The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1891 Page: 3 of 8
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THE * FORT « WORTH
PACKING COMPANY
PACKERS AND CARERS OF ALL KINDS OP
Hog and Btei Products, and Ganners of Meats
AND DELICACIES. SAUSAGE OF ALL KIND.
We are buying Hoes and Cattle every day at the Union Stock Yards mar-
ket, North Fort Worth, and especially solicit Texas raised hogs and cattle.
C. D. HARTNETT & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers,
NORTH MAIN STREET.
Largest Wholesale House in the West
WEATHERFORD, TEXAS.
McFALL HOUSE,
Near All the Depots,
WEATHERFORD, : : TEXAS.
Rates Per Day, $i.co. Board and Lodging, $3.50
Board Per W. eek, $2.50. to $4. Meals, 25c.
The table supplied with I he lie t t he market adonis, (lood rooms, well ventilated. Hacks leave
ibis house daily f' r Veal Station, Spri ¡?to\vu. Jaeksboro, Peaster and l'oolville.
Speeifi! attention to gin sts wanting to leave on haeks or trains.
W C. PA7 TBl^SON,
JPropviGI or.
Weatherford Steam Sausage Factory
AND MEAT MARKET.
MUHBACH c& CO., Proprietors,
Have always on band all kinds of FRESH MEATS,
® Sausage, Etc. ®
Factory and Market. Northeast corner Square, in the Hendricks Uuikling.
Give us a call. Kt spert fully, MURBAC1I & CO.
FOR MONEY WE SWAP AND
CiVE YOU BOOT!
aw®;
You nmke the good wife and babies
happy, we HELP YOU ' keep them
wrrm and comfortable. We have
SHOT Him DOWN
and OLD HIGH PRICE [S DEAD.
WE HAVE
FURNITÜRE!
The Fort Worth Gazette's paragraphs
are again bright and entertaining.
Barney Gibbs is out with another
financial plan to elicit discussion.
B-trney and others have already gotten
up so much discussion it is about
turning into cussing
It is claimed the railroad commis-
sion has saved one million dollars and
the shippers say they didn't get it and
the consumers say they didn't get it,
and now a Texas paper asks : '-Won't
somebody tell who did get ic ?" Ask
the commission —there are no stop-
pers in their mouths ; and they ought
to know.
By declairing that " The Alliance is
founded on democratic principles—on
Jcffersonian democracy," if you please,
and we propose to stick to them. I
am a democrat and always will be.
Alliance President Evan Jones has
robbed a great many of all their
thunder. Now let Mr. Jones and his
crowd stick to what he says.
Gov Hogg cannot wipe out the
word "Confederate" nor destroy th«
glory of the "Confederate ' soldier by
the appointment of Hon. Horace
Chilton. He ought to have known
every patriotic southern man. woman
and child would condemn the con
temptible motive and resist the dema-
gogic effort. Some papers deny hi-
uiing the utterance attributed to him.
If such wish the names of others than
Col. John E Thornton of Austin who
heard him say it let them call on or
write to Hon. G. B. Gerald, Waco,
Texas.
The Houston Post is ixtomatic
when it says: "The democratic party
is a great deal bigger than the farmers'
alliance,11 and it blisters no democratic
soul when it declars that "none but
democrats will be permitted to dictate
the policy of the party." These aie
sound and manly democratic utter-
ances, but the Post might have g>ne
one step further with satety to its own
status and its party's weal, and denied
the right of one democrat, albeit
clothed with "a little briqf authority,"
to interpret every other man's democ-
racy and "read out" those obnoxious
to his definition or his faction. It
won't do to read into the party ques
tionable elements when they are howl-
ing in chorus with us, and then read
them out because they are disgus'ed
with the policy of our leaders. Con-
sistency may be the philosophy of fools,
bu even the fool understands the phil-
osophy involved in the ownership ol
the ox that is being tjored.
Lots of it in the BESTSTYLESaudat
MED ROCK prices. This is no BLOW
We mean it. Now is your chance to
get any kind of FURNITURE from
1 nr. <3c r=?- DAVIB,
Northeast Oor. Square, WEATHERB ORD, TEX.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Why don't some of the loud roar-
ing state administration organs tell a
trusting public the truth about that
ast Line receivership manipulation ?
When it comes to their financial
mvironment the bankers, farmers and
nerchants of the South and West are
.11 in the same boat, True statesman-
hip demands that they get together
id stay 'ogetlier until relief is won.
Who would have thought that the
Lte Hon. T. R. Bonner would have
pit sufficient intererest in their politi-
schemcs as to allow the Tyler
ang to keep on a-keeping on until
Ley wrecked the fortunes of himself
fid his neighbors!
The Fort Wotth Mail has reversed
the custom—it is scoring its home
jurors instead of the jurors of other
counties as many papers do.
All you voters who are in favor of
getting the farmers, bankers, mechan-
ics and merchants together on the in-
dustrial and financial question will
please stand up. Count: All Texas
except 13^ votes at Tyler and
votes at Austin.
There are too many rings, cliques
and gangs in the st ite democratic party
for the good of the democracy or of
the state Each one wishes to be
sole judge of the democracy of every
other ring, clique and gang. It is time
the true democracy} were smashing
them all to pieces.
matter of freight tariffs with those
nearer the sources of supp'y ; but it is
manifest that if the rate for the long
distance is "equalized" upon a fair
basis for the short distance, injustice
must inevitably be the result to the
carriers, while if adjusted 0:1 a fair
basis for the long distance, a com s-
ponding injustice falls upon the ship-
pers of the short haul.
The fact is the making of rales is
one ot the abstruse sciences, and the
prosperity of this country is involved
in the solution of the problem. It af-
fects every interest and every industry,
and should be removed as far as prac-
ticable from the prejudices of party
and the passions of faction A war
between the railroads and the people
on questions of systems and tariff-,
can bring only disaster to industrial
life and paralysis to material prosper-
ity. It is therefore the highest duty
of the patriotic statesman, law giver.'
and railroad magnates to find the
happy medium in railroad regulation,
and adopt that system and that
schedule of tariffs that wisdom, cor-
rect business principles and patriotic
aspirations shall point out as just alike
to the railroads and i-he people.
iio years old.
The esteem d Graham Leader says:
The Weatherford Enquirer has
a friend who is no yeirs old, has
eighteen children, the youngest 01
whom is 42 years old, has been mar
ried three times and says he wou'd
marry again in three weeks it his pres
ent wife should die—so The Enquir
kr s iys.
Now, if the Leader really doubts,
let it write to the postmaster or station
ag< nt or other citizens of Alexander,
Texas, or to County Commissionet
Jack Bell at same cffice. It would
not do for the Leader to doubt "Un-
cle" Joe Abie's own word auout it; ht
would lick the editor.
READ THE RULES.
If You Want to Become a Sub-Tres-
ury Man Inform Yourself.
J. R. LEWIS & CO.
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-DEALERS °1N
FARMING
AND
Domestic Implements,
Tricycle Plows, Tinware, Chinaware. Glassware, and
a General Assortment of HARDWARE. Stoves in
great variety and very low prices. Kirkwood. Wind
Mills, Pumps. Agents for Baker Perfect Barb Wire.
SUCKER STATE DRILLS.
THE OAK CLIFF SALOON.
DON'T BUY UNTIL YOU SEE MY
Stock of Liquors!
You will always find me well supplied with Bond and Lillard Sour Mash,
old Forester and .1. W. Palmer's choice Rye Whiskies and the Famous Belle
Creole ¡mil other fine brands of Cigars by the box or smaller quantities.
Hoping you will give me a trial, I aui respectfully,
vJ H. MAXEY,
North Main St., Weatherford, Texas.
W. H. TENNISON,
EQUALIZING RATES.
The Herald's idea of the railroad
commission is that i is to stop dis-
crimination and equalize rates, and not
to make a general reduction in rates,
which many seem to expert. Of course,
in the equalizing process rates to some
towns, which enjoyed advantages o^er
their neighbors, have been increased,
and they proclaim the commission a
failure But the o her towns now have
reduced rates and all are on an equal
footing The primary mission of the
commission is to equalize rates, and
not necessarily to reduce them.
This item from the Glen Rose Her-
ald, is a pretty fair specimen of the
"equalizing" mania, and bears close
kinship to the cormorant and the com-
munist. The railroads want equal zing
on the blanket system, with a high
single tariff for short and long hauls
alike. The towns want equalizing on
the common point system, with the
minimum short haul rate. Thus, the
cormorant equalizes upward, and the
communist, by the reverse process of
leveling—the one seeks to absorb by
ingeniously devised and exhorbitant
tariffs, while the other struggles to re-
tain what he has and augument his
store at the expense of his neighbors.
Both the "blanket system" and the
"common point system" are antagon-
ized by the mileage or service system,
so tenaciously adhered to by the com-
mission. Prior to the era of combines
and trusts all railroad tariffs were based
on the principle now being, or attempt-
ed to be, restored and enforced by the
commission, to-wit: the mileage sys-
tem, or pay for the service rendered.
But the modern theory is to charge for
securing the patronage and getting the
shipment on the railroad without refer-
ence to distance, and to haul it a
thousand miles for only so much as is
charged for one hundred miles. This
is a good thing for towns and com-
munities remote from the markets,
and in some sense it seems just that
these should be "equalized" in the
From Farmer's World.
i st. Read only one side of the ques
tion.
2d. When the sub-treasury is being
discussed leave the house when an
opponent gets up to speak.
3d Brand as corrupt bribetakers all
who dare to oppose you.
41.Í1 Declare all men who refuse to
gulp down the doctrine of Macune to
be traitors.
5 th Speak of those who do not agrt e
with you on public questions as scabs
and blatherskites.
6th. Consider as a leader and states-
man every mutton head who can gt t u
and abuse Mills, Cuke, Reagan, Oates,
Bates, and others.
7th. Yell yourself hoarse when some
new apostle of ihe sub-treasury and
third party declares the democratic
party to be as corrupt as the republi-
can party.
8th Stand around on the corners
and tallf about per capita of the circula-
tion medium being too small, as though
you know what you are talkirg about.
9th. Arrive at the conclusion that
the little crowd who compose the sub
treasury and third party wing of the
alliance is more powerful than the whole
goverment, both state and national.
10th. Be contented with doing the
work, the whoopfng and yelling and
paying, let the political dead beats, who
are the leaders, ride around and live
on the fat of land.
11. If you know of any corrupt acts
of the leaders, keep^tto yourself, and
if others speak of it swear they have
lied.
12. Train yourself to believe that
the sub treasury crowd is the only hon,
est people there is, and that all others
are treacherous.
13. If any man downs you in your
argument on the sub-treasury bill, de
clare you are not wedded to the bill
but endorse the principle.
14. Yell to the top of your voice
when Macune, Terrell, Tracy, Jones
et al speak of how they love the horny-
handed farmer.
15. When the bosses issue their
edicts, bow in humble submission and
cheerfully comply.
16. When questioned about the
master, say that you have ever con-
sidered the alliance to be a political
organization, notwithstanding you
know such to be a falsehood.
MANUFACTURER
SADDLERY
AND
WHflFSS,
N. MAIN STREET,
WEATHERFORD, TEXAS,
CALL AT TEEUEC
Stoutsenberger Corner
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AND APPLE BRANDIES, ETC.
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Vincent, Jas. U. The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1891, newspaper, December 3, 1891; Weatherford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth182028/m1/3/: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.