35 HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



systematic application and a faithful discharge of any task 

 imposed upon him was the most satisfactory way in which 

 a duty could be performed, and though he may have 

 demurred to the rule of his parents, requiring him to be 

 afield at the break of day and to remain at his hoe or plow 

 until the setting of the sun, this became at last a habit to 

 which Mr. Daws now attributes, in no small degree, his 

 health, his vigorous strength and the confidence reposed 

 in him by his associates. 



u Mr. Daws emigrated to Texas in August, 1868, 

 where he resumed his life-long occupation, being now a 

 farmer in Wise county. 



u He was appointed in July, 1881, by J. N. Mont- 

 gomery, President of the State Alliance, organizer for 

 Parker county. At the annual meeting of the Grand 

 State Alliance, held at Goshen, August, 1881, Mr. Daws 

 was elected to the same position for Wise county, which 

 is now one of the strongest Alliance counties in the State. 

 In August, 1882, the regular annual meeting was held at 

 Palo Pinto, when his tried ability was called again into a 

 more extended service. Here Mr. Daws had conferred 

 upon him by the growing organization the responsible 

 office of State Lecturer. During the winter of 1883, the 

 President, Secretary and other officers of the State Alli- 

 ance, deeming it important for the best interests of the 

 Order to extend more rapidly its principles, Mr. Daws was 

 selected from among his brother members by W. L. Gar- 

 vin, then filling the office of President, Traveling 

 Lecturer for the whole State. At that time there were 

 153 organized Alliances, but fifteen of which were in 

 actual working order. At the semi-annual meeting of the 

 Grand State Alliance, held in February, 1884, at Chico, 

 Wise county the Traveling Lecturer made a report, which 

 was approved, and he was unanimously elected to continue 

 his good work in that capacity for the remainder of the 



