The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-05-03
EACH NAN A PRINCE.
Speech of Gen. Gordon at Dallas,
Texas, last Week
Ex.cONFEDERATR REUNION.
Beautiful Tribute to Texas-Its IniIu-
ences Over Mexico.

Appended we reproduce One Speecn
delivered by that veteran, Gen.
Gordon, at the opening of the ex-
confederate reunion at Dallas last
week. Gen. Gordon said:
Governor, Mr.. Mayor, Gentlemen Of
Committees and my Fellow Country
men of Texas: How shall / tell you
what we think Of Texas, of her great
hearted people, her broad prairies,
and still broader hospitality? l but
poorly express the thought Of these
veterans when l say that whether VIZ
look at her geographically, historically
or s~entimentally, Texas is about the
biggest thing we ever saw. She can
raise cattle enough on her wild lands
to furnish all the canned beef for the
armies of Uncle Sam, John Bull and
the German Empire, and still have
fertile lands enough left, If planted
in the aeecy staple, to make more
bales of cotton than are nov produced
by America and Egypt combined; or,
if planted in grain crops to feed every
man, woman and child in the union.
With such a territory-almost equal
to that OF the original thirteen states
which threw off the yoke of bondage
and wrenched freedom from the great
est Of empires-this great common
wealth holds today within its borders
a population devoted to those same
imperishable principles population
which, II the occasion should come,
would wage another seven years war
in defence Of this inherited republic,
its flag, It's laws and its regulated
liberties.
In the few moments in which pro-
priety permits me to speak, l dare
not trust myself to make more than
the briefest allusion to Texas history.
l cannot survey even the confines OF
that vast field, made so rich and so in
spiring by the great deeds Of her
martial sons. Indulge me just long
enough to say that from her birth,
through all her costly experiences as
a struggling republic, and through
subsequent wars, the sons Of Texas.
whenever summoned to the sacrifice,
have poured out their blood freely on
liberty's alters. From Goliad and
San Jacinto, from Buena Vista and
Sorro Gordo, from Chickamauga'S
hills and the shiyered rocks Of the
round-tops at Gettysburg, from the
charge Of her cowboys 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 for her prowesS. No wonder
that the Lone Star is SO dazzling to
Mexican eyes. You know that the
Mexicans claim they could stand up
2 fairly well against the whole Of the
, United States il it were not for Texas.
, But not only is Texas great his
= torically and great in her geogTaph-
! ical expanse, but she a do more in \
small space than any other country in
the world. AS proof, l point you to
q little Spindletop where a few acres
5 can pour out of the greasy Threats of
boiling, laundering gushers, oil
I enough to light every hamlet | IN the
, land, and at the same time, if govern
ment experiments are successful,
enough oil to kin all the mosquitoes
from the Jersey shore to the Mexican
border.
Again Texas has the biggest cities
. of their size in the universe. Shall L
Illustrate by naming one? The throb-
= bling 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 inside. And who
are those men whom she so tenderly
and so lovingly embraces? Why this
outpouring Of her people9 Is some
A Prince Henry, or some potentate 81
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