The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1915 Page: 10 of 12
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OF FARMER8 ON COTTON
Henry Asks Federal Reserve Board
to Grant Authority.
.Washington, Jan. 10.—Representa-
tive Henry of Texas sent the follow-
ing letter to the Federal Reserve
Board, asking that the Federal Re-
serve Ranks at Dallas and Atlanta be
authorised to rediscount six months
notea of cotton fanners, bearing 4 per
cent and secured by warehouse re-
ceipts. Hr. Henry says he hopes the
board t will grant the request, and if
not, he probably will offer a resolu-
tion directing it be done. The letter
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“You are, I am sure, aware of the
business depression in the cotton
States, brought about on account of
the inability of European countries to
purchase the usual annual supply of
cotton. We must agree that the pur-
chasing power and' the debt-paying
ability of the South are hampered and
almost paralysed at this time on ac-
count of the low price of cotton and
because the cotton crop has not mov-
ed as in Ordinary times.
' ’ • Addresses Four Queries.
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TPheee serious conditions in. the
8tates cause me to address
inquiries to you which I deem
importance to our people, to-
wit: -
*T. With the approval tff the Fed-
eral -Reserve Board, would the Feder-
al Reserve Banks at Dallas and At-
lanta be authorized, under Sections
IS and -14, and other provisions of the
act, to tUccept for rediscount from
member^ banks the ' notes of the
cotton^ farmers, bearing interest, at
the rate of 4 per cent per annum, ^e-
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thorized to accept these six month#
notes, bearing 4 per cent interest and
secured by warehouso receipts on cot-
ton at a valuation not exceeding the
market value of the octton?
“4 . It seems to me that the Federal
Reserve Act was brought about to
serve as an emergency measure as
well as a permanent system and that
tho Federal Reserve Board would be
well within the proprieties and its
authority to make the suggestions In-
dicated by me and to include the defi-
nition as proposed touching this kind
of paper to be eligible for rediscount
in this temporary* crisis overhanging
the South.”
READ THIS STATEMENT OF FACTS
maturity bf 4
muling that' Buch notes may be
rAwrtd for an additional six months?
. *2. As a war measure in this crisis,
brought on the South by the shock-
ing conditions in Europe, has not the
Federal Reserve Beard the power to
rtmjm a definition authorizing the dis-
oovbi of farmers’ notes, as suggested
ir »*• weeding paragraph, so as to
•Al Available Federal reserve notes
to <*> loaned to the banks on cotton
Ut accordance with the terms I have
fast outlined?
**2» With the Federal Reserve Board
such course and approving
the? action, would not member banks
•f the Federal reserve system be cu-
1C0LDS & LaGRIPPE
5 or 6 dotes 606 will break
any Cate of CfcilU & Fever, Colds
A LaGrippe; if acts on the liver
better than Calomel And does not
gripe or sicken. Price 25c.
From W. F. Anders of 1625 Cleveland
Street, Waco, Tex., Who is Employ-
ed by Hill & Campbell Grocery Co.
I have been suffering with bilious
headaches and stomach trouble so bad
I could hardly keep on my feet, but I
was compelled to work to support my
wife and family. One of my custo-
mers advised me to take GRIGSBY’S
LIV-VER-LAX and it would cure me,
and to my wonderful surprise it has
entirely cured me. My physician
would give me calomel, but heaven
knows, I would be sicker than ever,
and would have to lay off. I have no
more headaches and feel almost a new
person and I know now my trouble
was my liver. I am giving it now to
my children and I see a wonderful
improvement. LIV-VER-LAX helped
me the first day I took it, and is cer-
tainly a working man’s friend. For
sale by Stirling & Son. ,
The
unwritten law” and the “hlp-
pocket movement” which have so
warehouse receipts,‘.with a
>f 4ix months. aad with jthe fong been overworked, are to have
help in the work of saving the necks
of murderers. The new # plea is
known as the “twilight state.” Al-
ready this new defense has been in-
troduced into the trial of murderers
and saved a few necks. The “twilight
state” is too new a thing for us to
describe satisfactorily, but we’ll all
understand it in a year or two. The
twilight state is a state of mental
blankness and purity that human be-
ings may enter. " At such times men
are so pure and good that they don’t
know what they do, and even though
they have made all preparations to
kill somebody, at the time they pull
the trigger they have no idea what
they are doing. For years the slayer
of his fellow-man has gone. free by
pleading the unwritton law or that
his victim’s hand moved in the di-
rection of the hip-pocket. These pleas
have grown rather stale and now the
“twilight state” must do service for
a time.—Honey Grove Signal.
TREER Fruit, Shada^and Ornamental of
JPor-Salft At Th« Nunn Houaa
EST TYLER NURSERY
»HUR SPRINGS GAZETTE, JANUARY 15, 1915.
If Christ Came to the Court House 1
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mands would* put to blush all the war
j>ensioners in the world.
The TAX-PAYER PAYS THE BILLS
(]B. G. SENTER, in Farm & Ranch)
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The fee grabbers attempt to silence
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t^ie protest of the tax payer with the
c^aim that the litigant pays the cost
of the courts. That is a stupendous
jcjke. The litigant pays from five to
twenty times as much as he ought to
p£.y whenever he gets into court, but
tljie amount he pays is a mere baga
telle compared withe the cost impos-
ed upon the public by his litigation.
The fee system is craftily framed. It
shys to the litigant: ‘Why should you
complain; the public pays?” It says
tq the public: “Why should you com-
plain; the litigant pays?” And then
i!f gouges them both. *
The fact is the fee system is the
cunningest scheme of robbery ever
concocted having for its purpose syste-
matic and continuous plunder. When
a, burglar robs a bank he rests awhile
fore he repeats the operation, and
ves the officers and depositors a
ce to recuperate. The fee system
ever halts. It takes at a gulp nickles,
dimes, quarters, half dollars, tens of
dollars, hundreds of dollars. It takes
\fhatever may happen to be in sight,
and takes it quietly and quickly. It
unders the millionaire’s estate and
e widow's and the orphan’s mite
ith equal zest. Its one virtue is that
utterly impartial.
The only scheme of plunder I have
rer come in contact with that paral-
ls the fee system was operated in a
hinese joss house in Los Angeles,
alifornia, which I visited in company
ith a party of tourists. The altar
fr&s gorgeous in trimmings of gold
$nd silver; flaming pictures upon the
walls appealed strongly to the imagi-
nation of the superstitious. The en-
counters of Confucius with the devil,
fnd other episodes in his life, were
rtrayed in vivid imagery. The
orshipper purchased the joss sticks
rom the keeper of the temple and
rostrated himself before the altar,
umbling his incantations in a half
rticulated story of his desires and
eeds. If he got what he wanted,
eat was the Joss. If his prayer
ailed, the proof was complete that
he Joss was angry. He came back
and bought more joss sticks and in-
creased his failings. The keepers of
the temple whispered it among the
faithful that no one had ever been
known to meet final disappointment
who stuck to the game. It was only
a matter of holding on—so they said.
If you bought and burned enough joss
sticks you were bound to win. One
of the big Chinese companies owns
the temple and leases it. Anybody
can bid for the lease. T4je temple is
operated strictly upon business prin-
ciples. The lessees maintain it and
get the revenues. It is up to them
to advertise the virtues of their
scheme of worship. Devout worship-
pers inscribe their names .upon the
walls, t Many English names are writ-
ten there. The traveler is astounded
to find such an institution, symbolical
of all that is bad in paganism, in the
heart of a Christian land.
How strikingly like the temple of
the Great Joss is the court house op-
erated under the fee system. It pro-
mises much and gives little. It is
kept in motion through contributions
levied, upon the credulity of the wor-
shippers. The priests are there for
revenue only, and they so grade the
charges that it is a lucky litigant—
whether he wins or closes—-who gets
out with as much as he had when he
came in. <
One can understand how an ignor-
ant Chinaman ^may be worked by the
joss game, but it passes all under-
standing why intelligent Americans
will stand for the system of plunder
that is operated under forms of law
in the court house. The Chinaman is
not compelled to seek the Joss. The
American cannot avoid the court
house. The Joss stands for the mys-
terious. The court house deals with
things earthly. A Chinaman cannot
fathom a three card monte game
wrapped in burning wafers which
emit peculiar odors, but when it
comes to a business transaction he is
alert, and even a Chinaman knows he
is being robbed when he is charged
6150 by the law to collect a debt, of
6500. He consents to plunder In the
name of his Gods, but he balks at any
other kind of plunder. The American
Is the only fish in the waters of the
wide world which bites at any kind of
bait. He is the real, all wool, yard
wide sucker.
Whenever government wobbles at
any point the average man pays the
freight He may shoulder the burden
unconsciously, but it is his burden,
and there is no way for him to escape
it He may think that if he is wise
enough to keep out of court himself,
he has evaded this particular burden,
but be makes a grave mistake. The
court house levies a heavy toll upon
all labor and all property. It collects
from every interest and industry to
maintain its pensioners, whose de-
The average jury civil case which
is fought to a finish in the appeallate
courts probably costs the county and
state, exclusive of costs borne by the
litigant, something near $200 before it
is finally disposed of. The cost of the
average felony case is much larger
than this. Four-fifths of this cost is
imposed, directly or indirectly, through
artificial procedure which does not in
any degree further the ends of justice
but on the contrary is a heavy clog
upon its wheels.
Under common sense practice rules
which could and would be framed by
any committee of intelligent laymen
of ordinary experience if they were
entrusted with the job, a case that
now dallies on the docket five years
would be finally disposed of in the
appellate courts within six months
after the action was brought. The
trial would ordinarily consume not
exceeding six hours instead of two or
three days. The inquiry would be di-
rected to the ascertainment of the
facts rather than to acrobatic per-
formances of lawyers. The direct
saving of public iunds would be large,
but it would be small compared with
the indirect salvage. It is no exag-
geration to say that if the courts were
run as successful men manage their
private business, the reduction in the
expense of the judiciary arid of polic-
ing the state would be at least 60
per cent.
The waste of the court house is visi-
ble- in every proceeding which, is had
there. The average citizen who hop-
pens to be present sits around on the
benches and wonders what is going
on. He does not understand it. Law-
yers are quibbling over a supposed
point of law, while jurors, litigants
and witnesses stand impatiently by
and clamor to be released. A few
weeks ago, in a certain western coun-
ty, the district court was adjourned
for one week on request of jurors to
give them an opportunity to rush the
work of picking cotton. Whe ncourt
was reconvened not a case was ready
for trial, and a full week was spent
in skirmishes between lawyers, with
the result that the term was finally
closed without the trial of a single
case, civil or criminal. All dalliance
of this sort is the fruit of our system
of procedure. It takes no thought of
the cost of anything. The people pay
the bills. Are they not able to pay?
The lawyer who has a case which in-
volves a claim of 6500 fritters away
public funds at the rate of $75 pey day
in blissful indifference to the waste
he is causing.
There is another and a broader
side to the question of court house
extravagance which is rarely consid-
ered. The loss of public confidence in
the courts caused by the plucking
methods of the fee grabbers is far-
reaching in its consequences. No man
can measure the ultimate result. Sure-
ly the thoughtful man must experi-
ence something of a shock when he
is told that the greatest wholesale
concerns in the country are seeking,
through their private contracts, to
oust the courts from jurisdiction over
their dealings with each other, and
with factories and railroads. They
provide by contract for the settlement
of all differences through their own
scheme of arbitration. In other words
they - have substituted - their own
courts for the carats "of 'the land.
It must be said to the shame of our
civilization that no set of men have
ever planned for arbitration who did
not build better than the courts. No
scheme for the arbitrament of contro-
versies was ever devised which had
as little of equity in it as is offered
by the court house. Anything of which
an intelligent mind could conceive is
an mprovement upon the court house
plan. This is seriously written. I
have served upon committees of
lodges, fraternities and other organi-
zations, charged with the duty of
settling controversies, and I have
never found a plan, adopted for this
purpose, however crude in its dhtails,
which was not better than the court
house plan now in force in Texas.
In its final toll, ail waste takes the
form of a tax upon production, con-
sumption or labor. The banker lays
his interest charge upkrn the mer-
chant, who includes it in the selling
price of his wares. It passes down
the line until it reaches the consum-
er. He does not dream of his relation
to the interest rate, but it is real.
Every dollar that is wasted in ^he
court house is a public loss. Emer-
son says pay for a thing and take it
The people of Texas are paying for a
costly toy which they call a judiciary
system. What do they get for their
money?
Irregular bowel movements lead to
chronic constipation. Prickly Ash
Bitters is a reliable system regulator;
cures permanently. %
Askew ft Buford, Spettal Agents.
THE GOOD TIME TO COME.
Statesmen will be busy, not in put-
ting teeth into anti-trust laws, but in
putting big business together in the
United States, and thus equipping us
to engage in trade and commerce.
They will not be denouncing a man-
ufacturer for fixing the same price on
his goods to everybody while acclaim-
ing the grower of cotton, wheat, and
tobacco for fixing a living price on
what he produces. All should have a
right to do this.
No more shall we have Congressmen
welcoming disturbers of the public
peace, while driving merchants, bank-
ers and business men from the door.
No more shall we have a thousand
government informers spying on the
industries of the land and the depart-
ment of justice seeking, on every
technicality of the law, to drag the
great industries of the country into
courts.
No longer shall new hardships be
placed upon the overburdened rail-
roads. We shall have industrial
peace with fair and just regulation of
all public utilities.
We shall live in a new era. The
lessons taught to our captains of in-
dustry by the experiences through
which they have been passing will be
remembered. We shall have obedience
to law, consideration of the people’s
rights, and justice tempered with
mercy for all.
We are not predicting a coming
Utopia. As long as the country ex-
ists, evil conditions will remain. The
demagogue will be at work seeking to
divide the people into masses and
classes and to pit them against each
other like wild beasts in the arena.
The. theorists will bo at band with a
job lot of sociological experiments.
The political laber leader will make
his demands upon the shallow politi-
cian under threats to marshal the la-
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bor vote against him, and the labor
vote will still be as independent as
any other vote in the country.
The politician will still seek to make
a byword and reproach of civil ser-
vice reform. The little man will still
envy the big man and the unsuccess-
ful will questio the good faith of the
successful. The wicked will stand
hold some seats in high places.
The self-seeker will still insinuate
himself into the good graces of the
suspectible reformer. Politician will
continue to graft; demagogues to de-
nounce; and mischief-makers will not
be idle.
Human nature will not change, but
all the people will not be fooled all
the time as they seem to have been
during the past decade.—John A.
Sleiker in Leslie’s.
ANYONE IMITATING YOU?
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There is an interesting story,
“Living Up to Dan’l Webster.” It
seems that during the great orator’s
lifetime his personality made so tre-
mendous an impression that whole
communities imitated him—his voice,
his bearing, his gestures, even his
facial expression. It may well have
been so in the case of Joshua; for the
Israelites served the Lord all the days
of the great general, we read, and all
the days of the men that had seen
Joshua and teh wonders God wrought
through him.
“There is one thing you cannot
bury with a good man,” said D. L
Moody: “his influence still lives.
They have not buried Daniel yet; his
influence <d8 as great today as it ever
was.” Dr. Charles H. Vincent illus-
trates the truth with a sunset When
the sun sinks below the horizon we
say it is gone; but; we are mistaken,
for the sun has embodied itself in the
plants and animals and* in* the bodies
and brains of men. Thus Joshua has
not gone, but is living still.
Memory is a marvelous thing. Some
one has said that the recording angel
needs no other book than human
memories. It is raid that Paderewski
needs to read or play a composition
only twice and he has memorized it
He can play from memory more than
five hundred elaborate pieces. With
such an instrument it is indeed
strange that men and whole nations
should forget so easily; and yet we
read that a generation arose that had
forgotten Joshua and Jehovah and all
that Jehovah had done for the people.
It would be incredible, if it were not
paralleled so often in our individual
lives and in the history of our own
country.—Christian Herald.
THE ALARMING INCREASE
BRIGHT’S DISEASE.
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“He died of Bright’s Disease.”
Hardly a week passea that this state-
ment is not made in reference to aow
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prominent citizen.
The increasing prevalence of this dis-
ease makes the present time seem most
opportune for discussion in the hope that
some who are unconsciously afflicted
with this dreaded disease may receive
timely warning. ,
A prominent citizen residing in •
nearby town informs us that he suffered
for nearly a year from Bright’s Disease,
but that he recently affected a complete
cure. I
“What seemed to be the first indica-
tions of the trouble,” was asked. <4
“They seemed hardly worth noticing^
My digestion bothered me at times, mj
stomach seemed out of order, and I bed
occasional backaches, but I thought it
was due to too much work.”
“Did you take anything?”
“I did not. Later, my strength failed jj
me, I had severe pains in the back and
noticed some irregularities of the urine,
I couldn’t sleep well at night. I then
used some simple remedies, but vrithoni
benefit.” >
“Did you realize that your trouble wst
Bright’s Disease?”
“I never thought of such a thing. Fi-
nally, my condition became serioss. Xy
back ached all the time, I had shooting
pains in my joints and a weak tired Jett-
ing at the knees, a little work playedaw Sir
ont completely. I then began doctoring
for kidney trouble but did not improve
very much.”
“Did yon have any trouble with your
heart?”
“Yes. I had spells of heart throbbing
and a nervous faint feeling. I thought
I had heart diseaseian<L»txeated awhile,
for that. Nothing seemed to help am*
I had to give up trying to work.”
“How did you affect a cure?”
“A friend of mine persuaded me to try
Prickly Ash Bitters. I bought a bottle
of my druggist. After taking it a week
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The celebrated Luzianne Coffee
goes twice as far as other coffee.
Money back for empty can if not
satisfactory—full pound cans 25c.
J8-5t E. G. GILBERT.
I began to feel some better, my nritte be-
came more natural and there was a grad-
ual lessening of my misery. I kept On
taking Prickly Ash Bitters for serverol /
weeks and I could feel my strength re-
turning—slowly at first—but increasing
daily. I am now entirely cured of. ay
trouble and able to do a full day’s work
without the least fatigue. I consider
Prickly Ash Bitters the grandest kidney
medicine in the world.” ’ j ^ . v|
/Thousands of people attest in like
manner to the wonderful benefit derived
from Prickly Ash Bitters. It is a time
tried and successful remedy for BrightS*.
Disease or any disorder of the kidnejp.
Brickly Ash Bitters is in every senaea..
system tonic and regulator. It posamaes
important properties for curing ailments
of the stomach, liver and bowels in ad-
dition to its great power in the kidneys.
It is ^valuable article to keep at home,
where a. dose or two can be taken when-
ever needed. When used for an^ disor-
der in the kidneys, stomach, liver or
bowels it is the right medicine in the
right place.
Get the genuine with the figure
“3” in red on front label. ,
xSold by druggists Price gLON,
ASKEW ft BUFORD
GERMAN AEROPLANES
HEADED FOR ENGLAND
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Eixteen Hostile Crafts are
Ovyr the English Channel.
London, Jan. 11—Tho Times a ’
that sixteen German aeroplmes
seen over the English Carmel on
day morning. , Evidently thoy contem-
plated a raid on England, according
to the Times, bat apparently j tfc*--
pilots four.d the conditions too bod to ■
continue the journey, for they tiph-'
ed their machines and steered in the
direction of Dunkirk.
A Zeppelin airship, accompanied tor
threo German monoplanes, passed ov-
er Fumes, Dunkirk and Callais' tog**
day night, according to the DaNr
Chronicle’s French frontier UMr*>
pondent. "
It was believed, the correspondent
adds, that the aircraft were bento* f
for Dover. They were flying
high and did not attack the
they flew over.
No hostile aircraft were sighted
any point along tile English
Sunday, although a vigilant
and automobile patrol was
ed as & result of the rumors thft
Gormans were believed to be
ed for England.
Gaaette
100 Head Good Work Mules and Harm;*
Prices right. Terms to suit. See or phone me.
Stock at Withers* pasture, three
miles east of city.
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Phone No. 167
1 Short, I Long
C. F. Scripture
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