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TH1 BONHAM SSMI-WEEKLY NEWS
THE BONHAM NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1866
author of it. Peris! j the thought forever that any
man of any station? should wage war or follow its,
fortunes.
ASHLEY EVANS
I* B. DICUS
EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
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reduce cotton acreage and
TREE THE SOUTHERN FARMER i
Houston Chronicle. •
It was, doubtless, a patriotic motive
that led a number of public speakers
and experts to offer their service to
Boteredlat the Pflst Office at Bonham. Texas, as Second
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tack. Just now this country is full of men with
sovereign remedies for a condition that will 'pass
away before there will be an opportunity for the
patient to ever swallow a dose of their medicine.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1914.
SHOULD BE NO DISTINCTIONS.
Music circles in America are much disturbed
now because there is to be no grand opera
season in which the stars from Europe will
fAa part. This is because many of the best sing-
es in Germany and France are at the front with
tbe armies.
This fact will cause no great disappointment
to the great majority Of us, for few have either
the opportunity to attend grand opera, or the
■training and ability necessary to the enjoyment
of it. But some expressions of sentiment caused
toj this condition do interest us.
Much sorrow and much horror have been ex-
pressed at the action of grand opera singers go-
ing to the battle'front. One of our leading Texas
papers recently deprecated the thought that if
Italy went into the war that Caruso, the world’s
most famous tenor, would be called on to bear
arms. What a calamity it would be, it said, if
this man with his wonderfully sweet voice should
be shot in battle, or should by exposure injure his
voice so that it would never again have the tone
and reach it now possesses!
What a calamity, indeed! And what a calam-
ity that ditch diggers and college professors, farm
boys and great lawyers, day laborers and bankers,
city clerks and great authors, all should have to
go to the battle front! But it is not a pity because
one happens to occupy one station and the other
another station, that one is learned and the other
ignorant, that one is poor and the other rich, that
some are cultured and some uncouth. No, it is not
this that Tnakds it a pity. The pity is that any
m*n should have to stain his hands with human
blood; that he should have to take the life of
husband, father, and leave widows to mourn and
IrtUe children to suffer; that he should have to
destroy and burn and bring devastation to the
land; and he should have co harbor and cultivate
in his heart hatred and a spirit of revenge. Yea.
what a pity!
The thought that some men should be forced
to go to w ar while others should be shielded from
that burden is a thought that had its birth jn the
minds of those who make causes for war that they
want others to bear the brunt of. In tile sight of
God the life of Caruso or Emperor William or
Kipling is no more precious than the life of that
■unknown Belgian gunner who fought at Liege un-
til he died alone at his gun because all his com-
rads had been killed before him- The wife and
children of the crown price will feel no more
keenly the loss of husband and father than will
that blind woman and her daughter who were the
sole inhabitants left in Termonde after the iron
frail and the burning fuses of Germany’s army had
left it in desolute ruins. The agnoy of the rich
and great who bend over the forms of their loved
ones brought all bloody and tom from the field of
carnage will be no more severe than will that of
the poor and lowly who gaze on the cold features
of their dead.
No! No! It isn’t the birth, or the power, or the
learning or the wealth, of the lack of all these
that makes us shudder at the thought of war. If
war is just and honorable and holy, all men ought
to rush to the front, where each may do his part,
and if it is unjust and cruel and unholy no man
ought to go or be made to go.
War rages in Europe today because for cen-
turies men have been taught that it is the right
of some to rule and the duty of others to serve by
obeying without question; that some were bom to
nurse great ambitions for powrer and others were
bom to give up their lives to gratify this ambi-
tion. The influence of this teaching is the one
thing above all others that makes us look with hor-
ror upon the death of a king and with complacency
upon the death of ten thousands of his subjects
who were sacrificed to satisfy his greed for pow-
er. It is what makes us shudder to think of Ca-
ruso sacrificing his voice in w’ar, while we give
small heed when Pat Ryan sacrifices his life.
A human soul, every human soul is priceless,
and only the souls and lives of men are worth
counting. Whatever destroys either soul or body
we ought to be taught to look on with horror. War
destroys both. War is hell, and the devil is the
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Political-peace-and-Legislative-Rest Colquitt
.says he will hold the legislature in session until
they pass his State Bank bill- As he will not be
governor longer than about the middle of Novem-
ber he can’t hold them as long as he ha^ already
held them. His friend Ferguson don’t like his
brand of legislative rest, and he may. have a dif-
ferent program for the legislature.
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Gov. Colquit says that if “his” State bank bill
is not passed, that he will hold “his” legislature
in session till Christmas. While he is waiting for
the action of the law-makers, he might take “his”
army and march down and conquer Mexico and
settle a matter that is giving our president much
anxiety. - . '
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Russia proclaimed prohibition of the - liquor
traffic during the war and now7 announces the
country w7ill remain dry after peace is declared.
This, it is stated, is because conditions have shown
such marked improvement that li<*uor will no
longer be tolerated. The Democrat trusts this re-
port is true. Liquor causes nothing but sorrow7
rnd crime and poverty, and w7hen a country shakes
this mon%ter off that country has already made
a wonderful advancement for the better.—Sher-
man Democrat.
If Russia shall continue to enforce the present
order against the manufacture and sale of intoxi-
cants it will have taken a forward step in civiliza-
tion that the greater part of the world has not
^thought it capable of. In fact Russia has made
more wonderful advancement in the last few years
than most of us know of. Commencing with the
emancipation of her serfs, the progress of the
country has been remarkable- The majority, per-
haps, of the people in America look upon Russia
as a country ruled with a rod of iron by a despot
who chops off people heads or sends them to Sibe-
ria whenever they displease him. We have heard
much more of the activities of the Anarchists, of
the banishment of political prisoners* and the sup-
pression of newspapers opposed to the govern-
ment, than w7e have heard of the growth of the ed-
ucational system, of the improvement of the ag-
ricultural classes, of the growth of the spirit of
freedom and of the wider spread of intelligence
and commerce. Therefore our views have been
distorted. We have been made to know, as has
all Europe, since this war began, that Russia of
today is not the Russia of fifty years ago, or even
the Russia of fifteen years ago. If the Czar- now
protects his subjects permanently from the evil
effects of strong drink, which the government
sells them, he will prove himself a wiser ruler than
he gets credit for being.
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Another mass meeting of farmers—landlords
and tenants—was held at the court house Satur-
day, afternoon, attended by some of the biggest
land owners of the county. Several addresses
were made and it w7as the general opinion that
Texas should have a law demanding a reduction
of the cotton creage fully sixty per cent next year.
An effort wrill be made to organize the farmers of
Red River County by school districts and repre-
sentation is expected from each and every district
in the county at the meeting to be held at the
court house next Saturday morning at 10 o’clock.
—Clarksville Times.
IswHt funny that the farmers ask the State to
pass a law. compelling them to do what they know
they ought to do? If the State passes Gov. Col-
quitt’s law making it a penitentiary offense for
a 'amily to plant ever twenty acres of cotton, what
jury of farmers woold convict a renter who has
four or five healthy boys to help him work’ a big
cotton crop if he piants thirty acres? And if the
legislature can pass a law prohibiting a farmer
from planting more than twenty acres of cotton.,
why not have it pass a law compelling every far-
mer to plant so many acres to com, so many to
small grain, so many peanuts, so many potatoes,
so much hay, and to raise so many hogs, horses
and cows? It is conceded that if every farmer
diversified his crops and raised more stock that
the countrj^would be more prosperous and there
would be fewer failures. s If Gov. Colquitt pro-
poses to^egulate the farming by law, why not reg-
ulate it properly and altogether? If the far-
mers want a law to limit the cotton acreage they
ought not to object to a law to increase the corn
acreage and potato acreage and the hog supply.
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School Begins Soon!
Let us supply the children
with School tablets, pen-
cils, lunch baskets, school
shoes, hose, dresses, etc.
7 1-2 ft. 8 oz Home Made Cotton Sacks.
§ 9 ft. 8 oz Home Made Cotton Sacks .
8 oz Texas Dpck 10c per yd
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f:ee the Southern farmer from the from Aug. 18, 1914, and costs of suit,
yoke which bears so heavily upon him. j Given under my hand, this 6th day
x- of October, A D. 1914.
W. B. Leeman, Sheriff of Fannin
County, Texas.
By C. D. Dorough, Deputy.
No. 49-3t-Friday.
throughout the South. These dis-
ii-vguished gentlement prefer to ap-
peal-to reason than to law to bring g
thp reduction in cotton acreage that H
they believe is absolutely essential to ; K
Abe solving of the problem of success- j ♦$
fui agriculture incite of the Euro-,s You will find it to vour interest
pean War. ~ - " V V ig J
It is. indeed; a: condition bordering j.|| rCmCITlbCr US OH th6S6 ItdllS
on chaos when the success of the
American' farmer depends upon the j
fortunes ox foreign nations. But we
can not deny the proposition that this
condition exists at this time. iUshould
rot continue to exist and we hope that
the distinguished gentlemen who are
soon to traverse our State urging re-
duction of .cotton acreage will offer
some suggestion will enable the
farmer to chang^^Kconditiom which
has prevailed in country for the
past half century.’
There can be no real independence
of our agricultural classes so long as
they are forced-to look to the foreign
countries for the consumption of their
products. It is all right to encour-
age the exchange of commodities with
foreign nations, but the system of ex-
change should not be of such a nature
as to paralyze the agricultural indus-
tries of our country when war or fam-
ine intervene.
The Southern farmer should give
more heed to the production of crops
for which there is a home demand. To
go this it must be understood, of
course, that diversified system of ag-
riculture must be installed. The ordi-
nary farmer can very readily adapt
himself to this new system of agricul-
ture. It is more in unison with his en -
vironment and inclination and offers
a greater incentive to home building
and soil improvement.
Under the old system of agricul-
ture the soil is being depleted of its
fertility. No soil can long remain fer-
tile and productive while producing
the same crop year after year. Plant
exeeretion locks up the material o"
plant nutrition, thus rendering the
sob inactive^and to a degree sterile.
.This condition never follows where ro-
tation is practiced. Diversified agri-
culture means rotation. It is the
very foundation of successful diversi-
fied agriculture. V-
The Southern farmer should have
erased from his mind the idea that
cotton is the only money crop that he
can grow. Any ;crop to which the
soil is adapted can be made a monev
crop under sane managment. We
do not deem it necessary to introduce
statistical (lata to prove that commun-
ities where corn, small grain, peas, po-
tatoes, alfalfa, sorghums, and vegeta-
ble crops are more largely grown than
cotton are are the most prosperous
communities.^ The planting of these
crops means the rearing of poultry,
hogs and other live stock. It means
larger returns to the individual far-
mer for his labor and energies. It
means more time devoted to the beau-
tification of his home surroundings
and to the education of his children
and the happiness of his family! It
means more contentment on the- farm
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Statement of the Ownership, man-
agement, circulation, etc., required by
the act of August 24, 1912, of The
Bonham News, published Tuesday and
Friday, at Bonham, Texas, for Oct. 1,
1914.
Editor, Ashley Evans; Business
Manager, L. E. Dicus. Publisher, The
News Company.
Owners: L. E. Dicus, Bonham, Tex-
as; E. B. Comstock, Dallas, Texas.
Known bondholders, mortgagees and
other security holders, holding 1 per
cent or more of total amount of
bonds, mortgages, or other securities:
Ashley Evans, Bonham, Texas.
L. E. Dicus, Business Manage?.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 7th day of Oct., 1914.
Ashley -Evans, Notary Public Fan-
rin County, Texas. *
(My^cagimission expires June, 1915.)
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' NOTICE. SHERIFF’S SALE.
The State of Texas, County of* Fannin.
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By virtue of an order of sale issued
out of the Honorable Distirct Court of
Fannin Co., on 5th day of October,
A. D., 1914, on a judgment rendered
in said coui*t on the 18th day of Aug-
ust, 1914, in favor of plaintiff and
against defendants in cause No. 7486,
styled C. L. Bradford, Ex’r of last will
of W. W. Russell, deceased—versus
E. Patterson, also known as Alex Pat-
terson; E. A. Gaines, Charley Patter-
son, Mack Patterson, Willie B. Patter-
sor ,and the heirs of W. M. Patterson,
deceased, and to me, as sher-
iff, directed and deivered. I
will proceed to sell for cash
within the hours prescribed by law for
Sheriff’s sales, on the 3id day of No-
vember, A. D., 1934, before the Court
House door of said Fannin Co., in the
city of Bopham, the following describ -
ed property to-wi: 31% acres land, in
Fannin County, Texas, about 8 miles
N. of Bonham, out of Mary Caldwell
survey, beginning at S. E. corner
James Daniel’s 50 acres; thence E.
with N. line of J. T. Butler’s 50 acres
265 varas, passes his N. E. corner at
and a longer continuance of the power ^10 vs to a stake on E line said sur-
of his land to produce maximum ve>'; thence N. 458 vs to S. E. cor-
C’*ops." ;
This is the new agriculture that will
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r.er J. M. Hank’s land; Thence West
710 vs to N. E, corner. James Daniel’s
50 acres; thence south 458 vs to the
beginning, containing 57% acres, ex-
cepting 26 acres off S. side of said,
tract deeded to other parties;
Sl% acres being same conveyed
Sarah Patterson January 23, 1904/
E. Patterson and W. M. Patterson, by
deed recorded in Book 94, pagei£44
deed records said county; and most
generally known as the Sarah Patter-
son property; levied on as the proper-
ty of the defendant^ hereinbefore
named, to satisfy judgment amount-
ing to $377.00 in fa?or of Plaintiff C.
L. Bradford, executor W. W. Russell,
deceased, with 10 per cent interest
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1914, newspaper, October 9, 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982216/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.