The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 23, 1906 Page: 32 of 48
forty eight pages : ill. ; page 21 x 17 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
U.DAY MOKNIKO. bwXE31BEK LJ. lua;
28
HOUSTON DAILY POST.
THE POST
T THE
HOUSTON PRINTING COMPANY.
S. M. Johxston. President; G. J. Palms
Vice President; A. E. CLAaxsox Secretary.
OFFICE OF PUBLICATION
Xtu. 602 604 Travis Street.
Entered 1 iw ftiw'to m Henstim Tent
Stand Clcu Mttl Hitter.
Or.
rix
Monthi. Month.
Si tl.it .i
Year.
.IS M
. Ul
. I l l)
Paily and Smday.
Sundav
Semi-Weekly . . .. .
50
.15
FCRE1GS' CFFICFSUttm business office.
4S 44 45 4fi 4T -t& 4? i Tribune building.
New York vlr.e S. C. Pe-kith Special ACJ;
Vritern. 610. 511 5i: Tribune ButMinr. Chicago
(The S. C. Beckwith Special Aeency) : "
Washington corresponds nr. room 44-46 w ywi
building.
T)MrTJVu .fPt.V7.c I H. Barton S. M.
Giion. C A. Xkh.-U. F- E. Norf.eet.
TWr Crr)' The Fc ; drlivrel te any Mrt
of te"citv by earner. Mr. TheWe Brnnf h.
cha-ie of the city cir.-ul.ni r-) ceiisctmt.
M?r. TheVdore fcerin. W. F. hoards Nat
Brush nd A. W. Palter are the authonied col-
lectors ef a'.! rit Kls t adverri.int and tub-
crir'ion' !tid if money shoui I be paid to any
r-ne other tbm those namrd. umn special "rittrn
r.thertr. r.jtned bv the butne numacef. ?
Ail tc-jnnn of sit site ttimi'id be pa.J by check in
favor of ' The Houston Printing - wr.juny. Sub-
acriben failing to receive Tbe Tost regularly will
rleae notifr tie office promptly. Evenr paper is
eipeeted to be 'e'.ivercd not Ltrr than 10 a. n.
Houston Texas. Sunday Sept. 23 1906.
ADVERTISERS' GUARANTEE.
The Poet aeeepta advertising on
the guarantee that It ha more bona
:fie pa'd circulation among the buy-
no classes In Houston and South
Texas than any other paper. Books
and records are open to advertisers
at any time.
THE BAILEY-PIERCE MATTER.
With regard to several meetings that
have been called to discuss the questions
which have arisen as a result of Mr.
THr-.-p' reoent testlmotlV concerning hii
employment of Senator Bailey as an at
torney to represent his interests In the
transfer of certain railroad and coal prop-
erties in Tennessee The Post has this to
say; The people should not be hasty in
taking any action whatever without hear-
ing from Senator Bailey. Senator Bailey's
actions have been grossly misrepresented
by his political enemies in many respects
and for any gathering to condemn him
upon a garbled report of the testimony of
Henry Clay Pierce would be the limit of
Injustice.
Persons who have raised the question
tat Senator Bailey has not been nomi-
r.atetffor senator are undertaking to mis-
lead tbe people. Not only was Senator
Bailey nominated at Dallas but he re-
ceived more than 2S0.0OO votes In the pri-
mary election.
Senator Bailey may be depended upon
to deal frankly with the people of Texas
with regard to the questions which have
been raised. Those who are not his per-
sonal enemies must admit that the fair
and square thing to do is to hear what
he has to say before they take any action
whatever. It would be monstrous to
damn an able and brilliant public servant
like the junior senator from Texas upon
the garbled statement of Mr. Pierce
especially when the facts alleged In such
statement are at utter variance with the
construction which so many have thought-
lessly put upon it.
The Post has not discussed the matter
because it deemed it proper for Senator
Tt) 1 1- hlm..ir ait.tr. fcfa ha.I
and it has been confident from the be-
ginning tha. he will be able to explain
the nature of his business with Mr. Pierce
to the satisfaction of all.
Democrats who are engineering mass
meetings to take action adverse to Sen-
ator Bailey will scarcely be acting lh a
manner consistent with fair dealing If
they fail to at least invite Senator Bailey
to stale his side of the matter.
WHERE ROOSEVELT GOT THE IN-
SPIRATION. Says the Colorado Citizen: "Mr. Bryan
says President Roosevelt got all the live
issues which have made him popular with
the people from the democratic platform
and he might as wefl have added that It
was necessary to secure democratic sup-
port to have them enacted into laws. The
president has not btn large enough to
acknowledge the sen-Ice but the people
know and will remember it."
Mr. Bryan believes in being absolutely
candid with the public and for this rea-
son some of his party admirers have
feared that his praise of President
Roosevelt for advocating eertain reforms
In legislation which the country demands
would redound to the advantage of the
republican party rather than to that of
the party of which he himself Is so con-
spicuous a leader. But this Is not likely
for as the Citizen very sensibly observes
It was the pressure of public sentiment
created by democratic tetchlngs " that
forced the president to take a position S
advance pf his party and It was only by
the aid and co-operation of democratic
leaders In both branches of congress that
the) measures he championed were saved
from ignominious defeat at the hands of
his own party. The people know all
these things and while appreciating Mr.
Bryan's candor In conceding to the presi-
dent that praise which is honestly due
him they axe not likely to forget that the
latter at the crucial period In the higtory
of the rate bill treacherously laid down
on" those democrats who. Ignoring party
advantage had so patriotically assisted
him In pushing the proposed remedial
legislation to the very point of success.
' His double dealing In the last stages of
this legislation which resulted In ma- !
terially weakening the law presents a j
spectacle so abhorrent to the average j
American's idea of a square deal that we j
trow Mr. Bryan Is doing the democratic i
party a real service every time he calls ;
attention to the part the president played j
In this reform legislation. He deftly
draws the Yell revealing the whole pic-
tare then with a sly wink at his audience j
points to the president and says "See i
the great republican performer." The au- j
dtence sees and then cheers for Bryan. J
As the old saying goes "there are more j
ways of killing a dog than by choking him i
to death with butter."
THE COTTON SITUATION.
The Post In a recent Issue called atten-
tion to the appeal of President Milner of
the Texas Cotton association to the farm-
ers to hold their cotton for 10 cents a
pound that being tbe minimum prit-e
agreed upon by the association at which
the staple can be grown with profit un-
der conditions at present existing in the
South both as to labor and other factors
entering Into the cost of production.
That the appeal Is meeting with at
least a partial response on the part of
those addressed is evident from the de-
crease In the - movement. acreage and
crop condition considered compared with
previous years. That the movement has
not fallen off still more is probably due
to the excellent yield In those sections
of the belt particularly South and South-
west Texas where the crop matures early
and where organization among the farm-
ers has not been so extensive as In other
parts of the country where the plant is
later In maturing as well as to the fact
that a well planned campaign has been
waged throughout' the South for weeks
past to create the Impression among pro-
ducers that a bumper yield is practically
assured. The purpose of this campaign
is evident Speculator and spinner alike
have joined hands to Induce the market-
ing of as large a proportion of the crop
as possible early In the season knowing
that the sooner It passes out of the hands
of the farmer the greater the opportuni-
ties for them to make .their usual large
profits at his expense. It Is a shrewd
game that they are endeavoring to work
but if the farmers of the South are wise
It will not succeed.
Recently The Post published figures to
prove that If the government had not
grossly underestimated the acreage
planted a bumper yield would be an im-
possibility under normal crop-growing
conditions. Heretofore these acreage es-
timates when compared with the final
returns have been rather above than be-
low the actual acreage. There has been
no reason given why this year's estimate
should prove an exception to the rule.
This means that a crop not exceeding
12000000 bales will be produced this
year and from the best information avail-
able at the present time it bids fair to
fall much under that figure.
The world will easily consume 12000-
000 bales of cotton at 10 cents per pound
and upward and the mills will reap a rich
harvest in the way of profits at that
price. Theyi want It at present and
cheaper prices if they can get It and they
will have their desire In the matter if
the farmers of the South do not stand
together In the holding movement that
has been inaugurated. Plans have al-
ready been perfected by the organizttions
of the Farmers' Union and the Southern
Cotton association whereby the farmers
will receive the co-operation of merchants
and bankers to the extent of such finan-
cial assistance as may be necessary to
enable them to hold for better prices at
little or no risk to themselves and with
the promise of complete success In ob-
taining Just and fair compensation for
the product of their year's labor which
any reasonable Individual acquainted with
the conditions under which the crop is
grown and picked must concede can not
be obtained at a price below 10 cents for
the staple.
It is now up to the fanners of the South
to overcome conditions that have hin-
dered their prosperity in the past and
The Post believes that fhey will do their
duty In the premises.
A CALL TO THE SOUTH.
The Washington Post which makes It
a business to keep Its flr.gc.r Up0rl the
public pulse calls um the South to de-
cide the question of government owner-
ship of railroads. It says:
Unless the South ac-s speedily and with
peremptory resolutir n the preachment of
government ownership will surely be in-
trenched as the param'ttnt isue in Amer-
ican politics and the batt of 1908 will
te fought on this line : Shall the gov-
ernment acquire the n 'rua'is and operate
them ' This is the thing the people are
thinking about the subject they are de-
bating and it depends on the decision the
South shall render whether it will live
or die. Cleveland went to the wall solely
because the South "erted him; Bryan
will cease to interest i: the South should
repudiate him for the South is the butt
cut and the upper crust of the demo-
cratic party now is it has been for more
than 100 years.
"The foregoing caH to the South Is hut
a repetition of what a number of North-
ern newspapers have been saying recent-
ly and the frank declaration Is that it Is
within the power of the South to save
the coun'ry from the possible dangers of
such a policy.
What we wish to Inquire Is where
stands the North on the question of gov-
ernment ownership? Is the virus of so-
cialism so strongly infused in Northern
blood that the country is in imminent
danger unless the South comes to the
rescue? If the Nrrth were solid against
this dangerous doctrine it would not mat
ter what course the South pursued would
it? The South represents only a tourtn
of the political power of the country and
for some years back the remaining three-
fourths have been steadfastly arrayed
against the South. Vp the Washington
Post's way the South has been quite dis-
credited in a political sense. Even the
present administration hns found it agree-
able to largely dispense with Southern
assistance and advice in dealing with
public affairs.
Are we to understand that our great
Washington namesake expects the time
to come when the South the old Demo-
cratic Solid South must be looked upon
as the chief 'mainstay of republican In-
stitutions? We ask tbe question in good
faith beuause it has long been a con-
viction with The Houston Post that the
South will in God's own time fulfill just
such a mission. And it would be pleas-
ing to know that such a view were shared
by so eminent a contemporary as the
Washington Post.
The South is the home of tbe most in-
tensely American people on the conti-
nent. North Carolina we believe pre-
senting in Its white population the purest
strain of composite American blood. Not
only racially the most representative type
of American citizenship but likewise
politically the Southerner holds truest to
the ideals of an ancestral democracy.
The South s position with regard to
public ownership Is scarcely in doubt and
at the propct-tlme and iiUhe proper man-
ner the South will assert itself faithful
to its traditions and to its conceptions of
public duty.
HOUSTON'S BANK STATEMENT.
The last bank statement places Hous-
ton well in front of all Texas cities as a
financial center. In total resources the
figures for Houston are $17983167
against $17133365 for Dallas while the
individual deposits show $9398557 for
Houston and I9.059.3SS for Dallas The
percentage of legal reserve to deposits
is 30.28 for Houston and 14.34 for Dallas.
Houston has therefore passed Dallas in
some Important respects since the last
statement
It must be remembered that these fig-
ures are those of the National banks and
therefore do not represent the full scope
of Houston's banking business. The
private banks State banks and trust com-
panies and savings banks could add mill-
Ions to every Item indicative of banking
strength and would greatly accentuate
the position of this city as the leading
financial city of the State. The clear-
ing houss totals of Houston exceed those
of any two cities in the State combined..
The growth of Houston since 1900 has
been marvelous. Her financial and com-
mercial operations her industrial de-
velopment her municipal Improvement
as well as her population have steadily
advanced until In every respect It may
be said that the city is twice as big as it
was six and a half years ago. Even If
there should be a slacking up of the pro-
gressive movement Houston would re-
veal a growth of at least 100 per cent In
the census enumeration of 1910.
But so far from showing a diminishing
impetus Houston Is growing now at a
more rapid rate than at any preceding
time of her history. There are In early
prospect building operations exceeding
the total of $5000000. In a few months
three additional railroads will be added
to her distributing and transportatlonal
equipment. The year 1907 promises to
be the greatest building year In the hi
tory of the city.
The New O.-leans Harelquin thus addresses
the youngster who is to succeed the ranking
minority member of the house of representa-
tives in Washington: "Give the nation a mes-
sage" from us!" In response to this inspiring
call the young man will probably emerge from
the first session of the committee on accoustics
and ventilation and pull a few tail feathers
from the tail of the eagle that is if the
"leave to print" be granted.
No doubt those Cubans regard Secretary
Taft as an exceedingly bellicose statesman.
Vice President Fairbanks spoke at the lay-
ing of the cornerstone of Chicago's county
building. We suppose out of respect for the
distinguished visitor the Chicagoani deposited
a jug of buttermilk in the cornerstone.
The New Hampshire politicians are no doubt
gratified at the heavy sales of "Coniston."
The "Old Politician" of the Dallas Times
Herald absolutely declines to discuss politics
further until everybody visits the Dallas fair.
That alone will make it necessary for the
Times Herald readers to go to the fair.
Summer officially ends today but you need
be in no hurry about unpacking your cedar
chest.
The negro rape fiend is becoming indus-
trious in some of the Northern States and it
is possible some of the Northern people are
going to change their opinions about this
creature before long.
If they go to making alcohol from corn-
cobs what will the little brown jug do for a
stopper?
Mr. Hearst declares he does not desire the
democratic nomination. Mr. Ihmsen's efforts
then are purely for the purpose of inducing
the democrats to force the nomination on the
great editor.
It seems that the people of Chicago have
utterly barred politics until the figlit for two
pennants has terminated. 'i:
The Kansas City Star wants to make the
name of its town one word with the tetter
C" omitted. The Star is printed too close
to Kansas not to be silly at times. -
Houston is engaged in making a noise like
a town that can pretty well dispense with a
minor league baseball pennant
A Baltimore man tried to send a ten-pound
block; of irie to the president by mail. It is
now up to1 the census t bureau to ' enumerate
the kinds of fool that fellow was.
The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes an ar-
tide which declare there are dollar in skunk-
hunting. We already knew there were a good
many scents in the business.
The Chicago Tribune thinks the United
States should occupy Cuba.' Would it crowd
matters a little on the island?
John L. Sullivan's press asent says "the old
man wears the smile th.it won't conic off these
days.? In olden times. John used to atfect the
mile that went down easily.
Now that Winston Churchill has run for
an office the Louisville Courier-Journal calls
him "Colonel Winston Churchill.
The Washington Post says no Rough Riders
will be sent to Cuba this time. Certainly not;
for there would not be enough offices to go
round when they returned.
Miss Mae Wood's silence indicates that she
is waiting patiently for some more Tom Piatt
neck exposure upon which to land.
If the members of the New York American
ball team had been so many John D. Rocke-
fellers Chicago could have treated them with
no less consideration.
It is apparent that the congressional com-
mittees can not make many claims so long
as campaign funds are raised at a dollar a
crack.
Mary MacLane says her forthcoming book
will be naughtier than the first effort. We
infer her publishers will do business with the
express companies.
Another graft epidemic has broken out in
the Philippines. Probably the officials are
just giving the natives Wessons in popular gov-
ernment.
A mysterious autorrcbile has been discov-
ered in St. Petersburg and no doubt the au-
thorities expect later to capture a Pittsburg
millionaire.
EDITORIAL RIFLE BALLS.
The trusts will be with us till doomsday
unless we lower the tar; if wall. Waco Timtt-
Htrald. No self-made man never completed the job
with a knocker's hammer. Ctarkn-ilie Times.
Send "Cyclone Jim" Davis to Cuba. His
voice is always for wir and his legs always
for peace. Dallas Tiv.-s Herald.
We did not realize until of late how many
original Campbell men there were in Texas.
If'oco Times-Herali.
Colonel Lyon's appeal for dollar subscrip-
tions also has a mandamus ring to it. Demo-
crats at the Federal pie counter must not do
any loud talking while the entertainment com-
mittee is at table. Fort Worth Star.
Wilson Nuts for Shaw te Crack.
(From the St. I.ouii Republic.)
Just as Secretary Shaw is about to begin
his tour of stand-pat oratory in Missouri
Secretary Wilson of the department of agri-
culture tosses him a few very hard tariff nuts
to crack if he can.
Secretary Wilson is rather an important
Iowa man himself and though he does not
declare unreservedly for the anti-monopoly
Iowa idea his utterances are rather a strong
intimation that he considers Governor Cum-
mins the tariff reformer a better Iowa re-
publican than Secretary Shaw the stand-
patter. Mr. Wilson speaks the mind of thousands
of republicans in Missouri Iowa and other
Western States when he says that votes are
not to be made for the republican party by
defending the policy of selling American
goods cheaper in foreign countries than at
home.
It seems to be up to Mr. Shaw who as sec-
retary of the treasury ought to have the best
facilities for getting information about such
things to explain to the secretary of agri-
culture the grounds upon which the stand-
patters defend this objectionable system.
It is Secretary Wilson's business as a mem-
ber of the cabinet to look after the interests
of the farmers. There is really due to him
from Secretary Shaw a clear and convincing
reason why the wheat farmer in Iowa for
instance should pay more for harvesters and
binders made in the "home market" than is
paid by the wheat farmers of Argentina and
Southern Russia who are his competitors in
the wheat markets of the world.
.Senator Warner of Missouri who has tariff-
revision leanings similar to those of Secretary
Wilson would doubtless hear with interest
any reply Mr. Shaw may be pleased to make.
While Mr.-Shaw is in Missouri this week
he will be near enough to Iowa for his answer
to be heard across tbe State line in the camps
of Cummins.
Baltimore Ablaze Again.
(From the Washington Star.)
Jubilee week is on at Baltimore and as
a wit in Washington's sister city puts it
"Baltimore is ablaze again this time with
enthusiasm." There were thanksgiving serv-
ices Sunday and on each of the days of the
weeks paradesanT Joyous ceremonies will be
held in the streets that two years and seven
months ago were heaped high with the hot
wreckage of ruined buildings.
Baltimore not only rises from the ashes of
its $75000000 fire but she rises a better city
the "fire district" being more substantially
and harmoniously built than before eight
acres having been added to the street area and
a new dock system created.
Baltimore deserves the congratulations of
all other cities for her civic pride and spirit
and the vim oi her citizens.
Artec Women.
(From the Scott Valley Cal. Advance.)
The feminine direct descendants of the fa-
moua Aztecs arc tiny creatures exquisitely
formed and refined in feature. They carry
the head with the upbearing grace of the full
blooded Indian; their skins are not red but
a clear smooth copper color that shines like
gold in the 'un : their hair is coarse and black
as ebony a-d they are decorated with bright
feathers an 1 gay ornaments. These women
make the n-o.t wonderful pottery that comes
to us from Mexico for they have kept the old
Aztec forms and decorations in their art and
they also ueave wonderful baskets and do
exquisite embroidery.
Sighs for the Old Days.
(From the W ashington Iowa Press.)
What sv.oped the old housewife habit of
taking the -b!e cloth out after each meal and
shaking it or. the ground' to the edification
of the dog cat chickens and birds? As a
boy we u'H to delight in that shake especially
if a corrc matron or a pretty girl had hold
her body swayed so gracefully
iSM it. No other motion not even
ie dance set off her figure to bet-
and the minxes knew it and
:-.-U"d to give those flirts when ad-
handy by. But some one in-
rush and a pretty receiver and a
n was set
The Metaphor of Jths Spider.
'Fr'.tu the London Chronicle.)
BeitT than most metaphors that have been
drawn t the spider's way of life is the
delightfully human one of Alphonse Karr'i
in his "Yryage autour de mon Jardin." The
spicier hf ; is more thurthful than man.
When m;n says "If my wife does not love
me I shi.l fiir" he does not die. But when
the spider says so he knows he is Speaking
the truth. or if his wife does not love him
she kills him a -
of the-.
as she hs-
the rhythn
ter advar-i
always m
mircrs . -.v
vented a ;
new f a r h 1
jEXCANGE INTERVIEWS I ;
The Denison Gazetteer very correctly ob-
serves that Mr. Bryan's advocacy of the gov-
ernment ownership "was only given out at
hit private opinion arrived at from bis ob-
servation of the result in Europe. It was
more of a suggestion than an indorsement It
is those who at heart are opposed to Bryan
that are raising the greatest dust over the
matter."
.k P" 7vat7 Thousand club gotten up by
"e good people of our little city promises to
!!t mor? towi'd giving our city and
country an uplift than anything that has hap-
pened for many months. The fact is when
our people get up and o after anything they
generally grt it and it is also a fact that they
are frequently found going out after good
things as evidenced by the splendid schools
and colleges located in our midst through the
energy get-up-and-get of our people. Dtnto
A ews.
Texas is a great big 5tate but if all the
Twenty Thousand clubs now in existence and
in prospect succeed in. their plans she will
soon have a population large enough to de-
velop all of her latent resources and in point
of material wealth will stand at the head of
all of the States of the Union.
It may be tiresome to some of the business
men of thit city for the Sentinel to keep
harping on the question of a business men's
association but there is only one way to have
the subject dropped and that is to get to-
gether and organize. Nacogdoches needs an
organization of this kind and every man in-
terested in the welfare of the town knows that
the paper is right in its contentions. Kacoc-
doches Sentinel.
The Sentinel has adopted a plan similar to
that of the girl who married a persistent
suitor "in order to get rid of him" and its
bound to win.
There is never the enormous cotton crop
made that the bears would have us believe
nor seldom one as small as the bulls predict.
One can always safely count on the bears
wanting the stuff at as low a price as thev can
get and expect them to hazard any means
of obtaining it cheaply. It is also safe to
expect the bulls to press down the produc-
tion and boost the price. The "whys and
wherefores" of these Munchausen yarns about
"enormous yields." "tremendous crops"
"nething made" etc. are plainly evident and
it it consequently hot a difficult task to see
why the price fluctuates so constantly and
with "such -apparent nervousness. Lockhart
Post.
The cotton world is facing a new order of
things since the South came to appreciate the
fact that by co-operation among its farmers it
had the power to so regulate both the sup-
ply and the marketing of its chief product
at to greatly enhance the price without run-
ning counter to the legitimate law of trade
that must ultimately govern the price of all
products that is the law of supply and de-
mand. Thit new order of things is being
reluctantly accepted as a fact by interests that
have heretofore dominated the market to the
detriment of the producer and a readjustment
to meet these new conditions is inevitable.
President Milner of the Texas branch of
the Southern Cotton association in his paper
the Henderson Times hat the following te
say commendatory of the course of The Post
in upholding the movement of the farmers of
the South to secure a remunerative price for
their cotton:
The able stand of The Houston Post in
favor of a remunerative price for this cotton
crop will endear that paper more and more
to the people of Texas. The cotton of the
South represents the wealth of our people
the currency the gold silver and greenbacks
of the cotton States. The education of our
children the manhood of our men the re-
finement of our women and the prosperity of
our country depend upon a fair and equitable
price for cotton. The Post tees and feels
this; and it is strange that the press all over
this Southland can not grasp the situation
and fall in line in a legitimate struggle for
a remunerative price for this great staple. It
it more important at this time to the busi-
ness interests of the South than all other
questions combined. The people need educa-
tion with reference to the value of their cot-
ton the manner of disposing of it and the
press should wake tip and assist in the great
work which if pursued along business lines
the farmers merchants and bankers earnestly
co-operating with each other will add mill-
ions of dollars to the South annually and in
a few years the cry of "hard times" will have
ceased to dwell in the homes of the women
and children whose lives have been cramped
and dwarfed in the cotton fields.
The peek-a-boo shirt waist will now make
way for the football pads. Galveston Trib-
une. My my! What a charge for the wearers
of the peek-a-boos to have to repel.
;
The Dallas Times Herald says that the
manner in which Mr. Bryan handled Secre-
tary Shaw "reminds us again that snow birds
should not fly around while eagles are soar-
ing." The members of the State legislature have
agreed to give up free passes if the people
of the State wiM vote for the constitutional
amendment in November increasing the legis-
lative salary to $1000 per annum. They are
perfectly willing to- be good for a considera-
tion. Fort Worth Telegram.
And the dear people will inform them at
the November election that they must be good
without the consideration demanded.
Every man enjoys his own jokes. Yoakum
Times.
That's no joke.
Homeseekers are visiting our town and
county every day. Are you showing them
any courtesies? Do not be indifferent to-
ward them. A smile a kind word or a cheer-
ful greeting might induce them to locate with
us. We have the climate and toil and if we
can get the settlers we will have the greatest
county in the State. Floresville Chronicle.
Show them nice sidewalks well kept lawns
ruddy-cheeked babies and If a few weeds re-
main uncut in ut-of-the-way places let them
catch you making away with them. The right
kind of a homeseeker met bit eyes as well
as his ears.
- - 4 .
"If nothing further occurs as a setback"
said a farmer to Chronicler the other day
"Christmas day will find me even with the
world again" and another standing by echoed
"me. too."There are many farmer! in the
county who can say this the present fall and
the man who can is to be congratulated for
to be able' to be "even with the world" and
have a little home with vines growing around
the doorway and prattling children to soothe
dull care away the cup is pretty near full.
The Chronicle wishes every farmer in the
county could come out at least "even" thit
harvest and it it glad to know that condi-
tions are such that many will be able to do
to. Willi Point Chronicle.
The farmer who hat a coty home and is
"even with the world" gets more solid con-
tentment and real happiness out of life than
nine-tenths of the millionaires.
A Dally Thought
' . "(Carmen Sylva.) - y
Regret it more unbearable than actual pain
because it it generally coupled with remorse.
j Secret ary sh i a w s fallacy" j
(From the New York Journal of Commerce.)
Secretary Shaw devoted hit political speech
at Salisbury N. C to justifying the practice
of selling exported products at a lower pries
abroad than is charged for the same com-
modities to our consumers at home. He be-
gan by belittling the amount of such sales
quoting a statement of Senator Gallinger
based upon an alleged compilation from the re-
port of the industrial commission of some
years ago that they amounted to no more
than $4000000 a year. He then proceeded
to show that at the result of manufacturing
in bond for export from materials imported
free of duty and of receiving drawbacks of
duty on imported materials used in manufac-
turing for export that the amount ought to
be and probably is something like $140000000
a year for he said that the purpose of thus
relieving foreign materials from duty when
used in manufacturing for export was to
enable the manufacturers to sell abroad
cheaper than at home. If they did not thit
purpose failed and he assumed that they did
and should do it After thit demonstration
he reverted to the ancient and insignificant
figures of Senator Gallinger to show what a
trifling part of our production and what a
relatively small part of our exports these
goods told cheaper abroad really are.
This kind of inconsistent statement and rea-
soning is highly characteristic. For one pur-
pose $4000000 serves best and for another
$140000000 and the one is used that comes
handiest in the argument. It was the larger
quantity however that was especially ap-
proved because according to Mr. Shaw it
gives our labor to much more employment at
"American wages" while it enables the ex-
porting manufacturer to sell the product at
foreign prices in the foreign market protec-
tion at the same time enabling him and other
manufacturers to charge high prices at home
if they use domestic materials or pay duty on
those imported. This is assumed to be an
advantage to our export trade. Thit seems
plausible to those who are unable to analyze
the argument and discover its fallacy.
At the close of his speech after maintain-
ing that the practice of selling abroad cheaper
than at home is common to all commercial
countries Mr. Shaw said that if it was neces-
sary to pay more for his clothes hit shoes
his sewing machine his typewriter and the
barbed wire used on his Iowa farm he was
willing "so long as the products of American
farms feed and the products of American
looms clothe and the products of American
labor generally supply every need of those
who produce these things thus sold abroad
at reduced prices." Just here it exposed the
fallacy of the whole argument in which it it
assumed that the producer and consumer be-
long to two separate and distinct classes in-
stead of being the same mass of people. These
workmen who receive American wages also
pay American prices and the value of their
wages is determined by what they will buy.
It is they who pay the higher domestic prices
in order that foreigners may get the products
of their labor at lower prices. ' If they had
raw materials free of tax with which to pro-
duce for the domestic as well as foreign mar-
ket and if free interchange of products made
the general range of domestic prices lower it
would increase and not diminish the avail-
able aupply of these products and more could
be had in return for labor. If wages were
lower in dollars and cents they would be
higher in purchasing power and the standard
of living Would improve rather than deteriorate.
It is the advantages of the country for the
productiveness of labor that make American
wages high and not its protection against the
competition of less productive labor and no
sound reasoning can be made to support the
theory that workmen gain by producing more
cheaply for others than for themselves.
Promising Boomerangs.
(From the Boston Herald.)
From the layman's point of view the de-
fects disclosed in the magazines of the bat-
tleships Minnesota and Louisiana would ap-
pear to be vital It it said In Washington
that the steam pipes connecting the boilers
with the steering gear pass through the maga-
zines and although the pipes are covered with
thick coatings of nonconductible material they
make the magazine too warm for safety As
the Louisiana was the shin picked to carry
the presidential party to the isthmus to in-
spect the work being done in the Panama
canal zone the objections must be remedied
at once or else these particular magazines be
kept empty on the voyage. The surprise is
that with all tbe care given to detail in de-
signing battleships steam pipes should have
been run through compartments that are to
be used for the storing of high explosives.
Would Have All Faiths Represented..
(From the New York Timet.)
There it a rough humor in the remark of
Mr. George H. Earle Jr. the receiver for the
wrecked trust company in Philadelphia that
instead of a financial corporation having di-
rectors all of one religious denomination he
would have all faiths represented and that "a
conservative infidel of business reputation
might be a good man to have on the board."
Mr. Earle derives from his Quaker ancestry
the breadth of view that recognizes no mo-
nopoly of integrity or weakness in any de-
nomination and that business ability and char-
acter are more valuable because less easily
pretended than pietyi Certainly in hit ease
they are qualities of incalculable worth to the
much-swindled creditors of the Real Estate
Trust company.
A Qold and 8teel Engine.
(From the London Globe.)
A watchmaker of Ontario hat made a re-
markable working model of an engine. It
weight only four grains and is made of gold
and steel. It would take 120 of these almost
microscopic engines to weigh an ounce while
I0o would be required to weigh a pound
and 3840000 to weigh a ton. The speed and
horse power of thit little model have been
estimated by Prof. Chant of the University
of Toronto. It makes 6000 revolutions per
minute and its working power it 1-498000 of
a horse power. The bore of its cylinder it
3-100 of an inch in diameter and the length
of its stroke i-ja of an inch. Truly a won-
derful little engine.
Must Cater to Varied Tastes.
(From the New York Sun.)
"Put none but home-made cake in the pan-
try" may do as a slogan for "Uncle Joe't"
district out on the Kankakee but it will never
inspire the doughnut eaters of New England
the waffle lovers of Pennsylvania and the
cornpone consumers of West Virginia. Hat
it occurred to "Uncle Joe" that union' labor
will have a fresh grievance against him? Is
he not taking the bread out of the mouths of
the bakers when he urges his countrymen to
stock the pantry with cake mixed and baked
at home? '
Wealth In 8tolen Ties.
(From the Albuquerque Citizen.)
J. C. Betancue the Southern Pacific detec-
tive has been hunting for the company for
several weeks and hat located tome 5000
Southern Pacific tiet on ranches snd at mines
some of them forty miles from the Southern
Pacific right of way.. He also found many
Santa Fe ties west of Deming where they had
been carried by floods. An untreated tie costs
the Southern Pacific on its New Mexico divis-
ion when put off the car $1 and a treated tie
costs $1.15.
WhVylNot Try Digger Indlansf
(From the St. Louit Republic)
Chinese laborers are to succeed Jamaica
negroes on the Panama canal .
L
TAMPERING . TOH TRIFLES
Br Jura Moamcia Lewis.
DIVIDING IT.
Half of the world was mine and half
Was his snd both halves full of laugh
To rob the singing oriole "
We climbed the ehn tree's testa tchy bole
We chased the polecat to its lair
Together and we went .from there
Together too with more of haste .
Than we showed coming; yea we raced.
We robbed the orchards side by side
And when our xme wee sweetheart died
We clung fast to the picket fence ;
Outside with grieving too intense
For teart to tell and no one knew.
Who stood and dim-eyed looked down through
The glass at her in her last rest.
Who picked the blostomt oa her breast
Both halves of the world full of laugh
And grief; the cups that one did quaff
The other quaffed with him and stood.
Through grieving and through bad and good
Shoulder to shoulder tried and true;
Steadfast in joy steadfast in rue
Halving all things 'twas theirs to do
And sharing in all the whippings too.
Time and the world rolls on and on.
And it it seldom two have gone
So step by step as we two chums
Through fields wherein the wild bee hums.
Up all the way till they are men
And in their grown pursuits again
"Whack up" the world big slice on slice
He deals in coal I deal in ice.
PLENTY.
"A Boston belle says 'The marriage bells
will ring but I do not know when.'
" I here are lots ot Boston girls tn her fix.
NO KNOWING.
"That San Francisco disaster was a ter-
rible thing wasn't it?"
"Oh I don't know it separated my rich
uncle from his money and I got it"
"What became of your uncle?"
"Nobody knows; all that it known is thit
he wat killed."
THE'siLLY SEASON.
The elephant wed the kangaroo
And then who would have thunk
They'd do such things his friends all tied
White ribbons on his trunk.
IN FULL MOROCCO.
"Why do you suppose Stenjland went to
Morocco?"
"Because he was playing a skin game.".
POSSIBLE.
If you have any wood to buy
You'd better buy it now.
So that when winter days are nigh
You will not need to row
About the most outlandish price ;
Of course we do not say
The price of wood is going up
But then of course it may.
It did go up last year you know.
And raised the year before.
And before that and before that ;
In every year of yore
When mercury went down the price '
Went up the tame old way;
We do not say it will this year
But then of course it may.
Of course it is just possible (
Just possible you know
In winter time the price of wood
May get down very low;
We can't remember when it has
E'er simmered down that way
So buy it now ; it may not raise :
But then again it may.
DIFFERENT.
"He takes whatever comes cheerfully."
"Yet of course;' but you ought to hear the
roar he makes when anything goes."
CHILLS AND FEVER. .
Since Stensland has been captured
And Chadwick't in the pen
Why won't these lessons filter
Into the mindt of men
Who have the care of ducats
And make those ducats fly?
Hot times on stolen money mean
The cooler by and by.
HER SUSPICJON.
"Do you know that a gaseous emanation
'from radium it transformed into helium Mitt
Elderly?"
"Now Mr. Jinx I'll jutt bet you're talking
love to me in Latin."
WORSE THAN A PEEK-A-BOO.
Anton Call went to Odin on Saturday re-
turning Sunday and when we taw him he
wat wearing a pleasant tmile. Things must
be favorable in Odin' for him. St. James
(Minn.) Paiaj Dealer
Isn't that rather light wearing apparel for
Minnesota ?
OF COURSE.
"Do you think the Cuban rebels are anx-
ious for amnesty?"
"Nawl They could have that before they
started the revolution."
We con f est to having a great sympathy for
an honest hard working useful man who is
abused. And you will find cases of this kind
in nearly every town in the State. It it a
fact that a respectable man it lately a target
for abuse and many people like it. Atchi-
son Globe.
Another man whose wife won't permit him
to belong to a card club.
A POSSIBILITY.
"A piece of ground five inches wide waa
told for $3000 in New York city recently."- .
"The man Srho bought it was probably
afraid he would get narrow disagreeable
neighbors."
PINING FOR A CHANGE.
"Your husband it a genuine men!"
"Well If ever I marry again I'll mnrrv an
imitation."
POOR MAN.
The peek-a-boo
Has got to go; """'
When winter breezes
Coldly blow
'Twill be tucked in
The cedar chett
And wifie then
Will amble dressed
In furs and wraps
And feather boas;
And that's the way
Life's problem goes; " 1
The problem's not
"Are such things fit?" "
But "How can hubby
Pay for It?"
The Quick and the Dead
(From the Tablet)
This time it it the Sunday school from
which emanates the Twentieth century dis-
tinction between the "quick and the dead."
"Yet miss" tayt the young hopeful "the
quick it them at gett out 0' the way 0' motor
cart and the dead it them at doesn't 1
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 23, 1906, newspaper, September 23, 1906; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth603827/m1/32/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .