The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE, JAHUifeY 19, 1906.
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meetings in Northern cities, the
first to be held at Cooper Union,
New York. Gen. Keifer is now
working on tlje details 6t the re-
duction bill he expets to introduce
and .he declares he has substantial
support for it in Congress. He
feels, however, such a campaign
of education as he proposes is
necessary to properly attract the
attention and insure the support
of the Northern States.
are printed in it. Classics have
been translated into it. Prof.
Ostwald is not the only scientist to
take it seriously, for Sir William
load of baggage is fi less advan-
tangeous than it rifcht be if pur
job was a permanert job, and if
every man of ys w^s not under
Ramsay believes that “Esperanto contract to drop everfsiued he has
has come -to stay.1
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and run whenever hiahour strikes.
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TJempte s jffoly Jffush. South’s SProyresW
J. MARVIN NICHOLS.
NASHVILLE AMERICAN.
The Value of
TRUTH
By Count L fc'O TOLSTOI
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A FALSE ALARM.
From several sources come pre-
. dictions of panic in financial circles.
Added to this cry of the alarmist is
heard the mournful dirge, “hard
times are coming.’’ The banker,
the business ffian, and the plain
people are, without due regard for
conditions, falling into line with
the folks who do not think and are
doing their part towards scaring the
people into fits with the talk of
“hard times.’’
As a matter of fact ail know the
crop failure in Texas, and more
especially in this section of the
State, has greatly curtailed the
volume of business. Yet this fact
is far from being proof that the
country is on the verge of starva-
tion r It simply shows that we
will not enjoy the brisk spring
trade that is our customary por-
tion.
To arrive at ah accurate sum-
mation of the financial condition of
Texas, it is necessary to count our
money.* The easiest and most
sure way to do this is to go to the
money-barrels, that is, the banks.
From a recent number of a
financial publication we find the
people had on deposit with the
National Banks of Texas on Jan-
uary ist the munificent sum of
$97,374,807.00. In other words,
we have a per capita circulating
medium of $27.82 for every man,
woman and child in Texas. This
sum is greater per capita than any
other State in the Union.
This does not include the money
on deposit in State banks and trust
companies, neither does it include
the amount in private banks of the
class of old socks, bureau drawers
and the cash hidden behind clocks
Furthermore, to this creditable
showing is to be added the value
of the unmarketed products of the
farm, the salable livestock, poultry
and other farm produce; which of
itself must amount to a consider-
able sum. "
From this statement The Ga-
zette is prone to believe starvation
is yet afar off. We cannot see the
grim visage of old man Hard Times
stalking over the country seeking
whom he may devour, nor can we
Congressman Sheppard, having
introduced a bill to cut out the
mileage graft through the medium
of free passes, has now astounded
his brothers by proposing to cut
the rate of mileage to 6c a mile
from 20c a mile. Why does he
not introduce another bill or reso-
lution to the effect that the clerks
of the members of the House should
draw their own salaries instead of
permitting such members to draw
them? The clerks of members are
entitled to $100 a month, but when
some of the members dra(w that
amount for the clerks the latter
get about $25 a month. In other
words, several members will em-
ploy a stenographer who will serve
all fqr $100 a month. What is
left over the members put in their
own pockets. In the Senate the
clerks are carried on the roll and
each draws his full pay. Let us
have a law which will prevent any
member of the House from grafting
his own clerk.—Dallas News.
Congressman Sheppard’s effort
to prohibit members who ride on
free passes from collecting mileage
is commendable. His measure to
reduce the mileage from twenty
cents to six cents is likewise good.
The News should not find .fault
with Mr. Sheppard because • he
does not undertake to reform the
entire category of official abuses.
When he has accomplished the re-
forms already undertaken, we ex-
pect him to undertake others—and
then the News’ suggestions will be
considered.
I had reached San Antonio, the
Texas city replete with tragic and
hallowed memories. Just as the
sun was sinking low- in the west I
crossed the main plaza, beautiful and
gorgeous, and entered old San Fer-
nando. Silence reigned through-
out the ancient building. Rever-
ently’ I passed^ down the long
aisle. Paintings of the Madonna,
the martys, the saints and the
apostles—many so dear- to the de-
vout Catholic’s heart—formed the
long lihe about the wall. Here and
there, this wilderness of art was
broken by graven images. Long
ago the masterhands had folded
A few comparison- showing the
wonderful, advance of the South
are necessarily of interest to every
business man in the w'orld.
Capital invested in cotton . mills,
1880, $21,000,coo: 1905, $225,-
000,000.
Number of -spindles -111 -cotton
mills. 1880, 667,000; 1905, 9,205,
949- J
Cotton bales used, 1880, 225 ,000:
1905, 2,163,600.
Value of cotton crop, 1880, $113,-
696,000; 1905, $680,000,000.
Pig iron made, tons, 1880, 397,-
000; 19Q5, 3,300,000.
Coal mined, tons, 1880, 6,000,-
’E all complain of the senseless orm’N1
,f lifi
**hich i
themselves in death, The hush of j 000; 1905, 67,000,000.
There are two sides to this thing
of a “square deal.’’ In applying
the doctrine to individuals, do not
press it too far lest you overdo the
thing and trespass on the rights of
the people for a square deal. A
square deal means: give every man
a chance, but nothing more. If he
has the right kind of stuff in him,
he will do the rest. It isn’t a
square deal to the individual nor to
the people to entrust a person with
a matter utterly beyond his ca-
pacity. _
see Panic looking for tall timber
and long grass to hide away h
Coal is quoted at thirty dollars a
ton in.some of the Western counties
and the farmers are burning corn
for fuel. In Hopkins county wood
sells for two dollars a cord. The
man who leaves Hopkins county in
search of a better country is likely
to find himself standing in the cold
unless he takes a few cords of
Hopkins county wood along with
him.
the temple profoundly moved my
heart. Past the magnificent altar-
place, on and onvuniil 1 had reach-
ed the 'confessional. I stood near
the door where I had entered.
Glancing to my left, I noticed two
Spanish girls kneeling at the back
of a seat. They had not observed
me. Instantly I dropped behind a
great pillar out of sight Their lit-
tle brown hands stole sofely along
the rosary beads. Their lips mov-
ed rapidly, but noiselessly, in their
oft-rehearsal prayers. Quietly
they tripped to the holy water,
touched their head and heart with
the sign of the Cross, and disap-
peared in the gathering twilight.
No footfall had broken the hush of
that holy place.. No human voice
had stirred the silence around their
throne of grace. None were there
save myself and these two children.
On a former occasion I had seen
the vast throng pack this same
cathedral when the dapal delegate
made his visit to San Antonio.
The same awful stillness reigned.
As I watched these children steal
away.my heart turned sadly toward
a mighty Protestant world. Our
modern congregations have lost
consciousness of this blessed art.
Solemnity in the, house of God is
distressingly gone. The voices of
the people, hilarious and thought-
less, ofttimes drown the sense of
Jehovah. The preacher faces a
mighty babel. Hrs treasure-strove
is emptied into garners unswept;
or worse, places crowded by the
worthless trash of a week-time.
It’s an awful shame. O, for ONE
congregation ready for the message
—for an audience in mood for hal-
lowed meditation ! 11 wish you
might step into some such enrapt-
uring silence ! Amidst the world’s
loud roar NO ear can catch the
whisperings of His still, small
voice.
Lumber produa-, value, 1880,
$39,000,ocx); 1905, $250,000,000.
Capital invested in manufactur-
ing, 1880, $257,000,000; 1905,
$1,750,000,000.
Value of exports, 1880, • $261,
000,000; 1905, $555,480,000.
Railroads, mileage, 1880, 20,600;
1965, 60,000.
Farm products, value, jSSo,
$660,000; 1905, $1,750,000.
Property assessed, 1880, $3,051,-
175,000; 1905, $6,500,000,000.
Cprporate Wealth.
collier’s.
Mr. Louis Brandeis, counsel for
the Protective Committee of policy
holders in the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, gives some almost
appalling figures. In the old line
companies alone there were, a year
ago 21,082,352 outstanding policies,
for $12,928,493,754, or a sum
greater than the actual value of all
the steam railroads in the United
States. The assets are more than
three times the aggregate capital
of all the 5,331 national hanks in
the United States, and the income
of the insurance companies is great-
er than the total revenue of the
United States Government. The
numberless assessment companies
and fraternal benefit societies also
provide life insurance. „,Even the
{Profit by 77}is takes.
sheckels.
In truth, it looks to us as though
grand old Texas is in the pink of
condition, and notwithstanding the
crop failure we enter the new year
with prosperity dancing a two-step
and good times singing a merry
roundelay.
Hard times in Texas. Bah!
With ninety-seven million dollars
of the coin of the realm to the
credit of our people, we fail to see
how hard times can get in the race
in Texas during 1906.
The few days of fair weather
have worked wonders with the
roads and struts in Hopkins county
and Sulphur Springs. We have
fairly good roads now, and they
will be passable until the next
spell of bad weather when they
wi|l again become bad. If our
roads and streets are ever improv-
ed to an appreciable extent the
means of raising the money for the
work must be undertaken and
pted while the roads would
saddle blanket and the
cannot be seen for high
Teach your boy to work and you
have taken the first step toward
making a good citizen of him. The
latter day idea that labor is degrad-
ing is the cause of so much crime.
We do not say you should teach
your boy to have no ambition than
to work in the ditch. Far from
that. However, if you do not want
him to work in the ditch, teach him
to dignify labor with honest effort,
and you may be sure it will never
be necessary for him to labor in
the ditch. The world will be
anxious to employ him otherwise.
HARPER’S WEEKLY.
Let us take up the line of rtiarch
and make the best progress we can
through another year. Humanity
does not shape an edifying course.
Day after day, year after year, it
blunders along, as any day’s his-
tory spelt out in the newspaper
will attest. To blunder along
seems to be about the best the best
of us can do, either as individuals
or as a nation, it is not ideal, but
legal reserve companies insure, in
the main persons'pf small means,
performing essentially the function
of savings, banks. The large com-
pany advertises with pride its mill-
ion-dollar policies; but in 1904 the
average size of the policy in the
Equitable was $2,648; in the
Mutual Life of New York, $2,351!;
and in New York Life, only $2,076.
In the Metropolitan and in the Pru-
dential, which join with the ordi-
nary life insurance business the
specialty of insuring working peo-
ple, the average policy is only $183
and $178, respectively. In spite
of the large policies held by a few
individuals, the life insurance of
this country is in the main held by
what we term the people—“that
large class which every system of
business and of government should
seek to protect.”
Tjexas offs She Ss.
SUNSET MAGAZINE.
So as the Northerner listens and
it will answer, if so be we can keep 'poks >n Texas the illusions he
Esperanto, the artificial “univer-
sal language,” has a new following
in this country, owing to the in-
terest in this very modern tongue
of Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald, the
German chemist who is lecturing
at Harvard. An Esperanto club
has been formed, and any day one
may hear amid the babble of the
old savage tongues in the college
yard sentences that sound like this:
“Piedpilko ne estas la sole interesa
afero en Harvard,” This high
sentiment translated into English
means, “Football is not the only
interesting thing at Havard.”
can be learned, they
a few hour#. Newspapers
pointed in the right direction and
proceed in a sagacious spirit, shar-
ing the road with the rest of the
folks, and not less compassionate
of their deviations than of Our own.
The greatest goals that men have
reached they have reached by be-
ing stronger than their mistakes.
So it was with Lincoln; so it was
with Washington. The great dif-
ference between wayfarers, besides
the disparity in locomotive power,
is that some manage to hold to the
right direction and to maintain in
spite of blunders the ' essential
spirit. This sort invariably get
somewhere where it is worth while
For the others, speed
to arrivi
brought with him are dispelled.
Instead of the embattled hip pocket,
there is a telephone consultation
with one’s attorney. Instead of a
shooting affray there is a lawsuit,
in lieu of the red- shirt, there is
boiled and bosomed linen; and the
bandana is replaced by a collar
from Troy. Where one expected
to find leathi msered cowboys,
there au* store-clothed hackmen,
including, at San Antonio, the
second son of a British nobleman
who went broke and is now earn-
ing his living by driving visitors
about the city. As for law and
order in Texas, a man with a eon-
c< aled six-shooter in New York is
safer from a/rest Ulan the man
is nothing it the direction is raot | with a
dglit. And to carry along a fcpcati Texas.
Pistol
lie
Wbkr0 Use ttu’
stnigg*^ I
variance with our being, and yet we-rdj
unique and powerful weapon WITHI N
the consciousness <>f truth and, its exprl
un the contrary, under the pretext of
evil, we destroy tin weapon and sacrifice it to the exigencies of an
IMAGINARY conflict.
—..... Olio 111 in 1 docs not H-.-ert tbe-truth which lie know? been use he
feels'himself bound to the people with whom lie is engaged ; another,
because the truth might deprive Jtiin of the profitable- position by
which he maintains his family; a third, because he desires to attain
reputation and authority and then use them in the service of mankind;
a fourth, because he-does not wish to destroy old sacred traditions; a
fifth, been life lie hits no desire to offend people; a sixth, because tho
expression of truth would AROl SE I ’ERSECIJ1 ION and disturb
the excellent social activity to which he has devoted himself.
• -tm »
One serves as emperor, king, government official or soldier and
assures himself and others that the/deviation from truth indispensable
to his condition is redeemed 4>y the GOOD HE* DOES. Another
in the office of a spiritual pastor does not in the depth of his soul be-
lieve all he teaches, but permits the deviation from truth in view of
the good he does. A third ins.trii.cts men by means of literature, and,
notwithstanding the -silence he must preserve with regard to tho
whole truth in order not to stir up the government and society against
himself, has.no doubt a- to the good HE does. A fourth struggles
resolutely with the existing order as revolutionist or anarchist and is
quite assured that the aims he pursues are so beneficial that the neglect 1
of the truth or even of the falsehood. BY SILENCE. indispensable,
to the success of liis activity, does not destroy the utility of his work.
In order that the conditions of a life contrary to the consciousness
of humanity should change and be replaced by one which is in accord
with it, the outworn public opinion should yield its place to the new
living one. but this will only happen when all who arc conscious of the
new requirements of existence should OPENLY EXPRESS THEM.
And yet all those who are conscjpus of these new requirements, one in
the name of one thing, another in the name of another, not only pass
them over in silence, but both by word and deed attest their exact
opposites.
Only the truth AND 1'JiS EXPRESSION can establish that
new public opinion which will reform the ancient, obsolete and perni
cious order of life, and’ yet we not only do not express the truth we
know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves
regard as false.
If only men were boldly and clearly to express the truth alroady
manifest to them of the brotherhood of all nations and the crime of
exclusive devotion to one’s own people, that defunct, false public
opinion would slough off of itself like a dried skin and THE NEW
PUBLIC’ OPINION would stand forth, which is even now' but
awaiting that dropping off of the old.
IT WOULD THEN PUT FORTH MANIFESTLY AND POWER-
FULLY ITS DEMANDS AND ESTABLISH NEW FORMS OF EX
ISTENCE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN-
KIND.
€
The Natural Longing
Of Humanity For Peace
By DAVID J. BREWER. Justice of llie United States Supreme Court
HE longing of humanity has ever been for peace on earth.
That was the song of the angols at Bethlehem, and the more
that song stirs the hearts of men the nearer will bo the glad
day. This nation, WHERE THE PEOPLE RULE,
should ever be strong for peace, for the burden and curse of war reet
upon them. The united voice of the Christian church of America, the
united effort of.all denominations would compel the government to
take a higher position. Do not turn the peace movement over to the
Quakers alone. LET US ALL catch the sweet echoes of Bethle-
hem’s song, and as one affirm that the time has come when the sword
shall be turned into the plowshare .and the spear into the pruning
hook.
Our country in many respects has a NOBLE record. The grand
declaration of the late Secretary Hay that American diplomacy is
founded on the Golden Rule lifted this nation into a higher position
a world power than the victories at Manila and Santiago de Cuba. The
great triumphal peace between Russia and Japan was largely due to
our chiej executive. Yet, notwithstanding all this, we cannot be ob-
livious to the fact that there is much itching for more and larger bat-
tleships, and the “pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war” still
make a large appeal to many. WE LOYE THE POWER THAT
IS MATERIAL. As against the war spirit I invoke the spirit of the
Master. As against the call for battleships I invoke the action of the
united Church.
; AM SURE THAT A FEDERATION OF ALL THE CHURCHE8
WILL SOON MAKE IT PLAIN THAT AS FOR THIS NATION THERE
MUST NO LONGER BE WAR, NOR A GETTING READY FOR WAR.
THE TREASON OF PEACE
By J. FRANK HANLY. Governor of Indiana
HE country should be made to understand that might does not
1 he [REASON Oh PEACE sucks the very
C
make right.
sap of the government and undermines it.
Greed, avarice and the lust of gain are at the bottom of it all. Lib-]
erty does not mean license. TRUE LIBERTY IS LIBERTY BYj
THE LAW, I ho patriotism yf peace stirred up the citizens to a real-
ization of the dangers menacing this republic in more than one state
nnd city of this country-at the hist election.
IT WAS A STIRRINQ UR OF {MEN SUCH AS NEVER HAD SEEM
REALIZED BEFORE, AND THEY STOOD BY THEIR PRINCIPLES AND'
VOTED FOR THEM.
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The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1906, newspaper, January 19, 1906; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816514/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.