The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXAS FARMERS
Located in the Panhandle Country constitute a vast proportion of
those who are out of debt, possess an abundance of all that is nec-
essary to comfort and easy hours, anc} own
Bank Accounts.
Those who are not so fortunate should profit by past experiences
and recognize that these conditions are possible in
The Panhandle
as nowhere else for the reason that no other section now offers
Really High-Class Lands at Low Prices
and that the agricultural and stock-farming possibilities of this sec-
tion are the equal of, and in some respects better than three to five
times higher priced property located elsewhere.
In a word: Many magnificent opportunities are still 'open here
to those possessing but little money, but prompt investigation and
as a person who does not
reply when he advocates
THE SULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 16, 1906.
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JUDGE TELLS OF GRAFTING.
County dodge Bradley of Fainnin
county stirred up the animals in a
speech- delivered before the County
Judges’ Association at Dallas last
Enured at the postoffice at Sulphur Springs. Te_xas. ; Friday. He £poke Of grafting in
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pointed it is intimated that some yf
his hearers understood him to be
referring directly to them.
Whether Judge Bradley spoke
the truth we are not prepared to
say. However, it is scarcely prob-
able, that he would have made such
sweeping declarations on mere as-
sumption. Here is a portion of his
speech:
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It makes an anti shudder when
he hears a pro ask how a candi-
date stands on the local option
question. Likewise it makes a pro
have a chilly sensation when he
hears an anti ask the same ques-
tion. Each one accuses the other
of trying to make local option an
issue in the campaign. Consist-
ency, you are a jewel; better still,
you are a whole diamond mine.
who have jurisdiction to the end
that the guilty maybe punished. ■
If Judge Bradley should detect
a burgfar rifling a house, would he
think he had discharged his-duty if
he should tell it before a conven-
tion of county judges? Knowing
’of official thievery, has he done hrs
duty by speaking of it once in
public? Why not go "at the evil in
earnest ahd prosecute a few graf-
ters? If a few of them were sent
to jail it would do more toward
stopping the practice than all the
speeches {hat may be delivered be-
tween now and judgment day.
jffarm of Suit Tjhoughts j
SL'CCESS.
“There i> graft in Texas. A
The net profits t>f the steel, trust
last year, so. a staticiah figures it
were sufficient to buy the states of
man who hasn’t the courage to do Wyoming, New Mexico and Del-
his duties right should t>e looked
upon witTi shame. There is graft
in the Clerks’ offices of Texas
Thousands are being stolen from
aware at their assessed valuation
on Igoo. This represents the
profits on one trust only, to which
if we add the earnings of the va-
the counties that ought to go into rjous other corporations would swell
the treasuries of the people. They the figures to alarming proportions
The Gazette sincerely hopes the
domestic infelicity of Anna Gould
and her Noaccount Castellaine will
prove a warning to the Sulphur
Springs girls who feel inclined to
trade their fortunes for foreign hus-
bands with titles.
When you do anything toward
advancing your home town you are
working for .yourself. Self inter-
est should prompt you to be loyal
to Sulphur Springs and do every-
thing in your power to better her
condition. A few manufacturing
enterprises would help us more
than anything else.
The political party ' prohibition
leaders made overtures to the rep-
resentatives of the local option as-
sociation asking that both elements
join the democratic party and make
common fight in the democratic
field against the liquor traffic. The
local optionists refused to accept the
proposition, alleging it to be con-
trary to the constitution of the as-
sociation, which declares the body
to be non-partisan. However, it
is stated that J . H. Davis and other
leaders of the political prohibi-
tionists will allign themselves with
the democratic party and by their
own efforts endeavor to force the
issue of a constitutional amend-
ment prohibiting the sale of liquor
in Texas to the front. It is to be
hoped that friends of temperance
and local option will not counten-
ance any3 movement that has for
its object the submission of such a
constitutional amendment. The
present local option law is good
enough, and when the Federal
government passes a measure pro-
hibiting the shipment of liquor into
local option territory, no other en-
actment will be necessary to make
our liquor laws effective. We
think those who oppose the whisky
traffic can do effective work by
writing personal letters to their
congressional representatives ask-
ing them to work for the passage
of the bill introduced by John Sharp
Williams in congress which has
this end in view.
get money as witnesses that they
are not entitled to. It goes into easjne-ss.
the pockets of the officers. It is
the duty of the Commissioners’
Court to take the names and ad-
judicate the matter. In some in-
stances they have never been paid.
There is graft in the Sheriffs’of-
fices. It is to often that a man
gets arrested in El Paso or Tex-
arkana when he may have actually
been arrested in the very shadow
of the court house. There’s anoth-
er graft. One Deputy Sheriff not
a hundred miles from here made
over £5,000 by placing his name
on the back of every complaint and
indictment that came into the court
house. .1 say that they should not
be allowed to have these fees. All
the County Judges are not exempt.
Some of them are practicing theft
or graft when they enter a. case as
a plea of guilty instead of a dismiss-
al, as it should have been entered.
You "can’t change the principle by
changing the name. When a
County Judge does anything like
that he is stealing $3 tie hasn’t a
right to steal. You may give me
the laugh on that remark, but I
can show you that there is such a
thing as legal stealing under the
decision of our higher courts. A
word about taxes—that’s where
we all story. 1 am in favor of a
law, if it be constitutional, which
will provide that all notes, stocks
and bonds not turned in for assess-
ment be made null and void..
There’s one strong stroke against
the system that will result in dig-
ging up taxes that now escape. If
it’s not-constitutional, make it so.
Texas has a bugaboo in a big tax
rate. I say it’s a bugaboo, for
enough escapes taxation to more
than equalize the rate. But we
ought to remove the bugaboo. We
ought to make a reasonable basis
and enforce it.”
This should cause the thinker un-
The trusts must every
year find new investments for its
earnings, which investments make
its earnings larger year by year,
and, if allowed to continue at the
present rate it will not be long up-
til the trusts will monopolize the
wealth of the country. Already
they are stronger than the govern-
ment of' any single state in the
Union and are closely crowding the
National government. With such
enormous wealth they could crush
the ^ government that has made
them. _
An ignorant woman in Ft. Worth
pleaded guilty to a criminal charge
and went to jail to serve a long
sentence rather than divulge the
man in the case. Her reason for
shielding the man was because
he had been kind to her; the only
person who ever sympathized with
her in sorrow or spoke a gentle
word to her during a long life of
tribulation. This is true gratitude,
and whether in a dog or a debauch-
ed woman it proves there is some-*
thing good in humanity after all.
Two soldiers in the Philippines
were courtmartialed for ’'thievery.
One stole a cake of soap and was
sentenced to hard labor and de-
prived of his pay for a long period;
the other, an officer, stole three
hundred dollars worth of supplies.
He was warned not to do so any
more and allowed to go free. This
may be justice, but it is the kind
of justice which makes socialists
and nihilists and anarchists.
We shoCIld be appalled if we
could see pass before us in vivid
panorama, the wrecks caused in a
lifetime by cruel thought., A stab
here, a thrus^ there," a malicious
sarcasm, bitter irony, ungenerous
criticism, a jealous, envious, or
revengeful thought, hatred and
anger, are all going out constantly
from many a mind on deadly mis-
sions.
Servants have actually been
made dishonest by other persons
perpetually holding the suspicion
that they were dishonest. This
thought suggests dishonesty to the
suspect perhaps for the first time,
and being constantly held takes
root and grows, and bears the
fruit of theft. The old proverb,
“If you have the name, you might
as well have the game,” is put
into action many times. It is
simply cruel to hold a suspicious
thought of another until you have
positive proof. The other person’s
mind is sacred; youjhave no right
to invade it with' your miserable
thoughts and pictures of suspicion.
Many people scatter fear thoughts,
doubt thoughts, failure thoughts
wherever they go; and these take
root in minds that might otherwise
be free from them and therefore
happy, confident and successful.
Be sure that when you hold an
evil, unhealthy, discordant, deadly
thought toward another, something
is wrong in your mind.
Learn to radiate joy, not stingily,
not meanly, but generously. Fling
Out your gladness without reserve.
Shed it in the home, on the street,
on the car, in the store, every-
where, as the rose sheds its beauty
and gives out its fragrance. When
we learn that love thoughts heal,
that they carry balm to wounds;
that thoughts of harmony, of
beauty, and of truth always uplift
and ennoble; that the opposite
carry death and destruction and
blight everywhere, we shall learn
the secret of right living.
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Call on any Cotton Belt agent for full information regarding
your trip, or address,
JOHN F. LttlANt,
General freight and Pass. Agt.,
Tyler, Texas.
D. M. MORGAN.
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Ft. Worth, Texas.
R. C. FYfE,
Ass't. Gen. Frt. and Pass. Agent,
Tyler, Texas.
GUS HOOVER,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Waco, Texas.
SPeai S?ace Suicide.
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THE READER MAGAZINE.
eUJind~77jade Clectricity
TECHNICAL WORLD.
As we said in the beginning,
Judge Bradley doubtjess knows
what he is talking about, and he is
to be commended for telling it.
However, the recital of the facts
before a convention of cqunty
judges should not end the matter.
If the matters of which he speaks
are within his jurisdiction he should
institute criminal prosecution; if
they are not within his jurisdiction,
he should place his knowledge in
the hands of officers of the law
The members of the African
Methodists Episcopal church at-
tempted to reduce the salary of
their pastor from eighty dollars to
ten dollars per month, whereupon
the pastor planted his fist in the
eye of one of thg advocates of re-
duction. Result: a free-for-all
fight in which several, participants
received broken noses. Moral: It
isn’t always safe to attempt to de-
prive the laborer of his hire.
Louis J. Wortham is president of
a company publishing a new after-
noon paper at Fort Worth called
the Star. In the last number of
his magazine, Current Issue, he
announces that his new venture
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will in no wise interfere with the
publication of the magazine.
We can’t see that it is any
worse for a woman to paint her
face to hide a bad complexion than
it is for a man to put perfumery in
hte mouth to disguise a whisky
breath.—Osborne, Kan., Farmer.
The average girl had rather mar-
ry in haste and repent at leisure5
than to never have a chance to re
pent at all.
In a recent address before the
State Horticultural association at
Palestine, Texas, President Har-
rington of the A. and M. College
declared himself to be in favor of
■oducingthe teacher of agr
Wind-made electricity holds out
the promise 'of becoming a great
boon to rural districts; and the day
is near at hand when every far-
mer who has a windmill on his
grounds can enjoy electric lights
and the many other services which
electric power is capable of yield-
ing. For many.years, men have
been trying to convert wind power
into electricity. R. W. Wilson, of
Westfield, lnd., has worked out a
practicable method of accomplish-
ing it.
In producing wind-made electric-
ity, Wilson calls upon the wind-
mill to perform its customary func-
tions of pumping water. He leads
the water into a hydraulic regula-
tor built on the principle of a water-
lift, in which the pressure is con-
trolled by weights, and from which
it is released by means at auto-
matic valves.
This regulator is the means of
maintaining an even pressure un-
der all conditions, whether the
windmill is revolving fast or slow.
Under the uniform pressure, the
water is passed from the hydraulic
chamber through a water motor to
which a dynamo is, attached.
Mr. Wilson demonstrates the
success of the invention at his
own shop in Westfield, which is
brightly lighted with wind-made
electricity, and to all appearances
it equals the steam-made product
that city folks enjoy.
Dr. Harold N. Moyer of Chicago,
speaking at a dinner of the Phy-
sicians’ Club, had the courage to
ease his mind oil the subject of
race suicide in a manner that will
win applause from many who have
secretly agreed with him, but who
have felt themselves unable to
cope with our enthusiastic Presi-
dent and his optimistic supporters.
“The sociologists, who coined the
phrase ‘race suicide,’ ” observed
Dr, Moyer, “have mistaken a
healthful symptom for a social
disease. At the beginning of the
last century this country had 4,-
000,000. At the beginning of this
century we had 80,000,000. In
another hundred years we shall be
jammed together, 360,000,000 souls
all struggling for a livelihood.”
One of the causes of sorrow in the
world is the too rapid increase of
the human race. Mr. Balfour may
have reflected upon the truth of
this, but he would never have
been forgiven if he had said it.
Those white-faced women who
reeled to the English Government
offices, intoxicated with anger, de-
spair, hunger and maternal pity,
carried children in their arms, had
little ones hanging to theflr skirts,
and left a restless brood at home.
They had brought them , into the
world knowing they could not pro-
vide for them, and that the little
ones must grow up, as their par-
ents had before them, with want
waiting at their doors, with vice
for their companions, and with a
pauper’s grave offering them rest
at the end. If they, and their
fathers before them, even unto the
tenth generation, had shown a
more-sincere compassion for pos-
terity, there would not be this
hungry army of the rejected beat-
ing with futile hands 1 upon the
doors of destiny.
V/,e Ue
xas Jjoom.
REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
Fence off the State of Connec-
ticut from the Thames river to the
New York line, make the capitol at
Hartford the manor house, then
place the front gate at New Haven,
and you will have an estate of
about the dimensions of the King
ranch, in Hidalgo, Star and Nueces
counties. One million acres and
hundreds of thousands of cattle
owned by one woman. Ranches
containing from 100,000 to 500,000
acres are so numerous as to be
almost commonplace.
But it is the breaking up of these
vast holdings which is responsible
for the sensational development
now attracting the attention of all
America. One optimistic Texan
told me that the cattlemen had
tired of silence and longed for com-
pany. Maybe they have. It is
the jingle of- gold, though, whicli
has stirred them. From five to
thirty acres of grass, according to
the productiveness of the soil, are
required to fatten a steer. So long
as that steer’s selling price pays,
above all expenses, 6 per cent on
the market value of the land,
there is money in raising it. When
the land increases in value, how,-
ever, there is more money in sell-
ing the ranch. The steer is falling
behind, and that is why Texas,
from San Antonio, Houston and
Galveston on the north to Browns-
ville on the south, is booming as it
never did before. Mere outposts
of a few years ago are flourishing
young cities now; more towns are
springing up, and there are great
plantations where the rattle of the
mower and the song of the plow-
man have supplanted the crack of
the cowboy’s lash and the sough-
ing of the wind in the chaparral.
Whither goes the cattleman? To
Western Texas and the Territories,
and eventually into Mexico.
The editor of the Weatherford
Democrat says a law which cannot
be enforced should be repealed. If
we did this, we would nt»t have a
law on our statute books. There
never was nor never will be a law
passed that has not or will not be
violated. A man simply brands
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The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1906, newspaper, February 16, 1906; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816843/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.