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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1903.
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POPULATION OF TEXAS CITIES:
The population of the seven largest
cities of Texas, on June 1, 1904, as esti-
mated by the United States Census Bu-
reau, l* as follows:
SAN ANTONIO 59,581
Houston 4 54,468
Dallas 49.678
Galveston 32,013
Fort Worth 26,960
Austin 24,146
Waco 23,162
The sweet girl graduates continue
to "borrow the chariot for an hour
and set the world on fire."
Senator Spooner has decreed that
th( quarantine bill is not to trouble
Congress any more at the present ses-
sion.
The bill creating Port Arthur a full
port of entry has been reported fa-
vorably by the committee, but it may
encounter a squall in tho House.
II must have been very amusing to
see the Aldermen trying to "stand in
their seats." Some of them, however,
appear to have beeif equal to the ef-
fort.
Alfonso XIII. has been given a cer-
tificate of character as a model son
and model brother and it now remains
for him to prove to be a model hus-
band.
The free alcohol bill, with Senate
amendments has been accepted oy
the House and it will have the Presi-
dent's signature, it will be nearly a
year, however, before it goes into op-
eration.
Count Boni was not left high and
dry by the loss of his rich wife. As a
member of tho Chamber of Deputies
he gets a salary of $1800 a year,
which should be sufficient to pay his
laundry b4ll.
The nut growers are getting to-
gether in Texas and that means more
intelligent methods and .nore system
iu the cultivation and marketing of
the nuts. The business has not here-
tofore had the attention it deserved.
Secretary Shaw, who is a standpat-
ter, will hardly appreciate the action
oi the Republicans of the Tenth Iowa
District in indorsing Governor Cum-
mins and the "Iowa idea," which
means tariff revision. If Secretary
Shaw cannot carry his own State it 1*
not likely that he will be able to carry
many others in the Republican nomi-
nating convention.
intemperate Attacks on Judge Bell.
It is Bell against the field and the
field against Bell in this Gubernatorial
fight, and things are warming up
This past week, indeed, has seen the
introduction of the personal element
into the campaign—a circumstance to
be regretted, but which, as politics is
now conducted, apparently unavoida-
ble.
Judge Brooks sounded this personal
note some time ago by iudii'ection.
when he intimated that the corporate
influences were combined in the sup-
port of a "single man." Now comes
Monta J. Moore in an eruption, which,
Vesuvius-like, throws out mud anl
stones. Quoth Monta J.:
"I tell you, my fellow citizens, that
the candidacy of the gentleman from
Fort Worth is a menace to the pros-
perity and to the liberties of the peo-
ple of Texas, and 1 pledge you that i:i
this campaign I am opposed unreserv-
edly to the principles and the policies
represented by his record as Attorney
General and by his opening speech at
Hamilton."
The Hon. Monta ncgleets, however,
to present the bill of particulars,
wherein Judge Bell's administration!.'
going to do the deadly injury that his
overheated imagination fears. The
horrid suspicion is beginning to creep
upon us that tho Hon. Monta is a
gentleman given to dreams of dishev-
eled fervor, such as all of us had as
small boys when we waked in the
dread and vasty middle of the night
azul shouted in a small terror-stricken
voice, "muvver, muvver! 'i Some of his
friends should take a light into
Monta's benighted darkness and try
to get him waked up once and for a!!
—if that be possible.
Now comes Mr. Colquitt, following
the illustrious examples of his com-
panions in misfortune, Messrs. Brooks
and Moore, and indulges in some se
vere personal strictures on Judge
Bell, which furnish an admirable ex
ample both of bad taste and bad poli
tics. Said Mr. Colquitt:
In this campaign these combina-
tions of capitalists—these trusts—are
supporting the namby-pambyist mail
in the race—a man who advocates
nothing and deprecates scarcely any-
thing; a man who apparently has only
one purpose in view, namely, to get
into office without offending anybody,
and to stay in office without offend-
ing anybody—a man who promises
everything and does absolutely noth-
ing.
1 have said that the railway trust
is tile greatest of all the trusts, find
it is. But there is another trust, and
that trust, my friends, is the official
trust of Texas. It is composed of men
who spend one-half of their lives get-
ting elected to office, and the other
half to holding it after they've got
It. They are now trying to cleet one
man Governor in this race in order to
perpetuate their power in tl/is State.
They are working hand in glove with
the railway trust in tills fight. One-
third of the members of the State
Senate are salaried employes of the
railways. Do you wonder that your
interests have been betrayed, your
will thwarted and your plans de-
feated?
These are the men who defeated the
blanket primary and compelled you to
name your Governor by the conven-
tion system. These are the men who
strike hands with the trusts and
wrest from the people the fruits of
their victory. These are the men
whom Governor James S. llogg
fought and whipped in Texas when he
was living, and whom Senators Bailey
and Culberson are fighting so val-
iantly in the Nation today.
I know that they have conspired to
defeat my aspirations in this race,
and 1 gladly welcome the combat. I
never yet have "sold the truth to
serve the hour, nor paltered with
eternal God for power," and I shall
not do so now.
Tho United States Senate has beta
flooded with protests from the women
of several Slates against the reten-
tion of his seat by Senator Smoot of
Utah. Texas women are not, so far,
represented in the petitions and pro-
tests. They seem rather less in-
clined to meddle with something that
does not concern them than do their
sisters in Kansas and some of the
other States.
Those who were in the Council
chamber Monday afternoon were not
much surprised when the Mayor
asked that those voting aye on a mo-
tion stand up in their seats. It was
lucky the Mayor did not order tho
Aldermen to signify their intentions
by standing on their heads, as their
efforts to obey might have ended dis-
astrously to some of them. They
would have tried it in utter reckless-
ness of consequences.
Senators Klkins, Cullom and Till-
man, the Senate conferees on the rail-
road rate bill, represent three differ-
ing views of railroad rate regulation,
but they may stick together for tho
patched-up measure, which doesn t
suit either of them, because it is the
best they could get and not as bad as
it might have been.
The esteemed Dallas News says.
"When the Intercoastal Canal h
opened up we can bring a boat load
or coal or structural steel from Pitts-
burg to Dallas and carry back to
Pittsburg the cotton to pay for it."
With such a prospect as this why
worry about the Panama Canal or
railway rate legislation?
Herein are grave charges reflecting
upon the honor and integrity of many
men high in the official life of
Texas. There is, however, a lack nf
specific names and of specific charges,
it is a suspicion and an inuendo rather
than an indictment, and as such is un-
generous and unfair. No man caa
reputably engage in such attacks upon
others unless he is fortified with
pi oofs and irrefutable facts. In that,
caso he owes it to himself to indulge
ia no hazy generalities but to strike
directly at the evil by blunt statement
or the man or the men and the rail-
roads engaged in the unholy combina-
tion that ho herein hints at. Unless
he can do this his mere suspicions are
the worthless emanations of a mind
that delights fo think evil rather thai;
good of his fellow man.
Judge Bell has answeied all of (he
Intemperate md ungenerous attacks
by challenging his opponents to pro-
duce evidence that in any single act.
he has shown favoritism to the rail-
reads or has been slack in any way in
the enforcement of the laws. Upon
the furnishing of such evidence of par-
tiality or venality, he pledges himself
to withdraw from the race for Gov
ernor.
It is to be hoped that the dis-
gruntled candidates in this race will
not let the too apparent and inevita-
ble defeat urge them into an intem-
perate forgetting of those amenities
of combat which should always be.
observed among decent and honorable
men.
The (iualemala Revolution.
The revolution in Guatemala ap-
pears to have been very systematic-
ally and effectively organized and
ample arrangements made for financ-
ing it, wherefore its success seems
practically assured.
President Estrada Cabrejra is
charged with having obtained his of-
fice by fraud—the ballot boxes hav-
ing been stuffed in his interest and
the count falsified—and ho Is also
charged with imposing onerous taxa-
tion on the citizens and with playing"
tht tyrant to such an extent as to call
down upon him the wrath of both the
classes and tho masses.
In the Latin-American Republics it
never seems to occur to the people
who are dissatisfied with the Govern-
ment that the ballot may be employed
as a corrective or that a high offi-
cial—even the President—might bu
impeached for high crimes and mis-
demeanors when he subverts the laws
or makes his Government intolerable.
Instead, the first thought is revolu-
tion and forthwith there is a gather-
ing of clans, a collection of arms and
ammunition and the country is
thrown into a civil war to accomplish
something that might, much more
easily be accomplished without th-3
loss of life or any considerable cost of
treasure.
In the present instance it appears
bat outside aitl has been invoked by
the revolutionists and that Salvador
and British Honduras are liable to 1:
involved in the Guatemalan difficulty.
That may complicate matters very
much and have the effect of drivin
supporters to President Cabrera who
would otherwise sympathize with the
revolutionists, for it is a well-known
fact that in a family row the bellig-
erents are apt, to turn simultaneously
oi. any outsider who interferes. As a
rule the Latin-American revolutions
are of too frequent occurrence to be
of much consequence, but they have
a tendency to impede development by
destroying confidence, and that Is too
principal reason why our Southern
neighbors have not made greater
pi ogress.
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The rule or ruin element in the
Democratic party in Tennessee has
been warned that it is playing with
fi-e. Governor Cox's adherents seem
determined to renominate him, in
spite of tho fact that the Democrat:',:
electors have declared against him,
even if to do so should cost the party
the loss of the State. H. Clay Evan.;,
vho will be the Republican nominee
for Governor, is a very strong man in
Tennessee and there is an impression
among many' Democrats, as well as
Republicans, that he was fairly elect-
ed Governor at the last election,
though he lost the office on a techni-
cality. If Cox should get the nomi-
nation, which appears to have been
fairly won by Pattei-son, by trickery
iu tho convention, Evans would be
highly pleased. He would then con-
sider his way to the Governor's chair
made easy.
WHAT STATE PAPERS SAY
Surprising Result in Dallas.
must confess its inability to
!C. Z'i":1 -lhat Third Ward epi
lode
municipal »Im»>.i In I 'alias.
Ilie otticiai count
Taxpayers snould render their prop-
erty for assessment or accept with
good grace the valuation placed upon
it by the Assessor or the Board of
Equalizatiop. There may be occa-
sions, however, when the taxpayer
should have notification when his
assessment has been very greatly In
creased.
Apropos of the vacation season ths
Boston Transcript thinks it advisable
to give wide circulation to the obser-
vation of Mr. Marcus M. Marks, who
described the two-weeks' furloughs as
"coupons on the bonds of industry
that mature annually." The Tran-
script thinks that will help to impress
some people, perhaps, who even in
this enlightened age do not approve
of vacations. But for those who do,
among employers, as well as employes
the old terms will serve for this sea-
son at least.
. -* ,'juiu sliowrd Mr. Shank.,
,"i„!jIHVu "eVeral more votes than .Mr.
ii wlm w'u's I" 111111 l-'i' ahead of
tn« thud candidate, Mr. Hancock. Mr.
Hancock accepted tlt<- sanation philo-
sophically, believing that Ids neighbors
were tillable to appreciate h superior
ntneM to repre.snt them in the council.
! • Claiborne way not m> rosily con-
\ ineed that ho had ben tm-ned down,
rj '.rom the rumors of the complica-
tions incident to tho Terrell election law
ho reached the conclusion thai he had
loceived a plurality and yr«"-. edod to in-
stitute a contest. Th - City Council re-
counted the vote, and tie n came the
surprise, ft W;,.; \j,. Hancock who had
received a plurality. The Post had
tailed to r-ee in the Dallas newspapers a
reasonable explanation of this, affair.
\\as the discount l>> the electron offi-
cials due to misconception of the law,
or was it due to politic il tr < k< ry? The
question is important, we think, because
wo have understood that while tie Ter-
r Ji might be somewhat vague
and liable to mixcom truethm, it was a
dead shot against all rriann< r of crook-
edness. if the Dallas election should
prove that the law does not afford a
preventive for crookedness, and ean not
be understood in other • i>- ets, the peo-
ple may have to roach the conclusion
that the effort for < lection reform in
Texas has failed. Of course, the Dallas
election can not bo regarded as con-
clusive on either point, hut it is very
likely that the July primaries and the
November election will reveal the weak-
nesses of the law. The great trouble
about the law is that it was constructed
to correct many evils that have never
existed in Texas; coiis<i|!iotitly, it is not
adapted to Texas conditions. It. may be
that scattering: amendments can remedy
its failings, but there i reason to be-
lieve that an entirely new and greatly
simplified statute will h- demanded by
tne people. —Houston Post.
Sound the Trumpet.
The Texas Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College is doing- a mighty work of
upbuilding for Texas with almost as lit-
tle noise as Nature makes in causing
crops, fruits and flowers to grow. Si-
lent as Nature is with regard to most
of «s beneficent operations, its claims
to /dmiration and gratitude have not
wanted voices to proclaim them nor a
sympathetic audience to respond to the
« ulogiums. In other words, while Na-
ture has not blown its own horn its
horn has been very vigorously blown
for it. The Current Issue would like to
see the press of the 8tat blow the horn
for the Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege long and loud enough between now
and next January to cau^ the Governor-
to-be and the Thirtieth Legislature to en-
thusiastically exert themselves to afford
the institution the means to realize its
full measure of usefulness to the State.
The Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege had a long, uphill fight to win the
vantage ground it now occupies, but the
result is cheap at the price. Its days of
desperate struggle are over. Still, it
would be well to push it swiftly forward
to tho summit toward which it is moving
with the slow and uncertain force of a
hydraulic ram, and press and people
should see that it is don .—Current Issue.
CLEVER ANECDOTES.
Judge Bell's Challenge.
Hon. C. K. Bell is a mild-mannered
man—a man who doesn't brag. But when
his record Is questioned he seems al-
ways to have the fat ts for refutation.
In an address at Waco last Saturday
night he said: "I have been accused of
failure, while Attorney General of Texas,
to enforce the law against trusts. While
in this city my attention has been called
to such talk going around. If the rec-
ords do not show that during the period
of my services at Attorney General there
were a greater number of charters and
permits of corporations, foreign and do-
mestic, forfeited for failure to comply
with the law than were forfeited during
eight years prior to my incumbency, 1
will retire from this race, if the records
do not show, also, that as Attorney Gen-
eral I collected more money in penalties
from corporations for violations of the
trust law than was collected by all of my
predecessors combined, I will withdraw
from the race for Governor." — Texas
Farmer.
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Deep Water at Aransas.
Deep water at Aransas Pass is so sure-
ly in prospect that the Government, in
anticipation of the importance of tlie
port, is preparing to locate an officer to
inspect the immigrants who will disem-
bark there. E. B. Holman, immigration
inspector in charge at Galveston, visited
Corpus Christ! and Tarpon this week to
investigate the conditions. Congressman
Garner has had a hand in the matter; in
fact, his hand is in it up to the shoul-
der.—Corpus Christ! Crony.
Seeing the Game Gratis.
I remember, I remember, though years
have passed since then.
And the other urchins like myself, have
grown to be men.
When I with other boys would lie be
hind tlie grand stand and wait,
For that much coveted ball that would
pass me in the gate.
I never will forget the joy it gave me to
get one,
And match away triumphantly saying:
"By by, kids, I'm gone."
But sometimes I'd run hard and wrestle,
and fight, to get the ball;
And another boy bigger than I would get
it after all. ,
sure to get it, though, be-
game was through
I'd be pretty
fore the _
And sit in tho bleachers and watch the
game, and root like men do.
But when fouls were few and no knot-
holes In the fence for mo, v
As a last resort 1 would climb a tele-
phone pole or tree;
And I'd watch the game from that high
perch, with interest intense;
Nor begrudge the fellows down below
their knotholes in the fence.
—John Anschutz.
Variable.
Somebody had steered the theatrical
manager up against the professor.
"It's like this," said the manager. "I
have a new man I'm going to star next
season. His name is Haggerty, but that
would be a killing frost, you know, right
M the start. What I want is a good stage
name for him.
"Is he a first-class actor?" asked the
professor.
"Sometimes ho is and sometimes he's
bum. He's got it in him. all right, but.
to tell the truth about him, he has a way
of dropping back into the amateur class
now and then, you understand."
"The only name [ can think of that
would come near fitting such a star as he
is." said the professor, "is Algol."
For astronomy is one of the professor's
specialties.—Chicago Tribune.
Pessimistic View.
Blox-Do you think a college education
is beneficial to the average young man?
lvnox No: it makes him, too smart to
work and not smart enouaft to get along
without work.—Chicago News,
Reflections of a Bachelor.
It's queer how young anniversaries of
anything seem to make women.
When a girl doesn't want you to kiss
her, she will think worse of you if you
don't.
If a man could wear the same kind of
clothes ho mignt like to go to church
as much as fishing.
As long as a wor.nn keeps on thinking
nf clothes for herself and things to eat
for her husband he is satisfied.
There are two kinds of men, those who
make a woman happy before marriage
and those who make her happy after,
and she generally picks the first kind.—
New York Press.
Amusing the Baby.
Roscoe C. Suteliffe, who has fought
child labor so successfully for sixteen
sai<1 recently in Dallas:
"These employers of child labor seem
to me to be lunatics. They fatten on
tender lit t h children, working them
eleven or twelve hours a day, stunting
alike their bodies and their minds; yet
in nine cases out of ten they are pious,
church-going people, and they assure
you calmly thai their woik benefits and
gladdens the children Instead of harming
and saddening them.
"They remind one in their perfect as-
surance of my wife's niece, a child of
nine.
"My wife's niece was once left in
charge of her baby brother for some
hours.
"When her mother returned home, the
first sound she hoard was the loud yell-
ing and squalling of the baby. She ran
upstairs at once.
'What Is the baby crying for?' she
said.
"And the baby's juvenile monitress
answered calmly:
"'He's cross with me, mamma. I was
trying to make him smile with the glove
strctcher.' "
The Clever Valet.
Senator Beveridge was discussing a
bill (long since defeated) that seemed
to have been framed for tho protection
of dishonesty.
"Whenever I think of that bill," he
said, "1 am reminded of a certain rich
man's valet.
"The valet, one morning, was brushing
his master's clothes. He introduced into
this procedure a startling innovation. He
made a careful search of all tho pockets.
"In tho pocket of a new waistcoat the
valet found a silver dollar. Thereupon
he took out his penknife, sighed, and
said :
" 'For the waistcoat's sake it's
thousand pities, but there's nothing else
to be done. I must make a hole in this
pocket largo enough for the dollar to
slip through.' "
A Remarkable Joke.
"When Eugene Field was a reporter
in the West," said a Chieagoan, "he once
played a remarkable practical joke on
two trainloads of Kansas City mer
chants.
"These merchants were setting off on
an excursion, and their two trains were
to go by different routes.
"The excursionists boarded their trains
late at night, talked a while, and then
undressed and went to bed.
"An hour still remained before the
trains would start. During that hour
Field transferred all the shoes of the
first train's excursionists to tlie second
tr^in, and all the second train's shoes he
carried to the first.
"My' my, what a time there was on
those two trains the next morning, with
every man separated by hundreds of
miles from his own shoes."
Legislators That Must Go.
Senator Tillman, in an address on legis-
lators' duties, referred to the famous
Lord Melbourne.
"Here is an illustration." he said, "of
the way legislators looked on the people
in the past. Some legislators still look
on the people in that old-fashioned way.
But their day is done. They are disap-
pearing. They have been found out.
They are not wanted.
"Well. I^ord Melbourne sat in his great,
fine office in Dublin Castle when a boy.
Sir William Gregory, was brought in to
see him hy a relative.
"The boy was much impressed by the
many fine things that lay on the desks
and tables in the sumptuous office. You
know how a lot of free stationery ap-
peals to all of us, and here were dozens
of the finest pens, sticks of brilliant
wealinwr-wax, blotters without number,
erasing knives, tablets, notebooks, calen-
dars.
"And Lord Melbourne, seeing how
greedily tho boy was looking at the ap-
pointments of the great public office,
said:
" 'Do you see anything hero you want?'
"The boy said ho would like to have a
stick of rod sealing-wax.
" 'That is right, my lad. Begin early,'
said Lord Melbourne, thrusting into the
lad's hand a box containing a dozen
sticks of assorted wax. 'All these things
belong to tho public, and our business
must always be to get as much out of
the public as we can.
Oysters in May.
Rear Admiral Buhler, lunching at an
Atlantic City hotel, said, as the waiter
brought him his Littlcneek clams, that
be was sorry the oyster season was
over. ,
"1 prefer oysters to clams, but of
course," he said, "I obey the rule o:'
R strictly, and from the beginning of
May till the end of August I never
touch an oyster.
"No wise person will cat an oyster
after the first of May.
"One afternoon at about this time in
the month of May, a man . entered a
restaurant, and the waiter recommended
the oysters to him. ,
"The nan started in surprise.
" 'Oysters?' lie said. 'But oysters are
not considered good in this month.'
" '1 know, sir,' answered the waiter,
'but these are left over from last
month." "
GRANITE IS
MOVED FOR THE
TERRY RANGER
One Hundred and Sixty=two Tons
Now Being Sent to Austin
from Llano.
PEDESTAL WILL BE
FIFTEEN FEET HIGH
Indulging a Wild Hope.
"Paw." said Tommy, "isn't there no
end to eternity?"
"No, my boy." said Mr. Tucker, "after
millions and millions of years have passed
away there will be just as many more
years to come as when you began to
count them."
"Then what's the use of my spending
so much time over this dog-blamed 'rith-
metic? Won't I have plenty of chances
to learn it after I die?"—Chicago Trib-
une.
Time's Changes.
A Baptist minister required two col-
umns in the Council Grove Republican
last wee]; to express his views on "Fu-
ture Punishment." Religious views are
changing rapidly. There was a tlm*
when tli" good old orthodox Baptist could
express his views oti future punishment
in one short word of four letters.—Kan-
sas City Journal.
Asserting Herself.
Mrs. rpmore—A learned scientist says
everybody eats three times as much as
he really needs to eat.
Mrs. Lapsllng—Let him speak for him-
self. He's got no right to prescribe for
other people. When it comes to telling
mo how much I ought to eat I'll take no
man's Yj» ilauti.—Chicago Tribune.
No Harm.
Says tho New York Press: It is a
good deal better to think poetry than to
write it. and better to write it than to
print it."
t Still there's very littlo harm done in
printing it if nobody reads it.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
—
Facts in the Case.
Dibbles—Isn't that Hawkins, the bro-
ker. in that automobile?
Nibbles—Yes.
Dibbles—it's a fine machine. He must
have money.
Nibbles—Yes. he has a lot of mine.—
Columbus Dispatch.
The Hotels "Did" Him.
Bacon--Did you get tanned while on
your Southern trip?
Egbert—Well, i got "done brown," yes.
—Yonkcrs tiiutcscaan*
It's Human Nature.
Madison C. Peters, the noted clergyman
and author, was talking to a group of
young nun.
"Half the wrong things you chaps do,'
he said, "you only do because they are
forbidden. If you didn't know they
were forbidden, if you didn't know they
were wrong, they would only seem to
>ou disgusting and repugnant.
" M strolled one spring morning in a
beautiful park.
" 'Look hero,' I said to one of the
guards, 'why do you have "Keep off the
Grass" signs all over the park. You
don't seem to enforce the rule.'
" 'No, sir,' said the guard. 'The ob-
ject of the signs is to cause the people
to more thoroughly enjoy being on the
grass.' "
The Angel in Him.
Elihu Root, when Secretary of War,
said of war's abolition:
"I believe that some day war will be
abolished. Man continually advances.
Ho. will some day be wise enough to
realize the profound stupidity of war.
"But he is not yet in a position to
abolish war. There is still too much of
the animal in him. Man, even when he
seems most mild and good, may have
strange, bestial, cruel thoughts revolv-
ing in his tnind. ,
"A prison chaplain one day found a
convict feeding a rat.
" 'All,' the chaplain said, 'so you have
a pet, eh?'
" 'Yes; this rat,' said the convict, his
hoarse voice softening, and a gentle
smile illuminating his hard, rough face.
I feed him every day. 1 think more o'
this here rat, than of any other livin'
creature.'
"The chaplain laid his hand on the
convict's shoulder.
" 'In every man,' he said, 'there is
something of tho angel. If we can but
find it. How came you to take such a
fancy to this rat?'
" 'It bit the jailer,' said the convict."
Contentment.
Senator Frye, apropos of contentment,
said in an address:
"After all, a good deal is to bo said for
the attitude of the Camden lobstorman.
"A lobster fisherman of Camden lis-
tened respectfully, one winter afternoon,
to a young lady from New York who was
complaining about the dullness of cer-
tain parts of Maine.
•• 'Ah, Mr. Harrison,' she concluded,
•there's a tremendous lot goes on in New
York you Camdenites never hoar of.'
•• 'Very true,' replied the fisherman;
'and there's a goodish bit goes on here
in Camden that they never hear of in
New York, either.' " £
One hundred and sixtyltwo tons of gran
ite in twenty-three pieces are now be-
ing moved from the quarry six miles
from Llano to that railroad station. Th
task of moving these largo blocks over
a rough country road is no ordinary
task. Henry Soiter, the contractor, who
quarried the granite, was In the city
yesterday.
The granite is to be used in building
the pedestal on the Capitol grounds a
Austin, on which is to be surmounted
the sculpture of Pompeo Coppini's Ran-
ger. All the granite has boon quarried
and the contract calls for its deliver\
at Llano station by July 1.
The die of the pedestal, which fits ot
the top of the main part of the pedestal
weighs 75,000 pounds and is in size 5x6,
5x8 and 6x10 feet. This piece of granite-
is in one mass, and is the most difficult
to transport to a railway station. It
will bo loaded on large wooden rollers
and drawn from tho quarry to the rail-
road station by a steam engine. The
granite is the best that could be found
in the quarry and is gray iti color.
The base of the pedestal will contain
nine pieces of granite, four pieces con-
taining 2S cubic feet 3 cubic inches, tw
pieces containing 28 cubic feet and 9
cubic inches, two containing 30 cubic feet
and 11 cubic inches, and one piece con-
taining 61 cubic feet and f» cubic inches.
The second section will contain eight
pieces, four containing 87 cubic feet and
9 cubic inches, two containing 90 cubic
feet and 7 cubic inches, and two con-
taining 6- cubic feet and 5 cubic inches.
Tho third section is to be in four
pieces, two of them containing 78 cubic
feet and two containing 71 cubic feet
and 8 cubic inches.
On top of these three sections will be
the die, which is a single apiece of gran-
ite. It weighs thirty-two and one-half
tons.
A cap containing 84 cubic feet will
surmount the die. The whole pedestal
will stand fifteen feet high. The statue
of the Terry Texas Ranger will stand
fifteen feet high, making the monument
thirty feet in height. It will require
•eight cars to convey the granite to
Austin.
When it wfis decided the Ranger should
be built, it was announced the base
would be of Vermont granite, because
the suitable gray granite could not be
secured in the South. Mr. Seitor wrote
letter to the monument committee,
wanting to know if it would not be bet-
ter to erect the Ranger monument of
Texas granite. He said he could fur-
nish it. The committee investigated and
Seiter got the contract.
Henry Seither was for ten years State
Senator from Southern Illinois. His
home is in East St. Louis.
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WILL POPULATE COUNTY.
Yoakum Irrigation Company Will Rs-
claim Thousands of Acres of
Arid District.
SLAYDEN TELLS
HOW PEACE MAY
BE UNIVERSAL
Texas Congressman Makes Ad>
dress Before Select Meeting
in New York.
ENLIST FOR PEACE
AN!) liOOD WILL
"The new canal and irregation plant
being built on the Rio Grande near Hi-
dalgo will increase the population of
Hidalgo County eight or ten times with-
in the next few years," said John Clos-
ner, farmer and Sheriff of Hidalgo Coun-
ty. at tho Mahncke Hotel last evening.
The irrigation operations to which he
referred arc those now under course of
construction by the American Rio Grande
Land and irrigation Company, which is
backed by B. F. Yoakum. A canal is
ow being constructed from the river for
a distance of eight miles to the Hidalgo
branch of the Brownsville road. The
Yoakum syndicate has purchased 110,OOu
iicres of land at $6.50 an acre, has spent
" 0(10 for a canal and has purchased
$60,000 worth of machinery.
The power house is to be locator! in a
new town site, Diaz, whicli has been laid
out. The water will he pumped from the
river by electricity and will be of suf-
ficient quantity to irrigate all the Yoa-
kum land and much more. The 110,000 is
to be divided up placed on the market.
"The possibilities along the river are
unlimited," said Mr. Cleaner. "Three
years ago there were but niree irrigation
plants on the river below Hidalgo. Now
there are fourteen."
Mr. Closner this year has 225 acres of
alfalfa. So far he has marketed 300 tons
at 111! a ton.
■
BOUNDARIES DEFINED.
Fort Brown Property at Brownsville
Is Specified.
The exact boundaries of Fort Brown,
near Brownsville, have been designated
by a recent order of the War Department
at Washington. This order reads as fol
lows:
The metes and bounds of the military
reservation of Fort Brown, situate im-
mediately adjacent to the City of
Brownsville, in Cameron County, Texas,
as they apear from the deeds conveying
the premises to tho United States, are
hereby announced as follows, viz:
Beginning at a point on the left bank
of the Rio Grande, adjoining the City of
Brownsville, where a line in the center
of Fourteenth Street of said city, moving
southwestwardly, strikes the said river;
thence north 57.25 degrees east, on a line
moving thirty feet west of the Quarter-
master's wall now ther standing, 2000 feet
to the center of Monroe Street in said
city, intersecting the city limits of
Brownsville; thence south til degrees east,
3450 feet to a mosquito post set for a cor-
ner; thence south 30 degrees east, 9.V) feet
to low water mark of the riverf thence
up tiie said river at the low water mark,
as the same winds and turns, about 15,000
feet to the place of beginning; containing
about 258.8 acres of land.
FIRE IN GROCERY STORE.
Damage to House at 111 Lexington
Avenue Slight.
Fire broke out Tuesday night at 11
o'clock in a rear room of L E. Maynor's
grocery store, at 111 I/exington Avenue.
The damage amounted to about $300. The
prompt action of the fire department
prevented more serious results from a
rapidly spreading flame.
Tho stock of goods in tho store Is
valued at $1400 and is insured at $1000.
The damage was very slight.
The .property is owned by J. A. Appier.
Special Telegram to The Express.
'NEW YORK, May 2!).—The delegated
to the Thirteenth Conference of the In-
terparliamentary Union which met in
Brussels in 100'j were entertained at din-
ner tonight at the Metropolitan Club by
Clarence M. Bowen, publisher of tho In-
dependent. Among the speakers was
Congressman .James I,. Slayden of Texas,
who was a delegate to the Brussels con-
ference and who is deeply interested in
the peaee movement. Mr. Slayden talked
o' "How Ail Parties Can Unite on tho
Ulan of Interparliamentary Union."
Mr. Slayden spoke as follows:
J assume. Mr. Toastmaster, that hy
your question "How All Parties Can
Unite on the Plan of Interparliamentary
Union" is meant all political parties hero
in the United States. If that assumption
m correct it is easy enough to toll hew
it might be done, hut vastly more diffi-
cult to do it. And f want to say. iu
passing, that the uiffleulty of solution
does not lie with the men who are sup-
posed to lead political parties but, rather,
with the people who drive. Politicians
are tractable enough when they know
the will of the people. Even the Poten-
tate of all the Russians, as we have late-
ly seen, bends to it. In order to bring all
parties in this Republic to tho support of
tho interparliamentary union we have
but to educate our people out of the war-
like spirit towards which they are too
much inclined and to hold up for their
admiration the men of conspicuous civic
virtue, to erect monuments to our great
scientists, philanthropists and jurists, in-
stead of having, as wo have in Washing-
ton, especially, every plaza and circle
adorned with "the man on horseback."
We are accustomed to thinking and
speaking of the Americans as a peace-
loving people but history does not justify
tho claim. Counting the, Revolution as
the first and concluding with that waged
for some years against the Filipinos we
have had. in the short history of our
country, six wars, five foreign and one
between the States. This gives us one
for each twenty-two years of our Na-
tional history. It to these we add the
various Indian wars, as a consequence
of whi. h we still have a considerable
pension roll, the record is startling.
We have an agrcsslve commercial peo-
ple who go about the worm seeking an
opportunity for business and incidentally
making occasions for war. This is the
raw material with which we have to deal.
Now how to convert such a people into
active sympathy with the plans of the
interparliamentary union is not the easi-
est possible task. If we are to have any
success whatever we must make the ef-
fort at the right time. We must hit upon
tho exact psychological moment. It can-
not be done in the face of danger or
threats. To got our people into an in-
ternational agreement to keep the peace
we must catch them v'hen the seas aro
placid and the skies clear.
Americans will fight at the drop of tho
hat and I am glad they will, but we must
not let the hat bo dropped. If they aro
quick to fight they are also willing to
faithfully keep their promises. They will
abide by •their contracts. We have in
this country the bitterest political fights
known to history, each side affirming
and believing that if the other wins the
country will go to the devil. Yet when
the issue has been determined in the
regular and legal way the losing sido
gracefully, even gaily, submits.
The saving sense of humor, fortunately
so conspicuous a feature of our National
character, helps the losers to laugh away
their disappointments and cheerfully be-
gin to prepare for the next battle. It will
be so in international matters. We who
take an active part in the work of the
interparliamentary union should try to
liave these treaties made while there is
no threat from any source on erarth.
n is ;i high patriotic purpose, not par-
tisan in any way. and our Congress, par-
ticularly the House of Representatives,
is working at it with, I trust, no thought
of political division. It will not be tho
fault of tho American Representatives
who have associated themselves with the
work if this country does not put itself
at tho very head of this League nf Peace.
Americans are specially qualified for the
task. Our courage has been proven on
so many fields that nowhere will it be
doubted. Our resources are so vast and
our population so great—to say nothing
of tho security that conies from our
geographical isolation—that it is absurd
to think of an attack from any quarter.
We appear to have boon commissioned
by Providence to promote this work.
YVhat we want to do and what should he
done to maintain the peace of the world
is plain enough. Te secure that peace
the Union demands treaties of arbitra-
tion and disarmament. If I were a Sen-
ator of the United States I would voto
for treaties to settle every disputed in-
ternational question in a court of arbit-
ration. As a. member of the House of
Representatives I never fail to vote for
a reduced armament. Without partisan
division we ought to lead in the demand
for both, and, at the same time, encour-
age other Nations by setting them the
example of disarmament. We can do it
with perfect safety to our country's in-
tegrity. We are not in the least danger
of either insult or invasion. Nobody wants
to fight us. The distress in some quar-
ters over our alleged unipreparedness for
war is sensational and absurd or in-
spired by selfish motives. I do not want
to appear cynical, but I am sometimes
more than half inclined to suspect that
if there were no armor plate guns and
projectiles and powder to sell there would
be no war scares.
We have a vote in the House the other
day on the construction of a great bat-
tleship, the greatest yet undertaken by
any Government. The vote was remark-
ably non-partisan. Some Democrats voted
for the ship and a number of Republicans
voted against it notwithstanding tho "O.
K." of the Administration on the scheme.
It encourages the thought that all par-
ties may be brought to support the idea
of disarmament.
Our sincerity is apt to be questioned
by foreign governments which know that
wo already have a large navy. Indeed,
in our feverish haste to overtake Great
Britain we have already built and con-
tracted for more ships than we can man
We have more guns than we can supply
powder and shot for and It. will be diffi-
cult to convince the world of our bona-
fides so long as we are nervously increas-
ing our naval strength in this way. But
when the American taxpayers who vote
and want economy in public affairs un-
derstand these things they will speak
in a way that cannot bo misunderstood.
They have no armor plate nor projectiles
to sell and they do not want the public
treasure squandered on guns and ships
that may never be used.
You and 1 know that If we can have
treaties of arbitration with other coun-
tries we will not need so many warships.
Let us make that fact clear to the peo-
ple now, during this period of peace, and
quickly enough they will make their poli-
tical servants—tho treaty-making power-
understand what is required. Taxpayinsr
American citizens will make all parties
unite to promote our plan of peace
All parties ought to be able to unite for
this purpose in one party which was or-
ganized nineteen hundred years ago un-
der tlie greatest leader the world has
ever known. That leader was the car-
penter from Nazareth and the chief plank
of his platform was "Peace on Earth-
Good Will Toward Men." *uitn.
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