Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1907 Page: 2 of 4
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MUSTTEXASCOOUT
OF IRON BUSINESS
JACKSBORO GAZETTE
these requirements will keep the
town constantly building and ex-
panding. If our real estate men
can secure a few more of the big
pastures to be cut up and put on
the market for farmers the pros-
perity of Jacksboro and Jack
county will 'be still farther in-
creased . The farmers with the big
mules and all the modern farm
machinery are the greatest fac-
tors today in making every part
of Texas & land of plenty. We
still need hundreds more of them
added to our population.
ulate. It may take time, say the
Christians, but eventually Japan will
become, in the fives of her people,
and, consequently in her government,
a Christian nation. This confidence
on the part of the Christians is rather
inspiring; they have the faith of their
creed.
Missionaries are quick to point out
the weakness of the official predict-
ions. The latter are all based on the
assumption that Christianity may be
treated as an entity, and dealt with
as the government would deal with a
monetary system, or a naval code.
Christianity may not be considered
thus, say the missionaries. It does
not thrive by th'e approval of cabinets,
or succeed by imperial edicts. They
do not want official sanction or en-
dorsement; that would bo as danger-
ous to the church as it was in Con-
st.vnttne’s day. Christianity ^slowly
but steadiiy growing in Japan, and it
will continue to grow increasingly, by
being accepted as the personal belief
of individuals. Its appeal is not to
tnen in the mass, but to men one by
one. As a personal, vital experience,
taking first place in the individual’s
life, it will exert its power and find
its place.
Thus all the plans of the govern-
ment may be upset -by the change in
belief and life of the people; and,
since the missionaries rely on the
supernatural aspect, which official-
dom ignores, it may come to pass that
even the next emperor will be a
Christian, just as many persons in aU
branches of government service have
become believers in the gospel of
Christ. As the seed in the crack be-
comes a tree that splits the rock, so
by its inlyer&nt vitality and growth,
ON THE TRAIL OF THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY
runhiSHKD every Thursday by
J. N. ROGERS*COMPANY.
J. L. CALLAHAN, IRON EX-
PERT, SAYS STATE
MUST QUIT IF IN-
DUSTRY IS DE-
VELOPED.
If the iron industry of the east-
ern Texas field centering around
Rusk, is ever developed to its
full capacity, the state of Texas
must go out of the iron manu-
facturing business, declares J. L.
Callahan, an expert on iron mat-
ters, who is spending several
weeks’ recreation in Fort Worth,
says the Record: Mr. Callahan
formerly resided at Albany, N.
Y., and has been associated with
iron and steel industries for
many years. He has visited'
Rusk recently, and it is possible
that he will become connected
with the development of that
field.
* “The Rusk field has unlimited
possibilities and I believe that it
will eventually be the location of
iron works capable of competing
for the business of the entire
South,” he said.
“But there is one constant and
serious impediment to its full
development,” he continued.
“There can be no mistaking the
fact that in times of close selling
private corporations cannot com-
pete with the state, which has
the great advantage of convict
labor. Under the present situa-
tion, the state gets all the labor
needed at the cost of mainte-
nance of convicts, which equals
probably 75 cents daily, whereas
a corporation is forced to pay
from $2.50 to $10 per day for
the same labor.
Entered at the Posi-uilice at Jacks-
ooro, Texas, as second-class mail
matter. -
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
Distinguished American Journalist is Traveling Around the World for
the Purpose of investigating the American Foreign Missionary from
a Purely Disinterested, Secular and Non-Sectarian Standpoint.
Illustrated with Drawings and from Photographs.
Business office on northeast corner oi
Public Square, Jacksboro, Texas.
JAPAN PLAYING POLITICS
WITH CHRISTIANITY
Remit cash by Post-Office Money Or-
der or Bank Check at our risk, other-
wise at risk of sender.
Shiminoseki, Japan.—As I leave
Japan for Korea, it is necessary to
summarize the results of three
months’ investigation into religious
conditions and missionary work in
Japan. I find that some of the state-
ments now to be set down are rather
sensational; this is due to the facts,
and not to their reporting; Indeed,
unimportant news could scarcely be
expected from the country which em-
bodies the world’s greatest political
problems, the far eastern question.
That much-discussed question, one
learns who painstakingly studies it on
the ground, is really a commingling
of racial, religious, economical and
political questions. The reader of
say that it has spread as a moral
philosophy, rather than as a religion.
It may continue to grow, and be
widely accepted, but it will never be-
come a national religion. Had Christ-
ianity been our ancient faith, the
situation would have been different.
Moreover Christianity would have
been greater in Japan were it not for
the denominational divisions and
strife, which have hindered Christian
growth here. I am glad to notice
a decrease of this, both in Japan and
America. Mission boards should take
into account the importance of this
matter.
“What of the missionaries them-
selves? They have done only good
and not evil. Their educational work
especially has been great—too much
cannot be said in favor of it. But
not all missionaries have been suc-
cessful; there are some whq are fail-
ures.
Subscription: $1.00 a year.
Representative Ballingee on the
Amendments.
The following letter from Mr.
Ballingee, Jack and Clay coun-
ties’ representative is self-ex-
planatory :
Vashti, July 29.—Mr. Rogers:
Will you please give the election
to be held on the 6th of August,
a boost by making an appeal to
the voters to turn out and ex-
press their preference? The Leg-
islature has thought that those
sections of the Constitution
should be so amended. Now, it
is up to' the people to say wheth-
er the fundamental law shall be
changed or no.
Amendment for printing plant
is questionable whether it should
prevail as printing is now done
by contract, at as low if not
lowei figure than by state man-
agement.
Amendment to establish a
home for Confederate widows
will be quite expensive and not
reach as many as by appropriat-
ing a sum for a small pension,
thus enabling them to remain
among their friends in different
parts of the state. However,
the" vote on this amendment was
almost unanimous.
There was little or no opposi-
tion to any of the other four
amendments.
Hoping a- good number will
turn but to the election,
I am yours truly,
J. I. Ballingee.
assortment of Lawns at 5 cents
r assortment for 10 cents
cent grade of Striped and Plaid Ginghams
reduced to 7 1-2 cents
our 60 cent suitings and other woolen
dress goods at 50 cents
The farmers’ cotton school,
which commences August 12th
should have a good attendance.
Farmers cannot know too much
about their own business.
So many uses are being made
of Jacksboro crushed stone in
other places it is unfortunate
that Jacksboro cannot have more
of it on her own streets. Visitors
often ask why it is that Jacksboro
does not use its own stone in
improving and beautifying its
streets.__ ^
Don’t forget the election next
Tuesday, August the 6th.,, Be
sure to go to the polls and vote
for those amendments that
should be adopted and vote
against those which should not
be adopted. The amendment
creating the office of Commis-
sioner of Agriculture; the amend-
ment providing for establish-
ment of a home for Confederate
widows; the amendment author-
izing the levy of a road tax', are
three that should be adopted.
The others are doubtful as to
their resultant effects for good.
Make your arrangements to
All of
My own opinion is that there
The Japanese government, which is still a place in Japan for the best
has ever before its eyes the import- .type of missionary. Especially do we
ance of influencing western opinion, want able teachers and great think-
has been playing politics with Chris- ere." t
tianity. Like any other nation in sim- How Ambassador Wright Sizes Up
ilar circumstances, it has employed Missionaries,
every agency at hand that would Count Okuma’s words have caused a
serve its own purpose; since the west- digression from the first point of this
ern world is nominally Christian, article. 'Before ^returning to it, and
Japan has, throughout the present era, while still on the subject of mission-
displayed a favorable attitude toward aries, let me quote the opinion ex-
Christianity. Indeed, that shrewd old pressed to me by the American am-
statesman, Marquis Ito (whom many bassador to Japan," Hon. Luke E.
Americans have been led to look Wright; “Wher^I came to the orient
upon as a sort of main prop of the 1 was disappointed in the missionaries
church in Japan, although, judged by —agreeably disappointed. I expected
even the loose Japanese standards, he to find them, as in every other call-
is “a most immoral man”) proposed ing, all sorts of men, with a propor-
that Japan make Christianity Its state tion of no-account ones who had come
religion. I have the personal testi- out here because they could not make
mony of educated Japanese that they a living at home. But I must confess
themselves became Christians 20 years that I have not met a single mission-
ago “for the sake of the country." ary who could not pass anywhere.
The help of missionaries was freely 1 Both In the Philippines and In Japan
Christianity in Japan will overthrow*
alike the devices of statesmen and
tLe old creeds of the Rations.
How the Movement Works.
In the next breath, after telling you
that Christianity will never conquer
Japan, the statesmen will confess to
their perplexity over moral and social
conditions in the country. Japan
needs badly a new set of moral ideals;
how bodly th§ west cannot possibly
understand. Unquestionably, Chris-
tianity is erecting these in a large
body of the people. I have been at
pains to assure myself that the Anglo-
Saxon standards of virtue prevail
among the Japanese Chrfstians as
they certainly do not among the peo-
ple generally, or even the Buddhist
priests. The place of women must
be radically changed if Japan is to
rank with the civilized nations; ad-
mittedly the most potent force in
effecting the alterations already ac-
complished are the missiofi school*
and the churches. '
With respect to eleemosynary insti-
tutions—the care of the Insane, of
lepers and other incurables, the ro-
form of incipient criminals, the pro-
vision for orphans and destitute, the
display of kindness to dumb crea-
tures, etc.—Japan has scarcely emerg-
ed from barbarism. Practically every
advance in these particulars has been
made by the missionaries. Despite
endless twaddle that has been written
about the Japanese home fife, it it
undoubtedly true that the Christian,
or, say, the American conception of ^
a home is only now being learned, and '
that from the missionaries. The dia-
Ingenuousness and subterranean na-
ture of the Japanese character, which
has brought shame upon the nation
in its business dealings with the
world, is being replaced by stralrfit-
forwardness and integrity oa the part
of the thousands who are accepting
the bible standard of conduct.
The Situation as It 8t*nd*. j
So far as figures may do so, the
missionary situation In Japan may b0
set forth very briefly. There are 32
denominations, or organized religious
bodies, doing work in Japan. These
maintain a force of 889' Vhite mis-
sionaries and a still greater number
of native workers. They possess
property, in the way of churches,
schools, residences, etc., to the value*1
of $1,379,902. Of native Christians
enrolled in the Protestant churches
there are 60,862, including catachu-
mens; in the Roman Cathghc church,
59,437 and in the Greek church, 29,115.
Roughly speaking, this mean-i a Chris-
tian force of 150,000 persons, who
look forward to the evangelizUion of a
nation of 45,000,000 people. While
Japan is not going to become Chris-
tian in a day, she has made a sub-
stantial beginning in that direction.
The Japanese Protestant churches
display certain characteristics which
require mentioning in this resume.
First is the tendency toward union.
All Presbyterian bodies are one in \
Japan. All Methodist bodies formally
unite next May. The Epis ropalians
and the Church of England are one.
The Congregationalism, United Breth-
ren and Methodist Protestants are
uniting, as in America. Left to them-
selves, the Japanese Christians will
undoubtedly form one church, since
denominational and doctrina: distinc-
tions of, ecclesiastical government
mean little to them. The missionaries
in this country also are ahead of
America in respect to united religious
efforts.
(Copyright, 1907, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
.Precious Heritage.
Sweetness of temper is a precious
heritage. It gives beauty to every-
thing. It keeps its windows open to-
ward the spice country, and fills the
home with perpetual delight The for-
tunate possessor of a sunny soul Is
God’s evangel in a dark world. He is
a living gospel which no one will ever
repudiate, and the blessedness of
which all men .will appreciate. The
body will grow old and the smooth
brow will be furrowed, but a happy
disposition is an aureole to the gray
crown of age. Blessed is ho whose
life looks out upon the land of Beu-
lah and whose soul is responsive tq
the outlying vision. ,
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An active trade in this line of goods leaves the lots broken in
sizes. But we can give you most all sizes in one lot or the other.
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Lot No. 4108 were $2.00 now $1.50 heels and high prices now 50
Lot No. 416 “ 2.00 “ 1.50 cents a pair.
LotNo. 762 “ 3.00 “ 2.50 25 pairs at $1.00 a pair.
Lot No. 4127 “ 3.00 “ 2.50i A ten per cent discount on boys’
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LotNo. 2314 “ 4.00 “ 3.50 j and women, at A BARGAIN
50 Pairs Child’s Oxfords, sizes j REGARDLESS OF COST.
9 1-2 to Ones, were $1.00, Our regular stock of SELZ
1.25 and 1.50, now all go at; SHOES have on them a guar-
Ninetv Cents. I antee that counts.
Of course the
state, in cases of close figuring,
could undersell the private con-
cerns, and put them out of busi-
ness in periods of so-called hard
times. /
“Now the object for which the
state entered the iron business at
Rusk has been accomplished,
namely, the demonstration of the
utility of the iron ore located
there. The state never expects
to develop the big field, and
therefore it will be a great injus-
tice to that community and to
Texas, as a .whole, for The state
to keep piddling away upon a
small scale when it is deterrent
to the full development of one of
the biggest ore fields in the coun-
try.
“There is plenty of work for
the state convicts, which will not
force private enterprises to pay
skilled laborerg and compete with
this convict labor. For instance
the convicts would be worked
more generally upon country
attend. 6ut of town people can
not spend a few days more pleas-
antly and profitably in any
way than by coming to the
Chautauqua. Jacksboro people
have worked hard to secure this
great educational attraction and
they will appreciate a large at-
tendance from all parts of the
A Missionary Parish Home.
used by the government, first, be- 1 have met many missionaries, and
cause It was need«d, and secondly, a finer lot of meh I have never seen
bacauso Japan wanted to appear tn anywhere. They are first class a*
a pro-Christian light. Undoubtedly men. Some of them have become my4
there has been a measure of this personal friends.” Then the ambassa-
same sort of statecraft in the govern- 1 dor went on to speak iu.detail of 'n-
ment’s recent gifts to the Young dividual missionaries. left upon
Men’s Christian association arihy work, my mind the impression that he un-
in the government office’s of Tokio equivocally approves of the mission-
I came upon the program with re- aries.
spect to religion, and how it has been My own investigations, while they
changed. My authority is so high have of necessity gone more intimate-
that it cannot be questioned. The in- ly into the work and qualifications of
tentioi of the men who shape the the missionary body in Japan, have
nation’s policy (and this is a paternal, led me to the same general conclusion
n9t a popular, form of government) as that reached by the ambassador,
was that the Crown Prince of Japan I have met personally 250 missiona-
should become a baptized Christian, «es, of all creeds, stationed in every
so that the next emperor should be part of Japan. I have seen them at
counted among the Christian rulers of work and at play. I have sought out
the earth. The personal convictions the criticism against them and their
of the crown prince did not figure in work that could be heard. Wherever
the matter at all; the rulers look I have learned of a critic or antagonist
upon Christianity without any regard of the missionaries I have tried to get
to the Beliefs of individuals, which is the worst he had to say. From scores,
a serious oversight as I shall show. Japanese, Christian and non-Chris-
Even yet-it is possible that the pro- tian, I have gleaned opinions of the
gram may be overturned by the sin- .missionary force. Summing all up
cero conversion of the crown prince 1 anl hound to say that the mission-
to Christianity, an event, however, aries as a whole grade higher than
which Is quite improbable. even the- ministry at home. Their
For the second part of the gov- devotion to their work, and to the
ernment program reverses the first, welfare of the Japanese is unqji.es-
The plan has been changed. It has Honed. The results of their labor
now been decided that it is unneces- are beyond doubt really great To
sary for Japan to become a Christian saY that their converts are not genu-
nauon. The next emperor will not be ine and their -work superficial is
a Christian. Independence and tolcr- simply to betray a lack of knowledge
ation in religious matters will con- °* conditions that are apparent to any
tinue to be the national policy, but unbiased observer. Of course there
the same\ official whose views I have are individual missionaries not a few
been expressing declares It to be his wk° are misfits and should be re-
belief that Japan will never become caMed, and of course there are minor
a Christian nation, although there will points on which the missionaries are
remain, alongside o£ Buddhism and undoubtedly open to criticism. Never-
Shintoism, a Japanese Christian theless, these cannot affect the gen-
church. eral verdict, that the missionaries are
An Elder Statesman’s Keen Views. creditable representatives of the best
On the same point let me quote the Christian nations, and that
Count Okuma, one of the elder states- their efforts are bearing fruit which
men and the most influential Individ- Justify the cost,
ual in Japan. I had a long interview The Opinion of the Optimists,
with him in his beautiful home, upon This leads right back to the main
many phases of the Japanese problem, question, “Will Japan become a Chris-
including this one. “Japan has the tian nation?” ^ts opposed to the nega-
town. People will more readily individuals-none are ever too
pay their taxes if the laws are °|d learn or^add ^something to
la some places least exprcted^f its general term may be called
toe city laws are enforced, but education,
toe council will have the appro- As children are * sent to school
bation of the majority of the in order that they may acquire
tax-payers in a strict enforce- information to aid them in the
B|eat of them. People who are battle of life- so towns and cities
putting in nice lawns and yards should take in everything that
txe not now preparing against may tend to aid them in theii
toe depredations of cows and big future mission of usefulness and
yearlings and two-year-olds that benefits to their citizens. How
destroy and tear up things. It is many cities are there through-
claimed the council cannot con- out the land that are struggling
•latently enforce the law on oth- to undo or overcome the mis-
er people while, as is claimed, telsea and difficulties of theii
some of the city officials let their founders? It seems that many of
animals run out All are equal these laid foundations for villages
ia toe sight of the law, and let only> not even aspiring to become
toe law be enforced alike on all. towns, much less cities, and all
. -.- of these are handicapped by vil-
William D. Haywood, defend- lage conditions and environ-
«at in one of the most noted ments, when their growth would
Brills involving conspiracy and have been easier and their ex-
murder that the country has pansion greater had their found-
•frer known, was acquitted by ers builded more wisely at the
«n Idaho jury'Sunday morning, outset.
Haywood was the secretary- jn the matter of streets and
treasurer and acknowledged parks aifdother provisions foi
leader or the Western Federa- the city beautiful, how many fine
tion of Miners. There has long it impossible to overcome the
been waged War between the errors made in this regard? A1
mine-owners and the miners of these errors should impress
Colorado and Idaho and there themselves on our present towns
nave been many wrong deeds and cities, as well as all others t<
committed on both sides. Hay- be established in the future,
wood may have been guilty or There is hot a single one of oui
he may not. But however that towns and cities but what car
may be, labor leaders often im- profit in a hundred differem
plicate themselves and their fpl- ways by “going to school” anc
lowers by their intemperate getting a municipal education,
speeches which bring on them There should be in each sucl
•^suspicion of committing crimes efforts made to acquire know!
of which they are not at all guil- edge of what th§ most progres
ffi.' J, Haywood’s socialist j give towns and cities are doinj
fTJgnu* show their indiscretion. along material lines, as will giv<
Suggestions for Forest Planting piy> an£j shade.
on the Semi-arid Plains.
The Forest Service has just is-
sued a circular devoted to the
interests of forest planters in the
western portions of. Kansas, Ne-
braska, and Oklahoma, north-
western Texas, eastern Colorado,
and New Mexico,
This entire region is practically
treeless. Here and there, of
course, trees have been planted,
but forest planting has in no way
kept pace with agricultural de-
velopment. There is real need
for forest growth. By careful
roads and give the state better
rural thoroughfares, a need that
is strikingly apparent to every
visitor.
‘^Capital, you know, is timid of
investment, and it will require
much capital to develop the Rusk
fields. The state, of course, is
not going to engage in any such
gigantic undertaking. For it to
held on to a few thousand dollars
in profits while it makes capital
fearful of the investment, is not
a situation that thinking minds
foresee will continue long. I be-
lieve the state can sell its plant
for a good figure, and it will not
surprise me if some offer for it
is presented soon.”
A windbreak consists of one or
two rows of trees planted prima-
rily for the purpose of checking
the force of the wind. The term
“shelter-belt” is applied to larg-
er groups -of tree3 which form
forest conditions and serve a pro-
tective purpose. Any species
which is adapted to the region
may be used, for windbreaks.
Where evergreens will succeed,
however, they are more desirable,
since They afford better winter
protection than deciduous trees.
A windbreak consisting of a sim
gle row should be composed of a
densely growing species with
branches close to the ground.
The main use of wind breaks is
to shelter an orchard or a resi-
dence site, to prevent hot winds
from scorching field crops, and
to conserve soil moisture within
the protected area. They may
also be planted in open pastures
for the protection of stock. In-
cidentally, the Windbreak may
furnish useful material, but it
must be placed where it wilh af-
ford the most effective protec-
tion, without much reference to
the character of the soil.
plantations. Planting may be
done for any one of three chief
purposes—protection, wood sup-
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build successfully. Let us have
a revival of this spirit for our
towns and cities while we are
pressing the claims of other
forms of education throughout
the South.
all the outward and inward im-
pulses that unite to make the
current of public sentis&enL-Our
Government is just As sound as
the common sense of all £he peo-
ple, and just as weak as fhe prej-
udices and impulses of the mass-
es. / v.
Send the Gaz&jfe to your friend
who wants to crow to Taxes,
than the journals which make
joking a profession. If it were
not for the entrance requirements
some students who knock at
college doors would be as inno-
cent of knowledge of the litera-
ture which is supposed to be the
common possession of educated
men as if they had just arrived
from Mars. * * * Bookless
homes are merely boarding-house
for neglected children.
If you have a friend who
wishes to locate in this part of
Texas next fall, send him The
Gazette and let him know about
Jack county.*
Come to the Gazette office to
get your envelopes in 500 and
1,000 lots with your card printed
on them. More than 25,000 in
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