San Antonio Light and Gazette (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 166, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 4, 1909 Page: 4 of 30
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POLITICS AND STRIKES.
The Pittsburg strike has been adjust
ed very much along the same lines as
was the settlement of the Philadelphia
street car dispute. The force of the
municipal government was exerted to
compel the management of the com !
panies to surrender to the employes
under threat of seizing the properties
and running them. There is no ques-
tion that the public has greater rights
than either side in such a strike and
the public interest requires that the
cars shall be kept running; but it looks !
as though the authorities of the two I
cities irf Pennsylvania were inspired
more by the opportunity to play poli
tics than by a desira to benefit the
public. The voting strength involved
directly in the strikes is all on the
side of the employes and it appeals
strongly to the man or men whose first
concern is political office.
But a principle ih involved in these
disputes—the right of the corporation
to receive protection for any workmen ■
it may see fit to employ whether for
the purpose of conducting its business
■trike times or at any other time so J
; as the employes an I employers act
y accordance with th<‘ law.
Municipal activity hostile to this
principle may be a troublesome prece i
dent at some future time when the'
same questions arise. The right to ।
work should be as inexorably defended -
by the authorities of the government
whether state municipal or- federal as
the right to stop work thould be. What- I
ever the merits of this Pittsburg case
may have been either for or against
the company or the employes the rights
»f the whole community are infringed
when order is not preserved or when
the settlement is made by duress aud
threats by the very powers that should
insist upon both sides obeying the law.
We have yet to know the eventual
sffect of the new Pennsylvania system
of sandbagging one of the parties into
surrender. It is a dangerous
to say the least and one which is in
herently vicious. If political capital is
to be gained by stopping a strike al-
ready on what is to prevent politicians
from fomenting strikes in order to
make capital by stopping them!
Senator Gore is not blind to the fact
that the needs of the entire country
should not be made subservient to the
needs of one little section.
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Score another fine victory for arbi-
tration. The strike on the Pittsburg
Pa. street car system has been
amicably settled almost before it got
well started.
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All of the evil and terrible things I
done during the regime of Abdul ;
Hamid as sultan of Turkey were ac J
eomplished by his councillors so says j
Abdul. This is a case where a poor ex-
cuse is not nearly as good as no ex-
cuse at all.
Chances are that when the senate
meaning Mr. Aldrich and his cronies
gets through with the corporation tax
jneasure as drafted by President Taft
and his advisers its sponsors won’t be
able to recognize it.
It seems that Howard Gould will
still have to settle a few outstanding
debts contracted by his former wife.
She couldn’t possibly be expected to
meet them on her meager income.
Memphis has finally acquired fame
in a way directly opposite to that em-
ployed by Milwaukee. It is the largest
prohibition eity in the world.
SUNDAY.
Prof. Geo. H. Palmer of Harvard
sent the graduating class of Dartmouth
college out into the world the other
day with this advice:
“You have had little to do with self-
support. Now you are called upon
to earn your own living. Prom
this time on honor money-getting mon-
jey and power. Riches are the lever of
service to the world.”
Is Prof. Palmer right! Did he state
j the full case! Is that good advice! Is
| it safe to give that notion to an am
I bitious boy!
We think not. Money is not the
standard of success—it is merely one
medium. White corpuseled fools may
honor money but red blooded men hon-
or achievement. Riches are not the
lever of service to the world—brains
| are the lever. Does anyone think John
I D. Rockefeller as great a success as is
Thus. A. Edison or Orville Wright f
There are all too many people who
hold Palmer’s idea about money. They
i change their view when they have* a
j Harry Thaw in the family. Sometimes
! they change their view when they get :
well acquainted with a Luther Bur- J
bank a Wright brother a Wm. J. |
Bryan a LaFollette a Robt. Hunter or
some other fellow who has never relied
upon mere money for a lever of service j
They learn then that only brains count
for happiness and success. . Brains
achieve and many a fool and almost j
any knave ean stack up money.
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Will the girls who have made their
own graduation dresses and are proud 1
of it pledge themselves to make their I
own dresses after marriage! Worthy
but poor young men might like assur-
ance on this point.
Perhaps while you are climbing over
the end seat hog it will comfort you j
somewhat to think of the inconveni-1
cnee and even sufferiug caused by the -
strike of the rickshaw boys in Nairobi.!
—
France has decided to abolish lot 1
teries. Is the government more vir-
tuous or does it need the money which
it sadly sees flowing into other chan-
nels f
SHE'S A BEAUTY.
The Texas farmer who is wedded to
cotton has the consolation nowadays of I
knowing that his affinity won’t worry
him much this year.—Austin States I
man.
AND HELPS THE ICEMAN.
We have got a right to howl about;
hot weather in Texas but we have no
right to grouch about it. Hot weather
in Texas is unaccompanied by heat
1 prostrations to men and live stock but
it kills boll weevils and makes cotton I
grow.—Fort Worth Star Telegram.
HOPE HE DON’T WAIT THAT LONG
Senator Gore computes that when the j
president of the United States has con-
sumed 300 pounds of sugar under the
proposed tariff reduction he will have
saved the price of a shave.—Atlanta
! Georgian.
AND A BOARD IN THE SEAT.
Some of those senators who are wear-
ing picnic clothes in Washington had
better wear asbestos raiment when they
face their constituents.—Nashville Ten-
nesseean.
IDEAL OLD TEXAS.
The summers are as hot in the north
as the winters are cold. Texas sort of
splits the middle as it were with just
enough range of temperature to afford
variety and avoid the extremes.—Cor-
pus Christi Caller.
SUBELY NOT.
—
Mrs. Eddy keeps on saying that she
|is not dead. Is there any one so mean
las to think that a person would lie
about so serious a thing!—Terrell
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ALL HE'S AFTEB.
Rut perhaps Mr. Aldrich is not wor-
rying much about what will happen to
the republican party as long as he can
get the tariff fixed up so it will not
interfere with the fat dividend busi-
ness.—lndianapolis News.
Seven husbands arrested in Indiana
said that the hot weather drove them
to wife beating. With Indiana prac-
tically dry the old excuse of too
1 much whiskey apparently doesn’t go.—
| Atlanta Journal.
YES?
Texas people some of them complain
[ at some of the votes given by Senator
Bailey; but not many of them will com-
I plain that he has been silent. And
most of them will agree that he talks
‘well.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
HONOR MONEY.
A NEW EXCUSE.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
San Antonio
21 yin Ago
(From The Liht July 4 1888.)
Marriage licews issued yesterday
were as follows r. Lambert and A. T.
M. Cumins; Adan Spencer and Patsy
Harris; M. Arocli and Tules Lara;
Richard Collins knd Ellen Prender-
gast.
H. Breusing is offering from an at-
tack of the grippe at his home.
At the meeting 4' the city council
yesterday the majir was authorized
to advertise for bi}s for the city hall
and three new biddings for the fire
department.
San Antonio captired the first sec-
ond and fourth pries at the shooting
tournament held it New Braunfels
yesterday. Teams from New Braun-
fels Thornhill Vgel Valley aud
Boerne participatedin the shoot. The
first prize was wL by Otto Guen-
ther San Antonio fith a score of 94:
second prize went ti R. H. Aiken San
Antonio score la; fourth prize
Charles Hummel) Sn Antonio 93. I
The Turner Rolliii ’>b will have a
water melon festixij ight.
The Aransas Paa irom Wallis to
Houston a distance kf 48 miles will be
in operation by Sep ember.
A party was given at Mrs. Leroux’s
residence last night to rehearse the
Marseillaise for the French celebra-
tion.
John A. White of tie Balcones ranch
is in the city.
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A nattily-attired yoing woman fol-
lowed by a frisking terrier pup was
walking down East Commerce street
Tuesday. As she started across the
tracks at the Sunset crossing the dog
lingered behind to take a squint up
and down the tracks anl to sniff at the
iron of the rails. Safely across her-
self his mistress called sharply to him.
“Come here sir.”
A young man wearing light trousers
and a wide-brimmed straw hat who had
been lounging in the shale of the depot
shed stepped forward with a great show
of politeness.
“Certainly miss” he said.
“Oh” she exclaimed as her pet came
running up “you have made a mis-
take; this is the puppy I called.”
In some households along San Ppdro
avenue it is always the men who ap-
pear first on front porches after the
evening meal. They prop their feet up
on the railings and hare their cigars
almost consumed before they are joined
by their wives.
But there is one home where the
wife and her S-year-old daughter al-
ways appear on the porch half an hour
or so ahead of the head of the house.
Neighbors wondered why.
One evening last week the little girl
appeared on the porch alone. It was
lonesome sitting there all by herself
so after a minute or two she slid down
out of her chair and skipped across the
street to pay a little call.
“Good evening Helen” greeted her
host as she came up the steps. “Where
is your mamma this evening?”
“08 she's helping daddy tonight
with his dishes.”
A young lawyer who practices in a
rural community not far from here was
in the city yesterday and he was tell-
ing about an incident that happened to
him not long ago.
“The chief feature of the affair.”
he said “was that I delivered in it the
I costliest blow I have ever let go of. I
[ was trying a ease before a special judge
and during the luneh hour we were all
i sitting around talking. It seemed'that
his honor regarded himself as a great
boxer while I was considered to be
pretty good myself with the gloves.
The judge knew this and tried to get
me to box with him.
“I demurred but he began to tap me
with his bare fists. He hit lightlv and
got me into a corner wnere I had to hit
baek. I swung at him and it half
| turned him around. That seemed to
WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE’S HOPE
Captain of Rescue Ship: If you re fuse to be taken off this desert island
what are you flying a distress signal for!
Castaway: Oh 1 just wanted to ask who is leading in the Texas league.
anger him for he came back with a
swing that grazed my ehin and inform-1
ed me that 1 had had a narrow escape. ।
“ ‘Well it* you want it old feller
here it is’ I said to myself and let
loose with as hard a swing as I could .
get behind. It hit him on the
and knocked him about ten feet. He;
rose up and quit fighting going baek to I
the bench without saying another word
to me. By the time be had donned the
ermine his eyes were getting black and
he was truly the most ferocious judge
I had ever BMC.
“I moved to postpone trial of my
case but the judge wou^i n’t let it go
over. It was tried and argued and by i
a strange coincidence I lost. M bile T
would not like to put myself in line
with a sentence for contempt of court
I figure that my haymaker which con-
nected with his honor’s proboscis cost
me about *250. I haven’t decided yet
whether it was worth the money.’
HIS ONE THOUGHT OF HOME.
Hey Maggie come an’ hear wot year deares' frien ’ is sayin’ about ye:
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HIS PLAN.
“I never have no luck.”
“Neither do I” responded the other
I citizen. “Therefore I keep out of enter-
J prises requiring large gobs of luck to
| be a success. ’ ’
ESPECIALLY THE UNDERSHIRTS.
“My clothes cost me next to noth-
ing. ' ’
“Thev ought to.”
“Why!”
“Because they are next to nothing.”
DAUGHTERS OF THE RICH.
“Going t 8 have a daisy chain at your
class day exercises!”
“With a graduating class represent-
ing over two hundred millions We’re
going to have an orchid chain.”
Outbursts of Everett True
MOST ANYTHING
JOSH
'“This is th’ day we celerbrate an’
we make th’ night hideous with noise
as well.
Might call this a “boom” town to-
day.
Fi recrac ker
Bit of fuse
Boy ignites it —
Heard the news!
“Hello Skipps. Where are you go-
ing!”
“On a Fourth of July excursion.”
“Where tof”
“Where there's no Fourth of July.”
If you go skiff riding on the Fourth
don’t rock the boat. Let the skyrocket.
(Laughter).
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JULY 1. 190 f».
I punch is quite as dangerous as a Reman
candle.
Wonder where the members of the
New York Anti-Nose seciety spent the
Fourth!
Oh mother may I go out and shoot!
Oh yes my darling Willie.
I Wad you gun with your daddy's boot
But remember a grave is chilly.
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It comes but once a year—for which
i the small boy is tearful and the elders
I thankful.
Why can't they can the aoise and
'give it to us in safe packages!
Almost any girl will admit devil Chas-
| ers are devilish.
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It isn’t always the boy with the big-
gest firecracker who makes the most
noise.
And for this day the doctors are
duly grateful.
Liberians in Africa celebrate today
। just like we do.
If it wasn’t for the fellow witl
money to burn what would become ol
the fireworks man!
—
Pain the fireworks king is the caus<
of a good deal of it today.
While we’re roaiting the Chinese
j let 's not forget they invented the fire
oraekor.
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