The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-08-02
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Especial Washington Letter.l

IT HAVE recently been In Texas on
lecture tour. Texas! What
n state 1t Is - mammoth and mag
nificent, big enough for an empire!
What wonderful resources! In one
field | saw fine corn, fine wheat, fine
potatoes, fine cotton. What other por-
tion OF creation cap equal that? Sep
arated from that inclosure by wire
fence was a pasture in which were
browsing herd of Herefords fit to
make a mans mouth water. And the
bill of fare-fresh beef, fresh chickens,
fresh honey, fresh everything! None
Of your twelye-year-old cold storage
stuff to endanger health and imperil
life. And the men-great, tall, strap
ping Americans, full Of life, hope, en-.
ergy, courage, patriotism! No wonder
the poor benighted Mexicans, gazing
upon these lusty Texans, say that they
could lick the whole United States
were it not for Texas. They still re-
member what happened to them on
the red field of San Jaclnto in the very
dawn of American civilization here
men and children were only hand
full. Texas! Blessed be her name for
ever. where 80 out of every 100 white
men are Democrats, and they are the
salt of the earth. What a splendid del
egation they send to congress-eight-
cen Democrats, brave and stalwart,
with Culberson and Bailey at their
head.
/ never think Of the Texans that l
do not recall those inspiring lines Of
Sir William Jones, quoted often, but
not too often:
What constitutes a state?
Not high raised battlement or labored
mound,
Thick wall or moated gate,
Not cities proud with spires and turrets
crowned,
Not bays and broad armed ports
Where. laughing at the storms, rich
navies ride;
Not starred and spangled courts
Where low browed baseness watts per-
fume to pride.
No; men, high minded men,
Men who their duties know,
But know their rights; knowing, dare
maintain,
Prevent the long aimed blow
And crush the tyrant while they rend
the chain
These constitute a state.
OF such are the citizens of Texas.
How proud they are of the Lone Star
State! And they have right to be
proud. They have history OF their
own making, and 1t thrills the heart
and makes the blood flow faster to
read 1t. It's full of glory from the Ala
mo, GOliad and San JacintO to the
present day. Within 100 years she
has paid allegiance to five fags-that
of Spain, Of Mexico, of the republic Of
Texas, of the Southern Confederacy
and of the United States. She achieved
her own independence and came to us
n free republic. She has the privilege
by treaty of dividing herself into five
states whenever she chooses, and when
l have observed the scarcity of Demo
cratic senators about Washington that
Is precisely what / wish she would do.
but shv'l never do It, There is too
much state pride In Texas for that.
In her citizens is multiplied many
times the state pride erstwhile charac-
terlstic of Virginians, South Carolin-
lans and Massachusetts people, and,
though Texas is so big state as to be
lnconvenient for purposes of local self
government, she will In all human
remain one and indivisible.
The time will come when Texas will
have more inhabitants than the entire
republic now contains, and they will
be self sustaining people at that.
Just now hot race is on In Texas
for the gubernatorial and other nom-
nations. Every Texas statesman de-
slres to be governor some day. New
Workers have always claimed that the
sovernorship of their state Is the sec
Dnd office In the republic, Texans
think the same way about the chief
OF their state; hence there
Is generally heated contest for It, |
lust now there are four full fiedged |
and they are making the |
welkin ring. Eut think OF trying to
canvass state 620 miles long and
760 miles wide!