The Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 18, 1899 Page: 1 of 6
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Volume V. No. 42,
SCHULENBURQ, FAYETTE COUNTY. TEX., Thursday, May 18, 1890
Subscription Price, $1.00
Scnulenburg
Situated half way between
San Antonio and Houston, '
1200 inhabitants; electf
plant; three good gins;c<
and cotton-seed oil mil
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The recent atrocities committed
by the mob near Newman. Ga
stand without precedent in the his-
tory of the Caucasian race. To
first torture a man, partially dis-
member him, and then roast him
to death, was not unheard of
among Christian peoples in me-
dieval times. But to cut up the
body into bits and distribute them
among the participants in the
bloody deed, is unpleasantly sug-
gestive of cannibalism. It is a
deed which will shame us in the
eyes of the entire work! for a two-
fold reason, because it shows that
there exists among us a barbarism
as degraded as can be found any-
here in the world among the
civilized nations or uncivilized
tribes, and further because all the
world knows that whatever our
system of government is in theory,
in practice it is utterly impotent
to punish such an offense or to
event the perpetration of similar
les in the future. A contempla-
tion of the situation is almost
enough to dtive every American
who loves his country to despair.
—American Israelite
When you use Chamberlain's
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knowing that after twenty-five
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Standard
The divorce disgrace in North
Dakota will end on July 1. At
that time the state will cease to be
the Mecca of those seeking the
easiest and speediest release from
the bonds of matrimony. The last
legislature passed a law repealing
the old requirement of only three
months' residence'in the state and
substituted in its place one year.
The bill was passed April 1, and
all who were not registered as resi-
dents of North Dakota 011 that day
will have to spend twelve months
in the stale before they can secure
a divorce. This ends a disreput-
able practice which has been car-
ried so far that it has become a
national disgrace. In loose deal-
ing along this line North Dakota
has given to the world one of <>ur
most shocking, national scandals.
Courts and attorneys in that state
have vied with each other in mak-
ing the path to matrimonial separa-
tion as smooth as possible. In the
Sixth judicial district, which in-
cludes Bismarck, it is claimed that
divorces were granted after a resi-
dence of not more than two days.
The attorney registered the name
on some hotel registry ninety days
before suit was filed, and if there
was no opposition two days sufficed
for all the proceedings. Divorce
colonies were established all oVer
the state and the business became
lucrative to lawyers, courts and
hotels. But its demoralizing effects
were only too evident. To attack
this lucrative line of business was
like attacking the craft of enter-
prising worshippers who got their
living by making and selling silver
shrines. It was no easy task, and
the respectable element of the state
could hardly have succeeded in
their crusade but for the desperate
and outrageous lengths to which
the parties to the vicious business
dared to go. The churches are said
to "have done much to bring about
the change for the better; but even
a prominent churchman admits
that a chief help has been found in
the scandalous efforts of the bene-
ficiaries of this vicious line of busi-
ness. The state will take to new
and nobler industries in future and
strive to make for itself a better
name. It is hardly necessary to
add that there are others. No oth-
ers quite as loose as North Dakota,
perhaps, but a number of states in
which great improvement ie sadly
heeded. Texas is one of these
states. There are some towns and
cities in Texas in which the pub-
lished lists of marriage licenses
barely keep up with the lists of
cases in which divorces are grant-
ed by our courts. While we are
not a3 loose in important matters
of this kind as North Dakota has
been, no intelligent citizen who vis-
its the court houses or reads the re-
ports of cases in the newspapers
can doubt that a radical change is
imperatively demanded in both the
law and the practice in this state.
The long lists of divorce cases,
term after term, in some of the
courts tell about the people of Tex-
as a scandalous story which is read
of all men and which decent citi-
zens should strive to correct.—Gal-
veston News.
To protect yourself and family
against coughs and colds, you
should keep at hand a bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It
will cure a. cold in a day if taken as
soon as the first symptoms appear.
For sale by Paul Breymann.
Senator Depew says Hanna will
manage the next campaign, which
is sufficient notice to the honest
citizens of the United States that
all manner of political corruption,
no matter how vile, every means
to carry the election that can be ef-
fected by the use of money, will
be employed. A huge corruption
fund will be at bis service, and
with the loopholes for the purchase
of votes our election laws at present
the effort will be made to set aside
the will of the people.—Colorado
Citizen.
To all those afflicted with rheu-
matism, we recommend a trial of
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. One
application will relieve the
and its continued use for a
time will result in a cure.
sale by Paul Breymann.
Whereas, the Cotton Ginners'
Convention, which closed its an-
nual meeting at Galveston on May
3rd, 1899, adopted a resolution that
all cotton ginners in the state of
Texas be requested to remodel
their boxes in which the square
bale of cottor is originally formed,
to the standard size of 24 inches
wide by 54 inches long, and con-
sidering that the trade generally
will be greatly benefitted by hav-
ing bales of uniform size and in-
creased density; therefore be it
Resolved by the Galveston Mari-
time association, composed of the
various ship agents at Galveston,
that all ocean freight rates on cot-
ton quoted for shipment to be made
on and after after Aug-, l^t. 1899,
shall be based upon said standard
bale, '.'(Impressed to a minimum
density of twenty-five (25) pounds
to the cubic foot, and that 10 cents
per hundred extra freight will be
charged on all bales of greater di-
mensions or less density.
Geo. Anderson, B. Adoue,
Secretary, President.
The recent sale of a carload of
tobacco at Houston to an eastern
firm, together with the large ship-
ments of fruits and vegetables from
different parts of Texas to more
northern markets, suggests the idea
that Texas fa nners are moving in
the direction oi' rop diversification.
With the va jt resources of Texas
for the grow ing ol cotton, sugar,
corn, rice, tobacco, the cereals, etc.
the state offers opportunities for
the farmers not enjoyed by any
other stateN These resources may
strengthen them to overcome the
menace of national legislation and
enable them to live in comparative
comfort. But the country will
never be prosperous until the peo-
ple turn down the republican party
which"cares nothing for its national
debt, which legislates i* the inter-
est of the mohfeyed power, which
by its oppressive tariff fosters
trusts, which by itp^financial poli-
cy reduces the price of agricultural
products, which by its pension laws
encourages fraud, and which by its
white- washing ' 'investigations''
creates among the people a con-
tempt for justice and right.—Col-
orado Citizen.
So long as the wages of the ope
ratives in the mills and* factories,
the laborers on the railway tracks
and the trainmen in the service
and all other laborers are receiving
increased wages the republican
party i& safe. There is nothing
but disaster and hard times can
knock it out.—San Antonio Light.
There is a reason for this in-
crease of wages. The trusts and
corporations understand^ that the
people are aroused and in order to
appear as benefactors every once in
awhile they will run up wages a
notch or two. The republican par-
ty hat ridden into po\ver over the
prostrate bodies of labor time and
again and its future "safety" lies
with the trusts and money power
which always comes up handsome-
ly in every campaign with tjieir
blood money contributions, wrung
from the people. The republican
party is the party of trusts and op-
pression.—Houston Herald.
... Fayette county has an insane
asylum in connection with its poor
farm. That is a good idea, but
smacks of double taxation. We
pay taxes to the state for the main-
tenance of large asylums.—Hallets-
ville Herald.
The state asylums are full. Now
then, is it not better to be burden-
ed with a little taxation than to let
the poor unfortunates suffer in a
county jail?—Schulenberg Sticker.
Much better. Every humane
man and woman will indorse the
action of the Fayette county com-
missioners in establishing "an in-
sane asylum in connection with its
poor farm." Would that every
county in the state, where needed,
would establish a temporary insane
asylum, where such unfortunates
could be taken care of until room
would be found for them in the
! state asylums. It would be of un-
! told advantage and prevent much
j misery and suffering.—Bastrop
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There is but One Remedy.
Dr. R. G. Witherspoon, -of An-
derson, S. C., has made a response
to the question asked by the Inte-
rior, a Presbyterian periodical pub-
lished at Chicago, "What is the
significance of this general outbreak
of bloodshed?" meaning the lynch-
ingfe that occur at the south. Dr.
Witherspoon has evidently given
the matter some thought, and, as
physician to a large convict camp,
has been brought in contact with
Death of an Old
upwirhb™
not by way of criticism and com-!
plaint, but simply as a fact to be
taken into consideration when such I On the morning of
a remedy as Dr. Witherspoon's is! W. Tuttle died in
suggested. from the effects of
The carpet-baggers were dishon- which he has beei
est, of course, but their politics longtime. Mr. Tuttle waa
were taken from the republicans j the old settlers of
and their career (always excepting and
their dishonesty) was based on successful
doctrines that they had been taught j Pin Oak.
to believe, or which they made a moved to
pretense of believing. to business under the
The remedy, as we have always; Tuttle and Cockrill.
the criminal classes among the ne- insisted, is the negroes themselves-
The first trouble he finds
18 that "there is a general outbreak
of crime," and, though the laws
are first-class, the process of exe-
cuting them is slow, "and often
justice is cheated by sworn lies, es-
specially so with the colored man,
who thinks he is justified in swear-
ing to any number of lies to pro-
tect one of hig race from punish*
ment."
As to the conyict camps, Dr.
Witherspoon finds "no before-the-
war negroes in prison, but all the
convicts are young men, and near-
ly all of them have good education
and write good hands." They are
"in for forgery of school claimB,
raised checks, and for murder, kil-
ling their friends at hot suppers,
for murdering their children by
whipping, for living in adultery,
and for house breaking," etc.
Dr. Witherspoon's remedy is to
send missionaries among these peo-
pleto preach against crime, and he
puts the suggestion in this shape:
The north supplied an army of
carpet-baggers to come south after
the war, political adventurers,
school teachers and some wearing
the nacred cloth of the minister of
God. They all came to steal, they
arrayed the negro against the whi-
tes by every means known, and
pandemonium reigned. In the ten
years that they polluted the south,
seeds were sown of discord that it
will take generations to obliterate.
Now, if the north would send an
army of Christian men and women
south to preach against crime, it
would be of immense benefit to
the uegm.
The trouble about this remedy is
that an army of Christian men sent
to the south to preach to the ne-
groes against crime would probab-
ly begin and end their missiou by
denouncing the southern whites as
criminals and their politics as a
crime. It is almost impossible to
get together any large number of
Christian men it the north whose
ideas have not been warped by the
political editors and orators. The
great trouble is that these Chris-
tians in their newspapers and else-
where have almost uniformly
taught the negroes to regard the
southern whites as their deadly
enemies. We make the statement
wife and seven
His remains were
Oak for burial
with that large class of colored men
who are striving to better them-
selves in all ways and in every di-
rection. It is for this class to take
hold of the matter in earnest, and
to lead their race' aright. It is for
this class to throw aside all silly
sentiment about race or color. A
crime i8 a crime, no matter wheth-
er it is committed by a white man
or, & negro, and it should .bei j
ished irrespective of color.V It is gec,jrjty
absolutely necessary that the beU . ..
ter class of negroes should interest
themselves more energetically in
aiding to bring to punishment the
criminals of their own race. When
negroes see and feel and under-
stand that the whole respectable
body of their race will be offended
at any crime tbey may commit,
they will betray a restriction in ad-
ventures of that kind which they
do not now feel.
In short, when a negro contem-
plating crime understands that he
will be hounded down and handed
over to justice by his own color, as
the whites hound down and hand
over criminals of their color, a
prompt end will be put to lynch-
ing8 for the reason that the crimes
which are held up to justify lynch-
ings will cease. Those who per-
petuate these crimes will know
that it means death, if their own
race, instead of harboring them or
aiding them forward in their es-
cape, hastens to hand them over to
justice.
And if there is not an active body
of law-abiding and crime-hating
persons among the negroes in this
day and time, then the whole case
is a hopeless one, and the editors
north and south might just as well
drop the matter and permit the
conditions that now prevail to con-
tinue indefinitely.—Atlanta Con-
stitution. '
carried
Flatonia.
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There are a
pers that oppose
necessity for a libel law to
newspapers in pul
A moment of time
rusal
convince
P
■nHIM
manded legislation has
enough to publish a news
principle enough to
opinion that would co
approval. They are
worthless, and the on., —„
would touch them would be '
to protect the
frauds.—El Campo
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Nine-tenths of the world's sew-
ing machines are made in the
United States.
A married woman's tears excite
curiosity oftener than they excite
sy mpath y. *
Women are employed as brick-
layers in Finland,
Died.
J. P. Bell, an old
Texas revolution,
illness was made in o
died at the home
Bell, near this place, at
age of 80 years, of gem
Friday morning. He leaves a
number of children and
dren to mourn their loss,
terment took place
ing in the old Sutton
about 4 miles east
large concourse of relatives
friends following the remains to
last resting place. May he
peace.—Carmine Enterprise.
An exchange says: A
man who had been converted
the Holiness Band
all pride and self-conceit
taken out of his heart. To
it he said he would go down
the audience aad kiss an
ored woman. As be went
the aisle the old colored
rose to her feet and said:
a hyar, bruddah, you may
no pride, but I has; you c
Hobsoniee me foh all
white folks! "
Several fiel<1s of
Campo country are
ael, a condition that
average citizen's
roasting ears.—El
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