Texas City Daily Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 111, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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Little Stories of the Lone Star State
Robt I. Cohen
Strength and Service
Market'at 22nd
Galveston
We pay 4 per cent interest on Savings Deposits.
MEXICO AND THE MEXICANS.
Do You Want
NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
A Plea for a Positive Religion.
ASK FOR
Purity Brand
DRINK
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home.
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Jas. B. Davis, Prop.
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6th St. & 4th Ave
Phone 219.
counter back to the pulpit.
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Phone 316
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MOTOR CAR SCHEDULE.
aside until
8:30 and 10:50 a. m., 12:50, 1:50, 2:50,
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try.
Our
when,
Birmingham News.—Mexico,
we judge, gets along without a
vice-president by combining all
the vices in the president.
thing you want repaired-
6 th St- and 6th Ave.
San Antonio Express.—Open
season for fool navigtators and
uncharted reefs.
H. B. MOORE, Pres.
I. H. KEMPNER, Vice Pres.
Entered at the postoffice at Texas' City,
Texas, as. second class matter.
Duluth News-Tribune.—Medi-
ation is evidently bent on fight-
ing it out on this line if it takes
all eternity.
WM. A. GUILLEMET, Active V. P.
W. R. WHEELER, Cashier.
When you want to know the correct
time o’ day, see the big electric clock in
The Times show window, and incidentally
look over our display of fine stationery
and supplies.
If you don’t get The Times regularly ring
44 and ask for Mr. Fisher.
Three Constitutions of Texas
Have Warned Ministers
to Avoid Politics.
Texas City Daily Times
(TIMES PRINTING COMPANY, Publishers
Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday
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4th. Street and Second Avenue South
All that is Best in
Drinkables.
In point of service, we extend every facility and conveni-
ence required in the transaction of modern business.
New depositors and old alike receive every consideration.
“HIGH GRADE”
Our customers are treated
right and their pat-
ronage is appre-
ciated.
4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 10:45 and 11:45 p. m.
Direct connections are made at Texas
City Junction with interurban cars leaving
Galveston at 6, 7, 9 and 11 a. m., 1, 2, 3,
4, 6, 7, 10 and 11 p- m-, and Houston at 6,
8, 10 and 12 a- m., 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 10
p. m.
REGULATING
POLITICAL
PREACHERS
A. J. JANSON Prop.
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erything and everything the best. Try it.
THE POOREST KIND OF A NEWSPAPER
REPORTER.
Best Ice Cream in Texas
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Made in Texas City by---:
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Elite Barber Shop
HARPER HOTEL
THE BEER THATS
LIQUID FOOD
GALVESTON BREWING COMPANY
A. W. Benthall
MANAGER
BLACKSMITHING and WHEELWRIGHT
Horseshoeing a Specialty.
Also repairs automobiles, sewing machines,
gasoline stoves and engines, guns and pistols
Furniture repaired and varnished, and any-
Texas City National Bank
Capital $100,000.00
Waco Times-Herald.—Funny,
but at Tarrytown you are told
to move on.
This is the powerful combination we offer you.
Our strength lies in our ample capital, our large reserve,
and best of all, in the staunch integrity of our officers and
directors.
purify politics by playing the
game than he can sanctify gamb-
ling by running a lottery. He
1 no more control government
of the
the battleship Texas with a
silver service that they borrow-1
ed from the Navy department.
Birmingham Ledger.—If we
just help Villa to get Mexico
City he will attend to the elimi-
nation of Huerta.
pilgrim fathers met it
through the influence
“Colonel” Milam he was called in Gen-
eral F. W. Johnson’s report of that battle,
and a Colonel he died in the onslaught he
led on the morning of December 7. From
that halting band sprang forth three
hundred inspired patriots to answer his
challenge “Who will follow.”
How for four days those Texans fought
in and out and behind the houses of San
Antonio, finally forcing General Cos to
capitulate is well known. General John-
son wrote:
“The memory of Coloney Ben R. Milam,
the leader of this daring and successful at-
tack, deserves to be cherished by every
patriotic bosom in Texas.”
Tea and Coffee
We are making a specialty of our Teas and Coffees, and
guarantee to give you better goods for less money than
anyone else. BEST IN TEXAS CITY.
Try Your Home Product.
CENTRAL GROCERY
Phone 107
In the July Woman’s Home Companion
Daniel Frohman, the well-known theatrical
manager, writes an exceedingly interesting
and helpful article entitled “How to Write
a Moving Picture Play.” He opens his ar-
ticle with a statement of the importance of
imaginative powers in all such work and
tells the following story of an unimaginative
and therefore unsuccessful newspaper re-
porter :
“ A newspaper reporter was assigned to
write up a wedding; but when he went to
the church there wasn’t any wedding, as
the bridegroom had not appeared. So the
reported hurried back to the office without
his ‘story.’ He did not have the imagina-
tion to see that a greater ‘story’ lay back
of the fact that the wedding had been post-
poned.”
Nashville Southern Lumber-
man.—Despite the abolition of
the wine mess, the Navy appears
to retain its old-time punch.
Cumberland Times.—It will
be strange if after a glimpse of
the United States and Canada,
those commissioners from Mex-
ico will ever want to go back
.)
“ Often it’s as important
as your morning mail.
“ A fortune may stare
up at you from these
columns any day.
Men’s Genuine
Palm Beach Suits
$7.50
If fashion is your advisor—-Quality
your Guide and Economy your Aim,
come to our store aud inspect these
wonderful Suits.
Warm weather coming on makes
us think of our fan. We have
several different styles and
makes in stock.
May we show you samples?
CHAPMAN ENGINEERING CO.
Phone 129.
South Houston Times—Old
Man Huerta is about done for.
May the Lord take a liking to
him, we can’t.
The man of action arrived on the scene
from a perilous scouting trip on December
4, 1835 and joined the force of 500 volun-
teer Texans besieging General Cos and his
Mexican forces garrisoned in San Antonio
at the dawn of Texas’ fight for independ-
ence.
Too many leaders and lack of any prac-
tical fighting organization had held the be-
siegers inactive for more than a month.
Came the man of action, drew a line and
in stentorian voice appealed to his country-
men to follow him in storming and taking
the town, exclaiming:
“Who will follow old Ben Milam?”
McClure case, which will go down
to posterity as one of the boldest
efforts of the ministry to acquire
control of government in the re-
ligious-political history of Texas
and which will shame us in the
memory of our children.
We are hurrying toward a
crisis that approaches in intoler-
ance the Spanish Inquisition
heresy, apply ourselves to the
remedy and invite all who desire
to preserve the sanctity of the
pulpit unsullied, to co-operate in
the work.
The Warning of Our Forefathers.
The difficulty of keeping the
preacher in the pulpit is as old
as religion. Christ encountered
it in the temple when he drove
the priests from the bargain
Atlanta Journal.—Meanwhile,
President Wilson intends that
the American troops shall re-
main in Mexico as an added en-
couragement to mediation.
without making the state serve
the church than any other special
interest would control govern-
ment without making it serv c
their purposes.
It is our opinion that when this
World is saved it will be through
A Bicycle?
We will guarantee to give
you a better bicycle for less
money than any other Firm
in the Bicycle Business.
TRY US.
JOHN CHRISTENSEN & CD.
714 Tremont Street.
Galveston, Texas.
estates are divided, they say, the peon will
lose his land within sixty days and be no
better off than he was before,” says the
New York World.
Possibly this is true. The Mex-
ican peons are not a thrifty
class; their opportunities and en-
vironment are not such as to
render them so, even if they
were not by nature indolent and
thriftless.
Nevertheless and notwith-
standing that fact, thousands of
Mexicans to whom the soil of
Mexico was a birthright of
which they were robbed by the
grasping overlords of the realm,
are clamorous for at least partial
restitution, and for this and
their constitutional rights the
leaders of that revolution which
overthrew the Diaz dynasty and |
of that which is now about to
overthrow the Huerta regime,
claim to be fighting. The World
plainly aptly says that the prob-
lem of dealing with a backward
people is a very old one, but not
insolvable, and recalls that Lord
Kitchener met it in Egypt by
the simple process of the prin-
ciple of the American home-
stead exemption laws. In Egypt
the possessor of five acres or
less is now secured in the poss-
ession of his land. His crops
may be seized for debt, but his
land, his hut, his farming imple-
ments and his two cattle cannot
be seized.
How to protect the Mexican
citizen in the preservation of
his home, his plot of ground and
his implements of husbandry is
not a problem that is difficult of
solution when once he has ac-
quired property rights, if ear-
nest measures be taken in,
that behalf. How to get the'
land into the possession of the
landless, except through the dis-
tribution of public domain or
confiscation of the property of
the rich, is a very serious prob-
lem and one that may require
much skill and protracted labor
in its working out, even after a
government of the people, by
the people and for the people
has been successfully establish-
ed. In a government of that
sort peonage could not be tol-
erated, though the thriftless
and ne’er do well might be as
much in evidence as ever. The
poor we have always with us,
even in this country of bound-
less opportunities for all, like-
wise the indolent, the dissolute
and the profligate; they that toil
not, neither do they spin, but
prey on the industry of others
and rail at a condition which
makes them tramps and hoboes
when the condition is of their
own choosing.
The Mexican of the peon class
may be a hopeless case, just as
the half savages of the Phil-
ippines were assumed to be, but
education and example have
done a great deal for the most
backward tribes of those islands,
even in the brief period of Amer-
ican occupation; and with Amer-
ica’s moral help a great deal
may be done for the lower
classes of the Mexicans if the
upper classes undertake the ef-
fort which is understood to be
the paramount purpose of the
campaign of the Carranzistas.
Perhaps America owes some-
thing to the Indians south of
us for what the early settlers
did to the Indians of this coun-
court established a few weeks ago
to distribute political patronage Ii
was exposed in the now famous
Fort Worth, Texas.—Our at-
tention has been called to a con-
siderable number of preachers
who have endeavored to answer
from the pulpit and through the
press our recent article on politi-
cal preachers. In the communi-
cation complained of we were
careful to address ourselves only
to pulpit politicians. We quote
from the offending article:
. “We address ourselves exclu-
sively to than^Vo! plitical
clergymen who prostitute their
high calling by capitalizing their
reputation and by lending their
occupation to designing politi-
cians.”
We did not know that there
were so many preachers belong-
ing to that class in Texas.
The vindictive spirit and bitter
resentment shown in these re-
plies corroborates the necessity
for, and the wisdom of, the chal-
lenge we gave the political min-
isters to return to the pulpit. We
want to thank that large body of
consecrated ministers who refuse
to be lured from the pulpit by
the lust of power for the right-
eous indignation they feel over
the attitude of their associates
who have entered the political
arena.
Now that the inflammable ma-
Waco Times-Herald.—Some terial has all exploded and the
Gavestonians want to present smoke has cleared away, we will,
at the hazard of being tried for
religious sermons and not
through political speeches. Sal-
vation must come to us from the
Bible and not from the statute
“All the defenders of tyranny and privi-
lege have one invariable argument against
agrarian reform in Mexico. If the great [
6 Don’t lay your paper
Leave Tenth street depot at 6:05, 6:50,
you have
over the
book. It will come through holy
councils of consecrated ministers
and not from caucuses of political
preachers.
A Constructive Religion Needed.
The country is surfeiting from
a negative religion. We think
“thou shalt" is as important a
command as “thou shalt not.”
The world never needed a relig-
ious ministry more or political
preachers less than it does today*
Our rural civilization is wither-
ing for the blessed influence of
divine messengers of life. The
farmer needs the personal touch
of the religious pastor. He sel-
dom comes in direct contact
with his hallowed influence ex-
cept when he is baptised, married
and buried. It is a time-honored
custom for our pastors to visit
their rural congregations once a
month, preach a sermon, take up
a collection, eat dinner and hurry
back to the city. We approve it
all except hurrying back to the
city. A preacher who will not
live with us and share our trials
and tribulations can never hope to
interpret the life of the farmer
and construct Christian character
in the community. It is as much
a part of the duty of a pastor to
inspire us to own a home on earth
as it is to exhort us to build a
mansion in the skies; to persuade
us to fill the mud holes in the
road from our homes to the
church as to preach of the golden
streets, of the New Jerusalem; to
help us lift the market basket and
aid in the solution of our own
problems, as it is to convert a
heathen or coerce an anti.
Let us get our religion from out
of the skies and bring it down to
mother earth. Give us a religion
we can farm by as well as die by.
We know how to vote.
W. D. Lewis, President.
Peter Radford, Vice-President
Texas Farmers’ Educational and
CoOperative Union.
which for more than three centur-
ies terrorized the conscience of
the people, and it is well for the
friends of religion to pause and
consider the distance we have
traveled toward a union of church
and state.
Returning to a discussion of
the Constitution, it appears that
the good behavior of the preach-
ers caused the precaution so wise-
ly taken by our forefathers, to be
considered unnecessary in making
the present Constitution, but the
ministry has violated this confi-
dence, and we now find political
high priests manipulating con-
ventions, ecclesiastical courts as-
suming jurisdiction over candi-
dates, ministers of the gospel par-
ticipating in political caucuses,
and our pulpits ofttimes loaned
to office-seeking politicians to the
disgrace of the ministry and the
shame of the church.
Political Preachers Should Be
Regulated.
We think a ministerial clause
should be written in the present
Constitution and suitable legisla-
tion enacted rigidly regulating
the conduct of political preachers,
making it a penal offense for a
preacher or a combination of
preachers to seek to manipulate
political conventions or endeavor
to distribute patronage, and legis-
lation should also be enacted pre-
serving the sanctity of the pulpit
from political vandalism.
How a preacher votes on any
subject should be a matter of no
concern to the membership, and
he should not be encouraged to
reveal his political affiliations,
but a preacher has no more right
to preach his politics to his con-
gregation than a school teacher
has a right to teach his politic* to
his pupils. No matter how adroit-
ly the minister may approach his
subject or how well he may for-
tify his position with precedent
and false logic, he can no more
preach a political sermon without
converting his pulpit into a po-
litical rostrum than he could sell
intoxicating liquor from the altar
without converting the church
into a bar room. He can no more
Such unparalleled liberality
should have a place in the school
readers.
clergy, a witch court was estab-
lished at Salem, Mass., in 1692,
that precipitated a legal holo-
caust, threatening to reduce the
population to ashes and which
was extinguished by the laymen
uniting and forcing the preachers
back to the pulpit. Our noble
sires anticipated it when they
wrote in three constitutions of
Texas a paragraph warning the
ministry against political activi-
ties. In all of these constitutions
the following language appeared;
“Ministers of the gospel, being
by their profession dedicated to
God and the care of souls, ought
not to be diverted from the great
duties of their function*, there-
fore. no minister of the gospel or
priest of any denomination what-
ever, shall be eligible to the Leg-
islature.”
The embezzlement of power on
the part of the ministry in the
present age reached the zenith of
its folly when an ecclesiastical
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Texas City Daily Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 111, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1914, newspaper, June 11, 1914; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1576574/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.