The Fort Worth Record and Register (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 266, Ed. 1 Monday, July 8, 1907 Page: 4 of 10
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when it comes to talking up his town
and promoting its enterprises and
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Cotton thus planted in a sol
RELIC OF “VIRGIN QUEEN."
ceipts for the past two months.
November,
has enabled us to
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licity is being
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HRRE’S A FREAK FROG.
our tax rate still further.
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WHO WILL HELP ORPHANS!
home and school for orphans,
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destroyed without delay or evidence of Jurles are coming to look with sus-
fear by the courts, ahd some day that' piclon upon confessions that may be
are
Ac-
And, after all. perhaps all that
Fairbanks had to do with those cock-
tails was to tnish the ice.
The sculptor who helped . to deco-
rate the new Pennsylvania capital has
been hauled in with the grafters. This
goes to show the influence of com-
mercialism on wealth.
Gur Cottow See Yroducts
ACave Sreat Ohance Abroad
Popular Dlacusston
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TELEPHONES.
Rnainess Office ................
Editorlal Rooms ................
primarily by
9A5. 1906 and
THE RORT WORTH RECORD
AMD wunaisran.
n price tO per cent caused
" the poor crop years of 1!
for a brief repoi
condition of the
Democratic party and the state Demo-
cratic administration, he would never
great blessing
will give that
Samples sent tree on appiication
Suhcrihers denirng the Addres of their pAPE
changed win paease state It their communicatlol
Lett the old aud the new address.
atural causes and prevailing
same extent as is true of cottoi
While the demand for cotton
rt of the work and
WEATHER ECCRN’TRICIMIES.
to knowingly make such
alone for these materials amount to
THE THIRD DEGREE.
If reports are to be believed. It has
long been the custom of officers of
the law to endeavor to wrest confes-
sions from prisoners who are arrested
on suspicion of committing capital
crimes, by the application of methods
that are more or less gentle In their
production of mehtal and physical
1907, and increased taxation. Under
pipe the new methods of mixed farming
and there is less danger of a serious fall-
that excess has been
Texas Pre sb;
but whan It comes to
he is at a disadvantage.
A London society'Woman says that
■he cannot clothe herself decently on
$6,000 a year. If all the fashion notes
are true there are a .lot of women
who cannot clothe themselves decently
on a much larger amount than that.
RRCORD TRAVELING AGRNTS.
The following travellag representatves are •”
tbeckzed, to recept for subseriptions and.edver.
tiwncnta; wlam Fay Kinbegury, Richatd
Fotts, W. Peterson, P. E West. W. O. Bnstord-
James B. Harrts.
per acre.
41 so well
The umbrella trust has been in-
dicted. That ought to shut them up.
stopped with covering the-ground it
would not have been so bad, but that
would not be putting it strong enough.
The colonel must be emphatic, and
severely dealt with the illegal prac-
tices would stop. There would be no
Deep sea Democrats will probably
note with due solemnity that the
battleship Nebraska is now in com-
ing comfort and happi-
tie ones.
McKinney, Texas, July 1.—The suc-
cessful farmer in Collin county, Texas,
ich extravagant as- practices diversification. The one or
He thinks too much two-crop plan is fast becoming obso-
lete. The aphis or commonly called
tubers are fairly mature, sa
raise one-third of a bale
us put all property at its full cash
------e, ----- value and reduce the rate in proportion
18, etc. He to the raise. Iset the rich counties and
freight bill the poor counties as well as the rich
than in a monetary forfeit. It the oversealous deteetlves put heavy pres-
men who direct Illegal practices ware pure an waak-mInAaA enananta +hav
excess, however, of
cember and January 1
meet our bills up to
“John D. Rockefeller is a very rich
man,” declares his attorney to the
court. But you very seldom hear an
attorney plead that his client is a
very poor man.
men and poor men pay to each govern-
ment their just proportion of the taxes.
Let there be but one standard of valua-
tion for every part of the state, then
our taxes will in fact as well as name
be equal and uniform throughout the
state. Very truly,
R. L STENNIS.
NEED OF DIVERSIFICATION.
foreign markets may possibly decline
in consequence of competition with
other vegetable oils and the likelihood
that a home demand will spring up
whch will curtail exports. it is prob-
able that the falling-off in this par-
ticular will be more than made up in
the Increased demand abroad for cot-
ton seed cake and meal, the superiori-
ty of which for feed for cattle is rec-
ognised. and the demand for which will
undoubtedly fncreaae in proportion as
they become better known to the ag-
ricultural classes.
The department of commerce and
labor has secured from American con-
sular officers, through instructions is-
sued by the department of state, re-
ports from all European countries in
which cotton seed products are used,
which reports have been issued in a
volume by the bureau of manufactures
that is is being distributed to parties
interested. This volume is filled with
information that will be of great value
to those engaged in the cotton seed,
industry.
It will be valuable not only because
it shows the extent of the trade, the
purposes to which • cotton seed prod-
ucts are put, commercial conditions
which apply to these products and how
they are popularly regarded relatively
with competitive products, but be-
cause there will be found In the vol-
ume advice and admonition based upon
observation of intelligent men who are
interested in the enlargement of sales
abroad of this and of every other
American product.
Parity of Goods Should Be Guaranteed.
Among the most Important agencies
in the promotion of foreign trade is
that your,products shall be free from
improper manipulation and that they
shall be strictly what they are repre-
sented. As a result of reflection given
The eoord A few days ago, in refer-
eno to Price of Water pips manyfaeta
ured at the Rusk penitentiary. It ap-
pears that Colone Paddock feels call*
id uQ to ooms to the rescue of Cob
onel D. r. Bullivan uf Dallas in his re-
cent efforts to projudice the public
against the state's iron industry. And
in the language of the Dallas Times
Herald, commenting on the same com-
munfoation published in it columns.
Colonel Paddock ‘covers all the groun
and more, too." If he had merely
tation, as our books are open to the
publice for all proper information, and
fair and just eritieisms are not objected
FRANK B GUINN,
Assistant Hnancal Agent.
the flM> the Mlandara Ml etmpany
wiu not be berleuny afteeted fnan.
olally by Um payment thereot. n has
Some to be a pretty well estabiished
taot that the dear peeple are the ones
of Inat roeort when It comes to paying
the tines that are amesea agatnst
corporationa The aseessment of tines
is no punishment at all. The corpo-
ration almply untie, when a fin, la
uhm2 and passes It on to tha people.
The remedy, threfore, lies deeper
Now the trouble with some people is
that they talk the loudest and write the
most learnedly on subjects they know
least about. Colonel Padock is a good
business man in his line, and is a hus-
tler. they say. Worn away back, and
We have been caring for thirty-
eight children in the home and have
applications for the reception of eight
or ten more whom We expect to re-
ceive at an early day. These, with our
officers—president, two matrons and
teacher—will crowd to overflowing our
two cottages. We have been com-
pelled to give the little frame build-
Ing in which the sehool was taught
the last session for the use of the
steward and his wife, therefore must
arrange for the school for the next
session. In view of these facte,, the
executive committee has decided to
erect at once the Miller memorial
chapel and school building. with four
class rooms and an auditorium for
chapel exercises. The two class rooms
on the second floor will, be utilised at
present as additional dormitory room.
We hope to have the building ready
bv Oct 1. Will not some liberal friends
furnish these rooms for the board?
The health of the children and offi-
cers has been good and they seem mu-
taally happy and contented. The work
of the home bag progressed wits
pleasure and profit to all concerned.
It has been heretofore with special
pride and pleasure that I have boon
able always te report the receipts
from friends for the support of the
home each month equal to the demands
for the sama But it is with equal sor-
row and anxiety that I have at this
time to report a falins off in our ro-
bought and paid for with cash, such
as core compound, pipe blacking, coal
tar. hay, machinery, moulds. 5"
does not know that our f
Twelve Months (hy mall).:......
Sir Months (hy.mal) ...........
three Months (by malil..........
EMI -WEEKLY
Twelve Months .................
B11 Months ....................
11.000 per day, nor that the state has
over $500,000 Invested in the plant, and
that were We to manufacture all our
iron pipe and sell it at 515 per ton that
we would lose 51.000 per day, to the
colonel and other tax payers. He prob-
ably thinks that we mine the pipe al-
ready made, or. that we simply melt
rocks into pipe moulds on short notice.
The colonel should travel and take a
look at a pipe plant. I shall be very
glad to show him through ours, and as
bad as he appears to want to injure the
excitement among farmers,
shorn believed their grain
Queen Eliznbeth’s Chest Property of
Ameriean Who Inherited It.
New York Press.
Springfield. Mass.—In the possession
of Theodore Raymond, Jr., In this city.
Is a great chest that was once the
property of Queen Elisabeth. It has
been fought for for generations until
it finally came to its rightful owner,
George C. Raymond, who in turn hand-
ed it on to his son, Theodore Raymond
Jr., the next heir to the treasure.
The chest was given to Margaret
Willoughby, Queen Elisabeth's maid of
honor, by that royal personage, and
it came to this country with Sir Fran-
cis Willoughby in 1638. Sir Francis
became deputy governor of Massachu-
setts in 1655 and-held that office until
he died in 1675.
The Raymonds have satisfactorily
traced their ancestry back to the maid
of honor, Margaret Willoughby, but it
was only aftpr much wrangling and
the services of a sheriff that they
were able to get hold of this priceless
treasure. The chest is a massive ,af-
fair, seven feet long and two feet three
inches high and wide. It is made of
heavy hardwood, but time has so dark-
ened it that it is impossible to judge
its exact nature. The outside surfaces
are covered with rude carvings, and
the inner side of the heavy lid is thick-
ly covered with carving Interlined with
Back Ink. The carvings to the lid ar
very plain, but those on the outside of
the chest have been so polished off by
conscientious housewives that they are
no longer distinct
in the center of the Inner Sie,
the iid is the coat of arme that be-
ionge to Prine... Eizabeth. befere
•he becama Queen Elizabeth. The
aleli had a cron, to make four quar-
terInca on a plain field; the supporter,
are a lion without a crown and a uni-
corn without a chain. In th. attitude
of the arms of Englana. The shield is
surmounted by a ducal Coronet of five
points, and haa ths rose of England in
ftoomant "Ke or this coat of arms is
a rudely drawn scene of a aax pleasure
party and on the other side a water
party.- where the ladies are richly
dressed and the men are garbed in
handsome costumes. The party is moy-
ing about a lake i boats. In the back-
ground is a castle with many turrets.
Around the outside of the chest the
faintly distinguishable figures seem to
be silhouettes of men and women.
The lid is fastened to the body
two wrought iron hinges. which are
held to the wood by hand-made bolts
and nuts. At either end is a large
wrought iron handle. The lock 1s.a
work of art and is fastene into the
side of the chest by large iron nalS
The key is very large and elaborate...
Although prizing the chest, high.y.
the Raymonds do not hesitate to make
practical use of it, and It has been
found an excellent receptacle for stor-
ing away furs and winter clothing.
the present, but
i exhausted and
Puck.
Magarino Editor—Bo you want the
job of conducting our humorous de-
partment. Have you had any experi-
ence in that lino of work?
Applicant—Tweutryeara
Magas!no Editor—Then I guess you'll
be the right men for the job You see,
unscrupulous contrfu tors try occA-
sionally to work off some new jokes
on us, end we want a man who can
epot them every time.
FUKI "UKIH KPOUNDI MUNDAT MURN ING. JUDY 5 WOT.
crops wore ruined, went into the mar-
ket and bofght flour. The frosts were
followed by a period of excellent
weather and crops were resown.
The memory of man respecting weath-
Any eroneons reflection on tb* character,
standing or reputation of any person, firm or
corporation which may nppear in the columns or
The Recerd will be glais corrected npon its
being brought to the attentfon of the man
agement.
weakening honest investments. It is
the lawlessness in any industry and
Dot the Industry itself that should be
among other things, says that some
years ago that convict made pipe was
sold around 115 per ton at good profit.. stale
I take it that the colonel was in earn- 'worth of
eat, and that he really believed such
to bo the fact, or he would not make
TEnAS or suescroN.. a on
An2xtinz ; ah i paa ingpanc.. 208
8 Months fby mU if paid La advance).... 4.00
Twelre Mac tha 0 mafr pald in advanee)
The Old Catton Pianter Writes on Re-
storing Land.
To the Editor of The Record; -
green bug or wheat louse has been so
destructive as to make ths graih crop
mors uncertain a staple crop than cot-
ton with all its insect enemies. It is
true that the prices for both have in-
e reaped, according to the decreased
yield. Our black lands have fallen in
Major John M. Carsen, chief of the
bureau of manufeures, department of
commerce and labor, has interested
himself in the poestbllties for extend-
ing the sale of American gtton seed
in foreign countriea He was called
upon to deliver an address on this
subject before the Mite estate Cotton
Heed Crtshers’ association and the
fasts which he brought out are atract-
in enslderabie intereet.
The cotton seed industry presents
greater at tract ions and offers greater
poselbilities in the immediate future
for enlargement in foreign markets
than many others of our foreign in-
dustries. Cotton seed products have
coms into commercial importance al-
most within the last ecad. About
thirty years ago cotton seed was an
expenslvs neumbrance, but by meens
of inventive genius and individual en-
terprise has now reached a position
in ths industries of the country which
gives it the rank of almost a round
•100,000,000 in ths value of the annual
output, and the annual exports of
which hav reached an aggregate of
$30,000,000. Considering the 1ntrinste
merits of the products of cotton seed
it is surprising that a higher value
is not placed upon it as food for
both man and beast.
If It were more generally known In
the United Btates that the beet cotton
seed oil is equal in purity and health-
fulness of olfve oil, the demand for
cotton oil at home would expand to
a point that would seriously interfere
with the profits of those manufactur-
ers of olive oil in France, Italy and
Spain, who find cotton oil so profita-
ble in the conduct of their business
in this relation it may be pertinent to
observe that our manufacturers of cot-
ton oil might profitably direct their
efforts to bringing their product to
the attention of the American people.
If our own people were made familir
with the real qualfttes of cotton seed
oil, very much of the olive oil now Im-
ported would be permanently displaced,
and much of the animal fats now so
extensfvely used in the preparation
of food would be expelled from Ameri-
can kitchens.
Would Replace Olive OH.
Edible olive oil annually *lmported
into the United States is valued at
about 15,000,000. and that imported for
mechanical purposes 51,000,000. These
are relatively small aggregates, but
there can be no doubt that the quan-
tities they represent would be materi-
ally decreased if cotton oil should sup-
plant olive oil in domestic economies.
There will always be a demand in
foreign markets for the cotton seed
New York Press.
Through the introduction of a new
style in automoble hoods it no longer
will be necessary for women to wear
automobile goggles when riding in mo-
tor cars. The hood is made of natural
linen and there is a square, openfng In
the center of it that is filled with a
sheet of fine isinglass that proteets
the eves thoroughly. It is somethins
like the pane of Isinglass in the,0d-
fashioned parlor steve. Although these
new eontrivanees are. often Heen „n
- - —---t the best fashion, for
ven veils around one's hat are tabooed
wwhen one is driving a car in theelty.
It may not be so comfortable to hay*
one’s hat securely fastened down with
a veil, but dame fashion never did pay
much attention to-comfort
er conditions in the past is rarely to
be trusted. We hare heat out of sea- town they are not
sen and cold out of season, but if we even veils around (
go back to the records ws will find • ---
that there is nothing new under the
sun and that the weather has been be-
ure. The mildness of climate and soil
fertility permits the raising of a great
variety of valuable auxiliary products,
such as alfalfa, onions, potatoes, sor-
ghum and ouch by-ppduets as mo-
lasses, honey, butter, etc Ths farmer
who is specially qualified to grow
onions in paying quantities and can
property gather, handle and market
them in carload lots is better able to
rales cotton at the least coat; because
by the use of an extra early variety of
cotton seed, can by planting in every
third row of the onions after the
make, of A eemmiesioners court that
would knowingly Assess one man's land
at $29 per aere and his neighbor's land
al ths same yalte At only 519 per qgre;
or that woul ssess 5 lan 114 th
sims as 29 land? As eitleehs, our ob-
lgatons to pay t the state lis just
part bf the tax hre as sagfed as are our
obligations to pay to th county its
just part of the taxi and as ofneers
ouf OAth is Rs binding on us to do our
duty in protecting the stat’s interest
as. in proc**- ting the county's interest.
Why hi it that in most of our wealthy
oouniUs the very limit for county tax
rate l« leyled and property is assossod
at, on0-third or lss of its full value?
Why can't they reduce the oounty tax
to one-third of what la now levied ana
Ases property at Ito full valuer it
It because that such a change would
cause them to pay to the state three
times what they are now paying? Will
any fair minded man say that a dol-
lar's worth of property should pay to
the state more or Issa than a dollar’s
Automobtling is said to be highly
beneficial to heith. Don’t fail to
pack an automobile or two in your
grip when you start on your summer
vacation.
such statements.
Someone has evidently imposed on
his credulity most rldicuously, and it
is a shame that a good man should be
treated that way. If all the readers of
The Record were posted on the subject
of pipe making, it would be out of
place to reply to such absurdities, but
many of them probably know as little
about the matter as Colonel Paddock,-
and they may be misled by even such
foolish statements.
Of sou roe, the colonel does not know
that the raw iron that goes into the
pipe is worth over 520 per ton at the
furnace, nor that few furnaces in the
United States are making pig iron for
as little above cost as $15 per ton, even
when the ore, fuel and limestone are
all contiguous. He does not, of course,
know that we pay out in cold cash for
fuel and limestone to smelt the ore and
then to convert the pig into pipe more
than 515 per tore for each ton of pipe
made, to say nothing of running the
ore, operating the furnace and the labor
of operating the pipe plant, and the
large amount of other material to be
ERUAL TAXATION.
Parker County Sets Lauduhle Example
for State to Fellow.
To the Editor of The Record.
Weatherford. Texas, July 5.—In your
paper appears reports from some
points of the state showing a very
bitter opposition by some of the peo-
ple to an impartial and uniform en-
forcement of our tax laws throughout
the state; and in some counties it ap-
pears that the officers intend to con-
tinue to ignore the law. To the casual
reader it might Aappear that the state
and county officials would be unable
to enforce the law requiring that all
strobg eorreborative evideneb, yet the
grand jury retused t tadtet the youug
man. AU when a gena jury that
hears enly ene aid, et a ense talk
to indlet a suspeet I shows that the
Mat, haa talled utterly to maha a
ease. »
4 These cases are elted to Illustrate
tha perlls that attend the attempt to
sole murder myatertes by tha invo-
oatfon ot the third degree. When
TIIR nrcotn on balk
The Rerord ran he found nt news stands and
hotel radins rooms as folows:
In New York: At the tutor Honse Reading
Room. 225 Broadway: at the Hotel Marlborough
Read Ins Room. Th’rty sixth and Broadway; at
the Hotel St Denta Ren’Ins Room. Eleventh
and Broadway; nt the Hotel Norma mile Reading
Roof Thirty eighth and Brondway: at the Em-
plre Hotel Rending Room. Sixty-third and Broad-
way st Hata Hsu's-new stand, located at Broad-
Bar and Thirtr-eighth streets, oppostte the
Knirkerbocker Thester; at No. 1. Park Row oP-
rosite the General Poetofftee. and at the Penn-
syirnnla rail war depot, Jerscy City.
In New Orleans, Ij.: At the St. Charles Hotel
newt stand
is (irago: At the Palmee House news stand
and at the Great Northern Hotel news stand
in Hot Sprlags, Ark.: At the C. H- Weaver
Company news stand.
In Denver, Colo. : . At Kendrirk Book A Sta-
tionery fo.’s and at I. Weinstein's.
In Atlanta. Ga : At the Bled moat Hotel
is St. Iois. Mo. \At the Southern Hotel new*
Stand and roton Depot news atand.
In Salt Take City. Utah: At Mrs. L. Lavtn’s
Rendjustment of Rank Im ths South.
New York Sun.
Every observing visitor to the South
has been struck by the abundance of
officers of high rank who served in the
Confederate armies! no crossroads fs
without its general, and colonels are
thick at way stations. This is not said
in disparagement of the Confederate
soldier; nobraver man ever shouldered
a musket, and if he was not always.h
general or a colonel. In most cases he
deserved to be We take pride in the
reunion at Richmond, In the enthusiasm
of the spent and maimed veterans; In
their sturdy faith in the lost cause! for
of such stuff are made the Americans
who will save the republic from civil
enemies and defend it against the in-
solvent foreign foe, snd no Americans
are more loyal to the flag of a re-
united country than the Confederate
veterans and their sons, as was proved
by the sacrifices they made In the
Spanish war.
If we speak of the profusion of regi-
mental and brigade commanders in the
South and the dearth of company offi-
it in the resolution adopted at the con-
it in theresolution adopted at the con-
vention of Confederate veterans in
Richmond which provided that here-
after no survivor who did not win the
rank of general by services performed
during the war should be recognised as
an officer of that rank. There may
continue to be colonels who were pr4-
vates in the conflict, but the line is
drawn at musket bearers who call
themselves generals. An explanation of
tits condition which the convention had
to take cognisance of and to remedy
if offered by the Baltimore Sun, whose
devotion to the men who wore the gray
cannot be questioned.
It seems that when the war ended
regimenetal rosters contained so many
blanks that promotions were obvious
and zao’d; prvaes became lieutenants
and captains and company officers
leaped Into the command of skeleton
brigades. On returning home the sur-
vivors could give but a lame account
of their regimental rank and the temp-
tation to exalt it could not always bo
resisted. In the process of hero wor-
ship high privates were promoted,
nolens volens, tommthe command of
brigades, and it wTsan underslzed or
humhle vsteran who •as not addressed
as colonel. In some cases plain men
protencea. but were .overruled.I.Thex
went into the war privates, "fIt hard
in the ranks and cams out general of-
ficers and colonels, according to local
traditions. This story of a sad case of
reluctant ciisttnctlon is told by the Bal-
timore Sun:
honrable veteran from Marr
land now a colonel, and a Kcntueky
general met in Richmond last Sunday
and opened their hearts to each other.
Their titles have never been impeached
at nome. But they deemed it sufficient
glory to have fought as prtvate soldiers
throughout the conflict The colonel
disclaimed the right to any title, while
the general was equally emphatic in
proclaiming himself a private.
The convention seems to have been
full of such valient and honest genKle-
nen and under the lead of their old
commanders they rose in rebellion
against local tradition, even aglnst
their friends and neighbors, and passed
the resolution which reduces to the
ranks all brave men who belong there.
Probably the vicinage never understood
the embarrassment to which its various
promotions exposed humble delegates
tn the annul convention, who, being ad-
dressed by their titles, had to explaln
the innocent deception to the real gen-
erals and colonels who led them into
battle Peace hath her sufferings no
less than war.
We commend the moral heroism of
the Confederate veterans to the sur-
vfvors of the conflict on this side of
the Mason and Dixon line, tor it to be-
yond cavil that there have been a good
many unauthorised promotions among
veterans of ths union armies
A Pittsburg man claims to have lost
$1,000,000 in a poker game the other
day. But the general belief prevails
that he is a faker and attempting to
take advantage of John W. Oates’
absence in Europe.
ROCKEFELLER IN COURT.
John D. Rockefeller learned, after
several days of very lively discussion
of the matter in the press dispatches
of the country, that Judge Landis of
the federal court in Chicago was de-
sirous of having the aforesaid Rocke-
feller appear in court and show cause
why the Standard Oil company should
not be regarded as an illegal corpo-
ration after it had been proven to
be so. or, to put it more explieitly,
the court was desirous of obtaining
Mr Rockefeller's opinion as to the
degree of guilt which should be as-
sessed against the Standard Oil com-
pany in the way of fines for its recent
conviction for rebating. Under the
law the Standard Oil company to
Mable for fines in excess of 529.Bdt.OOO
if tha court pleases to, assess them,
but the court will not do it. The
court sends for Mr. Rockefeller, as
it has.a right to do, in all probability,
in order that it may quiz him in
regard to the financial standing of j
offending company, so that an
excessive fine may not be imposed for
its disregard of the law.
Of course Mr. Rockefeller, with his
usual habit of disclosing all he knows
About the huge company that he ma-
nipulates, will be obliging to the judge
and endeavor to help him arrive at
an equitable basis. But, somehow,
the spectacle refuses to be robbed of
its unusual, if not its ludicrous, fea-
tures. When the ordinary citizen is
convicted of an offense punishable by
fie.e it is not the habit of courts to
•end for that citizen and discuss with
him his financial standing so that the
fine may be made easy. An exem-
plary amount is generally named and
the citizen must pay it regardless of
the inroads it may make upon his
substance if a man is convicted of
a crime it is not the habit of the
courts to send for him and discuss
with him the length of term in servl-
tude that will be convenient for him
to serve. The sentence to fixed and
the man accepts it as the ineyitable
consequence of his illegal act. In this
land any other manner of assessing
punishment is sure to attract atten-
tion. The studious reader of the nar-
ration of the events of the day has
opinions of his own regarding such
spectacles as the one presented in the
up too de in which Rockefeller is made
the central figure.
It is notable that the attorney for
the Standard Oil company tn object-
ing to the court’s determination to
have Rockefeller appear before it
exclaimed: "But, your honor. Mr.
Rockefeller to a very rich man.” As
if the fact that a man is very rich
should exempt him from the duties
of citizenship or entitle him to extra
consideration when he buses the
safeguards thrown out by the law to
protect that citizenship. If Judge
Landis as a judge of the federal court
had cared to arrive at a fair con-
elusion as to the financial condition
of the Standard OH company he might
have referred to the recent report of
one of the government departments
which gave a comprehensive statement
of the affairs of the gigantic company
and which was compiled at govern-
ment expense. In any event it does
not appear that the ends of justice
should be delayed, nor thwarted in
this Vase. •o tone as donviction has I
been duly secured and every step in
th, proceedtngs save tha one at as-
•amine th, puntshment la a matter
ot court recora.
Whatever may ba tha amount of
3
This seeming widespread opposition
to the enforcement of our tax laws is
due to the fact that these laws have
been ignored in nearly all the counties
for many years, and to tha further tact
that property owners fear that the
state and county rates of taxation will
remain the same even though they
render their property at its full value.
The present custom of each county
having its own standard for valuations
has for many years annulled both the
spirit andz letter of our constitution
and statutes; and the great mass of
our people have no idea of the gross
inequality and Injustice of its effect.
Our constitution provides that our
state tax shall be equal and uniform
throughout the state. Thfs means that
5160 worth of property in one part of-
the state shall pay the same taxx (not
more nor less) to the state as $100
worth of property in any other portion
of the state.
Our law provides that all property
subject to taxation shallgbe assessed
at its full value. For many years our
legislatures' have been levying a tax
of about 36 cents on the 5100 valuation,
to be collected upon all property in the
state subject to taxation.
Suppose our legislature had levied a
taX of 36 cents to bo collected from
certain counties- and 17 cents from
other counties, and 14 cents from other
counties snd 18 •cents from other
counties, snd 11 cents from other coun-
ties snd 9 cents from other counties,
no honest man in the state of Texas
could have been found to defend such
an infamous diseriminatlon; but such
unjust inequality in the pay of state
taxes is now, and for many years has
been practiced throughout the state
by property being assessed in some
counties at its full value. in others
at three-fourths Its value, in others
at two-thirds its value, in others at
one-half its value. In others at one-
third ita value, and in others at one-
fourth its value. If one county as-
sesses all property st two-thirds its
vslue and another county assesses all
property at only one-third its value,
is not the first county payink twice
as much tax to the state on every dol-
lar of its property as the latter coun-
ty is psylng? Is there any difference
in the unjust effect of such e prac-
ties, and in having the legialature levy
a rate for one county double what It
levies for another county?
Assessors end members of the boards
of equalisation who have tried to in-
form themselves, know that real estate,
and perhaps other classes of property.
Is assessed upoa different standards
of valuation in the various counties,
ranging from its full value down to
one-fourth its value, and perhaps a
great deal of the land at even a lower
part of its full value. This is a sys-
tem that has been growing upon us
until it has now reached such unjust
proportions as to make it an outrage
epon justioe and the volce of every
prepared and cultivated, practically
free of weeds or grass, grows much
faster and matures more rapidly than
when ordinarily planted on poorly pre-
pared and badly tilled lands. Besides,
it escape* with less injury from in-
sects. from the wider rows, which ad-
mit the hot rays of the sun more ef-
fectually. which our scientists recom-
mend as a remedy to prevent damage
to the squares and bolls. Dr. 8. A.
Knapp urges the Texas farmer to plant
less cotton and more feedstuffs, wise-
ly contending that hogs, sheep and
other stock are necessary to preserve
the fertility of our black lands, as cot-
ton has proven to be one of the most
exhaustive plants of soil feritlity. Al-
falfa is fast growing in popularity as
a legume that restores fertility to the
soil and at the same time produces a
hay that is in demand at lucrative
prices. Sorghum also is only second
in value to alfalfa, both for hay and
molasses, and though exhaustive to the
soil, yt will grow on all kinds of soils,
many that are unfit for alfalfa. Both
are easily grown snd enable the farm-
er to practice stock raising on the
cheapest and best paying basis. They
are not easily damaged by hailstorms
or insects, as cotton or corn, and the
time has come to see a greater pros-
perity awaits us by practicing a wise
system of diversification.
AARON COFFEE,
"The Old Cotton Planter."
respondents or certain papers to those
who are disobeying the law than to
those who are quietly going along and
obeying the law. I do not know what
is being done in other counties, nor can
I say what the state officials will uo,
but as for Parker county, her officers
and her people, we will obey the law.
Our commissioners’ court has exam-
ined every rendition, has lowered some
and cited many, and will try to assess
all property at its fair cash value. At
our May term we reduced our county
tax rate about 20 per cent, and after
onr renditions are footed up, If the to-
tal renditions will justify it, we will
:*exah3
__________ President: A. 3. Baudegara,
Beeretary.
Hanae at Files Neede Name immediate
Assist a nee.
To the Editor of Ths Record:
Files, Texas, July 5.— W1l you al-
low me space in your valuable paper
this general mattar, Major Carson has
suggested that the producers of cot-
ton seed products, through the sgenay
of the Interstate Cotton Bead Crush-
ws’ assoc 1st ion, perfect plans for ex-
ploiting their manufactures not only
in foreign, but in domestio markets,
snd for maintaining their integrity
and protecting them against question-
able practices which it is alleged have
attended a. few recent shipments to
Europe, some of which are described
in reports from Amertcan consular of-
ficers
A recent transaction by which mer-
chants in Germany were swndled cut
of a large sum of money through
fraudulent shipping papers tosued by
parties in this country has aroused
just nigntaion in the commercial
community affected, snd has been in-
strumental in working a degree of
damage to American trade in cotton
seed products that will require some
time to overcome.
Cotton oil and such other products as
will lend themselves .to the scheme of
preparing samples fur exhibiglan
should be arranged in packages tKat
would 1)0 attractive, that could be
readily handled and that could be sold
for small sums. It should be borne
in mind that the Individual purchasing
power in many foreign countries is
very limited. In some countries of
Europe it is not an uncommon thing
for a woman to purchase for family
use a quarter or a half pound of pork
or other meat, and for the simpl rea-
son that her purchasing power does
not extend beyond that quantity. It
would therefore be wise to keep this
important fact in mind and make pack-
ages in site and form to meet euch
conditions.
Major Carson has given the Inter-
state Cotton Seed Crushers, association
some very helpful advice on this sub-
ject of supplying samples. He says:
"I believe it would be helpful if the
Interstate Cotton" Seed Crushers’ asso-
ciation would have prepared a num-
ber of complete sets of samples of cot-
ton seed products for exhibition in for-
eign countries. These should be put
up to meet the conditions that obtain
in the markets sought, carried from
point to point wherever opportunity
offers for their exhibition, and should
be accompanied by competent agents
who could explain the composition,
merits and utility of the products.
Labels la Foreign Language.
"In preparing samples for exhibi-
tion and for sale abroad labels on
packages should be printed in the
language of the country in which ex-
hibited, and all literature likewise be
printed in foreign languages. There
are abundant opportunities offering
for work of this character. In some
of the cities of continental Europe, and
particularly Parts and Berlin, there
exists commercial organizations whose
membership is composed of Americans
engaged in international trade and
whose sympathies and influences are
naturally in the direction of the Unit-
ed States.
"Through these commercial organi-
zations the Interstate Cotton Seed
Crushers' association could doubtless
arrange for placing cotton seed prod-
ucts on exhibition at the industrial ex-
positions that are regularly held in
different sections of the several west-
ern European countries.
"In this manner the people would be
made familiar with your products and
their quality, and the lower prices for
which they can be sold compared wtth
olive oil would insure for them a fair
share of popular favor. At the re-
quest of leading members of this as-
sociation the bureau of manufactures
caused interrogatories to be sent to
consular officers relating to the con-
sumption of cotton seed products in
European markets, and the volume
just issued by the bureau and to which
I alluded.
"Moreover, at the Instance of the as-
sociation Secretary Straus appointed a
man of your own selection to visit for-
eign markets for the purpose of mak-
ing Inquiries and of securing informa-
tion that will enable you to enlarge
your sales abroad. e But these efforts
by the government will be futile un-
less supplemented by v*gorous action
on your part. The government agents
can collect needful information, de-
scribe conditions and prepare the way
for reaching foreign markets, but tha
occupation of those markets and the
successful holding’ of them must de-
pend upon the individual and collec-
tive enterprise of American producers,
deliberately and sagaciously planned,
and pushed with characteristic Ameri-
can persistency and pluck."
An eminent physician declares that
before long we shall all die of Bright’s
disease if we keep up the present [
pace,. This looks as if it would prove
to be the realization of the dream of
the equality of man.
Indian Territory Speefmen Diseounts
New York Frog.
To the Editor of The Record:
Lebanon, I. T., July 7.—I have just
read an article in your Tuesday’s Issue
concerning a six-legged frog which you
had copied from the Rochester (N. Y.)
Herald.
I wish to say that if this freak is
the only one is existence. I have one
that is a greater one.
I have a frog now on exhibition that
was captured about thirty days ago
in a small tributary ef Red river that
has two legs on one side as any ordi-
nary frog, but has three natural legs
and feet and one leg that contains two
feet or eight natural toes, which will
constitute two feet.
So this freak has six lege and seven
feet, and therefore if your statement
be true, I have the only freak in ex-
istence today. I have written the
Smithsonian Institution today giving
the best description of my frog as pos-
sible.
Let me hear from you soon. I am
yours. DR- W. H USSERY.
often misleading, and hence leading to
absurd blunders. And if be esires to
shine as a writer, I would advise more
discretion in the selection of his sub-
ject hereafter.
In conciueien I desire to say that
there is no occasion for all of this silly
talk about our pipe plant.
There is no excuse for misrepresen-
secured more for ths purpose of sup-
porting a theory about a crime than
to bring the real perpetrator to fus-
tice. In any event there should be
degrees of application of the third
degree.
-
I believe that if all property should
be rendered at its full vslue, the state
cording to that there are a lot of
perambulating corpora in the world.
Some ef the Diseoverles of the Fatteat
Newspaper File Investigator,
Ra: Sun.
Files of old newspapers are very em-
barrassing to commentators on weather
conditions. Men' ripe in years but of
treacherous memories are often in ev-
idence. when the weather is not" nor-
mal or seasonable, with emphatic as-
sertions that such conditions never ex-
isted before.
The public, which, as a rule, has
neither the time nor the inclinetion to
search ancient records. Is then con-
vinced that no preceding generation
has had to contend with weather as
capricious and phenomenal as the late
spring frosts and the early spring
torridity of our own times.
But in time there appears the man
who has a weakness for digging into
newspaper flies This patient Inves-
tigator has been operating In Cincin-
nati Ho has discovered that on May
17. 1859. there was a blighting frost
extending from the MIssissippf to the
eastern states. On June 5 there was
help in tha tailing of just the kind
of storles that they want told. The
man Booker declared to the court
that ho was telling just what he had
been told to toll, and the grand jury
evidently did not think suoh evidence
was competent. It Indlcates that
tax rate, and every county and city
would make a reduction in ths rates
corresponding with the increase in the
valuation.
There is no Teason why any more
tax should be collected from the peo-
ple. because our new laws very justly
put upon the rail roads and other great
corporations ureater burden of the
taxes than they have heretofore had to
pay; the railroads are now being as-
sessed at about 130,000 per mile as
against about $10,000 per mile two
years ago. I am not in favor of add-
ing any additional burdens upon the
lands; but I am convinced that greater
inequality and more unjust discrimin-
ation is practiced throughout the state
in assessing lands than with any other
visas of property; and I believe that
every citizen should give his hearty
support to any law which will make
every dollar's worth of property con-
tribute its just proportionate part of
tax to the state. Stand by our govern-
or and our legislatire in their efforts
to qualize the burdens of taxation. Let
anguish. This process is known as
giving the prisoner the “third degree.”
and it has come in for some very
caustic criticisms of late.
There is no doubt that police offi-
cers are warranted In using every rea-
sonable effort to detect and expose
criminals, but there is a grave doubt
if they are to be permitted to go to
the length of Inflicting physical suf-
fering upon a suspect in their eu-
deavor to gain a confession from him.
The well-established law that a pris-
oner is to be considered innocent until
he is proven guilty should apply at
places of temporary detention as well
as in the courts where accused per-
sons are brought to bar. In the appli-
cation of the “third degree” there to
an assumption of guilt or the “de-
gree” would not be applied. The pris-
oner is denied any legal representa-
tive. He is naturalist discredited and
he is given no rest until he confesses*
to the crime of which he is suspected
by methods that are inquisitorial and,
therefore, un-American and utterly
abhorrent, if all the stories told er
the "thfra degree” by men who have
suffered from it are to be believed.
Just a short time ago a young man
was arrested in Denver in connec-
tion with the death of his wife and
child. He was described ^s a happy-
go-lucky sort of a fellow, with hardly
enough moral stamina to commit a
murder, even if the Incentive for such
a crim* were strong, which in this
case did not exist at all. He was
subjected to the “third degree” and
confessed to the crime. His confes-
sion was not very clear in detail nor
did it indicate viciousness to stamp
the alleged slaytng of his family as
a murder. In court the young man
charged that he had been tortured
while undergoing the “third degree"
and that the punishment was so severe
that a jail physician warned the offi-
cers that they would kill their victim
if they did not desist. It was claimed
that the dazed condition of the pris-
oner was due to the abuse he had
received in order to compel him to
confess. Whether the court believed
all of his story about the third degree
is not made evident, but the fact re-
mains that the jury refused to convict
the young man and it was shown that
it would have been a physlcal impos-
sibility for him to have committed the
murder as he confessed to committing
it. It was also conclusively shown
that the most sensible theory of the
cause of death of the woman and
child was from a leak in a gas pipe
which caused the death of a dog that
was placed in the room under the
same circumstances that existed when
the humans died.
A few weeks ago, In a suburb of
Brooklyn, N. Y., a 15-year-old girl was
killed under peculiar circumstances.
A young man named Becker was ar-
rested on suspicion and was later sub-
jected to the •‘third degree.” He was
obdurate at first, but at last he con-
fessed to the perpetration of the crime.
But he did not stop at that. He kept
right on confessing. He left that
notorious confessor, Harry Orchard,
at the post in the confesston race, for
Orchard is only a sordid individual
who confines his confessions to events
that are matters 6t history. He has
no imaginative qualities Not so with
Becker. When he once started at
confessing under the stimulating af-
fect of the “third degree” he kept
right on confessing and told of crimes
of which the polloe had never before
heard They could not stop him. The
police, however, ao tar as the murder
at Files, Texas
Through the blessing and favor of a
kind Heavenly Father and the gen-
erosity of numerous friends of the or-
phan. the work of the home has gone
on with energy and success. While
circumstances ha vs been such at times
as to cause great anxiety and trouble,
yet we are glad to report everything
moving along smoothly at. present.
The recent storms and high winds dis-
abled our windmill and pump and
caused great inconvenience and much
additional work, as we had to haul wa-
ter nearly a mile for the use of the
home, which was. Indeed, no little job.
Our tank holds only about enough wa-
ter for two or three days. We need
an additional one to store more water
for such emergencies. Will not some
generous friend or friends give us this
much needed addition to our water-
works? I can assure such a donor
we are now face to face with a deficit
unless our friends come to our rescue.
Shall these fatherless little ones suf-
fer for food and clothes? They will
unless something ts done. The months
of July, August and Septemver are the
hardest months on orphanages ih way
of support. Nearly all suffer during
those months. We passed through
those months last year without trouble,
hut it looks as if we were to suffer
this year. Before going away for -ae
summer send us an offering for the
support of these fatherless little ones.
Send check to me at Itasca, Texas, R.
F. D. No. 1, Box 77.
J. D. M LEAN.
"When you stop work you
dead,” says a magazine writer.
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