The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 1909 Page: 7 of 8
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One of the most important features in the development" of West Texas is the extension of the Wichita Valley Railroad
from Stamford into-^PUR FARM LANDS"Which will have daily passenger anidf freight service by Nov. I.
On that day Lot Sales will begin at Spur, the terminus in Dickens County, and inGirard, fourteen miles below Spur* in
Kent County. Private Sale—No Auction. The substantiaLgrowth of a New Texas City will begin at Spur on that day.
Qirard will prove to be a splendid trading town. Both towns are surrounded for many miles, in all directions, by the won-
derfully rich Spur Farm Lands, too well-known in this neighborhood to make description necessary. These lands are be-
ing sold direct to the homeseeker from the owners, (no selling commission to load the price,) at from $12.00 to $17.50 per
acre, with some additions when near the towns. TERMS--One-fifth down, balance in six annual payments; notes run-
ning at eight per cent., any or all notes payable on or before maturity. Title perfect and^ua ran teed by us.
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Six Hundred and Seventy-Three Square Miles to be Offered
Insuring the widest range for selection in this beautiful body-long withheld from the market. Secure farm homes now
before the prices advance, as they surely will with the development following operation of railroad.,
Outsiders are already writing that they will be here to purchase farms as soon as they can reach them by rail. Our home
people should not wait until the choicest lands are gone.'
Little Lessons in Patriotism
Hy ,J . W. Burton
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(Continued From Laist Week)
Article No. 3.
One Hundred and Nineteen
years have passed since the adop-
tion of the Constitution and its
first ten amendments, and during
that time only five other amend-
ments have been made Droving
Thw remarkable adaptability of
our Constitution to the progress
of time. The 11th amendment
relates to the extent of the judi-
cial power of the United States
Courts; the 12th changes the
tution itself or the people.
Each of these branches has
been graced by men the like of
whom comes but once or twice
in a century. In the first we
jhave Weboter, Clay. Calhoun; in
the second we have Washington,
Jefferson, Lincoln, and in the
third we have Jay, Marshall and
Chase. None of these men
needs his work and life retold.
Each is as well known to every
American as Gladstone, Napoleon
and Bismarck are known in their
respective -countries. And this
nation owes them all great debts
of gratitude for the manner in
which they in their public and
"private lives conserved the bb-
mode of choosing the vice-presi-! jects of the Constitution. I hey
dent, and the 13th, 14th and 15th ! did .their work and did it well.
were passed after the close of
the Civil War and refer to ques-
tions raised at that time.
Now We have gone hurriedly
through the Constitution and its
amendments, and what do we
find? We discover carefully
enumerated every essential
element necessary to the forma-
tion and successful administra-
tion of a government.
We find
a government that has powers
enough to make it a strong and
lasting sovereignty, because no
power or right is given without
a corresponding power provided
to carry it into execution. We
find a government1* composed, of
three different branches, 1st, the
*;,2ndr- the executive,
3rd, the judicial. Each of
theae branches acts as a' check
By the oratory and logic of the
first three our congress has been
placed foremost among the
parliamentary bodies of the
world; by the broadmindedness
and impartiality of the second
three our nation Has won -^and
maintained its fame as a repub-
lic; by the legal learning and im-
partial decisions of the last three
our supremo court haa gqjnod the
men in the calm, serene dignity
of their position, pass ultimately
upon wfratis really the will of
the people.
Before and since its adoption
the Constitution has been at-
tacked time and time again, but
it has. always come through un-
scathfrj. The Civil' War gave
it the wofst blow it ever had, but
happily that war was not direct-- country ^southern people have
UPon the ot.hpra; the first makes
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the laws, the .second sees that
they are enforced and the third,
sees., .that neither one of the"
Others pverste jteits prerogative
" ies "upon the Consti-
ed against the Constitution as a
form of government. In my
judgment this nation, founded
as it was/ composed of different
colonies with diverse interests
and with mace or less- jealousy
existing between them, sooner
or later must have come to a
test, as to whether one particular
state or..rwwnber of states should
acquiesce in something they
deemed unsatisfactory. It was
well this test came when it did.
Even then it was one of the
bloodiest wars the world has
ever seen. The American peo-
ple are invincible, whether they
live! in the north or whether they
live in the south. Europe stood
still in awe while this Conflict
Suppose thar
people closer together; the South
came to know the North, ind the
North came to know the South
and respect them. Since that
time the South has become con-
nected with the North by great
railway systems, and commun-
ication haa been made easy;
northern people' hfitve moved
south and helped build up the
topmost round of judicial integ
rity. Chief Justice Marshall did
much to make our Constitution
what it is today; he understood
it thoroughly and interpreted it
accordingly. In a government
of this kind, where the laws are
made by the people through their
representatives, is it not a sub-1 even imagine. But happily ""for
lime spectacle to see those same j the North and happily for the
laws upheld orr overthrown bv South the greAtenJorcfi- was-on
was iii prugtess
war had occurred today, or fifty
years hence. With the country
so thickly settled as it is now,
with its railway facilitief aired the
consequential ability to trans-
port troops rapidly from one part
of the country to .another, ijt
would have been too bloody to
tfhe Supreme Court composed of the aide that believed this should
but nine .m&jh.. and the people'be an indissoluable union, and
willingly acquiescing in their welenjoy today what otherwise
brimpn!< ^Without ;,the blare'of TmglifhaVe"fteen lost: forever, a
trumpi§ts an«d ri0fi rdleW of
war fcoppd the
moved north and peopled its roll-
ing prairies.
There is a problem for future
settlement which is going to try
the best brains apd resources of
this nation, and tHat is the negro
question. Some say that the
negro should be deported; others
say no. Some say segregate
them; others say |that would fee
against the very principals of
our government. Some say ed-
ucate them; others say they
know too much already. Some
see a menace to the white race
in intermarriage with the black,
as the black seems to dominate.
Others see no danger at alh
But whether the danger is im-
aginary or real, it is being agi-
tated nevertheless, and in some
states—and they are not all
southern states either, a negro
who has committed a. crime is
dealt summarily with byv mobs.
In some instances thw haajed to
race wars, small of course, but
they may grow. I am Hot pessi-
.i!nistic_aboiit this, however, but
dfTflie contrary feel sure that if
a solution is ever required for
-thia-queationT it will bo handled
carefully and wisely.
We have thus seen how
government was formed^
how it.
been administered,
inewwd afTc
'ilsife!
our posterity to administer it
rightly. Thus far we know how
well that has been done, and
with the good examples set.and
the precedents made, the future
looks very rosy indeed, and we
need have no fear.
When the Boston tea-party
threw those chests of tea over-1
board in that Massachussetts
harbor the wave^rsated there-
by spread and circled on and on
until they reached the shores of
every civilized country, bearing
with them that spirit of free-
dom, that spirit of liberty, that
will in time emancipate the
whole human race. Every na
tion has felt its influence; every
monarchy has trembled at its
force; the broadest dikes built
on thp shores of despotism can-
not keep it out, and eventually it
will diffuse itself over the entire „
globe, and tfien men and women,
no matter where they live,
whether under the tropieal sun
of the equator or the icy cliffs of
the arctic regions, will come
again to their own, and when
the last account is all made nn.
each will turrTto America,, the
youngest nation of the earch, yet
the oldest in civilization^
with bended knee bear test!
mony to the greatness of:v the;,
men, and women too, of
the promulgators of the jrepubli-
n, form of government and in-
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White, F. E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 1909, newspaper, October 14, 1909; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242158/m1/7/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.