The Bryan Eagle. (Bryan, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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Bryan has a Furniture Store that surpasses anything ever seen in a town of its size. The largest stock of furniture ever shown before. We have made some wonderful
changes in our Furniture Store. We how a large and varied stock of furniture on three floors. If you haven't visited the store since the improvements have been made
you should do so. Y i will b; fully rcpiid for our visit. We are "A Store With the Goods." You will not have to hunt for what you want. You will see it here. Prices
mirk:d ii plain figures with a discount of Ten per cent to cash buers.
Our Furniture is bettor than is usually carried by the small town stpres. Our prices arc right. Our cash discounts makes it possible for the cash buyer to save money.
We buy in large quantities. We get big discounts because we pay Spot Cash. We give it to you if you pay cash. See what wc have to show you before you buy.
FURNITURE That's Right
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RYAN'S BIG FURNITURE AND BUGGY HOUSE
PRICES That Are Right
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Pays High Compliment to Progressiveness of
t Lone .Star State. Eloquent Tributes to
Hogg And Other Eminent Texans
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pHllas Texas Oct. 2S. tiovernor
Woodrow Wilson of New .Itrsey camp
io this city today as the Riiest of Wie
Dallas County Woodrow Wilson C'lul)
and the Texas Slate Fair Association.
He RiH'iit the morning nt the Mate fair
and this afternoon spoke before dem-
ocrats from all over the state assem-
bled in the' Coliseum.
Governor Wilson said. In part:
I feel very keenly the pleasure and
the stimulation of facing this great
audience drawn from so many parts
of this imperial state. An audience
that represents Texas represents a
sreat deal of what is characteristic o?
the force and Initiative of modern
liars. Texas stems from the first to
have had the capacity and to have
obeyed the impulse of a state able to
care for its own people and to look
forward to the future in the reflation
of Its own affairs. All the country
recognizes It ns one of the most pro-
gressive states of the Union a State
where things move forward from
measure to measure without vacilla-
tion and without fear.
It is interesting to note In how many
matters now occupying the foreground
of our thought In America Texas has
set a notable emple. It was in
TexiH. for example that the commis-
sion form of government for cities
was originated a reform which lias
none so far already towards redeem
ing our cities from their chaos and
misgovernment.
Texas led the way in railroad reg-
ulation. Her railway commission was
one of the very first that established
the method now accepted evciywhei
for the determination of the relations
iK'tween our communities and our pub-
lic service corporations.
Some of the men who were promi-
nent in these reforms are gone nota
bly Coventor Hogg who so truly won
the affection and confidence of his
people; and Senator Heagan wha
played so notable a part upon the na-
tional as well as upon the local stage
in the matter of railway regulation.
Hut Judge Terrell of Austin U still
among "s to receive the tribute of our
admiration and gratitude. These men
were among the notable pioneers of
present day economic and political re-
form and it is very delightful stand-
ing here to pay my tribute of respect
and admiration to them.
Texas also undertook at an un-
usually early date the regulation of
the Issue of stocks and bonds by cor-
porations particularly by railroad
companies and ! understand that the
regulations she initiated have resulted
very satisfactorily indeed. The people
of Texas know whom to follow and
what to do under their leadership.
They have shown themselves enlight-
ened progressive confident capable
of achievement. It is cuch things as
these that stimulate the imagination
In facing a great company of her rep-
resentative citizens like that gathered
here today.
There was a time but three or four
.wars ago when men who stood high
in the councils of the nation openlv
asked the question "What was to be-
come of the powers of the states?''
pressing the inquiry not liccause they
entertained any jealousy of those pow-
ers but because apparently the states
were not inclined to eexreise them
were lethargic and indifferent in tin
presence of conditions which needed
thoughtful and effective remedy. But
such talk'-Uas ceased the states have
asserted themselves each state is at-
tempting a systematic treatment of iti
own problems studying them from the
point of view of its own people and
adapting the remedy to the circum- living in a fool's paradise; whether too great sieed In (change would de-
Ktances. Texas led the way in this i we were not boasting of representative feat our very object which is not de-
renaissauce of the functions of the : institutions when we really did not struction but the purification and rec-
states but all the country is now quick j have them; whether we were notification of what is wrong. Many
with the new life and America is be- caught in an elaborate system of elec- things that look radical by way ofrem-
ginning once again to realize the hap- tions and delegations of power which dy are no doubt coservative enougn
py circumstance that our diversified made our government virtually Inde- j because a state can not be tender with
conditions can be met w ithout any fu- i pendent of the force of general opin-1 things that are manifestly wrong un
tile attempt to apply a too uniform ion.
remedy. Our states are our testing I Reform began to come in our states
grounds and they have full power and : as the people awakened to these clr- j addresses itself to the correction of
authority to make trial of the rem- 'cumstances and bestirred themselves one mannesi evu ai a ume mai uaueu
itself upon actual facts and not upon
extravagant theories ihat intends
what i3 just and accomplishes it by
never going too far is not only not
just intolerable to our people. But the
change that comes step by step that
edies which commend themselves to
them. In many things it is desirable
nay imperative that we should co-
operate and bring about as nearly as
possible uniform regulation. But In
others we shall be strong only when
we adapt ourselves mo3t perfectly to
the variety of our people of our soil
of our products of our social and
economic development.
The states are the political labora-
tories of a free people. Their self-
adjustment is the most vital processor
our life. The danger of a too great
concentration of authority in the gov-
ernment at Washington is not so much
a constitutional danger as a practical
danger. It is the danger of an arti-
ficial uniformity of an arbitrary unity
of a system without elasticity of reg-
ulation without local accommodation.
One of the reasons why our states
flagged in the exercise of their pow-
ers; one of the reasons why the ques-
tion arose whether they were going to
exercise them or let them lapse by
neglect was that they did not have
such political arrangements as made
it easy for public opinion to tell upon
legislation and effect the objects which
thoughtful and public spirited men had
long had in mind. There has been go-
ing on all over the United States a
process of somewhat profound polit-
ical change. The change has rot been
uniform. In one state It was produced
by one set of conditions; in another
by another; but almost everywhere
there was this common difficulty that
the government did not seem easily
responsive to opinion; that the people
seemed caught in an elaborate ma-
chinery of politics which could be
manipulated ngainst them which
could be so used as again and again
and again to cheat them of the objects
they sought which seemed to put the
whole control of affairs in the hands
of small coteries of men who were ex-
to take control of their own affairs
once more so that we have come upon
one of the most important because
one of the most difficult periods of our
politics. We are trying nothing less radical but is profoundly and essen-
than to revise our methods of political jtially conservative. If there be dis-
action w hile we are in the midjt of :eases in our economic body It is con-
a great economic readjustment. Both servative to cure them not'to let them
They will work eventual de
struction much more surely than any
well intentloned remedy could bring ir
about.
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our instrumentalities of action and the aione
objects we employ them to accompiisn
are under debate. We are discussing
both w hat we shall do and what means
and instruments we have at hand by
which to do them.
Our objects are clear. We want a
truly rce that is a truly open and
truly representative set of govern-
ments for our states and by repre-
sentative we do not merely mean gov-
ernments of ersoii3 elected to repre-
sent us but actually and constantly
responsive to the larger and more per-
manent movements of public opinion.
So long as there wa3 nothing in par-
ticular to do so long as we did not
clearly recognize our problems and
had not seriously applied ourselves to
the remedy we got along well enough
under the arrangements we had al-
ready made; were indifferent and in-
attentive pushed forward In any easy-
going and thoughtless prosperity in
which we did not seem to need the
assistance of government or the regu-
lation of law. But now we are aware
of the complicated and difficult tasks
of economic readjustment which are
Immediately necessary and knowing
this necessity we are as much inter-
ested in the full restoration of our
representative Institutions as in the
accomplishment of our legislative ob-
jects. We can not have the one with-
out the other.
Because we want a just well con-
sidered moderately eexcuted leadjust
ment of our present economic condi-
tionsa readjustment based upon the
facts we have become impatient of
monopoly; not prosperity but the da-
termination by limited bodies of mei
f the form which our prosperity shall
take. They can not be silenced. They
can not be shunted on one side. They
are speaking the opinions ani convic-
tions of the people. Once entrusted
with authority they -will accomplish
their objects with the self-possession
and moderation of statesmen and pa
triots..
But where are they? What is their
organization for success? What pros-
pect have they of controlling the af-
fairs of our states and of the nation?
We act by parties and must always
do so. Parties are but organizations
of men of like conviction and purpose
for common objects. They can not
effect the necessary concert unless
they join themselves in uni(ed co-
operative bodies? The only organiza-
tion now at the disposal of the pro-
gressive thought of the country is the
i. fmotn f (hn..p.ht democratic party. There are thou-
upon these matters in the United sands f Progressives nominally in the
tnt i nrnrincinr the present ; republican party and they are led by
alignment in our politics. We are now
divided not so distinctly into demo-
crats and republicans as we are into
progressives and those who resist
change.
men of extraordinary ability and equip-
ment. But they are in a minority in
their own party. They are not in con-
trol of its organization. They can not
use it to accomplish their objects.
Prosperity itself rests upon the peo- They are thwarted by Its leaders. The
pie and the facts. A contented and wmocranc party on we ower nana
hopeful people means a rich and va-1 n control of its progressive ele-
ried economic development. The peo- "nts; stands nearer the people and
pie of the United States are not con-. the facts than does the republican
tented. They are just now not as hope-. Prtjr as an organization. It is ready
ful as they should be. They are sun-! d free and determined to act. Its
plcious of the foundations of their ! councils have been accommodated to
hcin Thev ar convinced that the circumstances and needs of a new
something inequitable lies at the basis " is no more radical than the
progressive element of the republican
party. Its radicalism like theirs con-
sists simply in the determination to
face realities and devise suitable rem-
edies remedies which will heal not
exasperate; remedie3 which will quiet
of the great power which small bodies
of men now exercise in the business
world. 'These are the conditions not
of prosperity but of disquiet and
there is only one remedy for them
tho miiuuIv which nroeressives seek i
They seek it. not with hostility to the jesting distempers and furnish busi-
present conditions which make whole- n' conceivable perma-
some business impossible. They are nnt basis-the basis of universal con-
seeking the facts. They are analyzing "dence. It is capable of common
them without fear or favor and they counsel because it is united and by
are seeking remedies which will meet common counsel it will unquestionably
; produce a program of action w hich
It is
ercising not representative. but ; nil sophistication about the facts; we
usurped authority and who were exer-
cising it too often for private and not
for public objects. As I said this was
not true of all the states. The utmost
variety existed in this respect as In
many others but it was true in so
many states that men had begun ta
ask themselves whether we were no'
have determined to go to the root of
matter's in our analysis of them and
to be perfectly fearless in out; discov-
ery of them; We mean to be conserva-
tive in the remedies we apply be-
cause we liiiow that it is absolutely
necessary to hold the delicate fabric
of business together. We know that
worth while to note that the?
chief representatives of the progres-
sive political thought of the country
are the men who are hard students j
who always go into debate furnished
from top to toe with the facts of the
case they are discussing: that their
speeches are not inflamed with rhet-
oric but bristle with verifiable facts.
They are seeking adjustment accom-
modations of interest. They make
startling statements but they seldom
propose startling changes in our law.
They merely propose solver regulation.
They are fighting not busine?s. but
will bring in a new era of quietude
and prosperity.
Things can not go on as they are
and only the democratic party is ready
to alter them. Its leaders come from
every quarter of the country; are in
touch with conditions of every kind;
are keenly aware of the careful ac-
commodations which nre necessary if
a whole nation is to be properly
served: have the points of view of
populations of many kinds living in
many circumstances. Are not these
the conditions of progress and enlight-
enment and achievement?
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