The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-03-29
COOPER ADDRESSES BANKERS
Tells the Boys OF Great Big
Dream.

CsHtly al pa'fNSh'1' A A'A7 many
friends here viii reg43$ith pleasure
his remarks on pa occasion. He
said:
II deem il an unmerlted honor
even to hold the place of silent
| auditor in your deliberative coun-
ellis, and i'm view of the fact that /
am perhaps the youngest member in
your association { / mean of course,
the one last to unite with it1 and
being my initiatory experience, /
am persuaded that, to be thus uneX-
pectedIy called upon for speech, is
nothing more than a high-toned
species of 'hazing,' corresponding
| to that physical torture sometimes
inflicted upon the 'tender-foot' in
prominent institutions of learning,
aud the only way that / can hope to
get even is to do my part of the
'hazing.' So, / will tell you a dream;
and twas not ali a dream Last
night, while / was being lulled into
a sweet, pensive sleep, by the plain
tive song of the sea, my mind took
the wings of the morning and was
waited back into the distant past,
and / walked again in primeval
paths. | stood on the border land
of vast expanse of untrodden and
unfruitful country that stretched
away toward the setting sun, the
home of the buffalo and the coyote,
and dominated by whitewinged-
feathered chiefs of savage tribes and
their painted warriors. | saw the
white-haired messengers of civiliza-
tion-the vanguards Of industrial
and commercial development-slow-
ly vending their way toward the in
terror Of this desert land; / saw
them strike the camp fire and pitch
their tents on the banks of it's purl-
ing streams. / saw the gleam of
the tomahawk and the deadly ar
row from savage bow; | saw the
struggle for liberty and witnessed
the glory of victory. After awhile l
saw the stubborn glebe yielding to
the plowman's manly Drawn, while
the forests fell under the touch of
the woodman's AK.
81 saw the mystic hand of Ceres
touch the fields, and this barren
country became a garden of golden
treasure. / saw a thousand cabins
spring into existence, forming nu-
cleus Tor 10000 happy homes. Ham
let's, towns and cities, sprang into
being as if by magic and filled the
land with the din of their tumult. |
heard the cry of the steam whistle
and / saw steel-ribbed highways
merge into view from every point of
the compass, forming the great ar
teries of commerce, and l saw the
evolution of travel from the ox-cart
to the Pullman sleeper, from the
pack-horse TO the automobile.
81 saw the golden key of industry
unlock the storehouse of Nature and
| walked amid rich mines of miner
al; vast quarries of granite and
marble; inexhaustible beds of coal
and flowing fountains of healing
waters, and then | said: Here might
be found the elixir of life, the 'foun-
tain of youth something that
would eubalm the soul and take
away the sting of death. / heard
the hum of 10000 spindles, the clash
of flying shuttles and the monoto-
nous bang of the loom in a hundred
busy factories, and | thought New
England had taken the advice of
Horace Greely and moved West to
grow up with the country. | saw
a mighty shaft of steel pierce the
old mass of matter and slowly de-
scend toward the center of gravity,
going down 1000 feet, till it pene-
trated the River Pactolus, and
through the perforated shell there
gushed forth fabulous fountain of
liquid treasure, producing a wealth
that would defy the powerful Genii
of Aladdin's lamp, darkening the
heavens with it's spray znd covering
| the earth with sands of gold and
saw 10000 suckers seeking for
! sands
81 awoke from my dream and 10!
there hung before my vision, in
shining eolors, the map OF Texas
/ looked upon this map in wonder;
measuring her magnitude, and still
dreaming of her greatness, | cast
my enraptured eyes from the East
to the West, and from the foothills
of the Colorado mountains to her
Southern coast, and my eyes rested
on the Island City. heard the
wild shrek of the angry storm; /
saw the ocean shake his shaggy
name and vent his fury In desola-
tion and death. Millions of accu-
rnulassd wealth vanished like a
dream, and 10000 immortal souls,