Brenham Weekly Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 27, 1913 Page: 4 of 16
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Brenham W«ekl; Banaer-Pras*.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1013.
Brenham Weekly Banner-Press
Published Daily and Weekly by
BRENHAM BANKER PUBLISHING COMPANY
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THE MEXICAN TROUBLE.
So much has been said in regard to the trou-
ble in Mexico that there remains little, if any-
thing more to be said.
Neither side has the least idea what they
are fighting about. This much can be set
down as absolutely true.
It is simply a guerrilla scrap desultory and
without system that is going on from end to
end of the so-called Republic.
Were Carranza to be victorious and get
Huerta out of his place, why another revolu-
tion would -tar in some other section of the
country.
There is n ■ end *< it. Ignorance is at the
bottom of it all, and this ignorance like a pall
rests over every country on the face of the
earth, where superstition prevails instead of
schools and education. With the Latin-Amer-
ican races liberty - an unknown quantity.
With them liberty is license and anarchy of.
the worst sort. They are not now and never
will be capable of self-government as long as
litions to exist in their
long as the sun shines,
time will come, by and
ery other Latin Amer-
and propagates strife
and turn their g vern-
io have learne i the ies-
and know how to ap-
they allow certa
religious life—
Time is slov
by when Mex,
lean nation th;
and discord to
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sell-go
DEE SHAM SEEDS REST ROOM.
Yesterday the F-ann- i-Press had a i■ >ca! -do-
ry concerning the immense number of wagons
and other vehicles*that were on the streets oi
the city Saturday. It was pointed out in the
story that one c ti-.t cr ing needs or this city
is a re** room. Rest : • <ni in the form'of a
wagon yard,
and rectip rat.
out sitting ar
uncomfortable
the shape of a
water, and otlt
go when they
araiions for :
where they car
'here country people can rest
when the- come to town, with-
nrf r "heir wagons or being
,n .• ther places. Rest room in
ouse with a fireplace, wood and
r conveniences, where they can
rt.vt in town and make prep-
e work of the day. A place
CIUj
ui
) and brush up from the i
grime of tbe trip U t .wn in different kinds of
weather. It is ■<> be hoped that some time a
wagon yard of this kind will be established
here. It is needed and needed badly at that. ;
It would be a paying institution as well as one j
that would be greatly appreciated by the coun- j
try people.
o
Paul Wipprecht of the Texas Department of ]
Agrjculture declares that his greatest trouble
is in getting farmers to come out to hear his
lectures. As long as people refuse to hear, j
just that long will they fail to learn the better
things of this life. Learning comes by hear-
ing said the Apostle and it is true, every word j
of it.
o j
As the glad holidays approach, the spirit of j
kindness and liberality should ^become more |
general throughout Christendom and people
who are in the habit of giving to the poor and
needy, should get ready to break their own rec-
ords in this respect.
o
The Ir'sh potato crop of the Brenham coun-
try this autumn promises to be much better
than it was last year, and already farmers are
bringing spuds to the local market and getting
satisfactory prices for the same.
o
Now that Billey McCombs (always very
much overrated) has married, he will proceed
to sink into oblivion, and we don't know as
the democratic party will go to pieces as a
result thereof.
0 i
The fact that the people of Washing*
County are taking an interest in the matter
of developing their orchards is a good sign
that there is life of the right kind in the old
land yet
FAIR PLAY FOR RAILROADS.
Transportation lies at the base of the na-
tion's activities and comes nearer to being the
gauge of the country's prosperity than any oth-
; er single factor. Whatever affects the inter-
j ests of the railroads is, therefore, something
vitally close to the interests of the people. The
Interstate Commerce Commission holds a re-
lation to the welfare of the country that goes
beyond the influence that can be exerted by
the courts themselves. Yet the public does
not concern itself nearly so much about the
decisions of the commission as it does in the
industrial decisions of the bench. The rail-
roads have been seeking for some years back
to secure mitigation of the burden they are
bearing because of increased cost of the ma-
terials and a constant jacking up of wages up-
on the one hand and the strait-jacket of ina-
bility to increase freight rates or passenger
fares upon the other. The most experienced
railroad men in the country are predicting an
outcome of the situation in a way that would
be disastrous to the publilc welfare unless
some measure of relief may be found. This ap-
1 pears from the Holland letter in today's Amer-
ican. The labor demands are insatiate, and
every increase of wage in any of the industries
! subsidiary to the roads or upon the roads them-
selves means just that much subtraction from
possible profits without means for recouping.
Ever since the panic of 1907 the railroads have
; been under the burden of evertincreasing wage
demands and added cost, and yet they have
been debarred from making advance in rates.
I he country has experienced great prosperity,
but the railroads have been kept out from the
promised land. The time is at hand when the
roads will ask to have rates advanced to offset
the additional burdens they bear and to enable
them to expand in behest to the demands of
traffic and to keep up their rolling stock and
to generally maintain their equipment. Yet
they will do so under the popular pressure to
keep them subject to the rates and exactions
now imposed through the commission. The
country is sympathetic with the demands of
the roads to the extent they are interpretive of
the general advance in costs that are a feature
of the times. They know that to starve the
traffic companies is to throttle trade.
The interplay of interest between a large
number of industries and the railroad car-
ries the reflex of the conditions into the homes
of innumerable workers of the land. The peo-
ple are vitally affected thereby, The roads
have had to expand; they have had to spend
more than their earnings. This is a situation
too full of critical significance to be lost upon
the minds of thoughtful persons. Not only do
not net earnings upon the outstanding stock
rise, but they are falling ,and multitudes of
modest stockholders who depend upon their
railroad holdings for their support ae seriously
affected thereby. As go the railroads so goes
the country. The flood or ebb tide of their
prosperity marks the flood or ebb tide of the
country's welfare. Their protection from irk-
some and impossible burdens is, therefore, in
the interest of millions of workers and of mil-
lions of others who are not directly related to
the industries immediately involved in the
prosperity*of the railroads.
It is not to be supposed that the Interstate
Commerce Commission in its eagerness to re-
flect popular prejudice against an advance in
the earning capacity of the roads through in-
crease of rates would push any of them into
bankruptcy, and yet there is reason to appre-
hend that the matter of an increase in rates
must be looked at with absolute frankness or j
the consequences will prove most serious to
the country.
Baiting railroads is a barbarous sport of the
past, and when the roads present their de-
mands tbe Interstate Commerce Commission j
is bound to regard them in the broadest man- t
ner as reflecting the interests of the country
and, therefore, not to be passed upon in a nar-
row spirit.—Baltimore American.
o
They are building macadam roads in vari-
ous sections of Texas. Down here we have
some as fine givadam roads as you ever saw.
In fact, the givadam roads of Washington
Cou.ity are hard to beat.—Brenham Banner-
Press.
Houston has a few streets of that same vari-
ety but the same people don't seem to give a
dollar whther they are improved or not.—
Houston Post.
o
The Pearson land grabbing concern in
Mexico, with headquarters in London wants
the United States to protect its interest in the
beleaguered Republic. In our opinion here is
right where Pearson and the people of the mine
and land grabbing syndicate ought to be turn-
ed over to the tender mercies of the people
where their business is located.
Talk And Back Talk
Merely because the keeper of the record in-
sisted that the money devil had been walloped
and walloped for a thousand years, but re-
mains the most powerful of all devils just the
same, the wise man of the Brenham Daily Ban-
ner- Press says:
"Money is something that even newspaper
people have been Vnown to fondle, although at
a distance, We knew a certain newspaper
man who once saw several hundred dollars at
one time and lived to tell his folks about it.
They often sit up at night now and tell with
tears in their eyes how he pased through the
terrible ordeal and got away with it—the or-
deal. The money was in a bank and was sep-
arated from the awe-stuck man by an iron
railing."
Money is not the root of all evil. It has its
purposes. Without it the world would be a
wilderness. The man who knows how to ex-
pend it wisely is the man who gets real pleas-
ure out of it. The man who makes it his God,
it ruins. The most pathetic object on this
earth is a miser. The greatest fool is the prof-
ligate. He burns the candle of life at both
ends. He pays the price. There is no escap-
ing it. Money is a potential foi'ce in making
people happy. It does not take a large ipcome
to make a man enjoy life. Wealth is a curse
to many . Poverty is not a curse at all. There
is a way to escape the domain of poverty, al-
though its grip may be vice-like. There is no
escape for the miser ,except death, when once
he has made the gold God his master, an
Greed the controlling passion of his life. Ther
are men who amass great fortunes. They use
their money wisely and well. They are public
benefactors and the world is better because
they have lived.—Fort Worth Record.
Archdeacon Stuck, who scaled Mt. McKin-
ley a"hd who is lecturing over the country has
an engagement at San Angelo. It is a getting
back home for him, to the place where he drift-
ed about as a young man, working on ranches
here and there and following the usual occu-
pations of the young man on the frontier in
those days. A town job was secured during
the time, as clerk in the Landon hotel, and the
entry into the ministry was a subsequent em-
ployment of his talents, but in another section
of the State. The San Angelo Standard notes
that the coming of Stuck suggests the career
of Dr. Cook, who also spent some time in that
section, before he faked fame as an explorer.
Dr. Cook claimed to have climbed Mr. McKin-
ley and Archdeacon Stuck did it, with profits
of the accomplishment.—Temple Telegram,
One of the troubles of this day and.time is
that when a fellow really does anything worth
while, he will not let it alone and go on about
his business. Dr. Cook and Capt. Peary both
made themselves very tiresome before they
let up on the pole business. Stuck is going to
do the same thing if he is not careful. Mt.
McKinley is on the feather edge of nowhere,
and if Stuck had been picking cotton instead
of wasting time in gadding up its sides he
would be worthy of more respect and praise.
Scaling Mt. McKinley is like seeing who can
skin the cat or chin a pole the most times—it
buys nothing unless the scaler starts on the
lecturing stunt.
o
Mr. John G. Rankin has returned from the
reunion of the Old-Time Editors in Houston.
While in the Magnolia City, Mr. Rankin gave
an address before this association, using for
his theme "Reminiscences of Early Texas
Journalism." He is the oldest living Texas
journalist, having been in the newspaper busi-
ness for sixty years.—Brenham Banner Press.
This item is interesting to many Temple
readers from the fact that our fellow towns-
man, Mr. W. W. Stephens, was a former
schoolmate of Mr. Rankin and was living near
Brenham when the elder Rankin retired from
the management of the Brenham Banner and
turned the business over to his son, John G.
Since the two were schoolmates Mr. Rankin
tried to get Uncle Billy interested in the news-
paper game and succeeded to the extent of
getting him to work about two months as a
paragrapher and exchange editor. Whether
or not Mr. Rankin has done so or not we do
not know, but if he chose to do so he could
embody in his recollections some interesting
memories of the days when he and Uncle Billy
sat on the same long bench at school for three
terms, and afterwards trotted together in dou-
ble harness as a newspaper team.—Temple
Telegram.
o
School holidays will soon be here when the
pupils will take a few days off and return to
their homes at different places—those who are
here from a distance. No days like the Christ-
mas holidays in this respect, when all the pu-
pils return to their homes to see the folks and
enjoy themselves generally.
'"I
I
Ed Blackshear of the Navasota Examiner
makes the announcement that he is not tied to
any candidate for governor. That is a good
way to be Ed, but now Temple has put out a
good business man, can't you give him a lift?
You will never have occasion to regret it. He
never allowed me to borrow from him, and
that might be one of the good reasons that he
is a good business man. Read his platform
in this issue, Eddie.—Temple Mirror.
Bob Gresham is eminently correct—we are
not tied to any gubernatorial candidate, so far.
We don't mind saying however, that from the
present line-up we incline strongly to Will
Mayes, and it is more than likely that he will
receive whatever support we are able to throw
his way. Gresham's candidate is a new one
to enter the field—Mr. James E. Furguson—
banker and farmer of Bell County. We shall
take time to wade through his platform and
let you hear from us later, Bob.—Navasota
Examiner-Review.
o
Cone Johnson was the principal speaker on
Woodrow Wilson day at the Dallas Fair. He
praised President Wilson and W. J. Bryan as
loudly and strongly as possible. He no doubt
made a good speech, for he is fully capable of
doing so. However, Cone Johnson as a poli-
tical figure in Texas has had a very checkered
career—due very largely to the fact that he
has never taken a positive stand on any ques-
tion. The man he may praise or the cause he
may espouse today he may condemn tomorrow,
according to his own political record. He has
swapped so many horse!; in politics that the
people do not believe he can ride any steed very
far.—A ustin Statesman.
Cone Johnson is not ^lone in his remarka-
ble attitude. It is hard "to tell in these days
of quick development where one stands. We
are afraid to take a stand less something bet-
ter turns up.—Rio Grande Clarion,
; o
John L. Sullivaa says that the modern wo-
man thinks too much about what men other
j than their husbands think about their looks,
He has no use for the modern woman. John
was on deck a long time ago. and many of the
modern women would make his feeling mutual
; —Austin Statesman,
Well, the modern woman can very well af-
ford to do without the commendation of Hon.
Sullivan. If we remember distinctly he made
no great success of his own domestic affairs,
j It comes with poor grace from any man to re-
buke the new woman while the records go to
j show that an old woman couldn't put up with
him.—Dallas News.
Editor Green of the Tyler Courier-Times is
appealing for more hog raisers, He fears
that our grandchildren will never see a hog ex-
cept in the moving .picture shows. Editor
Green is a great hog advocate because he
knows it takes a hog jowl to give potlicker
just the right flavor.—Bryan Eagle.
Editor Green is on the right track, and
farmers in his section will profit themselves if
they hearken to his appeal. East Texas is well
adapted to hog raising, more so than some
other sections of the State, and this fact is
coming to be recognized by hog men outside
of Texas.—Fort Worth Record.
Secretary Dever of the commercial organi-
zation at Brenham has resigned to engage in
another line of work. The Banner-Press in-
sists that the organization secure the services
of another secretary, that no town of conse-
quence can afford to be without a live commer-
cial secretary. The Banner-Press is right
about it, and notwithstanding Navasota has
never "sported" a real secretary- is no indica-
tion that such an individual is not muchly
needed.—Navasota Exam iner-Review.
o -
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is handing out some
great advice on "How to Raise Children." El-
la has no kidlets of her own and knows about
as much about children as does Nicholas Long-
worth and wife.—Gainesville Register.
Those are the only people who know how to
rear children. Old maids, old bachelors and
married people who have no children are al-
ways ready to "butt in" and tell you how to get
the best results in training your own off-
springs.—Bonham Favorite.
— o—
Disappointment was manifested at the good
roads meeting Tuesday, when it appeared
there were no delegates present from McKin-
ney. With a campaign for good roads on in
that precinct it was thought the interest would
be so great that all of the enthusiasts of that
promising city would be on hand. We await
an explanation from Editor Perkins as to the
whys and wherefores of his absence.—Denison
Herald.
We suppose it is none of our business, but it
begins to look as if there had been consider-
able useless delaying in this Mexican business.
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Fuller, Henry C. Brenham Weekly Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 27, 1913, newspaper, November 27, 1913; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth491420/m1/4/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.