El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-19
JUDGE ]. o. TERRELL ON
"WHAT Ais TEXAS"

capitalist-tO realize in substantial
benefits the destiny of Texas"
Now this Is good ENOUGH for L Repub-
llcan to utter, but what has been the
trouble all the time? Whose policies
! have hindered the development of Texas
! IN the pastz She mas been Democratic
for more than 40 years, and if during
| that time anything wrong has been done
! the Democratic rarity is responsible for
it. If Texas has been injured the Demo
/ cratic party has inflicted the injury. If
! she Is behind other states in any par
! tlcufar the party that has reigDed for
I 40 years ought to be held accountable.
! God knows that in natural resources she
/ Is without peer on the face of the
earth Other states can show a few
/ important agricultural and mineral pro-
/ duets. Texas can show them all. What
! other state produces cotton, wheat, corn,
1 hay, oats, alfalfa, fruits, sugar, rice and
/ truck gardening? Some states can pro-
! duce one or two of them, but what state
other than Texas can produce them ali?
Some states have granite quarries, some
states have water powers, some states
| have coal deposits, some states have
iron ore, some states have oil-Texas
has them all. What other state can
equal her in the production of live stock,
beef, mutton, and wool? In natural re-
sources Texas is the garden of the Lord,
and if in any respect she is behind her
it is the fault of her laws, or of the
demagogs who made and executed them.
COlquitt Saw the Swing.
| am pleased to say that Mr. Williams
and Mr.. COlquitt stand for material pro-
gress in Texas. If | helped to make
them change I am proud of it, and if I
did not help make it directly | hope l
| helped to make it indirectly. | read a
few days ago an editorial in the South
western Farmer. at Houston. Tex. the
editor of which is the well known Frank
Putnam Mr. Putnam says: Mr.. Col
quit to some extent shared the prac-
tees of the corporation hunters for Il
long time but he told me two years ago
that the pendulum of public sentiment
in Texas. after swinging 'anti-railrOad
for 10 years, was about to start on a
10 or II years swing in the other di
rectiOn. l did not share his view, but
it was apparently correct
Mr.. Colquitt saw. according to his
statement to Mr.. putnam. that there
was a swing coming and he proceeded
to swing himself. Two years ago, as
Judge upon the railway commission. he
declared that the railroads OUGHT to haul
passengers at &c a mile. I suppose that
he has granted a motion for a rehearing
upon his own Judgment. But that does
not bother me. The fact remains that
he has swung. and the only worry that
| have is will he stay swung or will he
swing the other way if he sees that the
public is about to swing? Personally l
have not changed my views on these
questions I stand today where I have
always stood, believing that conservat-
ism in government is the hone of the
people and PARTICULAR of what is
known as the common peonle. stand
for conservatism, and believing that rad
icalism is always DANGEROUS and in Ilr
ious to the people, | stand against rad
icalism.
Whose State Is Texas?
But the question that concerns me
most is whether or not Texas will cor
rect some of her mistakes. The faults
OF her laws are costing her citizens
thousands of dollars annually. This leg
slatiOn has crippled her resources, has
kept down her public free schools and
has inflicted damage upon every citizen
of the commonwealth. Let me compare
with you for moment the products of
imperial Texas with those of the little
state of Rhode Island. In order to make
the comparison more odiOus I will call
Rhode Island the state of senator Aid
rich and ! will call Texas the state of
senator CulbersOn, and do this because
if | should say it was senator Baiey's
state I would have to stop right here
and listen to this audience argyle the |
Bailey question for the balance of the |
night.
Every person before me has heard !
time and again. and ~robablv believes !
that senator Aldrich is the enemy OF
what you call the common people, and |
that senator CulbersOn Is their friend |
Now Rhode Island produces annually, ac- !
cording to the latest statistics at my |!
hand. of agricultural and manufactured |
products the sum of S45J Ter capio. In |
the same wear Texas produced per- cap |
tia of agricultural and manufactured !
products only the sum of S119. In other |
words the people in the state OF. senator
Aldrich produce nearly tour times as
much per caDita the people in the |
state of senator Culberson. q nd vet the |
people in senator CulbersOn's state have |
every natural advantage thae human lam
guage can describe over tie people who /
live in the state of senator Aldrich.
Let ME try you on another northern
and southern proposition. Georgia and
Iowa are about equal in area and pop
ulation. but the value of Iowa farm pro-
farm products of Georgia Virginia,
North Carolila. South Carolina and
Florida comb led.
Clarence Po2, editor of the Progressive
Farmer, which is published I believe in
Georgia, reports in his paper that the
farmers of Massachusetts,. New York and
earn 1888 yearly per farm
worker, as against 1854 per worker for
Virginia North Carolina and South Car
DINA. He also says that the average
farm worker for iowa, Indiana and Hi
nOis earns 1868 annually against $3.50
for Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana
Now occasionally when l repeat these
things sonIS ore says l am running
down Texas, \2nd that l am in favor Ct
the Yankee. \ greater falsehood could
not be uttered. | am only endeavoring
to bring our people up to the point
where they can earn as much as the
Yankee earns. and \ do not think that
any man in Texas who is earning less
than Yankee earns On the barren hills
If Massachusetts ought to be contented
With his lot
Chief Charge Against Democracy.