The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-23

casion should come, would wage another
seven years war in defence OF TINS IN
herited republic, it's flag, it's law and its
regulated liberties.
In the few moments in which proprlety
permits me to speak, | dare not trust
myself to make more than the br1etest
allusion to Texas history. l cannot
survey even the confines OF that vast
field, made so rich and so inspiring by
the great deeds of her martial sons.
Indulge me just long enough to say that
from her birth, through all her costly
experience as struggling republic, ana
through subsequent wars, the sons OF
Texas. whenever summoned to the sac
riffce, have poured out their blood freely
only liberty's affairs From Goliad and
San Jacinto, from Vista and Cerro
Gordo. from Chckamauga's hills and the
shivered rocks of the Round Tops at
Gettysburg. from the charge Of her cow
boys and rough riders up the wire
girdled sleeps of Santiago, from every
battlefield made memorable by American
valor comes the thrilling answer OF
Texas to freedoms call. No wonder she
has inspired her neighbors beyond the
Rio Grande with such wholesome respect
fer her prowess. No wonder that the
Lone Star is so dazzling to Mexican
eyes. You know that the MeXicans
claim that they could stand up fairly
well against the whole of the United
States if it were not for Texas.
But not only is Texa- great histori-
cally and great in her geographical ex
panse, but she can do more in a small
Of n
world AS proof, l point you to little
Spindle Top, where a few acres can pour
out of the greasy throats of boiling,
laundering gushers oil enough to light
every hamlet in the land, and at the
same time, if Government experiments
are successful, enough oil to kill all the
mosquitoes from the Jersey shore to the
Mexican border.
Again, Texas has the biggest cities of
their size in all the universe. Shall |
illustrate by naming one? The throbbng
heart of every veteran in this assembly
has already answered with the name of
Dallas-beautiful Dallas, holding now in
her loving embrace more people from
the outside than she has population in
side. And who are these men whom she
50 tenderly and so lovingly embraces
What this outpouring of her people? Is
some Prince Henry, or some potentate
of llingly lineage pausing in her streets =?
There are no Prince Henrys here-no
brothers nor other kin of the great
Kaiser. But there are men here, who
to your thought are greater than
princes. grander than potentates. Here
are men of the purest and most loyal
lineag e-men in whose veins runs the
blood of the founders of this mighty re-
public, whose mission it is to light up
fer struggling humanity the highway to
freedom Here are the veterans of the
proudest of armies-hoary with age end
ennebed by sacrifice, who by their own
individual heroism in the bloodiest o!
wars, by their self-control and self-rc-
lance through the long crucifxion viii III
followed, have won the admiration of all
| non who honor manhood and love liber-
| ty. In a word, you, my fellow country
| men of Texas, believe, and you have a
right to believe, that every soldier who
bravely fought in the Confederate army
and remained loyal to it's memories, as
cell as loyal to the republic is a prince
| in his own right and by his own achieve
ment You believe and you have a right
| 10 UelCNc, tHdl every grey cap t1dt
ever sheltered the head of a faithful
Confederate private is no5lc:' crown
| than that worn by any potentate :on
| earth. But l am trespassing and must
close with the affectionate greetings c1
these soldiers to this great State and
| glorious city. Our hats are off to both
and long as life lasts we will hold
| you in loving embrace.
| Thousands of people Timed the
streets during the afternoon and We're
! appreciative witnesses of the arrival OF
! Mustapha Ben Sclim, the Ralph, di-
| rect from Ba@dad.
| The kaliph is king of an organization
| which annually regales Dallas with a
+, scrt of Mardi Gras.
His unutterable exaltedness' with his
subjects CARRIED with air the splendol
| that tinsel can give, was brought int
| the reunion to lend a streak or Orienta
spIendor on the occasion OF the deliver
| ing Of the key OF the city to Commander
| n-Chief Gordon The Kaliph and his
gorgeous subjects followed by carriages
containing General Gordon and distin
guished members of the United Confed