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Come to think of it, | ought to
have known all that my friend told
me, for Sam Morse couldn't be any.
thing but champion of the cotton
grower, as he is essentially develop
er, and about the greatest developer /
have ever known, with or outside Of
a railroad. He has always been hard
at work to make two blades of grass
or two dollars-grow where only
one or none grew before, and it is
but in keeping with the principle of
his life to try to bring to the people
Of the South the prosperity which
was denied them as long as bear man.
ipulators of the cotton markets were
able to squeeze the price of cotton be-
low a point at which it could be pro-
fitably raised All the abundant pros
perity which has come to the South
in recent years must have been clearly
forseen by Mr. Morse, and with him
benefit to be gained enlisted his abid-
ing and unconquerable support. Sam
Morse never does anything by halves,
and it is readily conceivable that hav
ing taken hold of any proposition, no
man could go farther or do more effec
tive work than he His theory of life
has always been that he could most
benefit himself and his road by deve-
Looping to the utmost the territory in
which he worked and making every
body around him prosperous.
SO well recognized is this fact in
his makeup that regret, universal
and profound, was expressed all
through the South when it was an
nounced last year that he had severed
his connection with the Southern
Pacific Railroad and was to take up
his residence i'm New York. 1t is no
disparagement to his successors in the
work of developing Southern Pacific
territory to say that the feeling was
universal that no one could be secured
to fill the shoes that he had worn
for there is no disposition anywhere
to deny that Morse Occupied niche of
his own Such mental equipment and
such force of character as are rarely
to be found, and by common consent
it was agreed that as passenger ira
ffic manager he lowered above his fell
lows. With many sided character,
he was master of detail as we'll as a
general who could conceive, plan and
execute large campaign, and as such
men are scarce, not only among rail
road men, but in any other business,
the loss of Morse was keenly felt by
all who had known the inspiration of
his enthusiasm and had shared in the
benefit of his great development work.
In taking his leave of the South, Mr..
Morse denied any intention of waver-
ing in his allegiance to the section for
which he had done SO much and in
which he had so great faith, and it
was not doubted that wherever he
might be he would be found working
for the up-building of his native Sec
ton Nevertheless, it was realized
that he would cease to be the toiler in
the vineyard that he had always been
before, and it was especially q source
of regret that his hand should be
STAYED at time when the fruits of his
labor were ripening as they never had
before, and when the rewards of effort
were quicker and more generous than
the Sonth had ever known.
As time goes OH the work that
Morse has done will loom still larger
above the horizon. as the big monr-
tain fills the eye long after the little
hills have faded in the distance. II
he had done nothing but develop he
rice industry of Louisiana and Texas,
that work would stamp him as one Of
the foremost developers OF his time. 1t
is a much told tale of how tn. prairie
lands of Southwest Louisiana aud
Southern Texas have been transformed.
within barely more than Is years,
from unoccupied grazing lands. worth
sometimes as little as % cents an acre,
into producing region in which
it requires 5000 harvesteTs to take care