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ANOTHER UTOPIAN DISILLUSION.
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Upton Sinclair utopia at Helicon hall in New Jersey.
may, whenever in his judgment the public service de-
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nue agent shall report to him, in writing, the results
Fully 1,000 of these American
rigors of the weather.
the walks.
This is sufficient for all to see the absurd position
the hardships of the
farmers are now experiencing
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mush an’ milk.
Under date of April 9 the News criticised severely
Olews and Darieties
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with mush an’ milk.
each side thinks it is in the right, but that this prop-
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weather and th, dincomfiture of long
all its rigorous
when under like condi-
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a spot which marked the birth of Texas’ freedom
and where the blood of as noble men as the world
tions they would.
their own country.
It seems like a shame that there is at present such
a contention between two factions as to who shall
the trustees of its projector, it must be said with credit
to the residents of Pullman, as it did on account of
the workmen themselves, but this fact only tends to
should remember that it may not be possible for
everybody to escape the consequences of their frenzled
financial misdeeds as easily as he escaped when he
was brought up for rebating.
the community, the plan is confessedly a failure and
the Pullman company finds Itself under the necessity
of selling the residences in the town jo the occupants
in order to maintain the integrity of its working force
and to overcome the great dissatifaction that has been
growing all these years with a plan that was intended
to work out and afford a practical demonstration of
the utopiaQ scheme of life among men of various tem-
peramenta tastes and desires.
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And It has at last arrived at the stage when the
“actual settler" In Texas requires legislative designa-
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fellows; to the abaolute refusal of men who see a
chance to profit at the expense of their fellows to be
fair and to the basic elements of healthy human na-
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Buminess Offioe .
Eitorial Booms .
With visage puffed and sorely clawed.
With eyes that smart from being “pawed.”
How can I face the “boys” today
And hear the grinning idiots say.
“How’s baby?”
—Mary E. Killilee, in May LAppincott’a.
progress of disrupting of the cherished scheme much person as revenue agent for the state for the purpose
alower than usually attends such failures, but the fall- [of securing a better enforcement of the revenue laws
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ure In the instance of the model town of Pullman is known as the state rvenue agent revenue agent
none the less complete than the quick failure of the shall be subject to the directions of the governor, who
The neighbors’ windows downward dash,
profanity in every crash;
While infant fingers tear my hair
Until in spots my scalp is bare—
That's baby I
“TAMPERING WITH TRIFLES.”
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It is pretty hard to find anyone busier than th*
average'June bride is during the month of May.-
Colorado News.
Don’t Depend on the EtT
The old notion that a nest egg was needed to induce
a hen to lay ts merely one of the poultry superstitions.
They cut no figure whatever in influencing the hen
end were long ago discarded on all large poultry terms
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McDonald's letter stating that the rolls of Hays coun-
ty in the comptroller’s office had been examinedeand
called attention to the inequalities existing here and
asked if I was following the law or an old custom, my
answer could only be that the law had been disre-
garded altogether and not a single statute adhered to.
A rounded little velvet cheek,
With dimples playing hide and seek;
Two arms that ’round my neck are laid
To measure love were surely made—
That’s baby!
A tired head that droops full soon.
Amrowsy nod, a sleepy croon;
The deep-fringed eyelids downward creep.
And some one’s in the land of sleep—
That’s baby!
Baby, 2 p. in.
A tangled mass of sunny curls,
A rosy mouth with glistening pearls.
Sweet wondering eyes of heaven’s own hue,
Like violets wet with morning dew-
That’s baby!
"A pretty woman does not need toi upon her ap- I does not pay to take the stove down in this tate,
pearance he will make a fool of htma*U.“ .. uhlems you wast toolean the stove.—Bonham Heraid
papers.
The stand I have taken needs no apology whatever,
but I would like to call speclal attention to the fact
that the first three month, of my work was the seme
A Bad One.
“My wife ha, a frightful temper."
"How do you know?"
•She ha, lost it so many times."
any, wherein the revenue law, have been violated.
I their enforcement neglected, together with the names
of the parties delinquent therein. Whereupon the gov-
________ jernor shall institute civil and criminal proceedings
J. M. LEWIS IN HOUSTON POST. [through the attorney general, in the name of the
Satisfied. state, against such delinquent parties who are report.
There’ll be red an' swayin' poppies coaxin' me adown ed by such agent to be delinquent"
SAME BABY. t. A. M.
What sound is this that shatters night
And puts sweet sleep to headlong flight?
A screaming mouth fills most the space
Allotted to the human face—
That's baby I
Hla Cure.
“I have got insomnia.”
"Thate a terrible thing to have; I had it had when
I wes younger."
“What did you do to cure tt?“
"Nothing; our baby grew np."
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with the law.
The Dallaa News is justified In taking the stand it
has, when you know that its building in Dallas list
year was rendered for $52,500, when it could not be
purchased for five times that amount, and, too, the
entire property of Dallas county was rendered much
cheaper than that of Hays. It is only the wealthy
counties that object to equal and uniform taxation,
but under this form of assessing tat m-true market
value) we can have equal and uniform taxation, and
each individual will pay just his portion of the state
and county burden. W. R. STONB.
A Common Experience,
it often happens that one of the most airticult
things in the world to fish up at a moment’, notice
I, a good and lasting idea, fresh from the brain.—
Laredo Times.
as had been in vogue in this county for many xear.
.. each party rendering hla properly at such price as
he saw fit, and no two on the same basis. Therefore,
our rolls show renditions from 10 per cent to 95 per
cent of their true value, but when I received Captain
Maglo.
This world is full of magic.
A strange, enchanted spot;
Sometimes it’s rather tragic.
But h.ontly It is not
Some man. quite ordinary.
Grows rich ere Mt of sun.
tele Bet.
Now the world has got its eyes
On Madrid.
• They’re expecting a surprise
- in Madrid.
Spein’s proud banners wul unfurl
when the stork has had ht, whirl
We’ll bet it’s a boy—or girl—
in Madrid.
Anxious to Please.
"Young men who call on my daughter are expected
to any good-nghttat 9:30."
"I'll do it sir. and then tt won't be necessary to say
It when I get ready, to go.”
MISTAKES OF EMIGRANTS.
Within the past few weeks a large number of Amer-
ican farmers who have been attracted to the great
plains of the Northwest and induced to cast their
fortunes in the bleak land by reason of the very ef-
fective advertising of the Canadian government and
the inviting condition, under which land ean be pro-
cured. have been tied up at the terminus of one of
the Canadian railroad, and they and their livestock
have experienced great suffering on account of the
| It’s Easy: Try It Yourseir,
Poor Pay. . I Other towns have tried the epiit log drag and m-
"Well, doctor. I understand your earning, have portea favorably on it. We would like to mo someone
grown to be very laror" in Savoy try It and me what It will do for our streets.
“Yea. far larger than my income." 1__Savoy Star.
A youth of feeble meeming
An hetress wil ensnare, .
A wild romanoers dreaming
8ells stocks moat anywhere.
The wie man does the labor ‘
And the Idler ba, the fena
rm not jealous of my neighbor.
Bat Iwonder how I's done.
—Bouton Jouine
Pau Morton thinks angther perloa of Gepreuion
wm never MM* t thts ooumtep But, then, Paul
mers and her
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The naval vessels are leering Hampton Roads and
th* vimtors at th* exposiuon wil now be compelled
to go on the "war path" for amunement.
There'll be paths that wait my cornin' ’cross the fields
o' wavin' hay.
There'll be biddies up a-cackiin o’ thstr early mornin'
lay.
There’ll be the old dog bowwowin’ at the squirrels in
the tree.
And the same old corn a-standin’—there ain’t no
demed word but "silk"
warring faction*—it is the question of honoring a
sturdy band of patriots who gladly died that the re-
public of Texas might live. Every man in Texas he,
a personal and a vital Interest in the preservation of
the meaument, and every man is justified tn entertain'
Ing a feeling of regret that any sort of contention over
the present care of the Alamo should arise.
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There’ll be miles of ox-eyed alaies and big clumps j of the “learned judge.” In fact, I do not believe any
o’ holly-hawks, [judge. In Galveston or anywhere else, made any such
There’ll be violets a-hdin" just the way they hid • | statement, and if so, why did they not give his name?
yore, lit looks as if the Galveston News is trying to help the
There'll be honeysuckle climbin’ all around the kitchen I Dallas News (as they are practically the same—at
door, g [least under one management) to defeat justice, as
There’ll be tall corn rows a-standin’ with their plumes [there is no one that has discussed the question, except
o’ ruffled silk, the Dallas News, but believes in equal and uniform
And, just any time I want it, there’ll be a bowl o*|taxation. >
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Haves Her the Trouble,
"A pretty woman can easily make a fool of a man."
through the
form such other duties in the interest of the public
revenues as the governor may direct. Whenever any
such investigation is ordered by the governor the re ve-
in inspiring confidence in the mind of the emigrant
that he will get a square deal, and it has been able
to make the farmer believe that he can do as well
financially in the Northwest as he can anywhere else,
and that, too, in spite of the disadvantages of climate.
As proof of this is cited the fact that Canada is get-
ting the very best class of emigrants, and if Canada
That is good enough an' smooth enough ter rhyme (have control of the sacred Alamo property. possibly
system where a community of Interests shall dominate
its members.
Allowing their sordid proclivities to overshadow the
broad and unselfish designs of its founder, the officials
of the Pullman company gradually surrendered to
the pecuniary temptations which were presented In
the management of the property, and Instead of the
little city becoming the utopia that George M. Pullman
dreamed that It would, it became distinctly a feudal
institution and a private establishment, and therefore
an outlaw in Illinois. The concerts by the best bands
that money could hire, the employment of public gar-
deners to keep the streets and the laws clean as a city
park and the production of standard plays in the
coxy little theater which the builder of the model
town provided, were not sufficient to atone for the op-
pression which his successors instituted; and. added
to this was the constant clamor within every work-
man’s breast to get on in the world on his own account.
Finally the power of the courts was invoked and the
Pullman company is compelled to sell its residence
property to the workmen if they desire and are able
to buy.
The fact that millions of money have been Involved
in the thorough trial of the experiment has made the
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over and to do it according to law. From the many
assessors there present, not one thought but that they
could get a fair rendition in their counties.
So, after having the positive assurance of the state
revenue agent, backed by the governor, that all coun-
ties would be forced to comply with the law. I began
assessing according to law and notifying those that
had already rendered to come and change their rendi-
tions so as to comply with the law.
One of the great and learned judges of Galveston
comes before the people, informing them that Captain
Bill McDonald has no authority for having the laws
enforced, and has not the power, through the governor
and attorney general, to institute suit against the as
sessor (as delinquent) for violating the law, but ar-
tide No. 6059 of the Revised Statutes says:
| “The governor is authorised to appoint a suitable
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It appears that in whatever manner the plan is set
about to secure altruistic conditions among members
of the human race, the plan is doomed to failure.
Not so long ago Upton Sinolalr, turned somewhat in
nis capacity to reach a wholesome conclusion from his
process of reasoning because of his sudden transfor-
mation from abject poverty to comparative affluence
The human forces that caused the two failures are mands it, direct the said revenue agent to investigate
identical. They their in therefusat ot2coksordssatantgrandaisoerstnganacperctunsan-
th, intelllgent and tndustrlous human belnE to .ur bursing, receiving or having in their possesslon public
render hi, indtviduality for any alleged benetit to hi, funds, and to make such other investigations and per-
of his sensational novel, "Th,
Texas Fruit Crop Short.
Clarendon Chronicle.
Sam H. Dixon, president of the Fruit and Truck
Growers' Association of Texas, and who is otherwise
identified with the fruit industry of Texas, says of the
fruit situation of the state: "The peach crop is a
practical failure In Texas this year. I have visited
Jacksonville, Palestine, Crockett, Nacodoches, ROck-
dale. Lindale, Garrison, Tyler and other points in East
Texas and find the fruit situation about the sama
throughout this belt I have reports from avervsec.
tion of the state and find that the least damage to th,
peach crop is on the Red river west of Bonham and
the Erath-Montagu, section northwest of Fort Worth.
"The plum crop has also been cut abort and th,
blackberry crop badly damaged throughout East Tex-
as. Th, Athens country, which two weeks ago report-
ed fair prospects for a peach crop, now reports s very
short crop.
"I have talked with many growers regarding th*
causes leading to failure and find a diversity of opin-
ion among them. Some attribute the failure to ths
severe drouth in the fall and qonegquent want of vital-
ity in the bud. The genevaf cause assigned, however,
is to the warm, moist weather three weeks in January
preceding the sudden and severe drop in the tempera,
ture Feb. 5."
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.11 assessors or any assessor, that would attempt to
do what he was elected to do, what he haa sworn and
what he had given bond to do. and the only suggestion
rhered by the News was -for the asseasora to devise
some plan that would work the Mme the state over,
thereby going on record a. advising the assessors or
executive officers, to defy the constitution of our stat,
and for each assessor to be governed by the localI de-
mands in their respective counties What right have
we as executive officers, to create and put into execu-
tion any taw or plan? Is It not our duty to execute
the law given us by the people to whom we pledged
our solemn oaths to serve according to law?
The law requires that each separate parcel of real
and personal property shall be valued at its true and
full value in money. In determining the true and
full value of real and personal property, the a8gsor
shall not adopt a lower or different standard o..value
because the same is to serve as the basis of taxation,
nor shall he adopt as a criterion of value the price for
which such property would sell at auction or torced
population, how much more should the immigrant
agent who represents the land of perpetual sunshine,
of two crops a year and of ideal living conditions be
able to do if he were to go about It m the same intell-
gent manner that the Canadian government is em-
ploying?
THE FORT WORTH RECORD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY B,
made.
I would like for the editor of the Herald to furhish
any authority to prove that the property of the state
U rendered on a two-thirds valuation, or even a sing1e
county in the state that figures on said basis Then
take our county and find an individual who has ren-
dered at two-thirds vlue and I will show a person
paying an unjust portion of the state's burden, be-
cause the entire taxable property of Hays county is
not rendered at more than one-third of its market
value. To prove that the party that renders at two
thirds value is paying more than his burden of taxes.
I will give the following illustration: One of our citi-
sens in the. early spring of 1906 offered one of our
farmers 95 per acre for 300 acres of land, but the
farmer declined to sell his land so cheap. The party
having the cash and credit to buy the land with, ren-
dered same, and the assessor or board of equalisation
placed mm, on a two-thirds basis, and he paid state
and county taxes over $100, while the man with the
land rendered and pala taxes on same to the amount
of 14 5. Is there anything just in this? Why adopt
a two-thirds or one-half basis when the law plainly
says "at Its true and full value?” In arriving at one-
half or two-thirds value don’t you first have to get
emphasise the point that the human race, even at its a
best, is not yet ready or willing to conform to any -
eyes o’ blue, resistance that has challenged the admiration of the
she's got a hait a dozen UtO, kids thet call worla m It is recorded as the on, battle of history
her mA
' Tv, got a half a dozen utte kids that call from which no warrior oscaped, but they did hope to
me Pa; | awaken a realisation in the minds of th, contestants
life's mush an' milk time yonder she was sweet or the sacrilege of a strife that can only help to de-
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The reports telling of the condition of the snow-
bound emigrants In Canada say that they are, for the
most part, men who have money and a surticleney of
this world's goods, although the losses to many of
them will be quite ruinous. This Indicates th, metal
of the men who have the hardihood to go to the
Northwest and help to develop that rich but restricted
country. To the man who watches the signs of the
umes, th, fact that they are going to that section of
the continent in face of the effort that la being made
to direct immigration to other quarters. is sufficient
food for serious thought. There is just a posetbility
The Washington Post aska, "How does the weather
man make his predictions?" With such weather as
we have been haring lately, how could anybody make
prediction, mi Itt
its full value then divide by two or three?
The Haye County Times does not misquote the as-
sessor of Travis county, but quotes such a fractional
part of his statement that it is misleading. Mr. Fran-
cia of Travis is one of the few assessors of th, state
that began his duties according to law the first of he
year and at the early date of March 28 his renditions
was paying no attention
to Captain McDonald’s order, the Times failed to state
that he was complying with the law to the letter, and
it would have been just as easy for the Times to have
commented further, saying McDonald’s letter did not
A Valuable Lesson.
This cold wave has proved one more time that aei c ..
4 TRE BECORD Ox BABB. __
Ths Record can be fopnd at news stands and hote- read
ing rooms as follows: _
In New York: At theAstor House Rending Room. «•
Broadway: at the Hotel Marlborough Reading Room.
Thirty-sixth and Broadway; at the Hotel St Denis Read-
ing Room. Eleventh and Broadway: at the Hotel Norman-
die Reading Room. Thirty-eighth end Broadway: at the
Empire Hotel Reading Room, Sizty-thtr and Brondway:
at otaing': news atand, located at Broadway and Thirty-,
eighth etreei- opposite the Knickerbocker Theater;; at
No. 1. Park Row. opposite the General Postoffioe, and at
the Pennsylvania railway depot. Jersey City.
In New orleans. La.: At the Bt Charles Hotel news
stana . ...
In Chicago: At the Palmer House newe atand and at
the Great Northern Hotel news stand.
la Hot Springe. Ark : At the C H- Weaver Company
news stand. _ .
In Denver. Colo - At Kendrick Book A Stationery Co. a
■ad at I. Weinstelm's
in Atlanta, Ga.: At the Piedmont Hotel
in St Louie Mo At the Southern Hotel news atand
and Union Depot newe stand
Tn Salt LAke City. Utah.: At Mra I. Lavin's news atand.
In Oakland. Cal : At N W. Weatleys news atand.
west cart be procurea upon very advantageous terms.
■nd the Canadian government sees to It that the pros-
pector does not become th, victim of the land shark.
Therein Hee smother consideration which weighs
heavy with the man who is about t seek his fortune
In a strange tend. The moat successtul farmer knows
as well as anybody that he la unable to determine lh»
producing qualities of any land in a new country until
S- after he haa become acquainted with the peculiar local
conditions, therefor, he must of necesstty be at the
mercy _of the man who is selling the land. It is an
estabiished fact that the land agent in the average
country that is being settlea up Ie held under suspleion
by the homeseeker, and it ts perfectly natural for him
to turn hla attention to the country where there is an
assurance that the purchaser la to be protected from
any possible decepton. The Canadian government
wtsely recognises this fact. In its quest for American
farmers it has been able to lay stress upon thia feature
of the purchase of lands In its domain to the prejudice
ot many sections of this country which are unable to
give any auch assurance. And the result is that a
sturdy class of farmers pack up and go to Canada with
Texas Democrat. .
There are so many discussions in the press pro a
con on the question of taxation, I feel it my doty
reply to some of them, as I am being criticised no
The plan failed as much on account of the action of only by a few parties but by one or two of our coun -
Jacob Riis says he,has never known the President
to be wrong. It Mu also be remembered that the
President said tht Jacob was the very best news-
paper correspondent that ever happened.
Jungle,” undertook to establish an vptan colony at
Helicon hall. The early ruin of his plan following a
period of continual turmoil and at last terminating in
the destruction of the building by fire, proves again
the utter futility of persons of a highly developed in-
tellectuality to dwell in peace and harmony together
under any sort of a community plan wherein the per-
sonality of the individual must be subservient to the
common standard of excellence.
The Sinclair plan and similar plans of dreamers
contemplated the maintenance of the establishment
from contributions, in cash or labor, of the members,
and it is probable that to this feature of the utopian
theory the great number of universal failures is
charged. But that does not seem to be the fact in
the matter, and the economic student ie forced to delve
deeper for his cause. if, indeed, he may ever hope to
find it
The other extreme in altrulstio development has
demonstrated the same degree of instability that has
characterised the community plan, as is proved by
the utter failure of the pet scheme of George M. Pull-
man, the palace car magnate, to construct and per-
petuate a community whose inhabitants might enjoy
all the al truistic benefits of which men for ages have
dreamed.
In 1890 the work of building the town of Pullman,
III., was commenced. When it was completed the
town contained about 1,800 buildings constructed in
the best possible manner of brick, stone and cement,
and 12,000 souls found~domfcile there. Mr. Pullman
provided a bank, extensive library. An® churches, an
opera house and other conveniences and amusements
for the army of employes who manned the great Pull-
man car shopA Everything in this magnificently ap-
polnted town was placed-at the disposal of the work-
men. who wer required to pay a modest rental for the
privileges they enjoyed. The Pullman company owned
the buildings and kept them in repair. The plan was
a most comprehensive one, and it apparently left
nothing to be desired on the part of the residents of
the model town in the way of perfect contentment
But after a quarter of a century of constant en-
deavor, wherein the minions of the Pullman com-
pany were ready to be drawn upon for the needs of
erty should be saved to the state and to posterity just
But I’ll git the most I fancy out o’ them old holly- when it seemed that it was to be desecrated by tearing
hawks | the building down, and then the outcome be a dis-
And the violets a-hldin' down along the garden walks. | gusting scrap as to who shall manage it, seems an al-
And the purple lilacs swingin’ full o’ perfume on their [most inexcusable wrangle. It is almost sacrilege that
bush. , | such should happen. Some of the state papers ar
And the roses in the mornin’ givin' back the mornin s turning the matter into a joke, referring to it as “the
blush; “ second battle of the Alamo” and using other would-
Everything about it calls me; calle the stalks o’ be funny terms. The Herald may be overly senslive
standin' corn, [on this subject, buican’t find it consistent with its
And the mush and milk o’ boyhood in the homo where j ideas of patriotism and propriety to joke concerning
North western winters, and it is reported that some of
them are on the verge of ruin in addition to their
personal sufferings. The reason for the congestion
is attributed to inadequate railroad equipment, but
railroad equipment can have no influence on the
weather.
There is little doubt that the great Northwestern
plains of Canada furnish an inviting field for the
farmer who is desirous of securing the best possible
return for his money, for it is said that the wheat
1 fields of that far-off region produce as the fields of
no other country produce. To the man who has been
accustomed to a single crop a year this promise of
increased yield is a big Inducement to migration, and
many of them undertake 4t. The lands in the North-
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omc« Coree ith and Kuril Btrertk.
Direetors: Clarene. Ounles. A. J. sandeger4, . W
spencer. N H.rdlu wuilm G Newby and W. J.
Funhouser, Fort Worth: K M Johnston, _____________
Clarence uooltr. President; A J sandezaraBecretan:
Enteted at the Poatottice at Bart Worth ha second-clasa
mail matter.
and the same response was made from the assessors wuncn buux pvpu-- ------— - <« ,7,
all over th* alate, the result being that the assessors sale, or in the aggregate with all th* ProPerV inane
were called together at Austin, Mareh II and 28, to county, but he shall value each lot or tract by .
have some understanding as to what course to pur- and at such sum or price M he believes the sa
sue, and the only acceptable proposition, understand- fairly worth in money at the time such assessment is
ing or terms ws could arrive at was to do our work
the new address __________
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W o. Basford. James B Harris. _
Any erroneous reflectton on ths character, standing
or reputation of any person, firm or corporation Wh1c
may appear in the columns of Ths Record will be gladly
corrected upon its being brought to ths attention of tea
management
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Three Months (by mall iT paid ta advance)..
Fix Mont ha (by mali if paid in advance) .. ..
Twelve Mon Iha (by mall ir pala tn advance)
SUNDAY.
•Twelve months (by mail).................
Six months (by mail) •
Three months (by mafl)..................
SEMI-WEEKLY.
.in' sh.“3 shtmoyutPkeckon. an- rm giaa .h. mar-stroy the veneration in which the Alamo. 1s held. “ It
„,7 „ I la allowed, to continue. Regardless of the merits of
rleg mo.
--------- | the contentions which have recently been raging and
Evidently Not. | upon the broad plane of Texas pride, every man may
“Whin you do something you know is wrong, oesn’t be commended for enganding that the Alamo be pre-
■ still, small vole, keep reminding you of it at.rnnlly?" monument to ■ band of nobis
"A stin small voice I I guess you never met my |
wife, did you?" heroes who fought lq the sacred cause of insuring to
--------- | Texas her sacred liberties. It is not a question of
TWO-CENT F.ARE IN TEXAS.
The 2-cent fare bill has been put to sleep in th*
Texas legislature, and probably no one who will take
the trouble to calmly review the situation nd the
conditions which govern railroad passenger traffic in
Texas wu eypress any regret at the final disposltion
of the bill. 4
It la very likely that much of the agitation in favor
of the passage of a law establishing 2 cents a mile as
the legal rate of railroad tare in Texas was inspired by
the action of the legtslatures in more populous states
Yet when this was done the mistake of failing to com-
pare relative conditions was mads In the states
where the 2-cent fare has been made compulsory the
population is dense. Large citles are less than 200
miles apart in any direction, and between the cities
are numerous towns ranging in stze from 1,000 to 40,-
000 or 60,0*0 Inhabitants The railroads have an im-
mense traffic and the lower fare actually stimulates
travel to the extent that more frequent trains must in
some esses be put into commission to care for the
business. It la natural, therefore, that th*.lower tar*
should tend to incresse, rather than to diminish, the
passenger revenues of the roads in these states
Furthermore, the years thst these railroads have
charged the 3-cent fare are many, and from the reve-
nues they have been able to build well-nigh perfect
tracks, modern and commodious stations and to pur-
chase elaborate equipment. The roads were ready
and prepared for the change to the lower fares.
In Texas the conditlons are reversed. The state is
thinly settled as compared with the older states and
th* distances between populous towns is great, and
the intervening small towns do not afford any con-
siderable patronage. Under these condittons the rail-
roads find it expensive to operate trains. Nor is there
any demand for frequent mervtee. The railroads ap-
pear to be doing all that is wtthin reason to meet th*
demansrot the Texas traveling public ao far as train
service B concerned. Of course, there is a demand for
better trackage and modern depot buildings, but these
improvements cost money, and as the railroads are
not wholly philanthropic in their purpones they should
be allowed to earn the money with which to make
the improvements demanded. Th* lnes are tazed
prett heavly in various wars in this wwte alrendn
•M B W only fair that they be gt*M a reanonabt
ehenoe to keep eta* with other itnee of pragrsM.
TAXING STOCKYARDS.
We cannot understand upon what principle or policy
of taxation It is Justifiable to levy a gross receipts tax
upon stockyards or to place that industry under the
intangible assets statute.
The only warrant for a gross receipts tax is to reach
concerns without visible property for taxation, ouch as
telegtaph, telephone, express and insurance compa-
nies. The only warrant for a tax upon Intangibles is
to reach concerns like railroads whose visible property
does not fairly represent asset, for taxation but whose
charges for service are sufficient to pay Internet and
dividends on stocks and bonds or other intangible
values representing real investment.
Stockyards fall under neither of these classes. All
they own is visible, tangible and easily assessible.
Under a full or true value assessment they would be
taxed as heavily as storehouses or office buildings or
real estate of any sorb As the Fort Worth stockyards
la the only institution of its kind in the state, the prop-
osition really resolves itself into class legislation, which
is never justifiable.
True value assessments will reach property of this
kind as well as real estate or mills or banks or any
other private enterprise, and that is all the legislature
ought to undertaketo accomplish.
And the little crick a-windin” from the distance vaste’er saw ran almost as freely as the waters of the
an' dim. stream which flowed in the shadow of ths bulding.
And the little elbow in it where I learned to dive I The present strife and oontention are the outcome of
an' swim, petty jealousies that no broad-minded Texas man or
And the. trees I clubbed for chestnuts for a little girl woman should harbor. That the fight is on " "Tis true,
I knew [’Us pity; and pity "tis 'tis true."—Hamlin Herald.
With her yaller hair like cornstlk and her eyM the I Back Talk does not believe there is a newspaper in
mhatstdyatyou and goes with farther far than ‘he state « Texas that looks upon the recently re-
ever did vealed controversy over the Alamo as anything ap-
The mush an' milk you loved eo when you was a I proaching a joke. True, some of the papers have re-
ttle kid. [ ferred to the unseemly strife over the hletoric structure
..... _______. ... .... .2. .wa. as the second battle of the Alamo, but they did not do
Oh, heigh-ho. I'm growed an married an she a srowed
an’ married, too. It because they do not hold in reverence the spot where
That earns Uttle girl back yonder with'her teasin' | the early patriots in the struggle for liberty made a
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