The Grapevine Sun. (Grapevine, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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The Grapbvine Sun.
J. E. KEELING, Editor and Proprietor.
The best thing that ever was said~
VOLUME 13:,
GrE. APE VINE, TEXAS, SAT
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Allow us to suggest
that we
Headquarters for SCHOOL BOOKS
and SCHOOL SUPPLIES,
^College Text Books and State Text Books,%£
Remeniber that the Exchange Privilege is not
Allowed on State Texts any mere.
COME AND SEE US.
C. J. WALL,
Druggist
NO GOD.
BY WILLIAM KNOX.
The fool hath said, “There is no God.’’
No God!—Who lights the morning
sun,
And sends him on his heavenly road,
A far aud brilliant course to run?
Who, when the radiant day is done,
Hangs forth the moon’s nocturnal
lamp,
And bids the planets one by one
Steal o’er the night-vales, dark and
damp?
No God!—Who gives the evening dew,
The fanning breeze, the fostering
shower?
Who warms the spring mom's budding
bough,
Lnd paints the summer’s noontide
, flower?
^spreads in the autumnal bower
• fruit trees’ mellow stores around:
No God!—Who warms the heart to
heave
With thousand feelings soft and
sweet,
And prompts the aspiri: g soul to leave
The earth we tread beneath our feet,
And soar away on pinions fleet,
Beyond the scenes of mortal strife^
With fa:r ethereal forms .o meet, ’
That tell us of an after life?
No God!—Who fixed the solid ground
On pillows strong, that alter not?
Who spread the cur aiued skies around,
Who doth the ocean bounds allot?
Who all things to perfection brought.
On earth below , in heat en above?
Go, ask the fool of impious thought,
That dares to say,‘‘There is no God!”
lature treatment, which might rather
prove apt to irritate than to cure. .
The slow process of propitia iug pub-
lic sentiment, while trying our pati*
euce, promises after all’the most dura-
ble results.
So, after all, it will be at fen that Mr.
Schurz has oome no nearer to solving
the problem than dozens of other
Northerners who have written concern'
ing it; but, since his article merely
purports to discuss the question of
whether the South can handle its own
affairs, he should hardly he criticized
for his failuie to perform a feat which
he himself admits is impossible.
Rather should he be censured for some
of the misapprehensions which he
allowed to creep into his generally
admirable composition. He made a
tour of the Southern states just after
the civil war, at the request of Presi
dent Johuson, and subsequently he
has traveled more or less in the South.
On all of his visits he has doubtless
To iuvigOTarrcrTTi^ extiatiste.R'ground? conditions surrounding them
than* the average Northerner tempor-
arily sojourning here, but for all that
Lis undeniable brilliant mind has
failed to grasp all the salient points of
the controversy of which he now
writes. That he show s that he is ac-
quainted with many more of them
thau a large m jority of those who at-
tempt to discuss the same subject is of
course creditable to him.
Much of the article is devoted to a
description of conditions in the South
as Mr. Schurz saw them immediately
after the war. Copious extracts/rom
iris report to President Johnson are
given and it is obvious that he thinks
the opinions he expressed then have
been fully borne out by subsequent
developments. There is mom for
more or Jtss doubt ou this score, as a
perusal of what Mr. Schurz has to 6ay
will show. It is hardly necessary to
discuss this portion of his paper,
wherein, for instauces, it L stated that
there is not “ou record” a single in-
stance of an y former slave seeking to
reveuge himself ou a former master
after emancipation; and that im-
mediately following lire war, when
Southern white men were attempting
to prove their theory that negroes
would not Work wopt under “physi-
cal compulsion,” “aimed bodies of
while men patrolled the country roads
to drive back the negroes wandering
about; dead bodies of murdered ne-
CARL SCHURZ ON THE
QUESTION.
NEGRO
it not too much, peihaps, to say that
Carl Schurz’ article on “Can the South
Solve the Negro Problem?” published
in MeCluie’s Magazine, is one of the
iuo-t iuteieating of ali those ou the
same subject which have made theii
appearance in ^rint during the past
year or two.
One might even go so far as to say
that it is illuminating and instructive
anu .hat it is calculated to do good
ik spite the several e\idence# of the
For the
disp
Larges
-"'Be sure you are right, then go ahead,”
ESTABLISHED 1895.
jRDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1904.
NO. 39.
STOCK OF MERCHANDISE
"*al! trade is ready. We have on
ay and ready for delivery the
t|Line ever shown in this City!
—SUCH AS—-
oods, Notions, Boot
oes, Hats, Gents’
Furnishing Goods, and
atire new stock of
€4
an
Ladies
Skirts,
We can
Ready to Wear Goods,
—SUCH AS—
Ackets, Underwear, Etc., Etc.
'he stock. We make the price.
ti
We haG
ght our stock right and we are going
right. We buy our goods to sell
otto keep. THEY MUST GO.
f Clothing Compares favorably with
hose d)f the large Cities. Come and look
thijough our Large Line of Shoes.
IT WILL PAY YOU!
to sell
and
Ourl Stock
Ouir Store is
M
Large and. the Best Ligkited Fiorise in North
Texas. Chme let as Figure xvitli you on your fall bill.
^REMEMBER YOU ARE WELCOME AT THE BIG STORE ANY TIME.-fBI*
fad ’.hat the author, while better in- .
A rmed legardirg the various phases j £ruee "ere found on and near thehigh-
of the “problem’’ than the average
man of letters in the North, ttill
fails to grasp the true significance of
the present situation from the South-
ern standpoint. A Northerner, Mr.
Schurz naturally views the woild
through N rthern eyes; aud witn a
very few uo:%ble exceptions, no
Northerner hav ever nice-eded in see-
ing the conditions affecting the race
question as they really are.
The w. rat indictment that can be
made against Mr. Schurz’ article, per-
haps, is that he merely points out
deftcts iii ihe existing system with
out making any really piactical sug-
gestions as to how reforms may be
brought aboutv He realizes this as
wed as anybody, apparently, for he
says, in concluding ins paper:
Wth i’ bp sa'd that what I offer i*
more u diagnosis than a defluite rem-
ed., ? It may appear so. But this ii-
one of toe p. oolem-. that defy solution
a id Can only be rt nd -rod less trouble-
some. It cau ce taiuly be quickly and
ways and by-paths. Gruesome re-
ports came from the hospitals—re-
ports of col, red meu a nd women
whose ears had bteu cut off, whose
skulls had been broken by blows,
whose bodies had been slashed by
kuives and lacerated by scourge*, ’
and so on to a name .ling extent. It
is a pity that Mr. bchurz should pol-
lute his generally fair sensible article
with such sttxU'as this.
The author admits that the enfranch-
ising of the negioes was a mistake, to
a certain eAie.u;, but advances the
opinion that had the b!a -ks nut been
given the right to ‘‘protect tnemsclves
-t tue ballot oox” they would have
j been p. actic.dl\ rc-i,n.-iavtU. Ha nlw
; admits the euo{tuity of ;be offentes
committed under empe bag regimes,
but offsets the effect of this admission
by attempted argument in favor of
the work done by the Freed men’s bu-
reau.
Mr. Schurz aho makes the error, so
. YATES,
Grapevine, Texas.
the negro race practicall j all the cre-
dit for the South’s cot ou crop. He
should inform himself of
as set forth in late repot
sus office.
He goes to the extre:
that the civil war w$uld probably
have been prevented “Lad the same
freedom of inquiry aud d ecusaion pre-
vailed in the South wl ieh prevailed
in other parts of the cot mtry,” but is
honest enough to adm t, almost im-
mediately after utterii g this libel,
that “there are in the South a great
many enlightened men
who are eminently fit”1
the real facts
Ls of the cen-
le of saying
of solving the race problem. He is
conclusively solved by drastic legia-. common ti-osa d..ys, of attributing to
wise in that he criss dc
even approaching social
he speaks of the criti 3istas of the
President on account of Ihe Washing-
ton dinner incident as
and says that the attemj
heroine out of the silly
bermaid who thought sij e did a proud
thing in refusing to m?,ke Booker T.
Washington’s bed w ej
folly.’’
Summed up, Mr. icheiz’ idea
seems to be that the S iuth can solve
ihe problem by doin; j away with
many of the extreme - piejudices of
both bides aud by let ti ;g facts be
known where now only < :rroneous pre-
vails; by doing its sharp toward edu-
cating the negro so he wj ill be, not t he
social, mental or commercial eqeal of
and women
for the work
wn anything
equality; yet
“hysterical,”
its to “make a
hotel chanc-
re “childish
the white man, perhaps, but far above
his original station in Africa, or even
that 6f many of his race at the present
c(ay—in other words, a man rather
than a beast of burden With this
expression all but the most radical of
us can doubtless agree, for, as a mat-
ter of fact, that is exactly what the
representative people of the South
have been doing ever since the war,
without any help from Mr. Schurz or
any of his kind
Mr. Bchuiz’ argument is fallacious
iu many instances, yet what he has to
say is so much more fair and sensible
than the stuff usually written by
Northerners for the Northern press,
that The Record feels justified iu re-
garding his article as a material step
forward.—Ft. Worth Record.
Fearful Odds Against Him.
Bedridden, alone and destitute.
Such, iu biief was the condition of an
old soldier by name of J. J. Havens,
Versailles,O. For years he was troubled
with kidney disease and neither doctors
nor medicines gave him relief At length
he tried Electric Bitters. It put him ou
hie feet in short order aud now he testi-
fies. “I’m on the road to complete re
covery.” B st on earth for liver aud
kidney troubles and all forms of s’o-
macu and bowel complaints. Only 60c.
Guaranteed by C. J. Walt.
Clubbing rate with Farm
Home, Louisville, Ky., §1.00.
and
Cotton Pickers.
The following from the Plano
Star-Courier shows they have some
young cotton pickers around Plano
Dr. Angle is very proud of his
little cotton pickers, and he has
furnished us with a list of their
names along with the amount each
one picked, on Tuesday, Aug. 30,
1904. The following is the list:
Jack Angle............................. 410
Billy Wfclsel............................. 4.0
Sam B *rron.............................. 407
Losiie Angle.......................... 207
Grover Wetsek...................... 160
Dr. Angle says he will pay any
bunch of little boys (of same age
as these) ranging from 12 to 16,
$1.00 per hundred if they can beat
the above record. Now is your
chance, boys.
--
Sinae Mr.Richard Harding Davis
was unable to get any nearer a
Japanese-Russiau battle than 8
miles, and as he is short sighted,
although possessing an active im-
agination, he has finally concluded
to withdraw from Manchuria, and
write his letters in camera a Che-
foo. They will be quite as inter-
ting and truthful to a satisfactory
degree. In fact Mr. Davis might
haved time and expense by re-
maining in this country.
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Keeling, J. E. The Grapevine Sun. (Grapevine, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 1904, newspaper, September 24, 1904; Grapevine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846940/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.