Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1890 Page: 1 of 4
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JULY 3, 1890
NUMBER 1
JOHN LEIPER
ESTABLISHED 1880,
Cures
hurts.
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Sewing Machines
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FOR RHEUMA
lar right and the very foundation School Text Books—The Best
of American liberty, for we indulge Uniform System,
no more rhetorical nourish whenj Prof. Pennybacker, reid before
we solemnly affirm on our loyalty the state teachers7 association at
as citizens, as on our honor as Galveston, a paper on the unform
representatives, that this vicious 8y8tem of text books, in which he
and unpatriotic measure is the 8apd.
most serious menace to the very a In Tesa3 today all adoptions
hfe of the republics. of textbooks are made bv the
The question is: Shall a politic- board of trustees of several dis-
a party elect itself and keep in tricts, communities and towns,
power by paid agents who are to is in accordance with the let-
control political elections in all ter and apirit of our constitution
the states ? and laws, being founded upon that
The signatures so far are as fol- j 80und Democratic principle that
lows: Holman, Buckalew, Spring-!the Btate 8houId do nothing for
er, McAdoo, Cummings, Wilcox, j the people, that they can do for
Kerr, howler, Parrett, Chipman.|themselves, and on the other
Shively, McClellan, Brown, Cov- hand it will be observed that it is
ert, Martin, Mansur, Brunner, jn opposition to the Republican
interests. But, of course, it will
not do to attempt too much at
once. The work of centralization
of power at Austin must go on by
degrees, and the making of the
text books by the State for the
500,000 children is the first plum under the direct instructions from
to be secured. After that the the head of the department of ed-
State set up a plant for making ncation, have recently changed
ink: another for crayons: auoth- nooks in order to secure
er for blackboards: another for eounty uniformity were a state
school desks; another for making anif°rmity law, now enacted, it
paper; another for wall maps. vr0ldd cad ^01 another change in
and another general school appa- '"ext 1>0°ks in these progressive
ratus, thus creating new depart- and populous counties. The
ments at Austin and enlarging the" and evident ' therefor do
force of officials v.ery materially. a- ; ~ar Ine* Under date of
It is said that the Btate has a j -'rard4 2£. iPfecfi,
right to make its own books, be- i President of the State board of
cause it requires the people to education, of Delaware, uses the
tax themselves for school pur- I0ii°wing language in a letter to
poses. The State requires peo- Superintendent Cooper: ‘In my
pie to wear clothes and they are °P]nion the best plan is to allow
consequently constrained to tax! ^oeai districts, or, at most, coun-
themselves to buy clothes. By j select tlieir own series of
analrtcrv fhp R+oto Tio.b q vinrl,T in text bOOtCs. , r ;
Suffered Nearly Thirty Yearn
1S7 N. Chester St., Jialtimore, j
For nearly So years I suffered with rhea
tlsmia arm and shoulder; could not lift
arm. Less than two bottles of St. Jacobi
cured me. W. II, HKESQ]
THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO., Baltimon.l
Northern Democrats in Con-
gress Issue an Address
Against the Elec-
tion Bill.
Washington, June 22.—North-
ern Democratic members of the
house of representatives have
prepared the following formal
protest against the national elec-
tion bill now under discussion in
the house:
The undersigned representing
in the congress of the United
States constituents in the the states
north of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers feel it their duty to their
fellow citizens to briefly call their
attention to the extraordinary,
dangerous and revolutionary meas-
ure now proposed by leaders of
the party in power for passage in
the house of representatives and
under doubtful construction of
the constitution this bill proposes
M. CAMERQN & CO
?, SHINGLES, SASH, DOORS, AND BLINDS
CEMENT, PLASTER AND PAINTS
3ATHERFORD, TEXAS.
to substantially take from the state Repulsive Socialist Resolu
and local authorities control of all j
elections at which members of
congress are balloted for and band
the same over to United States
judges appointed to office for life
and chief supervisors of elections.
If the power claimed resides in
the constitution, which we deny,
the republic has gone through
difficulties of the formative period
and made a heroic struggle against
dissolution, triumph and success,
readjusted itself t® changed con-
ditions without the exercise of
such power by the federal govern-
ment for 100 years and over. Mr.
Jefferson and the fathers of the
republic would have considered
such a proposition as this as dan-
gerous as an open attempt at
centralization.
This bill is purely a partisan
measure, intended primarily to
control elections for congress and
presidential elections in all states
and to intimidate, hound, obstruct
and harass by political prosecu-
tions in unfriendly hands an ad-7
verse political majority in the
cities of the north. To this end
Furnished Free of Charge and Best Quality
hranteed at Prices that Defy Competition.
A HIGH OLD TIME,
The Floor of the House the
Scene of a Perfect Bedlam.
Washington, June 28.—Before
the Federal election bill passes
there is likely to be some very
racy talk in both houses. The floor
of the house was the scene to-day
of a spicy spat between Euloe of
Tennessee and Hemphill of South
Carolina regarding the passage of
certain pension bills last night. *
growing out of the effort of Mr.
Enloe to correct the journal.
Personal slings of an uncompli-
mentary nature was indulged in,
and finally the men separated, Mr.
Ifemphill leaving the house. The
whole affair created quite a stir
on the fioor. This interview was'
discussed. Under date of April
11, a telegram from Austin
to the Dallas News says: “The
organized movement referred to
in the outset has its origin here
and probably with persons not di-
rectly connected with the public
schools. They are doubtless in-
spired by'personal interest, being
in one way or another connected
with the State printing office.'
The reporter has ‘ let the cat out
of the bag.7 Here is the main
spring of the secret of the clamor
for State uniformity: Parties at
Austin want “ pie."7 The State will
be asked to set up a plank (whieh
will cost hundreds of thousands
of dollars) to go into the experi-
ment of publishing school books,
and for what 1 To give tat offices
to parties at Austin. The 27,000
school trustees of Texas who have
personally at heart the interest of
the schools: the 15,000 teachers
who are personally responsible
for the success of the schools,
and the people whose schools
they are will be asked to surren-
der all rights that they have in
the selection of text books and to
delegate the same to parties at
Austin, or elsewhere, who want a
job.’ One of the. arguments ad-
duced in support of the State uni-
formity idea is that it would ‘ pre-
vent changes in text books.7 And
yet if State uniformity were intro-
duced today at one fell swoop we
would have changes made in nine-
teen-twentieths of the schools of
the State, involving a cost of hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars at
the first stroke. Galveston, Hous-
ton, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas
and Fort Worth, no two of which
cities use the same series of books,
would be required to get immedi-
ately into line and to use the same
series. The jiext and most nat-
ural step would be to create fur-
ther work for the interested par-
re just received
new stock of
feer, Shingles,
and Doors.
bright
and responsibility devolving upon
them to exercise that right is un-
tenable and indefensible, because
natural rights must presuppose
our
oetter garb. In short it were an
easy matter to extend the powers |
of the State till all lines of busi-
ness should lie .conducted by it;
till all the powers of the individ-
ual local authorities should be
given over and the entire govern-
ment in all its present multitude i
nous ramifications should be a
government of complete central- i
ized authority. There is no ques-!
tion in my mind but that, this is:
the tendency, to overcome which j
the latent conservatism of the i
Democratic party must be aroused.1
The which is no easy task because j
of the overwhelming majority of |
that party in this state. In line
with the views I hold State Su-
perintendent Cooper used the fol-
lowing language in bis last report:
In the absence of any statutory
provisions regulating text books,
I have instructed school delegates
as follows: “ It is the right and
duty of each board of trustees to
prescribe the text books which
shall be used in the district or
community under their control.
This duty requires much care.
When books have been adopted
they should not be changed with-
out strong and evident reasons
for change. Trustees have the
right to exclude from the schools
all books not prescribed by them
for use in the schools.’7 Under
these instructions trustees lmAre
been called together in county
meetings in several counties and
have adopted books for the coun-
ty, pledging themselves to ratify
in their several boards the action !
of the county convention of tins- j
tees. So far as 1 have been able
AND HAVE
Missouri. McOouias said that the
result of the suppression of the
black man in the South has been
the demoralization of the state
governments, as was shown in the
large number of defaulters. Bland
twitted MeComas for taking away
from the black men of the District
of Columbia the power of self
government, and not returning it.
The spat continued in this strain
for several minutes until the house
was a perfect bedlam and such
scenes have seldom been wit-
nessed. The people in the galler-
ies shouted and clapped their
bauds at being reproved by the
speaker. Altogether it was one
of the most dramatic incidents of
the session, and is only a forerun-
ner, probably, of what may occur
at any time hereafter during the
debate on the Federal election bill,
Bellamy and Bosses.
Henry diaries Lea in the Forum.
Jeffeisonian Democracy was
right in seeking to restrict and
simplify as much as possible the
functions of government. More
or less corruption there always
has been in the management of
public affairs and always must be
so long as human nature remains
unregenerate. Government itself
is an evil—a necessary evil inci-
dent to human imperfection—and
the less we can get along with, the
better, for thus only can we re-
duce its accompanying abuses to a
minimum. Every added function
Introduces additional corruption
and rentiers detection and purifi-
cation more difficult. The para-
dise of the boss would be a
community7 organized on the Bel-
my pattern.
ft your bills figured.
eatherford, Texas
While You Wait,
BUT CURea4'
nothing else.
GEO. SPILLER,
Surveyor, Notary Public,
General Land It Collecting Agest,
Jffan Only Abutract of Jack County
Land Title.
Office Up Stairs in Court
House,
Jacksboro, Jack Co., Texas.
Texas.
to land and
“ Excuse me, George, but when
l saw you a year ago, your face
was covered with pimples; it
seems to be all right now.77 “ Yes,
sir; that’s because I stuck to
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, the greatest
blood medicine in the world. I
was never so well in my life as
now.”
WOLFFARTH& DAVIDSON
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancy
Sam Jones is at present engag-
in “stomping the feathers off
the dude77 in Richmond. Rev.
Jones forgets that when the dude
is deprived of liis feathers there
is Willing of him left__[New York
World. k —
IF IflFK HACK ACH.
Or you tire all wMtf out, rwU
u no 7*■«*
l.y <ii
curort et home with-
out pain. Book of potv
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Rogers, J. N. & Rogers, Alice M. Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1890, newspaper, July 3, 1890; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth731291/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.