The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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«s second-class matter Jan-
1909, at the post office at
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; NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
Any erroneous reflection upon
the
standing or reputation of
person, firm or coiporation which
appear in the columns of the
- .Review will be gladly corrected upon
betog brought to the attention of the
Ill^puUishers.. v": f .
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Four Issues One Month
No oilier Federal or State Atr
torney General in the United
States has an official record in
any way comparable with that of
Attorney General R. V. David-
son. Hadley made^himself
famous and won the governor-
ship of Missouri by his fight on
the oil trust. Yet his achieve-
jgs&ts are as nothing compared
Davidson's splendid
triumph. rf^Rogers News.
True. No other Federal or
State officer ever managed to give
as many friends large fees for do-
ing work that they were elected
by the people to do and no other
officer ever tried to manipulate a
graft of $400,000 by the wrong
construction of law in oraer that
those in close touch with the
Attorney General's office might
ha the beneficiary. No other of-
ficer ever allowed the use pf his
nsfrne in a law firm at so much
per in order to control the rail-
road business. In fact no other
officer ever collected as much
"rents" during any campaign as
the Attorney General did.—West
News.
i. jfcut ,none jaf these alleged
wrongs were ever urged against
the Attorney General until he
IS
trust and caught a United States
Senator in his drag net Then
the oil trustritsibrgans and em-
issaries of evil began their foul
work Jn a frantic effort to be-
amirch thft fair nama nf a failh-
t criminal. Every inteiii-
Texan rejoiced^that the
State W. won, that her laws
werevin^icat^and-i
thority-was supreme. Jtfu
who backed the. tru
their state and lost are stil
andonarl at the great Attorney
sore
General, refusing to be comfort-
ed. ~T " Ji?'rr'
If every hundred dollars of
property in the United States
were made to pay about one dollar
and seventy, cents a year in tax$s
the revenue so derived would
ol government
Federal, State and local. There
duties or of internal revenue
taxes to support the Federal
Government or of the great sums
which States and cities raise by
license fees, franchise taxes and
the like. This statement is based
upon the latest figures of govern-
mentar "disbursements supplied
by the Statistical Bureau of the
Treasury. According to the
same authority, each hundred
dollars of property that is direct-
ly taxed at all pays two dollars
and five cents a year, and that
doesn't half meet the bills. It
produces only seven hundred and
twentyffive millions, while the
governments-*Federal, State and
local—spend seventeen hundred
millions, The_farmer or small
househoHer payslus two dollars"
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preacher, when
teaching the bible in his strong-
est sermons has as much to
say of hell Meavpp, awl if
w*e hftve nc hell we" havefno
Heaven. The editor that
to use plain language when
ease at
of a seat in the editorial capacity
of any forks 6t the roach journal.
and five cents on each hundred,
and then has to chip in his share
of the additional billion dollars-
made up of customs duties, in-
ternal revenue taxes, license
fees—which the governments
Total cost of running
the governments'-Federal, Stater
and local — amounts to about
twenty dollars a head a year, or
a hundred dollars for a family of
five., A totally thriftless person
may escape his share, and an ex-
ceedingly thrifty person may es-
cape his. But we surmise that a
great body of reasonably thrifty
heads of families pay more than
their share. Except as regards
the tariff verv little is heard of
this subject in politics, and yet
it is obviously a big subject.
Saidan experienced member of
an Illinois taxing body the other
day: "Under the laws now on
our statute books it is absolutely
„3Jhe President is out in favor
of ;'a civil service pension bill.
The purpose of the proposed^
measure is to pension former
officer holders in the United
States after they have retired
The public service pays well. A
will receive enough in salary
and notoriety* and prestige to
guarantee hitiv a competence
through life, if he is made of the
right kind of met^l. It would b&
an injustiee of the rankest, kind
to burden the people with ad-
ditional taxes to keep up their
former office holders. Taxes are
already burdensome enough in
this country.
Leopold, King of the Belgians,
died last Friday morning after
sixty-four years of life whose
vileness has perhaps no parallel
in the fragrant history of kings.
In addition to the unspeakable
degredation of his own character,
he it was who perpetuated the [.
unspeakable horrors of the Bel-
gian Congo, so none of the at-
tributes of the human njonater
are wanting. If there is any-
such thing as a future state, the
average man who knows of the
Leopold, will feel perfectly satis-
fied that the said .Leopold is now
getttfirm*-—
great oil impossible to make tin equitable
assessment." -- Saturday Even-
ing Post.
ful official and to defeat his plans
to bring H. Clay Pierce^and~ his
great criminal corporation to the
bar of justice. Undaunted by
the cohorts of corruption with
their volleys of slime and sland-
I er, the great Attorney General
%t : with his able assistants met this
gigantic combination and defeat-
ed ft again and again till the Su-
preme Court of the United States
by its final mandate settled the
in the suit. De-
at every point, despite its
its powerful or-
gans and politicians backed up
money, the great
was forced to pay the State
$1,800,000—the greatest
in the history of the world—
eave the state. The At-
General hid brought to
and punished the greatest
on
he
all
9 cents per
can
IS:
the
as
The str&nuous headliner on the
Crosbyton Review in his leader
nti the fiynt page, ovqr an article
on Texas penitentiaries, that
"Every Citizen of the State
Should Raise Hell in General^'
Recovering from the jolt that
the language gave our sensitive
faculties of aesthetic expression
we would observe that the citi-
zens of Texas are prone to gen-
eralizing in this particular line
of conduct and are somewhat
lucking in the specific perforra-
ance necessary to bring about
results.—Hiale County Herald.
Itfoay be true that the citizens
of Texas are "prone to general-
izing and are lacking in specific
performance," but they are look-
ing straight at the ,penitentiary
scandte and seem to be deter-
mined that our convict manage-
ment shall be irtfcroved. The
Crosbyton Review only meant to
be positive, not irreverent, when
it gave out that "strenuous, head-
line". Conditions in the peni-
mid on the convict
ire enough to make the
people of Texas fhink^ strenuouB
thoughts whether they print
or not. —Fort Worth Star-
is exacfly
Christmas Carol
>. If PMlliyt Brooks "
ah um irkgrow* m wim m
Mrdta of cart.
But at Christmas it always is young,
Che heart of at itwtl turns lustrous
and fair,
Hud its soul fun of music bursts forth
ot the air,
What the song or the angels is snog.
Tt is coming. Old Garth, it is coming
tonight!
On the snow-flakes which cover thy
- 104 —
Che feet or the Christ-child fall gentle
and white,
And the voice of the Christ-child tens
ont with delight
Chat mankind are the children of 6od.
On the sad and the lonely* the wretched
and poor,
Che volceof the Christ-child shad fall;
ghjS iA-jmmu. Mind
door
Of hope that he dared not to dream of
before,
Olith a snnshlne of welcome for an.
Che feet of the hnmblest may walk in
the field
Ofhere the feet of the fioltest trod,
Chls, then, is the marvel to mortals
revealed
When the snvery tmmpets of Christmas
have pealed,
Chat mankind are the children of God.
When in Floydada stop at my Wagon Yard, every-
thing new, 1 block S. W. of square. Good Sheds and Water
B, F, WAGNER, Floydada. Texas
For a Good Meal or Bed
When in Plainview stop at The Western Hotel, the plane for
GOOD MEALS and CLEAN WARM BEDS. Best $1.00 per
. day house in town. When in town call and be convinced.
Mrs. Belle Young, Proprietress
Plainview, "Texas.- —...
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Tanks--We Build Them
Any size you warit--We built yours for
Crosbyton; look at it. We ^can make any-
—thingthati&made of sheet material.
Dick's - Tin - Shop
I'llON !•: 200
PLAIN VIEW, TEXAS
West Plains Lumber Company
LUMBER AND COAL
"QUALITY VP -PRICES DOWN"
SOUTH OF SQUARE
Lubbock, - " - Texas
Lumber ! Lumber ! Lumber !
We have a complete line of building- material and
believe we can save you money. Come to us for
anything in Lumber and you will be well pleased
with results.
A. G. McAdams Lumber Co.
Floydada, Texas.
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A Quiokiy-Made Present.
Most women know what it la to b«
short of a present on the last day or
before Christmas. If one has plen-
ty of money to go but and buy a_ gift
this need cause little worry, otherwise
quickly-made gifts are in order.
One that can be turned out in a few
minutes Is one of the new hairpin
cases. This ts made of the fiber that
la used In women's artificial pompa-
dours, only; of a silver/*white color.
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which la also called Mary's rose,
sprang up along the path of the Holy
Pkmlly after they left Bethlehem, and
bloaaomed brightly wherever they-reat
ed. This* flower which bloomed at the
Irtrtli of Chrtet ahowed Ita aympathy
by closing at hta crucifixion, only to
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7040 acre tract in Panhandle Texas, Cros-
by County, 4 miles S. W. of Crosbyton, 4
miles S. E. of Emrjia. Price $13.50 per
acre. Must be sold in; one body. Requires
"abeut^40,000.00 cash to handle."
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White, F. E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1909, newspaper, December 30, 1909; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242169/m1/4/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Crosby County Public Library.