The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 81, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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THE BONHAM SUfi'WBHLT NEW*
NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1866
ASfiLXY EVANS
L. E. DICUS
- . - EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
Entered at the Post Office at Bonham, Texas, as Second
Class Mail Matter
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FRIDAY, JANUARY *29, 1915.
ELECTION BILL KILLED
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is foolishness. But since they seem to have
effect on Mi,\ Bryan their attacks seem to prove
that they coipmit some few follies them^lves.
the people debauched with liquor, every man who
desires to see this nation plunged into war, every
every man who wants special privileges for the
favored few and every man who would take die-
Now that the National Government propose., lIight W W defeat <* th,e Democratic .party-
'every such man Would take delight in seeing Bry-
an knocked into a cocked hat.
through the postoffice and agricultural depart
ments, to conduct an employment bureau in order,
to bring together the “manless job and the job-
less man’' a lot of the Weary Willies will be afraid
to call for their mail.
Oscar B. Colquitt announces his candidacy for
the U. S. Senate in 1916 regardless of who
else runs. One Texas newspaper has already
selected-^). B. as its second choice regardless of
whether anybody else runs, or not.
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The House of Representatives at Austin on “The .public must sooner or inter warn sor
Tuesday hided the bill introduced by Messrs. Bur- &
meister and Lewellmg intended to prevent ignoi-1 Governor Jmfei E, Ferguson. ' In •
ant foreigners and unlettered natives*fropi voting | Governor F^;* 'r n thinks "' v '.r o-trf di-.v fo
in elections. A provision of the bill was that no; \ ;"'F cl the key r*<• c. 1 '•
man who is not able to read and mi • ow
ballot without aid, phyric-2 ‘Vi.-~y *
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It is alleged thaT Irwin S. Cobb tl.e noted
writer, is having no trouble in securing interviews
with the big men of Europe, and tjhereby scooping
all his contemporaries, as the aforesaid big men
are of the opinion that he is Tyrus Cobb, and are
ready to extend courtedcs to real big men when
they get a chance. There’s nothing like fame
e’en though it is borrovyed^-Denison Gazetteer.
That’s so, that \«jso. But, bjTthe way, whe-
el- who was Tyrus Cobb, anyway?
of the Dacia case for the remainder of the w*£
when’once she anchors in a British' port- Her
cargo will be forwarded its destination and the
incident will sleep* until the British authorties
can give it attention. Nor will there be similar
•sales of the remaining ships interned in Ameri-
can ports, because purchasers will not care to
take the risk which the ultimate verdict in the
Dacia case will involve.
THE OBSCURATION
An Ohio editor can/t see why the Lord per-
mits the slaughter in Europe. Let the editor
chmb on top of his house and see whether the
Lord will prevent him. from jumping off and
breaking his neck, if he wants a parallel case
Flour is selling at ->2 A sack* but-a fine-grade Rrcperijr demonstrated. The Lord never prom-
pt shorts cab be had fo»- £1.80 a hundred, And j is€<J to keeP people from making idiots .of them-
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trifle • too • to jig lit .>t ; □ a
are ckeapor ?t.hr.r • no r- :.«r, f,h.
are- just the
<jti: pone.—Bon-
1 selves—Amarillo News.
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jiiens he wouldn’t be a man, but superman. God
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wanted to make.it impossible for ti e ‘pc, •
- that be to gp down to BrowT.sviQc, find out h£
many votes will be needed at any election wr
then arrange to bring ’em acrSss.’
“ ‘What do I care for prohibition?’ ” he cried}
after saying some members had expressed sur-
prise thpt he, a staunch anti- prohibitiohisr,
should champion such a measure. ‘I am not here
as an anti-prohibitionist. I am here as a citizen,
asking £pr a pure ballot.’
“The argument that men could not qualify
themselves to read the English language and
mark their ballots, Mr. Bermeister dismissed as
puerile, ridiculous and unworthy of consideration.
“He told how he had come to Southwest Tex-
as from Germany, ‘with four silver dollars in my
pocket and 700 pounds of books.’ He thought not
only that any man coming here from a foreign
country to become a citizen can learn the lan-
guage, but that if he will not do so he should not
have the privilege of the ballot ”
We have not seen the text of the bill and
do not know all the provisions, but surely there
must have been something more objectionable
about it than the literacy test to have brought
about its defeat. The evils that Mr. Burmeister
spoke of—the voting of thousands of ignorant
Mexicans who have no knowledge of or interest
in good government—is tob well known in Texas
to be disputed.
Another truth he uttered ought not to escape
the attention of Texas people, and that is that any
foreigner can learn th^ English language, and if
he will not do so, he ought not td have the privi-
lege of the ballot. The foreigner who comes to
Texas to live," and to make a good citizen, will be
interested enough to learn our language. If he1
is not so interested he should have no part in
making the government.
In Southwest Texas there are Bohemians and
pther foreigners who have lived there for years,
who have not learned the language, who know
nothing and care less about American ideals,
who are as clannish as when they came from Eu-
rope, and yet who have as much voice in the gov-
ernment of this State as the ablest man in it.
For years the State printed daily proceedings of
the legislature in Bohemian that these citizens
might read it.
A native of Texas must live here for twenty-
one years before he can vote, but an ignorant
Mexican need only to wade across the Rio Grande
on election day, march up to the polls with a poll
tax receipt kindly provided by some interested
party, have the election judge make out his bal-
lot to suit the interested party, and then he
votes as a full-fledged American citizen of Texas.
It is possible that Mr. Burmeister may be
wrong in his bill, but he most assuredly has the
correct views of protecting the ballot box from
the attacks of ignorant and vicious voters.
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: t"x lrw,- but i bore is not much r kojk'oa }
that it will succeed. From this-source the-State
gets considerable revenue. The man who has
property does got object to the tax. That is;
there are not many. It is the. fellow who pays no
taxes whatever that makes the biggest row
about being required to pay a poll tax before he
can have a voice in the matter of running the
government. The man who is not whiling to dig
up as much as $1.75 per year to help defray the
expense of the State government ought not to
have any voice in the matter, of selecting *oui-
State and county officials. The poll tax is all
right. That there are abuses under it is not so
much the fault of the law as it’is of the men who
are elected to enforce its provisions.—Wichita
Times.
Such a movement ought not to succeed for
the (law is a good one. The reasons given by the
Times for its retention are adequate, and there
is no just reason why the law should be repealed
While some good people-frown upon anything that
has a tendency to restrict suffrage, thoughtful
men realize that some restrictions are necessary.
The man who is not willing to pay taxes to sup-
port the State has no right to demand a voice in
its affairs, for the man who shuns to bear hri
part of the burden, has no just claim in the pro-
tection and benefits of citizenship in the State.
Sifted to the bottom it will be found that the
principal opposition to the poll tax law originates
with those interests that most need the vote of
the irresponsibles to protect their business- The
people of Texas do not w ant the. poll tax law re-
pealed, we think.
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quitt speak by authotity and with th ? consent and
approval of the Democracy of the State?
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The New York World, the Houston Post and
Marse Henry are worrying a great deal about the
“follies” of Secretary Bryan. With them what-
ever Bryan does is folly, and what he fails to d V
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a long list of distinguished contestants—rinciud-
ihg Hot). Cone himself—was he no( selected to
lead the Democracy of Texas and by them was
he not elevated to the exalted honor jef Chief Ex-
ecutive of the State ? Who, then, is invested with
greater authority to speak for the Democracy of
Texas than Oscar B. Colquitt?
and his utterances have been
lure reference.—Texas Republic.
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EXCHANCE EDITORIALS RE PRINTED 3
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THE DACIA CASE
No people ever suffered more for adhering
blindly to impractical ideals than those of the
South. It w;as this that caused the great war
between the States, with its terrible consequences.
This expdHmept taught the valuable lesson that
government is not a matter of sentiment, but of
business. Applying this principle to the present
conditions Jt is plain that the federal govern-
ment should do whatever it can do better thhn
the State governments. There are several things
in which uniformity can be secured only through
the federal government, such as the^aw's prescrib
in qualifications for suffrage, the laws regulating
the liquor traffic and the divorce laws. No. ar-
gument is needed to prove that uniformity in all
these is desirable.—East Texas Register.
The editor of the Register is an Old Confed-
t rate soldier wTho- fought four years for States’
rights, but Bob Henry and other Texas congress-
men will tell him that he knows nothing about
States’ rights- Talk of taking away from the
States the-right to sell liquor! Never, never,
while jr brewer or distiller lives.
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Don’t you believe that we have reached that
stage of the game where Mr. Wilson would again
like to se e Mr. Bryan “knocked into a cocked
hat Denison Herald-
No, but we believe that every man who wants
Houston Post. . . I
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It seems certain that the Dacia will ultimate-
ly find its way into a British port as a prize of
war. Great Britain has declared in advance that
it does not believe the transfer of the yessel from
the - Hamburg-Afnerican line to the American
owner a bona fide transaction and that the mat-
ter will be thoroughly tested if the ship is cap-
tured by a British man-of-war, and it is most cer-
tain to be.v
The question involved is one of considerable
importance both to Great Britain and Germany,
as well as to American purchasers, ijf the Ger -
man-owned ships now interned in American ports
can be disposed of and be restored to service tin
der the American flag, German sympathizers
might be of great-service to Germany and Aus-
tria during the war.
It is a fact that there are many German-
Americans who would take over these ships and
reopen our trade with German ports. that dis-
turbs Great Britain. It^ the British theory
that this is what the moR. radical element of
German-American sympathizers with the Fath-
erland desire to do, that the intended purchase of
ships is anything but bona fide, and the theory
is that the alleged new* owner of the Dacia intends
also to determine how far the United States gov-
to test the legitimacy of such transfers by-putting
it on the high seas under the American flag,
emment will protect ships placed under the Amer-
ican flag through such transfers.
The question is one- that the United States
government will hardly care to make an issue of,
but it will permit the Dacia case to go before a
prize court and be adjudicated there. ; So far as
the dignity of the United States is concerned
that would be a matter for arbitration at the end
of the war, in case this government shbuld de-
cide that such transfers are legal, and ships thus
transferred are entitled to the protection of the
government.
•. We think,’therefore, that we shall hear little
A news report is authority for the statement
that in thirty-eight States of the Union bills will
be introduced seeking to abolish capital punish-
ment and substituting life imprisonment as the
maximum punishment for crime of any charac-
ter, says the Denison Herald. The taking of
He hath spoken, human life by legal authority is indeed a grave
recorded—for fu- problem confronting society. There apears to be
growing sentiment in favor of its abolishment,
but the question is not one to be decided by maw-
kish idealists given to gush and misplaced sym-
pathy. There can be no doubt that the vision
of a death sentence is a deterrent to crime.
Neither can there be any doubt that there are per-
sons who would not hesitate to commit any
crime in the calendar if they knew that iheir
own life would not pay the penalty. This is es-
pecially true of the ignorant element viciously in-
clined. There are crimes the commission of
which forfeits all rights of the perpetrator to live,
inhuman, unspeakable, fiendish in conception and
execution. The lustful destroyer who by force
• satiates his animal passion, the red-handed mur-
derer, the secret assassin—what right h^re such
monsters to .live? Executions according to law
are indeed grave and heavy responsibilities, but
not one time in 10,000 does the, extreme penalty
Tall unmerited. Capital punishment may be bad
but capital crimes are worse. .
DOES PEACE BRING EFFEMINACY?
Denison Herald.
One of the principal contentions of people
who believe in European militarism, is that con-
tinued peace leads to softness and effiminaey.
This is a materialistic age, it is argued, and in
our hustle for money making power to endure
suffering and danger are lost.
Yet little Belgium has had peace for practi-
cally a century. During that time it had grown
rich and powerful industrially. Several genera-
tions had lived and died, without the suffering*
of war. Yet nowhere in history is there a story
cf greater heroism than that of the Belgium peo-
ple since last August. Similarly, the other na-
tions of Europe have been at peace for many
years, apparently without deterioration of cour-
age.
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Ordinarily daily life is full of struggles.
Sickness, death, pain,# loneliness, the support of a
family under hard industrial conditions, these
are conditions producing resolution and courage.
Here is one consolation of the tragic losses of war,
that it shows that the human race, despite grow-
ing prosperity, has not lost its physical fiber.
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 81, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1915, newspaper, January 29, 1915; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974595/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.