Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1890 Page: 2 of 8
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THE . CORSICANA OBSERVER.
G. P. ullkk, - Editor.
Corsicana. Texas, Feb. 21. 1890.
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keep up with the news.
President Harrison is to issue a
proclamation ordering the cattle
men to move their cattle out of
the Cherokee strip.
The Fairfield Recorder copied
every line of the Observer’s re-
port of the big’ railroad meeting’.
The fact of the business is the
Observer scooped all the city pa-
pers in its report of that meet-
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The National Democrat says;
“This has been a good week for
the Democratic party. A. victory
in Ohio which makes secure the
permanent control of the Legisla-
ture, a victory in West Virginia
which promises to be far reach
ing in its effects, and a victory in
the House of Representatives
over the great conspiracy ot mis-
rule, are enough Democratic tri-
umphs for one week, surely.”
During the recent year only
315 passengers were killed in
American railway accidents,
the same time 2,000 brakemen
were killed and more than 20,-
000 injured. It is estimated that
of brakemen one in eigety-three
is killed and one in sixty injured.
The number of brakemen employ-
ed on American railways number
about 100,000. The life of a
brakeman is fully as hazardous as
that of the soldier, but when he
is killed or maimed there is no
pension awaiting those depend-
ent upon him for support.
The spring unlace at Fort
Worth will open May the 10th
and hold 21 days. It is to be
made more attractive and larger
than ever.
Rev. Sam Jones is to open his
batteries on the Tyler sinners
Feb. 28. If Sam can’t shake up
the sandiappers of Smith, there
is little hope for them. Why not
ask Bro. Jones to come over to
Corsicana and hold a meeting"?
The compress will hold a big
crowd.
At Camden,Ark. a deputy sher-
iff arrested a negro for kidnap-
ping a child, and another negro
without provocation shot the dep-
uty and killed him. The negro
was arrested and jailed, then
taken out of jail by a mob and
hung to a bridge post and his
body filled full of shot.
Peterson’s Magazine for March
is on our table, bright, sparkling
and charming. The illustrations
are up to the highest standard of
perfection. “A magnificent mar-
riage,” a serial by Mrs. Lutvy H.
Hooper, becomes more interest-
ing as it nears its close. The
“Story of Dogma” by Miss Al-
ice Bowman, with scenes laid and
centered in Louisiana life, is just
commenced and will be read with
pleasure. The March number is
a good one. Price per year $2.00.
Address Peterson’s Magazine,
306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
Pa.
THE BLAIR SUNDAY BILL.
Kill rain, Muldoon and se veral
others entertained a large audi-
ence in Dallas last week with a
slugging and wrestling match.
Tom James of Dallas went on
the stage for a box of four
rounds with Baznia. James was
knocked out by a blow on the
neck which paralyzed his heart
and he died at midnight. The
whole troupe were arrested and
held for investigation.
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The comptroller’s report just
out comprises 366 pages, of which
166 contain railroad reports.
Assessed values increased last
year $48,000,000. Real estate as-
sessed $430,000,000 and personal
property $249,000,000. Mr. Mc-
Call compliments tax collectors
upon showing that every dollar of
tax collected has been deposited
in the state treasury. Revenues
from occupation 'taxes increased
$45,000 net, although the drum-
mer’s tax was repealed last ses-
sion.
It is now corn planting time for
this section of the state. Some
farmers have already planted a
small portion of the crop. Corn
should not be covered over two
or three inches deep, and ii
should be planted on beds. Late
planting can be covered deeper
and planted flat with hope of
success. The corn crop is the im-
portant crop to the farmers, as
bread is the “staff of life.”
Plenty of good corn means good
stock, fat pigs, fat cows, fat work
horses and bread for the multi-
tudes. Corn is not a costly crop,
as it is made with less labor than
many other crops. Every farmer
ought to raise a big crib full of
good corn and make his own pork
and beef.
A good advertisement is the
best solicitor. It appeals to the
farmer at the fireside, to the
teacher in his study, to the law-
yer in his office, to the minister in
his sanctum of study, to the la
borer in his leisure moments, to
all who read newspapers. While
the advertiser sleeps, the news-
paper with his well worded ad-
vertisement is saying the right
word in the right place to hun-
dreds of people. Everybody
read newspapers, and a business
not worth advertising is not con-
sidered by the public as very in-
viting. The Sharp trader who
wishes to do the best with the
means at command looks over
the advertising columns of the
newspapers before deciding
where to purchase. Advertising
always pays if it is well done.
THE PEOPLE PAY THE TARIFF.
The National Democrat says:
The plate glass manufacturers
get something over 100 per cent
protection by the tariff, and they
are always clamoring for more,
and always ready to explain to
Congress that they will lose
money unless the duty on plate
glass be increased. The follow-
ing dispatch from Pittsburg, Jan-
uary 30, is therefore interesting:
“The profits of the Pittsburg
Plate Glass Company, as shown
in the report submitted to the
meeting of the stockholders,
were nearly $1,000,000. Regular
dividends to the amouht of 11 3 4
per cent, was declared, making in
round figures $950,000 net profit
for J889.”
The consumer pays all of this
enormous per cent to the glass
men because of high tariff. Be-
fonn the tariff' by thrusting the
knife right through the middle of
it.
Senator Blair introduced in the
senate in December a Suuday bill
with the following title: “A bill
to se lire to t‘■»* people the priv-
ileges of rest ’ d of religious
worship, free from disturbance by
others on the fir>t day of the
week.” The Observer under-
stands fee the constitution of
the United States guarantees to
every citizen the “privileges of
rest and worship” on any day of
the weak. So far as the inter-
ference of others is concerned,
the laws of the different states
protect all Christian worshipMrom
intrusions or disturbances. Re-
ligious people or those not reli-
gious are at liberty to worship or
rest on the Sabbath, or on any
other day, or ever} day if they
choose, all the year round.
Senator Blair may be a great
moralist, a good Christian, or he
may not be, but bis bill has a
strong tendency toward a central-
ized government, and for that
reason as well as many others we
dislike it. Ot course the bill
makes exceptions to works of
necessity, mercy and humanity.
It also makes exceptions to the
delivery of postal matter under
certain contingencies, and leaves
a loop hole for those who keep
any other day (religiously) than
the first day of the week com-
monly called Sunday. If the ob-
ject oi Senator Blair be to co-
erce people into a religious state
of mind and compel them to ‘rest’
on the first day of the week, or
attend a place of “worship,” the
bill would be a dead letter on the
statute books. The Christian re-
ligion has swept through the
waste of centuries impelled by
persuasive means alone. It has
never needed, does not now, and
never will need the assistance of
any engine of force to propell it
forward or compell the people to
accept it. The Observer be-
lieves in keeping sacred by all
Christians a day of rest and wor-
ship, and it would be pleased to
see all men everywhere keep a
day of rest, but it does not be-
lieve in a paternal government
BALLOT BOX FORGERY.
In the examination of witness-
es in regard to the forged letters
with which Foraker and his
henchman tried to defeat Camp-
bell for governor of Ohio last
fall, the truth seems to have been
told last week by one whom
Foraker used as a tool to do the
dirty work of the campaign in
Ohio. It was agreed that there
should be no more meetings of
the committee except on call of
the chairman. There was a sen-
sational scene just about the
windup of the work. Wood
asked to he put back on the stand
which request was granted. Ir-
ritated by the efforts of his old
friends to saddle him with the
whole blame or crime, he took
the stand and, pointing at Had-
den, the bosom friend of Foraker,
said:
“That man concocted this
whole thing, and that man,”
pointing to Foraker, “told me
what name he wanted.”
He then called on God to wit-
ness that he told the truth. The
effect was startlingly sensational.
Gov. Foraker turned as white as
a ghost, jumped to his feet and
declared the declaration of
Wood’s to be false, Hadden did
the same thing. But everybody
present spemed inclined to think
that Wood was speaking the
truth. His manner in making the
declaration was entirely differ-
ent from that in his first examina-
tion.
The Belton Journal publish-
es the following which is historic
and prophetic:
“We don’t know what became
of Jonah, but we recollect that
Ninevah was not destroyed. Nor
do we know what became of
Warren Keifer, who, as Speaker,
threatened Roger Q. Mills with
imprisonment, but we do
know that the country was not
destroyed, and a Democratic
House followed. Tom Reed will
go the way of Keifer.”
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M. M. McFarland, editor of the
Groesbeck New Era, was in the
city last Friday. He is arranging
to publish a special edition of ten
thousand copies of the New Era
and was soliciting advertising for
the special edition.
To the Corsicana Observer:
We may differ somewhat on the
senatorial or other issues, but old
newspaper soldiers like we, “who
have drank from the same (asso-
ciation) canteen,” need not abuse
each other or impugn motives to
emphasize what we have to say.
—Fairfield Recorder.
Dear Recorder: The Obsesver
does not abuse any one. It tries
to treat all men and measures
settingup the standard of legal justly. We cannot conceive what
enactment and binding the peo-
ple who are free born and capa-
ble of exercising freedom of con-
science chained to such a ritual-
ism. If the Jew wishes to fol-
low the teachings of his Hebrew
ancestors and “rest” Saturday,
the framers of the constitution
have laid in that instrument a
full guarantee for the privilege.
If the seventh day adventists
wish to keep Saturday a sacred
day and “rest and worship,” the
fathers laid tribute upon the con-
stitution in such unmistakable
terms as to bar all cross currents
that might flow against their pre-
rogative. We believe to compel
a man to restand worship against
his will would do more harm than
good Place a wretched sinner
in the midst of rejoicing saints
and he would be miserable, be-
cause he would not be in harmo-
ny or sympathy with tin in. On
the same hypothesis a sinner in
heaven would be as miserable as
Dives in perdition. If the gov-
ernment will let the Christian mul-
titudes fight the battle against sin
and wickedness in high places, it
will be well, but it cannot legis-
late piety into the hearts of the
people. If the government wish-
es by legislation to stop the mails
iu transit, hold the traveling pub-
lic m suspense by Sunday law,
stop trains and steamboats when
the clock strikes 12 m. at mid-
night, shut off the electric fira
from the telegraph and hold the
business world in the hollow of
us hand, on the point of legal
enactment, let it do so, but when
it undertakes to legislate “resP’
“worship” and “piety” into the
people it will woefully fail.
the Observer has said to draw
the above expression from the
Recorder.
THE BLAIR BILL.
The Blair educational bill will
come before the senate for a final
vote within a few days. It is not
likely that the debate over it will
be a very prolonged one. Mr.
Blair has been talking on the sub-
ject m an intermittent sort of
way for several days, going over
the ground he has so often gone
over befoie. One or two of the
republicans may feel inclined to
express their views, but the dem-
ocrats. and particularly the
southern democrats, in the inter-
est of whose section the bill is
nominally aimed, will, in all prob-
ability, simply present the objec-
tions to it and why the south
does not want it and will not
have it.
The truth is that the Blair bill
has been submitted to the public
opinion of the south, which, after
mature deliberation and consid-
ering it from every point of view,
has declared against it.
Each day, the centralizing ten-
dencies of the republicans, their
disposition to interfere in matters
be’onging of right to the states,
becomes more apparent.—Times-
Democrat.
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The Queen’s speech in the
opening of parliament was more
pacific to ward Ireland than usu-
ally obtains in Great Britain. Is
the millennium coming to the
down trodden Irish people?
LEAKING OUT GRABULLY.
The publication of the whole
bargain by which the republican
national committee pawned the
state of North Dakota to the
Louisiana state lottery for money
to run the last campaign in the
new states, has created an im-
mense sensation here, and is
making Warmoth’s opponents
more zealous. Clarkson and
Dudley, Quay's right hand bow-
ers, who made the deal with the
lottery through Warmoth, are
pressing his confirmation with
great vigor.
The above was sent out from
Washington over the wires. It
is another leak iu the cess-pool of
corruption in the republican cam-
paign system.
Subscribe for the Observer.
The Terrell Star denies that
John H. Reagan was ever a whig.
What if he was? It’s a long lane
that never turns.—Corsicana Ob-
server.
Yes, but in this instance Rea-
gan’s political lane has never
turned. He has always been a
democrat. It is a mistake about
his once having been a whig.—
Fairfield Recorder.
Hillsboro is trying to keep np
with the procession. She has La
grippe! Do you want it?—Hills-
boro Mirror.
We’ve had enough. We dont
want any more. Let La grippe
go west and grow up with ihe
country.
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A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER.
S. H. Dixon, editor
Southern Mercury, published ii
the alliance exchange building,
had a personal encounter with
Robert Chatten, his mailing clerk j
a little before 4 o’clock yesterday
evening. 1
It is alleged that Chatten!
struck Dixon twice and that Dix-
on then laid him out with an iron
sidestick, inflicting an ugly
though not dangerous wound on
his head. Dixon surrendered
himself, but was released on lbs
recognizance to answer this morn-
ing.—Dallas News, Friday 15.
Last week the 14 year old
daughter of William Neil, a far-
mer, who liyes near Kerens, lost
her life. She was in the field
where the grass was on fire. Her
clothing caught, and before it
could be put out she was so bad-
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day.
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Miller, G. P. Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1890, newspaper, February 21, 1890; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874904/m1/2/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting San Jacinto Museum of History.