The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 21, 1888 Page: 1 of 8
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MINEOLA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1888.
NO. 30.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
B. B. HART. JNO. T. CRADDOCK.
HART & CRADDOCK,
Attorneys - at - Law,
Mineola, Texas.
Practice in the District and inferior
courts of the State and the Supreme
and Federal courts at Tyler.
HORACE M. CATE,
Attorney - at - Law,
Mineoi.a, Texas.
Offers his professional services to the
people of Wood and surrounding coun-
ties. Will practice in all the courts of
the State and the Federal court at
Tyler.
W. M. GILES,
Attorney - at - Law,
Mineola, Texas.
R. N. STAFFORD,
Attorney - at - Law,
AND
Real Estate Agent,
Mineola, Texas.
Will practice in all the courts of the
Seventh Judicial District. Special at-
tention given to collections of all kinds.
Remittances promptly made. Will also
buy and sell and rent real estate and in-
vestigate land titles; render and pay
taxes on same.
S.F.MWX
-DEALERS IN-
Goods-*
1). W. CROW,
Attorney - at - Law,
Quitman, Texas.
Practices in the District Courts of
Wood and surrounding counties, and in
the Supreme anil Federal courts of the
State.
.T. IT. WILLIAMSON & SON,
Surgeon Dentists,
Mineoi.a, Texas.
All work wrrranted and satisfaction
guaranteed. Plate work a specialty.
Office over Co-Opora.tivo store.
Luniber | Shingles
Having bought out the Lhingle Mill
formerly operated by Dan Shamberger,
two mileS East of Mineola, I have in-
creased the facilities and am getting out
Shingles to
Supply any Demand,
and in a few weeks will have a saw mill
located five miles North-east of Mineola,
in a first-class pinery, when everybody
can be supplied with Lumber and Shin-
gles without crossing Lake Fork. Good
roads to haul and good prices.
J. M. DREW.
| tTllmaa,Lewis Co
Wholesale Grocers,
A N D
Notions, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Boots,
Shoes, Hats and Caps, Staple Drugs,
Hardware, Guns, and all kinds of
Tinware, Crockery, Glassware, Corn, Lumber aiul Shingles. We are
doing business in the Munzesheimer building,
and carry a stock of
FIFTY - THOUSAND - DOLLARS.
We will meet any competition for cash or on tunc. \Ve solicit all the
trade to give us a call and we will do our best to please you in quantity
and price.
Mineola, Texas.
Thos. Breen.
Sucorfiov to Eluior & Preen
- -DEALER IX
HARDWARE
3iv!EIXTEOJL,-A., TEHAS.
also
Fine Cutlery, Slab Steel, Bar Iron, Plows, House Furnishing Goods,
Crockery, Tinware,
—COOKING STOVES,—
Alro agent for the Star Standard Southern Cotton and Hay Prers. Alro for the
G. A. Kelly Plows. Also for Brown's Cotton Gin, Pratt's Cotton Gins, Stationary
and Portable Engines, Railroad Scrapers, Barrows, etc. And every other article
in the Hardware line. I am agent for the Charter Oak, Brilliant and Favorite
Cooking Stoves, and make them a specialty in our business.
V. T. Hart,
—Whoi.bsalk and Retail-
Dealer in Drugs •• and Chemicals,
M
ineola,
Te
xs.
IMPORTERS,
Galveston, Texas.
Represented by
J. LEOPOLD.
Always in stock, Fine Toilet Soap, Fancy Hair and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery,
and Fancy Toilet Articlets, Trusses and Shoulder Braces, Grass and Garden
Seeds, Paints, Oil and Dye Stuffs, Pens, Ink and Letter Paper,
Glass, Putty, etc. Physicians Prescriptions accurately
compounded at all hours.
W. E. WIGLEY,
—DEALER IN—
FurniturE
UNDERTAKER'S GOODS, METALIC BURIAL CASES, SASH,
DOORS AND BLINDS, and
House - - G-oods
of every description.
MINEOLA, ... TEXAS.
I
Stitgner cfe LaForce, at their mill
on Winsboro and Hawkins road
nine miles from Hawkins, cut the
finest quality of Heait and Snp
Pine Shingles. They keep also a
yard at Hawkins and one at Lako
Fork. Address,
STAGNER La FORCE,
Pine Mills, Wood Co. Tex.
Senator Coke's Speech,
We make the following extracts
from Senator Coke's Bpeeeh deliv-
ered in the United States Senate,
April 12th :
A motion to refer the President's
annual message was then taken up
and Mr. Coke proceeded to address
the Senate. He began by speak-
ing of the surplus of $140,000,000
in the Treasury, and said that the
causes which took that money
needlessly from the pockets of the
people and the channels of trade
were continuing, and produced
more aggravated results each suc-
cessive year. It was easy to see
that unless the causes were re-
moved or greatly modified, it was
only a question of time when a
calamity fatally involving all in-
dustrial interests of the country
must follow. In view of tins
emergency, so full of evil portent
to the country, the President had,
in a wise and bold message, urgent-
ly recommended such revision of
the tariff and reduction on the
duties of imports as would reduce
the revenues to a limit required for
the support of the government. In
that the President was simply
voicing the demand that came from
the people of the whole country.
Speaking of internal revenue, Mr.
Coke said that distilled spirits,
malt liquor and tobacco were lux-
uries, not necessaries; that the
revenue collected from them went
directly snto the treasury (less n
small pe eentage for cost of collect-
ing) and that the revenue tax
was to that extent clear gain.
It added nothing to the cost of
food, clothing, shelter, or other
items of living, while it operated
as a measure of repression upon
excessive and injurious use of the
article. Consumers did not com-
plain of that and it was not strange
that the President should recom-
mend its retention undiminished
and that necessary reduction of the
revenue be made by cutting down
tariff taxes. If a reduction should
be made in this way #5 of the trib-
ute paid by the people to the
manufacturers would be cut off for
every dollar cut off from the reve-
nue. The tariff out of which these
results grew was the most mon-
strous system of taxation this or
any other government had ever
known. This high tariff protection
was universally defended on the
ground of the necessity of protect-
ing American labor against Euro-
pean pauper competition. This
was all there was of the protection
argument, and no effort was made
to place it on any other ground,
but a more false, heartless and
groundless text had never been
invented to justify or cover up a
great wrong. A clearer case of
" stealing the livery of heaven to
serve the devil in " was not to be
found in history. The capitalist,
manufacturer, the man who hired
and employed labor, realized
through the tariff from one and a
half to five times as much as the
laborer received. They became
rich while the laborer became poor,
reduction of tariff to a strictly rev-
enue standard would cheapen the
cost of manufactured products and
to that extent diminish the cost of
living. It would put the markets
of the world open to the American
manufacturers and American labor
would in common with the whole
people have their benefit thereof.
But it was 011 the farmers of the
country who lived harder, who
wore plainer clothing, practiced
more rigid economy and had fewer
of the luxuries of life than any
ether class, that the protective
tariff fell with the most crushing
weight. As to the President's
recommendation, that wool be
placcd on the free list, Coke stated
ED. MURRIE,
The leader in Quality of Groceries
and low Prices. Highest prices
paid for country produce.
m
might be compelled to vote for the
bill containing such an injustice,
but if so it would bo against his
most earnest protest and and after
his best efforts to reform it; and
so with reference to sugar. He
regarded sugar as the best revenue
paying item on tho revenue list,
and as one carrying along with it
more burden than any other, ami
thought it would therefore be wise
tn leave the duty on sugar as it
was. But he would accept and
support any reduction of duty that
might be found neccssary to the
success of a bill to reduce the tariff.
Tho attention of tho people could
not be diverted from the real ques-
tinn at issue, by tho sectional
bloody shirt canvass already com-
menced by the Republican party
and to bo vigorously prosecuted for
the express purpose of blinding the
people so they might notseo how
and by whom they were being
plundered. His faith in tho intel-
ligence of the people and in their
attachment to honest constitutional
government drove from his mind
all fear of the result.
the following bills of importance
have been introduced in both
branches, with no positive indica-
tions as to tho fate of them.
Two bills providing repayment
of borrowed lnynoy to the Univer-
sity. Two bills providing for a
geological survey of tho State and
creating the office ot State geolo-
gist. A bill to reduce general taxes
to 12 1-2 cents. A bill roquiring
county treasurers to report back to
the State on September 1st, tho
money remaining in the school
fund and directing such amount to
be deducted from tho distributal
fund apportioned to such county
for that year.
one.
Legislative Proceedings.
The Senate and House assem-
bled and organized at 1'2 o'clock on
Monday, April 16th, but few mem-
bers being absent. One of tho
first things of any importance oc-
curring in the Senate after tho ad-
dress of Licut-Gov. Wheeler was a
communication from Treasurer
Lubbock asking that hie books and
account: bo'iookod into and veri-
fied.
The Governor's message is a
wise and conservative document,
directing the attention of the leg-
islature to the questions mentioned
in his proclamation in a lengthy
and exhaustive manner, dealing
with them in plain and unmistaka-
ble terms. Our space will not per-
mit the reproduction of the mes-
sage, anything short of which
would not do it justice. We can
not pass it, however, without giving
the few extracts below, which are
characteristic of its vigorous style :
Great as this question of taxation
undoubtedly is, and vital as it
must he the future destinies of our I
state, vet after all it is not tho j
present state tax of'25 cents on the j
$100 of property that is proving :!o|munistic
onerous to . taxpayers. And in
looking to retrenchment you should
bear in mind that it. is not the rock
which stands out boldly, giving
warning to the mariner of danger,
against which the ship is wrecked.
So in government; it is not what
the people see and understand
which undermines the prosperity
of tho slate and depletes its treas-
ury, but the secret leak, the insid-
ious and unseen advance of extrav-
agance hidden away in the compli-
cations of your county and
municipal governments, so as to
not be visible to the public eye.
The constitution dearly demands
that property shall be taxed at its
true value; yet, it is a notorious
fact that, so far as real estate is
concerned, this provision of law is
almost universally disregarded, and
A Small Blaze. |
On Wednesday morning at 1:30
the threo old abandoned buildings
fronting the railroad, on Commerce
street, were discovered ♦<-> 1><> on
lire and before am-thing could be
done the ihnituo u<;ie beyond con-
trol. In a, few inonicius ihey were
in ashes. I.u - ii><•< >• • ir)\ vnhle
No insurance. These buildings
have been worthless ami for sev-
eral years have stood a menace to
other property, and being in a
public place have marred the gen-
eral appearance of the city. One
of the buildings was recently con-
verted into a blacksmith shop and
another into a negro restaurant..
It is reported that four attempts
have recently been made to burn
the houses, the fifth being success-
ful. There is very little doubt
that it was the work of an incen-
diary, though so far as we know
at present suspicion points to no
A '
of
is
-DEALER IX-
-groceries
R££ IIighest market price paid for Wool, Dry and Green Hides and Furs."®#
lyilneola, Texas.
wool ought to go on the free list . , ■ ,
just as all basis of manufacture, f.(1 'mequarate oftaxes,
and all machinery used in nianu- *'<t'\« *«f the small prop,
factoring should. But when wool «^y ho der who.,,, possessions are
was placed on the free list it ought K'-'icrally assessed mwer their true
to be done in the interest of the. value foi the put pose of sale or
consumer, not of tho manufacturer.j exchange.
A duty of H 1-2 per cent, would j In this connection, your special
pav back to the manufacturer the ^nt <fh>d to the report
difference between the English and, the romp roller where mention
American wages in woolen maim-1 '/f tho lf,T< ""lount of money
, factures. A duty of 20 per cent, i hlin\« OHeupin^ taxation, and,
i would be highly' protective to the he added, in loans held by
manufacturer who used untaxed ag. nts, u, s,.me instances for cor-
wool. But to allow the manufae- porations and individuals residing
Hirer of free, untaxed wool .'JO or j out ; u'!: the .state.
1 10 or 50 per cent, for the manufae- , NV h'1(! K^dly welcome
[lured article would be an outrage, i the mv.-tment ot capital to aid our
j As he did not expect the passage 1 citizens and further our industries,
of a bill that would meet his views, (those who avail themselves
and ho meant to accept what he | our
could got in the way of tariff re- j forced to comply
duetion (however far it might fall j quirement".
short of what he desired;, he] Up to the time of going to ptylfs
When we hear a man assert that
he has tried the Democratic party
for twenty-five years and that it has '
assisted in plundering instead of
giving the people relief and assigns
this as his reason for deserting it,
we cannot prevent a feeling of sick-
ening disgust. In this he adver-
tises that he is either a fool or has
no regard for the truth. For the
benefit of these gentry who are oc-
casionally writing for ssnmo com-
licet or add'-essing some r
Union Labor Cluo, we publish ex-
tensiv xtraeti: from Ine qv^cche:} v '.
of Coke and Mills in this issue.
The speech of the latter is particu-
larly clear on the point of the re-
sponsibility for existing evils.
llednciiig the Surplus.
The disposition of the .Surplus in the
U. S. Treasury engages the iitteutlon of
our Statesmen, but a more vital question
bus our attention, and tluit is the re-
duction of the Surplus Consiimpfives.
Since the discovery and introduction of
Dr. King's Now Discovery for Constimp- ' 33mBH1
tion, there 1ms been u iioiiked decrease
ill the mortality from this dreaded dis-
ease, and it is possible to still further
reduce the number of Consumptives.
How? Jtv k< . instantly at hand
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and tiding according to direi■.lions, up >.
the appearance ot the llr.st symptoms,
such as a con ■! . i cold, a thr«*• *, u
chest or side pain. Taken thuseaiiv a
cure is guaranteed. Trial bottles free •
at R. T. Smith & Co's drugstore.
There arc persons who have so
far out grown their catechism as to
believe that their only duty is t.<
themselves.
of the
laws should be
with their rc-
fl.
ont OAN 1)1 date fob president.
He will be nominated by the conven-
tion and will be elected by the people,
because lie will come the ' v f ' >
filling their ideal ol a Chief Miv'. irate.
Electric; Hitters Iibk ti"en civon lhelii"h-
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so well filled the ideal of a perfect tonic
and alterative. The people have in-
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Price 50c. find $1 atR. T. Smith A 0'3
drag store
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The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 21, 1888, newspaper, April 21, 1888; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254230/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.