The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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iL L. Ford..............Manager and Editor
THE ORANGE LEADER
HE ORANGE LEADRE
LEADER PRINTING COMPANY
Proprietors
Published Every Friday
MAGNIFICENT RECORD.
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The election is oyer an
magnificent record.
Tuesday, July 27, 1903, will go down in his-
tory as a sure enough red letter day in the an-
nals of Orange.
As evidenced by the result of the election yes-
terday, sentiment in this county was practically
unanimous in favor of issuing bonds for the
purpose of assisting in the completion of the
Sabine-Neehes canal to a depth of twenty-five
feet.
The vote in the city of Orange was absolutely
remarkable.
Out of a total of 074 votes in precinct 1, which
includes the city of Orange, not one dissenting
.vote was registered against the bonds.
Orange was unanimous in this matter, if she
has never been unanimous before.
That is a record of which to be proud, in-
deed.
The Leader has always been proud of Orange,
and is prouder now than ever before.
While there has never been any doubt' as to
the city giving an overwhelming majority for
the bonds, even the most sanguine had hardly
dared to hope for such a result as was obtained.
But the people realize the absolute necessity
of deep water for the future welfare of Orange,
and they have unanimously expressed a willing-
ness to add a small additional burden in the
way of a tax in order to secure this much-to-lie-
desired end.
A feature of the campaign so successfully con
8ummated was the splendid work of the elec
tion committee who had charge of all the work
of the campaign. This committee, composed of
Messrs. J. B. Bisland, Geo. E. Holland, W. 0.
Huggins, J. W. Link, J. R. Turbull and M. V
'Anderson, planned admirably and executed
splendidly the work they had to do.
No committee evet received more cheerful
assistance and co-operation than did this one.
Of the general committee of over one hundred,
every one willingly and cheerfully did his part
assigned hv the special committee.
Some idea of the splendid work done may he
gained from the fact that the first canvass of
the county develojK'd more than two hundred
and fifty votes in opjosition to the bond issue;
more than enough to have defeated it, but the
campaign of education waged resulted in reduc-
ing this opposition to less than fifty votes in
the entire county.
But the battle is over.
The victory is won.
A glorious victory.
We have cause to rejoice.
Ijet us not question the^mbtives of those who
opposed the bond issue, but give them credit for
having acted according to the dictions of their
conscience and as their judgment directed
While some years may elapse before the
deep water channel is completed, we know now
that it is absolutely assured, and wo will be-
gin to feel at once the beneficial effect of that
certainty.
We no longer fear for the future of Orange.
We believe that the voting of these bonds has
assured the early increase of railroad facilities
in Orange, the extension of trade territory for
the business houses of this city, the coming of
more people, the establishment of new indus-
tries, the development of our farm and truck
lands, and the general prosperity of town and
county.
Again we say, we are proud of Orange, and
believe that she has a great future before her.
precinct; the precinct pays into the county road" two years the start over Houston. There shoulc
fund $480, and receives back in work on roads
and bridges the sum of $1600. Of that $1600,
Orange people had the pleasure of paying a
very large part, a portion perhaps as large as
ten times as much as residents of Terry precinct
paid into the sum. In fact, it might surprise
some of the people in that precinct to know
that residents of the precinct, the Voters of the
precinct, paid only $72 of the $480 paid by the
precinct; 'and only $72 of the $1600 the county
expended o^ roads and bridges in that precinct
the past year. So, for every 15 cents the pre-
cinct pays into the road and bridge fund the
other (non-resident) property owners, many of
whom live in Orange, pay 85 cents; and the
whole county spends in that precinct in improv-
be no question of expendiency allowed to off-
set or in any way infringe upon this lead, but
the work of digging the channel should be com
mencedr^usl as soon as the dredges can be pu
to work. The government may appropriate
money to help the work along, and perhaps
will; but there should be no wait for it. Orange
county has followed Jefferson county’s lead
showing that the people of the two counties are
expecting something should be done, and they
musf not be disappointed.
This is a time when lines are being laic
which will have a great influence upon the fu
ture, and it should he made a certainty tha
theke lines are laid for the upbuilding of this
corner of Texas. Orange county is to he eon
ing roads $3.30 for every 15 cents paid into the gratulated Upon its progressiveness, and it
fund by the resident voters who are taxpayers, believed will see the need for expedition as wel
And yet, assuming that that precinct cannot
be benefitted by deep water, which all the non
resident (and many resident) taxpayers deny,
when the Orange people ask the county to vote
this bond issue for the benefit of Orange anc
Orange county; when Orange asks Terry pre-
cinct property owning voters to pay into the
deep water fund $72 a year for the public gooi
while Orange has been sending about $900
through the bridge fund to Terry precinct—we
find some Terry citizen opnosing and trying to
defeat a measure which even they admit wil
greatly benefit the town.
It seems that Orange might go on sending
through road tax $900 a year to Terry precinct
but if Orange asks a pittance of help from that
section it gets an emphatic “NO.” Is that
right? The objectors can rest assured their tax
was not the main thing desired when the dis
trict was shaped, but it was the tax on the non
residents, most of whom live in Orange, anc
the railroads which are not opposing the bounds.
To get the $480 a year, it was necessary to ask
also for the $72 which will be paid by the resi-
dent taxpayers.
Orange hopes yet that all the people of Terry
will withdraw their opposition and help make
the vote unanimous m so good a cause.
TRUCK GROWING.
THIS THING OF MUTUAL AID.
A citizen of the western edge of the county
gives as, his reason for opposing the bopd issue
that Jefferson had voted a bond issue to secure
deep water, and that he would get the benefit
of the deep water, larger town and better mar-
ket at Beaumont, without having to be taxed
himself in Orange pounty. The Leader would
respectfully commend to his thoughtful consid-
eration the following problem in taxation and
public improvement, the data for which we
\|jptbered from a conversation with Mr. George
M. Sells; ' yv* , . ...
The western citizen referred to lives in Terry
Even while they are- vitally interested in the
deep water proposition, the best interests of the
truqk grower is an important subject. This
county must look to something besides lumber
for a great future. That is why deep water
is needed. Truck growing will be more profit
able with greater population of consumers. A
deep water port, a great commercial city, a big
population of consumers, will make a good mar
ket for all the farmer grows. Here is a couple
of clippings from the Houston Shippers’ Guide
which show how farmers in other communities
are making money shipping to other markets:
“The East Texas shipper is closing up tin
tomato season at a loss, owing to non-adoption
of up-to-date methods of handling shipments
The South Texas trucker, ou the other hand
are rounding out the onion season with $600,000
profit. The South Texas men are in part or
ganized, and ship only choice products as a
rule.”-
“Good crop conditions generally are report-
ed from Arkansas, especially in the fruit and
truck regions. Large shipments are being
made from Harrison, where a 50,000-tree or
chard is in bearing and producing fine fruit;
152 cars of berries were shipped from Van Bu
ren, while Fort Smith reports 22 cars of ber-
ries, 175 of tomatoes. 500 of potatoes, and ex-
peets to move at least 2500 cars of apples be-
fore the season is over. Carlot shipments of
peaches and cantaloupes are expected from
Russellville shortly.
.“The first North Carolina sweet j Hit a toes
went to Wesley Brown at Philadelphia and
were sold for $5.”
BEAUMONT S CONGRATULATIONS.
As we expected, the voters of Orange county
proved that they were wide awake to the inter-
ests of their county, and voted the $100,000 in
bonds yesterday for the improvement of the
Sabine ship channel as a part of the great plan
to create here at the mouth of the Sabine and
Neches rivers great inland ports. Orange coun-
ty eaA always be depended upon to do its duty
when it sees it, and this vote yesterday is an
exemplification of the fact. Now the two coun-
ties should go hand in hand and work out their
future destiny, and there should be prompt ac-
tion.
It should be remembered that while Houston
was congratulating Beaumont and Jefferson
county on the result of itq bond election, its one
regret was that it would fcive this work at least
as Beaumont, and that there will be ho delay
in formulating plans, getting the issuing o
bonds under way, and the beginning of the work
which is to mean so much to this section.
Beaumoht Enterprise.
Governor Shafroth of Colorado has written
for the New York Independent an article relat-
ing to Colorado’s new campaign expense law
The governor says “On the 26th day of July,
1909, in the state of Colorado, there will i^ue
into effect a law passed by the last general as-
sembly, which provides that campaign expenses
can only be paid by the state and the candidates
for the various state and county offices Tht
amount payable out of the state treasury is a
sum equal to 25 cents for each vote cast for
governor The sum for each political party is
paid to the state chairman thereof. The amount
is limited not to exceed 40 per cent of the first
year’s salary for which the candidate aspires
It makes it a felony for any person to contribute
any money or property whatsoever to a candi-
date or political committee or member thereof
to receive any contribution. Colorado is the
first state in the Union to enact such a law,
an<j I have the highest hopes of success for this
reform measure. In my judgment there is no
way of preventing the pernicious influence of
corporations in politics except by pronouncing
such contributions bribery and punishing the
giver and receiver of such contribution-by fine
or imprisonment in the penitentiary.’* We be
lieve that Governor Campbell admits spending
something like $20,000 in his first race for gov
ernor. In Colorado, under the new law, lie
would be in the suspect class.—Dallas Times
Herald.
The Colorado method seems to l>e good in one
particular, in that it would prevent the corrupt
expenditure of money and to a large extent, at
least, place the candidate without money and
the one with much on an equal footing so far as
the legitimate cost of the campaign goes; but
it might bankrupt the state in the multiplicity
of candidates. Then, the cost being paid by the
state, next thing would Is* a “regulation” of
the candidates and a restriction of the number.
However, it is worth trying. Something
needed to Ik* done to put the competent
on an equal footihg with the wealthy or corrupt
one, or there’will soon be an office-holding class
and combination that can never In* dislodged
Special endeavor should Ik* made in the law to
reach the one who* |>o.ses as an honest man. but
whose expenses by the thousands are paid by
special interests; for instance, the man who can
make a canvass of this entire state for four
months, flood the state with literature, and
swear that his total campaign expenses was
$141, and then walk up and subscribe to the oath
of office.
man
CLEAN UP LIKE VERA CRUZ.
A dispatch from Austin says State Health
Officer Bruin by has returned from Cuba,
where he went on business connected with the
lealth of the state, and quotes the doctor as
saying that “the ultimate quarantine restric-
tions will be practically removed.” He says
further that “Very ('ruz, Yucatan and other
Mexican cities of the tropics are much better
(ept that the average Texas city.” They must
mve fed the doctor high. He says “represen-
tatives from those places assert that it is a
travesty on sanitation to maintain quarantine
onger.” If the doctor saw for himself that
southern Mexican cities are cleaner than Texas
cities, why did he not say for himself and not
lave to quote the representatives of those cities
to declare that longer quarantine was “a
,ravesty on sanitationf” It he didn’t see it,
iow believe it? The dispatch goes on to say:
“This means,” Dr. Brurnjy says, “that Texas,
especially South Texas, must clean up;” that is,
it may be interpreted the commercial interests
somewhere want quarantine removed from the
delightfully clean cities of Vera Cruz and Yu-
catan; and if yellow fever should appear, it will
he charged up to the conditions of the South
Texas cities and towns. These South Texas
towns should immediately proceed to clean up,
and, as a good start, ought to send a delegation
to Yucatan and Vera Cruz to get some lessons
on sanitation and cleanliness generalljr. The
quarantine against Havana has been entirely
removed, and later the quarantine against the
cleanly Mexican ports will follow; so the doc-
tor urges South Texas towns to get busy and
clean up and enforce the mosquito ordinances.
Yesterday The Leader suggested that the
truck growers organize and employ a man to
keep in touch with all the markets so as to
effect quick sales of their crops in advance of
shipments, at least in majority of instances.
Now, we have just received the Lake Charles
Press with the following statement of exactly
that method being adopted there:
The truck growers of Iberia parish have or-
ganized, employed a sales manager who will
dispose of all the produce; have adopted as
their motto “Cash f. -o. b. New Iberia,” laid
plans for ascertaining just w*hat amount of
truck will be grown in order that the sales
manager may dispose of it to the best advant-
age, and have enthusiastically gone into a prop-
osition that will bring them great returns.
Various methods have been tried throughout
the country. Like other lines of business, there
is as much in the vigor and manner of carrying
out a policy as in the policy itself. ‘But let it
be remembered that because one effort may
have failed, it is no reason that all succeeding
efforts will fail. Some, organizations, in fact,
most of them, are succeeding and making
money for their members.
From $50 to $250 |>er acre is being made on
truck crops where the growers get together and
plant enough to he able to sell in car lots and
sell promptly. Won’t our Orange truck grow-
ers try it? Only twenty are needed to organize
and insure success. If one or two of them wish
to give their views, and call for opinions from
the-others, The Leader columns are open to
them,
The Dallas Times-Herald advises everybody
to lx>il their drinking water, whereupon-the El
Paso Times says if it lived in Dallas it would,
but, thanks to the brand of weather they are
having out there, they don’t need to boil the
water. They set a bucket in the sun, says the
Times, and it i* soon ready to slake thirst with”
safety or scald a hog. In the Panhandle town
of Dallmrt, where water is very precious, the
News charges the water works manager with
too close economy in dealing out the fluid. The
News seems to think that the manager should
reduce rates if the water is to do double duty:
if the water from the natatorium is to Ih* turned,
back into the service pipes. Other towns which
get their water supply from artificial lakes are
constantly in fear of typhoid. This should
make Orange jieople well satisfied with its sup-
ply of pure artesian water, probably the very
best city supply in the state. Every bit of the
water used, even to put out fires, Mr. Times
and Mr. Times Herald, is pure artesian water,
and Orange has sixteen artesian weHs besides
the water works well.
Louisiana and Texas have each during the
»ast week lost a veteran of the civil war, each
mnored in civil life. Colonel James Q. Cheno-
witb, who died at Bonham a few days ago, was
valiant colonel in the Confederacy, and has
since held several positions of honor and trust.
As a member of the legislature during Ross’
term as governor, Colonel Chenowith offered
the first railroad commission bill ever offered
the Texas legislature. I.ater he was chief
auditor in the treasury department at Washing-
ton, and under Governor Lanluun was superin-
tendent of the Confederate home at Austin.
General Joseph A. Chalaron, a soldier of the
civil war .from Louisiana, winning promotion to
the post of brigadier general, died on Sunday,
le devoted several years to efforts to secure a
lension to ex-Confederates in his state, and the
ast several years served as chief of the pension
department, taking great pleasure in issuing the
monthly pensions to the aged and needy sur-
vivors of the lost cause remaining in Ixmisiana.
One by one the old heroes cross oVer the river
to rest under the shade of the trees with Jack-
son and Lee. Peace to their ashes. Their deeds
will ne’er be forgot.
If a road is good for an automobil^ it is still
better for a heavily loaded farm wagon.—El-
berton (Ga.) Star.
Now you are shouting. Some people seem to
think, though, when you begin to talk good
roads that it is for the sole and only benefit df
automobiles. Good roads are the greatest known
developers of the country, and we want to see
Orange county lined and dotted with them.
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Ford, A. L. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1909, newspaper, July 30, 1909; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth646142/m1/4/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.