The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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Rustler
M. Morten, .Editor and Prop
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ter’s dominion with the souls of
the millions he has first tortured
here. He stands the master
mind of evil in all the ages of
history.
And yet men honor this brute,
thi* earthly Satan, this long
trained artist in the proffession
of murder.
Not only that, our rulers honor
him. Men who are followers of
or to that precinct. Certainly
that is clear. We must not dis-
turb conditions there until condi-
tions tit the law.
The Rustler would not deign to
notice such sophistry if Jake a-
lone were responsible for it.
But he is not. There is a wide-
j spread idea in the country that
officers cannot enforce even a
good law without public senti-
Bntered at the post office at
Sumby, Tex as second class mail
nattes*
Mr. Bush and wife celebrated
ntheir golden wedding last week
S-
at Dos Angeles and made it one
f the big events of the season,
r. Busch is the leading brewer
of the world and immensely rich.
iHe presented his wife with dia-1 ^ u™mu,u, .
linonde costing $200,000, and the ejes of mothers fence
^received presents from all
f:
the Nszarene compliment this ment to back it. This dangerous
prodigy that has slain more than
any of his fellows.
Those diamonds will sparkle
on the neck of his wife. Why’
not? They are pure as God’s
work always is. They are formed
from the tears of orphans and
widows as they looked into the
face of the father and begged
for hel p, for relief, for succor
from their destroyer; They fell
doctrine was made quite promi-
nent in Texas several years ago
by a speech made by Hon. Hat-
ton W. Summers at a meeting of
county attorneys at the fair audi-1 appear,
torium in Dallas. And Mr.
Summers was on the moral side
of the question, too. Jake has
not forgotten the fallacy thus
placed iu his hands and is now
seeking to work it off as his own.
Neither the fatherhood nor the
clas never sleep. If these men
had waited fcr public opinion to'
guide then in every step Hopkins j
county would have been the para- j
dise of bootleggers. From that
time until the pre-eat the con- I
dition of an occasional law-
breaker has actually excited pity.
To the couuties and com
munifcies who suffer and wait for
public opinion to bring relief we
have only this word: Elect
honest men to office, men who
would rather die than commit
perjury, and the public will back
the man and lawlessness will dis-
over
iphe world, including some from
President Taft, Roosevelt and
f the Emperor of Germany.
MThe Rustler waited, hoping
| that some \bler and more influ-
lital hand would write a few
lords befitting the man and the
occasion, but so far in vain.
He stands today loaded with
realth and honors, receiving the
mgratulations of his friends
id the homage of the mightiest
rulers of earth. It is a great
>ectacle, the ultimate of human
ibition, the goal sought by
filllons.
it is an event that should cause
/serious thought and awaken the
I deepest concers. What is the
by of It? Money.. That one
rord is the only complete an-
swer. Money. That is wh>
Taft honored him. That is why
Roosevelt sent gifts. That is
rhy William stepped off Che
me long enough to make
taaoce. Money. This man
spent his life accumulating
»oney. He has nothing e se to
credit. He has lived “ever
do ill his sole delight.’’ His
sreer has been a pestilence, a
lague, a death that has spread
oyer the earth and claimed its
ing with broken hearts- beside , adoption of the imp will suffice
the bloody form of a murdered j it an angel. It is just as
son. Busch is the murderer. j ^a*se as that many words can
Their blood is on his hands and make it, that s all.
their money i's in his coffers. T..e propelling force behind
Murderer and robber chiefest of ! wholesome laws in this country
his race. i is the character and honesty of
Taft, Roosevelt and William • the officials who are sworn to ex-
know all this, Thay know that I ecute the laws. If our officers
he wades thru the blood of the are corrupt and care nothing for
innocent to pile tha loot of his ; the oath of office, then our laws
robberies in his vaults. They j cease to be wholesome, not be-
know what a veritable slaughter
house surrounds his pile of
A part of the Ft. Worth stock
yards burned this week, entail-
ing a loss of $300,00. Some of
our stockmen were there with
hogs and had them scattered all
over the bottoms.. Some of the
finest horses at the stock show
were burned. The yards will be
rebuilt at once in tire-proof
style. Teddy arrived in town
while the fire was in progress,
made them a short speech and
hurried away toward the Pacific.
treasure. And knowing all this
Choice B. Randell has an-
fore. Nowhere in our laud, . . , _
more especially in Texas, can ; “oanced for the Sea ite m oppo-
there be found a constituency j to J''V Balle-V' This shows
they congratulate him on the • that will not respect and hold up *° u^e a !'ad prophet. He
work he has done and wish many
additional days be given him to official. The right is always in
continue the awful slaughter. ' the majority.
Won't some Henry Grady,! j„st t0 iUllstr*te and not to
some Bascom or Munsey take up ! thl.ow boquets at anvone: Some
this man %nd this occasion and
show it up in. its true light
before the people?
the hand of the faithful public said in his sPeech at GreenvUle
last year that he would have op-
position but no opponent. He
%
tims by the
every
nation under heaven,
pj^rom the centers of civilization
the jangles of Africa and the
Islands of the seas this slimy
ot has worked his way and
lied his poison.
War has made nations weep,
ilence has left them desolate,
famine has filled their ceme-
ies, but their work combined
not equaled that of this
nster of the twentieth cen
Tfhe Devil’s Vicegerent on
, he has peopled bis .mas*
Jake Wolters and his commit-
tee of Darkness wasted a stamp
this week mailing a bundle of
saloon dope to this office. What
was in it we have no idea except
a sentence that attracted atten-
tion as we glanced over a page or
two. It is this: “If laws, how-
- jgem peas__nc—iwtie, -forgot t be
«artb
are enacted which do not have
behind them the propelling force
of public sentiment thejT cease
to be wholesome when applied to
existing conditions.” Then if
there ever was a time in Texas
when a single county or a single
precinct had. in it a majority of
men who believed in and prac-
ticed horse stealing, then the
wholesome law against theft
would at once cease to be whole-
some if an attempt should be
made to apply it to that county
now has both. Randell has
proven a good runner in his dis-
trict and would make a good
years ago this (Hopkins) county senator, but he is not our first
was put under local option, qj^gjee by any means. We had
hoped to see Cone Johnson lead
the fight next year, but the
, Rustler is like the old maid was
said to be: “Just anybody.”
Bu£ that is not quite correct.
We prefer Joe Bailey for senator
to several men we could name.
For instance, he is far ahead of
'Rienzi, or Clarence Ousley, or
John H. Kirby, or Senator Hume
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The people were busy, as they
always are, and had no time to
look after the enforcement of
law except as they were called
into the courts. They looked to
their officers to respect the oath
they had taken. Our county at-
torney, D. Thornton, was an an-
ti. As ive remember it, so was
our sheriff, but not sure as to
that. What was the result? j or Colquitt.
Our officers forgot whether they
color even of a criminal, closed
their* eap to the pressure that
was brought to bear upon them
day after day, simply considered
themselves honest men, and pr
ceeded to make Hopkins so dry
that its dryness became famous
all over the State.
The public sentiment that was
expressed was in favor of lax en-
forcement, for the public goes
on about its business and leaves
the law. in the hands of the
officers, while the idle, criminal
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It will keep skippers, flies and
bugs away from your meat.
That new baby, there are none
like it and never will be. Your
friends want to hear about it
and they want a little sovenir of
its birth. We have the latest in
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it writes any word in the
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Owen Gillis has just finished:
remodeling, papering and paint-
ing the Mack Howard place that
he bought sometime ago, Owen
is a rustler and by his energy has
mfproved the place wonderfully
which will add greatly to the
value of the place as well as to
the community. Owen gave up
$1800 good dollars for this farm
and has spent aboijt $300 on im-
provements and has already had
some good offers for it.
For Floor flatting see
Denton.
If it is groceries you want*
Cross has it.
Floor Mattings at Den*
ton’s.
Chickens and Eggs.
The highest market price paid
for Chickens and -Eggs. Just
bring them in to Jim or Johnny
and they will pay you every cent
the market will stand-
Graves & Co.
Lands, Loans and Insurance
If you want to buy, sell, or ex-
change land, town or city prop-
announcement cards, can print ! erty, or borrow money, see or
them while you wait. Come in ! write * Alcorn & Black,
and see them..,- ’ Cumby, Texas.
j ; want to see you in
botrr store looking at the
new things.
A. W. Denton.
Don’t forget that we club with
the Dallas News, only $1.75 for
the two papers. 156 papers for
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Morton, George M. The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1911, newspaper, March 17, 1911; Cumby, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth770153/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.