The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1897 Page: 4 of 8
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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER.
having any positive knowledge or
information tu> to the extent of its
Entered st the Postoflice at Fairfield.! public injury, if uuy, 1 deemed it
ltx., uh Seound-claae Matter,. | advisable to take our county out
lTd. LILLARD, Editor & Proprietor, jfrom ulJlIt,r if our
R. L. WILLIFORD, Editor Pro.Tem. | tLe lftW< the> <■’*“
I siguify it and have the. county
FRIDAY, FLllli GARY It), 1897. , placed under the .law two'years
from now. The bill lias not Bnal-
.sl list HIP 1 ION KATES. ^|y passed the House yet, but H
1 copy one year ........
{m.py six months..........
No suhsorijjtiiiBf’ pent on
»lxno figures. They are spot cash.
iG think it will.
crtnlit at ,
Good bills have been introduced,
and partially passed, on the fob
All subscriptions not renewed in one 1 ]owjL„ subjects-: Punishing iiny-
month after expiration will he Sl.ot) a ] *
rear. Vtm can renew your subscription oue who will procure or cause to
with your postmaster at any time. be procured Ji quor for a minor;
un Mt n.slYTuATES. j amending the hog law. making it a
Loeal notices Hi cents a line first in- ( f^e of from 810 to $100 to wilfully
* turn out hogs on the land of an-
sertu>"i and o i'ctiJs a line for suhse-
»>♦ ‘IDlhlP! IVtluC-
lions nuul® for notices pulilished for
four weeks or longer. ^
ltates for staliding display advertise-
ments made known.on appligptiou.
Kehgious and educational notices puli-
lislieil free of.ehargw . -
‘■Triliufes-of. Respect” from societies
«nd lodges charged half price.
other, or refuse or neglect to take
them up when notified That they
are running at large, The law
does not apply where the people of
a community turn out hogs by mu-
tual couseut for n specified time
and take £hem up again at the ex-
OUR AGENTS, | piration of such time. Another
bill is anti-free pass and anti-re-
bateflbill. -It came before the com-
mittee on Internal Improvements,
aud I was the only one of the
whole comchittee wbo voted for it.
'It proposes to stop rebates to fa-
vored merchants, and to stop the
giving of free passes.to members
l, ,,f [ of the Legislature,’ State officers,
district judges, tax assessors, etc.
It was killed iu the committee two
yriars ago, but being on tbe com-
mittee this year, I have got it be-
fore’ the House on a minority re*
port, when the time comes, will
make a fight for it. The law is
founded in sound public policy.
... Lot toll Gill.
........Brewer.
.........Luna.
..........Dew.
.........Rutler.
.... Young
Steward’s Mill.
.....■:<.. Bonner.
.....NiVortham.
.......Winkler.
....... Buffalo.
.....OakVood.
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It. C. Kauiscy . . .
Gordon King
.1, G. T. Hendrix
1). K. Compton-
C. C. CornweH
- T. F. Owens. .
A. T. Watson . .
Win. Homier . .
Mont II 111st.....
\C. S. ( d ay soil.. .
y. L. (I ray son . . .
Frank Arnett. .
Fayment of subscription or du
any kind to t m RecoBOEH may t»e Andc
to any of the above-named agents.mj
LETTER FROM AUSTIN,
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Our Ed t(K Sends Anpther Newsy
Letter From the State Cippol.
He Speaks Plainly on Various Things j’aud should pass’, but 1 am frank to
and Deanes His Position. say it has no more probability of
-- / - j getting through, than a snowbird
"'"'•Austin, Tex.,-Feb. 16, 18117. has of flying tp the sun.' The
I * xpect it is '.lipri IT should House will very likely be put on
write my secotid letter to the Re- record on it, and tbe public can
■‘fc^tnER. I intended to write last see how they vote. While a .frep
week,.Aud 'Very* much desired to pass need not necessarily bribe a
do so, but my duties on the various man to go against his judgment or
Committee»T>^ which I am a mem- his conscience, there is bo doubt
ber, made it absolutely impossible, that it is intended to go as far
1 have had no time, till now, to
write, unless I did- it ou Sunday,
that as tbe recipient will per-
mit / it. Railroad people -are no
Four
SOj). j
and 1 felt like I needed that day to fools; they are shrewd judges of
rest1. Ft?ur of my committees meet j human nature, and when they be-
stow a favor of financial vaThq,
thVy naturallydiope for a recipro-
cal appreciation whether they get
it or not.
Bills have been introduced
changing the.law against carrying
weapons, .and disturbing public
Worship. The changes kndek out
a’t 2:30^. m,, aud remain in
aion till sunset, and when we have
a heated • 'question up, we often
meet again after §upper and fight
it out until 11 o’clock. For. the
last ten days I have beeu'TJn two
sub-committees,' meeting at differ-
ent times in the afternoon aud at
nigh’t; aud I can say without exag-1 the imprisonment pkrt of the pun-
geration that I have "not had a-! ishnmnt. This puts the trial of
whole nights’sleep in two weeks, such bffenBes iu the justice, court,
except ou Siinday uight. That is and- ]\~-k'<‘SeIieved, will "insure
why I have not written sdoner.. ! speedier trials and. more frequent
f Well, now, to tell our readers J convictions. The law against
something of what the Legislature ! gambling will be amended in two
is doing. We have been in ses- or three particulars, making it
sion one month laht Fridaj£>and J easier, to csnvict; and likewise the
while it appears thut'we ^have not law^rbhibiting minors fromdaeing
done mudb, yet we have, and In
ibis way; the various committees
iave been at worfc.killing bills and
reporting cthe*«Ar. favorably, and
placiugThem before the House and
the Senate for their action. Only
h few bills have become laws so
% far'; but during the next month
many of the bills 8n our desk will
be acted on and adopted or killed.
But few original law3 have thus
far been offered, nearly all the bills
introduced being proposed amend-
ments and supposed improvements
on existing statates^—Mhuy of the
apaendments’are good apd it is to
be hoped they will become laws*
" The House bad a hot fight last
■reek over the Johnson Grass Bill,
a proposed law to stop tbe plant-,
mg and raising of said grAe, espe-
cially in tbe black land sections of
- the State. When once rooted in
blaek lands, like those of north
and west .Texas, it is -said to be
impossible tp kill it. Many farms
in north Texas, 'which! bat for
Johnson grass would be worth 876
* an aere, catrhot now be sold for
am-being
md pobl
admitted into saloons and p
rooms. It is Dot necessary to tell
the public how Freestone's Repre-
sentative will vofe on all such laws
that tend to protect the youths of
up ou Monday, an extremely oold
day, wbeu several friends' of the
bill (who had gone home) were ab-
sent, haviog not returned. The
bill was aimed at the big league
gambling games, which are 6uid to
be demoralizing the youths of the
State, both black aud white. The
bill was introduced by my desk-
mate, Miy Reubell, of Grayson,
couuty, aud I helped him all 1
could on it. A simtlAr bill is
pending iu the Senate, and' there
is some probability yet of its be-
coming a law.
I" have not tried to make thyself
very conspicuous for introducing
bills’To get my hame oftener in the
Journal; but 1 £th Ballard at work,
an any other member, iu the com-
mittee rooms, killing bad bills and
aiding good ones to get before tbe
House. So far, I have introduced
only two bills aud a half, I might
say. Oue is to amend .the school
law, so as to allow towus like-Fair-
field, incorporated under special
acts giving them municipal privi-
leges only, so as to allow said
towns to incorporate for school
purposes 1n districts larger than
the municipal district that had
been previously formed. The Dal-
las News reporter did not Btate
correctly the object of my bill ac-
cording to tb-e report published
in last week’s Recorder, ‘My bill,
if I get it through, will allow
towns like Fairfield’, with dormant
m|jiuicip/il incorporations, tb incor-
porate to the limit of twenty-five
square miles (2J miles each way
from the center),- which enables
them to go beyo’fid the old rnuni-
"cipsl 11 mils; and then my bill goes
further and provides that the mu-
nicipal incorporation, if revived or
newly formed, Bhall never taTiV
charge of such district schools and
operate them through*^ mayor or
board of aldermen. This sepa-
rates the schools entirely from the
often, baueful-influenee erf muirfei-
pal politics, and places them under
their own trustees. There are
many good district schools in the
State that are being lujured by
result of too much politics in the
mayoralty elections. The town of
Comanche, aud T'-’thiu^ others,
are here asking for a law to; allow
them to elect their trustees by
vote of the people, aud Fake the
pdwer of selecting teachers and
controlling the schools away from
the mayor and aldermen. r,~
I have introduced another’.bill,
by request of Dr. Bectofi, superin-
tendent qf the blind asylum, which
prescribes tbe.duties of nurses and
others towardadnfants whose eyes
become soreAeu days after birth.
The proposed law makes it the du-
ty of nurses and certain others" to
immediately report*such cases to
a physipian. Dr. Becton and the
occplist of the. asylum both say
that a large pey^entage of blind
lages, who Are enticing boys iu the
towus and from }be country into
gambling games, and especially
with cards. To try to punish &uch
men, and prevent the ruining of
many a good boy is the object of
tbe bill. ..... ’ • ‘
1 regret to have to say that *e
are having a hard fight on in^uy
good reform measures that should
become laws. I am afraid many
good bills are.gmog to be defeated
that should become laws, livery
©orporate body iu the»StAte, land
sharks and others have their lob-
dry ists here, and they are specially
strong aud active before the Com-
mittee on Revenue and Taxation
afid the Committee on Internal
Improvements, both of which 1
Lave the honor to be onV
I am one of a sub committee of
five to cousider aud revise and re-'
port back to the full committee
the occupation tax law. We have
been at work on it several days,
aud there is much hard work on it
We have found'Beveral big institu-
tions that have escaped all taxa-
tion heretofore and some paying
but very little taxes. For instance
^ake tfie breweries. 1 There are
sfeven of them in Texas,, and
though they pay the United States
government in the aggregate8240j»
000 a year, they pay to Texas only
$1150, or $50. each. They pay the
federal government a special priv- \
ilege tax, and then $1.00 a barrel
on their output. I have an.amend-
ment to the law, taxing them 50
eents a barrel on their product.
This, if it becomes a law, will
briug to the State at’ Feast $75,000
more revenue, but will be distrib-
uted so eveuly upon every 'one
who drinks be'er, that The tax can
not be felt by ,him. Fifty cerate a
barrel (32 gallons) is less than a
half ceut ou the piut, wuich would
not raise the present price of the
beverage.
-I have also been complimented
by the Committee' ou Education,
by being placed on a sub-commit-
day to go ou au excursion to Gal-
veston, to be at tbe presentation
of the ailver service to the; batfln-
sbip “Texas.” The-member* are
ta be given free. transportAtiou to
and from G^lvestoD, and- enter,
taiued free all tile time, until they
return. The excursion is given in
tbe uamd.of the citizens of Galves-
ton and Hoqston’, * but everybody
knows the railroads are footing all
the bills. In my honest judgment,
it is«a shrewd railroad lobhy
scheme from start to finish; and
like a similar excursion of two
years agp, the democratic party,
will be again called to account, for
• it before the .people next year.
The members pay will go on for
the time they are gone on tbe ex-
cursion, which I think U unfair
and unj ust to the people of the-
State, regardless of party. *1 may
be a “crauk’’ou economy.' but these
are my honest Views. About twen-
ty-seven of us voted agaiDst ad-
journing for the excursion, but it
did no good, and the people will
pay about $1800 for the pleasure
picnic. Tbe Representative from
Freestone is one who will not go on
the excursion at the people’s ex-
L. T>. L.
reading. Because you cah get a
paper for twenty-fiye cents a year .
is no evidence that you should
subscribe; on the otiter hand it it
evidence that you should not al. Jl“
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low it to come into your borne,
is, indeed, a sorry paper that con-
Jains silly love tales, and yet I vent- " -
pause
E3DUGA.TIOrTA.L-
The’ Situation in Fairfield.
(Continued from last Week.]
V-Ih °ur article last week we en-
deavored to point out some of the
evils that stand in the way of edu-
cational progress. This week we
shall mention ethers that are
mighty agencies, at this time^ in
hindering the progress of many
pupils. For the want of a better
name we will call the special evil
here referred to “Premature Gat-
ing'.” On every Sunday evening,
strolling to the suburbs of town,
one may see boyta and girls from
thirteen years old down to ten
■years old. Upou investigation
ure to assort that many girls in
Fairfield ifever read any other., X.
That t)oy of yout£ who reads his
sporting .journal, Corbett and
Fitzsimmons trash, arid pours ovqr , ' ■
his bonks of adventure and dime
novels, is not embedding iu his
nature the principles ' that make
men great. You jparents stand
around on .the straits and curse
the yankee and from the, very
hnuuts of yaokeedom, Augusta,
Me., aud NeW York," there comes •
to our4 little post office enough ^
trashy literature to . poison the
minds of many bright bqys and
girlB. These boys and girls are
reading this literatufe and they ,
are-getting into their very >being
everything that will prove a
stumbling stone to theii .educa-
tional development. In ’‘conclu-
sion I would suggest that all- pa-’
rents take stock at once of allpa-
pors rfnd hooks found in the'bands
of their children]. Let all these ’ * ’ ■
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Inc-
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pi -
Heaven Ward. let all parents-bwear
allegiance henceforward to noth-
ing but the purest literature,
When this'is done mauy boys snd *
girls will be savhd.
In the interest of manhood aud
womanhood, lam
■ Truly,
G. F. Wal^bb.
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uion winning to locate nere
theselittle men and. women may' Tindja cordial welcoma.
Mt. ^lon Notes.
t February IS, 18^6.
Mt. Zion community will com-
pare favorably with any oommnni-
ity in tbe connty. Our farming
lands are rich and productive. We
have -an industrious and progres-
sive class of people, and those
wishing, to locate here will always
tee of four to act jointly with a
similar committee froth the Senate
to prepare and present tQ the Leg-
islature a bill for the uniform Sys-
tem of school books for the use of
The public 'schools. I appre-
ciate the recognition very much,
as the oqmmittee is composed of
twenty.oria^membere, and I was
one of thejfour qlected.
I expect I have made this letter
long enough, but before I close I
can not help but express my disa^-y
proval of the action of tbe Demo-
crats of the House in unseating
Mr. BeThnett, the populist member
of the House; and seating Mr,
Brigance the democratic nominee.
While nearly all the Democrats in
the Houne, on the final vote, voted
to endorse the recommendation of
tbq ) investigating committee, I
could not get my consent to do so,
be seen paired off, a boy and girl
together. These little fellows ac-
company each other ho^t end
parents sit back and smile approv-
ingly, and iri some instances boast
about this seemingly shrewdness.
Monday morning rolls around,
these little fellows assemble at
school, and the all-absorbing sub-,
ject of conversation with a them i«
who their “sweetheart” is. Their
mind’s are thus turned from their
studies and’ placed upon foolish-
ness. It takes* teachers about
three days to get pupils in proper
shape for studying. Ehinday.soon
rolls around again, and muc^ of
of the teacher’s work is undone by
tfie same process as mentioned
above.
Just here allow us to drop one
suggestions A teacher’s work i|
a complete success only when he
has the' co-operation of every
our land.
children becoirie so by reason of j-for I honestly believed that Ben- parent! If you are going to give
their neglect, in this partieular^in nett had been fairly elected. The
the early days of infancy, it unseating of him presents the
humanity to the helpless to try toYtrangest anomaly in politics that
Several assignment bills have
been introduced, arid it is bard to
tell just what kind of a law will be
passed. A strong lobby is here
to give the Stato.afi weak, modified
law. „ - ; v
A good bill baa been introduced
to regulate the charges of Express
companies, and I bopa it will pass.
It was killed in the Senate two-
years ago. ■
Several good bills have been in-
troduced knocking out technicali-
ties in criminal trial8,\so as to let
convictions stick, after a man has
been fairly convicted! And like-
wise good bills baye been offered
regulating the practioe of medi-
cine, dentistry and pharmaoy.
Several constitutional amend-
mentis have been introduced. The
two principal ones are fixing a poll
tax qaalifiriatioq for voters, and
prdtect the irresponsible iufaijt in has ever been seen in this or any
this direction, and it ia also econo- other State. The main ciroam-
my to the State to try to lessen stances surrounding the matter are
the number offfgpendentonesjhat these. The Commissioners’Court
have to be canVl f^r at public ex- of Grimes county is democratic?
pense.- I Lave tieen to the blind
asylum twice .since I have beep
here, and of all the pitiable fights
I have seen, one of tbe saddest to
trie is to behold several hundred
pale-faced children walking about
a building or grounds, most of
them totally blind, apd many in
walking having to pat a hand on
shoulder of the dbe in front,
one with tbe ’b£et eyes’
ttfa eboulc
while the
«&Wa 1.
with
lolher toll sonu
1, probib- no*®,
$10 an acre. The proposed law is- 'fleeting Slate and ooanty officer*
.t^^rery strict in its penalties and re-
quirements on therte who already
. have the grass oh tbCir lands; in
fact they are so struct; that I had
Freestone -county exempted from
k, as the .grass is largely planted
•in oar ooanty, and U said to b«
tolerably Easily billed, on scoooht
for four years instead of two.
is probable bothlof them bill__
submitted to the people to be voted
on, along with perhaps a few oth-
ers. /. p.
‘ it bill paphibiting base ball
games on Sunday was defeated in
tbe House by a small vote.. There
•f the looseness of tbe soil. Hot J wa» a majority for it, but it bam^
acts hs a leader for all.
q I have introduced another
jointly with Mr. Reubell
itiog gold contracts in Texas, and
making both gold and ailver a
legal tender for all debts. Two
other bills on the same line .have
Wm introduced, bat we are tryin
to make the oopamittee believe
oars is tbe best
I wlll iritrodaoe a bill to-day, to
punish by fine and imprisonment
any adult person who will know-
ingly gamble with a minor at pards
or any other game, or. play cards
nnlatkfally with a rainpr. Therb'
is'a oertain class of evil disposed
men in hundreds of towns and vil-
every presiding officer ol the elec-
tion last November, at eV'ery
cinct in Grimes county was a
Democrat; tygeides that, the pdjrtyi
had its qnoto of all the electiot
officers. AH,the democratic^.pre
siding offioeto'swore th^tthe elec-
tion was' held fairly at their jre
your ten year old girl or boy lea-
Bone in courtship let it be kept in
aticr^ou
elec- Js°m'
pwith
spective boxes; a democratic com- Or 19 years old is the best plan for
missioners’ oourt gave tbe populist
the certificate of election, and yet
all this he was unseated. Tbe
mmittee on -eleotions was com-
posed nearly altogether of lawyers,
and I think think^they stack too
close to technicalities. I have no
right to donbt the honesty of their
intentions; bnt I still donbt the
oorreotness of their conclusions, j
isliked very much to vote against
iport of a committee of my
■ party /put I am free to say I stand
ready to vote against my Whole
part^/on any ’’jfrivate matter that
oujnea between.me a^d my honest
,-Ponvictions of right.
The Legislatni e, I am sorry to
say, has made another big mistake
in voting .to adjourn next Thura-
miud that theep^hings occupy a
large portion of the mind’s space-
Fill the mind with rubbish and
where are you going to plape
knowledge? Yon may smile when
see your little girl coming
e and some one’s baby boy
with her, but -by and by those
smiles may be turned into tears.
The present course in Fairfield
may ,be modem, but I shall ever
believe that- the old way of allow-
ing girls to receive the attention of
yonog men. only whrin they get 18
developing tbe women that our
country so much needs. Instead
of taming a boy loose when ,be
-reaches his “tens,” I believe the
old way of making trim assist bis
father until he & 21 yeara old ia
the best plan for developing genu-
ine men. . .
If some of onr Fairfield femiliea
would make their children study
at night, instead of giving them
parties, or rather first lessons in
courtship, far more satisfactory
work could be bad in school.,
The next evil that I would espe-
cially » stress I is the reading of
trashy literature. Itia
plorable state of affairs that so
many parents- in Fairfield never
atop to see wbat their children are
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The health of the oominunity is
very good. .7 f -
We have preaching at Ml. Zion
he third Sunday ’in each mppm.
’ Our farmers are .busy repairing
fenfces, planting oats and' getting
ready for another crop. /
Mrs. Julia Bruner aud little
daughter, . of Stewards’ Mill, are
visiting friends and relatives in '
our neighborhood. ' J f -v
Mr? abd Mrs. Ledden gave the
young folks a nice mtisioa! enter-
tainment' last Satrird&y ’ night,
which was much enjoyed by all.
No one fell iu the cistern that
night. „
1 am glad to know that Texas’
h&p been honored by the presence
of .that’Christian gentleman and
distinguished citizen,- William J.
Bryan, of Nebraska. I am glad -
that the people of Texas have
shown him such honor, and hpve
been permitted to hear and read
his cheering words and cede advice.
Mr. Editor, if that waykofpros-
perity that the republicSbe and
gohf standard people said /was go-
ing to sweep over the country,
strikes your town, please roll a few
“chunks” of it down in this, direc-
tion.
Mr. T. J. Mo Adams, /of Stew!
ards Mill, was here last Sunday,
visiting relatives arid friends, and
rnmor says; “som eone else.”
The smiling face of Mr. A. P.
Yaughap/of Buffalo, was se*n in
our compunity recently.. Come
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