Of this nation. closer
Eugland's quaker poet uttered twenty-five
( years ago may he fulh'lcd, that
"our fathers God. from ont whose hand
The centuries fall like grains Of sand,
shaped in some dcrnicr mold
Let the new cycle shame the old"
~
Judge Klttrell was greeted with perfect
STERN Of applause rs he took his seat ans
some moments elapsed before anything
could be heard above the sound Of laughter
and hand clappng, Then cries, of ',ras
some morel Give us more of that kind!'
. began to nredOmlnGte and the speaker wal
finally induced to again take the floor
! acting on the biblical injunction to taxi,
, the stranger in, but that ii the welcom,
: here was not all that 1t should be, thu
, where the glad and greasy hand would b,
, extended 10 them. Out NJ Beaumont. HI
sSd all rules OF ma bsms Ssos sad all sort
4 could be fornd over there who wonlt
q Nouch for the statement that they ha6
d | one thousand gushcrs on sixteen suuar,
I feet OF land. During recent visit I,
/. New York, the speaker said, he, had beef
mPreSsGd win the number Of banks N,b an,
hut shoe houses. file thought that th
name, Of the place should be changed fron
referred to the manner In which the PEG
pie of ST. Louis had responded TO GAl
, yeston's appeal for aid sttcr the sepiemhe
; fact that when stricken Jacksonville aske,
, for help Galveston was among the hrs
20 answer. He wanted the visitors to So
Galveston and her people aud he wante'
T them TO see san Antonio, with her Alam
{ and her many evidences of both the 81,
and the now order or things There wer
I IS men in the Alamo ard every one o
| these toed the line that Travis drew, ap'
\ It's liberty. Among the number he said
were mon from Missouri. Then too, n
wanted the visitors 10 see austin and n
u In the world. which had been built, AT
u cost ot SS,oW,o0o without '.diNyS' o
prove that and he replied that he could
d lie again referred To the New Workers VIII
have lust hnlstcd tour of the State. say
j rg that they were a fine set ef men, over
II II some OF them before coming 10 Texas
had rover been farther North than Grant
4 lie made q number Of happy hits and clos
ed by saving that he wished his friend
from 81. Louis. could stay In Houston fly
a Mr.. r. 5. Lewis, president OF the Int~l
state Merchants association under m
auspices OF which the present tour Is he
4 Ing made made neat speech by way 9
Y Introducing Air. T. q, Summons, tho found
i or of the Summons Hardware company
L Mr.. simmons commenced by saving tina
I he believed he enjoyed the honor. or IN
4 idiStlnction, az employing more travcin
u men than anyone else In the country. N
\ merely mentioned this fact he said h
way Of prefaclng q statement to the 81
n feet that II Judge Klttrell wanted Il ~
~ with him he could have II. and that. toe
n at the highest salary ever paid To an
n man on earth He felt that he had hee
placed nj q disadvantage 10y being calle
a on 10 follow such an orator rs the gen
n tleman who had proceeded him. and there
4 fore he wouldn't try 10 say much How
r ever, he thanked the people NJ Houston
< for the very cordial welcome accorded nj
Il party. ana assured them that n woulh no
be forgotten. The delegation came n
a plain business men. he said. and too mucl
should not hP expected of them IN tho Wa
Is nf speerhmakng The next wnr that vouI
nrcnr, he sail. wonid he n war Of Indus
Il FRY. IN which America would load Amerlc
: was tho best country on carth aud TeNa
y WIS the best part NJ H.
u Mr.. SIMMONS told If some nr his OF
r reriep'es when he first entered Texas as
: travelling man. twenty ,hpe Years ago. Nail
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