The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 2, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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THE BONHAM SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS
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NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1866
COMSTOCK & DICUS,
*. B. COMSTOCK -
L. E. DICUS
PROPRIETORS
EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
Entered at the Pos^ Office at Bonham, Texas, as Second
Class Mail Matter
SUBSCRIPTION
One Year
Six Months -
Three Months -
RATES
One Dollar
- - Fifty Cents
- Twenty-five Oents
J. K LUTON
SUBSCRIPTION SOLICITOR
CLUBING RATES
News and Farm News (Dallas News)
News and Ft. Worth Record -
News and Hollands, farm and Ranch - -
News and Progressive Farmer and Fertile ng
for Protit.....
1.50
Tuesday, June 2, 1914.
OUGHT THESE CONDITIONS TO EXIST?
ing themselves as progressive. All but two busi-
ness men in the town have expressed them-
selves as in favor of issuing bonds for pike roads.
A petition containing over 100 names was secured
on the square within a few minutes. They will
get the roads.
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The county officials who have been passing
up the home printii% houses and patronizing a
few large concerns which have grown wealthy off
of this class of work, should read with a great deal
of interest of the sifits filed by Attorney General
Ben Looney at Austin asking for forfeiture of
their charters and alleging violations of the anti-
trust law’. It is alleged these concerns have their
price books made by the same party and the same
man audits the accounts of all the concerns and
when a concern is caught cutting the price it is
penalized. Every job of printing that is used by
the county should be done at home. Every bank
order should be given to home men, and soon the
home plants would build up and employ a large
force of men. Attorney General Looney is on the
right track and here is hoping he will get results.
—Sherman Democrat-
Fannin County officials have been very
thoughtful of the home printers. They give them
a considerable portion of their work. There is no
reason why the money should not be septn in the
county to aid in building up home industry, and
not be allow’d to go into the hands of the million
dollar concern in some far-away city. “Patronize
....»
B. C. Pearce had business in Bonham yesterday.
He is a trustee in the Elm Grove school district
and he said they were a hundred dollars short in
their school funds and upon investigation found
that only about six land owners had been assessed
for school tax and the balance had been left off.
Somebody evidently made a mistake for this tax
should have been assessed and collected.—-Savoy
Star.
The condition which Mr. Pearce reported is not
an unusual condition for Fannini County. > There of oountyTnd
are many landloics w o ve m own or w i town officials just as well as of the private indi-
outside of the County- e *ecor ? ^ v+^Vw^land v*dual- In fact they should be first to set such an
seat do not show in what school district the land 0X ]e
lies and not knowing this the man is assessed only ’ V; .
for the County find Statp tax and not one cent for —-
special school fund. Superintendent Parker tells if f]ie bond issue f>r a school building carries
us that the County schools have lost thousands of in Fairfield next Tuesday your taxes will not be
dollars each year because of this condition. increased^ one cent more than they are now and
I„ this way men who are often times best able m,nd'
to pay their pro ra a o e xes are e on t Every, day may be seen in an exchange some-
escape. No one seems o e wi ing thing regarding the issuance of bonds for school
of the responsi i y or sue v.. . ( . .. purposes, good roads and other public .improve-
himself. Our officials claim that the ) Whether the tax is incrJed is Jot so
trustees are the ones w o are o ame an a much a ma^er 0f importance as is the question as
if they do not care enough to look after what and to whether u t a dolIar>s worth for every dol.
is assessed and what is not m their district they ^ gpent
ought to lose the money. It may be that this is
true or at least partially so.
If no one else will look after the proper assess-
ing of values and the proper keeping of the records
at the Court House the citizens should have a
right to demand that all errors be corrected. The
NEWS is of the opinion, however, that the very
fact that the citizens have to take over, as their
work, what officials are selected to do shows that
something is wrong. It should be determined
from the records in what District a man is and
if the records do not show this they should be
made to-do so.
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VOTERS SHOULD KNOW.
The voters should know absolutely concern-
ing the respective candidates before they go to
the polls. We believe that the voters of Fann.n
County are not inclined to line up for a man who
hag bartered away his veto power to the saloon in-
terests. Cel. Ball well taki ir. his recea*: address:
Mr. Ferguson is basing his candidacy largely
in this campaign upon two propositions, namely:
A regulated tenantry and unregulated saloon. In
his opening speech at Blum he made a black pledge
never before made in the history of this state by
any candidate for the legislature so far as I know
If Roosevelt discovered a river a thousand
miles long in South America, pray what could he
do turned loose in a country like Arkansas ? So
far, Mr. Roosevelt has been able to get by w’ith his
big feats in foreign countries, but he will keep on
tfelling them, we fear, until he gets into the same
class with Dr. Codk.—Foard County New s.
It may not be in agreement with our exchan-
ges when we say if Roosevelt claims he discov-
ered a river in the heart of the hitherto unexplor-
ed regions of Brazil, we believe him. Roosevelt is
not a Dr- Cook, neither is he a nature faker. He
is himself a naturalist and scientist of ability, be-
sides, he had with him on his trip some of the most
able scientists which the United States afforded.
The river which he discovered is in the heart of the
regions whfch all the maps we find mark “un-
explored.” No white man has ever before made
Lis way through those tropical jungles- He de-
serves a great deal of credit for what he has done
and will get from all those w’ho do not let their
political prej udices be their master.
“TELL ’EM YOU’RE FEELIN’ FINE.’’
There ain’t no use in kickin’ friend, if things
don’t come your way;
It does no good to holler ’round, an’ grumble night
and day;
The thing to do’s to curb yer grief cut out yer lit-
tle whine,
I’m
Wa
and by no candidate for governor- To the brew’er- An’ when they ask you how you are, jest say,
ies and bar rooms of this state and to the local op- fellin’fine.’’ * *•
tion counties, he declared: “I will veto any liquor! *
legislation, if I am elected governor, whether it They ain’t no man alive but what is booked to get
comes from pros or antis, and strike it where the his slap;
chicken got the ax.
In other words, my friends, he has bartered
away his constitutional veto power, equal to two-
thirds of the law* making body, in advance, and se-
lected as the only special and favored classes to be
exempted from any character of legislation, in tiie
event of his election, liquor sellers and liquor-hire-
lings. No wonder the breweries and bar rooms <*f
this state got behind his,candidacy and made it im-
possible for the antis, who have no liquor‘to sell,
and who are not ujx>n the pay roll of the liquor in-
terests, to agree upon any other anti-prohibition
candidate.
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The people of the village of Leonard are“show-
TTicy ain’t no man that walks but what from trou-
ble gets his rap;
Go mingle with the bunch, old boy, where all the
bright lights shine. --
-And when they ask you how you arc, jest say,
“l*m feelin’ fine.”
Yer heart may be jest bustin’ with some real or
fancied woe, . w
‘But if you smile the other fully* ain’t very apt to
know; -
The old world laughs at heartaches, friend, be
" they yours or mine ;
So, when they ask you bow you are, jest say, “I’m
feelin’fine.”
—Unidentified.
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BEL VERSUS
' FERGUSON
Tremendous Moral Conflict Whim
la Now Being Waged Between
Forces of Right and Wrong.
1 ■ »
The bugle’s clarion notes call out
“To horse, fo horse, the lines are form
ing!” Throughout Texas, the wide-
awake voters are rapidly lining up un-
der the flags of the two companies—
Ball and Ferguson; this is to be ex-
pected, and as it should be. .*Every
; roan \vithf*a backbone will takj? sides
1 concerning all live issurs. In a contest
like this between Rail and Ferguson,
i* behooves every man to study the
principles represented by these two
men; see where they are together and
where there is an' issue. The man who
wants to do the right and best thing
will,carefully survey the ground oc-
cupied by each, before lining up. T
wi ;te this article to help my fellow-
countrymen line up -intelligently.
In the heat of battle, men are lia-
ble to see only the person of his an-
tagonist, forgetting the conflict.
b< pre-cut luce for governor .wfe n.j it
not align with Bali or Ferguson, as
we may fancy the one or the o\ r,
but wo .-houM be moved by an honest
er, better management of the courts;
better conditions for the tenant farm-
in short, they are practically together
on all physical and intellectual prop-
ositions, but alas! 5vhen they come to
the questions that have to deal with
public morals they are as far apart as
the poles. The problem of what to do
with the liquor question makes the is-
sue; this is the very heart and fiber
Of this campaign. Let us state the
question fairly and then take a cool
manly.look at both sides, and then de-
cide, as men, honest with ourselves,
our fellows and our God, which side
of the issue we should take.
Thomas tit. Rail says, “He is in fav-
o - of prohibiting the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors, from ope square inch to
the whole of Texas, and of .'submitting
the question of a constitutional amend
ment to this effect to the Democratic
voters of Texas in July of this year.
Jas. M. Ferguson is opposed to letting
the people vote on this issue in July
or at any* other time. He is opposed
to meddling in any way with th.e liqu-
or question. He says, “Let the dry
territory stay dry,” and the “Wet ter-
ritory stay wet." He goes further and
says if elected he will veto any bill on
the liquor question that may be offer-
ed him to sign as governor. He claims
to be “our independent candidate,”
not rought out by any one, “pro” or
“anti.” He made some people believe
that at first, but nobody believes it
now, since practically all the friends
of the liquor business; the breweries,
the saloon keepers, the bootleggers
and drunkards are rallying to his sup-
port; everybody now knows that this
was a slivk scheme to keep it from ap-
pearing that he had been bought out
by the l reweries and their henchmen.
The ass. in the lions skin looked much
like a lion, but the other asses recog-
nized his smell, congregated around
him and gave him away—his trick
was uncovered.
In July we are not to vote, in fact,
for Tom Ball or Jim Ferguson, but for
what each represents^ This being
true, let us see just what each does
represent that we may get fool-
ed in our voting. In Mr. Ball we have
a wise, prudent, well trained states-
man, and a highly civilized, sober
consistent Christian gentileman,in the
fullest Sense of the words “civilized
and Christian.” In this race he is the
representative of all that is pure and
right, Mr. Ferguson, by his own
words is uneducated, “degenerated,"
unacquainted with matters of state,
never having filled any office, having
led a very irregular life; having sown
all sorts of wild oats in many coun-
tries; a drinker of intoxicating liqu-
ors, and an enemy to State wide pro-
hibition, and a friend and advocate of
the saloon in state politics. I think I
have fairly represented both these
men. -
Now, let us compare them. Bad
stands for the Best Possibly Govern-
ment : which encourages, clean
thoughts, clean speech, chasity, gen-
tility, sobriety, honesty, piety, a
healthy body, .a sound mind, a pure
heart, a comfortable, happy home,
thrift, the Sunday school, the church,
peace with ajl mankind, and with God,
Heaven. Ferguson represents the sa-
loon, which encourages and produces,
vile thoughts, fowl speech, infanity,
ludeness and debauchery, drunken-
ness, theft, robbery, gambling and
murder; disease, insanity, poverty, ig-
norance, the jail, the pentitentiary.the
tjaothcl, untold evil, Hell.
YOU WILL NEED WATER
Let us Gutter your house
and put up a Tank. That
is our Business.
•
Keene
eene
GEORGE KEENE, Manager
West of First National Bank
Bonham, - Phone 74 - Texas
Have I stated this matter incor-
i rectly ?
We will take a jury of fifteen of the
wer’d’s greatest men to decide. Pear
their verdict: John H. Reagan, Ex-
Treasurer of the Southern Confeder-
acy and United States Senator, one
of the greates men Texas and our
Nation has ever produced. “Millions
of dollars are invested in this business
of making men drunkards and in pro-
ducing the desolation and ruin of wo-
' men and children which, if employed
in agriculture, manufacturing and
commercial persuits and directed by
ell crimes; the mother of abomiuai-
tons; the devil’s best friend and God’s
worst enemy.”
10 .Thomas, Jefferson president U.
S., father of Democratic party in *U.
S.: “The habit of using ardent spirits
by men in office occasioned more in-
jury to the public, and more trouble
to me, than all other sources; and
were I to commence my administra-
tion again, the first question I would
ask respecting a candidate for office
would be, does he use ardent spirits?”
11. T. V. Powderly, president
Knights of Labor: “The damning
the talents and time wasted in these curse to labor is that which gurgles
drinking houses would add untold mil- ' from the neck of the bottle.”
lions to the aggregated wealth of the J 12. Horace Greely: “To sell
conjtcientiqps- impulse, from a sense
of right and duty.
It is" now quite certain that Tom
Call or Jim Ferguson will be the next i
governor of Texas, so let us see
which■'..should have our support, ftn
. most of: the questions entering into
| this campaigu the two, candidate are
]together. They both advocate better
j roads, better farms, better business,
n~ better schools, common and higher,
In i better management of penitentiaries,
Why You Should Buy
a Watch From Us--
Because we can sell it as. cheap
or cheaper than anunic dse. „
Because we rare right here on
the ground to make it right if it
should happen, to go wrong.
Because we self only, good new
stock, no old shop-worn move-
ment. Every watch that we sell
is new and up-to-date.
Because u e guarantee the price
as well as the quality of watch.
Because we live here aqd spend
every cent of our money here in
an effort to build Up Our country.
Because yoii want satisfaction,
the best time keeper for the mon-
ev, and we give it.
W. f. CLAYPOOL
Druggist and Jeweler
State, and make as many thousands
of happy families as are now made
miserable, because this money and
time are given to the selling and drink
ing of intoxicating liquors.”
2. Hon. Dave Culberson, 1887, con-
gressman and father of U. S. Senator,
Chas. Culberson: “You have been
pleased to allued to the position of
Mr. Jefferson upon sumptary lays, *
* *. The question before t)ie people of
Texas involves existing conditions,
not conditions which may have existed
near a century ago. The evils of the
liquor traffic in Mr. Jefferson’s time
fa’ls into insignificance beside monu-
mental horrors that stalk through the
land to,lay, hand in hand with this
traffic. The feeble and inSignificant
power for harm exerted by the saloon
j in the earlier days of the^republic
have grown t;0 be an overwhelming
despotism. It sets at defiance the
i laws enacted to preserve the good of
I society. The wrecks which fill the
land, the distress and bankruptcy !
wrought by its power, the onerous
burdens of taxation upon honest in- !
t dustry to defray expenses of crime,
, the legitimate offspring of its power,
j For one, I believe the time has arriv-
, ed when this despotism shou’d be
, broken and overthrown and the wel-
fare of the people emancipated from
its thralldom.”
j President Wm. McKinley, republN
can in politics: “The liquor traffic is
the most degrading and ruinous of all
persuits. By legalizing this traffic
we agree to share writh the liquor sell-
er,the responsibilities and evils of the.
business. Every man who votes for
license become a partner of the Liquor
. traffic. :rnd all of its consequences.”
4. Abraham Lincoln;'president, U»
s: (Republican) : “TJia liquor traffic
i;: a cancer in society, eating out the
vitalsand threatening destruction.
All attempt tt> regulate It will prove
: alien live—it must be eradicated.'’ }
5. i'heo. Roosevelt, president U. S.
. (Republican)* • ‘"The liquor traffic
tends to product criminality in the
| population at large," and, lawbreaking
| among the saloon keepers themselves.
If the Apioricau people'do not con- ,
tPof k, it will control them.” f
6. Win. Taft, president^'. S. (Re-
publican): “Leave drink alone abso-
lutely! Ho who drinks, is deliberately
disqualifying himself for advance-
ment ; personally, 1 refuse to take
such risk; I do not drink.”
7. Wm. • J. Bryan,- Secretary of
State of L'. S. (Democrat)-: “The av-
erage saloon is the most diresputable
p'ace in the community; it is the bu-
reau of information of vice.”
8. Judge Artman, Indiana .“The de- [
cent, respectable saloon is as impos-
sible as a virgin prostitute.”
9. Judge Allison, Philadelphia:
“In our criminal courts we can trace
four-fifths of the crimes that are com-
mitted to the influence of rum. There
i - not oq. case in twenty wherj a man
is tried for his life, in which rum is not
the direct or indirect cause of the mur-
der.”
9. Robert J. Ingersol: “It is the
son of villainies; the father if all 1
rum
for a living is bad enough, but for a
whole community to share the respon-
sibility and guilt of such a traffic
seems a worse bargain than that of
Judas.”
13. Mason Trowbridge, District At-
torney N. Y.: “The City of New York
spends more than twenty million dol-
lars each year fighting evils which
wou’d not be in existence if prohibi-
tion prevailed.”
Gen. F. D. Grant: “If I could be of-
fering my body as a sacrifice, free
this country from this cancer the dem-
on drink, I’d thank the Almighty for
the great privilege of doing it. Tell
the young men that Gen. Grant does
not drink one drop of liquor.”
15. Van Moltke, Germany’s great-
e t general: “Germany has more to
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money and get better
ftfork see us. We do
expert Watch, Clock
and Jewelry repairing.
We appreciate a tried.
J. C. Wedemeyer, Jr.
• The Quality Jeweler
(At Hargroves)
-:- Everybody Knows
About the
v.VELIE & MOON.v
BUGGIES
WE Sell Them
V. A. EWING
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Comstock, E. B. The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 2, 1914, newspaper, June 2, 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth914258/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.