Arlington Journal (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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the wolf as being very “good?”
Above lawyer was asked if he did not think more business
men and farmers should be elected to the Legislature; he hesi-
tated, and then replied:
“Oh, I don’t see what difference it will make who constitute
the majority of our law-makers, whether they are doctors, preach-
ers, business men or lawyers, just so they are good men.”
There, again, comes the question in what respect is a law-
maker expected to be “good?”
Another lawyer, who held public office, and also served in
behalf of labor Unions was asked if he did not consider it essen-
tial that more business men and farmers be elected to the legis-
lature, and hold other public offices, and he said he did not.
Asked for a reason, he said: '
“Well, they have not had the training of the mind, which is
necessary to handle such matters.”
(He now occupies a soft-berth.)
However, a man (and an eminent lawyer, too) of such small
importance of Wm. H. Taft, President of the United States of
America, advises that we,
“Elect too many lawyers to law-making bodies.”
And Thomas Jefferson made the same complaint over 100
years ago, when there were less grafters than now among public
men.
Elect more farmers and business men to office and then only
will the lawyer law-maker be “good.”
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LET FARMERS BE ON GUARD.
Farmers must ever guard their interests and execute their
own plans, otherwise, they will remain, where they have been for
over half a century in Texas, viz:
At the mercy of the middlemen and professional office-seek-
ing and public tax eating pie hunter.
“ELECT ONLY GOOD MEN TO PUBLIC OFFICE:*
These words were recently uttered by a well known man who
has held office in Texas, and a lawyer, and he expressed the sen-
timent of the Journal in above head lines.
But the query is what sort of “good men” are entitled to of-
fice, and in what respects is a man good?
Doubtless the female companion and cubs of a wolf regard
him as being very “good,” when he keeps them liberally supplied
with food, but how about the sheep and rabbits and chickens, and
young calves, which said “good” wolf kills, in order to keep the
female and her young supplied with food? Will any one argue
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ice. Address,
The ^Arlington Journal
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f Arlington. Texas, Friday, May 24, 1912.
OUR SCHOOLS CLOSE.
There was never a better program, showing
that closing our public schools tthis term,
mention the fact now, as
an accident. Next week we 1 „ _ ,
the splendid military school, also closed its successful session. We
heard a most capable business man in Fort Worth say Carlisle
was the best military school for boys in the South—and that tbeir
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TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The Texas Press association had the best program and en-
joyed one of the best series of entertainments in its long history
last wek. e have not time nor space to give details. But de-
tire to say that Temple is a wonderful city, her citizens set the
pace for cooperating in enterprise that will build yet a greater
.City there. And the Telegram is a daily worthy of such a town—
it is by far the best and ablest daily in any city of Texas even of
many thousands more population than Temple has. And this
writer desires to express admiration for the versatile F. L. Downs,
president of the First National bank, and C. M. Campbell, presi-
dent of the .City National bank, and who .was toastmaster
-<t thfe great banquet. and to his father who took me in his auto-
mobile to Belton and the surrounding country. And Temple has
JBU largest candy factory’ ip Jexas, and the only chewing gum
facUfry »n Texan. We went through these factones—and thev
,<re wondera. And the candy and gum are the «iual of the
•xDlelted anywhere. Secretary Woodal, of the Commercie^ a|
' \ ‘'all things to all metf’-and women during the problems,
is the right man for the place. And I certainly ^fel’eafter11 /♦►nrani-rnti
Temple gets out a splendid catalogue o^ posaeff-
grnns they win put in her most valued as^ l^e Temple f^ly
Telegram. And also the Mirror by t^ Gr^frhm Brothers-r-Bbb
•^tnd Pink. Their write-ups and and cartoons of the
Tress association had a metro;^^ tohe, and we¥e reAliy great.
And I never enjoy any oc^}^ more than the pleasure Of taking
dinner with Mr. and Mfa, Bob Gresham, with Mr. and Mrs Jbdd
Mortimer Le^ls '(the poet of the Houston Post). I had known
Mrs. Gresham and Mr. Gresham for yeArs—Mrs. GlfcAham since
her childhood, and the occasion was one to remember. Our trip
to Galveston was fine—and the Hotel Galvez is a dream of beau-
ty, a Persian poem set in Oriental gems.
FARMERS’ MASS MEETING IN ARLINGTON.
. On our front page will be found a call for a mass meeting of
- all the farmers in the Great Arlington Coyptry for Saturday, ,UII1C.
June 3th. The Journal cannot too strongly urge every farmer to/ a tax
be present, as this meeting means much to each one. This is the
day of the farmer. He must take advantage of it. Better prices
with less toil sand acreage is not only possible, but it is within
„ r—dy re«ch of «U who will cooperate. This call is by'be ^pre-
gentative business men of Arlington, including meiy..—the
mayor and the banks. '■ • ' . . ,
Now, farmers, if’is of the utmost importance that you attend
this meeting. It will be at 1 p. m., so f ‘ - JJ
home in ample time for any Saturday afternoon duties at home.
Matters of vital interest to you regarding better prices for your
products and cooperating with each other and with the business
men—who are now thoroughly aroused to the importance of co-
operating with farmers in getting better prices—will come before
the meeting. Be sure and attend, farmers—also all business in
the Great Arlington Country. Remember the date: Saturday,
June 8th, at 1 p. m. In aclling this mass meeting by the Mayor of
Arlington and the* presidents of our two banks indicates what
. thia editor has advocated and preached for years, viz, that it is to
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with farmers, and this call shows that such legitimate business
inerests of Arlington are sincere in their desire to opCperate with
the farmers in this section, and all farmers should come in, tell
all their neighbors so, as to aid And get the results which Is the
object of this mass meeting.
The editor of the Journal and the family certainly enjoyed conquering ability of Texans
■ some delicious oranges fresh from the trees, sent by Rev. G. F.
Black of San Bernardino, Cal., to hie mother and brothers here,
and who generously shared their delicious favors with this scribe.
We should like to have Rev. Black taste some of our luscious El- j
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Confronts thA fartfitr, by patriotically (?) trying to raise the
question of ‘ prohibition;” “anti-prohibition,” the “money tr'ttot;”
the “interests,” etc., etc., when thV fact is, that none of abdVe
are issues either in the present state or national campaign.
The issue before the office-seekers today is really the facts,
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who holds the office he wants.
That is the average office-seeker’s platform in a nuteehelk
The issue-before the farmer is: z
The successful marketing of their crops.
Prohibition will not market crops,'nor aid in getting rid of
middleman.
Anti prohibition will not. * *
Warehouses, proper financing not to ex^ltf ptr cent inter-
est per annum, ami a marketing and distm,bnlihg system will aid
to solve the problem of better marketing <>/ farm crops for farm-
ers. ' ’ ‘ ?
The Farmers’ Union has brought a marvelous change
in favor of the farmer by selling cottonseed, and have their
■plans (which must be constantly watched and kept up) for this
branch well in hand, but potato fcay( cotton, peanuts, eggs and
truck are important and nec'^^ry farm products and then can-
not be successfully marketed^ in farmer’s interest without:
Warehouses, money fo exceed 6 per cent ami proper
marketing. ‘
Can above be sec urvd from, bv or through political lawyers?
Positively not. ' • „ . i
Hill politics 4 ia\vycrs promise above?
Yes, and r if b s0 they can get the farmer’s
vote.
K® can *un a warehouse.
A > M’ic tdrtl find customers ami cut out useless -middlemen for
fearr.^ ^lih-ts, nor secure necessary cash al d rate not to exceed
Above areUcts. And facts only, and not theories, will Win
%<rf farmers. . . . . , , ,
Let all farmers join the Farmers* Union and solve their own
which can eAiily be done by proper cooperation and
organization.
Join the Farmers' Union..
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“ETERNAL VfGILENCE” SHOULD BE THE FARMER’S
WATCHWORD.
Since IheJfetter of Secretary of Stato P. C. Knox to Chairman
Underwo^S bf the Ways and Meana Committee became known,
several of protests from Intelligent farmers were hurried IUW, LIUS 13 a Loot pciillj' W1DC, AHU pVUUU AVU1KM1
to ConjtfORtfmen at Washington and they got busy, With the result a vengeance, and these same Democrats will vote ten mil-
that BWIgaMa has modified het decree against cottonseed oil. - - - - - ... —
which Wn now be exported U that country more freely. ..
it was Bulgaria that demanded that all cotton seed oil should
be rehdeTed unfit for hUmWi food before it could be admitted into
tW country and thia aettoh was taken on account of a threat made
fey some American Congressmen (for political effect) against
■some of Bulgaria, whiclf country still imposes too great
v on cottonseed bn.
The people bf Europe Are great consumers of Vegetable oils
for food and the American crushers of cottonseed have succeeded --------
in creating a lAYge demand for cottonseed oil, which means money p c
f’r K„ox>( .etter
against cottonseed oil caused a tremendous falling off in its sale
iiuizui vai.w fl,nd thus caused a decline to the cotton farmer in the price o
that all may attend fond, get seed, and it is figured that Texas alone lost ov</' six million dol-
by the decline in the price of seed.
Every farmer and business man in the Sodth should write at
once to his Senator and Representative in Washington to spare
no effort to have that decree against American meats and cotton-
seed oil removed. . . ..
This should be done without delay, so farmers can get the
benefit of it during the coming season. Farmers must study up
and keep an eye on all such matters^themselves.
The Journal feels confident that not a single member of Con-
nn <>»» tovuvu xw, j.—..,, — — gress reported above to a single fanner in any district, still, it
of certain legitibate business interests to cooperate c(>Bt he farmers of the South millions of dollars in one year, and
■ i this loss will continueJf all discrimination is not removed.
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A few years ago, some papers in Mexico asserted that “Mexi-
could whip the United States, if Texas would not take part!
An idea of the regard that the average Mexican has for the
T«—.J can be former from a recent incident
when two Texas Rangers stood off nearly 303 Mexicans and
threatened to arrest the entire bunch if they put a foot on Texas
soil.
’ The little after-lunch skirmish of the Texans at San Jacinto
I in 1886 is still fresh in the memory of Mexico and of the Mexicans, j
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COTTON MADE ARTICLES MEAN MORE MONEY. FCfe
TEXAS.
Ab the hearing of the Welfare Comission it developed that
not a single member of that intelligent body with the exception
of Mr. Loudermilk, had ever given any thought to the use of cojf^
ton wrapping twine, and of cotton sacks, instead of jute,»for
sugar, meal, chops, grain, coffee beans potatoes etc.
Such a use of cotton rope, twine and sacks would alone help
the farmer get a better price for cotton and every farmer, and
- -- -------- -------------a-., every citizen can , could and should aid, in seeing to it that all
that th^e sheep and chickens, ajid calves, would be apt to consider such supplies are in future put in cotton sacks.
• The Parij^Wholesale Grocery company have given standing
i instructions to the American Sugar Refining company to ship all
their sugar in “cotton sacks only,” and above refining company
charge the same price for sugar in cotton sacks as they do in jute
sacks. Jfc *
It was Horace Greely who said:
“The way to resume is to resume.” k j
Very easy and quite true. '
The way to aid in getting a better price for cotton, baton-
seed oil or any other fariu product is to use it, and every whole-
sale and retail grocer; every merchant; every banker; every law-
yer; every doctor, and every laboring man and every farmer, can
at once aid materially by following the example set by Sam W.
Williams, president Paris Grocery company, and use and continue
to use cotton-made articles and to keep it up, and every paper in
Texas can and should aid materially by keeping this matter before
its readers, until practically every article now used and made
from jute is replaced by ones made from cotton.
The Farmers’ Union started this movement and has accom-
plished much good.
Let all other influences join in and keep it up.
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When the trust-hunting and corporation-baiting lawyers
placed the anti-trust suits on our statute books, they perhaps did
not realize that some day, these traps would be brushed against
by the farmers of Texas, but that is just about w’hat has happ^aed
Now, look out for a move of opposition to such baitfi^g ]>wx
arising from the great mass of Texas farmers who ce~a and
less will, sweep those laws off our statute book^ * fnrr*
dqual to a West India hurricane. . . 4 * IOre!
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f'arifi.crs> the bail for a mass meeting of farmers in
‘ ’-eadv this latter class o' * Journal. Tell, or telephone, to every farmer in yonr
^2 huffiAfi VtiUtihSS tffitUaVdrihg neighborhood ahadt it. Get out A full gathering of farmers.
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now tak,. •topa to organift* gin companies among thorny
arivea. Farmers should own their own gmw. which is one of the many ea-
sentbU mores necessary for farmers to cohtrol prices of their cotton. Thd
FUrtiers’ Union has atmnxvmeiits by nhich farmers can build a complete
new gin outfit at a Vey small cash outlay. Write C. Smith, Secretary
Farmers’ Union. Fort Worth, for particulars. , « J -
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Farmers shottM be encouraged over the recent advance in the
crop of coCton," Let farmers use all cotton goods they can. Inc reased con-
' sumption means increase in price. Let all Farmers’ Union Isreals remit
Al.HO to State Secretary-Treasurer O. Smith. Fort Worth, to purchase cot-
ton I ragging. Farmers can teach cotton bears n lesson. Do it.
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’ THIS WILL INJURE FARMERS. -
Professional office holders, whether they be Republicans^ or
Democrats, Solialists or Populists are about alike when it comes
to playing the game of politics as each seem sto try to keep to the
front questions which will aid them in being re-elected or which
will aid their respective party.
The “sinners” of this class are now more conspicious in tfV
first two named parties, mainly perhaps from the fact that mcmv
bers of those two parties hold the majority of offices in the United
States.
It has recently been charged .that the Socialist mayor of Mil-
waukee had paid more attention to strengthening his party than
he did for efficient service in making his appointments.
The Farmers’ Fireside Bulletin cannot say he is guilty of this
charge, but if he is, he has done nothing more nor less than the
average officeholder in both the other old political parties are
noted for doing. In order to stimulate American trade abroad,
the Department of State of the United States Government has
some Bureaus working on commercial lines with our foreign Con-
sular service, gathering data on methods and scope of business
being dome abroad by the merchants of other countries, and gi/
ing this information to American manufacturers, merchants and
fanners, and this sort of work has resulted in exports from
Ameridk increasing to an enormous extent and this means more
prosperity for American people and especially our farmers, who
sell rtfw matertai and foodstuffs.
n Setom?) as if the House has some sort of control over, the
apprt>'prfatfon for keeping up these Bureaus and the Denw.rats
are fh control of the House and in order to make a record for
ecdraiftny the Democrats have voted to abolish Bureaus and save-
irbdul”$100,000 annually.-
Now, this is a case of “penny wise, and pound foolish” policy
lion dolars for a battleship, and an'extra (and grafting) S35.-
000,000 pension grab simply to catch votes, and ten thousand dol-
lars to aid farmers!
Above action will be a serious blow to American commerce-
and farmers should write their protest, quick, and strong against
any such high handed policy of false economy.
Let farmers post themselves.
Write to Sgcrethry of State Knox, Washington,!). C., for paF-
ticulars, read up and then write your conclusion to Senators Cul-
berson and J. W. Bailey and your Congressman at Washington,
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An, Irishman is quoted saying that “all whiskey, is good;
some is better than another.”
Wonder if this will not well apply to the average office-seeker,
Substituting the word “bad” for “good,” and “worse” for^’better?”
:: Good Newspaper and PamphletFoIderCheap $
;; The Journal has a splendid folder, in good condi-■ <>
w tion; for sale cheap. Good terms on this. Cost ne*^ ;;
;• $275—been used nearly three years. Because of de- ”
o mauds for a more complicated machine and faster, for o
J both the Arlington Journal and the rapidly growing ;
;; list of the Farmers' Firiside Bulletin, we had to put 3
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there was never a better program, showing more honest
work and painstaking study in the Arlington Public schools than
------- this term. The Journal can only
we go to press after delay on account of
will give full reports. And Carlisle,
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heard a most capable business man in Fort Worth say Carlisle
was the best military school for boys in the South—and that tbvir
company in the drill was far ahead of any other in Texas, x
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- THE ASSOCIATED ADVERTISING CLUBS OF AMERICA
Only once has Texas ever had an assembly of men of such
potentiality in business as those who met in Dallas and Fort
^Worth^ and are now touring Texas this week. I speak of the As-
sociated Advertising Clubs of America. This club is made of the
advertising, or business managers, or advertiing agents of the
largest firms, factories, papers and magazines both in the United
States, Canada and England—and they all had representatives ,
here. There were more than 2,000 of them. Some of these men
get annually more than $70,000 for their services. And, among
them was the great statesman-editor of Canada, Dr. John A.
McDonald, editor of the Toronto Globe—who is just the kind of
editor I insist that every editor ought to be as far as his ability
permits. For Dr. McDonald is a student, posted on international
and national affairs, is a thorough American, has a far-reaching
vision, knows public men and measures in this and all countries,
®.c<jualnt^ with event®’ an^ I*’ j Til vultures are enqeavt
al!, a Chnsban gentleman of the highest type. He was easiliy to divide the mind of thg fa>foef frbffi the inain issue whidh
the star of this aggregation of Bien <?f brains, force and cbar- — " ‘
Xcter. And I contend that all editors ahould be as virile, as in-
formed and as insistent upon the highest ideals, and to be as thor-
oughly posted. They may be if they will. The Highlanders from
Canada and the “Rice Birds” of Baltimore were the stars of the
convention. Baltimore captured the next convention, and we will that the crowd who want office are trylng'to beat the“other ftdlow
take a steamer load from Texas to Baltimore next year. I felt * ' ’ *
- honored to be among those appointed to assist in extending a
Texas welcome and hospitality to these distinguished guests.
And they will never forget Texas. I heard many men of affairs
say they will come to Texas as soon as they can wind up business
at home.
Good! Arlington came in for some good words—and praise
during this convention. Dallas and Fort Worth raised the stand?
ard of hospitalitv and entertainment for these meetings, and the
lay sermons in the churches last Suiylay will influence for good
the coming generations. It shows that the business world is
moral, religious.
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Bowen, William A. Arlington Journal (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1912, newspaper, May 24, 1912; Arlington, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1302794/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Arlington Public Library.