The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 62, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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ASHLEY EVANS. EDITOR.
against the
Classes, and
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Bonham has been trying to
start a creamery, but it seems
the scheme has clabbered.—Sher-
man Telegram.
No, the scheme is still sweet
and in condition to keep for sev-
eral years.
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The Bonham News says: “Our
knockers have all gone into
winter quarters,” which indicates
that they have all been snowed
under,—Greenville Banner,
The Dem
party of the
pie for the people?^ > It will al-
ways stand as the only real bul-
wark of the masses
encroachment of the
it will die only when there is
nothing left here that is worth
living tor.—Weatherford Herald.
From a study of the vote m
the recent election it would ap-
pear that the classes so outnum-
ber the masses that they roll
over any bulwark to protect ‘ the
latter as the wavers of the sea
roll over the breakers.
The flowers that bloom in the
spring m other States are not
half so beautiful and fragrant as
these that are full blown in the
dead of winter in old Texas.
The other week welthouglit the
little icy breath from Kansas
had killed all the flowers, but
even now the roses are abloom in
the yards.
For every postoffice' the saintly
patriots ot Texas have lost they
have 600 turkeys and 500 pos-
sums. The Republicans can .take
their old swag and go to the de-
vil with it.—Houston Post.
We all know what the Post
mdans. but strictly speaking we
haven’t lost any postoffices, kaze
we didn’t have any to lose.
con-
princi-
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< Not even the flying machine is
is a new invention. *Proof that
they existed in the time of Isaiah
is his query. “Who are these that
fly as doves?”—Ft. Worth Re-
cord.
Ezekiel also speaks ot flying
machines, and very minutely de-
scribes one., It is worthy ot nofe,
however, that the Texas man
who built a machine after
Ezekiel’s plans hasn’t succeeded
in making the thing flv.
The Democrats, spent Jail told
in the recent campaign the sum
of $619,410.06, which was
tributed by the people,
pally in small amounts.
Republicans received $1,655,518.-
27, from 12,330 contributors.
The largest contributor was the
brother of the president elect,
who give $110,000. Andrew
Carnegie and J. P. Morgan fol-'
low with $20,000 each. The re-
sult ot the election shows that
the Republicans had almost three
times as much money as the
Democrats and made every dollar
of it count.
fecting of those we already have.
While we have too many laws, it
is well enough to keep in mind
that the“Fewer and Better Laws”
agitation was begun and has
been kept up by those who have
some special interests to serve.
We need to keep and enforce the
majority of the laws on the
i Statute books. We agree with
Bonham had Sunday 'school &
rallies Sunday and nearly half
the population attended. That
town is good for more things
than being a rabbit and peanut
center.- Sherman Democrat^ •
z Yes, it even sets Sherman a
good example on how to enforce
the prohibition law.
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Hobson is going to make an
appeal to the president for the
rt tention of the fleet in the Pa-
cific and also for an adequate de-
fense of the Pacific ocean, now
that grave problems confront
American interests in the East.
—Sherman Democrat.
Hobson belongs to that small,
but growing, class in this coun-
try who have made fame and
money out of war, and he thinks
the chief aim and object of part
of mankind is to fight, while the
balance of mankind hve but to
work and support the fighters.
Our navy is increasing by leaps
and bounds, our standing army
is doubling in size every few
years, while the burdens placed
on the people to keep these fight-
ets going are enormous, and the
end is not yet.
Men who aid and abet others
in their attempts to override the
law or escapesa just punishment
for crimes committed, are as mor-
ally guilty as the men who actu-
ally commit the offenses.
Texas had much to be thank-
ful for yesterday, chief arhong
which is that none but Republi-
cans live in such a place as Zapa-
ta County, which is fit for noth-
ing but an annex to the domain
of his satauic majesty. >
If Tennessee will mete out
justice to the slayers of Sen.
Carmack as readily as they hang-
ed those negroes for murder we
shall feel inclined to continue to
acknowledge the old* State
worthy to remain ’in
“Solid South” ranks. .'
Editor Thompson, of
Denison Herald, has been
fined to his bed for some days by
a light stroke of paralysis. Not-
withstanding this he continues to
dictate editorials for his paper
and superintend the business by
telephone. We trust he will soon
oe completely restored to healths
It is reported in the Japanese
newspapers that the object of the
visit of Tang Shoa Yi’s visit to
this country is to enlist Presi-
dent Rjosevelt as the confidential
advisor to China in remodeling
the government on constitutional
lines. One whack of the Big
Stick and all China would go to
pieces.
J Exchange Comment «
In expounding the faith that
in within him that the fourth-
coming legislature should sub-
mit the phohibition amendment,
Colonel Gus Shaw fails to \ in-
clude in his pronouncement his
particular personal and demo-
cratic view as to the duty of a
legislator to’obey the instruct-
ions given him by his constituents
It the colonel doubts that it is
the bounden dutv of the legisla-
tor to do as his constituents in-
struct him will he please give us
the benefit of his views as
what “representative form
government” means, anyhow? If
it doesn’t mean that, what means
it?—Austin Statesman.
The legislator whose county
has voted against the submission
of the amendment is in a fix. His
party has instructed him to vote
He has either to
too many presetiption for liquor
fdr their patients. A large num-
ber of citizens requested the
Courier editor to publish the
names of these physicians, to-
gether with the number of pres-
criptions they had written.
Along with this request came
notice from the doctors that they
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would bring suit for libel it the
publication was made. The
parties offered to furnish bond
indemnifying the editor against
loss, and threatened to start a
paper that would publish the
names if he refused. As Editor
Green has had to defend three
suits for libel, and as in this case
he might have to go to jail for
two vears, he decided not to
make’ the publication. The
Choice between loss cf patronage
fcnd a term in jail is pretty hard
to make sometimes. Editors do
have some pretty rockv roads to
travel as thev go along. -
Tom L. Johnson, Cleveland’s
famous mayor, entered office a
few years ago a millionair, .and
today is financially ruined. fc[o
man has worked harder tor what
he conceived to be the best inter-
ests of his constituents, and few
men have-.sacrificed more for the
good of other men. He at-
tributes his financial losses partly
to his efforts to save the estate of
a dead brother and partly to the
efforts of those whose interests
be has opposed in his official ca-
pacity. These men sought to
grow rich at the expense of the
city and he worked to thwart
their efforts. Mr. Johnson an-
nounces that he is still full or
fight and that he will be a candi-
date for re-election. He started
a poor man and says that he can
be happy to go back and live as a
poor man again. There is much
that is sublime in his pluck and
his courage, as well as much
that is pathetic. Nothing has
<hown the man’s real greatness
more than the way in which he
has met this crisis in his history.
The man who gives liberally
reaps bountifully,
not always be true of monev, but
: it is of kind words and deeds.
Thev multiply in the giving anfl.t , .
j besides brightening and helping' aDf* “lssapointing,
the lives of others thev cause a
a thousand benedictions to de-
scend upon the head of the giver.
—Republican Tribune, Trenton,
Mo.,
A great many years ago a man
who was not only wise in the
wisdom of the world, but was in-
spired frohi on High, said, “What-
soever a man soweth,that shall he
also reap.” The man whose life
is filled with kind deeds will
never lack for kind deeds in re-
turn, and he whose lips are every
ready with words of cheer will
never lack for tongues that speak
in kindness to him
After all is said, the fact re-
miins that nearly all of our in-
dustrial and social evils are the
direct result of man’s selfishness.
Along witn fcis Other accom-
plishments, no man has been be-
fore the public who can' take de-
feat more gracefully than
Bryan. _____
Yes, I enjoved my Thanksgiv-
ing turkey. It was a wild one
that I killed myself, and I had
more enjoyment in the killing
than I did in the eating.
It is a sad commentary on hu-
man nature that there are more
men who rejoice in the downfall,
of a competitor than are pleased,
to see his ligitimate success.
President Taft, elect, has given
notice that he will call Congress
together immediately after his
inauguration On the 4th o f
March, to take up the ’ tariff re-
vision. Then we shall see what
we shall see.—Sulphur Springs
Gazette.
We shall probably see the
tariff revised in the interest of its
friends. :
The editor of the Tyler Courier
He talks like is in the midst of a bad fix.
It appears that some of the doc- f0 enforce the law all peace offi- f°r fewer laws, but above all for
tors of Tyler have been writing cers should be required to search the better enforcement and per-
an-
an hon-
The
Bonham
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Entered at the Poetofflce, uv Bonham. Texas,
as second-cl mall matter.
SUBSCRIPTION ......11.00 PER YEAR
INVANIABIY IN tOV^NCI.
Bonham shipped enough
dressed turkeys to make ten
thousand people feel satisfied
• and happy while giving thanks
y esterd ay.______________
Williams of Cumby is taking
entirely too much space in the
newspapers telling what he
would have done had he been
elected governor,
a man who wants to run an-
other race.
and I the meeting of the legislature
once m four years is quite
enough.
( Speaker Cannon has
nounced that he favors
est revision” ot the tariff,
only trouble is Uncle Joe’s idea
of what constitutes “an honest”
revision. It will probably be
found that he favors an increase
ot duty on articles manufactured to submit it.
by the trusts, and a free list for disregard the instructions of his
the articles thev use.
every man they meet for firearm?,
- El Paso Times.
The Times wants too much.
If the officers were to search
every man they meet for a gun,
and keep it up a few davs, the
fellows who were not caught
with the guns on would assurdlv
leave them at home. The num-
ber of license issued wou d no;
bring enough money to pay for | the Star that elections and the
the cost ot issuing them,
such a provision would be
necessary. r ’
Every four years we are mon-
favorably impressed with the
wonderful resources and possibil-
ities of Texas.—The Commoner.
We don’t wait four years to be
impressed. We are impressed
every year and every day.
Ever stop long enough to think
what a darned fool a man is?—
Rio Grande News.
Don’t have to stop. It is so
plain that he who runs may read.
Next year wtL see great ad-,
vances in the price of Fannin
County realestate. Better buy
you a home now.
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TO STAMP IT OUT.
Alarmed at the rapid growth
of the*prohibition sentiment, the
liquor forces called a meeting ot
their , “respectable” friends in
Chicago this week. Since “pro-
hibition does not prohibit,” but
invariably “increases the con-
sumption of liquor” wherever
adopted, I have always wondered
whjk the liqUor forces fight their
own b^st interests so hard. Ba
these Chicago liquor men are
planning the fight on, nations
lines, probably with a view o
killing prohibition so as to de-
crease the amount of their sales
Judge Rufus Potts, Geo. W. Pos»
and F. P. Estes have hit upon a
plan that they say will bring the
anti-saloon forces to a dead halt
with a quick jerk. ,;.
Their plan is to “drive the
ministers out of the fight,” and
to “make business men feel the
undesirability of helping the op-
ponents of. the liquor business.”
They declare that ‘ ‘ T h e
key to the situation is to drive
the ministers eut of the fight.”
I have no doubt that they are
correct. Having solved th<
problem of how to stopw the
growth of prohibition, the only
thing'thev have to do now is to
find some way to do what the?
have found out thev must do. I
is probable that just here lies the
only trouble with iMe solution of
the questiotf^rfived at by these
exalted gentlemen friends of th<
liquor traffic. It is one thing to
ascertain that the “key to the
situation is to drive the ministers
out of the fight,” and it is quite
another thing to solve the prob-
lem of how 'to do the driving
Few preachers are bri^lewise
when an attempt is made to drive
them. No other class of people
have such strong convictions of
right and the courage to stand by
their convictions. The liquor
forces may find it comparatively
easy to keep many business men
from taking an active part in the
prohibition battle, but there will
be very few preachers who can be
frightened by a threat of the loss
of pulpit or oatronage.
If it be that these gentlemen
have found the only key to the
situation, as they think they
have, then the liquor business is
doomed, for no power on earth
can close the 'tips or still the
hands of the thousands of conse-
crated ministers in these United
States.
party or that of his constituents.
The question he has to settle is
whether it is better to listen to
the voice of the majority of his
party in the State or to heed ihe
Commands of the majority of his
constituents. It’s a pretty knotty
problem.
| We believe that about the best
way to squelch the pistol-toter
would be to make him ashamed
cf himself, to hold him up to
public ridicule by the enactment
of a law requiring him to pay al
license to carry a gun and com-
pel him to wear upon the lap^l of,
his coat a large brass tag bear-
ing the legend, “I am a pistol-
toter.” Let the same law provide
for a penalty of one year in the
State penitentiary for every per-
son carrying concealed firearms
without license. And in order
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The legislature will soon be in
session and it is hoped that the
fewer laws and better laws idea
will appeal to every member of
that body. Texas is cursed with
too much tinkering with her
laws. .The constitution should
be changed making the term of
all State and county officers not
less than four years and the leg-
islature only to meet every four
years. The law factory in Tex-
as is one factory that should be
closed for years to come. Laws
are made and changed so often
that the bes^ lawyers can hardlv
keep up with them and the av-
erage man does not try because
it is useless.—Baird Star.
Texas needs to enter upon a
campaign of education not only
What’s the use of pulling a
thorn when you, could pluck a
flower? What’s the advantage
of climbing rocky paths when
you could travel smoother roads?
What’s the excuse of stumbling
alomg, hesitating on account of
trivial troubles, when a little en-
ergy would put you beyond such?
What’s the logic* for being a
knocker when you could be a
booster? Pessimism never made
a man, won a battle nor built a
town. Pessimism is an unnat-
ural state, the malady of a dis-
eased mind. There is beauty in
the world and happiness for those
who seek it. Trials, real or
imaginary, should find no lodge-
ment with the true man or
woman. The sun is shining
brightly today; the air is ladened
with the perfume* of a world
of living, breathing, pretty flow-
ers; there is love and hope and
ambition all around us and thefre
should be contentment ^rithin us.
—Nacogdoches Sentinel.
After all our trials and troubles
and dissa point meats, our joys,
our happiness and our content*
ment—after they are all consid-
This mav I ered carefully we shall find that
life is pretty much what we
make it. We can make it sad,
t or^re
can make it bright and cheerful
and satisfying.
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 62, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1908, newspaper, November 27, 1908; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1365422/m1/4/?rotate=0: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.