The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1899 Page: 4 of 8
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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER.
Entered fvt the Postofflee at Fairfield,
Tex. .an Second-class Mutter.
I.. < . KlIttiAN, Editor »V 1‘ul*.
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HU DAY. JUNE U, 1899.
Gov. Ellerbee, of South Caro-
lina, dieil on the night of the ‘2nd
inst. of consumption.
The new Governor of South
Carolina is the lion. M. 13- Mc-
Sweeney. There is a good deal of
.{Scotch in that name.
For political corruption and
complete corporation control, New
Jersey is a State whose rottenness
knows no sense of same or feeling
of moral degradation.
The international consumption
congress which has been in session
at Berlin, decided that the most
fruitful source for the communi-
cation of of tins dread disease is
cow’s milk.
The Military Department of the
Southwest, with headquarters at
San Autonio, will be re-established
soon, and it is probable Gen. Jo-
seph E. Wheeler will be placed in
command of it.
The New York people have gone
“hog-wild” in hero worship. They
are going to ask the Legislature to
appropriate £800,000 to be expend-
ed in welcoming Dewey back to
the United (States.
As the year 1900 draws nearer
the issues of national politics 'are
coming more to the front, and it is
being seen daily that the silver
■question is “the 1 ivest corpse” the
gold standard people will have to
deal with.
McKinley is doing all he can to
cripple the efficiency and destroy
the value of the civil service law of
Congress, thereby showing that
the smaller boodlers and spoils
hunters have strings on him, as
well as men like Mark Hanna.
The big Trans-Mississippi Con-
gress which met last week at
Wichita, Kansas, adjourned to
meet next year at Houston, Texas.
Houston is justly proud of her suc-
cess in capturing the convention,
•and it may mean a good deal in
booming her big 6hip channel
project to the Gulf.
Gen. Wheeler is being talked of
as the proper candidate for Gov-
ernor of Alabama; but from the
way be is banging around Wash-
ington City he would rather have
The life job of Major General in
Uncle Sam’s army at $7500 a year.
The old veteran knows well butter-
-ed bread when he sees it.
The Tennessee Legislature has
voted to submit a joint resolution
to the vote of the people, provid-
ing for the election of State officers
every four years, except Attorney
General, who is to be elected for
eight years. We believe that Gov.
Sayers will recommend a four year
term for State officers in the can-
vass next year.
Cuba is being fast Americanized.
It is said that since the United
States has taken charge of the ls-
Jand over 2000 saloons have been
opened there. Likewise whiskey
and beer by the ship load havo
been sent to the Philippine Is-
lands. Beer and bullets are fine
ebristianizers indeed for a heathen
people!
The spasmodic, excitable people
of France, always ready for some-
thing sensational, seem be on the
verge of a serious political revolu-
tion. Much of the foundation of
it seems to lie in the prejudice and
hatred pf a few rascally dema-
gogues for the unfortunate Jewish
Dreyfus, who has been
shamefully persecuted, and whose
innocence now bids fair to be dear-
ly established. j
Is the Old War Over.
Sometimes a contemptible little-
souled imitation of humanity gets
in charge of a “Grand Army of the
Republic” organization and makes
a conspicuous fool of himself. Last
week while the Grand (Army Post
iu Boston, in a laudable exercise of
good feeling towards the South, in-
vited Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of Ala-
bama, to speak on “Decoration
Day,” the Grand Army Post at Cin-
cinnati contemptuously refused
to accept a beautiful floral tribute
ftom ex-Confederates to be used
for decorating Federal graves.
Such littleness and sectional hate
are certainly disgraceful in the
men who exhibited them, and the
act stands out in paiuful contrast
with that of the Grand Army peo-
ple of Philadelphia, who on the
same day, for the first time since
the civil war, tried to nobly forget
its bitter memories by decorating
the graves of ex-Confederate sol-
diers who died as prisoners iu that
city during the war. There are
some people who do not want the
war to cease, and seem to prefer to
) hate than to love. Such people are
a curse to society, and likewise to
good government; and the world
can easily spare them when the
good Lord sees proper to take them
away.
The New Cigarette Law,
Below we publish the cigarette
law passed by the last Legislature.
It will go into effect on the 27th
day of August uext. It reads as
follows:
Section 1. Any person who shall
sell, give or barter, or cause to be
sold, given or bartered, to any per-
son under the age of 16 years, or
knowingly sell to any person for
delivery to such minor, without
the written consent of the parent
or. guardian of such minor, any
cigarette or tobacco in any of its
forms, shall he fined not less than
$10 nor more ttian $100.
Section 2. All laws and parts
of laws in conflict with the pro-
visions of this act are hereby re-
pealed.
It will be seen that the law is
very strict in its application, and
applies to minors as well as to
grown persons. For instance, there
are some boys (under 16) whose
parents allow them to use tobacco;
but should one of them give a cig-
arette or tobacco to another boy
under 16, whose parents forbid his
using it, such boy thus giving an-
other tobacco violates the law and
incurs the penalty.
The Czar of Russia is said to be
the originator of the groat interna-
tioual disarmament and peace con-
ference in Europe. He is certain-
ly the right monarch to head such
a movement. The probabilities of
war for Russia and her immense
territory require her to keep the
largest and most expensive of all
European standing armies; and be-
sides this, recent reports have de-
veloped the fact that that now over-
worked country has twenty million
people in the southern part of the
empire who are iu a state of fam-
ine and will have to be helped by
the outside world.
The Sau Antonio Express, one
of the rottenest “independent” cor-
poration papers in Texas, is slob-
bering all over Gov. Sayers thus
early, in praise of his administra-
tion before he had been in office
quite six months. While we be-
lieve it is the honest intention of
Gov. Sayers to give the State an
economical administration, and to
inaugurate some mnoh needed re-
forms in government, it is unfortu-
nate for him that snob a paper as
the Express should thus early be-
gin to extravagantly praise him.
Pybnrn Locals.
June 6, 1899.
T. S. Taylor, of Dew, Sundayed
here.
Mr. B. M. Hullum is nn the sick
list this week.
Messrs. Measles and Davis, of
Brewer, attended church here Sun-
day.
Mrs. L. L. Peevy was sick the
latter part of last week, but is now
much bettor.
Rev. M. L. Dickey, pastor of the
Methodist church, filled his regu-
lar appointment Sunday.
Prof. Barnett, of Mills, was in
the community Monday, looking
after the school business.
Mr. Billie Howell aud family, of
Poverty Flat, visited relatives here
Sunday and attended church.
Farmers are most all through
laying by corn and chopping cot-
ton, aud some are harvesting their
oats.
Mrs. Winfree and sister, Miss
Annie Robinson, visited their sis-
ter, Mrs. Peevy, here Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr. aud Mrs. D. W. Terry have
just received a letter from their
son Ernest, who is now a soldier
boy in the Philippine Islands.
Friend Ernest belongs to the 17th
Infantry, and writes that he likes
his job real well.
Miss Sallie Lyon, who has been
visiting friends here for the past
month, went to Mexia last week to
spend a few days, after which she
intends to visit her parents in Ala-
bama and spend the “hot time.”
She will return to the Lone Star
State about the 1st of September.
Our gin firm has changed hands
from Yerby A Fain to Yerby &
Terry, and we are sure that if Mr.
Yerby has the push and tenacity
that Mr. Terry is endowed with
(and we have all reason to believe
that he has), we will have a gin by
the time the fleecy staple is ready
for harvest. School Boy.
PAVING THE WAY.
FORTY DOLLARS LOST.
TRUST "SECURITIES.”
Gov. McLanrin and Congress-
man John Allen, of Mississippi,
are having a warm canvass for
United States Senator—just aa
Bailey and Chilton will have, it in
Texas next year.
Along the line of the Cotton
Belt from Texarkana south about
11,460 acre# are reported planted
in track products of various kinds.
Diversification is getting the right
it;ud of hold on the people.
How Every Demoorat May Anntat the
11MK) ( ainunlgn Fond.
To insure Democratic victory next
year it is necessary to help the causa
with money. The Democratic party is
nearest the hearts of tlia common peo-
ple, pledged to and espousing th6ir in-
terests through good and evil report, al-
ways in the van of thought and action.
Novel and pleasant is the latest plan
adopted by the ways and means com-
mittee of the Democratic national com-
mittee to raise money for the antiplu-
tocratic fight of 1900.
An ardent bimetallic firm of cigar
manufacturers of Chicago, who have
been in business for many years, made
an offer a few days ago to divide the
profits of their goods with the commit-
tee’s treasury. Knowing the high char-
acter of the gentlemen comprising the
firm and the established reputation of
the goods they havo put forth for many
years, the committee accepted the offer,
and the terms of the contract were stip-
ulated with definiteness. Under the
agreement two brands of cigars, to be
known as the “Ways and Means” and
the “Defense Fund," are being mann-
factured and will be pot on the market
at once. The former is a good 10 cent
cigar and the “Defense Fund” a B cent
cigar, both well made by union labor
and guaranteed to run of even qnality;
so that any cigar is likely to be a fair
sample of them all.
In this way the friends of the great
cause can, without sacrifice of a frac-
tion of a cent of good money's worth,
aid the cause, for the manufacturers
have made an oat and oat donation of
1 cent on each dime cigar sold and one-
third of a cent on each nickel cigar dis-
posed of. That this money actually goea
into the treasury of the ways and means
committee there is absolute guarantee,
for the labels are countersigned in the
office of the committee by two of its
members, and the royalty is paid when
the la be laare jlelivered. All correspond-
ence regtktdin.tli>>Bo cigars shonld be
mailed bJffftKrs to 0. H. Schaeffer &
Oo., Chicagoan whose name the labels
are issued and by whom the royalties
are paid. Already there is a great rash
of orders at the office of the firm, and
they will be promptly filled.
Anxlom Little Slater.
Dorothy baa a baby brother who has
recently been ill with the coming
through of his first teeth. The baldness
of baby’s bead has oansed Dorothy great
anxiety. She stood at the mother’s knee
one day, gently patting the little head.
“Be careful, Dorothy,” said tbs
mother. “You know poor little brother
ie aiok. He ia cutting teeth. ”
Dorothy patted the bald head reflect-
ively. “Mamma,” she said, “will it
make him sink whan he cuta hla hair?
I’m afraid ha’ll have a tough time.”—
New York World.
ivomx.
.Tin KM Yn Krai
For Every One Added to Pur-
chasing Power of Money.
HOW APPRECIATING DOLLAR ACTS.
| The Money Owner l’rotita at the Ex-
pense of All Other Forms of Prop-
erty—Power of Money liealdea Not
In Its Sabata-nee, hat Jn Its^Quantfl-
ty—How to Seoare stability.
The advocates of the gold standard
stigmatize the movement for the resto-
ration of silver to the place it occupied
in our currency prior to 1878, when the
coinage of that metal was stealthily
suspended as an attempt “to degrade
the people’s medium of exchange.”
They mean by it that the value or pur-
chasing power of money will thereby
be lowered, or, as they say, “degrad-
ed. ” The value or purchasing power of
money is the quantity of a commodity
or other form of property a given sum
of it will exchange for. For Instance,
if one dollar will exchange for two
bushels of wheat, it has a high valne or
purchasing power; if it will exchange
for only one bushel of wheat, the dol-
lar is “degraded” by having its pur-
chasing power lowered. In the first in-
stance one-half of the labor expended in
producing the wheat is sacrificed for
the benefit of the owners of money j in
the second instance, the producer of the
wheat reaps the benefit, and the owners
of the money, who live in idleness, are
deprived of this gain.
There can be no fall in the valne of
money without a corresponding rise in
the money vulne or prices of other
forms of property, including wages paid
for labor, and no rise in the value of
money which is not accompanied, or
rather manifested, by a fall in the
prices of other forms of property. Mon-
ey and other'forms of property, as Locke
s&id many years ago, exactly counter-
balance each other, and if the word
“degrade” is used this term will apply
as well to other forms of property os to
money.
The relation between one quantity of
money, in which values are expressed,
and other forms of property is about as
1 to 40—that is, for every dollar in
money there is $40 in other forms of
property. Consequently for every dollar
given to the owners of money by in-
creasing its purchasing power $40 in
falling prices is taken from the own-
ers of other forms of property. Is this a
wise and jnst policy for a yonng and
vigorous country, which is already
struggling under an increasing weight
of indebtedness, and whose wealth is
not in its accumulated riches, but in
its productive energies—a policy that
is enriching the drones at the expense
of the working bees of society?
What causes the fluctuation in the
relation of money to other forms of
property—in other words, in the value
of money ? Until this is understood we
can make no progress in our knowledge
of this subject. It is not in the char-
acter of the substance or material of
which money is made that its purchas-
ing power resides, but in the quantity
of it in circulation. As this quantity is
increased, other things remaining the
same, its purchasing power falls. As
this quantity diminishes its purchasing
power rises.
A whole page of a daily newspaper
could be filled with extracts from the
writings of eminent economists affirm-
ing the truth of this proposition, and,
furthermore, it is attested by the ex-
perience of all the ages. Julins Panins
said in the third century of our era,
“The power of money resides not so
mnoh in the substance as in the quan-
tity," and three centuries later this
saying was repeated in the pandects of
Justinian. Ricardo (and no higher au-
thority can be qnoted) said “that com-
modities would rise or fall in price in
proportion to the increase or diminu-
tion of money I assume as a fact that
is incontrovertible.” If this is trne, it
matters not whether onr money is made
from gold or silver. Stability in its
valne—in other words, a stable cur-
rency—can only be secured by adjusting
its quantity and keeping it adjusted to
the wants of trade. Human wisdom
alone cannot accomplish this object
Experience tells us that to do this we
must resort to “nature’s treasury” and
make our gold and silver mines our
banks of issue. If we use gold and sil-
ver as our primary money, upon which
all credits rest, its quantity will be in-
creased, and the value of the unit or
dollar will fall and prices will rise. If
we use gold alone as primary money,
the volume of it will be diminished,
the purchasing power of the unit or
dollar, will be increased, and the prices
of other forms of property, including
wages paid for labor, will falL
’ . Henry G. Miller.
The nrmud For This Sort ot UrMt-
mrnt la WtalnaUf.
Some time ago a statement of the
New York Financial Chronicler
quoted in these columns to the
that the authorized capital of the 1_____
corporations organized daring January
and February of this year was $1,108,-'
800,000. At that time the belief/pre-
vailed even among promoters that about)
everything worth combining bad,al-
ready been combined, and that1 not
much more trnst stock would be placed
on the market. The belief seemed rea-
sonable, but the event proves that it;
was mistaken. The Financial Cbroqlple,
in making up the record for March,
found that the authorized capitalization|
of combines formed during that month;
was $480,000,000, or only about $78,-1
000,000 less than the average for the
first two months of the year. It appearsi
from, this that so long as there is a keen
public appetite for stocks to speculate
in promoters will find means of minis-
tering to it.
There has been some slackening of
the pace in the organization of trusts
dnring April, which is not surprising in
view of the fact that new “industrials”1
to an amount exceeding $1,688,000,000
were turned ont dnring the first quarter,
of the year. The slackening may be due
to the fact that the promoters can find
nothing more worth capitalizing. More
likely, however, it is due to the fact
that “the pnbllc” is not so hungry as
it was. So long as the farms of the
country have not been massed into
trusts, a pretty large field remains to be
occupied.
No wonder the banks thought it pru-
d«t Jp fliscriininate against “indus
trials’ ’ when they were being launched
upon the market at so prodigious a rate.
The only wonder is that they did not
frown upon such paper as security fori
loans sooner than they did, in view of
the entire lack of trustworthy informs-,
tion regasding the possible earning,
power of the combined properties. As!
has been pointed out by a few eastern
papers in the ^ase of railroads, therei
have been periodical statements of earn-
ings and expenses at least upon which
to base judgments regarding dividend
paying ability, whereas in the case of
industrials no substantial information,
has been volunteered, and hot all the
crowbars of official investigation have
availed to pry ont any. The sugar trust
and others have baffled all efforts to ex-
pose their “private business,” and all
of them have manifested a determina-
tion to conceal all knowledge from the
people whom they Invite to purchase
their stock. They merely state that they
have realized good profits and expect to
realize more: For the rest they seem to
rely upon the popular impression that a
trust can extort whatever it likes and
make almost any profit.—Chicago
Chronicle.
RALLIED BY BRYAN.
An Excellent Combination.
The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well knoWn remedy.
Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the
California Fie Syrup Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
medicinally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently.' Its perfect freedom from
every objectionable quality and sub-
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid imitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
BAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOTJIBVTLLE. KY NEW YORK. N. Y.
For sale by all Druggist*.—Price 50c. per bottle
The People In the Saddle, and the
Chicago Platform Mast Stand.
In his speech before a Democratic
meeting in Kansas Mr. Bryan gave ut-
terance to the great Democratic troth
of the hour—the Chicago platform
must stand I The Internal opposition to
Democracy has been disappointed. Snch
whilom leaders as Palmer, Carlisle,
Bynum and others have been unloaded
and branded so that they are Incapable
of farther harm. The Democratic
masses which stood together in 1896
have long since been reernited by those
who ware misled at the timo bv false
Dn Small's Warning Words.
-Is it not strictly true that never be-
fore in the history of the human race
was society menaced by a graver peril
than that now threatened by what Dr.
Small of Chicago university calls capi-
tal? Can any reasonable being doubt
that the principle according to which
modern capital now asaerta itself is at
the moral antipodes freftn the golden,
rale? Is it strange that occasionally a
Boanerges arises who too vehemently
calls attention to the dark colors of the
picture he sees to the neglect of the
more cheerful tones?—■ Dea Moim-s
Hoar and Hla Crttlee.
Senator Hoar has again given some
sage opinions on the Philippine ques-
tion. The efforts of sundry newspapers
to reply to him and confuse him usually
amount to nothing more than mean
abuse. As arguments they are pitia-
ble. This does not reflect on the smart-
ness of tbs editors so much as it reflects
the fact that Mr. Hoar is right and tha
editors wrong.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Thai Cough
Hangs or
I You have used all
sorts of cough reme-
I dies but it does not
■yield; it is too deep
seated. It may wear|
|itself out in time, but
it is more liable tol
I produce la grippe,
pneumonia or a seri-
ous throat affection.
You need something
that will give you
strength and build
up the body.
SCOTT’S
EMULSION
will do this when everything
else falls. There is no doubt
about it. It nourishes,
strengthens, builds up and
makes the body strong and
healthy, not only to throw
off this hard cough, but to
fortify the system against
further attacks. If you are
run down or emaciated you
should certainly take this
nourishing food medicine.
toe. and fi.aot all druggist*.
NCOTT A MOWftK, Chcmiaia. N«*v York
leaders, in Mb! 'Democratic national
convention orTfiOO tWo will be neither
spies nor bolters—all Democrats, all
upon the platform, and all determined
to bury Republicanism and its allies.
Mr. Bryan, therefore, spoke the truth
when he declared that there now exists
a harmony which has been hitherto un-
known. For nearly hfflf a century na-
tional Democratic conventions have
been juggling’meetings where men dia-
metrically opposed to each other were
engaged in trying to hoodwink one an-
other. Platforms were made which
were interpreted one way in New York
and the other way in Georgia, so as to
meet the exigencies of the commercial
statesman. In the spring of 1696 tha
masses concluded that they had been
juggled long enough and that the time
had come for plain speaking. It was a
surprise to the commercial statesmen
indeed when they reached Chicago and
found that the people were in the saddle.
For once they were detei mined to have
a platform which any wayfaring man
might understand. Notwithstanding
the presence of scuttlers in the ship, it
well nigh came into port. Now that1
the scuttlers are gone the platform re-
mains as good aa ever and the people
are standing squarely upon it True it
is, as stated by Mr. Bryan, that the,
Democratic platform of 1900 will be
written by those who stood upon the
platform of 1896, not by those who
tried to overthrow the Democratic party
in that campaign.
Flank? New York Journalism.
The leader of the yellow journals de-
voted three or more full pages recently
to pictures and particulars of the Van-;
derbilt-Fair wedding. What is this sort
of publicity the sign of ? a thoughtful
person must ask. Depressing in the ex-i
treme must be the reflections of any
who hope for the elevation and intelli-.
gence and independence of thinking of |
the masses composing the nation. Have
the yellow papers rightly ganged the
thought and desires of their readers
and given them what they wanted?
Or have snch newspapers only created
the demand for such stuff for the pur-
pose of catering to it ?—Boston Tran-
script.
Doaktlesa a Conditional .Gift.
John D. Rockefeller has offered.the
trustees of- Dennison university $100,**
000 if they will raisel$l6^U)0Ojnore for;
the institution within thAengulng.Teir.tj
Doubtless another,conffitjiqAjsJhatjMr.
r's wishes
Rockefeller’s
in the selection of n'^profeesor^^pcdlS-1
cal economy.—Dee MoineiT Leader
As She Heard It.
After the new servant bad been in-
stalled in the home of a New Jersey
housewife the day finally came when
the privilege of “going ont” bad to be
decided on. This fell on a Thursday, to
which the mistress assented.
“You may go today, Bridget,” she
said, “and every other Thursday.”
“All right, ma’am,” replied Bridget.
The next week on Thursday surprise
was great at Bridget’s coming from her
room all togged out for another after-
noon out The mistress rebelled and
asked her if she remembered that she
was to go out only every other Thura
day.
“Certainly I do, ma’am, oertalnlyl
Didn't you say I could go out that
Thursday and ‘every other Thursday’—
that Thursday and every Thursday aft-
erward?”
“No, not” replied the mistress. “That
Thursday and every second Thursday
theresftsr. ”
“Sure you didn’t say so. You posi-
tively told me that Thursday and every
other Thursday. Of oourae that means
every Thursday. ”
Bridget won.—New York Bun.
The entomological editor of a Para
newspaper has swelled the already nn-
equaled list of Brasil’s noxious insects
with a remarkable discovery. The new
peat is a wasp with a spiral sting of
unusual proportions. The insect, fur-
thermore, lives _
and its sting has the effect of
naming the victim in suoh a manner
Mr vnrything he tastes sad smelts
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1899, newspaper, June 9, 1899; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1126196/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.