JWHSVIU.E DAILY HERALD
Brownsville Herald Publishing Co.
Mr* jre** 0 Whe#Ur . Editor
M*nIn J Slattery - - Manager
Off|ical Organ of Cameron County
Consolidated In 1893 with the Dally
t osm-jpoiksn, which was publish
ed In Brownsville for 16 years.
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^Dally — Published every morning
extept Sunday, by mail postpaid to
•ny point in the United States. Mex.
Ico or Cuba, or delivered by carrier
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Brownsville, Texas, or Matamoros,
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MONDAY' FEBRUARY 5. 1912
NEARLY tOO Ooo RlSFIt t\( lllsl h
IN TEXAS.
Whether the results of the late
poll tax collections in Texas uphold
the wisdom of imposing as a iienatty
for Ita non-payment the forfeiture
of the right of suffrage seems doubt
ful. The figures show that, out of
about a million citizens who an* oth
erwise qualified to vote in this stat
nearly 400,000 have failed to pay
the poll tax. and hence are disfran
chised for a whole year. That forty
per c<*ut of the voters of the state
would deliberately forfeit their right
to vote, by/refusing to pay so small
ft sura g* $1.75, especially when a
considerable portion of that amount
Is for the benefit of the public school
v^fund, Is difficult to believe. A good
many may have done so. but it is
•probable that a veVv large percentage
of the (lumber did net pay the tax
because theyfeoVTId not afford to do
eo. Many a man who has to pav
one-fourth of his Income for rent,
and divide* up the balance between
the groeer, * tbe butcher, the baker
and the dry goods merchant, with oe
, eaaional drug and doctor til Is. and
the addition^ expense of fuel dur
the wintergnav not find it easy
ake $1.7' n4it of his taoathly earn
t° 4HlhliNHP*U IMr v1’
Jths bring always additional ex
•e for mere living, and. unfor
ttely, the tax collection falls in
1 of winter.
Aside from the question of the
justice of reuiring citizens to pay for
the privilege which the Constitution
1% guarantee* them without price, the
in Texas has given
rleeff^set'lous doubts as to the wis
dom of the (poll tax provision. That
It has eliminated to considerable ex
tent the purchasable vote may lie
true—that is. taking It for granted
that most of the purchasable suffra
gans are among the poorest class,
because they are generally also the
ignorant class. This vote, however
could be excluded by the adoption of
a provision requiring a certain de
gree of education, which would work
no hardship upon the poor but in
telligent citizen.
TWO LESSONS FROM HAWLEY'S
v LIFE.
Edwin Hawley, the great railroad
man, who died last week, is one
more of the many successful men
who began life at the bottom round
of the ladder, having begun his rail
road career as a clerk, at the age of
seventeen. Here Is one more proof
that poverty and the lack of higher
education need not handicap any boy.
if he will only go to work with the
proper determination and stick to
It. Another lesson drawn from Haw
ley's career contains encouragement
for older men as well. It Is noted
that his most important work was ac
complished between his fortieth and
fifty-second years. This tends to up
hold the belief that the most pro
ductive years of life usually are In
cluded in the decade between forty
and fifty.
Evidently the ground hog a#w bis
shadow when he took his outing last
Friday.
Si ... J-W ■ 1
Well, we always expect our cold
est weather In February, anyway.
An eight story re-Inferred con
crete building to eoet $17S,i<M>, Is
to be built at Dallas soon.
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A WISE ORDER
The action of the government of
the State or Tamaulipas in ordering
that American peace officers be pro
hibited from going across the border
into Mexico carrying weapons is wise
and titneiy. It was the natural re
sult of Br wnsville’s action in for
bidding the Maderista soldiers com
ing here armed Such a ruling, if
strictly enforced, will serve to pro
mote the preservation of peaceful
r lations between the two countries.
The officers of this country have no
more right to go armed into Mexi
co than have any other American
citizens. The same applies to Mexi
can officers when in this country.
That was a rather handsome act
on the part of Judge Waller T.
Burnt, in lending the money to Law
yer Sandoval of Monterey to pay the
fine assessed against the latter as
the result of his conviction In the
Reyista trial at Browusville. Sando
val impressed ail who saw- and heard
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him as a man with fine sense of
honor. Judge Burns could not have
done otherwise than to fine him.
Neither could he reas uiably remit
Sandoval’s fine, without remitting
those of his eo-conspirators. There
fore. he has very generously lent the
prisoner the money necessary to ae
t ur his release. Ten to one. Judge
Burns has r ad the Monterey lawyer
aright, and will get his money back
JI'IIQF BURNS I'AIS
A ItKVISTA’S 11X11.
I .ends MiOO !«• J<w*e Bonilla Sandoval.
( on v let i'll at Bnmii-vjHe, and
•"it* I’liMincr to Be Freed.
The most unusual occurrence
ever chronicled in a court of
justice In this section of the
country went on record Friday
in the United States court, when
Judge Waller T. Barnes of the
district court of the Southern
district of Texas loaned $*’><»»»
to a prisoner whom he had pre
viously fined this sum. Among
ihe twentv-odd defendants in
the noted cases tried at Browns
ville by Judge Burns the first
week in January, in which viola
tion of the United States neu
trality law was charged, in con
nection with the Bernardo Rtf*
es revolution In Mexico, wag Jose
Donates Sandoval. Sandoval
was convicted of the charge,
and Judge Burns fined him $6<M>
In default of the fine Sandoval
was conveyed to Laredo, Texas,
to serve out his sentence.. Sev
eral days past he wrote Judge
Burns, asking a loan of the
amount of his fine, saying that
he would return the money ‘ as
soon as able.” Judge Burns on
Friday gave his personal check
for the amount and. Sandoval
will be released from prison to
day—Galveston New*.
It is understood that Mr. Sandoval
informed Judge Burns that he was
very anxious to return to his home
in Mexico, where important business
required his attention. Mr. Sando
val, who is a well known attorney
of Monterey, created a very favor
able impression in Brownsville dur
ing the Reyista trial. He made a
very eloquent address during the
trial, and won general sympathy and
admiration by his manly behavior.
Density of Popu'ation in Texas.
In a bulletin recently Issued by R.
Dana Durand, director of the rea*u»
bureau of the United States, is given
some interesting da a relative to the
density of population by counties ia
Texas. The total population of »He
state is .1.KBS,542; the total land
area is 262,398 square miles and tin
average number of people to th*
square miles is 14.8,
Dallas County has the nig host
density of any county In the sta*e.
having a population of 135,748, a
land area of 859 square miles, mak
ing 158 persons to the square mile.
Tarrant County comet second, with
a population of 108,572, a land
area of 91*3 square miles, and 120 ?
persons to the square mile; Galves
ton County is third, with a popula
tion of 4 4,179, and the land area Is
395 square miles and 112.8 persons
to the square mile; Bexar County,
fourth, which has a population of
1 19.678, a land area of 1,263 square
miles, and an average of 9 4.8 per
sons to the square mile and Harris
County is fifth with a population of
113.693, a land area of 1,654 and an
average of 69.9 persons to the square
mile.
Cochran County has a population
of 65 people, and a land area of 869
square miles, an average of one per
son to every ten square miles, and is
the most sparsely settled county in
the state. Hockley County is a close
second to Cochran County in pau
city of inhabitants having a popula
tion of 137, a land area of 867 sq.
miles and one ”erson to jvery five
square miles,
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THE DELINQUENT BOY PROBLEM
(Written for The Herald by G. H.
I* ivl» of San Antonio, the Chil
dren’* Friend.)
Whet shall it profit a community
>r a state if it gain the world's bus
iness, all Its finance and lose Its
boys and girls—ANY OF THEM? If
I were going to pr**arh a sermon on
he subject of the State of Texas
•ml its responsibilities to the delln
tuent boys and girls, the above par
agraph would be my text. I am not
goin g to give a preach at nt here, but
I do wish t J set down a few facts and
suggestions, very briefly, that 1 trust
will be helpful, I believe it safe to
say there are approximately 5,000
delinquent and dependent boys In
Texas.
* The county and city jails, chain
gang* and the school at Ga.esvllle
tre the only Institutions providing
for the training of the wayward bay
*n Texas—except the one beautiful,
hat small example established by
Harris County and the city of
Houston.
The approximate cost of keeping a
boy in Jail may range from I1M to
fr.OO per year—and needless M say
the jail as an educational institution
is a poor one. Our bays >tiouhl not
lie repeatedly committed to these
places.
The officials of tbe prisms ar** not
In the least responsible. They, like
boys, are victims of a sysic-ot that
Texas is maintaining.
A good school under the cottage
system, as a vast improvement over
the congregate, should be erected by
the state.
The school should he (stublish • I
in some healthful pur tic i of th<*
■uate. where soil enndP'oas are g>od.
where there is plenty of good water
nd should l>e a considerable dis
tance from a large el y.
Its name should not utegest a pe
nal or corrective institution. Tit •
nam» 9am Houston Home for Hoys,
>r the Janies Hogg Svhool for Ho*-*,
is suggested. Two hundred thous
and dollars would not be an exeat*
iive appropriation for this purpose,
it is safe to say that such an institu
tion would pay for itself in 10 yeer*.
in the saving of cost* of depredation,
irrest and imprisonment.
Too much could not be ■a'd a) ng
humanitarian line* favoring tit*
school so much needed
It is earnestly desired that ev ry
citizen of Texas use his and her in
fluence to secur a deeply u td.-d
change in the luethoti In the train
ing of our unfortunate wayward
boys,
FOItCgFUS ItltlGHT FI'TI’ltK
Foil ItftoU XhYII.I,K rttl XTill
George X. Arnisby of Sen Franeiti
ro, Bal.. who ha* been with Col, B.
F. Yoakum for several days on the
line of the Brownsville rood itiakln®
an Investigation and plans relative
to the grow ins of lima beans in the
Hio Grande \ alleye on a large scale
as they are grown in California, spent
the day in Houston yesterday and
left last night for Henver. Colo. Col.
Yoakum and Mr. Arnisby were ar
eompaaled on the trip over the
Brownsville line by F E. Barnard of
Ixm Angeles. Cal.1, one of the most
extensile growers of lima hem* in
t he world. Mr. Barnard conduct -
| hia farm operations on a large scale,
! marketing annually something like
30.0no hgs of lima imams, each bag
welching about eighty-five pounds
In speaking of the trip Into South
Texas, Mr. Arnisby said:
*'\Ve went from Corpus Cbrlsti to
Brownsville ami also over the branch
lines iu that section. In a general
way we wanted to look at the coun
try. but particularly we wished to
look Into the possibilities for ra's
ing in that section the varieties of
Iwatis raised so extensively in Cali
ffornta. Of these beans there *re
raised annually in California about
’..OrtO.oOn bag*, bringing a large rev
enue to the growers of the state
There ap4>ears to be no reason why
the beans should not be raised suc
cessfully and in vast omnifties on
the tens of thousands of were* along
the Brownsville road. There is no
richer soil in California or in the
delta of the Nile, for that matter,
it was a revelation to me, the tre
mendous development that liav ta
ken place and is now going on. I*
certainly has a bright future, if 1 am
any judge of a coming country."
Mr. Arntsby is a member of the
firm of J. K. Arnisby company of
stan Francisco, this company befit*
large shippers of California produ-t*
to all parts of the world. He was
met in Houston yesterday by B. A.
Isaacs of Galveston, hia business r -
resentative ill this section of the
state.—Houston Post.
The citizens of Wharton and Fort
Bend Counties have under considera
tion the building of a paved high
way toward Galveston to connect
with a fine paved road from tbecity
of Galveston to the Galveston coun
ty line.
Wherry Hr t hers of Pa lest ir"
have purchased a tract of land near
there and will begin the const ruc
tion of a planing mill at an early
date.
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T# VI twill til Mil}" Cur tin:
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