Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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Rose fragrance beside the perfume
* which bears ire name here. And
the odors of all the flowers of the field
and garden have been made captive
>and strengthened. ’t>arffiWof
Perfumeries Includes all the latest and
and Collet moat popular preparations.
Waters They are strong, but deli-
cate and lasting. Our
prices on all toilet goods is in accord-
ance with our policy of offering the
best for the least money.
In case of sickness remember that
our Drug and Prescription departments
are well equipped ana efficient.
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I Have Sold a Car Load Df
MITCHELL WAGONS
In tlie past two weeks and I want to sell a car load of
Cooking and Beating Stones
IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
I have every style^and shape st:ove imaginable and my prices will suit your pocket book.
If you want a stove come and see me. If you have bought a stove from me and you know of a neighbor
who wants one, tell them where to get one just like yours. The best advertising medium on earth is a mdn’s
customers, and I am always ready to stand by what my customers say of the goods I sell. My stock of
hardware and Saddlerp
Is complete in every department, My goods are the best and my prices are as cheap as the cheapest.
I Will Bup all of your COtlOH at the Digest market price.
I want your trade and will appreciate it. Coin* and see me when in town.
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An Honest Million.
I have never been so impressed b.v a
place where there was so little to see as
by Nazareth, once the home of the ‘one
whose gentle life and wise teachings
have so remarkably influenced-the civ-
ilized world. The place is not particu-
larly impressive, but one’s thoughts
are thronged with memories of teach
ings which began at mother’s knee,
then continued in the Sunday-school.. nhriatinna are persecuted in various
church, &c., and connected with every Cljuntries, th© Roman Empire disap-
eacred relation, as christenings, wed-
dings and funerals. And here was HiB
home! We are trodding the very Streets
He trod. The views that meet our eyes
in every direction are scenes once la-
milliar to Him. Yonder mountain is
practically the same now as it was
when it was a familiar figure in' His_
dally landscape. Yonder plain of Es
draelon, which we crossed in coming
here, was well known to Him. I went
to bed that night with an impressive
realization that I was to sleep in a
town that was once His home. And
when leaving the next day I often turn-
rny horpe about to look again and again
at the little town and Its surrounding
hills and valleys—scenes of His daily
. life.
In the last few years, during which
the industrial question has assumed
such great importance in our country,
my miud has often gone back to those
scenes in Galilee. I have thought of
the principal actor, not as a teacher,
but as a workingman—the Carpenter
of Galileo. Millionaires and multi
millionaires have become numerous in
our country, bringing in their wake an
yirmy of unemployed, many of whom,
't>y force of conditions; degenerate into
tramps and vagabonds. Both these
classes, the millionaires and tramps,
are a detriment to the best interests of
our country. I have made a calcula-
tion bearing upon the honesty of these
millions,iii private coffers, and to help
us to realize whjat a sum a million dol-
lars is. All Will agree that when
workingman can save $1 every working
day in the year he is doing well.
Our era begins with the bir.h of this
Carpenter of'Galilee. Let. iih suppose
TO WHAT SEAPORT ARE WE
; going?
When I was discussing the Re-
lief railroad last campaign against
M.c., he, in derision, woulask:
“X© what seaport are we goin^?”
and would answer as derisively
that we were going to some sand-
bar, and by his impudence and im-
pertenance almost vex my rigbt-
eour soul to death;; and he would
"swear until he was a degree black-
peara* the tek ^7™ ?§ the th“ he naturally is
: - - ... (and you know he must have been
awful to behold) that the commis-
sion could, and had regulated rail-
road rates. I insisted that in the
rnnin, the commission had only
re.duced the rates fixed by the rail-
has a long and weary task before him.
to earn so large an amount as a million
dollars. Our hero must trudge along
thru summer’s heat and winter’s
storms. Years ^nd decades come and
go until they grow into .centuries, and
I he works on, for his task^is only
bfgun. He sees empires and kingdoms
rise and fall, but still he labors on, for
the greater part of his task is still be-
fore him.
labors on, his task not yet completed
The crusades are fought, America is
discovered, modern science awakens
the world from its shroud of darkness,
and still he labors on.' The stiring
events of modern hisfory transpire and , , . .
bring us down to the present moment, J?ad corporations just as. they saw
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that he was able to begin work on the
day of his birth and that each working
day he was able to save $1 above his
living expenses. Let us suppose that
^i-r-'-ver loses a day by sickness or bad
weather,‘dud that his life and' health
anil strength arc miraculously prolong-
ed until he shall earn one million dol-
lars by saving $1 for every working day.
Then we will l e able to realize what an
honest million is.
We vili trace our workman vyho be-
gan work on the day of Ms birth. At
the historic time of his death, at the
ago of 33, what would he be worth?
The calculation is easy; 365 days minus
52 Sundays equals 313 working days in
each year. Multiply that Ipy 33 years
and we have 10,329 days; but wre must
add eight days for eight leap years.
This would make"it 10,337—and $1 per
day saved would equal as many dollars
—$10,337. Far from a million, yet labor
began at birth and never a holiday nor
a day lost by sickness! Let us supi
pose that he had lived the alloteji 70
years; then how would the account
stand? Only $21,927! Our workman
Hood’s
Are much in little; always ■ ■ ■
ready, efficient, satlsfao- L_JI ■ B 1 A
tory ; prevent a cold or fever, ■ ra fl ■ 2k
cure all liver till, elck head- ■ ■ ■ ■
ache, jaundice, constipation, etc. Price 25 cants.
The only Pills to talcs with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
and—would you believe it?—our Car
penter is still laboring on, not yet hav-
ing saved a million dollars, yet not hav-
ing missed a single day from sickness
pr any other cause in all these centu-
ries. Let us see how his task would
stand at this time. We are not count-
ing interest, but purely the earnings of
labor. We have seen that his savings
would be $313 per year; this would be
$31,300 per century, but adding 25 days
for 25 leap years per century, it would
be $31,325 per century. To determine
how his account would stand at the be-
ginning of the present century multiply
$31‘525 by 18, and the result is $561,850,
and add $30,048 for the 96 years of the
present century and the amount is
$591,898. So~the task at the present
titne-would be only a little more than
half done. Let us in imagination bring
him before us. Here he comes, time-
scarred, storm-scarred, labor-scarred.
We ask him questions. He tells us in-
teresting stories of how he has builded
homes for princes and peasants in
many countries, of how he worked on
the Colosseum, the Alhambra and St.
Peter’s. He mentions familliarly such
masters as Michael Angelo. He prais^
his good fortune in having steady em-
ployment during all these centuries,
and that his wages were always
promptly paid and that ho was allowed
tn make up thin time lost by going from
one job to another by night work—but
suddenly he says: “I must not tarry. I
am the drujjjge of the ages, with the
task of earning a million dollars. 1
must get it honestly, therefore I must
earn it. My task will require many,
many years, even centuries yet, so ad-
ieu.” With this he leaves us. But does
he not leave many reflections concern-
ing our millionaires and their millions?
What shall we say to those who obtain
not only one million, but many millions
in the few years of the adult period of
a Single life? ... <„
It is plain that no man can earn a;
million dollars in a bjrief human life,
however bard he may work* But many
have become'miillduaireH^and while it
is impossible to do bo honestly, in a
strictly ethical sense, we will admit
that some have done so legally. This
shows that these men have been en-
abled to do this only by the many ad-
vantages of the, institutions o: this
country and aided by the protection of
the law. i'heu, db these men owe noth-
ing to the country and to the law? In-
deed, they owe much. But as a rnlp
they systematically “dodee” taxes dur-
ing life, and at death are permitted to
-make any disposition of their vast pos-
sessions that they ma> desire to order
in their will, without any contribution
to the government lb.!I made possible
the accumulation of their foil tines. Is
it not just and fair * that u percentage
should go. to the government? Tne
people of other countries think so, but
we, as usual, are behind.—-Dr. C. F.
Taylor in The Medical World for May,
1896.
Hogg and the Commission was
coming, known as paper rates, ad-
mitted by Judge Reagan in a cot-
ton hearing last spring, to, exist,
which rates fixed the price of hauls
above what the railroads really
hauled for. So you see, it was
easy to mftke it appear that the
Commission was doing wonders,
when It was only reducing the
rates when the railroads didn’t
chafge even as much as to what
they were reduced.
But by and by when the Com-
mission got down to the rates the
railroads really hauled for, and
finding them exhorbitant, began to
reduce them. The corporations
raised such a howl that I haven’t
seen but one coyote in Texas since.
I don’t know whether the corpora-
tions got Judge McCormick to
serve injunctions on the coyotes
or not, but he shot a 13-inch in-
junction into the Commission, and
it came near scaring Surgeon Gen-
eral Culberson to death. Subse-
quently, the ‘‘little Christian gov-
ernor” who killed the cat, that ate
the rat, that lay in the Dallas
house that Dan Stewart-built, more
recently posing as democratic can-
didate for United States Senator,
and having agreed with the biggest
hog in Texas to pay him $10,100
to collect money from the United
States that a 2-cent postage stamp
would have collected; and yet, till
of us demecrats are ready to take
an oath on the rock of* Gibraltar
that he is the most statesman-like
and economic would-be senator
who ever survived the fittest. He,
the said Culberson, at that time
kill the Commission, it can’t point
to its deeds (the rates) and say:
See here what evil it/ hath done.
Therefore it should die because
the rates, the very things-for doing
which it is supposed to be tried,
are withdrawn. /If,' on the other
hand, the- court decides to spare
the life ol theDommission, it can’t
point to the rates as the justifying
cause in parts and purposes of its
existence, beeatise the question of
rates, having been withdrawn, are
not to be considered in the case.
Thus, it is seen, that-so far as this
sort of-court decision is concerned,
the objects of the Commission are
as indefinite as the decision is
baseless and impracticable.
Now let the Commission, thus
spared, go to fixing rates again,
Arid the moment they fix them to
the displeasure of the corporations
they will be enjoined, their work
impeached, if not the life of the
Commission imperiled;
As proof in point, I call atten-
tion to the late injunction case, us
a result^ the railroads are
filling their . . ,k by extortion,
while every branch of industry in
Texas suffers untold loss. So it
will be asv long as individuals or
soulless corporations, impelled by
an insatiable greed, are allowed to
control public utilities. The only
remedy is state (government) ow-
nership. Then road beds can
be constructed or purchased at
reasonable prices, employing con-
vict labor on them profitably to
the state, taking it out of competi*
lion to citizen’s labor. No watered
stock to broaden the basis for div-
idends. Then when the tax^asses-
sor comes, turn right around and
swear the basis fixed for dividends
is* all a lie, that our $65,000 per
mile railroad is only worth $7,850
peraaile for taxable purposes, as
per recent report of Comptroller
Finley..
Nay, we will not only preserve
ottr morals by removing the temp-
tation to swear falsely, but also be
exempt from taxation on our road
stareB them in the face, and they
find themselves wholly at the mer-
cy (?) of merciless, soulless corpo-
rations, being robbed by them in
broad daylight without a word of
remonstrance; that too, in the face
of the triumphs of government ow-
nership in the- countries named
above, and many others that could
be named. * , "
Democratic farmers, mechanics,
laborers do not make exorbitant
railroad rates, low prices for all
eomodities you produce, horses
and mules included. The extrav-
igance of official and salaried
classes, the affluence of profession-
al and mercantile classes contrast
strikingly enough with your own
pitiable impoverished condition to
make you think for yourself! Are
not the advantages of their chil-
dren, though none too great,
enough greater than those of your
own poor, dear children to make
you act, realizing something is rad-
ically wrong and demands imme-
diate action? Then let’s get to-
gether and vote things straight in
1900. J. D. Shelton.
to PISO’S CURE FOR ^
The Belton Reporter says: “It
is reiterated from Dallas that Tra-
cy and Gibbs are seeking a demo-
cratic camp-meeting so they can
repent of their "populism.” This
causes the Holland Progress to re-
mark: “Perhaps if they would
come down to Belton, editor Geo.
Robinson might be able to give
them bis new fangle way of getting
back into the democratic party
without repentance.” The whole
thing is a ghost story; a phantom
creation of the disordered brain of
the Dallas Correspondent of the
Houston Post, nothing more.—
Mercury.
Wednesday Night, January 11, 1809.
The next attraction at the opera
house will he the return engagement of
like other public property. Now,
you blatherskiting democrat, don’t
holler “Taxable resources cut off”
so loud; we’ll take care of that
when we fix our rates and then
haul freight and passengers two
thirds cheaper than the corpora-
tions do. Pay operating expenses,
attorney general of Texas, told the interest on bonds, if any, create a
court if it would decide on the con-
stitutionality of the commission
he would withdraw, the feature of
the rates, thus, virtually yielding
the Commission’s right to make
rates.
If, as it is Baid, the question of
rates Was withdrawn to get an im-
mediate decision on the constitu-
tionality of the Commission, so
that it could become operative, I
ask: ,
1st. By what means was it
known that the decision would be
such as'To insure one operative,
and not a dead commission?
2fid. Was fnot the works of the
Commission the very things that
were to determine whether or not
it ou^ht to live or die, bo operative
or inoperative, and were not these
rates the works of the commission?
’ If the answer is “yes,” it is, in
my judgment, not only correct,
but it leaves the court without an
intelligent reason for action, and
nothing practicable to decide. In
sinking fund to buy or build^pther
roads, notrutt $60,000 per mile, but
at a reasonable price by consent of
a majority of the people in the ex-
ercise of, direct legislation, thus
making jailrondfl the servant of,
and great blessings, to all the peo-
ple like it is in Germany, Prussia,
Australia, Hungary and many oth-
er countries in tho old world.
Then would .wo shine forth as a
star with dazzling resplendence in
the galaxy of nations? '
It’s a shame to present humani-
ty, and • an unpardonable sin
against posterity that blind parti-
san fools will allow the demagogs
and demijohns of this hypocritical
democracy to so blind them to
their’s and their children’s inter-
ests by prejudicing them against
their intuitive right to act on every
measure by which they afe gov-
erned, as in direct legislation; or,
fo prejudice thd-m against govern-
ment ownership as the only means
of control, when eight years abso-
^ CONSUMPTION
Cateohiim.
Ques. What is the method pro-
poBed by the republican party for
issuing money to the people?
Ads. Through the ihedium of
the national banks. n
Q. .How do national banks sup-
ply the country with money?
A. They loan it to people upon
interesting bearing promises to
pay.
Q. What is national bank'mon-
ey?
A. . it is a promissory note is-
sued by the bank.
Q. What makes the note good?
A. It is endorsed by the gov-
ernment, which makes il is sound
as the credit of the government.
Qs Upon what it ihe credit of
the government based?
A. It is based upon the credit
of the people. 7
Q. When the people borrow
national bank money for the pur-
pose of carrying on tbeir necessary
business affairs, for the use of
whose credit do they pay interest?
A. They pay interest for the
privilege of using their own credit.
Q. Are not national bankers j
very bad men?
A. No, not necessarily. It is
the system that is bad; not the
men who use it. If the railroad ^
should offer to pay you well for \
the privilege of hauling you to any
point you might designate, in one
of their palace cars, do you think
you would reject the offer and go
afoot? Not often. If the railroad
company was simple enough to
make such an offer, and you took
advantage of it, no one could just-
ly accuse you of being a bad man
becauso the railroad company
made a fool of itself. It it the
same way with the national, banks.
—Better Way.
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Fitz and Webster’s rousing musical
farce comedy “A Breezy Time.” The
adjective that is included in the title
of the farce comedy “A Breezy Time”
fitly indicates the nature of the pro.
duclion. It has been the purpose of
the author to make the preformance
breezy, simply refreshing enough to re-
vive jaded minds and not cause the
mind to sit in a draught, so to speak.
The company includes more than a
dozen of the cleverest farcears in the
profession, each having been selected
to exactly fit the roll he or she may be
cast for. Don’t forget the date. Tick-
ets will be on sale Monday morning,
January 0, at the Old Corner drug
store.
Noties This.
We will give tbe Dallas or Galveston
News, Houston Post, Or any other great
semi-weekly paper, in fact, aoy weekly
or semi-weekly paper and the Messen-
ger one year for $1.75, in advance. We
send subscriptions to any paper at our
expense., If yon want any paper, call
on us; we can save you tbe expense and
trouble Of writing. ^ tf
It seems that New York juries, as
well as individuals, can be “badgered.”
Gentry has vapor baths, also hot and
oold baths, at bis barber shop on Main
street. 10-6-tf
other words, if the court decides to lute failure by the last Commission
When yon want groceries for Cash,
remember the Ferguson corner is the
price maker.
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The Weatner Calendar.
The Messenger bas received the Oar*-
dui Weathe^. Chart and Calendar for
1809 from the Chattanooga Medicine
Co., manufacturers of -McElree’s Wine
of Cardui and Tbedford’s Blaok-
Draugbt. This is one of the best Cal-
endars published. It consists of twelve
sheets of paper, 13x20 inches In size, all
fastened together with a brass loop
hanger. Each sheet contains the cal-
anriar for one month in Garge figures
that can be read across ady room. Un-
der the figures patent weather sighals
indicating Prof. DeVoe’s Weather Fore-
casts for every day in the year appear.
Tbe moon’s changes and legal holidays
are also shown. Tho calendar is valu-
able in any home. We understand a
few copies of it can be secured by send-
ing 10 one-cent postage stamps to The
Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn. ,
Georgia’s gold producing area is giv-
ing evidence of on expected boom. Its
friends believe it deserves it and that
big money awaits intelligent and fi-
nancially backed gold hunters. At any
rate there are no Klondike terrors to
bd contend with.
Those indebted to J. C. Arnold are
requested to come in and settle at once.
We must have oar Money.
Tbe Ferguson corner keeps up its
reputation as tbe price maker on first-
class groceries. *
Foreigners may be a little puzzled by
the statement of Col. Bryan that be
resigned bis commission in tbe army,
in order to get in tbe fight. Of coarse,
Americans know tbst be meant the po-
litical fight.
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And then forget It. I want every one
ofyou who owe me, to call at once and
settle your accounts. J. 0. Askold.
Vendors lien notes &, at this office,
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