The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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The Alba News, by Sam H.
Davis, is eight years old. and
growing better as it grows older.
so few
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itered at the Postoffice, at Bonham. Texas.
as second-class mat! matter.
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Last Sunday 5.313 excursion-
ists visited Galveston and not a
one of them was “thirsty” ex-
cept from choice. Galveston has
never heard of a Sunday law or
the Baskin-McGregor liquor law.
Galveston may hear of some oth-
er law in 1909.
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It i its own columns, as was the Dem-
that will be
if not profit,
in after years.—Ft, Worth Tele-
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wbletohave three pairs of trouses and solicit money from
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The government geologists es-
■ timate the mineral wealth of
Texas at from two hundred and
fifty to three hundred and fifty
billion dollars. And yet last
year only $17,500,000 of this vast
wealth * was utilized.* Truly
Texas needs capital and enter-
prise. , .
===== in 1909.
Gov. Haskell, of Oklahoma,
has indicted an Oklahoma news-
paper man in two cases for crim-
inal libel, and in turn has been
sued by an Ohio firm for a $9,900
law free. Truly, with the cares
of the State and such side lines
as these mentioned, the governor
has enough to occupy all the time
he can spare from his song writ-
ing.
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Now that the Cumby smithey
has run and lost the way is open
for any man,* however poor, and
howqver obscure, in future to
enter the lists and run for Gov-
ernor. . The great masses owe
Williams a debt of gratitude, any
way, tor demonstrating that the
commonest kind of a fellow can
run for Governor.—Mineola Mon-
itor.
iWilliams has shdwnus nothing
new. A good many of the “com-
monest kind of fellows” haye run
for governor before he was ever
heard of.
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2 Repeating Things Said 2
The grafter and crossroads or-
ators are shouting happy over the
prospect tor a State prohibition
campaign. They see in such a
contest a chance for employment
to do campaign work, and they
are ready to engage to the side
which pays the largest fees.—
Tyler Courier.
Perhaps the Courier may be
correct,as to the grafters and as
to some of the crossroads orators,
but in its broad charge it does a
gross injustice to many an hon-
est and earnest man in the Statq.
By far the greater number of or-
ators and workers who give their
time and their talent to the wqrk
of banishing the saloon from our
midst, do so at a sacrifice and
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without the promise or hope of
any reward save the approval of
their, own consciences and the
hope of benefitting their fellow
men.
• Make up your mind, if you
have not already done so, to send
pour sons and daughters to the
home schools until they are pre-
pared for the university. There
are just as good schools m Texas
as there are an vwhere even if it
doesn't cost as much to send
your children to them.— Bonham
News.
Texas schools for Texas chil-
dren is a pretty good rule to live
up to. Texas has the brightest
children of* any State in this
union. Texas schools are con-
ducted especially for Texas Chil-
dren. Besides being as good as
the best the schools of Texas
permit friendships being formed
between Texans
sources of pleasure.
Live neither in the past nor
the future, but work in the pres-
ent.—Bonham News.
“Be «up and doing> with a heart
for any fate.” Forgetting the
disappointments of the past and
building no air castles for the
future. ■ To be satisfied with the
best our efforts can produce is
contentment indeed.—Commerce
Commercial. v
IS IT KORHL STRABISMUS?
The Ft. Worth Record, in dis-
cussing the effect of the plank in
the Democratic platform demand-
ing the submission of a constitu-
tional amendment on prohibition,
gives another evidence of the
fact that it*either can not or will
not see the truth when it is be-
fore it eyes. It quotes the plank
as follows:
15. We demand the submis-
sion by the Thirty-first legisla-
ture of the State of Texas of a
constitutional amendment to the
people of the State of Texas for
their adoption or rejection, pro-
hibiting within the State of Tex-
as the manufacture, sale, gift,
exchange and intra-state ship-
ment of spirtuous, vinous and
malt liquors and medicated bit-
ters, capable of producing intox-
ication, except for medicinal and
sacramental use:
We recommend that the prohi-
bition amendment demanded by
the recent primary election be
submitted to all qualified voters
at a special election to be held
We declare that at such elec-
tion a vote for or against the
amendment shall not be consid-
ered a test of Democracy, as it is
not the purpose ot this conven-
tion to commit the Democratic-
party for or against State prohi-
bition.
Now the declaration of the
platform is very explicit,
gives no room for doubt.*
plainly demands the submission ocratic platform
The News is pleased to notice
the great improvement in the
Sentinel (Ok) Newsboy, which
its old friend Wilt Hornbeck is
editing. The Newsboy not only
mighty newsy local paper for a
town like Sentinels If the busi-
ness men make it possible, Will
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will give them a still better pa-
per.
The State tax rate for general
purposes this year is reduced to
six and one-fourth cents, and the
school tax is reduced frpm twen-
ty to sixteen and
The 1 per capita school appor-
tionment is raised to $6 75, the
greatest amount in the history of
the State.
The Bexar County Republican
Campaign Committee has decid-
ed to call upon the saloons and
breweries of that county tor 'fin-
ancial support for the Republican
ticket. The committee thinks
the liquor interests will work for
the defeat of the Democratic
party because of the submission
plank in the State platform.
Certainly nothing will sound the
death knell of the saloons in Tex-
as quicker than for them to make
war on the Democratic party.
The Wichita Times asserts
that almost every day the busi-
ness men of Wichita Falls are
called upon to assist some individ-
ual or some community which
has suffered some misfortune, and
that the merchants always re-
spond. < Then i t goes a little
further and justly complains
that it is a tact that members in
SThen Juliet refusqa. to elope the communities helped frequent-
se days the modern Romeo ly order their goods fropt foightgj
la a gun^and shoots her dead* houses, ignoring the
11*______just called upon for .help.
The same thing is true of every
town and county in the State,
Within this year I saw a country-
man ride into town in a buggy
purchased from a foreign house
“ ' i’a buggy
i^ie wUh a pair of dealer to, help build a school
t ^di oqe. house to ^shelter sp4d qountry-
___j | mans children. It you had
been that dealer would you have
felt it you duty to give?
Smith County has several offi-
ces which should hereafter be
given to a worthy and capable
young Tady who has to earn her.
own living. There is no justice
in confining fat officers exclusive-
ly to the men, and this paper will
hereafter favor giving several of
the county offices to ladies.—Ty^
ler Courier.
Getting., the voters to agree
with you will be your trpuble.
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So far our press dispatches
have not disclosed the identity
of the man who died from sur-
prise when he read about the. re-
versal of that ,$29,240,000* fine
imposed by Judge Landis on the
Standard Oil l(Stapkny.—Wichi-
belt is th<
No, -but If Qlh a ne r ieho uld see himsel f—
that the fine waHy ^has been
paid you may confidently expect
to learn of a number of cases of
heart failure folfowing.
No man ever attempted to do
anything for the good of others,
no matter how unselfish his pur-
poses, that there have not plenty
of men to criticise his actions
and impugn his motives. The
other day I heard one man de-
clare that a minister was preach-
ing simply for the money that he
could make. To my own knowl-
edge that preacher has to woik
with his hands to enable his fam-
ily to have food and clothing, for
the money he receives for his la-
bors_as a preacher is scarcely
four hundred dollars a year. He
is an earnest, sincere, Christian
man whose heart is aflame with
love for his fellowmen, and he
is giving his life tor their eleva-
tion as best he can.. And yet
there are the cynical critics
whose hearts are so selfish and
so mean that they accuse such as
he of being selfish also. Such
is part of the reward men often
receive tor being sincere and
self-sacrificing.
There are lots of editors who
devote considerable space telling
their readers how to be success-
ful, happy and prosperous, but
unfortunately their , practice
lacks a whole lot ot conforming
to their preaching, and their ex-
cellent adyice falls by the way-
side.—Halletsville Herald.
•They acton the theorys that it
is better to help another do the
right thing than to hinder him.
Many a preacher has helped save
other souls who has lost his own.
His good work was not fruitless
because he did not apply it to
himself. .
of the amendment. It calls upon ’ •»••••••••••••••••••••••••
every member of the Democratic J Exchange Comment «
party in the legislature to sub- *»<»»»»»»<»»»<»»>«*•
Every young man should bear
in mind that he is the architect
of his own fate. What he ac-
r_____ _______complishes in life depends upon
of the famous couplet, I his own actual worth more than
* " ’$ ' *’ * Remember
ability and merit will eventually
win Out.—Wolfe City Sun.
Ability and merit will win out
only when they are backed up by
plenty of good hard work that
never ends.
J-^The heaviest burdens we ever
have to bear are the ones we de-
liberately place on our own
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“Prohibition is a moral ques-
tion. * It has no placedwsj politi-
cal party. ....
**The merits of submitting the
prohibition amendment can not
be encompassed ;
partisan dectaratlbd; •
“The loopholes in "this plank
were made on purpose.”
The Record will have to try
many times before it can make
more false statements and draw
falser conclusions in .. as few
words.
The Record can find no .quali-
fication of the platform's demand
for submission. The demand for
the legislature to submit the
amendment is in no way quali-
fied by declaring that it is not a
test of party loyalty for a man
to vote for or against the amend-
ment after it is submitted. If
the plank had declared that a
member of the legislature could
vote for or against submission
without affecting his party loy-
alty then the planjr would ■. have
qualified its demand. ‘ But it
does nothing of the sort. 3'
The Record's declaration that
“submission is a moral and not
-t political question” is puerile—
no, it is worse than childish—it
is foolish. Wfiat question of
morals is involved in voting to
submit an amendment to the con-
stitution to a vote of the people?
Tl^ere is no question of morals
in it. It is purely a political
question. Any ten-year-old boy
in Texas knows the difference in
such a vote dnd a vote for or
against prohibition.
“Prohibition is a moral ques-
tion,” proclaims the Record. Sd
it is. But prohibition and the
submission, of the amendment are
two things entirely different.
The Record’s reasoning that be-
cause prohibition is a moral is-
sue gives a legislator the right to
ignore the demands of the party
platform and yote against sub-
mitting the amendment is in
keeping with the weakness of its
position and shows how readily
it forgets party loyalty when a
matter it opposes is under con-
sideration.
' It is remarkable that a journal
that claims to be edited by in-
telligent men, and claims to be
a representative of the Democrat-
ic party, could produce such an
article. That a large number of
its readers may be controlled by
political prejudice the Record
may safely take tor granted,
but when it presumes they are
fools, it goes too far.
The only ground on which the
Record’s position can be explain-
ed is that the writer of that ar-
ticle-is afflicted with moral sta-
bismus and cannot recognize the
i truth, even when it is printed in
Doubt is darkness; darkness is
Wdespair.;
Faith without; courage never
made a martyr.
Life is worth living to every-
'one who lives wortfiily.
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The best thing some men could
do for their country would be to
die or move awav.
The man who lives with no
thought but of today will find
eternity full of regrets.
It is as much ia ‘ duty to live
joyously and happily as it is to
live soberly and uprightly.
cisive fap tor in national elect
No wonder the tiger u b
stroked and 'cajoled v by D
crats long out of office.
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Ft. Worth Telegrafa. /
It is a great thing, a
ust have it if you would
Vnw believe "hjp
yourself and your proposition,' if
you would go to bed light-hearted
and arise properly girded for the
fray.
If you worry oyer the criti
ot the world—iif you fear
competitors—if you allow
ness depression to depress
nervbus system—you'll be r
able.
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, Have confidence in yoursell
and in the future of your country
and vour business.
Laugh af setbacks— they're on-
ly temporary. If defeated, smils
grimly and come up again. Tbi
next time it may be the otfiel
fellow who will take th
Believe i, your st-'
He who gets the most good
out of this life will get the most
good out ot the life to come* To
get the best out of this world one
must put the most good into it.'
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The fighters still insist on more
guns and more men and more
ships and moeai money and more
They expect the people
(“let them be damned’’) to foot
the bills.
The Oklahoma National banks
seem to think that the insurance
of deposits is a success. A num-
ber of them haye surrendered
their charters and have become
’ State banks. / *
The report is that the Stand-
ard Oil crow^ is after other im-
portant railroads that they do
not now owo. ‘ If there is any-
thing in any important industry
that they do not seek to control
we have failed to notice it.
A Paris father has just paid
$1513 50, the amount of the for-
feited bonds of’his son, who had
violated the local option law and
skipped out leaving the old
gentleman to hold the bag.
Pretty codtlv experience that.
Greenville has paved streets,
Paris has paved streets, McKin-
ney and Tyler ate paving streets.
These towns are little larger
than Bonham, it any, and yet
Bonham has not even good side-
walks, to say ’ nothing of paved
streets. ' ___________
Here’s for Clarence E. Gilmore
of Van Zandt for speaker ot the
31st legislature.—East Texas
Register.
You are correct in your esti-
mate of the man’s worth, Miss
Neal, but I fear ne is to good and
too modest a man to win a place
that usually goes to the one with
the most “gall” and who will be
most useful to some special in-
terests. Clarence Gilmore would
make a good Speaker of the
House for the people.
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i Delayed News.
Hollands Magazine.
A certain Sunday school class
in Philadelphia consists for the
most part of youngsters who live
in the poorer districts of the.city.
One Sunday the teacher told the
class about Cain and Able, and
the following week she turned to
Jimmie, a diminutive la^,-who,
however, 'had not been present
the previous session.
“Jimmie,” she said. “I want
you to tell me who killed Abel.”
“Ain’t no use askin’ me teach-
er,” replied Jimmie; “I didn’t
even know he was dead.”*
the first bat ip (he
first blow in the stoi
a fight has been won w
victor’s seconds were a bo
tothow up the sponge.
Don’t whine. Doh’t a^
Don’t explain. Don’t qo
Smile, plod, stick, fighu. wi
Emporia Gazette. .
Hush, sweet child! the crad
teeters, to and fro, and f
tp; dad will brush the
muskeeters off of you, d<
of you; dad will sing of fa
figures, sweetly sing an el
tune, while consigning all
chiggers to the mountains oi
moon. To and fro the ci
reaches, to and fro, for bi
sake; can it be those early
ches afitde nis little tummy a
Rupic lullabts and Doric! |
tel’s beird and Caesar’s
Where’s that doggoned p
ic? Always gone when
most!
cradle^teeters, in the gl<
still and gray; June bugs, <
gers and muskeeters, dad
chase them all away!
x The Bart Ward $fM.
Church JsTqws.
>h¥e have lately
the following illustration. '
others it may be familiar, but
so, renewed attention to it w
not be unfruitful. Should
traveler over a rocky mounts
chqnee to see a man with a spi
standing at the foot of a gre
mountain range, threatening am
trying to turn it oyer, how h
wpuld ridicule the man! Bu
should he cross over and behoh
another man on the other sid
greatly excited, with his shoul
der against a jutting rock, anil
crying that he must try to keep
a man on the other side from
turning the mountain over how
much greater fool he would pro*
nounce him! Even more unreas-
onable than the man who thinks
he can overturn God’s eternal
truth and the inspired. Bible is
that man who, knowing it to be
God’s word, becomes alarmed for
its safetv and endurance.
Wanted—Division ma n a g <
and adjusters to introduce al
CLUSaiNG «ATCS.
anti Dallat JV«W«...........
* anti Ft. 1F»rlk Record......
ia A’ctm anti Gfode-Oemocrai .....
* Ifeweend Bryen’e Commoner.....
The Nemo emd Athmta Conetitution...
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^EVAfiS A EVANS PAPPRirrORS
That San Antonio convention
presents the unique propc^ition
of one political party riding into
probable quccess on another
party’s platform,inasmuch as the
assurance is given that the Pro-
hibitionists are responsible for
the submission plank, and the
Democrats haye nothing to do
with it, notwithstanding the
fac| that it is in their platform.
-^-Austin Stateman.
If that be true it is remarkable
that the Prohibitionists were able
to not only capture two-thirds of
the delegates to the Democratic
convention, but also to outvote
the Democrats in a Democratic
primary. The truth is that the
ndment can not Statesman is mMbtei
*iibin 'feltrietiy thinks* man mm*
l'""‘ and saloons to be * Democrat.
eye. ft h’s friendly, i
hold out your hand.
If it triea to trip you
you. duck, dddfte and
the neck.
But doh’t be afraid. B
. No general erer won a
who had a yellow ateak.«
streaks end white liars
<ether.
The pnxe fighter who »
mit it,as far a party platform can
two-thirds, ^demand it. In the face of this
fact, the Record says:
“Is not this plank a revised
version <
“Mother, may I go out to swim? . »nv other one thing.
Oh, yes,- my darling daughter;
but hang your clothes on a hick-
ory limb and don’t go near the
water.” * <
“The State convention says,
’We demand,’ etc. It then qual-
ifies this demand by saying, ’If
you don’t follow this demand we
haye a special dispensation for
you and you are absolved from
wrong-doing against the party.’
“This qualifying clause can be
construed in no other, .manner
than a recognition of. Ihe fact ♦ * _ . ,
that submission is ' a nforal und ] looks prosperous, but it is now a
not a political quCstioh. - Being
a moral question,' eachn member
of the legislature must vote as
the moral atmosphere of his con-
stituency suggests. . v
‘Those Democratic members
of the legislature whose constitu-
encies voted against submitting
this question may find justified*
fion for voting against submis-
sion when the question reaches the
legislature by pointing to the
platform itself, should their
Democracy be assailed.
“Notwithstanding the declara-
tion of the Republican platform
made in Dallas, one may be a
good Republican and vote for
submission. Should a Republican
be elected^ to the legislatut£ fl
-“The same can be said of a
Democrat voting against submis-
sion^ ’■ '*
“Why?
in 1896 for McKinley.
1896 New York has been Republi-
can. The old spell is, therefore, stock company,
not yet broken; and the political 000. » i
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There are those who do hot be- sagacity and impoi
lieve the story of Jonah and the York still remains
whale; bu£ the mystery of life it- *
self is greater thari that of any
fish story.—Madam Editor Timp-
son Times.
The things we meet in this
life that we thoroughly under-
stand are comparatively
that we have no cause J _
things we do not understand.
Faith Is the great power both in
business and in religion. As
ninety-six per cent of the busi-
ness of this county is transacted
on the faith one man has in an-
other, so the larger part of the
Christian religion is founded on
faith in God’s revealed word.
The story of Jonah and the
whale as recorded in that Word
is npt more difficult of belief than
are many of our daily observa-
tions..
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Cajoling the Tiger.
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1884 for Cleveland, in 1888 for for all lost time on a
Harrison, in J892 tor Cleveland, | any disability.
m 1896 for McKinley. Since policy payable monthlv,
■n■MMHni * for terms to the Nations
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not yet broken; and the political 000. »
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