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BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD!
Brownsville Herald Publishing Co.
Mrs. Jesse O. Wheeler m Editor
Martin J. Slattery * - Manager
Offllcal Organ of Cameron County
Consolidated In 1393 with the Daily
Cosmopolitan, which was publish
ed in Brownsville for 16 years.
Terms ot fubscription
* Dally — Published every morning
except Sunday, by mall postpaid to
any point in the United States, Mex.
Sco or Cuba, or delivered by carrier
to any part of the city, West
Brownsville, Texas, or Matamoros,.
Mexico,
Entered at the Postoffice at Browns
ville, Texas, as Second Class Mall
Matter.
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1912.
The Herald 13 authorized to an
nounce C. G. HALLMARK as a can
didate for the office of County School
Superintendent, subject to the ac
tion of the Democratic primaries,
July 27, 1912.
SUING FOR DAMAGE.
It is a great pity that all the* great
and varied industries of our country
are not more thoroughly investi
gated, tabulated, and ciphered out
to their remotest dimensions, re
sources, possibilities and develop
ments. It should be possible to go
to a reference book of some kind,
printed and circulated by the gov
ernment — postage prepaid — and
find out every fact that is worth
knowing about any business that is
a principal—or even a large —source
of Income to any considerable num
ber of our people.
Take, as an instance, the damage
suit industry. A good deal of money,
or a great number of money’s varied
equivalents, must change hands or
be put into circulation every year
through this industry. Vet we look
in vain look through census reports,
through the documents of the de
partment of agriculture, through the
reports of labor commisisoners,
through. mortuary documents,
through it he (tables of actuaries,
through assessment lists, and in
rmany other more or less likely
places, only ito discover to our sor
row and regret that this great field
of human industry and enterprise
has been utterly, carelessly—we
might almost! say wantonly neglect
ed by our governments, state and
. national.
Surely this ought not to be. For
this great department of human in
dustry: this ready harvest field for
the prompt and enterprising, is en
titled to some attention in the
places where attention should count j
for something practical. This is aj
business which affords balm tor hurt
minds; wherein the jingling of the
guinea help the? hurt that honor
feels; wherein the careless, the in
competent and the wanton are made
to pay tlie price of their careless
ness, incompetency and wantonness;
wherein the physically hurt get pay
for the pain they suffer; wherein
it he mentally and spiritually
wounded find balm in Gilead;
wherein the man whose heart is
broken by the alienation of his
wife’s affection may have the .oil of
gladness poured Into the place
where the solution of continuity has
occurred in his cardiac tissues, in
the shape of a good round verdict
for a good round sum; wherein the
man who has had a bad year in his i
business may be enabled to make
his books show (the right balance, if
he can only persuade a jury that
Home sufficiently solvent individual j
.has tn some way Injured his purse, j
person or reputation, so that a ver-1
diet for damages may result.
It is a great industry, a growing,
thriving industry, which deserves
to have some at ten ion paid to it.
Congress ought to take it up: also
the state legislature. We ought to
have exact data about it 'n he event
tha/t any man or woman should do
anything to us. in word, act or look,
we ought to know just what book to
get, and what leaf to iturn to find
the information we need. We should
know:
What is the average percentage
of outlay in damage suits, and what j
is the average net profit?
What kind of pleas are the best
winners?
How does the case where actual
physical damages are sustained
through gross or criminal negligence
of the defendant compare, as a cash
winner, with the eases where a
golden ointment is sought for ethi
cal or spiritual damages.
All this and much else we should
know, for no wise man will embark
in a business that is entirely intang
ble as to probabilities or even as to
jossibilities.
A big, beneficent government like
)ur3, that has so many statistical ;
ixperts in its service ought to take
this matter up and sift it to its ulti
mate possibility.
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Mr. Hadley of Missouri has de- j
■ided not to join the new party of \
his erstwhile peerless leader. For
i
ane thing, Mr. Hadley is one of the
shrewe3t of the republican leaders i
if his generation. He was one of
the immortal seven who saw a great
light, when the Colonel was sprung
as the onlies' saviour of the nation.
Nevertheless,, he has doubtless been
a reader of history, and he knows
the fate of the bolter in politics.
Like the negro girl in Chandler Har
ris’ story, his excellency of Missouri
is “One or dese curious kind of peo
ple what knows pine-blank when
[fcey«d *ie got enough.”
The offer of amnesty to the rebels
at this crisis in their affairs is 1
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doubtless a shrewd move on toe part
of Madero’s government. It comes
at a time when the nerves of the of
ficers and men of the rebel force
must he a bir shaken by the unprom
ising outlook at present. if they
reject the amnesty now they will
have only themselves to blame for
any serevities that may result to*
them hereafter on 'the part of the
government.
As soon as the rush of business is
over we may expect the Colonel to
take time to tell his real opinion of’
the Chicago convention. So far we
have only got a few brief, vigorous,
sizzling adjectives. These are good
enough as 'far as they go, but they
lack coherency. His view's should
be stated under a videlicet, as it
were. What we need is not so much
of the gonerial view as the particu
lars—all the particulars.
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There is, a liti le bit of fighting,
here and there, in the Baltimore
convention, but all the same the
convention moves. Every day they
do the thing scheduled to be done.
There is no sparring for time, no
pettifogging, no filibustering. A
good, strong gathering of represen
tative democrats, met together to
transact the business they were ap
pointed* td do, lh hpTTff-of individual
difference ^of.opytjon.
Whoever the nominee of the
Baltimore convention, he will be a
progressive. Even the conservatives
are agreed that the only chance of
victory is in the nomination of a
progressive candidate on a progres
sive platform. The proof of the ir
resistible tendency in that direction
was the select ion of Ollie James for
permanent chairman.
Let us not forget that the South
Texas Gardeners will meet at
Brownsville on the 15th., and 16th.
of next month. We must he prepared
to give them a cordial reception and
intake them glad that Brownsville
is the home of the association.
Jim Wells county will perhaps be
the headquarters for the millenitim
when it arrives. Three successive
sessions of the grand jury and not
a single Indictment. Mighty good
people or mighty itoor grand jury.
It is possible that Orozco will re
tire to Juarez with his array. He
will maybe continue the tight there
unttil it he juft before the last car
leaves over the international bridge
for El Paso.
The only editorial comment to be
made on the absence of rain for the
last few hours, is that it is a groat
satisfaction to announce thatt there
has been no rain for the last few
hours, , • • I ft 11 i i frilifc
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Let the
good Dame
Fortune enter you?]
business through the
advertising door.
When you keep your business
a secret you are locking Mine.
Fortune out.
See ns to-day about our ad
fates.
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Washington, D. C., June 26.—
Owing to the absence of so many
members of the Senae and the
House from Washington, no attempt
has been made to reach an agree
ment on the River and Harbor bill
this week. l,t Is not probable now
that the measure will be perfected
in time for the President's signa
’ure before the close of the fistal
year. Fortunately however this will
not result in any particular embar
rassment to the Corps of Engineers
in charge of the various works
throughout the country. Those pro
jects which have already been au
thorized will proceed just as though
the appropriations authorized were
made available, and while it will be
impossible to begin the new works
provided for in the bill now pending,
the practical certainity that the
measure -will soon become a law as
sures the continuance of the general
policy of improvement of the water
ways beyond any question.
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Great interest is manifested
throughout the w’hole United States
in the development cf the phosphate
deposits in the Southern States. It is
asserted that many millions of dol
lar > worth of fertilizers liavj al
ready been extracted from the phos
phate rocks of Florida, the Caro
linas and Tennessee and that pros
pecting is proceeding in a number
of other states with excellent pros- J
poets of success. In the meantime
the agricultural department has
been advised that a chemist of New
York has perfected a method of
doubling the avaiablle soluble phos
phoric acid of every ton of the rock
now in sight and which may here
after be uncovered. The department
expects as a rosuU of the experi
ments made with this new process
that the plant food of the phosphate
rock deposits will be doubled in va
lue and that the agricultural in
terests of the country will be bene
fited thereby, because of /the conse
quent reduction in price of all fer
tilizers of w'hieh “the component
part of chief value” is extracted
from these southern deposits.
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There will be a youngster among
the pages a'r the democratic conven
tion in Baltimore who gives prom
ise of becoming a distinguished pol
itician when he attains a few more
years. He is Harry Schaefer a “kid"
of little more than thirteen, the son
of an official of the -\avy Depart
ment. Employees of the federal civ
il service with large families do no:
have very large bank accounts as
a rule and Harry’s father is not an
exception to the rule. The boy con
ceived the idea of earning his own
way. He remembered that Repre
sentative Hobson of Alabama, was
engaged in trying to block the en
trance to the harbor of Santiago
about the time that he, Harry, was
l>orn. He interview Mr. Ilobsou and
(ailing attention to the fact that
his father was connected with the
Navy Department, asked the ex-rap
tain to secure him a place as a page
on the floor of the House of Repre
sentatives. Captain Hobson was ta
ken with the enterprise ot the young
ster and complied with iiis- reques*.
Harry concluded that ho would like
to see a national convention “from
the inside . He borrowed a'typewri
ter and wrote out half a dozen let
ters of recommendation for himself.
These he took to Speaker Clark, lea
der Underwood and other promin
ent Democrats and asked their sig
natures. They all complied with the
request. Then he wrote an applica
tion to Mr. Urey Woodson, secretary
of the national committee, and en
closed the letters. Mr. Woodson in
a letter <to Speaker Clark promised
the appointment and added that
such a youngster is too good a politi
cian to be kept down. That’s how
it happens that among the pages at
the convention in Baltimore is Har
ry Schaefer, some day destined to
he known as more than a page.
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The rather warm proceedings in
Chicago during the past few days
have brought out all sorts of reminis
cences of previous hot political con
tests. A gentleman from Oklahoma
tells of an incident which occurred
in Ardmore, when that town was
in the old Indian Territory. R. L.
Williams is a little fellow, weighing
not much more than a hundred
pounds. They sat opposite each other
at a hotel dining able on one oc
casion when Mansfield made ’ rather
uawsty” remarks about those who fa
vored a man whom Mansfield op
posed. Williams said, “Of course you
don’t intend your remark to apply
to present company.’’ Mansfield re
plied to the effect that the man whom
the cap fitted was privileged to wear
it. Whereupon William picked up a
quart pitcher filled with Oklahoma
molasses and landed it forcibly upon
the forehead of th^,giant. Two hours
were required to remove the mo
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lasses and the broken crockery from ,
Mr. Mansfield's brow—and the inoi- '
dent resulted in electing Mr. Wil
liams to the bench In Oklahoma. He j
is s:ill one of the judges of ‘lie state.
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WORK FOR THE EDITOR.
It is said that any one can be an
editor. All an editor has to do is
to sit at his desk six days in the
week, four weeks of the month and
twelve months of the year and “edit"
such stuff as this:
“Mrs. Joues of Ix>st Creek, let a
can opener slip last week and cut
herself in the pantry.”
“A mischievous lad of Matherton •
threw a stone and struck a com pan- j
ion in the alley Iasi Tuesday.”
“John Doe climbed on the roof of
his house last week ksoking Mr a
leak, ami fell, dtrlkimg himself on
he back porc h.”
“While Harold Green was escort
ing Miss Violet Wise home from a
church social Saturday night a sav
age clog attacked them and bit Mr. :
Green on the public square.”
“Isaac Trimmer was playing with
a cat Friday when it scratched him
on the veranda."
“Mr. White, while harnessing a
broncho last Saturday was kicked
jus south of the comcrib.’’—From
Norman E. Mack’s Monthly.
“What is the difference between
poinmc de terre and potato?"
“About two dollars.”—Harvard
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