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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1911.
£on Antonio (fspress.
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Congrefttt Khali mak«* no law • * • abridging
the freedom of speech or of the press..—United
States Constitution.
The city is said to be full of fruit-cake ma-
terial. The citizens will be fuller of the
real cake on the 30th.
If you shall pick up your paper this morn-
ing from the front porch with "norther" fin-
gers, don't blame us for this guess.
Don't let our baseball visitors get scared
at the Mexican secret service men now in
San Antonio. We are a garrison city and
used to war's alarms.
Thirty-ffve companies in the former Stand-
ard Oil Company "are to have no officers
or directors in common." But what of the
rest of that octopus?
There are indications that the Eastern
theater company's advance agent, largely
mouth, isn't likely to consider San Anto-
nio's winter climate as worth shucks.
Don't use your hands too vigorously broad-
side upon a bar in demonstrating your argu-
ment. A San Antonio man, doing so, is said
to have got a peach of a wallop on the jaw
and tfTe judge dismissed the case against
tfie walloper.
Maj. W. H. Wilkins, U. S. A, in a speech
in Chicago, said that in the event of war by
the United States it hasn't half the trans-
ports the navy would need. Certainly not—
and not a fraction enough of colliers. We've
always done business just that way in the
navy.
Under certain circumstances we could find
ourself in harmony with a bunch of good
mothers who would tar up a certain type of
school teacher considerable. But if Kansas
doesn't do something adequate in punishing
the bunch of men who perpetrated that act,
we won't try to eat even Kansas City bacon.
STREET PEDDLERS IN BUSINESS.
In every city we have the half mendicant
•treet peddler. Most often he Is that which
he appears to be—crippled or digabled. He
may exaggerate his crippled or disabled con-
dition, but the police may be counted upon
to detect the vast majority of imposters and
to move them on.
In view of the fact that the privileged
peddler is enabled to try to sell his small
wares on the street, the general public should
be Instructed In how to deal with him to
the peddler's own best interests." That thing
which first appeals to the public at sight
of the crippled, deformed, maimed individual
who has something to give in return for
a patron's money, is the (apparently) obvious
effort of the individual to make a living.
He wishes to keep out of the poorhouse.
The public, however, may be deceived
greatly as to the person's actual condition.
Men and women of the type have died in
many cities and afterward it has been found
that they had possessed small fortunes.
These have-teen of the cleverest type. They
have been able to make the most of impos-
tuies. Yet while this has been accomplished,
the public has been aiding unwrsely to that
end. ,
That unfortunate cripple in the streets-—so
apparently willing to give something for the
money offered him—is led by the public to
lose sight of business proportions. Because
of his condition, he excites the purpose to
buy from him on the part of the person who
may need shoestrings, penes*.-- and the small
wares which the peddler usually offers.
There he has a most distinctive advantage In
salesmanship. But most often when the
person stops to Buy from him a thing the
customer may need, it is almost certain that
the purchaser is handed an article of the
cheapest possible make, at two or three
times the price which the buyer might have
got it of the better grade in an adjacent
ftore. f
The result it the purchaser feels that hi
has been duped. If he has been in need of
the thing which he has bought, he finds it
worthless. He may have bought the thing
of a person to whom he wouldn't have given
a 1-cent piece in an extended empiy hat.
But he has paid a nickel or a dime for some-
thing which he may have to throw away;
that is, he has been swindled in rankest
fashion. He decides that he is done with
buying of the peddler who arouses his sym-
pathy.
This peddler's infirmity is his greatest
selling attribute. Why doesn't he give the
fullest, fairest measure of worth to his cus-
tomer? Why doesn't he conduct an honest
business on a fair profit? Because the shift-
ing crowds of the city have not made it a
point to demand this of him. The individual
buys once—and passes by thereafter.
When the disabled peddler—say of shoe-
strings, as an example—stocks up with a
choice lot of strings, compatible with prices
in a first-class store, and makes his repu-
tation slowly among the people, he wiTI es-
tablish a trade that may cause people to
walk a block out of their way to buy. And
not an established business house will be-
grudge him his good fortune.
DRUNKEN MEN ON TRAINS.
Shall a train's crrw in Texas assume the
duty of guarding especially any passenger
on the train who is drunk and more or less
incapable of taking care of himself?
The question has come up before the Su-
preme Court of the State. A man riding
in a railroad train—admittedly drunk-—under
showing of having fallen or with having
been thrown from a car platform and killed,
leaves heirs to sue for damages. The basis
of the suit in the original court in which
damages were awarded against the defend-
ant railroad company, was that owing to the
man's intoxicated condition the train's crew
did not guard him properly in his passing
out upon the platform. After commenting
upon the fact that the term "drunk" indi-
cates a condition that is subject to many de-
grees of inebriety, Justice Dibrell says:
An approval of this charge would be an ap-
proval of the do<7trlne In this State that the car-
rier In required to exercise greater c»r*», motion
and protection for paeMen^tTN Who are voluntarily
drunk or Intoxicated, than for those passengers
who are sober and orderly, and that without
consideration as to the degree of intoxication,
whether It has reached the stage of hilarity, the
helghlh of generating the daredevil spirit, or
producing incapacity of self-care, ot Insensible
of those acts that menace limb and life. To such
a rule we cannot subscribe.
The Express heartily endorses Justice
Dibrell's point of view. Under the Texas
statutes a man—having his own liquor with
him in a train—violates the law if he shall
drink alone from his own decanter. If in
this case the man got his degree of drunk-
enness in the train, he did so against the
law. If he came into the train drunk, it
certainly was not equitable that the few men
in a train's crew should have given service
to the drunken man to the neglect of sober
passengers.
Even if it should be held that a station
agent should not have sold a ticket to a
drunken person—that such a person irt
drunken condition should be prohibited from
entering a car—it is too well known that a
friend at the station may buy the ticket and
help the half-helpless man aboard without
suggesting more than that the friend is lame.
The soberest man that ever lived, moving
toward a platform of a car on a rough bit
of track, often gives an excellent imitation
of a man wholly intoxicated. Furthermore,
in hundreds of cases of "sleepy drunks" a
trainman would need to depend upon his
sense of smell of liquor, to determine
whether the sleepy man has even touched
liquor.
We might add as a suggestion additional
to the law against drinking on trains in
Texas, that its intent could be strengthened
by prohibiting a man known to be drunk
from boarding a train, or for remaining on
a train beyond the next station where he
might be put off with a conauctor's check
reading his passage through after he has
recovered from his condition. And yet in
this most earnest effort to comply with this
suggested law, a novice might estimate the
suits for damages that would originate from
such a law in six months' practice—provided
the novice could write down a long string
of figures!
BANKER AND THE ANTITRUST LAW.
"Just now we have seen something of a
shake-up in Europe and the banks imme-
diately helped each other. Half a dozen
years ago In Germany, two of the very large
banks were opponents in business, each
seeking to increase its own profits and
strength. In a troubled time one of the
banks was talked of as not strong. The
opposing bank immediately went into the
market and offered to take all the loans off
its hands and it made known this fact. The
consequence was that the doubted bank re-
gained its position at once. This is simply
good business."
Out of Banker Henry L. Higginson's ar-
ticle on the antitrust law as we print it
this morning, we have found so little more
than the regulation antitrust cat-fit, that we
jump at this opportunity to comment upon
the above quoted portion of th» article
bearing upon Mr. Higginson's banker philos-
ophy which he introduces.
We dMj't know what position, if any.
Banker Higginson may have taken a few
years ago when Oklahoma was trying to
pass its banking act, calling for a State
bank reserve fund out of which depositors
in any failed bank could be made secure by
the State. We doubt, however, if Banker
Higginson could have brought himself into
acquiescence with the scheme.
But when John R. Walsh's Chicago Na-
tional bank was on the verge of failure in
the autumn of 1907, Chicago bankers held
• night meeting behii.. closed doors and
CONGRESSMAN HENRY'S AMENDMENT
President Taft is not in favor of amending
the antitrust law. His friends have given
out this statement as coming from the Presi-
dent himself. We have contended that if
only the Supreme Court would reverse itself
on its "rule of reason" decision and take
up the present law as it stands, prepared to
find the trust offenders guilty of a crime
for which the jail sentence will he imposed,
there is no flaw in the statute. >
We presume, however, that when Presi-
dent Taft spoke as opposed to the amendiiTg
of the present antitrust law he was just as
much oppostd to any self-imposed reversal
on the part of the Supreme Court as he was
to amendments r6 the statute Itself.
We are all the more impressed with this
idea now that Congressman Henry of Texas
has prepared a bill wheh purposes to nullify
every "modification" by the Supreme Court
and which makes a prison term inevitable.
It is something, too, that in Mr. Henry's bill
a more adequate punishment for criminal
conspiracy in restraint of trade may be im-
posed. "For not less than two and for not
more than ten years" is a consideration
which "automatically" should show the trust
the difference between competition and the
crushing force of Big Business, to which a
$5,000 fine isn't pin money for a month.
We shall be much pleased to follow con-
gressional action on this measure. It may
be loaded at more than one end.
From Files of The Express
Thirty-five Vr«r■ Ago Today—1876.
The premium for the best w*tt<?r color painting,
executed by a pirl under 16 years of ate, at our
late Fair was driven to Miss Hessle Bell, aged t:t
years. The picture was a cross and flowers.
painted with taste and skill.
♦ ♦ ♦
The improvement of the Alnzito ditch Is being
vigorously pnsbed. The Mexicans have gotten
down off their ears. There is more work, we
understand, than was first eipectcd
♦ ♦ ♦
Ily a law paBsod 1n 1836 gambling was made
illiu'l in France, but has continued almost fi6
sctl'i'ly ss in the State of New York.
♦ ♦ ♦
The nights ^re getting so cool that young men
hn\e t' put their arms around girls' who hare
forgotten their belts.
Vlfte, n Years Ago Today—JKiMl.
The Post al TcVj rnph-Cabls Company of Texas
ia preparing t" build Its line from New Orleans
Into San Antoi-.l" mil Judge Mcl.enrv has been
for several day« in Beaumont trying'condemna-
tion suits for right f way along the line of the
Southern Pacific Railway.
♦ ♦ ♦
City Treasurer Fi linand Herff has returned
from Abilene, where went tin a hunt f,,r bear
He killed three ,,f the heists, the largest of
which weighed 380 pounds
♦
shaded windows. It was a critical time. |
Walsh's bank was in good standing in the |
Chicago clearing house. Presumably a Na- j
tional bank examiner had said a word where
it would be appreciated. At any rate, before
that night meeting had adjourned, some of
the biggest banks in the clearing house were
in compact with all other banks in the clear-
ing house to take over the ruins of the Walsh
National bank.
They did far more, however, than did the
German bank of which Mr. Higginson
speaks. The next morning announcement
was made by the biggest savings institution
in Chicago—a bank with a capital of $7,000,-
000 or more—that this greatest savings
bank in the city would take advantage of the ]
Illinois law requiring thirty days' notice !
from depositors before savings deposits
could be withdrawn. Which at once led the
way for ^very other savings bank In the city
to take the same action, and they took ad-
vantage of the situation.
Still the money market was tight. The
banks were embarrassed. The clearing
house called into consultation some of the i
great business heads of great businesses of
the city. And within a short time that man
who was working for a living discovered in
his pay envelope a new and strange bit of
currency denominated as a "Chicago Clear-
ing House certificate!" He was told that
it was good money. If he kicked, he was
told that it was the only kind of money that
he could get! He could have his employer's
check on a bank, If he insisted, but he was
told that the BANK would not pay him
LAWFUL MONEY of the United States. At
the bank he would be paid only the same
clearing house certificates! Yet up to the
moment of the criminal failure of the Walsh
bank, Walsh's bank had been a member in
good standing in the same clearing house
which was issuing the certificates! What
were the "certificates" of such an institu-
tion worth? Confidence In every bank in
Chicago was shaken to the limit of a "run"
on every one of them. But by autocratic
edict, the doubting depositor and wage-earner
was FORCED to accept the certificate of a
clearing house whose methods had been so
loose as to allow the sacking of a bank in
its own membership!
We were too young to grasp the principles
of the old Greenback party. As we have
watched the growth and consolidations of
banks, however—as we have watched the
bankers' movement toward a "readjustment
of the currency"—as we have seen how ruth-
lessly or how blindly ignorantly Big Busi-
ness in this country has gone on steadily to
the limit of panics—it has been too plain
that Big Business and its vast banking back-
ers have not wanted a currency issue backed
by the Government of the Umted States and
worth only that which the general welfare
of the whole country indubitably must
MAKE it worth!
Where is the vast bulk of our gold coin in
the time of greatest panic crisis? It is in
New York City!
And Liverpool, Southampton and other
European ports are only 3,000 miles away
from Wall Street!
LETiERS TO THE EDITOR
T'niti*d States Marshal Eugene Ygleslas brought
! ree Federal prisoners, < aarg. 1 *-(th smuggling
r<>in Laredo yesterday.
Judge Phil Shook qualified as Justice of the
Peace in product A yetteidajr.
The Anlltrust law.
Sau Antonio, Tex., Nov. 15.—[Editor of The
Express.]—You are to he very much commended
for your enterprise In the series of articles which
you have printed from leaders of thought on
the commercial situation In the United Ptates.
You are much more to be commended for your
nlaiti. sensible and reasonable editorials on the
Federal antitrust law, and in which you take
the position that that statute Is not hard to be
understood. This position of yours is invulner-
ably true, and is the real solution of the so-
called difficulties in the present commercial
Kit'I'he Federal antitrust law. although It bears
the name of Senator Sherman, was not written
by him. lie simply reported it as chairman of a
committee. The statute was written by Senator
George F. Edmonds, Senator J. Z. (leorge of
Mississippi and Senator Vest of Missouri two
.if w hom at least were as great constitutional
lawyers as ever graced the American Senate.
Thev were profoundly learned in the constitu-
tion and principles of our government, and also
in the English .common law. The statute is de-
void of intricacies. It is very plainly written
and anv business man of ordinary common sense
can understand it. All of this talk about there
l^int: trouble in understanding the Federal anti-
trust law is a propaganda formulated and dis-
scn inated by men engaged in "Big Business,
who are determined not to obey the law, and
are tiyinu to fabricate an excuse or argument
to Induce Congress to repeal it. In other words,
the contention that the law cannot be under-
fit od is the argument of criminals seeking to
Influence Congress ro repeal the law which makes
their acts criminal.
The British constitution, which is another name
f r the English common law, secures liberty to
the citizen, and a part of that liberty is the
right to do business untrammMed by restraints
upon trade or monopolies. For ten centuries
Englishmen fought over the right of the alleged
prer >gative of the crown to grant monopolies
in restraint ->f trade. The form of government
established in this country as a result of the
rcxolntion secured this same liberty to the
American people.
The Federal antitrust law was written in the
light >f the history of the English common law
and the principles of American civilization. The
great Senates who wrote that statute knew the
hist rv "f Anglo-Saxon civilization, and the
BtruKu'e "f free men against the arbitrary grants
of the English crown. By that statute they in-
tended to make it impossible for any man. or
any set of men, or any'combination of men. or
any corporation or corporations In the I'nited
Strifes to destroy that feature of human liberty
which gives the right to engage in trade and
commerce unhampered by monopolies and re-
straints in trade. .
Indeed it is a fundamental principle of Teu-
tonic civilization, and particularly Angl'o-Saxon
civilization, that every man. be he high or low,
shall have the right to enter trade and com-
merce freely and unrestrained by the power of
combination or otherwise.
The clamor against the Sherman antitrust law
is nothln - in-.re or less than an attempt to over-
turn the principle established by the Govern-
ment of the Fn1ted States—an attempt to give
special privileges to the few and to restrain
and repress the many.
Indeed, and In truth, to an honest mind, there
Is no trouble in the situation. If men will do
business on honorable principles, and respect
the rights of their fellows and countrymen, the
trouble is solved.
Frequently suggestions are made that there
should tie Federal incorporation of all concerns
engaged in interstate commerce. This is simply
an attempt to escape State regulations and State
taxation, and with the hope of being able to
secure immunities from the Federal Government,
just such as were grunted to th® Steel corpora-
tions under (he administration of Mr Roosevelt.
When a corporation Is organized under the
authority of the Federal Government, neither Its
property nor its franchise can be taxed by the
State without the consent of the Federal Gov-
ernment. In truth, the commercial men of this
country are endeavoring to create a consolidated
government, and to destroy the reserved powers
of the States and thereby escape the effect of
their laws.
It. is much to be doubted that the Federal Gov.
ernment has any such power to create a corpora-
tion to engage in Interstate commerce. Its
power is to regulate interstate commerce, but
not to engage in It nor to authorize other per-
sons to engage in it. The language of the Con-
stitution is "regulation."
It is a fundamental rule of constitutional con-
struction that the Federal Government has no
power to create a corporation except as an in-
strument to execute some power delegated to it
by the Constitution, and when it so creates t
corporation, the States have no right to control
It nor tax it. It may be conceded that the Fed-
eral Government may concede to the States the
right to tax the property owner by a corpora-
tion created by it, but in any event the State,
so far as taxation in such cases ig concerned,
would be at the mercy of the Federal Govern-
ment.
The Supreme Court has held, construing the
Sherman act In the light of the common law,
which is a fundamental rule of statutory con-
struction. lhat only unreasonable restraints of
trade are prohibited by the Sherman antitrust
law. While this has been dlsapoiutlng to iom«
of our countrymen, It is submitted that the
ruling should be accepted by all patriotic citi-
zens and the court's Judgments respected and
the statutes enforced in accordance therewith.
The violations of the antitrust act have pro-
duced a contrary sentiment, which virtually
amounts to an organization looking to a revolu-
tion in our Government. The Constitution of
the I'nited States and the Declaration of Inde-
pendence are denounced by men who are candi-
dates for the presidency, and others making po-
litical plays to the galleries, as out-worn theories
and no longer to be respected. Indeed, some re-
cent declarations made in the Stute of Texas by
a very distinguished American citizen, are not
only socialistic hut quite anarchistic. There Is a
widespread sentiment over the country favoring
the destruction of the Judiciary, and to submit
all legal controversy to the mob. In this con-
nection I am Jtnppy to commend the declarations
of Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland,
advising their constituency against such revolu-
tionary methods l am not a Catholic, but i
must say that the conduct of those distinguished
prelates in this regard have given them a pre-
eminence in loyalty to the Constitution, which
should be emulated by every clergyman on the
continent.
I love my church, the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and 1 love Bishop Mouzon Rev.
Mr. Burgin and Rev. Mr. Goilbey of the ministry
in this city, who constitute a trio of clergymen
not excelled anywhere in piety, learning and elo-
quence: and I regret to say that 1 have seen'
nothing from them against the revolution that
is now steadily proceeding and will virtually
overturn our Government unless the good citi-
zens of our country come to the relief and do
what they may to turn the tide of opinion
The conduct of Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop
Ireland was not a dabbling in politics. When
Christ was on earth he was asked by his enemies,
for the purpose of entrapping him, if it were
lawful to pay tribute unto Caesar. He said:
"Give me a penny," and looking at it. he said:
"Whose image and superscription is this?" And
the reply was: "Caesar's." And he said: "Ren-
der unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's
and unto God the things that are God's." And it
has always been the prerogative of every minister
or prelate to advise obedience unto the Gov-
ernment under which he lives and to accord It
his faithful and loyal support.
I earnestly hope that the ministry and priest
hood of this country will follow the example set
by Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland
and advise their people to stem the tide of revo-
lution and anarchy which now prevadea the
country. c. L. BATE8.
Art Exhibit at the Fair.
Pan Antonio. Tex.. Nov. 17.-~[Editor of The
Express.1—In matters pertaining to art the
wealthy people of San Antonio seem to be in a
Rip Van Wiukle sleep. Miss Mamie Elorlan su-
perintendent of the art exhibit at the Fair work-
ed unceasingly for days before the Fair opened
to get together a collection of pictures worthy
of San Antonio. She is t > be eongratulated *on
the fact that she succeeded well hi the face of
much discouragement.
The exhibit, though small, whs equal to anv
exhibit of the kind in America or Europe Local
talent contributed most of the work among
which were "Street Scene In San Angel " by
F.loise McGill; "Blue Bonnets at Twilight''* and
"Blue Bonnets Late In Afternoon." by Julian
Onderdonk. and "Sun Rise Corpus." by Tom
Brown. A canvas by F. W Cuprlen showing
the Atlantic in stormy mood, alone wag worth
going to see.
Two pictures that were in a ri.i«a to them-
selves. evidently drawn f«»r reproduction, attract-
ed much attention— AntMp «tion" and "Sr. Pat-
ricks l**y Girl"—which indicate that popular
taste prefers the commercial style of art. There
was also a collection of r pipy prints which
Included the story of the lloiy Grail
Llabeth Hunter, member of i)e \e* York
Water-color Club, sent a water -.dor In still life
"Oriental Poppies which wms striking and
be:iutiful.
H >w many people who visited the art exhibit
were Interested in true art? Xot many, if one
is to Judite by the few picture* s dd and the
conversations overheard. The art room seemed
to looked upon as a n''-e pi.ice in which to
test and gossip.
The peopte wfco can atturd to adoro their
LINES ON TEXAS PAPERS
Says th^JJeaumont Enterprise: "We used to
have a broom factory here which made us good
brooms as could be bought anywhere, but 1*
ceased operations because of Inability to market
the product. Beaumont alone uses ten times as
many brooms as this factory could supply."
Possibly the house owners and other persons
who had need of brooms made a practice
going to the local stores for brooms instead of
buying them from the factory and probably the
local merchants thought It more advantageous,
or more convenient to them to make their pur-
chases from factories or wholesale dealers in
some market outside the State. It Is not prob-
able that any of the citizens of Beaumont bought
their brooms from a mail order house and added
the express charge to the amount paid for the
article. That would have been to pay more for
the imported broom than would have oeen asked
for the home-made broom. It would be inter-
esting to know Just why the home factory was
not patronized to an extent that would Justify
Its continued operation. The merchant, the mar-
ket gardener, the butcher, the tax collector and
practically every citizen of the community be-
comes a loser by the shutting down of an In-
dustrial enterprise that gives support to people
who must be fed and clothed. If these people
will not give their cordial support to a home
enterprise how can it be expected to exist?
C'ould they not be persuaded to take some pride
In a "made-in-Beaumont" label?
A newspaper man who Is not a bit supersti-
tious, according to his own declaration, tells
this story on himself as an example of possible
retribution:
"When I was about 18 years of age I lived
next door to a man who had an artificial leg.
He had a bad limp, yet I could imitate his limp
to perfection. Ills wife caught me at It ono
day and she was very angry and closed her lec-
ture to ine by saying: 'Some day you may be
wearing a wooden leg yourself—i am. I am not
a bit superstitious, but I have often wished '
hadn't mocked my crippled neighbor. While out
walking one Sunday afternoon more'n thirty-six
years ago, I came across a small laud turtle, and
foolishly. If not wantonly, put my heel on his
back and crushed Its shell, so that It couldn't
walk—the next day the foot that Injured the lit-
tle land turtle was crushed In an accident and
the leg was amputated. 1 am not a dang bit
superstitious, though I've often wished I hadn't
hurt that land turtle."
The Guadalupe Gazette thinks the Democratic
Legislatures are manufacturing sentiment In fa
vor of the Populistlc doctrine of Government
ownership of railways by not dealing with the
strike problem in a businesslike way. The
Gazette says:
"Employes should be forced Tb give reasonable
notice ,of their quitting the service of a corpora-
tion that is surrounded with strict laws govern-
ing its jreiatlon to the public. There are two
sides t.a the question and the corporations are
not always to blame."
Of course, there are two sides to the question
—to every question-but the strike usually re-
sults from the inability or unwillingness of those
responsible for it to see the other side. The
question Is, which 1s the side that will not see
the other side?
The Burnet Bulletin, In sizing up the sena-
torial situation, aligns each of the several can-
didates as prohibitionist or antlprohlbltlonlst
and as for Bailey or against Bailey. After
analyzing their relative strength the Bulletin
expresses the opinion lhat if the prohibitionists
Btick together, regardless of the Bailey question,
Morris Sheppard will get more votes than all the
other candidates combined. The Bulletin thinks
the boom for Colonel Wolters is rapidly dimin-
ishing and adds:
"The prohibition Investigating committee is
solely responsible for Wolters' candidacy. Many
people thought he was persecuted and felt In-
clined to support him at the start, but this is
wearing off."
Says the San Marcos Times: "The San An-
tonio Express devotes much space to Callaghan
and the Council, and affirms that It Is an In-
delible blot upon San Antonio that a common
topic on every comer Is 'the rotten city admin-
istration.' Maybe something Is going to happen
In San Antonio."
Something is always happening in San An-
tonio, but nothing unusual Is in immediate pros-
pect. It may be taken for granted, however,
that when the good 'citizens get together and
bring their moral influence to bear on the pow-
ers that be. without partisan bias or partiality
and for concerted action for city improvement,
something really notable may tuke place.
Says the Cuero Record: "San Antonio Is com-
plaining about her muddy streets. It would he
humiliating to San Antonio after the San An-
tonlo-Port Lavaca highway 1s completed, for au-
tomobile parties to make the entire trip from
Lavaca and then bog down in the Texas metrop-
olis.'*
Indeed it would, but it may be pertinent to
note that San Antonio is in no danger of any
such extremity. The City Council has just ar-
ranged for a considerable amount of street pav-
ing and will probably have provided for a great
deal more before the highway to the coast finds
good roads and streets at the other end of the
coast highway.
The Alpine Guide makes early announcement
that the paper will not be Issued during Christ-
mas week, the editor believing that he hps done
enough work this year to entitle him to a vaca-
tion and needing the brief hiatus to enable him
to brace up for the new year. The daily news-
paper which must appear every day iu the year,
no matter what happens or who Is tired, almost
envies the weekly paper which can shut up shop
and go fishing or do whatever else it likes most
any time.
The Hamilton Herald reports that each of the
candidates for Senator Bailey's toga has some
adherents in that locality. The Herald says:
"The antiprohlbitionists will stick pretty close
to Wolters, though some of them will go to
Randell. Some .of the pros will also vote for
ltandell on account of his anti-Bailey proclivi-
ties and some of the pros for Wolters because
he was a Bailey man. But most of our people
will vote for the man whom they think will make
the best Senator. Irrespective of Bailey or pro-
hibition."
The Burleson Ledger relates that "the poor
editor was dying, but when the doctor placed
his ear to the patient's heart and muttered sad-
ly: 'Poor fellow, circulation almost gone,' the
editor raised himself and gasped: 4'Tis false,
we have the largest circulation of any paper in
the county.' then sank back upon his pillow,
with a triumphant smile upon his face."
State contemporaries are already advising vot-
ers to get their poll tax receipts now, Instead
of putting It off uutil the rush comes. It Is
good advice and should be heeded generally.
The Laredo Times says: "It's an 111 wlud that
blows no woman a chance to display her new
winter hat." l>ld the Times really mean to say
hat?
walls with the "original" seem to prefer to buy
an already framed picture, moat often a copy
of some painting at the art sPbre. They evi-
dently forget that the art exhibit at the Fair
was held with exactly the same purpose In
view that other exhibits are held. To interest
people so much that they want to buy the ma-
chine is the purpose of the automobile manu-
facturer displaying his wares at an exposition
,fr fnlr. The same purpose prompts the hng-
nrower, cattle raiser and horse breeder to send
oftentimes at great expense, his stock to be
exhibited.
If he finds that little If any interest is taken
In hla wares naturally the exhibitor will not be
ai«noeed to come back the following year. So
with the art exhibit, for which Miss Florian has
worked bo hard, and without remuneration.
Miss Florian 1ms hoped for years to see a Per
manent art collection in 8an Antonio and it dpes
not sneak well for the taste of the wealthier peo-
ple that It is much eaaier to sell a copy of a
foreign painting that baa an elaborate frame
than It is to sell at a sacrifice an original and
u masterpiece painted by a fellow townsman.
A BRITISH WOMAN.
Something to Remember.
"Remember," says Dr. L. Russell, "all women
are beautiful, though not all alike In their essen-
tial points of bea«ty." Let the man whose wife
wears his ■Uppers and has ceased to care how
her hair looka remember this.—Chicago Becord.-
Uerald.
TIPPING NUISANCE—No. 4
BY FREDERIC J. HA8KIN.
He is such a rare good fellow Is mine host
Boniface that It is difficult to charge up to him
his share of the evil of the tipping system, for
while the fault Is partly that of the public and
partly that of the servant, It is mostly that of
the employing proprietor. It would be unfair to
say that mine host Invented tips—he did not.
But he has encouraged them from the beginning
and he has developed the system to its present
high power for evil, it was an innkeeper not
a servant, who put up in an English taproom
a box with a slot in it, obviously Inviting the
pennies of generous guests. On that box was the
inscription: "To insure promptness." Other inn-
keepers saw that the Idea was a good one and
they put up similar boxes. By and by the In-
scription was abbreviated by the initials "T. I.
P." And that is how the word "tip" got Into the
Et*glish language. From that day until this
there have been few Innkeepers who have ob-
jected to their servants getting their pay, or
as much of It as possible, from the guests.
Of course, the hotel proprietor has a defense.
Usually It Is stated In the form of questions:
"Suppose a hotel proprietor paid his waiters,
bellboys, porters and other servants three tln^s
as much as they now get and tipping were abol-
ished. would not the patron have to pay for all
that in the end? And why Is It not better for
the guest to pay a small gratuity and thereby
procure some special attention and special serv-
ice?"
Hotel rates are quite high enough as they are,
according to the view of the traveling public and
the dividends paid by the hotel companies, but
even at that It Is probable that most persons
would prefer to pay a little more fto be relieved
of the annoyance of the tipping system iu its
present form.
The hotel man puts up this same defense In
u different way. He says: "I do not believe
that the public would fare as well as It does
now If waiters were paid higher wages and tip-
ping were abolished, for the reason that the
waiter and the other servants would do their
work in a perfunctory manner. They would be
polite and might not give direct cause for com-
plaint. but still there would Be something miss-
ing that now tends to make the patron con-
tented. If the tips were regulated as they are
in other countries, so that each persons would
pay a certain percentage of his bill, there would
not be so much trouble. But In this country w-e
often find th" « ■»"« men are extremely gen-
erous. making it difficult for others to get the
same service simpiy i»e«ause they cannot afford
to pay such a large tip."
This hotel man. for the man who said It Is
the manager of one of the most famous hotels
In the country, admits that ihe tipping system
encourages his servants to discriminate against
some of his patrons, but the only thing he sug-
gests as a remedy is "regulation." There used
to be a sort of 10 per cent fiction around New
York, but let a man now try to tip 10 per cent
on a check for $1.50 In a first-class hotel! In
France the tip is 5 per cent and It is not exceed
ed by any but the European relatives of the
douceur tribe and by Americans who don't know
any better. A famous Frenchman came to New
York a few years ago for his first visit to
America. He had coffee and rolls at the break-
fast hour and the bill was 00 cents. He left
per cent, three 1-cent pieces, on the table for
the waiter. He couldn't understand why all
tho waiters laughed.
The trouble is that the hotel man's remedy
would aggravate rather than cure the evil. Un-
der the European system of regulation every-
body must be tipped, even the street car con-
ductor In some cities. The tips are small, but
they are universal. If "regulation" Is Imported
Into this country it will mean that the tips will
be universal, but large.
As for the superiority of service under the tip
system, that part of the hotel man's defense Is
absolutely overthrown by the universally ad-
mitted fact that service in clubs where there
is no tipping Is better than It Is in hotels and
restaurants.
The truth Is that the hotel men defend tha
tipping system because It Is profitable to them.
They nave substituted the European plan for
the American plan of conducting tneirthotels be-
cause the European plan means more and larger
tips. They have cut wages lower and lower as
the cost of living has mounted higher and higher,
thus forcing their employes to cajole larger tips
out of their patrons. It is they who bnefit by
the system and they know It.
The hotel proprietor formerly was content to
take tips only indirectly, that Is, he permitted
the servants to take them and he profited only
by cutting down their wages. In recent years, •
however, the hotel proprietors, especially iu the
higher class hotels of the larger cities, have
yielded to the promptlnRs of greed and have In-
sisted on getting a part of the tips in a more
direct fashion. *
Practically every large hotel In New York, Chi-
cago and other large cities leases out the hat-
check business. That is another story, to be
told later, but the fact Is that the hotels get
from $3,000 to $10,000 a year for this concession.
The one large hotel In New York that gets only
$3,000 for its hat-check privilege explains Us
lack of thrift by letting it be known that the
concessionaire Is a former employe and thev let
him have It cheap for the sake of auld lang
syne.
When the hotel man accepts this huge sum
of money for an annual dividend on the gen-
erosity. or cowardice, of his mulcted patrons he
is partlceps criminis to a species of blackmail
that is without the law but that ought to be
met and dealt with by public sentiment.
In London this same thing Is done, but not
quite so gracefully. A few years ago a cloak-
room boy discharged from one of the principal
hotels of London sued the hotel company for
$415 which he alleged to have been wrongfully
abstracted from his tips by the hotel manage-
ment. The cloakroom boys in that hotel. 1t ap-
peared were paid $1.25 a week wages. AH tlpl
received were placed In a common box. Once a
week the box was opened. The hotel manage-
ment took out $65 and the remainder was divid-
ed equally among the boys. Whether the box
held much or little, whether the tips were great
or small, the hotel took out its $05 a week aud
the boys got the rest.
An American hotel proprietor would be in«
suited if one offered to tip him directly. Yet
he will take the tips indirectly without offense.
Even the European innkeeper has become "i
landlord and will not take a tip directly. The
only European hotel keeper that habitually lines
up with the "review" of waiters, chambermaids,
porters and so on to make the departing guest
run the gantlet is the Greek landlord of the best
hoi el in Jerusalem. At any rate, he is on the
level about it and holds out his palm without
blushing.
While the hotel proprietor Is ultimately re-
sponsible for the growth and development of the
tipping system, he cannot be charged with per-
sonal guilt in the premises. He is a business
man and he takes conditions as he finds them
and leaves reforms to other people. He has
grown up in the hotel buslness^has gone through
most of the grades of tip-takers himself, and he
accepts the system as a matter of course. Hav-
ing accepted it In principle, he does what he
caii to improve it as naturally as any good
business mau strives to "tighteu up" his organi-
zation and improve its efficiency.
There Is only one chance that the hotel pro-
prietor will ever see the error of his way with
respect to the tipping system, and that is the
chance that sometime, somehow, a sufficient
proportion of the hotel patrons will combine to
fight tipping and will make it to the Interest
of the hotel proprietor to set his face against
the custom.
When that time comes, if it does, then the
trouble will not be cured. Even If the proprietor
of the best hotel in every city and town in the
country were to post "no tipping" rules and
endeavor to live up to them, there would he
men who would evade them for the sheer love
of "getting the best of it" at whatever cost ta
themselves aud their fellows.
When one talks to a hotel manager about abol-
lshing the tipping system It is a good deal like
talking to a butcher about the advantages of a
strictly vegetarian diet. He is both shocked and
amused. lie knowD It can't be done and he can't
understand why anyone should want it done. It
has been, it Is. and. he thinks, it ought always
to be. As long as mine host, however good a
fellow he may be. is the beneficiary of the tip -
ping system so long will he aid and abet It, so
long will he defend It and so long will it flourish,
grow, ramify aud expand.
(iood for Something.
Perhaps the discovery that "rubber" may be
made from osage oranges will answer the ques-
tion that has puzzled so many people for ee
long a time: "Why is an osage orange?"^ir—
diauapolis News.
The Loving Cup.
After looking over the stock on the shelvft
we have reached the conclusion that the thing
a man ueeds ieasi Is a loving tup.—Tupek* Cam.
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