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USTOK POST
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- Houston Texas Saturday. April 1911.
THE T050TTE THAT SUPS.
1
Borne of the newspapers are printing the
story that In a speech In the house of rep-
resentatives some rears ago. Champ Clark
made use of the following language: "The
lection of Grover Cleveland to the presi-
dency was the greatest calamity that has
befallen the human race since the fall of
'Adam." The Richmond Times-Dispatch says
jt was very stupid and untruthful thing for
Champ to say. if he said it. Of course he
aid ft and the Congressional Record will
bow ft unless Champ revised his speech as
box statesmen do sometimes. And. in order
ti keep the record straight the remark
Yoked considerable amusement on the re-
publican side and applause on the democratic
Bide.
Very few of the boys in "Washington were
faying good things about Clereland In those
'days. Even the Times-Dispatch's present
candidate for the presidency it is unneces-
sary to mention his name was taking a fall
ont of old Grover occasionally it seemed to
please the boys at the forks of the creek so
much.
But the point we are driving at is this:
The editor of the Times-Dispatch must know
that it is idle to condemn or censure our
great men who say foolish things. They are
expected to let an eccentric slip occasional-
ly mod especially is ft true of those men
who are talking most of the time. So far
as Mr. Clark is concerned we admit that he
has said foolish things now and then but
compared with Hobson or Billy Sulzer or
Colonel Roosevelt Champ has controlled his
tongue pretty welL And now that he is
speaker he will not have to talk at all. ex-
cept as the chautauquas drag him on the
rostrum occasionally. All of which is a pret-
ty good thing for Champ assuming that he
has aspirations that run counter to those of
thej Richmond Times-Dispatch's candidate.
It what we say here however contains a
not of complaint at the nagging propensi-
ties) of the Times-Dispatch we win admit as
general proposition that we should be great-
ly pleased If democrats in congress would be
sparing and cautious of speech. We are in a
Hckllsh place an right and much harm can
of done by a lot of blab-mouthed fellows who
Star more wind than wisdom and we have
feorM of that kind on the democratic side.
; Jjet them emulate Champ's example for he
jnjnt going to talk much and we assume he
Swill not say the amy things he nsed to say
somebody mentioned Cleveland's name
jfa tilaj presence. H men must talk let them
Jstfvo s something; Hko Morris Sheppard's
perorations. They charm the ear can be
TisMfl as sweetening on griddle cakes and do
Uobody any harm. Moreover the people like
'perorations. Even if the old foxes like Uncle
3oe and Sereno Pays don't fancy such ut-
terances nobody cares. They are down and
toot anyway.
But It is really a time to be long on cau-
tion and short on speech.
't "THE SUIT SEASON IN MEMPHIS.
r
L ' It may be dangerous to butt into the affairs
' DC Memphis but what kind of stunt is that
seme men Have been trying to pull off over
there with respect to Mr. Bryan? We have
i observed in the public prints the reports of
Several meetings and it really seems to have
' been a very serious matter. It was proposed
-to Invite Mr. Bryan to become a citizen of
the town. It was proposed to give a publlca-
tion ofnee for the Commoner including Met-
calfe we suppose pay the expenses of re-
moval give Mr. Bryan a home and also a
-' bunch of money. All on the condition that
."Mr. Bryan would become a citizen of Mem-
phis. 7 "The upshot of the agitation was a commit-
tee was sent to Washington which seems to
be Mr. Bryan's headquarters for the pres-
. ont to offer the. invitation and the Induce-
ments if anything whatever involving resi-
dence in Memphis could be called by that
term.
i" And the invitation was extended in style.
'A tancheon was given attended by the Mem-
phis committee. Senators Bob Taylor and
Lake Lea. Some of the big congressmen
front' Arkansas and Mississippi were also on
' and.' these States being considered as the
"intk.and Tenth wards of Memphis.
They .pleaded and begged Mr. Bryan to
me and they dangled before his eyes a
ssibte offer of $2000000. and yet Mr.- Bryan
mkUt do it Not even for $2000000. Of
tree the whole proposition was extremely
v and Silly. V It te-vftlgar to nuke any such
offer to a citiae. of Mn Bryan pewsti.
Though he la no freer from tho oro and
yearning for money than th average tana
ws could not think he would ever tolerate
proposition to let himself out ea perety-
tdvertislak proposition. ."v.
Mr. Bryan could not afford to pine hinv
telf under the obligations that his removal
to Memphis under such conditions woald Im-
ply. Why the first thlag that would happwn.
some of the subscribers to the fund would
begin to kick upon the amount of time he
spends on the road. 1 was a fool proposi-
tion fro it another point of view. Mr. Bryan
probably spends as trivet time la Memphis
or Houston or any one of fifty cities as ha
does ia Lincoln. His Lincoln residence is
valuable chiefly for poetoffice facilities for
his paper and for voting purposes. The bal-
ance of the time he lsaon the go and as
Memphis already has as much of Mr. Bryan
as Lincoln or any other town and as much
as it would get in any event why the need
of spending money that way?
We notice that it is almost Impossible to
raise a paltry $50000 in Memphis for legiti-
mate advertising and publicity purposes and
for Inducing factory building. We advise the
old town to shake the sawdust out of Its
thlnk-box and use some of that $2000000 In
building factories and otherwise Improving
the commercial industrial and social status
of Memphis.
We can't understand the stunt at all. Per-
haps the Commercial Appeal or News Scimi-
tar may be able to explain how men who evi-
dently have money and sense in some re-
spects could hsve made such blooming idiots
of themselves. We should like to know.
THE FALLACIES OP STATEWIDE.
The arguments of Statewide prohibition-
ists are predicated wholly upon the assump-
tion that "prohibition" prohibits and arounil
this false premise the presentation of their
side of the question revolves. They ignore
altogether the showing of reliable govern-
ment statistics pertaining to the consump-
tion of liquors in States which have adopted
prohibition or else attempt to weaken their
force with the general statement of some
paid agitator of the result of his own ob-
servations as to the "beneficent workings"
of the system within the limits of the terri-
tory where he vociferates. Having thus as-
sumed the premises thereafter the speaker
launches into an impassioned appeaj to the
sentiment rather than the reason of the list-
ener. Naturally this character of argument finds
reflection in that portion of the press which
supports the cause of Statewide prohibition.''
As a fair sample of such "argument" we
quote the following from the Orange Leader:
The anti-prohibition forces are sending out
a statement showing that the breweries and
liquor shops pay in taxes to the State more
than a million dollars per year. What a fear-
ful toll to be taken from the women and chil-
dren of the State who are made to suffer in or-
der to enrich the breweries. And just imagine
how much better will be the condition of the
people and of the State when this money in-
stead of frying into the coffers of the breweries
and the grog shops will be invested in homes
for the working men and their families wilt be
spent in better food better clothes and better
education for the children. The State will get
it back and more and people should not be led
astray by such specious arguments as that pro-
hibition will mean increased taxes. It may
and probably will mean increased taxes for
the man who now lives in a rented house and
spends much of his money for drink but who
when the baleful influence of the saloon is re-
moved win be able to buy a home of his own
and pay taxes on that but that sort of increased
taxation will bea blessing and not a burden.
Now as before stated statistics gathered
and promulgated by the commissioner of In-
ternal revenue show that the consumption of
liquor has not decreased in the United States
notwithstanding the large number of States
that have adopted Statewide prohibition. Not
only so but these statistics show further that
the consumption of liquor has not decreased
in this so-called "dry" territory.
Such being trad the conclusion is inevi-
table that the liquor thus consumed within
prohibition States is either sold in these
States in defiance of law or else it is pur-
chased in States not under prohibition and
shipped Into the prohibition States and con-
sumed m either case the money thus spent
is not invested by the men who spend it "in
homes for the working men and their fami-
lies or spent for better food better clothes
and better education for the children." Not
only so bnt whether the liquor thus con-
sumed Is bought within or without the State
the State loses the revenue derived from its
sale under the license system. In addition
if the liquor Is purchased outside the State
the circulation value of the money so' ex-
pended Is lost to the State entirely. Be-
cause of the volume of this money the loaa
to this State in the event the prohibition
amendment carries would be considerable
without the prohibitory compensating bene-
fit. It is a question that should be discussed
entirely apart from hysterics.
ALWAYS LAMMHTQ TAM3LAHT.
There has long been an element affiliating
with the democratic party of this country
that puts in much of its time when not spout-
ing populistic and socialistic doctrines abus
ing Tammany hall. To such an extent hai
this virile democratic organization been tra
duced and misrepresented before the coun
try that many really good people believe that
nothing good can come out of it
Taking advantage of this sentiment about
I twenty-five members of the two houses of
the New York legislature bolted the demo-
cratic caucus which selected William F. Shee-
han a sound democrat of acknowledged greajLl
ahllltv anH enMrelv wnrthv nf th a linnnrai 1
the party nominee for United States senator
to succeed Chauncey M. Depew. They suc-
ceeded in defeating the election of the choice
of the caucus as first expressed but not In
destroying the force qf the principle that the
majority should rule for which Tammany so
strongly contended. Though Tammany was
lorced U. snake a second choice In order to
prevent .the election of repuhocan
mujprwnp demoqrat It dictated th chole
of Btelpc mber'of tUwioriina
a stanch denaocrat and ft -man of tftaraots.
naming ana cnitw. r
'. In apsakmjt of tba result iha l Paso Time
isnya:
. . The triumph of Taatmaay aad ef Mr. Mar-
shy was so complete the ma they elected to'
the senate gifted aad so bhuweles. that the
opponents the bolters frota the deawcraiit
caucus wars dumbfounded. Bnt the an oat vahf
t aMe lessen (hey were taoght was that' they have
it set ia their power to defeat the democratic
ticket ia New York Sad therefore can set dic-
tate te it but must recegnixe the power of
Tammany in the elections yet to cone - What-
ever may be Tammany' srns ; hewaeer we tnay
regard its methods and its acts it must be aqV.
mined that its organisation it perfect Its power
in coa sequence ia great that its rote it demo-
cratic and that without it New York State can
not be carried for the democratic party. Be-
sides Tammany win not suffer when compared
with any republican organisation ia these United
States and she has placed ia office tome of the
best men that this country has produced and ..
Justice O'Gorman ia one of them. v '
Whatever else may be said about Tam-
many it can not be denied that it is composed
of fighting democrats who are not easily se-
duced from the tenets of democracy and as
the Times says- without its active support
the democracy could never carry New York.
Still we would not have any of the Memphis
papers to think we believe for a moment that they
could or would raise $. 000000 to induce Mr.
Bryan to become a citizen. Memphis has $jooo-
000. all light but so far we have heard of bo
yellowback bonfires there nor that the English
sparrows have quit the town to be relieved of the
annoyance of having twenty-dollar gold pieces
thrown at them.
Tennessee seems to be full of landslides and
washouts but so far none of them have attained
to democratic importance. (
The Richmond Virginian advances the opinion
that Richmond has the longest negro funerals in
the world. Houston has never boasted of such
sombre events but the Virginfan's statement H
absurd. Year in and year out Houston will beat
Richmond in aggregated eventa of this character
by at least 100 miles.
It seems to be the undivided opinion of Mr.
Hearst's papers that so far as that Chicago elec-
tion was concerned "Hearst done it."
If Charleston and Richmond were a little closer
to Houston we might invite certain people of
those towns to come while Dr. Len Broughton is
holding a meeting here. And we art not allud-1
ing to the major either since his attitude toward
Mr. Bryan puts him dearly outside the tone of
grace.
The Times-Dispatch says Richmond is clean ex-
cept in spots. But we do not forget that Rich-
mond like a leopard it pretty generally spots.
' A Western exchange thinks that with so many
new members in Washington there is a very lively
time among the hoarding houses. So there 'is
but with more than 100 new members in Washing-
ton let us say that the real prosperity is to be
found in the photograph galleries.
Another Philadelphia suicide. We shall never
be able to understand why Philadelphians do such
things when such trivial change in their normal
condition is involved.
Mr. Bowers told Mr. Bryan that Memphis was
willing te give him $a.oooooo if he would only
move there. But Bryan turned the offer down.
It't a psetty hard slam on t tows when a man
won't live in it for $.2000000. But Memphis is
tough ; there's no doubt about that.
People who abhor iconoclasm should judge a
congressman by his photograph. It sweetens an
illusion and it is about the only way the average
congressman cap possibly get the best of it.
The Massachusetts senate has turned down a
proposition to erect an equestrian statue of Gen-
eral Ben Butler on the State house grounds in
Boston. Perhaps the Bay State solons are mere-
ly deferring the matter to let New Orleans take
leinitiative.
The Baltimore Sun complains because Texas
people spell potlicker as if it were one word. Of
course it is two words made into one. But what
the Lord has joined together let no man dare put
asunder.
We are watching very closely for something to
happen that will convince us that the speakership
it an office of any unusual importance under pres-
ent conditions or that it even approximates in im-
portance any first-class committee chairmanship.
No doubt the Charleston News and Courier
will be delighted to hear that several of the 2000
people who beard Madame Bernhardt Thursday
night where considerably flustered because she
didn't sing.
We notice that up in Kansas many of the towns
elected lady mayors. Don't blame them much.
The average Kansas man is not equal to official
responsibilities while the average Kansas suf-
fragette is enough to terrify a mule.
"It looks like the democratic landslide is still
on" said Champ Clark in speaking of the Chicago
result. The observation isn't important except as
it establishes the marvelous conjunctive potential
ities of "like."
t X
The story is going around that some Missourian
died at the age of 102 without ever having tatted
liquor. Such items are published now ;and then
because there are in the world fools who will be-
lieve anything yon tell them.
Somebody in New York is proposing a sxatem
of fire lectures as a means of saving life. It
seems to be the custom to prescribe a line of talk
as a remedy for every evil and at a protection
inst every peril.
The critics are saying Mrs. Humphry Ward's
late book is her greatest. Mrs. Ward itf a great
writer but nothing she has ever done touches our
City Directory for pure literature or at a reposi-
tory of unadulterated joy.
We observe that a number of foreign countries
are inquiring if the favored nation clause will en-
title them to participate in the benefits of Cana-
dian reciprocity. And it's a fair question even if
they get turned down.
Oh we want the democratic majority to run the
steam roller over the republicans every day the
house ia Hi session. It is no time for magnanimity
with the sorrowful memories of sixteen weary
years pressing upon us.
Yes Ratal '
(From th San Antonio Republic.') '
Tom Campbell writes Representative D. M.
Reedy of Tyler that he will not be a candidate for
the senate. Rata f ; Vv'v'
rzzizU of tKtTfxu Prt;il
r Corpus ChrUtl CiHeri Reciprocity tfcst Ws"
aff tts. South aad .West for the benefit 4th.
Ksrth aad East may recioca4 btrt. at Ita"!
eruitab aor ia ft eaaocratic Ketkiaj U dosao-
ttatle tsJk ta;t a eourejeal. -Vr
f' trowntmsf ..aWbttmiT Seastor. Mayhtld '.?U
Meridian wtff do well Wjthlshtwlce bsfere 1st
shies hU Vaator into th poiiticai ring again. .' the
.rest of the Stats will not sooa forget his attitude
with reference to th eati-sta law'smeasaient
He wilt have store: respect for the power oi the.
sees hereafter. vT . .
Back Tut kews-pttldt: Eagl Pats U'asng
ia U ssotBght.- "A moving picture concern U here
getting ? local scescs for wild West and Mexican
revolutiosi films wfta which to startle the effete
East We tried to persuade them to take a pic-
ture ef our 'Sunday law which permits one to boy
or sell soda water if it has kt cream in it but
ot soda water by itself. They said it would no
too thin to tea. i
Paris Advocate: The Waco Times-Herald seems
to think that because the legislature did not-abob.'
ith the State ranger forte Colquitt is at much of
a Cossack a was hit predecessor. When Colquitt
of his own volition and over the protests of local
county authorities tends th ranters into m coun-
ty to enforce law cognizable by the grand juries
courts and constabulary of that county be will
be a Cossack; but not until then.
Arlington Journal: It hat been many years
k since business interests have enjoyed the peace
they are nowuadergoing thank to Governor Col-
quitt practically carrying iato execution his "legis-
lative rest and political peace plank. Now let the
TairVy-third legislature revise our grafting anti-
trust law; repeal the Tom Campbell Tom Love
and Jim. Robertson life and fir insurance lawa
and then perhaps some of our grafters will go to
Oklahoma or Arizona.
Abilene Reporter : There if an epidemic of hotel
building in Houston and with the completion of
their monster auditorium and convention hall with
a seating capacity of 7000 that city is preparing
to launch a campaign for the purpose of bnnginj
to Houston numerous conventions both State and
National. .Four new hotels are under construc-
tion with all the way from fifty (a 300 roomt
each and there is an unusual amount of building
and construction work going on la the Bayou
City.
West Newt: The campaign for Statewide pro-
hibition will soon be en in dead earnest. Let u
hope that such a degree1 ef tolerance will bo shown
on each tide that no sctrs will be left to heal
when the battle is over. There are just as good
men men who would die In defense of their
homes their fireside and their State to be found
on one side as the other and their right to view
this matter according to the lights before them
is a God given right and should not be questioned
by anybody.
Tyler Courier: The farmer who raises every-
thing that is needed on the farm and a little of
each thing raised to sell is not much concerned
about how high prices may soar. With horses
mules cows hogs and chickens bringing the top
of the market and the top almost out of sight;
with corn cotton and other farm products bring-
ing fancy prices what cares the farmer about the
high prices of the few clothes and shoes that he
and his family must buy? What ought to concern
him is how to make some of each to' sell so he
may realize the benefits that rtsult from high
prices.
Dallas Timet Herald-f Certain ministers of San
Marco condemn Governor Colqnitt for "his re-
moval" of T. G. Harris. These San Marcos gen-
tlemen of the cloth were at mum as oysters when
"Clean Sweep" Lane dismissed all the clerks em-
ployed in the comptroller' department to make
way fof his friends and supporters. They should
read up. "Clean Sweep kanc set th pace. He
is a reformer a pro and a holy rnn. Knowing
that "Clean Sweep could do no wrong perhaps
Governor Colquitt was of the opinion that a
change at San Marcos would be a good thing for
the normal. He made the change but he did not
place a friend "on the job." He placed a high-
class educator and a Statewide prohibitionist.
"Clean Sweep" is a Statewider and "Clean .Sweep"
is infallible. rV'hy not apply the same rule to
Governor Colquitt?
Waco Tribune : The motor car of this Twentieth
century otherwise the automobile is a great in-
stitution. This writer has to jump for hi life
sometimes on a Waco street crossing to escape
one of the "devil wagons" as Uncle Jack Haley
calls them. Uncle Jack shuns them and shivers
when he hears the "honk I " "honk I of an ap-
proaching car. One made him lump into the
South Bosque river four years ago' to escape a
collision. But for all that they are wonderful
inventions and here to stay. Like some other good
things they have to be watched and their opera-
tions regulated. Rightly used they are great con-
veniences and they are adjuncts of civilization.
Our friend Dr. Lovelace in his article which we
print today tells how the automobile enters into
kthe fanner's life and encourages good roads. Real-
ly it seems to ut that the farmer is getting as
much of pood and comfort out of automobiles as
any man who uses them. And we hear farmers'
wives say the auto is the best thing yet
Pure Democracy.
(From tk Fori Worth Record.)
"The recall alone without the initia
tive referendum Or other feature of direct
popular government would pretty nearly result
in giving us s realization of that dream of the
centuries a pure democracy." The Formers'
Journal Abilene (socialist)
For once we find ourselves in agreement with
our socialist friend for we believe with the Jour-
nal that the initiative referendum and recall are.
destructive of representative republican govern
ment and if put into use in this country would
quickly change our government into a pure de-
mocracy. The socialists want a pure democracy because
they believe it would mean the realization of
their hopes the complete establishment of the
co-ooerativ commonwealth.
All history however warns ut against this kind
of government "Such democracies" said Madi-
son who had studied them all "have ever been
spectacles of turbulence and contention ; have ever
been found incompatible with personal security or
the rights of-property and have ia general been
at short in their lives as they have been violent in
their deaths. '
And from an Advocate of Political Purity
(From the Panola Watchmen.)
And now comes one "Hon. Choice B. Randell"
flooding the mails and franking out from Wash
ington his bill prohibiting "members of congress
acting as attorneys for public service corporations
during their terms of office" etc It will be re
membered that the "Honorable Choice - is a can
didate for the United States senate against Sen
stor Bailey. This is s great campaign scheme
using hit frank in this way. How much better
would it have looked had he nut a i-cent stamo on
each of these instead of malting' Unci Sam pay
for it Each voter get two letters on contains
his bill and the other stereotyped letter which
closes by 'saying. "Let me hear from yon." A
treat scheme this of yours. "Honorable Choice
in looking to your future political welfare but.
Senator Bailey hat tome friends among the press
boys of Texas who will keep the voter potted.
We trust you will at least use a i-cent stamp on
your next batch anyway. It will look better.
Boost-for Waco Paper. '.. .
(From the Paris Advocate.)
If the Waco Vidette represents" the character
of the speeches that arc to be made at Waco -on
the Statewide opening Jake Woltert and his- com-
mittee could very weft afford to arrange f or i re
excursions on that occasion. A few Videttes will
an the big race of July a into aanaU trovv
pig race 01 jwyaa ww a nawirov-..si
''lt ''-B Faamit 1 Haasiik.. .C'.vCf
'' Th Marganthaler haetyp that weerful ris
chin which pot (hi article lata type for pdatiafb
Is twrnty-oa yer aid May. U aewspaae aM
and printers wrf St too busy te de etrything bnt
work they' saigh hate celebrated e ay as a
great hoSday with thaaktgiviag and burnt ft
ingt and hoatioaa; fwthot this taachlMthe
newspaper of today could pot exjat''''
V Th linotype was not horn Mipemijke rrota
any Jovian hrow hat a fr steads today is the
product ef the -'mladi of th atasy ' 'S-f
chaaics 'who ha added tmprovaeMet ajtr iav-
pTovemeat until th perfection tad th perversi-
ties of the machine mak It Men a body ef ssetaf
endowed with a huau heart and araia. I:
. Th idea ttpoti which the Mnetype was perfected
was however the conception ef Otbaat Mer
geataaler who asm the asschiae bears aad
who heir collect a royalty ef $je tipoti etery
machine told. This idea took shape in tMj the
first Margenthaler machine ws built is tUs. and
th second on later fat the easne year. 'Machiaea
of th type of th second taodcl were ased fa many
newspaper and Job printing ofhcea hut- there was
yet tomfthixvg lacking. Ia itee the tayxrtootniag
of th older machia were recognized sad Mr
Merren thaler perfected and patented a jeackia
which cmbodiedalt the essential principle of the
linotype of today. That patent was granted on
April 8 1800 and therefore th linotype i twenty-
oae year old today old enough to vote.
The difference between the machine of iMj
and the machine of 1890 was so radical that th
real feign of .the Mergea thaler may be- said te
date from th introduction of the latter type.
Since that time it it true- that thousands of im-
provements have been patented and applied te the
machine but none of them hat .radically inter-
fered with the principle of the patent of 1890.
Perhaps other improvements will yet.be made
certainly ooe inventive genius ought to devise a
system of balancing the catting lever so that every
operator would not hang a tin bucket of type
metal "pig" on the lever of even th newest
machine in the tkop. But that i a bit ef
technique. 1
The real reason why the linotyp leaped into
universal favor as toon at It wat perfected in
1890 was that it' wat the first practical machin
to offer a substitute for the tlow and laborious
process of setting type by hand. Scores of in-
ventors had tried for years with more or lets
success to construct s typesetting machine. The
reason Mergenthaler" tucceeded where to many had
failed was that he discarded the idea of setting
type and substituted for it the idea of casting type
a line at a time.
His first machine was fitted with a number of
vertical moveable bars into each of which wat
cut the diet of all the letters of the alphabet
tmall letters and capitals the figures characters
and other signs used in printing. By touchlrig a
key on a keyboard like that of a typewriter th
bars would fall until the die corresponding with
the letter on the keyboard presented Itself exactly
before the orifice of a mold connected with a pot
of molten type metal. When a whole Hne of let-
ters had been assembled in this fashion the metal
was injected into the mold and a line of type was
cast thus the name lineo' type linotype. The sec-
ond machine of 1885 was constructed on the theory
that the long d'e bars were too cumbersome. It
had an independent matrix or die for each letter
or figure. These were forced down through up-
right slots into the casting box by currents of
compressed air. The machine was practieahlcv-hut
it was liable to get out of order and it did not
meet with universal approval. About ioo machines
of this kind were built.
The machine of 1800 obviated these defects by
permitting the matrices to fall by force of gravity
from an inclined magazine. Mr. Mergenthaler
also materially improved .the mechanism of the
distribution of the used matrices after vhe- cast In
of a line of type. The product of the invention
of 1890 incorporated as has been said every es-
sential feature of the machine as built today.
After the first machine of 1885 was constructed
a. company was formed to make and sell the lino-
types. This .company wat bought out for $300000
by a syndicate of newspaper publishers composed
of Whitelaw Reld of the New York Tribune
Waltqr N. Haldetnan of the Louisville Courier-
Jountal Victor Lawson and M. E. Stone of the
Chicago News Harry Smith of the Chicago Inter
Ocean W. H. Rand of the Rand-McNally company
and- Stilson Hutchins of the Washington Post.
The first machine to be used commercially was
set up in the office of the New York Tribune. In
1888 Mr. Mergenthaler and the company sus-
pended relations and the factory of the company
was moved to Brooklyn Mr. Mergenthaler re-
maining in Baltimore. The wedge-shaped justi-
fier a device introduced in the second Mergen-
thaler machine to "justify" the line of matrices
(that Is to make them fill the line by spreading
the spaces betwen the words) became the subject
of litigatioat and for years there was a quarrel in
the courts about a thousand and one details now
happily forgotten. In the end all the disputes
were settled by purchase and when the perfected
machine of 1890 came out arrangements were
made by which the company - and the inventor
shared in the profits.
The profits were soon to be very large for
when the practical machine was produced almost
every newspaper wanted t at once. For several
years the factories were behind on orders and the
linotypes were to be had only for cash f. o. b.
While the litigation over the patents Wat pending
"Mr. Mergenthaler invented another kind of justi-
fier but it was abandoned when the settlement
was made.
The first maehine of th 1890 type the modem
and perfected linotype 'was used in the office of
the Brookljfl Standard-Union the next in the of-
fice of the New Orleans Times-Democrat. The
Brooklyn Standard-Union also wss the first news-
paper to use the linotype with union labor. The
typographical union at first waa inclined to oppose
the introduction of the machine but its men soon
bowed to the inevitable and hustled out of the
dusty alleys of the old hand-set composing roomt
to learn to operate the machines.
'
With the introduction of the linotype and the
transfer of the newspaper print shop from the
realm of the handicraft! to the dominion of ma-
chinery it wat said that romance would die out
of the printers' trade. Of course It wasn't the
death of romance that the printers' union objected
to; it waa the substitution of one maehine with
one man for eight men. But at the newspapers
being assisted by the discovery of cheap processes
iyj i mavu )jiwic vw puip y i ml vow
panded so that the composing room riow employ
nearly as many men as in the old hand-set days
and at better wages th union's fesrs were soon
st rest.
The man fn whose brain this machine was con-
ceived was Ottmar Mergenthaler. . He was born
in Wurttemberg in 1854 wa brought up in the
' clockmaking trade and came to th United State
in 1872. Hit idea for the linotype wa originated
in 1883 the first machine was built and patented
in 1885 and the perfected principle was applied
as bat been said in the machine patented twenty?
one years ago today. Mr. ' Mergenthaler died af
hit home in Baltimore in. 1899.
' The linotype has revolutionised the business of
printing and thereby ha made a new era ia jour-
nalism. Without this machine the huge news-
papers of today with their wide variety qf matter
designed to please the fancy of a wide variety of
readers would be utterly impossible '
Did Campbell De That?
(Front the Pari Advcate.)
Tht Waco Tims:Herald seem tq think that
because the legislature did not abolish the Stat
ranger force Colquitt it sa much Cossack as wa
bit predecessor. . When Colquitt of hi own voli-
tion end over th protest of local county authori-
ties sends the rancsr into a county to nnforc
law cognizable by the-grand juries court' and
constabulary f that county h wili b a Cecky
nut mm mm "aV'Vw "tHr'A
prosit.
I 'Ha life seomt to go slow; -
tWhea winds are tofOiag on ta ny
V- S And laxy breeses Wow 1
find bird hang ia tha summer thy
l Black dots against thi bra:
mh summer breeses going -by '
Sing eneijnresngs roe
'y Those era tea dy 'uhr PU ;
:'JT. i Aad disceaiet cornea xJown
' Ad Uasrag playing childr
yf To wide way eat of tearsj 1
M. And there are winding country way
"J Faint f ootpatha s"er th moors
' (f And aD the gleasay. dreamy day
On dream of out of doers.
V J 'btm dream of out of door and eosrs
Beside a shaded peel
Aad Titer bank that he a-drowp.
I Aad children out of school
V; With garland wove of clover bloomt
-. About then- suasfy curls
C And life i filled Vith tweet prfum.
And little boy arid girls.
And farther where the river turns k
And where the current sleeps
Slim plunging form th water churns
To a whit foam that leapt
Into the air and fall again
A soft aa summer rain;
These ere the dream we dream aad then
With we wer hey again.
' OUR LANGUAGE.
"He get double crossed in that speculation
didn't he?"
"Yes and th girl be waa engaged to threw him
over because he went under."
PARADOXICAL.
We've "ordered many well done stealu
Here there ted everywhere;
And we have been forced to conclude
The wefi done steak it rare.'
THAT SHOULD PLEASE HIM.
"Suppose tome on tbould give you a tmack on
the cheek?"
"He would get tome of my lip I
A BAD SIGN.
"You don't act surprised to tee me?"
"I am not"
"Did you have a hunch that I was coming?"
"Not exactly a hunch but I tpilled the salt at
dinner."
SETTING HIS MIND AT REST
"And you advise me to bring suit for $15000
damages?"
"I certainly do."
"What fn the world would I do with so much
money ?"
"First you will pay your lawyer and titer that
there will not be enough left for you te worry
about."
We seen though it might a ben a typographical
error where a duck has started ter walk from
Houston city ter Frisco an' from Frisco ter New "
York in th' intrust o' tingle tanks. Th article
didn't say whnt tort o' stuff he it a-carryin' but
we wanter say thet we air oa his root an' we air
a tingle tank. Ef th' time ever comet thet w
can git ter wrap our mudhookt eroun' more boor
then is enough fer a ablcbodied drinlcin' man per-
haps we may double up thet is ter say ef we kin
ever find a female critter thet we kin hold with
our glitterin' eye long enough ter hypnotise her
But we don't know wimmen air queer critters
an' they can't take a joke. We knew a fine
drinkin' duck once thet got married ter a woman
an' he come home late one night an' tried ter git
in th' front door an' it was sickenin' ter hear th'
way she talked ter him whilst we was a tettin'
on th' steps an' she told him ter blow hit breath
thoo th' keyhole so thet she could tell ef he had
ben drinkin' an' he asted us ter blow our breath
thbo because we hadn't drinked so much as he
had; so when she said ready we blowed a breath
thoo th' keyhole an' th' next day we was both
arrested fer assault ter murder an' sence thet we
hev kinde fit shy of th' female sect. When we
was younger we used ter think th' women folks
had th' best o' things an' we offen used ter de-
bate in our mind as ter whether we would ruthu
ha a he er a she but we ain't ben troubled none
on thet subjec' sence th' hobby skirt hopped inter
th' spotlight. Whenever we git ter thinkin' whut
n newsance our whiskers is we think of our free
an' untrammeled laigs an' lift up our voice inter
song. Alkali Eye.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
That Taft beat Littleton at gowf
Hat not surprised the South not qui.e.
Mart Littleton's a Texas man
And like all Texas men polite.
DID NOT KNOW.
"Are you fond of Tolstoi?"
"I ain't never tatted it; these old-fashioned
home dishes are good enough for me."
HIS CASE.
"He thinks he has a good case for damage
against the electric light company."
"How is that?"
t "A handsome young widow was visiting at hit
house the other night when something happened
at the power" house and all the lights went out."
"But where's the damage?"
"He kissed hi a wife four times before the cur-
rent waa turned on again."
k HIS LUCK.
"Thatanan has loads of luck."
"And yet he looks shabby and discontented."
"That't because it it all bad."
MIGHT MARRY HIM.
"What is that sctrest fussing about ?"
"She it angry because the can't manage het
manager." '
. . i
ABE'S CONSCIENCE. ' ' ' '
"Abe Ruef sayt that his conscience is clear.
"Well it ought to' be.' He never let anythlnJY
uai nc couiu 1111 gel away ...
' PLAINFACTS.
This globular and useful world
Would smoothly sail along
If you wer from it surface whirled
Picked 'from the busy throng.
The sun would ia th morning rise
With undiminished light t
And 'twould occasion ne sntpris
If it hould set at night.
The thing to which yon sow attend
Would good attention get
If you should knock off work ray friend.
And Quit your toil and fret.
The thing' to which you give yourself
Would draw torn ether one :
Who'd garner maybe prait and pelf
The same as yen have dona.
No doubt th starry universe
Could .promptly fHI its dat
And find that -it was' none the worse .
- If you should emigrate.
v- Br Jtma Moanatsa Li'-
It la th Trr aisddost day '
ion new ue woria wnue yen ar her. . "
- No matter what you dsj . .. . !V -
It need for 'pen larnot ao cleafv '' ftTHv
So keea emir balanM . A i A.'' -' -.
vly BLiOj iZ'.rT WAL':':?-
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