The Comanche Chief and Pioneer Exponent (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1914 Page: 5 of 8
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The following statement wan
iv^n to the press Wednesday:
To the Membership of the Far-
»’ Educational and Co-Opera-
re Union and all other farmers
Texas—The idea has become
; established in this country,
no one seems able to give a
tason why, that there is a right
ie as well as a wrong time at.
lich the ordinary citizen should
tteinpt to discuss grave and mo-
lentous puestions. ThiB.no doubt
accounts for the vast number of
> senseless schemes offered by great
financiers, bankers ‘and business
men aa a relief for the helpless,
itiful and disgraceful attitude of
ependency the agricultural and
>mmercial interest of this state
id the southern states have al-
jwed themselves placed into as
result of the European war and
lie uses to which it is being put
a pretext to rob the farmer of
year's cotton crop.
. Therefore, 1 am assuming the
ligfcias one oi that class who have
always been expected to refrain
from speaking “out in meeting’’
l-antil the self-appointed statesman
and philosopher has been/heard.
In fact, any further silence is an
evidence of cowardice to at this
time not call attention to the real
idsue, as it relates to the only av-
enue of escape from the hands of
an organized band of financial pi-
rates of this country and Europe
in their purpose to appropriate to
themselves the fruits of the indus-
try of the useful citizenship of the
country; the failure to have metj
» the issue resulting as it has in the
bankruptcy and ruin of the only
indispensable class upon whom
onr institutions rest. The organ-
ized farmers of this nation have
ogered the only solution calculat-
ed to relieve this situation, and
without which it is plunged into
an era of misery, destitution and
bankruptcy, the equal of which
has no parallel. *' . *
The passage of the relief bill of-
fered by Mr. Henry would relieve
this situation; not only is Jhis
statement true, but all intelligent
men apt engaged In reaping this
hni-^pt through the special priv-
iljj^Jr offered under our national
•^flpfing laws, know that the ar-
gument in support of the provis-
ions of this bill as a war measure
4is unanswerable. Hence, brother
farmer of Texas, we have been de-
♦deserted by our supposed friend,
left alone upon the desert to work
out our own salvation.
The organization of optimistic
clubs nor the hot air given through
the press by financier nor the im-
portance of the farmer knowing
how to select his seed corn for
" toext yCkr will suffice; self-preser-
vation is the'first law of nature.
Therefore, as a war measure, yon,
■ brother farmer, should dismiss
from your mind, any further an-
xiety over the market for your
cottdn, but organized sacred com-
pact with each other, sit down by
your cotton, refusing to sell what,
you have, take a year’s rest from
the toil necessary to raising any
more; devote only a small portion
^ of your time next year to the pro-
■ duction of all that is necessary to
the comfort and maintenance of
|W our own families. You ean say
H truthfully, but say it emphatically
IBi to your creditors, that to do other
\frise means not only your bank-
8 ruptcy, but also theirs; that to
r aell your cotton now means your
financial ruin; to not sell it means
. ruin, with this difference, that
when the hindrances shall have
been removed, ^ou, instead of the j
conspirators will have some cot-
ton to sell, out of which you can
come forward, as has always char-
acterized the farmer in hid busi-
ness relations, and make settle-
ment of all just claims.
Brother farmer, we have in our
cotton an ample asset with which
to pay all liabilities if we will on-
ly keep it; but not to do so means
bankruptcy to our creditors, and
ourselves, as well. Besides plac-
ing the agricultural and commer-
cial interests of this country under
the degraded domination of a
gang of high .financiers, in whose
hands our so-called ' statesman-
ship have vested the sacred gov-
ernmental rights that belong only
to the people. Again referring to
that eternal truth, “Self-preserva.
tion is the first, law of nature.”
voh ^will adnpt yourself to th^J
present war conditions the respon-
sibility for which we are exempt,
t and to positively refuse to sell
.vqnr cottonv The issue is not the
1 European war with us, but is
whether the war lords of Europe
■ and the monev lords of Amcricn.
I who are identically one and the
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8 1-3© Heavy 36 inch Sheeting for______L
10c Extra fine 36 inch Sea Island* Sheeting for
10c soft finish 36 inch Bleaching for____1^.
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8 1-3 Apron check Gingham for--------
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12 l>2c extra heavy Outing, stripes, plaids and solids for.
8 1*3 good|grade fancy Outing for.________
7o good grade round thread Cotton Checks for ....__
Bacon________.-____•. ■_
All John B. Stetson hats foi____________
Karo . syrjip_______ __i_____________
$5.00 ladies Skirts for_____1______ __
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High Patent Flour per sack.
7 50 Ladies Skirts for__
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14 lbs granulated sugar for________
$3 50 Ladies Skirts for .........v
50c dosen boxes matches for____
2.00 Ladies skirts for_________
10c 2 big pkgs. Hippo washing powder for.
50c Men’s fleeced underwear for______________
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25c can calumet baking powder for_________
50c Boys heavy ribbed union suits for_
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Giant patash 4 big cans for*_______
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___$8.76
___$1.80
___88.96
.81.00
____$9.00
___35c
50c Mens extra heavy work shirts for,,
25c Syrup pitcher for..............................
12 l*2e Ginghams for_______________
20c Set of Glasses at per set_____
3 50 Ladies shoes for_____________....
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4.00 Cast iron heater for________
4.00 Ladies shoes for__________
15.00 No. 8 cook stove for_
5.00 Ladies Shoes for._______
$1.00 decorated 7-inch plates, at per ses of 6
$4.0tftadiee8’ shoes for....... 1........_........:_______________
30c ten-quart galvaDizad buckets for____
$4.00 ladies’ Red Cross shoes for __
jOc set of 6 plates, at per set__________
$ 1.25 children’s shoes,"9 to 2, for___________
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40c set of 6 plates, at per set_______,______
$20.00 and $15.00 men’s suits for _:_______
50c set of 6 plates, at per set _____________________
$25.00 Hart, Schaffner& Marx Suits for
$10.00
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$15.00
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TO BE Eimno
If Eliminated Is Ban far
Faroes Attack ParrilL
Indications that General Oar-
rants has agreed to retire in de-
ferene* to th« wishes of thr Max-
iran national convention at Aguas,
Calientes were contained la offi-
cial dispatch** to the Htate Da*
partment Monday. General Obra-
gon an# the committee which want
to Mexico Ohy to interview the
first chief returned to the eonvea-
tion 'highly optimistic." accord-
ing to official reporta.
It is generally understood that
Carruua informed the*eomnrfttSf ,
that he would not submit hi* rea-
ignation a second time, leaving it
tf th/ convention to reconsider if
it choae the action taken at tha re-
cent Mexico City convention, tha
minutes ef which werw formally .
ratified by the assembly at Aguaa
Calientes.
Officials of the Washington gov-
ernment hsd no doubt that tha
two conditions Carranza was re-
ported to have stipulated aa nee-
easary before he would retire,
namely, that the tenure of the pro.
visional government be brief and '
that he he permitted to be a can-
didate for the presidency in tha
elections to be held, would ha suf-
ficiently met by the convention.
The armistice fixed by the Af-
uaa Calientaa peace conference
has been broken, again aecarding. M
to eon'ditulAfinaltst advices from
Juarez Mo'ndny. General Herre-__
ra, a Carranza fuLawer, has at -
tacked Psrral, Chihuahua. and its
Villa garrison. The Herrera
troofM raptured several positions
in the town but were later driven
off. The fighting lasted five hour*
and three hundred men were kill-
ed on eseh side. The town was
defended' by 2JXM) troop* and the
attackers numbered 1200.
Psrral is the center of a largo
mining district in t^iieh several
hundred Americans normally afcl
located. No Americans are repor-
ted killed or wounded. ‘ .
As Herrera attacked, the (Villa
leaders disarmed forty of their
own men who belonged to a group
eommsiHled by <letters 1 Manuel
('ban. one of the delegate* to the
peace convention, on tha charge
that they intended to aaaiat the
Herrera troops. These men were
imprisoned in a building on the
outekirte of the town.
After the battle it was discov-
ered that all bad hjreii slaughtered
by Herrera’s men.
EVER SALIVATED BY
^ CALOMEL? HORRIBLE! •
HIGGINBOTHAM'S
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same, shall confiscate the Cotton
crop of the South and thereby
bring destitution, want and ruin
to every legitimate interest.
Farmers, do your duty and save
the situation by keeping your cot-
ton; as sure as there is a God of
the Universe, it will become a val-
uable asset necessary to the peace,
happiness and progress of us all,
and you are entitled to your just
share of the advanced price. May
you be constrained to see the
power that lies within your hands
to avert the greatest, calamity, not
only to ourselves, but to all others j interests,
with which this country could be n a *
confronted. I am, yours frater-
nally, W. D. Lewis,
President Farmer*’ Educational
^ and Co-Operative Union of Tex-
as. . • Vi.
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given it out that should the pres
ent war close and the mills be
gin at once at full capacity that
there would be from 30 to 40 per
cent of this year’s crop unconsum-
ed.
4. It is unsound policy to de-
pend whollv upon one money crop
to supply all our needs. When the
market fails the country is in dis-
tress, necessarily.
5. It prevents proper crop rotat-
ion, thus lessening the fertility of
the soil:
6. It makes against the livestock
Cotton Reduction—Why?
1. Let. us re-emphasize the ne-
cessity of growing gardens, corn,
small grain, hay,poultry and hogs.
Where possible some dairy Rattle
and h beef or two. >
2. We must have food crops for
the family, feed and fofhge .for
tha livestock, and some food crop*
for sale.
3. Unless "the acreage i* decreas-
ed and the production very large-
ly decreased the ootton crop will
be valueless. The government ha*
7. Such a system limits knowl-
edge, narrows citizenship and does
not foster home bnildinng, and is
the greatest economic enemy of
rural education in the South.
8. We have been the slave of a
system, not of our own choosing,
altogether, but because the crop
was made the basis of our credit i
and fixed th,e limit of our credit,
and of other crops were raised,
the market was invariably low.
9. The South does not today pro- ,
duee enough food for its own use. j
Again, we have been constantly
farming to pay debts and not far
ming on a cash basis. We have
thought so long in terms of cotton
that, with the market constantly
fluctuating, the farmer plants on
the faith that next year at picking
time the price of cotton will be
high and he will .reap the reward.
If he, could change his system s«
that cotton would be only one ele
raent in success listed of all, the
state of the cotton market would milling corn. Rfcmem
not so serioualy affect our well- shuck, shell and grind y<
being. 1 on short notice. Our mill
The present crisis furnishes the
best opportunity we have ever had
Try Thas* on Your Ford.
There was an old geeser and he
had a wooden leg,
A ride he couldn’t steal, and a
ride he couldn’t beg.
So he took four spools and an old
coal hod
And he made a little Ford and it
ran, by-gosh 1
value per acre than the North, yet
the yaluesof our farms is far leu
and “ohr Farmers Jess prosperous.
Thf secret lies largely in the fact
that we do not diversify and raiso
livestock in sufficient number*.
co-operation between the business
interests, bankers, merchants gnd
farmers to get ihto diversified ag-
riculture and to re-establish credit
upon a different basis. Let us cut
the crop at least half in acreage.
D. F, Raton,
Demonstration Agent.
To Trade
Fine young stallion to drade for
10. The South produce* more ip good mules or marcs. Mules or
be broke A6 work.
* th
mares must
This horse is three years old and
one of the best all-purpose horses
in the county. Is perfectly gentle
to work and rido. See John
Hanes, Fleming, or J. R. Eanes.
Comanche Milling Co. want one
thousand bnshels of ^ good, white
member, we can
our com
1 will run
the year for
every Saturday in
the farmers. When you want to
for changing our system and forj sell your corn, see E. W. Harris.
office back of The Comanche Nat
ional bank.
Lost! ^
.Somewhere along the road thru
Jim Holmsley’s pasture, a double
barrel, hammerteaa shotgun con-
tained in a tan leather case. By
returning the gun to this office a
liberal reward will be given.
Notiioe!
the pariy who borrowed my
vapor lamp will please return
same to me at once.-—Fans Smith.
Calomel is quicksilver and
like dynamite on your
liver.
Calomel loses you u day! YoU'
know what calomel is. It’s mer-
cury; quicksilver. Calomel is dan-
gerous. It crashes into your bile
like dynamite, cramping and,
sickening you. Calomel attacks th-
bones ami should never be put in-
to your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knoeked out
and believe you need a dose of
dangerous ealomel just remember
that your druggist sells for 50 et*.
a large bottle of Dodson's Liver
Tone, whieh is entirely vegetable
and pleasant to take snd is a per-
fect substitute for calomsl- It i«
guaranteed to start your liver
without stirring you up inside^md
can not salivate.
Don’t take calomel 1 it make*
you sick tile next day ;;it loses you
a day’s work. Dodson’» Liver
Tone straightens you right up and
you feel great. Give it to the child-
ren because it is perfectly harm-
less and doesn't gripe.
For Groceries of all kinds at
war prices see Martin Company.
WAMTIDr
Hones trmm Iff to Iff hanih
high, 6 to 8 jmn old, sound sad
in good fiosh. Bring thorn in. jLo
oatod at Star Yard. 7 lOpd
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Callaway, Grade. The Comanche Chief and Pioneer Exponent (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1914, newspaper, October 30, 1914; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth877077/m1/5/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.