The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 25, July 7, 1894 Page: 5
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THE TEXAS MtNER.
!F YOU WANT."
!FY()Uwanttohu\goo-ls3tb)ttoupri<es;ityouwantto
buv ""ood goods: if \ou want to buy tme goods; if you want
tobuvgoodschea]):ifyou "ant tobuychoi(-egoods;itvou
want to work at mining: it you want to have proui]<t]'ay;it
vou want proteet)ontto)ti organizations; <t yon want good treat-
ment; if you want a healtliy pia<e to li\e: )t you want a (heap
place to live; if vou want a [feasant place to live: it you want
good schools; it \ouwa)itgoodem])loyers—why just come to
our town.
OURSELVES.
]japer has far exceeded our (alculations. W e now have
a larger (irculation than any pa]jer in this or adjoining
counties. We su]<])ose there must he sotnethingattra< tive about
it; whether it is oir brainy our "get u ). our])olitics, our re-
ligion. our good trtends in this town—perhaps altogether ha\e
something to with it; the "ads" and subscriptions are rolhng in
like a flood. We return thanks to ea< h and every one ot our
friends, and sav keep the ark moving. W rite to us. write tot
us; tell vour friends about us ; send in the names tor three
months' trial of us without charge, unless we till the bill and you
want us longer. We fmd that our appetite grows by what it
feeds on. We got long ago all we expected, but we are getting
greedier and greedier for your favors. W hen we are satisfied,
will call a halt. Meantime, do so again.
FRANCE AND THE ASSASS!NAT)ON.
QEN)AYHN DISK/EH said, regarding the murder of Abra-
ham Lincoln that the dagger of the assassin had never
changed the destmies of a nation, and this, there is every reason
to believe, will be as true of France as of the United States.
Camot has been the principal agent in the establishment ot the
republic on firm and enduring foundations. He has aided and
directed the people of France in proving to the world that lib-
ertv could exist w ith stability in a nation which had previously-
known no mean between despotism and a Marat. He has con-
vinced foreign countries that France could be formidable without
being dangerous, and be prepared tor war without imperiling
peace. In his calm, modest and dignified personality he has
held forth to the subjects of European monarchies an impressive
illustration of republican virtue exemplified in the only ruler of
an important European state not chosen by the accident of birth.
He has shown that neither military prestige nor great fortune is
requisite to secure in a genuine republic the highest honors of
citizenship. His life has been extinguished, but his example is
immortal. President Camot could not have died at a more for-
tunate time tor his own tame, or at a time when he was less
necessary to the state. He completed and crowned the noble
structure of French republican government, and his blood has
cemented the work. What the memory of Lincoln in our own
land will ever be to the cause of the Union, that of Camot will
ever be to the cause of republicanism in france.
which was the President's condensation of the word "tru-ts
and compare the hope wtth the trmtion as shown in the S n.ite
debate and Senate vote ot June 5 on the sugar schedule. Com-
pare the homttv on "paternalism and the duty ot ha\ing om
-judgments unmoved by alluring phrases and unvexed by selfish
interests.'' with the [ones amendment to the tariff bill and the
unerring certainty with which you can pick out the utterly un-
selfish interests which prompted their introduction.
The inaugural also attracts attention, upon re-reading, by an-
other phrase: ' When we tear aside,'' says.the President, the
delusions and misconceptions which have blinded our country-
men to their condition under vicious tariff laws, we but show
them how far they have been led away from the paths of con-
tentment and prosperity." This was said March 4, '^93, when
all mill w heels were turning, factories were humming, trains were
loaded and the laborer was receiving the largest hire that labor
ever knew on earth since Adam left Eden. Mr. Cleveland s
Administration and friends have certainly "torn aside" a good
many "delusions and misconceptions," but, "blinded as our
countrvmen were to their condition under vicious tariff laws,
thev never mistook the Slough of Despond for the "paths ot
contentment and prosperity. ' * * *
How^ long will it be before the children of this Republic rise
to the full knowledge of their faith and rest on the foundation
stone of their institutions, and that no one man can make or
mar, but that all the people finally come, and are the only Daniel
that does tinally come, to judgment.
It is true that the last year demonstrates how careless the
judgment of our Daniel may sometimes be. and how great are
the costs and charges of his court, but there is always an appeal,
and to-day neither suitor doubts what the next judgment is to
be. [Ex-Speaker Thos. H. Reed in the July number North
American Review.
PROMOTtNG MENDAC!TY.
WHAT WtLL THE JUDGMENT BE?
\ ! ^ HA L' a horribly disappointed country it is, and has a right
to be ! Read over Mr. Cleaveland's inaugural, which
perhaps contained his aspirations and the hopes he had tor the
future he was about to enter upon, and compare it with the
events that have happened and those which are impending.
Read the second paragraph of it and note the severe punish-
ment which was to be meted out to the "immense aggregations
of kindred enterprises and combinations ot business interests,
V"HF particular overshadowing characteristic of the Income
^ l ax is it's quality as a promoter of prevarication. Multi-
tudinous mendacity has been the accompaniment ot every In-
come Fax. 1'he men of millions and the impecunious alike
learn to like the afitidavit man of the newspaper counting room—
the former to persuade the tax collector that their income is
small, the latter to persuade a credit-giving world that their in-
come is large. Te the former the tax is an item of importance;
to the latter, what they pay in taxes to establish their reputation
as men of means is a small matter compared with the benefits.
The frequency of the oath has made it appear as a mere mat-
ter of form. Hundreds of thousands of notaries public, justices,
judges and other officials and their deputies are engaged in ad-
ministering the "so help you Cod to the peoole. and without
any surroundings or condition of gravity and reverence. Natur-
ally, men have come to look on it as they look on the "seal"
that follows the name subscribed to the legal documents and
never think of it as anything but a form. They make state-
ments as to their taxable property in a purely "business" way
and without stopping to think of the perjury quality of an inac-
curacy. They make mental reservations respecting their net
revenues, conscience approving of many deductions because ot
contemplated or probable or conceivable outlays.
On the other hand the man of small income who desires to
impress possible creditors with his well being, and who pays a
tax on an income that does not come in, quiets his conscience
with the argument that the Government has some benefit from
his fraudulent statement, and that as long as he pays taxes
which he is not strictly bound to pay there is no perjury in his
false statement.—[New York Commercial Advertiser.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 25, July 7, 1894, newspaper, July 7, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200472/m1/5/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.