The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-10-24

3 COUNTY'S SECOND ANNUAL GRAND SUCCESS
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| AltfliRuty gives US are tnc leftlle
fields and the climatic conditions
necessary for the development Of
the country-we must supply the
rest. He has placed us here to
work out our destiny and our sue.
cess depends upon our industry,
our intelligence and our determi.
nation.
remember, when a small boy,
having heard my father read
poem in newspaper that he had
taken Tor years. II greatly i'm.
pressed him Tor IL was SO nearly
with his idea OF lite. do not re-
member any part OF the poem but
the title, and that was: There is
more in he man than there is in
the land, and that has proven to
be true wherever the industry oi
man has encountered the hardships
OF toll. We can read the history
OF any new country, or OF any
state in the union, and we will as.
certain that its beginning was &C.
complished with hardships, strug
giles, privations, disappointments;
but the spirit ot progress and
growth that is implanted in the
bosom OF humanity has overcome
all difficulties, and wherever man.
kind has taken his abode, be it in
boys or swamps, or mid the vege-
tation OF semi-arid wastes, be has
come forth conqueror, and in every
instance the soil has responded to
the touch oi industry.
remember only few years ago
the country in Indiana where !
lived was not considered tit habi.
tatlon for man. II was covered
with sloughs and miasmal swamps.
The scorching sun would pour
down upon the stagnant water,
Transforming II into hot bed OF
disease. The musical mosquito
was the chiei entertainment oil the
ague sufferer as he alternated be-
tween the quaking chills and burn
ing fever and revelled in quinine
and other nauseating drugs that
were his portion. Day and night
the plaintive frog poured forth his
melodious lay and mud-hens and
shitepolkes completed the setting
OF that land OF sloughs and boys.
But the industry and intelligence
OF that sturdy people overcame
those natural difficulties, the
swamps were drained and beauti.
tul farms and happy homes adorn
that one time unsightly, unhealthy
district. haven't the time to
enumerate the history OF many
sections; but there is Kansas, not
so tar away. We can all remem.
ber that only a few years ago il
was thought that Kansas was the
most undesirable hahitation be.
meath the canopy oi heaven. 1t
was considered as the Australia OF
the United States, the natural
abode OF freaks OF every sort, where
hot winds and grasshoppers Wed
with each other in destroying all
vegetation. Where thunder3torms
and cyclones were the order oil the
day, and sand storms finished the
work so nobly begun by other dis
turbing elements where whiskers
were grown instead OF brains;
where bewhiskered Pietters repre-.
sented the people in the Uuited
States senate, and sockless Simp-
sons represented them in the house
OF representatives; where Mary
Ellen Lease raised the banner OF
intellectually and Garry Nation
an entirely different article. Rut
those DAYS are passed away; indus
try and thrift dispelled those con.
ditions and today Kansas stands
forth an empire in itself, and one
OF the brightest stars IN the cluster
oil states.
And so, New Mexico will over
come all these difficulties, and is
already rapidly overcoming them,
One season OF drouth and dsap.
pointment Is not sufficient to chill
the ambition and determination Of
our people, but through tribula-
, tion we will gain strength, and
} ultimately viii prssent 10 our
union q state that will shine with
. added lustre because OF the hard.
ships we have overcome.
| happen to be here more as a
matter oi chance than anything
else, and il you will pardon me ! will
tell you how il happened. ! came
to Oklahoma last winter expecting
. to make It my home, but ! did not
: find the climatic conditions | de.
r sired. had heard something ol
5 New Mexico, and | told my wife
! that | intended coming here. She
r wanted to know wha, part, but
Q didn't know, so | took a map, anC
+. soon saw the name Tucumcar
, written out in bold letters, and w
determined on coming. We didn
h know whether il was a city OF FIVE
a hundred or hve-thousand inhabit
v ants; but that did not deter us
!. and two days thereafter we lande'
d here, and not once since that tim
: have we regretted coming here
And whyI Because have bee