The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-11-28

met attorneys with a higher sens,
oi honor and integrity than W,
have in Tucumcari, and as stand
before YOU tonight my mind turns
back TO the first time law book
was placed IN my hands by an old
gray bearded lawyer, and he used
the statement that hy the time |
had succeeded in absorbing every.
thing IN that book, You will have
more sense and better Judgment
than YOU now have. have been
studying that book continuously
ever since, and up to tonight have
not been able to fully realize every.
thing contained therein. After
the book was handed me | opened
H. and upon the FIRST line
there appeared these words Law
Is a rule OF action and ! know
OF no better place wherein that
d"hnItlon is applied than 10y the
citizens ot the town ol Tucnmcari.
rs President OF your CONNER.
clal Club have had the oppor.
tunlty OF studying the different
members thereof, and not once
have ever found one single mem.
her hesitatlng IN the discharge OF
his duty; and as president OF our
Commercial Club desire now to
state TO my friend DuBosc that II
he will give me the name oil his
missionary aud his postoiiice ad.
dress, ! assure him that an inv.
tatlon will be not only sent, but
that he be urged To visit Tucum.
carl IN the interests OF the cstab.
fishing OF school Tor the Pres.
bytctlan mission work. And not
only do | assure him that this in.
vItatIon will br forwarded, but
also give him the assurance that
every mcmhcr oi the Commercial
Club IS his TO command; that we
Will do everything IN our power TO
assist him IN securing the school
tor the town OF Tucumcari.
And now gentlemen, while this
is the FIRST banquet have ever
attended at which champagne has
not been poured and the toasts
offered, feel that cannot do lus.
tice to myself and especially TO
our city, without first Offering TO
her the toast she so much deserves.
/; is, therefore, with pleasure
that ! ask YOU TO loin me in drink.
INK TO the prosperity OF TucumCari,
and the citizens therein: and | ask
YOU gentlemen a. YOU raise the
glass 10 your lips that YOU bear IN
mind that the advancement oi our
town Is on each individual person
therein; and that as YOU 20 home,
to your places oi business, out in
the world, YOU bear IN mind one
word, and that word is advance.
Here gentlemen IS to the future
prosperity Of Tucumcari.
One word more, and that d, that
when YOU visit other places, when
you meet new people, bear IN mind
not only the word advance, but un.
der anN and all circumstance do
not hesitate to tell your friends OF
the many good things We have in
our city.
". H. BRyMFR.
Mr.. Toastmaster and Gentle. .
men; After listening to what has .
been said here tonight concerning
the rapid progress made in Tucum-
carl during the past tew years | I
am convinced that we are enioying
a higher civilization, truer re-.
ligion and better humanity than .
ever before dreamed OF in our phil. /
osophy or writ in our history, and .
nowhere do they find more faithful /
expressions than IN our own pros
porous ana growing city. Were /
asked to name the most important
Iactor OF the various energies which I
have contributed toward this de-.
lelopment | would answer "the
country press, Without the
weekly visit OF the local paper the
Amerlcan home Is incomplete, yes,
would say that the home that eA.
les the local paper from it's
learthstUne is like the poets dis.
,riptlon of the man who hath no
music in his soul FIT only Tor
reason, tor strategems and spoils.
has said THE country
press Is the mightiest power in our
'lvil lite today and the individual
vino wantonly, ignotes ii or pro.
'okes II to combat will retire from
he contest with very much bat.
cred anatomy.
II Is not necessary Tor me TO
produce arguments IN support OF
J e statement that | have made to
'ou, business men OF Tucumcari
rave sworn by their loval support
II the local press that YOU fully
eallEe the importance oi the work
hat is being done and must be
lone by the local newspapers.
relieve | can say without contra
liction that Tucumcari can boast
II having the best two weekly pa.
,ers in the Southwest. And there
5 a reason Tor It. The reason is
hat Tucumcarl has the most wide
awake and up.to-date set OF bus.
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