The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 1, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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FREK HKAUT8, FltKK MINDS, KKKE PEOJM.K, ARK THE MATERIAL, AND THE ONLY MATERIAL, OUT OK WHICH FREE GOVERNMENTS ARE CONSTRUCTED.—JEFFERSON,
VOLUME 41).
BASTROP, BASTROP COUNTY, TKXA8, SATURDAY, MARUIl 1,
NUMBER 9.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
To Oun Friends, Patrons and the Public:
As heretofore announced, Mr. H. W. Stevenson has withdrawn from the business, and I
have associated myself with Mistrot Bros. & Co., and will still continue the business in Bastrop
under the firm name of J. M. HOLT & CO.
Since our opening in Bastrop we have built up a large and well established trade. We ap-
preciate very much the liberal patronage accorded us in the past, and promise as a new firm, to
maintain the reputation already established, of fair and courteous treatment to one and
all alike.
In associating myself directly with Mistrot Bros. & Co., enables us to buy direct from the
Factory in large quantities. We also have a resident buyer in New York, and import direct
from Europe our Embroideries, Laces, Trimmings, Fancy Goods, Etc.
Our Now Spring Stock has begun to arrive and soon our store will be bristling with the pret-
tiest line ci goods ever shown in Bastrop, and following the policy of the old firm, will sell them
at prices that cannot be duplicated.
Thanking you for past favors and soliciting your future patronage, I am
YOURS FOR PROSPERITY,
J. M. HOLT.
Watch this Space lor our . . .
Big Spring Announcement.
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AN AFFWTING SCKNK.
Houston, Tex., Feb. L!'J This
evening a very touching scene
occur red in the criminal court
room when a mother who came
from Fort Worth to see her 1U-
year-old erring hoy, who was to
be tried for an offense. I hey
met in the clerk's office in the
presence of the judge and a few
Others. They embraced and
wept bitterly. N' t a dry eyewas
in the room, and when the judge
naid to her, "Do you think you
can raise him at honje to do
ri^;l LV** she said: "Yes, I will
raise him right if y,ia w'" &'vo
him back to me."
The judge said: 'He is yours
now. Take him home with you.
Tho case was dismissed, and
loving mother left with the little
boy in her arms. It was the
niost dramatic and affecting scene
ever seen in that court house.
Cane was dismissed and the
little fellow left for home. He
liad been dominated by an adult
in connection with half a dozen
house robberies here. The man
who dominated him got ten years
recently.
That the House of Representa-
tives has ceased to be a deliber-
ative body and has degenerated
into a mere machine doing the
bidding of a small number of
men, by courtesy called leaders
but actually dictators, has been
appreciated for a number of
years by those in close touch
with its workings, but never in
its history have the high-handed
and tyranical methods adopted
by tho present Speaker and his
colleagues to secure the passage
of the war revenue repeal bill
been equalled or even approached
The proceedings Monday wore a
source of humiliation to every
member of the House possessed
of sufficient intelligence to com-
prehend their meaning.
Appreciating that a large con-
tingent of their ov. n party, ami
consequently of the republican
members, were urgent in their
demands for tariff reform and
would seize the opportunity to
amend the measure framei I by
the Ways and Means Committee '
appreciating their own inability
as leaders and intent on securing
their own ends and protecting:
the vested interests whose money'
has long perpetuated republican
rule, the leaders anticipated the
introduction of the revenue re- ■
duetion bill by proposing for(
adoption a rule which not only
limited the debate on a measure]
calculated to reduce the reven-
ues of the government by $75,- '
000,000 per annum but positively,
prohibited the amending of the j
same in any manner. Mr. Rich-
ardson, the democratic leader,
protested and appealed to the
rulings of Speaker Heed, but to
no avail. Mr. Henderson repudi-
ated all known authorities and
declared himself supreme. On
an appeal from the chair the rul-
ings of the Speaker were sustain-
ed by a strict party vote. Mr.
Kit hardson, appreciating the fu-
tility of appeals to logic and pa-
triotism and realizing the power-
lessness of the minority, request-
ed an immediate vote and tho
measure carried without one
minute's discussion of its pro-
visions, one moment's delibera-
tion, and a precedent had been
established of the gravest por-
tent to the future of the nation.
Simultaneously with the above
action of the House, the Senate
was establishing another prece-
dent which portends no good to
this country. The last named
body, on Momlay ratified the
treaty by whicti the United
States purchases the I )anish West
Indies and in so doing the argu-
ment was advanced on tho floor
of the Senate that because the
Monroe doctrine precludes the
acquirement of additional terri*
tiory on this hemisphere, and
these islands were for sale, the
United States must purchase
them. Would the same argu-
ment apply to lluyti, i'or instance
and to all the possessions of
Kuropean countries in South
America? When Kuropen gov-
ernments have extracted, by
means of misgovornment, etc.,
all the wealth of these countries
and desires to be rid of the wrecks
will the United States have to
purchase them? This is not a
party question for the vote was
practically unanimous for the
ratification of the treaty, but it is
a serious question.
Since the passage of the reve-
nue bill the House has accomp-
lished no important legislation.
The Senate has passed tho bill
providing for a permanent cen-
sus bureau and has fixed upon
next Monday for final uebato and
vote on the Philippine revenue! Company at a profit of 81 per
bill. The Senate Committee on ton on steel can pay dividends of
Agriculture is considering the 5 per cent. The steel trust, dur-
oleomarganne bill and the indi-
cations are that it will pass. It
is quite probable that tlio com-
mittee will eliminate the clause
relating to renovated butter, for,
ing the first nine months of its
existence made a profit of .SI4
per ton. If its dividends are not
lurge enough to suit the stock-
holders they should squeeze ilu J
iv yUEHf'4
W. J. MILEY,. .
DRUGGIST.
as a Senator from Iowa pointed water out of their stock. As a j
out yesterday when I asked him 1 protection to labor the tariff on
of the likelihood of the bill's steel amounts to nothing. 1'rac-
passing the Senate, Congress tically the entire manufacture is
has no authority to legislate in accomplished by the use of ma-
3ast.;oi\
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regard to the manufacture of any
food product unless it is on the
ground that it is for the purpose
chinery with the minimum of
labor and the finished product is
the raw material of the manufac-
of raising revenue and there is turers who do employ labor. On
no tax placed on renovated but- the other hand, everything, from ,
ter by the present measure, tho agriculture implement used!
Moreover the bill fails to define by the farmer to the piano in my j
renovated butter and it will be a parlor, and the shoes 1 wear con-1
question as to what is renovated tains more or less manufactured,
and what is not. j steel.
Representative Baboock, of This morning the President's
Wisconsin, assured me yesterday decision on Admiral Schley's ap-
Spot-mi and careful attention
jrr/en to the Prescription |)o-
partuifiit. ami patrwiiH waited
on either ilay Or nltfht.. A full
line of I'ATKNT MKOICIMM.
I'KKKI MKUV. TolLKT akt1c-
i.k.s, Stationkky, Etc., Etc.
matter, he is mistaken, as Sena-
tor Mason of Illinois announces
his intention to push his resolu-
tion in the Senate to the full ex-
tent of his ability.
that he had not given up the idea
of getting his b'll to reduce the
tariff on steel before the House
and concluded tho conversation
with these words: "You mark
my words, I will get that bill bo-
fore the 1 louse of Representatives
before this session closes. There
peal was made public. It bears
every evidence of hnving been
rendered in the bureaucratic at-
mosphere with which Mr. Roose-
velt has seen fit to surround him-
self and the conclusions bear
the indellible proof of having
been induced by tin specious
are no 'ifs' nor 4ands' about it, , argument of such men as Long,
I will.'' Speaking of tho details Lemly, Hanna, et alias. Mr.
of the bill Mr. Baboock said "The Roosevelt valianty shields him-
continuance of the present steel self behind the decision of his
schedule is ini juitous. There is ''revered predecessor'' and finds
absolutely no excuse for it. They'no occasion for reversing Mr.
say that I would reduce the pro- McKinley's judgment. He al-
fits of tho
ponse of
steel trust at the ex-
the "little fellows.
That is sheer nonsense. Who
are the little fellows? .lones A*
l.aughlin with a capital of $20,-
000,0(X) and three mills owned by
legos that, while Sampson was
only technically in command, it
was a "captain's battle." In his
efforts to avoid doing full justice
to Admiral Schley, however, he
forgets to accord credit to "the
I the Pennsylvania Railroad. The men behind the guns," the build-
three mills owned by the Penn- ers of the American ships and
sylvanla make ti">o,ooo tons of the manufacturers of the Ameri
I steel a year, more than the entire can powder.
output of the mills of Great Bri-
tain. Tho Jones Oc Laughlin
If Mr. Roosevelt inagines that
his decision will conclude the
Vernon Hornet: If the price
of corn keeps on lingering around
the dollar mark per bushel the
candidate will have to canvass
the country on foot. Farmers
can't afford to feed the horses of
ill candidate on dollar a bushel
corn. The wise candidate won't
canvass at all.
Formerly in tho black land
country of North Texas, when
the c mdidates made speeches in
neighborhoods "after candle
lighting," as they always had to
do in traveling from precinct to
precinct, the people gathered and
took tho seekers of office home
with them. But this year, so
State Press is informed by one
of them, often, after the "speak-
ing," which lasts till 12 at night,
' the candidates have te go back
to the county seat, sometimes
many milesjaway, to get a bed.
t'ampaigning this year, accord-
ing to State Press' informant, has
been most trying, indeed. The
farmers, however hospitable they
may bo, really have not the pro-
vender to feed extra-horses. —
I Galveston News.
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 1, 1902, newspaper, March 1, 1902; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205581/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.