The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 24, June 30, 1894 Page: 4
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THE TEXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER.
WALTER B. McADAMS, EDITOR.
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Entered at the Post-Office in Thurber, Texas, as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Thurber, Texas, Saturday, June 30, 1894.
What became of all the "Coxey Contingents" that started for
Washington to scare Congress into life and activity?
In place of paying salaries to the members of the New York
City police force, those gentlemen should pay the city for the
privilege of levying blackmail.
The Democratic candidates for President and Yice-President
in 1896 will be third in the race, and there is a bare possibility
that they may not receive a single vote ^in the electoral college.
New York City is undergoing house-cleaning at the hands
of a Republican Investigating committee from the state Senate.
The fumigation for the extermination of the disease microbes
will not occur till November.
The evidence adduced before the Police Investigation com-
mittee at New York is enough to make one shudder. The way
police captains have been able to amass fortunes amounting to
sums around $1,000,000, while on a salary of $3,000 a year is
now clear.
A piece of machinery so arranged that by turning a crank a
series of boots will protrude from a nearby receptacle and kick
the man turning the crank, is the invention of a prominent bus-
iness man who "voted for Cleveland." He uses the machine on
himself daily.
The president has gone fishing on a light house tender again.
We do not wish our readers to understand by this that Mr.
Cleveland has gone fishing with Speaker Crisp. A light house
tender is a boat which conveys provisions to light houses.
Speaker Crisp has simply been the tender of a light house, both
metally and at times numerically.
A tenement house census which has just been completed in
New York City discloses the remarkable fact that 1.337.000
people are housed in tenements there. This is one of the rea-
sons why New York, with only 47 square miles of land within
it's limits, can have 2 1-2 times the population of Chicago with
it's 181 square miles, and that too with 13-16 of it's people on
3-5 of it's land.
Democratic papers trying to divert public attention from the
scandal their party got into on the sugar schedule of the Wilson
bill, point the finger of scorn at the Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay
of Pennsylvania as a Republican Senator who speculated and
made money in sugar. If he were chargable with any culpa-
bility for the acts he committed, that would by no means lessen
the Democratic disgrace, but Senator Quay is not to be even
chided with wrong doing. He was not a member of the Fi-
nance committee which prepared the much-talked-of schedule,
nor was he a member of the majority. He is a Republican and
we are proud of him, and we wish it clearly understood that we
do not adversely criticise his acts. He, as a Republican, could
do absolutely nothing to alter the course of the committee.
He did not, could not, influence them one way or the other.
He simply thought the majority of the committee were fools and
gambled on their being so. Naturally, he won.
We have no desire to interfere in New York State politics,
but we feel constrained to remind the Republicans there that a
straight Republican ticket in New York City and county will
win this fall. The cry of the Democratic newspapers for a
fusion ticket of clean Democrats and clean Republicans is an
omen of Republican victory if tried for. Don't he caught by
any buncome or chaff. If any Democratic ticket could win,
Democratic papers wouldn't cry fusion.
The Texas & Pacific Coal company will appreciate, through
the medium of The Texas Miner, the joys and woes of edit-
ting. The Texas Miner is a well printed, interesting little pa-
per that is fully what it's name implies. The Black Diamond ex-
tends fraternal greeting and the right hand of fellowship. Go
ahead, brother, and bear in mind that a paper is held responsi-
ble for all the woes and ills of the human race; is seldom com-
plimented and generally abused. But we hold aloft the torch
of knowledge and help to grease the wheels of progress upon
which this old world of ours is spinning.--[Black Diamond.
OUR OWN LITTLE WORLD.
rjIGHTY miles west of Fort Worth and three miles from the
railroad junction is where The Texas Miner was born.
It was rather a lusty infant, and has grown rapidly from a 4-
page sheet to 20 pages. It's advertising patronage and it's cir-
culation has increased week by week, until now there is no pa-
per west of Fort Worth that can compare with it—as Topsy
said, "We jess growed;" thats all. We are Protectionists, in
favor of free silver, and against Cleveland. If that's Repub-
licanism, why that's what we are. We live in a town nearing
4000 inhabitants, and a unique town it is ; we have one big I
overlooking us all; we have no quarreling or fighting ; no use
for a calaboose except to jug outsiders who steal in at night to
try and make trouble with our men ; we have every article of
merchandise for sale that can be bought in any city, and at
lower prices than they can be bought anywhere in Texas ; we
have no houses of ill fame, for if loose women come in town
there is no roof to harbor them, and some one says "git" and
they go. The houses are all owned by the company, and only
leased on seven days' notice to quit; no gambling is allowed ;
one saloon only is allowed, and that is run under strict orders
that are always carried out; only one newspaper (that's us) in
the town. It is by far the best governed town in the state, and
yet there is no court, only a desk in an office where Esquire
Williams sits once in a while; we have our marshal and consta-
ble, but no one would know them from an employe of the com-
pany, unless a person is a little loud, then a quiet hint is given
that it is not a healthy town for rows of any kind ; there is a
tacitly recognized force that no one questions, no one denies
orders are issued and implicitly obeyed as if from the council of
ten in Venice. It is an excellent town for good heads of fam-
ilies to come to, and lucky is the man taken in the company's
employ, for it is a life situation if the man is a good, steady
workman, no one is discharged except for cause. Miners here
can have protection without the shaddow of a doubt; prompt,
regular pay, good houses, cheap rents, healthy climate, good
water, good schools for whites and blacks, separate churches for
all denominations, no taxes—the company pays al;l cheap, inno-
cent pleasures, the best medical attention in case of sickness,
etc., etc., etc. In fact and in short, we have a model town.
Here a man can live in peace and quietness, can earn good
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 24, June 30, 1894, newspaper, June 30, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200471/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.