The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 117, Ed. 1 Monday, May 22, 1939 Page: 4 of 6
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Address Of Dr. Moraud At Unveiling Of La Salle Monument
Nabbed by G-Men Mrs. Roosevelt Urges
Farm Careers For Youtii
Following is the story of the mem- (
Speaker Declares
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much had been attempted, if
land from this Bay of Matagorda to
the rapids of La Chine in Canada.
purchase.
“Too long has the name of Cave-
and experiments in the industrial
use of farm products which will pro-
ing health and diet habits far
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Indianolans Unveil
Memorial To La Salle
of de la peted so su<
horizon, plorers. rec
man of “great ability, of a breadth must follow on his
of mind, a courage and steadfast- i t
other latin words— ad acternum—
making it read “1685—until Etern-
ity."
But even less could he have im-
agined that one day. oilier men
would come, living in very different
circumstances, in an almost entire-
ly new world, bringing the shores of
France only a few weeks from those
of Texas, and making it difficult, if
not impossible, to realize the hard-
ships of other days. Little could he
“It is possible to have as much cul-
ture in the country as in any city
and more wholesome community
life and amusement, but it requires
more personal effort and better
over with
buffalo hides,” that there was an-
other larger one which served as a
artist
call before
the last and
brought
ciated; Mrs. Grace Montier- Sell who i
unveiled the monument; and last
but not least the Chamber of Com-
merce of Port Lavaca our host*to-
day and in the future the guardian
of the de la Salle monument.
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camp was
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plained through a timidity which he J World, second only to that of Co-
could not overcome. Unfit for court
ed mostly to Louisiana and later in
Texas, to Liberty, Castroville, Dallas,
where other French settlements had
been established. But from even an
historical point of view this section
of the Gulf of Mexico could not re-
main indefinitely neglected. Too
not dition. Various
completed on these shores of Texas.
An American statesman who was a
great admirer of de la Salle, " and and look back to other expeditions
of the same character, that dissatis-
faction, intrigue, and treachery are
the unavoidable ransom of under-
takings which demand more than
normal human endurance and forti-
he should so nearly accomplish it as j tude. Columbus. Cortes,
a profound
we honor.
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de la Salle's expedition is of greater
consequence than has generally
been imagined. It places Texa^
ahead-of Louisiana in the European
pts made to settle and de-
velop these our southern districts. It
gave the United States its first claim
neer and explorer. Robert Rene
Cavelier de la Salle. He has left no
tomb over which we could pray, and memory, for in this masculine figure,
he has died, not for one, but for she the pioneer wh<r guided her
who is no other than John Quincy
Adams, wrote once that it was in
the order of Providence that he
should not live to accomplish the
whole of his undertaking but that
to touch on the aspects of rural life
which are definitely in need of
change. Chief among these is the
problem of health and nourishment.
The high mortality rate among
country mothers and babies due to _
the lack of competent medical atten- Limits” that we merely ga’
tion, is marked. Education regard- the farm. Instead she insista’
ing appreciation of good music and
‘ i com-
munity, music projects. Federal art
projects, murals and sculptures all
over the country have laid founda-
tions for varied enjoyments which
can be built up in rural areas.”
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velt also urges the development af
home-spint in children who live ia
rural localities ... a sense of be-
longing and having roots in a pat*
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overshadow the tinseled lores of Uf
cities Ifter on. ■ ■
“One of the means I saw empleftd
to inculcate this feeling wap • Inj-
ect worked out by a ptogtaakhri
school in a rural comaaamMy,* oH
writes. “There happened to he a tag
cabin available for the usd of the
children and they were eoeotfhffM
to restore this cabin wmeh datol
back a hundred years or morerTMy
made it fairl
they collect®
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and persons,
appointed the
of Control for
Centennial con-
sisting of the Lt. Gov., Chair-
man, the Speaker of the House.
—usque: as if to say “Until this,
our finest and hardest Texas gran-
ge crumbles, your names shall grate-
fully be remembered.” ,
As a fellow countryman of de la
Salle, it is with a feeling of pro-
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noon, the trek to Indianola for ttM
unveiling ceremonies begiimlng
shortly after.
Members of the Port
Chamber of Commerce of
John H. Hiatt is manager,
hosts for the occasion.
Paul Riegel of Riegel Pictarer Ser-
vice. Corpus Christi, took numerous
pictures of the unveiling oordndky
and the old-timers gathered. *
is possible to raise a wide rooiate at
fresh vegetables, fruits and dm*
products, children are often under*
nourished due to pure ignonace on
cation can be accomplished. ., ,
In urging rural life, Mrs. Raoae- <
tion “had one lower room
was used as a chapel for
Roaches Around
the Kitehen Sink?
Hora’s how to rfd W them. Flrat, keep the
•rar ender the stale always dean and dry—free
. c< food partidae and dampoe—. That's what
attracts osra. Seeond, got a ean of Bee Brand
lassct Powder. Sprinkle it behind the aink and
ar Mai the epaaiasa where the pi pee go through
the iaor. Star it into eraeka and erevicea, back
of and wader the wall boarda. When the roaebea
eoaae awt, give them another dooe of powder.
Third, eprinkie Bee Brand Powder in the path
where the roae1 _ :
crawl through it they will pick up enough
UUag parndee to kill them.
Repeat theae direetiona at
weekly iaterrala, and your
Mt rhea will aooa be free of
t ^BeeBrand really kille roaebea,
ants aad other crawling inaeeta
quick—yet it’e entire!
wee around the home,
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FoeMer—in the red and ydlow
ony at Camp Saint Louis.
And when every thing is duly con-
sidered we must remember that he
I was an explorer, one of the greatest
of this continent, and that he died
i at his post, and on the way as an
explorer. He was only forty-three but
his name has lived for more than
two centuries: It would take a long
time to resent here today the trib-
utes which have been paid to him
I in almost every country, but chief- j
, ly in France and in the United d^th” member of the murder-
Raoul Josset, the sculptor of this
splendid statue; Mr. Robert Lee
Bobbitt, the friend of all those who
have tried to revive the history of
Texas;
When a steer goes wild at the New York World's Fair and breaks loose into the residential section of
Corona, there’re unscheduled thrills for all concerned—except the bull. Here’s the scene of capture as the
capricious, but unwilling, Ferdinand is taken into custody.
in farming, cites developments in
agricultural methods, new markets
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! use of farm products which will pro-
I vide year-around employment and
new avenues of profit for agricul-
turists.
for-insurance gang, is pictured m
G-men’s car as she was returned to j more personal euorc ana irhw
Philadelphia from New York. She training,” Mrs. Roosevelt dedares,
had been a fugitive for more than a “We must see that education is in-
month. Mrs. Carina is known to
’ ; tracks through 1 heard of his last expedition and of
the vast scenes of his interminable his death in Texas.
ness of spirit which might have led joumeyings.” This I have done from
the shores of France to those of
him to great accomplishments.” . _
But the greatest tributes paid to' Texas, sailing the same seas, and by
de La Salle were those of the Nine-
and the ‘teenth Century. First among these
to place it beyond the powers of ■ leaders of the first Spanish expe- is that of the then Secretary of And so doing I have thought more
events, that it should perish with; dition in Florida went through the State, John Quincy Adams, who in
him.” And it did not perish with | same ordeals, although in a lesser 1816 wrote to the Spanish amhassa-'
him. Thousands of pages have been 1 degree. Rather than wasting time dor in Washington de Onis in
written on this last expedition of de | discussing details and placing re- 1 answer to Spanish claims on Texas
plored and partly settled
French should be surrendered.
It reads:
La Salle's colony on Matagorda
Bay gave the United States ita first
claim to Texas, as part of the Louis-
iana purchase.
of the United
claim him
of their own this earth, after contemplating the
great
has
the
o ” The of paladin or crusader beat a heart I portions of this American continent,
Jesuit Father Charlevoiy, severe as of more intrepid mettle .. than in the with the shores of the Saint Law-
have been he is to the explorer who had com- breast of de la Salle.” “To estimate rence River, and the region of the
"ully with Jesuit ex- aright the marvels of his patient Great Lakes. Many yet are the ad-
he was a fortitude,” goes on Parkman, “One mirers of de-la Salle who have never
life, he had chosen what he called i ventures, his own bear in many par- ;
“A life more suited to my solitary ticulars, a striking
than once of the words of Parkman
"America owes him an enduring
memory,” and of those of John Pin-
ley when referring to the Valley of
the Mississippi he wrote that
“France had deserved well of that
valley had she done nothing more
than to set that rugged fearless fig-
ure” of de la Salle in the heart of
America. The State of Texas in its
turn has felt that the great French |
explorer has deserved well of I
‘X/'OUNG people who are emerging into ouf crowded etoBOOdg
I fields would do well to look toward the farm as a mean* of IH’to
| lihood and a full and satisfactory way of life, according to Mrt, Ft«A*
I lin D. Roosevelt. When depressions come, hundreds of citizens lette
E the cities and go back to rural areas in order to live. This mute fact
"| projects, music projects, theatre
disposition, which made him, as he I And referring to the expedition of
la Salle’s un-
characteristic
great Explorer Died rXXSne T°
For Three (Countries
Following is the address of Dr. Marcel Moraud, Professor
of Romance Languages at Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, and
a native of France, at the inauguration of the monument >
erected in honor of Robert Cavelier de la Salle at Indianola s G. Reed, chairman
Sunday, May 21. The unveiling was*a feature of the 10th an-
nual meeting of The Former Citizens of Indianola and Their 1
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terpreted in a broader way than in
the past. It is absolutely vital that
I people living in rural areas have
access to books of all kinds and learn
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Ceremonies and President of the
Former Citizens of Indianola and I
their Descendants at the Site of Old |
Indianola Sunday, May 21, 1939.
We are met today on one of
the most historic spots on the
American Continent.
It has hallowed memories
for most of us whose loved ones
once peopled the city that once
stood here.
Within the memory of some of
those here today, it once teemed
with the commerce of the world
in the vanguard of Texas Ports.
With us too are some who liv-
ed through the tragic storms of
1875 and 1886 and who. with
their descendants, are scattered
throughout Texas in a hun-
dred towns, and in most of the
states of the Union, honored
citizens, proudly maintaining
their heritage of thrift, honesty,
and devotion to their country.
But we are not met today to
pay tribute to them or to ex-
tol the glories of our own times
We are met to have a part in
honoring one of the great men
of much earlier days, an able,
brave, ambitious man— who
more than 250 years ago landed
on these shores near where w’e
are now leading an expedition to
colonize the country west of the
Mississippi River and to add it
to the Domain of France. One
of his countrymen is with us to-
day. He wilFtell you the story
of his great undertaking. I will
try to tell you briefly the story
of the statue.
In commemoration of the
Centenary of Texas Independ-
ence, there were appropriated
funds by the State and National
Governments for erecting me-
morials to persons and places
prominently connected with the
early history of Texas. To se-
lect these places
there was
Commission
the Texas
States.
"Time is working for him,” wrote
once the great American historian
Francis Parkman, and it is. The per- I
sonality of de la Salle is one that has
to be discovered. His was a quiet
' refined nature but as he admitted
himself, wanting in expensiveness
this portion of the American con-'i
tinent could be opened to European •
settlers. In order to come to a true f
appreciation of de la Salle's and ,
his companions' sacrifice we must 1
bear in mind the fact that, in this
teecb~iu world, those who toil and sow are
not always those who reap.
From an historical point of view.
de la Salle's expedition is of great- '
intoand SeanTpits and crack/so minute er consequence than has generally
J been imagined. It places Texas j
>* ahead of Louisiana in the European
Ug 25tf tube, or better atm. the attempts made to settle and develop 1
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seems to indicate that the stability of the farm is preferable, il die dtite
of disaster, to the insecurity of a
wage-earner in the city,
Eleanor Roosevelt^ America’s
much-traveled first lady, analyzes
the problem in the May issue of Cos- the part of their parent*. Such adu-
mopolitan magazine in an article -----
entitled: “Security Begins Beyond
the City Limits.” She adds a plea
for education along cultural and rec-
reational lines which will compen-
readymade entertainment offered by ticular community, a
cities. Mrs. Roosevelt also discusses 1
opportunities fog financial success
mfe ta
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Broad Inooct S^rof. Read diroetwnt ou ran. | which, if one considers only the fate
of its sponsors and its immediate '
results, might be termed a failure. I
And yet it is not. and far . from it.
To understand its true import we I
• must consider it as one of the first
! steps which had to be taken before
beginning to realize that things wefe
not what he had imagined, and that
I there was less excitement and ro-
mance than hardships in the ven- attempts made to settle
ture. Undoubtedly, he did not real-
ize. however, that he might have
completed his inscription with two to Texas as part of the Louisiana
livabte with tM
from their £b«I
and their neighbors, of the sort«
in the cabin when it was octeini
built They gave little pla/s^wl
depicted the early life of b fq
in that cabin when the Infi
roamed the countryside and the 1
was being cleared aad tilled fear
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I these our southern districts. The
expedition of Bienville and Iberville
in 1699 and the colonization of Lou-
isiana are merely the continuation :
of de la Salle's expedition of 1685.
the resumption of his dream to
found a great southwestern empire
which later he would have linked j
with the New France of Canada and
»^X^“off,S “Above “““ rooms
' eight small guns. The c“*
I fenced all around with stakes,
fact, we possess todsty the plan of the
whole establishment, and it could
be reconstructed even more easily
than was done in the case of Fort
Niagara.
Equally familiar to you are the
many misfortunes which befell the
expedition, from the outset, loss of
ships, the terrible toll taken by dis-
ease, by the Indians, the failure of
the two expeditions undertaken by I
de la Salle in order to find what was ;
rightly’termed his “fatal river”, the i
Mississippi Less known are some '
other expeditions he carried on |
westward, and which historically are
most interesting as they give an in- I
sight into the very cordial relations I
of the French settlers with the na- ■
tive population of Texas other than
the fierce and treacherous Clam-
coets along the shores.
When the situation at Camp Saint
Louis became tragic, de la Salle took
I the bold and heroic resolve to go all
the way back to Canada.
Such was the end of an expedition
in Camp Saint Louis, one of de la
Salle's companions had
caned a short inscription: 1635. the
date of their arrival. Then, with
1 that light vein of irony which per-.
sists in the French even in the most
tragic circumstances, he had added
another word, just one, “usque", a
latin word meaning “until.” and he
had left a blank as if to say “Who
knows?” The author of this inscrip- j
tion was obviously on educated man, i
as he knew Latin. He was perhaps
one of those gentlemen volunteers
i who had left his home in France,
with great expectations and who was
Vice-Chairman, and seven dis-
tinguished citizens of Texas. To
assist them was selected an Ad-
visory Board of Texas Histor-
ians. Among the hundreds of
historic persons selected, was the
intrepid hero of your pilgramage
today. But they had difficulty in
deciding where to locate this
memorial to him. All historians
agree that he landed on the west
shores of Matagorda Bay about
where we are now. and that he’
later established Ft. St. Louis on
the northern shores of this Bay
on what is now Garcitas Creek.
The Commission decided to lo-
cate the memorial on this stie
but the exact spot was in dis-
pute. If. it was on the west,
bank of the Garcitas it was in
Victoria county, and if on the
east it was in Jackson county. A
spirited controversy arose which
threatened to disrupt diplomatic
relations between these two
frfcndly adjacent counties. At
this juncture the old Indianol-
ians at their 1937 annual meet-
ing suggested that the contro-
versy be settled by placing it
where he landed. Resolutions
urging this were adopted. These
were sent to each member of the
Centennial Commission and Ad-
visory Committee. This was fol-
lowed up by a committee of our
Association who appeared before
these bodies. They unanimously
decided to do so.
You will in a few moments
gaze on this statue—this con-
crete evidence of their good
judgment and their good taste.
It is wrought of granite quarried
at Kingsland. Texas. Its archi- '
tect w'as Donald Nelson; its
sculptor. Raoul Josset; at wras
carved by Ugo Lavoggi. all Tex-
ans. Inscribed on it are import-
ant dates of his life and a trib-
ute to him by one of our great
historians, Francis Parkman.
But it is fitting that we hear a
tribute to him from the living
and from one of his own coun-
trymen.
It is my pleasure to present
a native of France, a student of
her great history,
admirer of the one
Robert Cavelier
Salle. Dr. Marcel
Professor of Romance Languag-
es of the Rice Institute. Houston,
whose subject will be “LaSalle,
1685 usque. ...”
* orial to Robert Cavelier, de la Salle j
as given by S. G. Reed, chairman '
of the unveiling ceremonies and I
President of the Former Citizens of j
Indianola and their descendents, as;
given at the site of Old Indianola. |
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; sponsibilities. we must realize that i
! energetic leaders who are inspired ■
i by one great thought or an ideal ,
and who are willing to risk every- |
thing, their lives included, in its ac- I
: complishment/are not always loyally '
1 followed to the end by other men ]
! whose enthusiasm has not come to|
j the same level. There is a tragic I
j sadness in their fate but also a les- j
son in fortitude and an encourage- j
ment to believe, in the ultimate jus- I
tice of this world. One could hardly i
| imagine a worse fate than de la I
j Salle's, who at the age of 43 was
:r.-;rc>-y.: ly. two of
companions tune when his. "
only thought was to rush all the wav
to Canada in order to obtain assist- j “ WF
^ce rwhls small beleaguared col-i< / <
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spite of their own difficulties, of the
many worries which at all times be-
set human life, would erect on this
solitary shore a splendid monument
on which, had we not followed the
usual tradition, we might very well
quick adaptation of his genius to j have engraved just two words: 1938
untried circumstances,
daring adventurer, with 1
croft, has no superior among
bring the farm forward wtere ft eS
compete with the city as a way 4<
life. .t9 ' « ’
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peal to him, and tp which he ritfOA-
fully belongs.” ’
Seek State Park <
It is the goal of the Oidlndtaw-
olans to have the entire dtotrtct tarn
Ind^m Head to Powder HDnrdaig*
noted as a state park. A long step *
this direction was taken*
when Chairman Robert Lee BobMtt
of the Highway Cummhteito.pw-
ised “before your next aiBetBi
will have a hard surfaced
from Port Lavaca to this
ment.”
Bobbitt was loudly cheat
statement. The hi^iway chainaan
spoke briefly at the unrolling a^
mony but was the principal spaaMMr
at the regular annual bating*-ses-
sion held at the court house In
Port Lavaca. Sunday morning. Hto
subject was “Indianola.“
A special Maas preceded thMneat-
ing conducted by Father Dave M.
Buckley at 9 a. m. At 10:10 *
ing was called to order by _ _
Reed. Invocation was said by Bw.
Stuart M. Rohre The addreut of
Welcome was delivered by MegorF. |
M. Dudgeon of Port LaTOTO.
BUI Bauer of Port Laroca, twerk-
ing for the committee on irigtoiMgu.
announced the route from FL K*-
vaca to Indianola had recoitiBd e*>
dal .stete designation.
The Association went
pledging its support to the ptom of
Today, the State of Texas is defin-
itely asserting a glorious and fully
justified claim. It is bringing de la
Salle down to this South, which had
made such strong appeal to him, and
to which he rightly belongs.
My last words will be to thank all
those who have in one way or an-
other participated in the erection of
this monument: Mr. L. W. K<
the very active ■and very <
president of the Texas Centennial
Commission and the menfbers <rf the
Commission; Mr. S. G. Reed, whose
i ven- interesting address and kind
words we have all appreciated; Mr.
and other neighboring counties and
the statue which stands here on this
; shore, where once he stood is a
. magnificent token of your gratitude.
On the door of the main building
for the present and the futon WE
that place. Children are alway» in-
terested in the traditions, legends
and histories of their homes and
early instruction in these things
will build a testing loglMf to A
locale. Such loyalties wil often
among you. and who is a Texan by
er of adamant against whose im- ■ heart if not by birth, and national-
ity, I also experience another feel-
er, the rage of man and of the ele- ing which no doubt is shared by
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disease,
this
Ban-
; his
countrymen. “Without question,”
adds Parkman, the American histor-
ian who knew him best, “one of the found gratitude that I myself speak
whose j today. As a man who has long lived
names live in history. He was a tow-
very large, built with poles, plastered the Nineteenth Century. The atten- • self and for itself that nearly all its last and would have avenged him pregnable front hardship and dang-
had it not been for the intervention < < ’
of de la Salle’s own brother Abbe ments, the southern sun, the north-
Cavelier who told him that such ern blast, fatigue, famine,
vengeance must be left in the hands delay, disappointment and deferred
of an admitted lack of understand- of the Lord. Captain Beoujeu in spite hope, emptied their quivers in vain.” I
ing between de la Salle and Beau- of his jealousy admits that de la . . Never under the impenetrable mail !
jeu. the captain in command of the
flotilla which conveyed the expe-
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advanced for the murder
Salle, but if we widen our
confessed "perhaps less polished and
complaisant than the atmposhere of
Paris" at the time required but with-
out rendering him harsh to his peo-
ple. He shared their food, their fa-
tigues. never sparing himself. His
best and truest companions had the
greatest admiration and devotion for
him.
I “One of the greatest men of his
age,” declared the heroic and faith-
ful Tonty who came down the Mis-
sissippi in 1686 looking for him and
would have come all the w’ay to this
very bay had he suspected that he
had landed here. For Tonty no far-
fetched explanation is needed to ac-
count for the death of his leader but
the one which he gives in these few
words eloquent in their simplicity:
“In long journeys there are always
discontented people.” “His firmness,
his courage, his great knowledge of
' the arts and sciences made him
equal to even* undertaking and his
1 untiring energy enabled him to sur-
mount every obstacle,” declares in most remarkable explorers
his- turn Joutel, his devoted lieu-
first time. Ia thia way the I
>1 izv; AJUAEV up All AUABM CllTZgXS. . what it had coot their oaeeato
Mrs. Roosevelt does not hesitate asteWtoh a community in the wi
nesa, that acquiring a rtepee
the work aeeompManed and a i
of rttpMBfblHty toward eafHl
oa satiofaetorily." ... ;
Mrs. Roosevelt does net au
ia “Sheurity Lite Beyond tea
j with mud, and roofed
A gentleman bat not a eourtier. A | _ ~
proud independent yet timid nature. | ;ub” *a t^t“ the whole
An explorer of bold vision and an- | establishment wa8 protected by h
“fort made from the bulk of a
wrecked vessel.” The fort in ques-
which
saying
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Her de la Salle been associated in
Europe and even in the United i
States, mainly if not exclusively.1
with other portions of the American
continent, with the shores of the!
St. Lawrence River, and the region
of the Great Lakes. Today the State
of Texas is asserting a glorious and
fully justified claim It is bringing
de la Salle down to this South,
, have imagined that these men, in. which had made such a strong ap-
tiring energy.
The third, on the left, refer to
..the long bitter controversy which
arose in 1803 between Spain and the
United States who, having purchajs-
ed Louisiana from France, felt that ,<Above rooms
r;.
■^Xnri -
brary and munun at Port Itivaca in
which to keep reties and rTOOHte fl;
Indianolans. Other memben at fta
Ke“&, committee are Mrs. F. M. DMpBn, fl
Dr- Fred Roehmer and Mfk. C. W. ’41
Brightwell, all of Port Uaroea MM1
Miss Sophie Ueboidt of VkWortB.
It was also agreed aa effort vouM
be made to secure necesauT funda
to provide a proper fenro far tha
cemetery at Indianola.
A check up revealed Mrs. J. H.
Reuss of Danas had trawlpd the
Mr. Donald. Nelson, thenar- longest distance to the meettag and •
' chitect; Father Buckley who offi-ithat F. Cornelius, 93, of MlfWeid,
oldest former IndtanMtal ■
present. More than « ill—|fiw-
er residents past 80 were to the
audience.
On motion of Waiter Retitert at
Cuero the name at the Aaeoctatlan
was changed from “The Romer Citi-
sens of Indianola” to
Association.” The change vev a
m*d' “,nd ’
announced.
S. G. Reed was n ikili^presi-
dent of the Association by Mtaama-
tion and all other officers wtoe like-
wise re-elected. They are dharies
E. Tips of Seguin. 1st Vlce-Freti-
dent; Will Regan of Port Lavaca,
2nd Vice-President and FTed T. j
Mugge of Cuero. Secretary.
Waiter Reiffert chairman of n
tration announced MS twite
for the business session. S
A fish dinner was served on
court house lawn in Port Lnree
f\
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these an imperishable bond
* glorious common memories.
Two hundred and fifty years have
passed since Cavelier de la Salle
' entered this same bay of Matagorda
and yet his name is still warm in
onr hearts, and proud on our lips. He
wrote it with his own blood on this
soil of Texas, sowing seeds of glory.
The harvest has risen and de la
Salle is coming into his own.
On the monument which has just
been unveiled, four inscriptions have
been engraved. The first bears the
name of
RENE ROBERT CAVELIER SIEUR
DE LA SALLE
with the following short sketch of his
life and career as an explorer:
Barn in Rouen, France, November
1843, came to Canada in 1668.
Founded a French settlement near
Moatreal. Led several expeditions on
the Great Lakes, the Ohio and
Hilnais Rivers. Completed the ex-
pigratisn of the Mirairaippi, 1682. On
July 29th, 1686, la SaBe sailed from
France to establish a colony at the
month of the tRsstosippi. Landed at
Matagorda Bay, February 15th, 1685.
There established Fort Saint Louis.
WMto on Mb way to Canada he wan
aurdered near the Trinity River,
March 18th, 1687.
The next inscription on the right
is meant to convey an idea of t£e
personality of de la Salle wl
presented as: x
i
the Great Lakes. The fact came to | la Salle and the whole tragic story
know that! be overlooked later during the ! has not been told yet. It has been
“six houses” were erected there, “not | Eighteenth and up to the middle of | studied with such attention in it- tenant who accompanied him to the
tion of the French was then turn- ! historians have failed to place it in
the proper background and to com-
pare it with other similar ventures.
Much for instance has been made
' many of you.
Too long has the name of CaveUer
de la Salle been associated in Eu-
rope and even in the United States. I
. . Never under the impenetrable mail mainly if not exclusively, with other
of paladin or crusader beat a heart portions of this American continent.
United
“De La Salle left a name among the j to enjoy reading. With the radio
and show of feeling, this as he ex- ' illustrious discoverers of the New I there is now the possibility of teach-
_ _ ... . .. .... .... I a _• _ —___-1 — 1 X— _ X X—l A. 1 a* j-vazxx] wavaraara aa
lumbus, with whose story and ad- I developing participation in
. r i mumty music proiects. Federi
suited to my solitary I ticulars
nr. n : Anri
1685, he added. “De
dertaking has every
of subhme genius, magnanimous en-
terprise. and heroic execution. To
him, and to him alone, the people of
this continent are indebted for the
discovery, from its source to- the
ocean, of the Mississippi, the father
of the floods; and, of the number-
less milHon of freemen destined in
j this and future ages to sail, on his
bosom, and dwell along his banks,
and those of his tributary streams,—
there is not one. but will be deeply
indebted for a large portion of the
comforts and enjoyments of life, to
the genius and energy of La Salle”.
For force of will and vast concep-
tions, for various knodwelge and
. Descendants, and was witnessed by a crowd of 1200.
“Those who piously have died for' -- -
their country TTie fourth is a quotation from
“Deserve that, on their tombs. Francis Parkman, the eloquent.
crowds should come and pray." American historian, who. more than
French any other, has made the life and
poet. Victor Hugo, beautiful as they the personality of de la Salle known
are, remain altogether inadequate jn the United States. It is one of the
and fall short of our need when finest and most generous American
dealing with the great French pio- tributes ever paid to the French ex-
1 plorer:
“America owes him an enduring
WCA W1AAVA1 WC WUAM MAM IQ PI
he has died, not for one, but for
three countries; his own native land the possession of her richest her-
of France, the great and generous itagy “
state of Texas, who is honoring him These inscriptions are mere land-
today, and finally this huge country marks on the huge horizon of the
or rather continent of the United past. These few dates and simple
States. The three can claim him words will serve to bring us back, to
with pride as one of their own - • ....
sons. He has written splendid pages nobie features which, with
in their history, and woven through sklu hand of the
carved. They will
mind of their readers
fatal expedition which
Cavelier de la Salle to this land of
Texas which was to be his last rest-
ing place.
It was with the same stout heart
but with a mind already uneasy that
he sailed these same waters in the
bitterly cold winter of 1685, after
six months of a trying crossing, in-
terrupted only by a long and severe
illness. He already knew that he had
gone by the mouth of the Mississippi
for which he had been looking.
He had decided to retrace his
steps by land and to face the
worst of a venture undertaken with:
the firm resolve which he expressed
in these words, “Either I shall suc-
ceed or I shall perish”.
The events which followed are
familiar to most of you. They re-
main one of the most
tragic chapters In the
Texas. You have all heard of the
establishment of a first camp which
was soon transferred slightly above
the bay and became known as Camp
Saint Louis. Through the reports of
Alonzo de Leon, of Father Man-
zanet, through the indication given
by the natives and the few survivors
of the expedition, we
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