Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 47, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 28, 1897 Page: 4 of 10
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Boy's Clothing in New York City which was retiring from business9 will enable tis to give you
the Biggest Bargains yon ever had offered you. Don't xniSs this ehanee as they are moving like'
hot cakes at the prices we are offering them. The low prices in' our DEESS GOODS DEPART-
MENT also SHOE DEPARTMENT will continue through this month. Watch for Opening in.
Our Millinery Department.' The Largest Stock of CAPES AND JACKETS IN THE STATE.
Respectfully Tours
BRENHAM TEXAS:
The Weekly Banner.
JOHN G. TtXSVZJX
Kditor Publisher and Proprietor.
IJrcnbatn hursday. Oci. 28 1897.
By his visit to Texas Dr.
Guiteras lost his rep. as a yellow-
lever expert.
TnE public debt of France is
the largest in the- world and
amounts to about 88000000000.
The population of Texas is
reckoned at four million souls
and its railway mileage at 10000
miles. -
The president' has appointed
"William Wallace Mills of El
Paso Texas to be consul at
-Chihuahua Mexico.
An increase of about 1200 men
forthe navywill bb asked of the
next congress 100 of which are
lo be offices and 100 apprentices.
The Huntsville Item states that
-whenever the genuine yellow
lever hits Texas no expert will
vle needed to inform the people of
the fact.
Russell Sage is said to con-
template making an effort to gob
ble up the Pacific railway at the
forthcoming forced sale by the
government.
It is said that Congressman
DeGraffenreid is to have no op
position for re-election next
-year insofar as the democratic
party is concerned.
Spain again serves notice on
Uncle Sam to stop fillibustering
expeditions leaving our shores
or be held accountable for a gross
breach of international law.
Crocker is still boss of Tam-
many and says he intends to
land the democratic ticket in the
municipal election of Greater
New York by the usual majority.
Bully for Croker.
The Bonham News says Bon-
Jiam is getting real "citified."
"With lier two big oilmills her new-
compress two ice factories two
flouring uiJis electric lights
electric railways city public
schools her splendid water-
works and last and least her
eight newspapers wh.0 can say
.she isn't much of a city now?
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how things have changed.
Many good people wonder why
it is that government costs so
much more than it did many
years ago. Why cannot Texas
with 3000000-people have her
public affairs administered at as
low a figure per capita as when
the population was but half a
million? A little reflection will
bring the explanation to light.
Just as individuals and families
are not satisfied with the simple
inexpensive wants of the good
old times so it is with the state
the county and the town. Now
instead of the cheap old field
schools kept in log shanties
with puncheon floors roofed
with three.-feet boards and furn
ished with benches m&de of split
slabs and legs neatly trimmed
with a hand-ax we must have
neat structures gay with paint
and convenient with all modern
appliances and at the head of
the system we must have a grand
state university "with its medical
and industrial branches.- "We
must have asylums for our un
fortunatesand penitentaries for
our criminals. Justice as well
as those who seek her favors is
no longer content with the rude
habitations that once served so
well but must dwell in and issue
her edicts from palaces of granite
Pecos red sandstone and pressed
brick. "We must have geologi
cal surveys a military system a
sanitary system live stock in
spection a railroad commission
an enormous amount of printing
by the state of laws journals
reports of 101 officers depart
ments bureaus etc. "We want
to be more secure in rights of
person and property than when
each man depended largely for
these things on his strong right
arm and this entails counts and
officers innumerable. All these
things and many more we want
and must have.regardless of cost
The luxuries or torty years ago
are the every-day necessities of
the present with individuals and
states but we can t nave them
without paying for them. But
we believe that we can now pay
for what we want as convenient
ly as when we wanted but little
here below nor wanted that little
but a nart of the time. Then let
us content ourselves with the
reflection that there is nothing
too good for us if we can pay
for it. Farm and Ranch.
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STATE NEWS
Counterfeit silver dollars are
in circulation at Pearsall.
A Dallas man fined the limit
S500 for attempting to fix a jury.
The land office reports 24-
177 acres of school lands sold
during the month of September.
The state university opened
with 442 students or' 38 more
than last year.
Valuable marble fields have
been discovered near Alpine.
The marble is black and of rare
variety.
Some of the "West Texas
farmers are leasing lands to
Mexican tenants in preferance to
white men.
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Nat Q. Henderson 'of
Georgetown a Grant republican
has gone to "Washington in
search of an "appintment." .
Three new wells are now
gushing oil at Corsicana.
Hon. T. S. Harrison is being
prominently mentioned in con
nection with the State treasurer
ship.
A little son of W. H. "Wrey
was run over and instantly killed
by a heavy float in. Dallas last
Friday.
Farmers about Angleton are
seriously alarmed over the
ravages of meningitis among
th'eir horses.
A heavy rain and wind-
storm visited Rosenberg last Fri-
day night blowing residences off
their blocks and completely de-
molishing a number of stables
and barns.
Henry College located at
Campbell 8 miles east of Green-
ville burned last Saturday
morning. Insured for S12.000.
. A terrific hail storm visite'd
Erath county last week doing
considerable damage to crops
and other property in the vicini-
ty of Dublin.
Thomas Goodwin committed
suicide at Itasca Hill county
last Saturday by cutting his
throat with a razor.
John Hayden who has re-
sided in Texarkana for- the past
five years was arrested last Sat-
urday on a warrant charging
him with the murder of Mike
Havely at Walnut Hill Vir
ginia in 1891.
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OHIO IOWA AND MARYLAND.
The overshadowing fact that
six and a half millions of Ameri-
can voters are for Bryan and the
Chicago platform must be con-
stantly borne in mind by every
lover of his country says the
Silver Knight-Watchman. The
only possible issues upon which
relief can be obtained are the
issues of 1896. Upon no other
issues can there be a general co
operation. Whatever else may
happen the election this fall will
have an important bearing in
determining whether this coun
try shall be all bonded slavery or
all freedom and prosperity.
The faot that six and a half
millions of American voters com
posed- of all parties united last
year is very encouraging. Dem
ocrats must bear in mind that the
gold element of their party
which dominated and disgraced
and robbed the American people
is in the opposition and must be
kept in that position or the dem'-
ocratic party is forever destroy-
ed. The casting out of the fol-
lowers of the British gold stand
ard from the democratic ranks
has made it possible for honest
men of all parties to co-operate
with the regenerated democracy
(as much interested in success
as the populists or silver repub-
licans) and that success is only
possible by cordial co-operation.
The populists and silver re-
publicans show their devotion to
the cause of reform and their
desire for relief for the American
people by voting under the dem-
ocratic name which Cleveland
and his cohorts made odious.
The democrats have shown their
devotion to principle by elimi-
nating the Hessian tory element
from their party and they can
well afford if populists and silver
republicans will co'-operate with
them to extend them every
courtesy and to recognize them
as allies and comrades in the
great cause. If after having
eliminated the goldites from the
democratic party that party
should by its conduct in any
one of the above-named States j
alienate silver republicans or'
populists 'who are co-operating
with them most dire results
would follow and the good which
hey have done by eliminating'
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Cleveland democracy from the
party will all be lost unless they
receive with proper cordiality
and interchange of courtesies the
reform elements which are now
ready and willing to co-operate
with them.
Co-operation was secured last
year. Since that time thousands
and thousands have come to the
standard of reform who voted for
the enemy in 1896 and nothing
can accomplish a defeat in either
of the great States above named
but failure of the reform forces
to co-operate together. Let sil-
ver republicans populist and
democrats alike remember that
each is engaged in the same
great w'prk of rescuing this cqun-
try from the despotic rule of the
English gold standard. The
question at issue is above party.
It involves the liberty happi-
ness and prosperity of the
American people. No man" who
has the cause of humanity or
the love of liberty at heart can
afford to be offended or to take
exceptions to v his co-workers
however unjust their conduct
may seem. This is a case where
if we have enemies in the ranks
it is our duty to heap coals of fire
upon their heads by returning
good for evil because upon the
co-operation of all the fate of
civilization depends.
The San Antonio Express con-
siders train-robbing bad enough
when the effort is confined to the
express car and the mail
pouches but when the robbers
go through the passenger"
coaches robbing and shooting in-
discriminately it is time for the
exercise of extraordinary means
for hunting-down and punishing
the scoundrels. The crime is be-
coming altogether too common
and the way to check it is to!
eaten tne roooers ana maKe me
punishment severe.
The Greenville Herald thinks
the Smith county officers who
tortured a suspected criminal
while confined in jail in an effort
to extort a confession should be
stripped of their authority and
severely punished. Their zeal to
ferret out crime should not ex-
cuse their barbarous conduct.
Reason justice humanity .cry
out against such acts and public
condemnation can not be too
severe against the offenders. '
Very few people have an idea
how much they are mortgaged
until they begin to count up
says the AlvaradoBulIetin. The-
installment system is responsible-
for a great deal of this indebted-
ness. There can be no objection
to buying a home on this plan
where one has not the ready
money to invest but the abuse of"
the method absolutely keeps
some people poor. This is es-
pecially so with men and women
who work on salaries. They wilL
buy goods on monthly payments
at prices much higher than they
would have to pay on a cash
transaction. Numerous artioles
from a book to a carriage or a.
fine parlor suit are bought in
this way and often with detri-
ment to the purchaser. Use the
installment plan with caution.
The St. Louis Republic says ;
"The story from the Indian. Ter-
ritory to the effect that the Cher
okees Creeks and other inde-
pendent tribes are preparing to
migrate to Mexico in view of the
probability of the abolition of"
their tribal relations and the-
allotment of their- lands by the-
United States is probably a fake.
President Diaz' Indian policy is-
much more severe ttian that of
the United States and it isn't
likely that he would encourage-
the scheme said to be. oir foot in
the Indian Territory."
The Aransas Pass Beacon re-
fers to the fact that many men
thoughtlessly swear in conversa-
tion with other men and in the-
presence of children. This is-
grossly impolite to your friend
and unpardonably wrqng to the
child. Learn the plain English
and you will find no place for
profanity
The supreme court of -Michigan
has ruled that the services of an
editor or a reporter are of a pro-
fessional nature and are there-
fore not covered by the statute
relative to preferred labor claims.
The Johnson County Review
exultingly exclaims: "And the
regular democracy carried the
municipal election in Louisville
the home of Henri Watterson and
the Courier Journal." "Praise
God from whom all blessings-
flow." All sing I
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Rankin, John G. Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 47, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 28, 1897, newspaper, October 28, 1897; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth115707/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .