The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-07
THE VISITORS WELCOMED
The Farmers Given Cordial
Welcome by Innocence.

| Institute IN w WaXaDAcnie W euHSs'
day the following address of well
come was delivered by Mr.. r. ID.
Hudson, the Innocence Abroad oi
1the ENTERPRISE:
Gentlemen and Fellow CitIzens:-
The pleasant task of making the
welcome address to this audience
has been assigned to me by our
mayor, Hon. II. r. Pickett, who Is
himself a very modest gentleman
and although | am afflicted to a
| greater or less degree, yet l cannot
refrain from so pleasant duty, es-
/ pecially when / take it into consid-
Grafton who / am welcoming-far
mers and business men from every
section Of grand old Ellis county.
! For six years / have travelled to
your homes la each and every sec
/ tiou of this county and many of
you have kindly allowed me to
place that $4,000 horse which ] drive
/ In your barns and there feed him to
his appetite's content. And not
only have you kindly done this,
/ bat you have gone farther and al
lowed me, an unsophistocated Ark
ansawyer, &c place my number tens
under your tables and there /
have feasted and wrote about
/ the good things your wives know so
/ well how to prepare for a hungry
newspaper man. Frequently have,
/ by those who have not travelled
among you. been called liar in my
descriptions Of the good things I get
/ to act, when these facts as l know
/ them and can testify To the truth Of
] and love 10 do It, stare me in the
face. Then / say it is indeed pleas
+ ant for nee 10 welcome you TO our
magnificent county capital and
say from the very bottom of my
heart there is not a class Of men on
top side OF earth I bad rather wei
come here than you farmers.
Two years ago I attended the
/ Farmers Congress at Bryan and
only found out of -four hundred far
! mers fla attendance four from Ellis
. county. While taking in the mag
!. niacent opportunities there for
I learning more Of the scientific farm
ling ! determined 10 stir up our
/ progressive farmers of Ellis couu-
~ to the necessity OF their attending
/ that congress and with F. +. Hol-
land. editor OF Texas Farm and
Ranch and Prof. J. II. Connell,
president Of the congress, we Sc
cured low railroad rates, chartered
car and took IL full Of people from
this county TO the congress last
summer, and not one Of them regret
his or her trip. On the contrary
they are all delighted and the next
Farmers Congress will find Ellis
county represented with two or
three car loads of good farmers all
anxious TO learn more about their
business. And this meeting here
today IL a result of our trip to the
congress last summer.
Education and prosperity 90
hand In hand and while the state
of Texas is appropriating millions
+ OF dollars to educate our children
all of which is proper and right
the Farmers Congress | a 5
summer unanimously passed a reso'
luton asking our next Legislature tc
appropriate $4,000 with which tc
help educate the sires of those
children, TO help keep these insti-
tutes alive and pay the actual ex'
penses of the scientific men who &C
from place to place over Texas in
structing our farmers. BY all means
when this institute In organized we
should implore onr representatives
from Ellis county in the next legis'
lature to vote for this appropriation
The improved farm machinery oi
recent years now permits one feeble
white man to cultivate and do IL
well more land than me and a hall
dozen strapping degrees could do in