Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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WISE COUNTY MESSENGER
PUBLISHED BY COLLINS & SMITH.
Entered at the Decatur, Texas, postoffice as second class mail matter.
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Editors and Proprietors
Friday, Nov. 29. 1907.
MR. BRYAN'S STATEMENT.
Advertisers’ Guarantee
Dollars look big to us just now, and
are offering very special induce-
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ments to coax some of them our way
WILL WE HAVE WATER?
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Don’t be a quitter:
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stay with your neighbor until icicle:
are a foot long in the hottest sectio
of pergatory, or drive the cotton gam.
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You neee the goods, we need the $$; we can’t
afford to keep the goods and you can’t af-
1 Even the low price of cotton and the is undemocratic, unpatriotic and un-
effects of the late tightness in the mon- justifiable and will not result in any-
of the farmers’ organization in the
present fight, it is good-bye to all
hope of the farmer ever doing any j
thing. This is a fight to the finish,
and it is up to the man with the hoed
A woman in Jasper county, Mis-
souri, took deliberate aim at a hen
roost robber and killed two of her
chickens. The robber escaped.
fers for re-election, then trot out op-
position and go after him at the polls.
If he falls in that way the Tribune
has no complaint to make.—Teague
Tribune.
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Decatur and Wise county than
any other paper published in
this section.
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The only farmer who can really af-
ford to hold cotton indefinitely is the
one who diversifies his crops—raises
his living at home—and raises cotton
only as a side or surplus crop. Such
a farmer can always have some cash
on hand and can put his cotton under
shelter and snap his fingers in the
face of cotton buyers. Too much cot-
ton is grown in Comanche county to
the exclusion of other crops. A farm-
er can raise his living at home m ch
cheaper than he can raise cotton und
buy it elsewhere.—Comanche Expon-
ent.
Profitable Peanuts.
Denton, Texas, Nov. 23.—Illustra-
tive of the profits from peanut farm- A
ing E. M. Arnold, a young farmer 4-
south of the city, this year made 400
bushels of the Spanish variety to the
acre. He is feeding them to his hogs.
He is the owner of the hogs that won
a number of prizes at the Dallas fair.
As the nuts are worth 50c a bushel at
the thrasher the crop is worth 8200,0
the acre. (
A law prohibiting the banker from
speculating should be made and en-
forced to the letter. Just as long as
the banker is permitted to speculate
with the money left in his charge, just
that long will we see banks close their
doors when the people become active
in demanding their deposits. Take
the House bank failure in Houston.
With property worth two or three
The way the farmers are standing
together and working for a common
cause is making the speculator sit up
and take notice. For years the cut-
throat sharks in Wall street have
robbed the southern cotton grower,
but today the cotton grower is up and
doing, and if indications count for
anything, the yankee robbers are go-
ing out of business.
Governor Campbell is reported to
be taking Senator Bailey's remarks
which applied to him good naturedly.
The governor is right. That's the
spirit in which Senator Bailey made
the remarks, and yet the requirement
embodied in his utterance is required
now and has always been required
and should always be required of
democrats.—Corsicana Sun.
the depositors, yet, House was driven
to the wall. He could not realize on
his property jnst at that particular
time.
That scholar and gentlemen, Cap-
, tain Weston, well and favorably
known to the people of Decatur, is
grinding out some editorial gems on
1 the Colorado Record. Weston has
no superior and few, if any eqnals, as
. a writer.—Wise County Messenger.
Coming from those Princes of Good-
fellowship, Dick Collins and Marvin
Smith, the above compliment from
such competent source, is all the
more highly prized. But at “Cap’n”
, we beg to balk—that’s, laying it on a
coat or so too thick. When we can
ride in a bzz wagon and use a hydro-
’ gen-peroxide blonde typewriter at-
' tachment, then we will submit to the
military impeachment. Not till then.
—Colorado Record.
An old maid who has been dissap-
pointed in love, with no more poetry
in her soul than a wooden Indian,
grouchy and back-biting, with ever a
ready tongue for slander and an ach-
ing ear for gossip, is more disturbing
than a bewhiskered anarchist run
riot. If she happens to have ‘fluence
with the younger set, and has a hank-
erin' for the gaities of life, she can
out out more work for the ministers
than they can do.
The legislature last January re-
j elected Senator Bailey for a term of
six years, yet a few peanut politicians
(apologies to the peanut, if you
Brokers on the curb in New York
keep warm these chilly days by waltz-
ing four in a group, playing leap
frog, jumping, skipping the rope, and
other games. In dancing a group
whistle the music.
P. J. Murphy, of Brumlow, was in
town Tuesday and brought us a sam-
ple of the Spanish peanuts which he
raised this year. On one acre of
ground he raised 100 bushels of pe-
nuts, and a ton of hay which equals
alfalfa. The ground would not pro-
duce corn or cotton, but did business
with peanuts. Mr. Murphy sold the
peanuts for JI a bushel. This proves
that more peanuts and less cotton
would be of greater profit to the tiller
of the soil. Diversify crops and live
at home, Mr. Farmer, and you are
independent.
- please,) around Dallas are still hound
Jioung man, this is a day when op- ihg him as if he had never been elec-
Eortunity is playing a tattoo on your ’ ted. The Tribune does not see the
or and the stream of life is out of 1 sense in making war on a man and
This paper is run for the money
there is in it—that’s business. We
have invested in one of the best plants
on the Denver road—that’s capital.
Lots of people praise the Messenger— 1
that’s duty. A great many patronize
this paper—that’s enterprise A few.
take this paper for several years
and when requested to pay us mark 3
“refused,” and when they die th In
are going to wake up in a far awAAh
land—that's hell. :*Li
One day recently the writer had the
pleasure of meeting that prince of
clever fellows and chum in our boy-
hood, Twit Cobb. He will be remem-
bered by the old residents of Decatur
and Aurora, having been reared in
these towns. Twit's father, the late
Rev. S. Cobb, was a prominent Metho
dist minister and it is. said that he
was one of the most aggressive and
plain spoken preachers in this coun-
try when aggressiveness and telling
the truth about a man’s mean-
ness were to invite trouble with the
man touched on. Rev. Cobb was
known in those days as the “Fighting
Parson.” In after years, when the
country became free of the disturbing
element. Rev. Cobb located in Deca-
tur and after,sards at Aurora. Some
ten years ago the good man died in
Grayson county. Twit has his dad-
dy’s devotion to duty,and this,coupled
with the training he received at the
knee of one of the best mothers in the
world, he has made good, and today’
is one of the most successful com-
mercial travelers out of St. Louis.
Decatur’s Greatest
times the amount demanded by Theodore Prices and few well fixed
Goods you need worst, such as Winter
Underwear, Clothing, Wraps, Blankets,
Comforts, Boots and Shoes. You can
save a big part of your usual Winter ex-
pense by taking advantage of this very
unusual situation. We must have the $
We have a very large stock, bought be-,
fore the panic, and we are pricing the
goods way down to rush them out. If
you don’t believe it, just come in and
make us prove it. ... .
• Mr. Bryan’s statement of his atti-
tude toward the democratic presiden-
tial nomination is open to but one
construction. He is a receptive can-
didate for the nomination and it is
probable he will receive it without
important opposition. A* one time,
he was perhaps in doubt as to his
availability, but conditions have con-
vinced him that his availability has
been strengthened rather than weak-
ened by events. While he leaves the
I matter to the people, he knows, as all
of us know’, that he has by far the
largest following of any living demo-
crat and that his willingness to ac-
cept the nomination means, unless the
unforseen happens, that his friends
will proceed to nominate him.
Under the circumstances, it is use-
less for those who are opposed to
Mr. Bryan’s nomination to proceed
with any movement to defeat him and
it is just as unnecessary for those
who have other preferences to urge
them at this time. No democrat of
presidential stature will consent to
lead a movement against Mr. Bryan,
for the reason that it would be futile.
It is just as well, therefore, that the
situation be accepted in good faith
by all democrats and that the party
throughout .the country organize to
put a winning fight.
There is no question of Mr. Bry-
an’s great strength before the people.
He can command a following in cer-
tain states that probably no other
democrat could hope to win. If there
are weak points anywhere it is the
duty of democrats to strengthen
them. If there are differences in the
ranks they should be adjusted.
If nominated, Mr. Bryan will prove
a candidate of whom the party may
well be proud. His lofty character
and luminous genius will inspire the
masses with confidence and hope and
they will rally to his standard as
they never have before. The so-call-
ed conservatives who declined to fol-
low him in 1896 and 1900 know now,
if they didn't know before, that his
election would be a triumph of right-
eousness and justice, that the perils
they once feared were imaginary and
can no longer be regarded as a rea-
son for voting against the ticket.
With the situation thus cleared, the
democrats in all the debatable states
should begin at once to organize.
We are not to be disturbed about
contests for delegates. We know
just what the convention is going to
do and the work of organization may
as well begin now as after the nomi-
nation has been formally made. It
is going to be a tremendous struggle,
but a united democracy splendidly
led, with a platform of sound princi-
ples, can win a victory and pull the
country out of the kinks.—Houston
Post.
A sermon of pervasive eloquence
eould be preached on the influence
which water has exercised in moulding
the destinies of the human race: but it
would take no sermon to convince the
most doutful citizen that this town
badly needs a supply of water. Neith-
er would we have to resort to syllogism
or comparison to prove the great ben-
efits to be derived from an artesian
well. Water, or the lack of it, is the
paramount question facing this town.
Decatur is in the throes of a water
campaign. One of our enterprizing
citizens, E. H. Banmgaertner, has,
with admirable nerve and great per-
eonal expense, penetrated the
deep bowels of the earth in quest of
this all-needful and vital commodity—
water. When thru with his well, Mr.
Baumgaertner will have gone a dis-
tance of a quarter of a mile. Certain-
ly one would think this far enough to
go after water,
But is it?
That’s the vital question that stares
Decatur in’the face! The Baumgaert-
ner well is' now about 1350 feet, with a
sad and unpromising prospect for ar-
tesian water. Rock, solid rock! How
much further than 1500 feet would we
have to drill to strike a spouting
stream that would threw the derrick
in the air and make Decatur laugh?
We desire that the Decatur people
should be set to seriously thinking
what shall be done when the ultimate
depth is reached and no water ob-
tained. One thing is sure:
The imperishable need of Deca-
tur is water!
We admire the nerve of Mr. Baum-
gaertner in nis attempt to get it, and
we will greatly grieve with him if he
fails in his laudable enterprise; but
neither grief nor admiration bring
water—except a tearful flow. What
is needed now is some serious think-
ing, to be followed later by action, if
such is deemed wise and necessary. •
The Messenger can present no defi-
nite nor expert opiion as to the
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price bn his cotton as the merchg.
has to price his wares, or the lawjmh-—=—f
or doctortheir services. sm I1a
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if the “moneyed interests” in tiquououn
east succeed in breaking the backbonep- ■
given “The Most of the Best for the Least,”
but just now we are actually giving “Still
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probability of striking water at a
greater depth thn 1500 feet, but there
may h a possibility of finding it deep-
a- er; anyway it would be a crying shame
to move the drill away without trying
to do so. Mr. Baumgaertner says
the well is at the disposal of the citi-
zens of Decatur if no water is struck
at the contract depth.
What will we do with it?
The Messenger presents this timely
question to Decatur people for solu-
tion. Later on we hope to give some
figures, opinions and expert advice
on this all-important question.
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