The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-03
NOTED DIVINE IN TOWN
HERE TO GATHER INFORMATION ON
SUBJECT OF SOUTH TEXAS LANDS.
Meets ceIcnei S. r. q. Morse OF the
Southern Pacific and Becomes Highly
Impressed With Him.

Rev Or. j. Henry smythe Of Phlladel.
phia. editor In chief Of the Sunshine pub
locations, ls ut the Rice hotel on his way
to San Francisco. having stopped over In
Houston to see Colonel s. Il. y. Morse,
passenger traffic manager OF the Southern
Pacific. about South Texas lands. Dr.
Smythe Is one of the most eminent and
practical educators In the North. He has
built the American university, In East Ten.
nessee. into noble proportions In an ad.
dress at Knoxville the other day Or.
Smythe said: you gentlemen may be
asked. What has been done In this State
during the last decade. You can answer
that Tennessee has Increased In population
since 1892 more than Kansas, Nevada,
Wyoming Colorado and Nebraska all put
together And this steady, onward move
ment holds good from New Orleans to Ell
Paso. | shall not be surprised II | were
told in 1912 that Texas contained over
100000 souls, four-Afths Of them the best
white blood of many countries"
When interviewed on the reasons for his
stopping In Houston. DR.. Smytne said in
part; I'm the realm Of the blind the one
eyed man Is king. Morse, OF the Southern
Pacific. has vision. He Is q prophet and
seer. No other man has such an uplift
and Inspiration. Texas is his foster child.
\ Its future his aim and goal. To him the
Lone star state Is another name for OPP
portunlty. MIR. Morse has reversed many
of the ideus which hold In railrond business
ana traffic management. demand FOR
cheap and trashy land, for Instance, has DO
innuenCe with him. There Is n vast differ
Cncc, he says, between making n life and
making q living, between cash and charac-
ter. lie has demonstrated that people want
the best for the right price, and he mas the
best and the people pay the price. SenSa-
tlonal claptrap is not necessary to secure
every civilized railroad center 1t Is by his
works. The Southern Pacific Is the open
sesame through which uncounted thou
sands seek to pass from their present
straitened environments aud almost hope-
less outlook to obtain homes, farms Gnd
competency in Texas, the banner State
OF the new South.
/ copies no man; his purposes, like his road,
| DEFY approach. and with him TO mention
Texas is to make q friend. His merry blue
eyes docth good like medicine The very
words laugh on his lips. In every dlmple
! there is rice crop. His curly hair re-
/ minds you of waving grain. His smile Is
vista of irrigated fields. 70 listen TO one
Of his lnspirational talks, as he lifts the
/ gpangicd curtain Of the morning Of the
future. and not wish to get farm on one
side or the other of the Southern Pacific
has done more for Texas than any other
/ man this side Of Washington.
/ sutitrslll men, great merchants. pini
nent flnancers, men Of National and inter
national fame, genial gifted men. distin
( gulshed for power, for patience. for organ
/ iziug EFFORT Will be found Ia every govern
ment and IN every cline No two of them
I owe their success to the same methods OF
/ the same talent. What sends one man IN
Will send another down. What makes one
/ mans fortune brggars another. One man
! limpS in a procession while another leads
| the forlorn hope. Mr.. Morse has placed his
| name among ,he railroad worthless of the
! age He has produced an entire revolution
/ IN agricultural Industries. The system by
! which an ear Of corn or sack of rice can
| be made to feed a family or to build a
school originated with him, and by him
/ discoverer, the builder of his own style. the
/ architect of his own career He Is today
/ the marked man In his special line and
| forty States are keeping tag on him I'll,
! business Is simply gigantic, 1t costs mil
/ lions year to run It, He sweeps whple
/ counties within the reach OF his thought
and not one man in a thousand could dc
this and make IL n success. Kentucky
| born Of Yankee stock, with Northern OK
! pereGce and grated on the Southland, he
/ Is yeritablc Moses Of the multitude and
/ the Canaan of his hopes Is Texas.
Immense and complicated as his bust
ness Is, he holds everything in his own
| hands, does his own thinking, makes his
/ own contracts, maps out bis own campaigns
! and keeps his own counsel His system
/ though peculiar. takes with NIL He does
! not believe in poor lands pushed for pelf
/ nor has a falsehood ever stained his con
! science or blurred page Of his literature
| Farscelng. cool headed with uncommon
! judgment and good sense, he has CALMLY
! waited for the verdict OF the people. That
verdict has been rendered and its justi p.
/ and value Rttested by everything that bears
/ the name of the Southern Pacific and ny
/ It's increasing traffic from year to year
{ He has n standard mp 10 which his stalls
ties must come. to go beyond that Is i'm
] possible. We speak out of long ana salts
factory eXncripuce People are not fools
/ The settler of today Is the voter Of tom0r
! row. If Texas lands were not the best tho
! public would long ago have found It out AND
| said so. Personality and printers ink have
aided Morse, pcrhnps, in his career, but he
would attract attention anywhere. His face
( benms with Intelligence and goodness. Hi,
unquestioned Integrity is manifest to all
| with his strong common sense and what th'
! world calls level medicines. We spen
! Just two hours in Mr.. Morse's Office. Il
/ would he impossible to reproduce in type
/ the piquant personality which abounded Ii
that delightful Interview"