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THE FORT WORTH RECORD: SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL* 24, 1909.
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REVISING THE TARIFF.
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TAMPERING WITH TRIFLES
J. M. LEWIS IN HOUSTON POST.
reuoing
Stand erect
breathing and arm movement.
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HOROSOOPE FOR THE DAY.
le sun's aspect is for asking favors.
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Denton.
Mr. 1
Ther• to cenaternation tm San Antemio
over some of the pro Wins of UM mew m-
sionary ideas Into execution and the Ar-
menians along with it, arguing from the
viewpoint that a good Christian is a dead
one.
rate on
a snore.
L One wny in which you can distinguish
this month's magasines from any which
have been printed these last six months is
tnt they have no pictures of elephants
and users and other African inhabttantn in
them
Hero are some of the prevailing jobbing
prlees of today compared with those of a
year ago
tonignt
Mra
had been visiting the family of Mr. M.
aansom of Axle way. has gone to Alvarado
to visit relatives.
Mra M. w. Shoemaker has returned to
her home in Decatur after a visit to the
family of her eon. Mr. Hardy Shoemaker,
Idol Gould arenas.
Mrs. Otho Houston entertained during
the week Mr. William R Houston of Chi-
drees. Miss Ila Jordon of Weatherford, on
route to visit friends in Beaumont. and Mr.
Roy Jordon of Weatherford.
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to must have been e religious rmvival
ruez. The Turk ama»e puts his mis
mess Sissi—
Eanibe-rd, ""
Wet as -onaa
You and Me, Love.
•Tie now we go
Out to the woods
All dressed up in
Our best dry goods.
And sit down on
A mossy bank.
Or grassy spot
That's just as dank.
And think spring pomes.
Hark to the birds
And to the lowing
of the herds;
And stay till
The shades of night
Come down, and till
The chiggers Ute:
That night we rise
• From sleepless bed.
And everywhere
A spot glows red.
With language cute
And looks benign
We rub a greasy
Bacon rind.
190%.
.31.15
. 3.25
. 1.00
. 1.25
. 1.75
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1908.
$0.86
2.00
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1.00
1.15
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3.00
3.50
5
Potatoes, per bushel.....
Cabbage, per erate..... .
carrots, per sack -.....
Parsnips, per seek ....
Pie plant, per box ......
Spmmach. per barrel .....
Apples, per barrel ......
Grape fruit, per box ...
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Saturdas. April 24.
Three planets glow In kind triumvirate
And promise happy things for human fate.
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FOREIGN ADV. REFEESENTATIVMS.
w Yerk Otfice- -Psyne A Yeung. .30 We“6uta‘
OCice-Fayse A loung. Marguette 5
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TELEPHONES.
were not informed that
The landlord has probably moved him-
meir, hence he does not take with great
serioumess your declaration that unlese he
puts a new hinge on the back gate and
new paper on the parlor ceiling you will
move out
A Sansom of Kansas Cit, who
It forever at dawn when darkness fled
1 should be bending over a bed
Where a little bit of a baby lies.
With a longing look at the close-shut eyes,
With arms half way outstretched to take.
With half a wish that the babe would
And then a tippy-toe down the stair
Through the house and out to the garden
where
The red rose-blooms dip down and sway
To the breezy kies of the new-born day.
And the violets are a border blue
To the titlie path that my feet go through.
And the morningelories eiimb up the wall—
Why heaven would never coax me at all.
fad is a combination of deep
OSTaGE SATka.
Dattes euu. ass Menem
geansi rmnm
ear refeet •> .» te -haretet M
St Mputatses at ear perBon. fife or coypragrse
War apdear 1e tea cblemea ar Tea Kecord mu ae
Sh. cartvetad upoe its Selas travel to tea “ueu
patten was
Neptune is in conjunction with the moon.
Mercury 1. In the ascending node. The
moon la In the fruitful and moveable sign
of the crab. The sun, Venus and Jupiter
are in sextile with the moon and In benefie
bertha. Whn
Put a Ban on the Snore.
Boston Herald.
The Pullman company is to make a dif-
ferential rate between upper and lower
lot or a modification of thia ballot, is
adopted It will not be possible to ped-
dle doctored ballots on the street. The
voters will more fully vote according to
the dictates of their consciences, which
is the state of things sought after by
our scheme of popular suffrage.
Down here In the benighted (7) South-
west we have not only the Australian ballot
for which the Nutmeg voters are elamormnE
but Ge have stringent laws prohibiting elec-
tioneering within 100 yards of the polls. do
that in Texas a citizen makes his way un-
molested to the polls and makes out his bal-
lot in the privacy of a booth.
With such election laws there is small
wonder that the people of Connecticut have
little Influence in choosing their officers
The whole country is Interested In the out-
come of the agitation for better election
laws now go!nt on In the Nutmeg state, for.
while that commonwealth could be stowed
away in an average Texts count}. she has
two representauves In the United States
senate, and just now the people are looking
to the menate for wise and honest legislation,
which ran never proceed from the cholce
of a dishonest and debauched elective sys-
tem. )
The secretary of agriculture says there
is enough wheat to make bread for every-
body until the next crop.—Galveston Trib-
une.
There are also enough diamonds in the
world to ornament the shirt front of every
man in America with • solitaire. The peo-
ple are not afraid of going hungry be-
cause there will be no bread, but there is
some apprehension that the strain on the
pocketbook may reach the danger point
before the new crop of -wheat comes in.
in New Mexico.
Mr ana Mrs W. J sates are at home «
Tu Weat Becond atreet.
Mes w E Jury is entertaining Mrs. H.
C. Wedemeyer of San Antonio
Mr. and Mra d LWeupree left Tuesday
ta spend the summer on their ranch near
Big Bpringa
The iadtes of the Holy Name chureh
will continue their baser at the chureh
eorner of New fork and Pearl avehue, until
Wil —■
Bhe 3ort ortn Recor
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Daigt aD mmwkr*ix __
eryam n*cend courasx
oaks cere is sea K-» samra_____
-■-News Item.
Which furnishes another opportunity for
prophesying that the time is not far dis-
tant when ths farmer will not only be
prosperous as a class, but thousands of men
who now live in eities will be looking for
a chance to buy a farm. The moral la
buy land and cultivate t—become a seller
instead of a buyer of high-priced foodstuff.
going to quit the game. and, as has hap-
pened in every corner since corners were,
they got ce tight. The price of whest has
dropped. Wheat may be, and undoubtedly
M short. but had the price to which Fatten
farced whest been legitimate and justified
» supply and crop conditions, why should
the price fall?
It all cornea back to being merely a
simple case of market manipulation, a cor-
ner, no matter by what other name Mr.
Fatten. who, it tn said, passes the con-
tribution box on Sunday and gives liber-
ally to many charities, woijld like to have it
nailed. "I
And how long will it be pomsbie for this
port of gambling to be permitted? How
long will it be possibie for one man, by
those devious ways fully understood by
none save the man who maker or the man
who breaks the corner.‘to artificially force
the priee of the common necesrities of life
to such fictitious prices? The price placed
on wheat through Patten’s manipulations
is entirely out of all proportion to supply
and crop prospects. There is a visible sup-
ply in this country anil .Canada which
makes anything akin to a wheat panic out
at the questioh. But Patten had the mat-
ter so in hand that he could keep suppiles
of wheat from being sent into Chicago until
he was ready for them to come. So up
went the price.of. every sack of flour sold
last week. and up went the price of bread.
Raising prices is like making tariffs—they
are easily raised but exceedingly difficult
to lower. The price has been raised. and
despite the drop in the market and the pos-
meiity of a wtlll greater drop, the prices
for flour and the prices for bread will be
ikely to be kept higher than formerly
maintained until after the new wheat la in.
The exchange gambler has been receiving
a good deal of attention from time to time,
but this performance of the man from Chi-
czo 1s likely to no rivet public attention
upon the subject that some son of regu-
tattoo win be determined upon which
will make the fictitious advatictng of prices
upon produce impossible
DALL.as AGESCY: a. a. Qi, ageat, oraer
Mein and Aare. Pode M.a3s 4623.
Wheat is not the only high-priced food
product just at this time. The meek and
lowly spud is as valuable as a diamond in
the rough. Everything Is advancing ex-
cept the wages of the hired man Win
some political economist ascribe a reason.
—Dallas Times Herald.
The wages of farm laborers have been
steadily inereasing far several years, due to
a shortage of labor in the country, caused
by the rush of boys from the farms to the
cittes, causing an oversupply. The high
price of farm produce may make farming
so profitable that the tide will turn back
to the country, sad resulting labor short-
age in the eities will do for the town hired
man what the contrary movement has done
for his country brother.
Getting Rid of Large Hips.
Memphis News Seimitar.
What is to be done now that hips see
out of fashion? As yet no doctor .has made
his everlasting fortune by operating on
superfluous flesh, and it is up to the vie-
tim to get rid of it as best she may.
Rxereise and diet are the most advised
methods, but exercise violent enough to be
a reducer takes more time than the aver-
age woman can afford to spend on her
figure. And diet! Well, deprtying one's
self of food needs too much setr-denial,
and when overdone is injurious to health.
If one cannot lace sway the hips nor
walk nor starve them off. what is to be
done? Since go they must to wear ths
new frocks, there are several methods that
can be tried.
One is to perspire them off by wearing
rubber suits next to the skin; then going
In for vigorous physical culture The
drawback to this method for many is that
the rubber outfit is costiy and not lasting,
and gives many women holds and neural-
gia When persevered in, however. It is
a great reducer.
The large-hipped woman should move
to the top story of her home and run up
and down stairs many times a day. There
is nothing better than stair climbing for
the hips, snd according to one celebrated
specialist It is also good for the heart. The
attic of a skyscraper as a hip-reducer may
yet be advertised.
Certain women have their hips mas-
saged, pinched and slapped off. This pro-
cess is said to be a quick reducer, but it
hurts, and. if not understood, may seri-
obly bruise snd injure the flesh.
Rolling is another method by which the
no-hip devotee tortures herself in the in-
terest of syiph-like lines.
One prominent woman reduced herself
forty pounds in six weeks by rolling twice
s day, but it is a strenuous cure and one
that demands broad spaces.
Standing after meals for twenty minutes,
if It will not bring down the hips by
pounds. at least aid* the digestion, fights
off sluggishness and prevents flesh from
settling around the waist line. In the last
year this method has become quite popular
and the twenty-minute after-dinner stand,
so fashionable now at dinner parties, is a
glorious opportunity to show the sweep of
the new clinging god ns
Probably the newest and easiest bip-
A BACKWARD COMMON WEALTH ,
A small class of people in the Mast are
still fond of poking fun at the South and
West, and still credit the people of those
sections with being little less than barba-
rians. whose government i a fantastic com-
blnstlon of bourbonism and populism. Hap-
pit}, this misconception o4- out people is
fsst disapuearing and it is getting to be
s matter of almost weekly occurrence for
legislative and municipal committees from
the North and East to come among us to
study our public institutions with a view to
copying them
The Galveston plan of commission gov-
ernment bids fair to revolutionize municipal
government in all sections of the union.
Nor is this the only contribution Texas has
made to the cause of good government. Our
railroad commlesion law has served as' a
modeLtor similar law* in many states, and
our stock and bond law has been extensively
.copied.
From away up in the little state of Con-
.necticut comes a demand for some of the
salient features of our election law. Judg-
ing from a discussion now going on in the
papers of that state, the machine still rules
by virtue of an election system which the
South and West have long sine* discarded.
The political system now prevailing as a
result of these antiquated laws is thus de-
scribed by the Hartford Courant.
We have several times before called
attention to the conditions which sur-
round Connectieut voting places on
election days. The people have become
accustomed to the ballot peddling and
even to the many forms of intimidation
used on voters by political workers.
Under such conditions a really proper
election is impossible. Ballots sre sup-
plied by the candidates and prepared
for distribution. then the political
workers get out on the streets on elec-
tion day and force the prepared bal-
lots Into the hands of voters on their
way to the polls. Corruption is the in-
evitable result if the Australian bal-
spring Petticonts.
With the skirts for street wear we find
it almost impossible to wear the former
rouncea petticoat with the straight skirts
of today. They are making the shirt in
a narrow gored style with s scant siren-*
Isr flounce which amounts to little mors
thsn a flare. The skirt should be made
of supple silk, with a very plain hemmed
fiou ce, which can be finished with a sin
braid. The much-beruthea petticoat has
too much breaath in ths skirt portion, snd
the protruding ruteles are noticeable be.
neat hthe narrow skirts. For wear under
evening gowns modistes sre making em-
pire petticoats, the upper portion of whica
extends to the high waist line snd to the
knee at the bottom, from which point falB
a flounce of the nmt messaline silk nr
lingerie' material, daintily trimmed with
lace. The flounee is joined to the petti-
coat proper by a band of embroidery or a
ribbon threaded beading. From the front
of the empire waistline a ribbon extend*
over each shoulder to the back of the
waistline, thus assuring the wearer that
the skirt will not slip out of place.
The hiplees skirts and high waistline,
the close fit of dress skirts demand a form- ,
fining pettieoat with much more exaetness
In cut than ever before. The new designs
are with the adjustable bands, and there is
also a great demand for those with ths
drawstrings. They sre made on closer
fitted lines with just the desired fullness
In the back and little difficulty Is experi-
enced in adjusting them to the figure, so
that they give perfectly flat lines. With
tailored suits the more elm pie designs sre
naturally favored. Bilks of the sotter char-
ecter will be most popular this spring, and
ths rustling tattetas will come next in
favor. Batin surfaced materials which
have been so popular the season just past.
Mtensalines will also be need, but H ta found
that they are not particularly pmeticai or
durable. Ta taffetas plain colors will hav
the preterenen though atrjpes and dord
deneha are alao shown
on the balls of the feet, raise- the arms
slowly to height of the shoulders and draw
a deep breath as you do it. Hold the
breath a second, then expel it forcibly. Re-
peat a number of times, alternately taking
the arms to the level of the shoulders.
If one live in the suburbs or the coun-
try, or has access to a gymnasium, run-
ning with the head and cheat up and ab-
domen In is excellent not only as a hip-
reducer but a- a muscle builder. Cara must
be taken to run- on the balls of the feet
and as lightly as possible. Running on
the flat of the feet jars a woman in a
wav that is injurlous.
Dropping a handkerchief and picking it
up without bending the knees, If kept up
long enough. Is a good reducer for the
hips Unfortunately, It can only be prac-
ticed when corsetlens, but five minutes
morning snd evening wiill do much in ths
thinning proces.
If one csn be made thin! There lies the
ri. There are -ome women who cannot
be reduced with every effort. If one is of
that unfortunate type, buy the beet corsets
you can afford, save money for a good
dressmaker and Fop worrying about flesh.
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fame Meetha (by daii it paia IB
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BNDY.
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Enougir.
If things might even be just like this.
The neckiacea arms and the loving kiss
At night, and the romp on the parlor floor.
And the "Peek-a-boo!" from behind the
doot.
And the wee white form in the wee white
bed.
And the last swest kiss when the "lay
ms’s” said; ' —
And the tippy-toe through the silent gloom
To the wee white bed in the wee white
room ‘
To stana above where the baby lies.
To bend and hark to the I aby sighs.
Ta bend to snuggle the littie heap
And laugh when the bab- laughs in her
- sleep. •
And morning sweet with the baby's call.
Why heaven would never coax me at all.
Way Behind.
'That woman rtormer is in advance of
her age."
"No, she isn't; she is away behind her
age "
"In what wayr"
Hhs says shs is 11, and she's to if a
EditoriAl Circunlocution.
Texas Quill.
In the reorganisation of the house un-
der the guidance of our friend, the new
speaker, she writer was given a place on
the committee on public health We al-
ways entertained the Idea that this was a
kind of sn apothecary job and we expected
4 to have to pass upon a law defining pre-
scriptions providing for ths regulation of
Peruns snd Hood’s Saraaparilla, but • and
behold! one of the first bills referred to
this committee was a bill appropriating
$150,000 as a bounty on wolf scalps. Our
friend, Turney of West Texsa. says thst
this is a bill to care for the public health
because if wolves run at large they ere
liable to go mad, and if they go mad they
are liable to bite a etray dog. and if they
bite a Fray dog the stray dog is liable to
bit* a man: If a man la bitten by a Fray
dog he is liable to go mad. and if a man
goes mad his health is affected: therefore
the wolf sculp bounty bill property comes
under the purview of the governor’s call
recommending legislation for the preserva-
tion of the department of public health
and vital statistica!
seeking employment, traveling for heslth
or dealing with magistrates snd persons
hsvlng powet and authority
Venus looks with favor on courtships,
weddinga entertainments, visiting, amuse-
ment. music, singing snd daneing.
A good day to deal with milliners, dry
goods merchants, dresemakers, perfumers,
norfsts and decorators.
The planet over baking confections, ca-
tering and aimilar occupations, is in s for-
tunate position.
The indicatfons are good for fish and
fishing In this forty-eight-hour period.
Preserve or pickle this day. Hire malde.
open new pieces of business.
Deal with bankers, merchanta. clergyman
and persons engaged in practical sciences,
transportation or printing.
A lucky day is indicatea for women em-
ployes.
Increase or Improvement In profitn, bush
ness or social position is indicated for wom-
en and mon with this birthdate. They must
be on their guard against quarrel and envy.
The antrological aspect over children
born this day are for nuccesa and advance-
ment. They may develop wtrong. violent
natures that will become calm and extraot-
when the party in power has so entirely
disregarded pre-election promises and
played such a great game of tag with the
whole of the American people as has been
the case in the present farcical tariff revi-
sion.
And if as I bend with the grower’s love
To a new-born rose, from away above
Comes a cell in a childish votes.and sweet
Just, "Dad. where is you?” and if my feet
Could always race through the eunltt
rooms.
Forgetting the garden, forgetting blooms
Till I stood at the food of a winding Fair
And watched a baby with epun-gold hair
come tripping down to her daddy's arms.
With all her loving and all her charms.
And could catch her to me and love her so
It would seem T ««« could let her go—
if I had that always I esnnot see
Thst heaven could ever hold much for me.
e Ste 2-im. 4. 3.
““ua
The New York Worida Washington cor-
■ am ' i - ~ spoke of the beginning of the
taritt debate aa the opening of “the great
windjamming eontest. which will continue
ttom day unt day until the measure la
passed."
There 1 A gooa deal in that mtatement.
Within it M implied that beyond question
the measure will finally carry. And is there
one who will question that ths measure
will go antough: Aldrich holds the whip-
hand Aranen has made the tariff and Ald-
rich will see that such changes as may pos-
sibiy be made In the tariff will be entirely
immaterial and inconsequential.
If ever there was a greater fares than
this purported tariff rerision It haa not been
recordea in american Iinan The err for
more than two years past has been tariff
renston. Among tbs things for which
Roosevett pleaded with congress was tariff
revision snd turine revision was eonosded to
be one of the coyntry’ most imperative de-
msndo long before Tsft was named ae the
Republican candidate for the presidency.
Yielding to the clamor whieh arose within
as well as without the ranks of old line Re-
pubitcaniam, the para plattorm gave assur-
ances of tariff revision, and upon every op-
portunity Taft durmg hie campaign prom-
Ged that tariff revimon should follow a Re-
publican victory: The Republicahs went in,
and congress immediately set about what
purported to be a tariff reviston.
Now, tariff revision may mean either a
reduction or a raising of achedules. The
revision the country has demanded snd
supposed it was in a gond way to get was
that reviston which meant a decrease in
schedules. When the house committee un-
der Sereno Psyne got through with the
Araft of s tariff bill nine out of ten articles
of common use were slated for a raise. Nat-
urally, the whole country howled. The bill
passed from the house to the senste com-
mittee on finance Bo far as any real
part they play in the matter of what will
or will not be done to tariff achedules. the
committee, outside of Aldrich, might as well
not exist, aldrieh is the man who has de-
termined what changes there shall be in
importation duties. It is this fact which
led the chicago Record-Herald to say
As s matter of fact, under th* con-
ditions that now obtain in the Amer)-*
can congress, reprenentative government
is almost, a farce; In the last analysis
one man makes a tariff law for 90,-
000,000 people:, that man is Senatom)
Aldrich of Rhode Island.
And what a joke has been played on the
American people at that' The Payne bill
provided for raising of the tariff on homtery.
on tea, coffee, gloves and numbers of other
ers down there will have to atretch their
coneclence ana take desperate chances
with the law azainat false swearing er re
ure from the buFaeee and make way for
othera la the course jt a long editorial
on tbo new law the Expreas saya:
Under the new low tt te reqatree that
the applicant for a retail lquor licenae
shall scale under oath that he has not
Face the first day of May IMS as
proprietor of bartender of any saloon,
violatea any laws of this state regu
latine the sale of *htmky.
Sinee H to a well known taet that the
Ban Antonio saloon keepers have openly
vietata the Bunday elosing teature of the
Bameis McGregor tew. they now find them
neives in a very embarraming mituation.
Another provision of the law requires aa
apphicant to ewear that no other person
or eorporaton is interacted or to be in-
terestea in the business eonduete under
me leense applied for, whieh shyta the
door against the subterfuge of having a
friend make application for a license Al-
together It looke as If there will be some
promising openings for a new Im of saloon
weepers la Ben Antomio soon.
SPEOULaATION IN WHRAT.
In yesterday’s dispatches was tfe infor-
mation that wheat had dropped 1 cents a
bushel. snd s gteater drop was expected.
The dispatches also carrled the informa-
Son that James A. Patten, who had boosted
the price of wheat to a point never known
Before and had then rather unexpectedly
left Chicago, had been rediscovered in Col-
eredo, where.he had ostensibly gone to
look over the wheat situation first hand, but
toeing rediscovered he had no information
to impart to newspaper men other than
that it was none of their business no mat-
ter what they might want to know.
The dispatches slso qarried the story
that the slump in wheat hud.cost fortunes
to many men who had never been lured
into exchange speculations before.
And all this when Patten declared that
he was not a speculator in the accepted
mense, and that he was not cornering the
market. Hs insisted that he was buying
actun wheat and not futures, and that he
*as buying and holding because the Sup-
ply was so short that he wanted to put the
price so high that exportation would be
tmpotsible snd that what wheat is now in
the country could be kept here. He even
posed as a philanthropist. Had Patten
continued the even tenor of his way in
Chicago it is probable that the market.
Instead of breaking, would have gone still
higher. But Patten got out. He had made
millions out of his wheat transactions and
he was willing to quit. But there were
others who followed his lead nd who be-
leva in the sincerity of his assertions who
while he was hot under the collar at the
prospect of the threatening financial ruin,
he used very unparitamentary language
toward his brother senators, snd, defying
the bergeant-at-arms, made quite a scene,
and afterwnd on the outside, being a
jovial companion and great talker, said too
much about what was going on in secret
sesnion. For these reasons, which the rec-
ords of the senate will show, he was ar-
raigned snd his seat declared vacant. The
people of Houston and his-distrtet gener-
ally became Indignant at his expulsion, and
when an election was ordered to fill the
vacancy. In ten days, by sn overwhelming
vote they returned ‘Honest Bob,' as he
was familiarly called. On the day that he
was to take his seat his constituents pro-
cured a large carriage, seated the senator-
elect In it. snd Ignoring horses, pulled It by
hand to the capitol amid the shouts snd
hurrahs of the multitude. He stood up in
the carriage to make them a little speech
before he should snter, and in conclusion
he satd: ‘My triends, you make me a
great man in spite of myself.' He was
then borne from th*' carriage upon their
shoulders into 'the capitol, when the ser-
geant-at-arms again tried his hand upon
him, being ordered by the president of the
senate to arrest Mr. Wilson and the person
who played ths bugls snd the ringleaders
of the mob thst wire interrupting the sen-
ate In its deliberations. He was not
brought before the senste under arrest,
however, uhtit the next day, when the
sheriff, to whom a writ had been directed,
brought up the prisoners. The ringleaders
were sentenced to imprisonment for one
day and Mr. Wilson to a reprimand. Then
it was all over and the senator-elect took
hl* seat. and. as in years past, went on
legislating for the country.
"Upon one occasion, being naked if he
really deserved the appellation of Honest
Bob,' Benator Wilson replied: 'I am al-
ways as honest as the circumstances of
the cane snd the conditions of the country
wilt allow.' "
From all of the foregoing it would ap-
pear that Thomas' name t if Ir finds a place
in Texas history) will be coupled with
that of a very good man, who kept Texas
out of trouble at critical periods.
It would also seem thst expelling nena-
tors is about as dangerous a pastime as an
unskined person throwing s boomerang.
Those who sre fond of drawing morale
from history can try thcir hand on these
two happening To others they may be
interesting merely as showing thst the an-
cient muse has not fallen out of her old
habit of repetition.
AECORD TAAVELING aGENTS....
zer-we--m
mfo> r. E #eE RSrGi aaelpe xuelanan .
Local Sodal Notea.
Mra. J. Fuller to visiting ta Mineral Wella
The Euterpean elub •>“ meet thio atter-
soon
Moe. W. McCauley to visiting in Sulphur
Bpmngs
Mra. John Kano to visiting relatives ie
Good Southern Doctrine.
Youngntown Vindicator.
Geheral Robert K. Lee said that duty
was ths nublimest word in the English lan-
guage. The friends of the taritt appear
to agree with the leader of the Confeder-
ate army.
articies which the poor use in like amount
u the rot The protest that went up w•
suen that M mum bo heeded Senator AM*
rich and he eamimintee beaded the proton*
and the ola tarnt rates wore toft unchanged.
Then 1 too genera interent dased. The
people had been so frightened at the pros-
part of inereasea tarirt oo arucie of com-
mon and general use that when h was an-
nouncea-mat ttoarl would-be oo inereass
they ten as it they had mained 4 vtetery-
They failed to see that instead of a reduc-
tion in tariff they Md the ole Dingtey
seneduts under a new name. Aad mu
boo alae nerved to distreet auenuon from
the taet that in many intances the tariff
boo been raised. One article in which every-
body to interested is cotton cloth, end on
thio the duty to praetically prombitive The
analysis of the Payne-aldrich taritt revision
is that a very few tnings have been lowered,
a number have been raised end the re-
meinder left unehanged, and the not result
to that duties are non a heavier burden oo
the people than before revision waa under-
taken. Mr. Aldrich raid in his opening
speech of th tarirt debate in the senate
The practical qeestion to which I a
your mitention today to; "WIN Use bill
as reported from the committee on fl-
nance produce sufficient evenue when
taken to connection with the internal
revenue taxes and other exiating
mources at revenue to meet the expenes
of the government without the imposi-
tion of addiuonal taxes?" I snswer
unhesitatingiy, after a thorough and
careful investigation of the facts and
ths conditions likely to surround the
problem, thst it will.
The revenue question to a rather perti-
nont one in connectioh with tariff matters,
but to net the only one. The general wel-
fare of the people has a claim for considet-
all on whieh in importanoe ia quits equal to
that of revenue. The burdens which ths
now tariff ays on the people are iniquitous.
They are more fhiquitous when considered
in the light Of what they are—protective
rather than revenue-bearing. Mr. Aldrich
has not made out a very strong caae for
the income-bearing qualities of his tariff
measure, and at that he has had to strongly
urge a great economy in government that
expenattures may be kept commensurate
with revenues.
There has never been a time when the
faults end fallacies of the Republican theo-
ries of tariff have been so evident se st this
His Complaint
"Did yon nolle* thst I have introduced
a beautiful girl for cashier, sir’".
"Ton haven t introduced heh te me.“ (
Kow Kistor Repcats Stse IJ
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Want Mdtore Herald
The triumphal return of Senator Thomas
ta Austin after having been expelled from
the Mato ecriate to but another case at mia-
tori repeating itneit, although it to the mec-
end case of the kina that ever happened
in the stale of Texas The first case hap-
pened at the flrat seasion ef the Third con-
gress of the republic at Texas whem me
Beat of government was locate at Hawa
ton
The senat journal for Dee. 26. 1638,
thus briely alludes to the matter:
"Th* report of the committee on the at-
fate of Mr. wuson, member from Harrs-
burg, was taken up.
"The ayes and noes being railed for.
stood aa follows.
“AyesMesars. Barnet. Burleson, Burton,
Everitt, Greer, Jonea, Kendrick. Seguin,
Stroud and Warren—10.
"No—Mr. Dunn—1.
■»O the report was adopted. • • e
Mr Barnet submittea the following res-
olution, via:
"That the esat of the member tram Har-
ris county be vacated.
"Mr Barnet elated that the grounds upon
which the report had been made were
"1. The repeated clamerous oaths made
by the senator from Harrisburg and In-
voking high heaven to strike dead in theit
tracks sll those who votwa age mu him on
the bill under consideration of the senate
on Monday.
"2. His peremptory refusal to come to
order, saying that ha would be damned if
he would come to order.
"8. His refusing to Beat himseir or be
seated by the sergeant -at-arma, and or-
dered the serzeant-arma to stand off and
not touch him, swearing that ne power tout
God's could »e*t him.
"4. Disclosing secrecy, contrary to the
meaning and intentions of the seventeenth
section of the constitution."
The resolution being adopted, Wilton
was expelled Thai was thought to be his
finish, but it was not by a long shot. The
Journal for Jan. 11. Ill*, says:
"Mr. Robert Wilson, from Harrisburg
snd Liberty, presented his credentials of
election, was sworn in and took hla seat."
Nothing is said at the tumult that ac-
companied ths event, nor the small after-
clap that followed.
Wilson was a member of the senate of
| ths First. Becond end Third Texas con-
eresses, and afterward figured somewhat
! prominently in polittes for years.
The late ex-Governor F. R. Lubbock tells
who Wilson was and gives a somewhat
.dramatic account of the expulsion of the
honorable gentleman from the senate of
the Third congress, his return and the
events that immediately ensued. Lubbock
says:
"Robert Wilson, senatot from the dis-
trict of Harrisbure and Liberty counties,
was ons of the earliest settlers of Harris-
burg on Buffalo bayou. He is supposed
to havs brought the first steamboat, the
Cayuga, that navigated Galveston bay. He
was also interested in the first steam mill
In the country. This was destroyed by
Banta Anna as hfi army passed down to
San Jacinto, while in the senate and at a
tme when the finances of the country were
In a very bad condition. Certain banks in
Mississippi made propositions to loan Texas
tbelr bank issue, and the matter was dis-
cussed in secret session. Senator Wison
opposed the proposition, denouncing the
banks As in a falling condition and nasert-
Ing that Texas would be swindled if she
borrowed and put their money into circu-
lation. He was an upright, enterprising
citizen and had acquired large properties
in this section, and being a busineen man
was a representative of that olase. Bo,
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