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SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
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To Parents Teachers
and Young Men
young men of a recent public utterance.
A president of our republic is something more and greater
than a business manager or head of a political party lie is a
leader a champion of the rights of all men a great moral
force. In such exalted position his words and acts oft be-
come fixed principles which young Americans accept and
build character upon.
We have had some great teachers among our presidents.
Who shall say that the lives of Jefferson Lin- ;
coin and Roosevelt were not molds in which were cast many
of the highest ideals of patrotism and good known
among us today* Have we known any greater teachers than
these men? In school and at the fireside children build char-
acter from the text books written from the public acts and
words of American presidents.
President Taft stung by personal criticism the other day
sent out to the young men of the nation an idea which is
false in principle. You remember that onr public servants
Pinchot Price Shaw and Glavis discovered burglars in Un-
cle Sam’s house. These young men turned in a police alarm
and dissatisfied with the action of the slow-footed govern-
ment cops did a little policing on their own account. The
thieves big rascals full of power were frightened off fail-
ing to land the swag.
The president of the United States says these four young
men were not employed as police officers were only clerks
and had no business chasing thieves. So as every one knows.
Taft fired them all. The fact that they had exceded their
authority in a splendid cause one of tremendous importance
to our young men and future generations was not considered
by Taft. These young men were trying to save for the people
coal lands that are estimated to have almost as much value
as the wonderful coal fields of Pennsylvania or the great
agricultural or oil tracts of Texas. For their pains they lost
their jobs.
Young men do not permit your minds to accept this false i
principle! Read history and you will find that the men be- i
hind a progressive movement fighting in any good work did'
not. hesitate to violate convention rule and dignity; that !
their zealous determination to accomplish a good end swept
away as unimportant the mere means to that end.
Uncle Sam needs more Pinchots Glavises Prices and ;
Shaws in his service and fewer supple-backed officeholders
who work a given number of hours a day for a stipulated
sum and possess neither sense of duty nor patriotism. We
need more young men in public office who are willing to drop
their bookkeeping and do police service when police service
will best serve the interest of the people. And. in the end. the
people will reward such fine sense of duty. Presidents may j
fail to appreciate it now and then but the people—never!
- a ;
Many a man has been a millionaire twenty times over—-
on paper—during a cotton campaign only to wake some :
fine morning to find himself ten fathoms deep in the pit of
his own digging. Paper profits and coin profits have a
wide dissimilarity when it comes to buying ham and beans ।
♦ ~ —-
Very shortly the British house of lords will find out
whether the divine protection which is supposed to hover
over their fortunes is real or mythical. Maybe the divine
right to rule will be given to others by the divine right
of the little printed slip.
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To the average married man It seems rather mean of the |
police of Los Angeles to pick on the gallant Baron von
Mueller just because he married fifty women. The fact that
he had the temerity take fifty chances where the ordinary
man takes but one should place him above the petty perse-
cution of the police. The baron deserves a Carnegie medal
not a home in a dank dungeon.
Every one in Los Angeles is irp in the air or would like
to be.
Why They
Smile
■ eral features of Taft’s pro-
posed legislation for government regulation of the groat traf-
fic concerns. There's at least one feature that should please
them mightily. We refer to the proposition to amend the
Sherman law so as to legalize purchases already made by rail-
roads of competing lines.
This proposition is in effect that it shall be lawful for
thieves who already have stolen property on their person to
keep it. There shall be no more pocket-picking but the rascal
who already has succeeded in filching your purse is entitled
to it. This is the principle of the thing and it is something
to arouse the shame and disgust of all honest men and the
scorn and delight of all thieves.
Why shouldn’t Morgan and Standard Oil and ravenous
trusts rule the commonwealth when we have a government
which opens the prison doors to criminals and tells them to
go forth with their swag unwhipped by justice simply be
cause they have the swag?
Well may the Morgans the Vanderbilts be satisfied. The
Sherman law upheld by an honest fearless president meant
jail. Taft proposes not only to give them a clean bill of
health not only to ensure to them the swag they have col
lected in violation of law but also to give them? an exclusive
advantage in a monopoly’ in the merger busino/s. There shall
be no railroad trusts save those that already arc. It is a
einch! It is one great big fat cinch to be established bv
national law!
O! that Harriman were alive and in Texaj again that we
might have hie views on such a proposition!
SATURDAY
The purpose of this edi-।
torial is to counteract so far
as it is within the power
this newspaper to do so the
effect upon the minds of
It is reported from the
national capital that Mor-
gan and the railroad presi-
dents are satisfied with sev-
Not Insanity But
Liberty
sane asylum illegally for twelve years points out a very
grave defect in our laws. That a man may thus be de-
prived of his liberty without due process of law constitutes
a grave danger; that a man so committed may languish in
an insane asylum for one-fifth of his natural life is a pos-
sibility that fills the average man with a sense of horror.
That a man may be insane and improperly committed
to an asylum is entirely beside the question; that it is
possible to do these things in an enlightened community
is a distinct shock to our pride and sense of justice. The
question of sanity or insanity does not enter into tha
equation at all; it is the breaking down of the safeguards
of our liberty that causes the thrill. That it is much
easier to get into an asylum than to get out is unfortunately
a recognized fact and many are the stories of horrox that
have been recorded every year by men and women illegally
sent to a worse than living death.
The question involved is not one of sanity or insanity
but of personal liberty.
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Right in this town there seems to be more interest in
the fact that some forty-two men are signed to play in the
San Antonio baseball club this season than in the tottering
of thrones and the possibility of war between Russia and
Japan n 1018 or thereabouts. Al] a matter of geography
and perspective.
4.
Develops that Nicaragua's constitution has a provision
for punishing presidents guilty of unlawful acts. How any
presidents of the country tolerated such a harsh constitu-
tion is not understood.
As Others View It
INSURGEN7S WHO INSURGED.
The present is not the fit st epoch in its history when the
G. O. P. was challenged by “insurgents.” The second session
of the Forty-seeond congress terminated in June 1872. The
preceding winter in the month of February a formidable
minority—formidable in intellectuality as well as for emin-
ent character —assailed the administration of General Grant
soon to be nominated for a second term.
Leaving the democrats out of the account these republi-
can senators led the assault: Lyman Trumbull Charles Sum-
ner Cari Schurz Thomas W. Tipton and Reuben E. Fenton.
The debate was on the sale of arms the Remingtons had
made to France after the tall of Sedan and before the siege
of Paris. Allen G. Thurman was the democratic leader and
very wisely he advised his party to say little and let the
republicans fight it out; and they did. Not even in the United
States senate was there ever a much greater debate than
that between Cqpkling leading the regulars and Schurz
leading the insurgents.
And in those days insurgents insurged. They went so far
as to hold a national convention in Cincinnati the following
May. and discerning folk yet believe that had they nominated
Charles Francis Adams or Lyman Trumbull the ticket would
have been elected. Instead they nominated Horace Greeley
perhaps the best man then living and the poorest fitted
for th office of president. Instantly hundreds of thousands
of insurgents scampered back to the regulars—Stanley Mat-
thews and George Hoadly were two of them—and yet Greeley
and Brown would have been triumphantly elected had the
I democrats whose convention also nominated them given
| loyal support.
But thousands and thousands of democrats who had voted
| for Seymour against Grant in 1868 voted for Grant against
Greeley in 1872. Yet in July the G. O. P. was in an alarm it
had never felt before.
We only revert to this history to show that in that elder
day insurgents insurged.
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Letters From the People
THE POLICEMEN'S SIDE.
Editor Light and Gazette.
Dear Sir: I recently read in your paper of the “criminal
wave which had struck San Antonio; also asking ■ nat
steps should be taken to check same. In answer I feel jus-
tified in asking: “Is crime sufficiently punished?” Tako
for instance the case of the negro sentenced to twelve
months in the county jail for assault on a policeman The
injury put him between life and death for several weeks and
in all probability made him a physical wreck for life. While
many contend that the sentence was too severe as it was
only a policeman’s skull he worked on would it not have
been better to give him twelve years in the peniten. arv so
that if he ever returned he would not be disposed to experi
ment. on a citizen's skull to see if it was as thick as a police-
man’s! Yours truly “POLICEMAN ”
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
The action of Judge
Shook in releasing from du-
rance. W. I. Browne vf
Brownsville. Texas who had
been incarcerated in an in-
IF IT WERE’NT FOR FATHER.
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Josh Wise says:
“There’s one brieht
spot •” th’ situation;
h postage stamps ain't no
higher.’ 1
’* A QUESTION OF MECHANICS.
Dear Newt—Are you ever incapaci-
tated for work by having a w’heel in
your head go flat!
MOTORMAN.
Now that you have mentioned it I
think I am troubled that way some-
times. Frequently when I throw on my
mental switch I can detect a thumping
noise inside my storage battery of ideas
which interferes sadly with my product
on paper.
Evidently this bumping noise refer-
red to is caused by a flat wheel. It
then becomes necessary for me to lu-
bricate my mental bearings and by the
aid of a "monkey wrench tighten a nut
here and loosen a screw there until the
machinery gets to running smoothly
again. My ordinary capacity calls for
35 words per minute and if I fall be-
low this standard I have to put on my
overalls and begin to tinker with my
mental mechanism.
I had a good deal rather have a flat
wheel in my head than have the belt
fly off my cerebral fly wheel. That’s
''what puts me to the bad; when that
happens it is necessary for ine to go to
the machine shop for re-pairs. T don’t
mind if a wheel goes flat; I don’t care
if I blow out a cylinder Imad occa
1 sionally or break the piston rod which
turns the big drivers but when ths
main belt flics off and gets snarled up
in the cogs then I might as well stick
my pen in the cold potato and take a
walk around the block until my bear-
ings cool.
THE PROLONGED COURTSHIP.
Out in Kansas lives Miss Deborah
Stewart also Alonzo Miller also Miss
Katie Winslow all actorinos in a
“Wooed but Not Wedded” drama.
Awav back in 1884—25 years ago—-
(2s. count ’em—2s!). Alonzo took
Deborah home from singing school and
said a bashful good night. Deborah
looked gemd to Alonzo and thereafter
on Saturday evening he sat with her
on the sofa’ in the front parlor holding
her hands for her and whispering sweet
nothings into the brown tresses which
strayed about her ears.
Since 1884 Alonzo has been courting
Deborah every Saturday night—gee
think of the number of Saturday
nights!
Well a few days ago Deborah re-
ceived a call from a neighbor who ask-
ed her if she had heard the news. De-
borah answered “Nay” and the caller
told her that Alonzo had just been
married to Katie Winslow.
Deborah mussed up her own hair and
wet down with tears a bale of handker-
chiefs. After she had become com-
posed she consulted with a lawyer. As
a result Alonzo will now be asked to
show cause why’ he courted Deborah
25 years and then married Katie.
Alonzo must produce a good reason or
pay damages.
Moral: A delay of 25 years is dan-
gerous.
FOR “PATSY.”
I wish to acknowledge the receipt of
♦2 from some good fellow who read the
letter written by the little friend of
Patsy Flynn. I will endeavor to see
that both are benefited by it. N. N.
Observant Citizen
He was a busy man and walked rap-
i<ll) up to the counter of a men’s fur-
nishing goods store carrying a long
narrow box. Before the customer had
uttered a word the clerk behind the
counter said:
“les sir. Your wife presented you
with a pair of gloves as a Christmas
present. I hey are too small and you
want to exchange them. Step right
this way.”
The busy man was amazed.
“How can you tell that I want a
pair of gloves changed and that they
are too small?” he said.
“Deduction sir. Ju the first place
you're carrying a glove box and it’s
after Christmas. You’re a large man
and need large gloves and women al-
ways wanting their husbands to have
small hands and feet buy gloves too
small. Easy when you know how isn’t
it?” ’
The girl good-looking and not over
18 set a paper bag down on the street
car beside her. That it contained lunch
she admitted to a girl friend sitting
ahead. That it was to be her noon-
time meal was also patent inasmuch as
all were going to work.
! The street car jogged along jerking
and halting in the manner of well bred
street cars. At times the brake would
' go on so suddenly that all were thrown
forward in their seats; at others the
wheels would lock and there would be
a scrunching sound while the car skid-
ded along. With all. there was the
steady bump bump bump which did
something to the lunchbag.
■When the girl got to the corner of
Commerce and South Alamo she got
ready to leave. She grasped the bag
and stood up. But something within
tho bag had soaked through and she
only lifted off the top. Ti c lunch look-
ing waterlogged remained on the seat.
The girl having no way to handle it
abandoned it.
Some passengers thought this excru-
ciatingly funny. They guffawed in the
manner of docile donkeys. It was so
amusing to see a girl lose her dinner.
They’ speculated on what the package
might contain. “Must have soup some-
where in that bag” said one.
But others saw farther. They saw
that girl at noon either having to go
without lunch or spend a few’ hard-
earned nickles; they saw her possibly
going without food from the time she re-
left homo in the morning until she re-
turned at night; they saw her working
hard all day rushing here and there to
wait on customers or obey the behests
of arrogant managers and floor walk-
ers; and they saw her hungry fatigued
and actually suffering for lack of food.
“Humph!” snorted the Observant
Citizen “the man who laughs at that
girl’s mishap ought to have his head
clumped and. by George I'm the man
to do so. Shut up you yaps.” They
shut.
SAN ANTONIO 21 YEARS AGO
(From the Light. Jan. 15 1899.)
Miss Fay Davis of. Davis Tex. a
niece of General Merritt is in the city
visiting her cousin Mrs. Lottie Mooney
of South Alamo street.
Lieutenant O. M. Smith U. S. A. left
today to join his command in Dakota.
A rehearsal of the Fedelia club will
be held Sunday.
Miss Reba Brown of Galveston is in
the city visiting her aunt Mrs. Gar-
lick.
The valise found cut open and ran-
sacked near the Sunset tracks has been
identified by .Tames Shackelford; who
reports that it was stolen from his home
on Fifth street.
Captain Sid Tuttle has purchased a
rock building nt No. 27 North Florcs
street for $3OOO.
The directors of the San Antonio
Rifles will be held tonight.
A meeting of the Bexar County
Farmers’ alliance Wil] be held this af-
ternoon.
Texas Talk
NEEDED.
Keep up the agitation for a sewer
system. " Yoakum is growing fast
and a system of sowerage is the
most needed than anything else just
now.—Yoakum Times.
Even more than a faster train ser-
vice to San Antonio?
NOT PROFITABLE.
Judge M. M. Brooks has decided
to make a little money instead of
sounding what he already lias. He
has withdrawn from the race for
governor and will practice law at
Dallas. There may be some more
withdrawals before tho race be-
comes very warm. —Wcsthoff Ad-
vertiser.
There is no money in simply running
for governor as the judge learned iu
his race against Campbell.
LOTS OF MILES.
Bcxas county has provided its
commissioners’ court with an auto-
mobile. While Bexar is possibly
the premier county o Toxas in the
matter of good roads the official
joy wagon may be a considerable
factor iu increasing the mileage.
Help Tatas ge‘ all that's coming
tc it —Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Yes we have so many miles of good
roads down.and so many building it
takes a fast wagon to go over them.
SMILES AND HOWLS.
Tn other words there will be no
more Taft “smiles” in grand old
Texas if our own state food com-
missioner has his way about it.
What?—Fdrt Worth Star-Telegram.
These smiles are the kind that lead on
to insanity.
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HELP ALL ’ROUND.
Southeast Texas will crate Porto
Rico’s pineapple crop. This is one
of the best pieces of industrial news
to come to the .attention with the
first of the year.—Beaumont En-
terprise.
And help eat it too.
NECESSARY.
Perhaps Austin could spare an
officer or two who could officiate
nt depots to protect innocent pas-
sengers who must wait there to
change trains. —Austin Statesman.
From all accounts it would be a good
plan and a much needed reform.
CORPUS’ CHANCE.
Tho Light and Gazette remarks
that “when baseball dies will be
the day that Beautiful San Antonio
is in the grand old Corpus Christi
league.” Not quite clear but as
we take i’t the Light and Gazette
meins San Antonio is just dying
to got in the “grand old Corpus
league.” At any rate it's some-
thing for the promising up-state
town to hope for and build to. —
Corpus Christi Caller.
When water polo is the national
game Corpus will have a chance.
A BAGATELLE.
It is estimated that the onion
crop of Texas in 1910 will be worth
a million dollars mote than the pro- j
ceding one. An extra million’s
worth of good health if the truth
has been told about the onion.—Gal-
veston Tribune.
A million more or less to the Texas
truck grower is a mere nothing a trifle
a bit of chicken feed to spend for
luxurious nothings on rainy days.
JANUARY 15 1910.
Little Stories
NAUGHTY CUPID.
We live and learn. Hertofore the
American cocktail always® has been
regarded as a comparatively harmless
and refreshing beverage used to liven
up a dormant appetite and give zest
to the meal that follows. Now it
turns out to be knock-out drops. Mrs-
Leveret Hubbard has brought suit iu
rhe New Jersey court of chancery to
have her marriage annulled and says
it was performed while she was in-
sensible to everything that was going
on due to drinking cocktails. Mrs.
Hubbard was Miss Nightingale at-
tending school in New Bedford. A
year ago she was traveling on a train
and met a man whose name was Hub-
bard. They talked and liked each
other and last March (by appoint-
ment) they met again in New York
dined together and drank a few cock-
tails and then went to the theater
together. Nothing of any great inter-
est in the affair so far; it reads like
thousands of others.
But let us go on. After the theater
the young lady and Mr. Hubbard went
to the Astor and had a little supper
with a cocktail or two. Then “rhe
next thing she remembers” is that she
nmc to her senses in a room in a ho*
tel. and Hubbard was there congratu-
lating himself and herself on their
being married. He gave her a certifi-
cate showing that the knot had been
tied that morning. Now she wisiics
it untied. Mrs. Nightingale Hubbard
says cocktails deprived her of her
senses.
It has been the custom of certain
bachelors called “men about town”
to onibibe a dozen or more of these
drinks before and fluring and even af-
ter :• meal. It now turns out that it
is not safe to do so. First thing ono
of them knows he'll wake up in a ho-
tel and find a wife there waving a
'rnrriage certificate.—New York Tele-
graph.
A GOOD COLORADO EXAMPLE.
“There is an organization in our
s‘ate which does a glorious business
without any flourish or blowing of
trumpets” said Mr. David R. Looker
of Denver at the city hotel.
“It is known as the burean of child
and animal protection of Colorado.
It rescues juvenile waifs in every
part of the state outside of Denver.
Not only are forlorn destitute and neg
lected children looked after ami pro-
tected but suffering cattle horses and
sheep are kept from starving or freez-
ing to death —a fate that often comes
to them in the open ranges when
blizzards are raging. Thousands of
dumb brutes are saved every winter
through the good work of this bureau.
At the same time it costs the taxpay-
ers scarcely anything the total year-
ly appropriation by’ the legislature for
its support being only $5OOO.” —Bal-
timore American.
FOLLY OF THE MEAN.
John D. Rockefeller never wearies of
impressing on the young the folly’ of
mean and parsimonious habits. In
one of his most recent interviews he
said:
“These miseriv people reap nothing
but discomfort from their false econo-
mies. Take for example the case of
Mrs. Silas Long of Sussex.
“ ‘Martha’ said Silas one fall
‘I think I’ll go and get a few ap||n
from the orchard.’ Jp
“He looked at her timidlv.
“ ‘Well be careful now Si only N
pick the bad ones.’
“ ‘Suppose there ain't no bad on<M
Martha?’ ■
“ ‘Then ye'll have th wait till sot®
go's bad. of course.’ the old lady sun®
;>ed. ‘We can't afford to eat gbo®
sound fruit wuth 3 cents a bushel.’ '■
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. •
Saplcigh—The doctor says there’s
something the matter with my head.
Sharp—You surely didn’t pay a doctor
to tell you that!—Boston Transcript.
QUAKER MEDITA-
TIONS.
What many a
■ young doctor doesn’t
■ know about medicine
; would fill a morgue.
The courage that
J can only be screwed
up with a corkscrew
। suffers a quick re-
-1 lapse.
The fellow who
। tries to swear off gen-
I erally discovers that
! tho spirits are will-
ing. but the flesh is
weak.
“No” is about as
' small and simple a
■ word as wc have and
yet some fellows can
never learn to say it.
A little misdirected
enthusiasm is better
than a life member-
ship in the AiTeient
Order of the Wet
Blanket.
Hoax — “Poo/ old
D 'Auber has been
evicted from his stu-
dio. It was really pa-
thetic.” “Joax—“A
moving picture show
eh!”
Sillieus—“lt does
' not cost much to get
married. There's only
1 the license and the
preacher to pay.”
' Cynicus— ‘ ‘ You seem
ito forget that very
often there’s the dev-
il to pay.”
Rlobbs—“That In-
' diana judge who
. granted a divorce for
six months is estab-
! lishing a bad prece-
dent.” Slobhs—“Oh.
1 don't know. A fel-
low ought to have a
whole lot of fun in
six months.”—Phila-
delphia Record.
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