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THE DEMOCRAT • VOICE. COLEMAN. TEXAS.
FRIDAY, MAY «, 1913..
THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE
JBtj the Democrat - Voice Publishing
Company.
Entered as second-class mail matter at
the postoffice at Coleman, Texas, un-
der act of Congress of March 3,1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year........................................$1.00
Six Months ..................................... 50c
Cash in Advance.
PAYING THE FIDDLER.
Men who differ politically can
be personal friends with the great-
est propriety. If every man would
concede to his neighbor the same
right that he demands for himself
.-the right to have his own ideas-
there wonld be more friendship
among men and the world would
be made better thereby.
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More rain means more work. We've
got to crack down, boys.
Mr. Tinsley, agricultural demon-
stration agent of the Santa Fe, would
have the west Texas method of “lay-
ing by” a crop changed to “lay to it.”
——
If the readers of this paper hare
read and digested the four constitu-
tional amendments to Jheir satisfac-
tion, we will drop them out after this
issue.
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Something to worry aboift: Cash
registers are to be admitted free of
duty while a twenty dollar suit ol
clothes will bear a tariff duty of
seven dollars.
Since the recent rains the frogs
have joined the song birds in singing
of tl)e opalescent beauty and flores-
cent grandeur of west Texas. Sweet
girl graduates will 'How have their in-
ning.
The population of the United States
has increased 16,563,000 in the last
ten years while the production of cat-
tle decreased 7,468,000 head. Here is
a chance for the ultimate consumer to
get into the producing class and help
reduce the high cost of living.
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Since the late five-inch rains over
west Texas, the democratic tariff
board may go ahead and pass any
kind of a tariff bill they see fit. One
thing is certain; free raw material,
protected manufactured goods and a
Texas drouth are not homogeneous.
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The Underwood tariff bill, as it is
framed, provides a tariff duty of
$7.00 on a $20.00 woolen suit of
clothes. If the ultimate consumer
can use his wool in the raw he can
save seven dollars to place in his
cash register, which is to be admitted
free of duty.
week and his last words spoken from
the scafford were: “There is no
heaven or hell.” This poor man’s dy-
ing statement contradicts the editor
of the Houston Post, who has led the
public to believe that the former place
is located in or about the city of
Houston.
In another column of this page is
published in part a statement of the
Board of Regents urging the voters
to aid the University of Texas by
adopting the Amendment to Sections
49 and 52 of Art. 3 of the State Con-
stitution. Citizens who are interest-
ed in higher edication in Texas will
not overlook the appeal of these able
and patriotic Texans in behalf of our
great University and the youth of our
native State. Attention is called to
the fact that, by the adoption of the
Amendment taxes will in no wise be
increased thereby.
»444«'"
One of the changes brought about
by the adoption of the amendment
providing for the direct election of
United States senators is that it de-
prives governors of states of the pow-
er to appoint senators in case of va-
cancy when the legislature is not in
session. The clause relating thereto
reads as follows: “When vacancies
happen in the representation of any
state in the senate, the executive au-
thority of such state shall issue writs
of election to fill such vacancies, pro-
vider} that the legislature of any state
may empower the executive thereof
to make temporary appointments un-
til the people fill the vacancies bv
election as the legislature may di-
rect.”
THE TELEPHONE AS A DISSEMI-
NATOR OF NEWS.
The city man is the man affected
by the h;gh cost of living, und must
walk up to the lick log and pay the
price. The man who is in a position
to pump the life saving liquid from
a few Jersey cows and install a sep-
arator, raise feed, pork and poultrv,
controls the situation and will never
have cause to cry hard times.—Bal-
linger Banner-Ledger.
And did it evor occur to you that
the city man or city woman is in i
large measure responsible for a good
ly portion of the high cost of living.
We have grown so fastidious in our
tastes, so particular and finical in our
own indulgence and habits of living
that penny extravagance has become
almost a national calamity. We buy
often and in small packages and the
delivery boy has to get out early and
work late to get our sanitary meals
to us on time. The ice boy consumes
ten cents worth of horsepower anil
axlegrease in delivering five cen’s
worth of ice. The road leading from
Jones’ corner grocery to Mrs. Smiths’
kitchen door is kept hot day in and
day out, and prudent grandmothers
are appalled at our self-indulgence
and extravagance. We are paying
the price for our self-indulgence and,
as long as we demand the music we
shouldn’t complain at having to pay
the fiddler. •
One thing is certain; the overwork-
ed producer is not getting more than
his share of the fruits of national
extravagance. It has been shown by
reliable statistics that the American
producer gets only forty-five cents
of the one dollar which we pay for
high living; the remaining sixty-five
cents is paid out in getting the pro-
duce to our kitchen door. Our mark
eting system is greatly at fault some
where along the line. It has also been
shown that in a suit of clothes sell-
ing for $25, the American producer
received only $2.32 for the mdtefial
used therein, the remaining cost of
The suit being tacked on after the
material left the producer’s hands.
Evidently, the American producer is
not the fiddler.
The democratic tariff board, in its
commendable efforts to reduce the
cost of living, may unintentionally
do a grave injustice to the Ameri-
can producer by forcing him to sell
his produce in an open market and
do his buying in a protected market.
——
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston of Prince-
ton, the formes- Mrs. Grover Cleve
land, was elected vice president of
the New Jersey Association Opposed
to Wornan Suffrage at the annual
CONGRESSMAN SLAYDEN’S PO-
SITION.
The Brownwood News has received
a letter from Representative James
L. Slayden in reply to a letter from
the editor of the News concerning the
democratic caucus action in favor of
free wool, in which Mr. Slayden states
Press Opinions
A man was hanged in Houston last meeting of the association last week.
finally in his diplomatic
Defeated
effort to dissuade the California leg-
islature from enacting an alien land
law affecting Japanese, Secretary of
State Bryan declared that he looked
to the people of the State to express
a final judgment through the refer-
endum before the act shall go into
effect.
——
It is stated that $25,000,000 has
been pledged for the purchase of
Lower California from the Mexican
government by a group of American
capitalists. If this deal is consum-
mated, annexation by the United
States will be sought.
Telephone communication to the
sheriff in Brownwood one day last
week reported serious trouble at the
little town of Grosvenor over school
matters and stated that a killing had
occurred. By the time the report
reached Brownwood over the rural
phone lines the number of persons
killed was increased to five. Sheriff
Denman of Brownwood secured an
auto and hurried toward thfe scene of
the trouble. He stopped for a mo-
ment at the town of Thrifty en route
and learned there that the report was
exaggerated, that the only trouble at
Grosvenor waa a triyial family af-
fair, nobody was' hurt, the family
squall had blown over and Grosvenor
was as quiet as a morning in May.
Dr. Liebknecht, Socialist member
of the German reichstag, has recent-
ly brodght to light the disgraceful
conduct of the war department and
the Krupp gun concern in fomenting
war feeling in Germany and France
for the purpose of increasing the war
department’s appropriations and of
getting fat contracts for the Krupps.
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The Confederate Veterans of Pat
Cleburne camp at Cleburne, Texas,
have passed resolutions calling on the
federal government to return to plan-
ters /the sum of $65,000,000 raised
by taxing cotton to help defray ex-
penses of the Civil War. The reso-
lutions cite that the fund is still ac-
cumulating, doing no good and that
since the country is reunited, refund
of the money would be justice.
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FARMERS’ UNION PROTEST.
his position as follows:
“I do not believe in the policy oi
free raw, material, but my efforts to
amend the bill have not been success-
ful- The 15 per cent duty on wool
is a purely revenue rate and, as such,
is in harmony with the Democratic
policy and, as I view it, common
sense. With a duty of 35 per cent
on imported competing fabrics, plus
free raw material, the manufacturer
is over coddled,
“The tariff duties ought to be re
duced, sharply, materially reduced,
but the reduction should be uniform,
not discriminating; should be made
so as to relieve the people in the way
of cutting down living expenses and
shotlld not be done so as to destroy
any honest, legitimate' industry.
“I have remained in the caucus anu
made my fight for what I thought
was right and in the interest of my
constituents, and I lost. What I have
contended for is not only what my
conscience and judgment approved,
but what, as I remember them, the
last two or three Democratic State
platforms* in Texas specifically en
dorsed. I think my course was also
strictly in harmony with the Balti-
more platform, which, while demand-
ing tariff reduction, says it should
be done so as not to injure or de-
stroy legitimate industry. Of course,
I must abide the action of the cau-
cus, just as I am convinced my col-
league, Mr. Garner, has stood by that
of his committee. 1 sincerely hope
that I am mistaken and that the
course adopted will prove best for
the country and my party.”
The Democratic-Voice feels sure the
majority of the democratic voters of
Texas and especially of Mr. Slayden’s
district, will approve of his actions
in the premises. The voters ,,of the
country have demanded tariff revis-
ion downward and no one will ques-
tion the sincerity of the democratic
tariff board in their efforts to reduce
the high cost of living, but we hard-
ly think the democratic .voters the
country, and especially of the south
and west, have demanded that the
American producers be placed in the
scales with the peon labor of foreign
countries.
If we read our lines correctly, dur-
ing a former free raw material ex-
periment Australian and African pro-
ducers sold wool in the American mar-
ket at 6c to 8c a pound. At the same
time American farmers were selling
cotton at 3c and 4c. Clothing was
little cheaper than before; henee, the
consumer received little benefit while
the American ranchman and farmer
was bankrupt. The prohibitive re-
publican tariff doubtless attributes
its portion to the/high cost of living
and should be materially reduced, but
producers should not be discriminated
against while the manufacturer is
protected. Is there any reason in the
plan of compelling American produc
ers to sell their raw materials in the
free markets of the worjd and to buy
The government has issued 12,000,r
000 cook books.—Houston Chronicle.
Wouldn’t as many books of “In-
struction to Voters” been more i'l
keeping with the sign of the times?
longing to all the women’ll clubs, the
sewing circle and the church socie->
ties, his son worked in the postoffice
and hia daughter was a telephone Op-
erator. All this enabled him to keep
up with what was going on without
reading the paper.
Dallas News: If profanity would
repair a busted tire it would betdan-
gerous for a preacher to drive an au-
tomobile.
Houston Chronicle: When a wo-
man can arrive at satisfactory con-
clusions without expressing them, thit
is wisdom.
The men in west Texas who will
fight for the democratic party are
getting scarce.—Menard Messenger.
We will continue to fight for her-
if it takes the shirt off our back.
Del Rio Herald: The veto is a kind
of muzzle which the governor puts on
the people to keep them from bitini,
themselves.
Santa Alina News: There are 1,324
more men than women in Coleman
county, according to a recent census
bulletin. It is always Democratic to
let the majority rule.
Mrs. Curtis left for home Friday
evening, after delivering a series of
lectures over the county.—Menard
Messenger.
After delivering a series of lec-
tures, our wife is still at home.
Plainview News: The federal gov-
ernment is taking steps to stop the
natural gas waste in Oklahoma. If
the plan be successful, will ask thav
it also be tried on the Texas legis-
lature.
Dallas News: The reason a woman
is a woman is because she can post-
pone writing an important letter for
three weeks and then get mad at her
husband if he forgets to mail it for
only a couple, of days.
Michigan refused women the right
to vote, but offers instead a mothers’
pension law.—Houston Chronicle.
Which, in our opinion, will serve
woman better than the broils of the
ballot.
Houston Post: Sometimes we be-
come pessimistic enough to fear that
if the world were to become as good
as the reformers say they want-to
make it, the people would be dissat-
isfied with it.
Dallas News: Horace Vaughn of
Texas has introduced a bill to raise
the internal tax on domestic whiskey
to the level of the tariff on imported
whisky. If that were done, and the
consumption remained the same, the
boozers would support almost the
whole dognation Government.
in the restricted and protected mar-
kets favoring manufactured articles?
Farmer*’ union representatives of
seven cotton growing states telegraph
ed their senators and representatives
pretesting against the agricultural
schedule of the Underwood tariff bill.
This protest was sent from New Or-
leans, where representatives of the
farmers’ unions of Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Ok-
lahoma and Arkansas spent three
days considering the effect of tariff
legislation on the price of farm prod-
ucts, especially cotton. It is the Unan-
imous opinion of these farmers’ union
officials that if the new tariff bill is
enacted in ite present form it will
have a serious effect on the price of
raw cotton. Appeals were sent, also,
to National President C. S. Barrett
and other leaders asking them to take
up the auestion of the tariff and tq
fight it in the senate in so far as the
bill will injure the cotton grower.
Our system of marketing has as
much or more to do with the high
cost of living than any one item.
For instance; it was shown by the
tariff board investigation that in a
suit of clothes selling for $23 and
upward, the Wool grower received
$2.32 for the wool; the balance of the
cost of the suit was added after the
material left the producer’s hands.
In this connection, someone has called
attention to the marketing of a bar-
rel of apples. The consumer in Win-
nipeg, Canada, bought the barrel of
apples at a cost of $5.25; in the bar-
rel was found a note from the apple
grower which read: “1 got seventy
cents for this barrel of apples, what
did you pay for it?” The $4.56 dif-
ference in theA price received by the
grower and the cost to the consumer
was added somewhere between the
producer and consumer.
B. F. Yoakum of the Frisco rail-
way has estimated that in the year,
1911, the farmers received six billion
dollars for their products and the
consumers paid thirteen billion dol-
lars for the same products. So it is
easily seen the American producer is
not the goat in _Jhe tariff muddle.
The Underwood tariff bill may be
what the country needs, but we hard-
ly think it is what the people de-
manded. If the manufacturer is to
receive a protection of 35 to 50 per
cent, in marketing his wares, for the
Lord’s sake and for humanity’s sake,
let the overworked American produc-
er have a portion of protection from
the cheaper labor of foreign countries.
We would like to know how many
Texas editors would purchase a copy
of a vest pocket edition of adjectives
compiled by State Press of the Dallas
News:—Hamilton Record. '
Since you mentioned it we recall
that State Press is affected with a
diarrhoea of adjectives. The edition,
if it is published, should contain a
concordance or a set of simplified
rules for the use of country editors.
HELP FOR THE UNIVERSITY.
The Board of Regents of the Uni-
versity of Texas have issued an ad-
dress to the voters of Texas urging
the adoption of the Amendment to
Sections 49 and 52 of Art. 3 of the
State Constitution, The Board wish-
es to call the attention of the people
of Texas to the following facts in
connection therewith:
1. Under the present Constitution
of Texas the Legislature cannot vote
appropriations for the erection of
buildings, or for other permanent im-
provements, necessary for a univer-
sity of the first class demanded by
our forefathers,
2. The adoption of the amendment
submitted in Joint Resolution No. 18
will provide the funds necessary for
the proper expansion of the Univer-
sity without any addition whatever to
the taxes borne by the people. The
income from the University perma-
nent endowment is amply sufficient
to pay the interest and provide a
sinking fund for the bonds proposed,
and the State Treasury will not be
put to any expense because of these
bonds or any part of them.
3. For the past ten years the in-
crease in the number of students at
the University has been so rapid that
the small amount of money available
for the erection of buildings and for
other permanent improvements has
not been sufficient to provide neces-
sary accommodations. The increase
in the number of students at Austin
alone for the present session has been
more than 300, the registration for
the session of 1912-1913 being 2121
students. To provide class-room for
these students there are now on the
campus at Austin five comfortable but
perishable one-story ‘box-house’ build-
ings. These buildings should be re-
placed as soon as possible with sub-
stantial stone or brick fire-proof
now, can be removed ,by the people
of Texas on July 19, next, without
touching the pocket of any citizen.
In view of the great benefits ac-
cruing to the University and other
State institutions from the adoption
of this amendment, we feel justified,
for the firbt time in the history of
the Board of Regents of the Univer-
sity of Texas, in issuing this state-
ment to the people. We urge every
intelligent, patriotic, and fair-minded
citizen to vote in favor of the amend-
ment submitted in Senate Joint Reso-
luton No. 18, and thus remove a great
bar to the further growth and prog-
ress of the University of Texas.—
Clarence Ousley, Ft. Worth; W. H.
Burges, El Paso; F. W. Cox, San An-
tonio; George W. Littlefield, Austin;
Alex Sanger, Dallas; W. H. Stark,
Orange; Joseph D. Sayers, Austin;
Regents of University of Texas.
4 -—
THE AL^MO CASE.
The supreme court of the state has
vindicated the position of Governor
Colquitt in the Alamo dispute, and
those who supported him in his po-
sition in the controversy have an “I
told you so”_£oming to them.
The governor has contended that it
was the. state’s right to restore the
property to its original appearance,
from the fund appropriated for that
purpose. Opposing him was one fac-
tion of the Daughters of the Repub-
lic who claimed that they should be
the disbursing agency and they want-
ed to beautify, rather than restore
the sacred grounds. This faction, led
by Mrs. Sevier, made a great fight
for their contentions and won in the
lqwer courts, yet failed to get the
legislature to amend the situation in
their favor Another faction, head-
ed by Miss De Zavalla claimed right
to direct the restoration, and agreed
in substance with the governor’s
plans.
It has been a contention in which
sides have been hesitatingly taken
over the state, in knowledge that each
faction was acting in patriotism and
that each had the best wishes of the
Alamo at heart. But there were oth-
er elements suspected of entering into
the plans, and the beautification idea
structures. An equally urgent need '■ was thought to be more of a local
Houston Post: A youthful fly-
swatter says everybody, even the
president of the United States, ought
to swat flies. We not only commend
such enthusiasm, but we go further
and asseverate that the president of
the United States ought to swat re-
publican postmasters also.
San Antonio Express: The cotton
schedule of the Democratic tariff bill
is giving uneasiness to both growers
and manufacturers of the staple, the
statement being made by a leading
cotton factor in New Orleans that a
decline of $5 a bale has already reJ
suited from the prospect of passage
of the pending bill.
exists for more ground in Austin and
for buildings at the Medical Depart-
ment at Galveston.
4. The present location of the Uni-
versity was selected, under mandate
of the State Constitution of 1876, by
a vote of the people in September,
1881. The Constitution provides that
the State of Texas shall have a uni-
versity of the first class. Without a
change in the organic law, as pro-
posed by Joint Resolution No. 18,
healthy growth and expansion are
piactically impossible.
For thirty years the University of
Texas has grown steadily in the
esteem and confidence of the people.
The men who have constituted its
governing board have been ‘distin-
guished citizens selected from differ-
ent sections of the State; its faculty
have been well equipped scholars,
chosen without political influence, foi
merit and efficiency; nearly twanty
thousand Texas boys and girls have
been students in its halls; no breath
of scandal has touched it; its growth
and prosperity have more than kept
pace with the advancement of the
great State which gave it being, and
whose bourfty sustains it year by
year. One serious handicap under
which it has labored, and is laboring
desire than a patriotic motive. As
the proceedings terminate, the old
fort and mission will be restored and
while it will not be a pretty effect, it
will be all the more appreciated by
the people at large, who have no spe-
cial property interests about Alamo
plaza, and who are not yet willing
to sacrifice the monuments of patri-
otisrt to the aesthetic.
Probably the most valuable part of
the court’s decision is that which dis-
tinctly locates the ownership and cus-
tody. There lias been a “throwing
up” to the state, time and again, that
matter of Mrs. Sevier putting up her
own morjey to save the property to
the state. The generous act on her
part was much appreciated, until it
was “rubbed in" so repeatedly and
was claimed as a title to be vested
in her branch of the Daughters or-
ganization. It got to be a sore rpot
in many quarters, and it is well that
the court has decided the status of
affairs. In the decision the owner-
ship is vested in the state and the
custody in the Daughters’ organiza-
tion, which is as should bq. '
The governor will proceed with the
restoration, which was interrupted by
the injuction proceedings.—Temple
Telegram.
Ft. Worth Record: Caucasians are
a wonderful people. They send mis-
sionaries to Japan and China to tell
the natives that God made all men
in his own image. CThe natives ac-
cept the gospel, come to this country,
are denied citizenship, refused own-
ership to patches of the soil that God
made and flien they are kicked out
because God gave them a different
color.
Houston Post: A set of new twins
is well calculated to effectually bar a
mother's pathway to the polls.
Houston Chronicle: The real dif-
ference between a farmer and an ag-
riculturist is that the farmer works
while the agriculturist talks, and
writes. One is practical and the oth-
er theoretical, and yet each helps the
other.'
Bangs Enterprise: To desire wealth
for the sake of being above others,
•is about the basest of ambitions; and
yet the precepts of many parents
seeks to inspire the children with this
desire.
An exchange tells of the reason a
man gave for stopping his paper. He
said he got all the local news before
the paper was printed, for he was
in the grocery business, bis wife be-
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White rMwan
Pork and Beans with Tomato Sauce
“Better than the law requires’'
You could not get beans as carefully hand-picked and sortad-
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beans grown, prepared in the cleanest manner imaginable. Thor-
oughly washed and soaked in pure, clear watar for Jwenty-four
hours before cooking; than cooked in the can with the tomato
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You could not serve a more apprizing or palatable dish. Ready
to aat—hot or cold.
Your grocer will be glad to recommend them because fie knows
that you’ll come back for more.
Wafiles-Plalter Grocer Co.
. Dallas Denisoi Fort Worth
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