The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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graft, in Sunday '> papers
t a .-column artiwfe
j icg.. Christianity > m
the ■ manner „i>: ■ a ay
* Re . : “ s' primary ru:p.-e :> •'
• tearn u> ’*»• to li\e. The mar
! w:th a good.!ftearid a bad creed is
Cette: than .-. na: ■> ;i" ^ g .
i cre—d arid a bad :fe.
■•Life s:;_uid ^e fuli • * the -spirit
.•Christ, whether it - the i a bora-
tor v, m-the Jie^d or
copy mg Christ's
et us Sivs& in the
mere matting
nly criterion;
men . whose'
re •ojr common heritage.'
' in' % ery ir,dS9erate gugiaynJ
Stances,, r e>cn in poverty. More-]
ev is ret - measure of brains . !
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t .' !u.i_re. a pass:-, e map 'dees'
net. A real man is .not hurt by j
hard knocks.. ' Hard knocks make;
THE THROUGH CAR ROUTH
FROM
Fort Worth, Dallas, Waco an4 Intermediates
to St Louis, Memphis and Other Points
EXCELLENT CONNECTIONS TO
ALL POINTS NORTH and EAST V
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CONV ENIENT SCHEDUDE5,
COURTEOUS TREATMENT.
„ UP-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT
Call on any Cotton Beit agent for full information regarding
yonr'trip, or address.
JOHN F. LflUNt.
Gentral freight and Pas». 4gt..
Tyler, Tftas.
D. M. M0RG1S
Tra>eling Passenger Agent
Ft Hortfc. Texas.
R. C. FTFF.
Ass't. Gen. Frt. and Pass. 4gent.
Tyler, Texas.
SIS HOOVER.
Traveling Passenger Agent
IVaco. Texas.
the offibei
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If i had my
again 1 am sure
vp;
of ■
issue
em is
or levy a tax.. When we find
•'where tare arc at*' o«! t epr posi-
tion and learn what step.y are nrc-
e^sary td rorre-ct the faulty peti-
tion, thrn we ma.y proceed intel-
rge’ntly. L’ntii then, let every
man rcser. c ' his. judgment. • Do
not declart yourself fur of against
a proposition until y c-u arc r*' *m-
• the merit^ f the matter.
) live oyer
snotrfd ret "at-
tempt ttx. move in what is termed
i. “society." I would rather be one of ’
reiterating ms firmer statements, "tvery strong .ife-spring? :ut of|a few gathered together by a bond, Set ffleadj/ to J’tl/.
concerning the prevalence * grurtmome- deep-rooted conviction.. A of friendship thanto partake of all | . .... '
in tb.v county* governments of the' breed is something that we hold, the glitter and hollowness of what1
state. But hefaiieTtamake good.T*tsEaconviction is something .that is called the “Four Hundred.”
He suyshe can “give -the names of holds urn The life of Christianiny The friendship of a few outlives
officer.-'who will corroborate his j spring* out of these convictions; J life itself. Friendship remembers;
statement if they' are assured no
publicity will .be given." In thus I son of God,
shielding the grafters, is he not u —
, God is our father, and man is the society forgets ..In the home only
is there true happiness. -It ’is
- ,y — there that a man’s best ideas get
_=g,—THE SCRAP «BO iK.
John P. Holland, the inventor, of |
the submarinewarship, said some
very interesting things at a recent j
banquet. The element that.occu-j
j bigger things from the future than
those which they dug from the past,
i Thy asrship age, they, say, is at-
| hand, and the human race may
j get ready to fly.
It the rarm.er car
nog
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maease:
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rottori
party to the practice.3 Why doesn't'
he give-the names of the grafters'
and let us put a tew of them in the
state penitentiary ; That’- where
they belong and .Judge Bradley,
should not try to protect them
against prose:
graft in Texas, let us invoke the | not
Tjhe ZPotl TJax ZProbtem.
HUSTON PQS1.
The poll tax payments are
It
their birth and grow .
It 1 had my life to live over again
I would marry even earlier than
* l did. The tender care of a good
jis- wife i> the finest thing' in the
am thankful indeed that
I .ouraging. it seems certaip* that] world.
on. i: there m (the payments and exemptions will! I have had this in the fullest meas-
exceed 540,000. Estimating
acreage means increased production aid of the law m rigdibg the state j the population of the state at 4,000.
and consequently a decrease in of those who practice graft.
price, it will be a great blessing to
him. Sentch -your' head and think
about this. • Why cultivate a hun-
dred acres of land when yo- can
earn more from nftv acres:
.annul do il by uiking. It
.. res the action of the court-
Ir. a letter n today's Gazette a. :aa hot re wiped out by a legacy
contributor makes the startling ;of-n»oney, nor'even moral precepts,
statement that it has been the rule Its a:! right t trier, your -on to
:n Hopkins c <unty to elect as roa^i^ " oral and its 2!! right to leave
overseers men w ho are opposed to [ Hizn 3 well fiited purse, if you can
working roads. He, says also that sc* hut above all you should
men do not go on. the roads for the fh-*0'* b.im with that greatest of all
purpose or working them, but mer- riches—education. Statsitics show-
law. This is that out of 10,000 successful men
right have the of the world, 8,000 are college grad-
good highw ays 'oates. The educated men and wo*
.-'tom*- Never- men & the world are ‘ doing' the
wish it. they work of the world. They are shap-
Jy x
am a
peopl
evade tb
. What
to expec
when such is the
theles.v :f they s
have a right to
.commissioner-
ment of, >omr one wh
dolcnt to see that.thr r -ads
distri.t arr worked.
re. 1
Thrift is the finest element of
We 000, it is evident that the males of Successful manhood. When you
•e-: voting age number j, 000,000.! have made your fortune, it is time
I Thus it appears that for some rea-; enough to think about spending it.
son or other 460,000 males of vot-; Two suits of clothes are enough for
The father who neglects to g;\e mg age are disqualified to vote. Off any young man. The only thought
his son an education is committing j this number not more than 150,000! that a young man need spend about
■a crime against his offspring which ’are negroes, leaving 310,000 white his clothes is to look out for bar-
men who have failed to become jjgains at the lowest price,
voters. ! The boy who knows bargains in
This startling condition unques- {socks makes the man who knows
tionably presents a problem. It is! bargains in stocks,
a problem from several points .of; A rich man does not work for
view. In the first place, a financi- himself alone,
al burden is placed upon half of the He is really the nation’s agent,
citizens w l.iCh the other half is per-1 He turn* his wealth over constant-
mitted to escape. That entails a j ly in a way that helps others. No
recommend to the jng our laws, • mastering our com-
..ourt the appoint- rnerce and assuming ^hafge of
s to*
his
York church wrote to
Jafpegie asking him to
by . <1000 pipe, organ,
-.m OrL.W —VI .ifntfCt-v
they did
T hereupon
could- ratst th_
in- every avenue in life. And educa-
tion s on'theincrease. More men
and women are being-educated and
this will make it a!! the harder for
the unej-cateT to rise in the world.
You may point to your self-made
ma- j' an example of- snrgeve
JK&TZte, ixiiu »">■■ nfnl'-rms’
edu.ited >elf-made mpn, but did
you ever stop to think how much
c'eater might have been the mea-
sure of their success had they been
educated. Give your boy an edu-
cation and you give him money he
cannot spend.
.-in stem U* be
r's salaries.
pies his attention is not air, but wat-
er. He dreams of a time when his
shark-like boats will make war on
the sea a thing of life past. Yet he
also has hopes of airships. His ad-
vice to Professor Bell w as to forget
about his kite- and other artificial
devices, and to study tne turkey
buzzard, which knows more about
Hying than all the colleges on earth.
The thing that beats you all, said
Mr. Holland, is the humble turkey
buzzard. There is an incompre-
hensible mystery which it is for
mighty man to solve—how that
bird can soar, circle, careen, and
sweep over:a radius of half a- mile
Poverty a ffi/css/ny.
PRESIDENT ELIOT OF HARVARD.
The very rich are by ' no means
the healthiest member- of the com-
munity. and to escape the perils of
i luxurious living require- unusual
1 will power and prudence.
; Great capital at the disposal o a
single individual confers on its
possessor great power over the
course of industrial development,
over his fellow men and sometimes
over the course of great public
events, like peace or war between
nations. It enables man to do
good or harm, to give joy or pain.
species of inequality not pleasant to'one need be alarmed over the con-
contemplate. The poll tax money : stant increase in the wealth limit,
is principally devoted education ; Big enterprises require big men.
and nearly halt the citizens are per-j Had I my life to live over aqain, I
mitted to shrink their duty of sup-. would work just as hard,
porting the school in which their There is no such thing a- a mon-
children are educated. The poll
tax being a debt the citizens owes
the state, such debt should not be
considered discharged
citizen refuses to vote.
ey-cursc.
it is the man. not the money,
that makes the amount of individ-
when thejual wealth wrong. A'good man
Th- sup-'Cannot haVe too much money.
pression of the vote is not the ob- The easiest .way a poor .citizen is
jf-t ' [ made is through inheritance.
st alarming phase if Take a young man Who comes
the situation is the voluntary aban- into a large fortune which he hasn’t
donment of the right of suffrage by ’earned. What does he do with it?
men representing nearly half the; He wastes it.
population of the state-. Time was I would live no differently,
when nearly 20 per cent of the; would Jo as hard a day’s work
population of the state voted in as I knew how. 1 would not feel it
national elections. Now scarcely necessary to take vacations to
per _ent of the population vote and recuperate. 1 would cet my
only 14 per cent are actually quali pleasure simply:
fiedtoxote. „ When my day is done, I sleep
Well may one inquire it the poll like a top till morning,
tax law in Texas is a success, ” That would be my life if I had it
That a failure to vote betokens an to live over . All my life my home
happiness.
and places him in a position to be
:W lthout an apparent movement of j feared or lookeJ up t0>
my>^er>, There is pleasure in the satisfac-
tion of directing such a p^wer, anj
It is not suprising that two men ; the greater the character,,the great-
so practical as Professor Bell and er may be the satisfaction. Ingi\-,
its wings. Solve that
and man w ill conquer the air
John P. Holland are joining the
ranks of the airship enthusiasts.
The airship is not altogether a thing
of the future, it is here now . Last
ing this direction the great capital-
ist may rind an enjoyable and
strenuous occupation. For a con-
scientious, dutiful man a great
month the French government j sense of responsibility accompanies
bought a couple for military pur- ‘ this power, It mav become s i
pose-. The Wright brothers, in j powerful as to wipe out'the enjoy-
Dayton, Ohio, have tlown twenty- ment itself.
five miles on their machine and car- The most serious disadvantage
ried with them a load of pig-iron under which the verv rich have
besides. And at the recent auto-
mobile exhibition- in New York,
two flying-machines were put on
exhibition and sold.
labored is. the bringing up of chil-
dren. It Ir well-nigh impossible'
for a very rich man to develop his
children from habits of indifference
Both BeJI and Holland were , aii- and laziness; These children' are" so
?d fools and dreamers thirty years situated that they have n^opportun-
ago, because they believed it possi- ity of doing productive labor, andd
ble to send words along a wire and nothing for themselve-, parents,
travel under the sea. Tq-Ja\i they brothers, or sisters, no one acquir-
are regarded as practical men of .ing the habit of work. In striking
affairs—wealthy and honored. It is | contrast are the farmer’s children,
a striking fact that both of these who cooperate at tender years in
veteran inventors are looking for j the work of the household.
4.
indifference to our government can has been my
not be denied. Granting that . the
150,OX negrpes are justified in It takes all kinds of people to
manifesting an indifferent attitude j make a world. Good, bad and in-
because of the determination of the different are mingled, with the good,
whites that they shall exert ittle predominant and controlling, as all
influence in political affairs, what men see who have eyes to see.
about the 510,000 white men who The bad and indifferent sort.....,per-
forego the privilege of suffrage? haps serve as useful a purpose as
TEXAS FARMERS
Located in the Panhandle Country constitute a vast proportion of
those who are out of debt, possess an abundance of all that is nec-
essary to comfort and easy hours, and own
Bank Accounts.
Those who are not so fortunate should profit bv past experiences
and recognize that these conditions are possible'in
The Panhandle
as nowhere else for the reason that no oilier section now bfTejN
Really High-Class Lands at Low Prices
and that the agricultural and stock-farming possibilities of this sec-
tion are the equal of, and in some respects better than three to five
times higher priced property located elsewhere.
In a word: Many magnificent opportunities are still open here
to those possessing but little money, but prompt investigation and
QUICK ACTION
are advisable, as speculators have inxesti-
Idge10“ ufck/-?-Tu.rt,,V‘*i,,K *“»•» knowl-
•ell to otiers a{ \
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The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1906, newspaper, March 2, 1906; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth817031/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.