Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 25, Saturday, January 6, 1900 Page: 4
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TEXAS MININO AND TRADE JOURNAL.
(The Cetas Mining anir <Tvatic Journal
Owned and Published bv T. P. M. & M. Co.
WALTER B. McADAMS, Editor and Manager.
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EDITION,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING.
Entered at the Post Office at Thurber, Texas, as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Thurber, Texas: Saturday, January 6, 1900.
There is every indication that an effort will be made during
the present session of Congress to pass a law providing for the
publication of the pension roll, and indeed we may say that the
roster should be published. The pension list should be a roll of
honor, and the unworthy names which greed and fraud have
registered there should be hung up in full view, so that a legiti-
mate effort may be made to have them stricken from the list.
Last year's gold production in the United States, according
to the Director of the Mint, reached a total of $70,000,000, an in-
crease over 1898 of more than $6,000,000. The silver production
of this country is growing. Last year's was $74,000,000, and that
of the previous year $70,000,000. The British Klondike gold
yield in 1899 is estimated by the same authority at $16,114,150.
"If I am shot by a Filipino bullet," wrote General Lawton a
short time before his death, "it might as well come from one of
my own men, because I know from observations, confirmed by
captured prisoners, that the continuance of fighting is chiefly
due to reports that are sent out from America." The words
had not long been penned when General Lawton fell.
"To succeed in war," observes General Miles, "is to get
ready before you commence hostilities." We recall that one of
the Confederate Generals of 1861 is accredited with having said
that his idea of success was "to get there fustest with the most-
est."
The papers are telling us that it will be McKinley and Root
for 1900, but we doubt very much if the Administration will be
so precipitate as to choose a Vice Presidential candidate at the
present time. This year's situation may cause extraordinary
demands.
Since the return to this country of the gentlemen who rep-
resented us at The Hague Peace Conference it has been demon-
strated by their silence that the gentlemen are too peaceable to
be heard from.
The Boer farmers have demonstrated to the British what the
American farmer did in the War of Independence—that the man
behind the plow loses none of his dexterity when placed behind
the gun.
We have never been impressed with the ability of General
Otis, but the more we see of the British comments on General
Buller, the greater is our resignation to the fate that is in store
for us.
The Republicans in the United States Senate have planned
to celebrate the return of the Honorable William Stewart of Na-
vada to the Republican fold by increasing the size of the air
shaft.
If Kimberly capitulates, Cecil Rhodes may expect an eternity
job as the headless man in a Boer museum.
It will surprise the public to know that in Hawaii, which is
now a part of the Union, there are 100,000 people held in invol-
untary servitude, which is against the spirit of the Constitution.
From what we know of the past record of the Honorable
Timothy Woodruff he is not going to be scared off the Vice
Presidential track by any newspaper stories of pre-emption.
Governor Pinngree announces that someone has tried to
bribe him in connection with a franchise for a gas plant. There
must be some mistake. No one is in need of a Jonah.
There are some people who keep themselves so busy trying
to make their own and other péople's grammar correct that they
are wrong in almost every other particulr.
The Arkansas expansionist is a stand-off to the New England
anti-imperialist, but they both must be exasperating people to
have around in their respective localities.
Estimates from London place the cost of the Boer war at
ten million dollars a week. Just think what it is costing in lives
and derangement of business conditions.
If the Administration showed as much concern for the Con-
stitution as it does about the welfare of Wall Street it would re-
gain the confidence of honest men.
Mr. Roberts seems to take his scandals very philosophically.
He intends to preserve all his physical force even if his moral
integrity does go a bit lame.
The baseball magnates have recently been engaged in the
pastime of robbing each other. This is quite a change from be-
ing robbed by the umpire.
Perhaps the Southern Republicans feel grateful enough for
recent favors to give the Honorable Mark Hana a few Presiden-
tial delegates in 1904.
It will be perceived that the Honorable Billy Mason never
permits his blushing-for-his-country to interfere with his talk-
ing propensities.
Telegraphic reports say we are on Aguinaldo's beels. We
are pleased to note this change, for he has been on our toes for
some time past.
One can readily see just how much water there is in the trust
stocks by observing the "cloud burst" which recently happened
on Wall Street.
The Democratic orators refer to the fact that McKinley was
once for free silver, but this fact does not strengthen that fallacy.
It carries one back to the days of '61 to hear those excited
Irishmen sing "Hang Joe Chamberlain on a Sour Apple Tree."
The coal man can save his fuel for next summer, but pray
tell us where is the poor ice man to cut his ice.
It will very soon turn out that General Ketchener is not
fighting "Children of the Desert" of this trip.
The recent Wall Street flurries have fully demonstrated that
the country is not on a speculative basis.
London is such a large place that when she loses confidence
she makes a thorough job of it.
Instead of issuing manifestos Aguinaldo is now engaged in
a running comment.
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McAdams, Walter B. Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 25, Saturday, January 6, 1900, newspaper, January 6, 1900; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200537/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.