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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1012.
BEGGING OR STEALING.
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Now comes Alexander Johnson, secre
tary of the national conference of char
ities and correction, and says: "I would
rather steal than lieg." “For." says Mr.
Johnson, “every time, you give a man a
dinner he has not earned you are tear
ing down his character." It would Is*
interesting to know how many people
applauded this idiotic remark, without
analyzing it to discover all the elements
of idiocy it eointains.
When Mr. Johnson declares he had
rather steal than beg. we have no dis
position to doubt his word. Perhaps
what he said of himself is true. ^ et
when hi* comes to give his reasons for
his personal views on the question of
stealing, why then it is to laugh: or
rather it is to weep.
It is not necessarily true that every
time a man gets a dinner in* lias not
earned his moral character suffers some
deterioration in consequence. A man
^vho is in actual want may ask for help
and may receive it without suitering
any appreciable, moral deterioration. It
may very well be that in appealing suc
cessfully to the love of his fellow man
he h as enabled the other man to expe
rience the truth of the words of the
Great Teacher: "It is more blessed to
give than to receive," and he himself
has tieen helped by the discovery of the
helpful loving moods that are in all men.
manifest or latent
No one will quarrel with Mr. John
son in so far as he means to say that
habitual mendicancy on the part of per
sons able to earn a living makes for
moral deterioration. Yet (his being true,
does it follow that stealing will prevent
inoral injury? If it docs, and it Mr.
Johnson thinks jt docs. Tic is the iuven
- i ii of a braiul new philosophy, which
setS at naught tin* wisdom of Him, who
said: “Thou shall not steal:" and he
condemns the philosophies ami the laws
of all ages and all civilizations in their
attempt to protect themeslvcs against
stealing.
Mr. Johnson is evidently committed to
this dilemma:
The taking of an unearned dinner, with
the owner's consent and by his pet-mis
sion, is to break down the taker's moral
character.
The taking of an unearned dinner,
from the owner, without his knowledge or
ixnisent. is a comparatively harmless
proceeding as far as the taker's moral
character is concerned.
Until Mr. Johnson can show some >at
isfactorv authorization for the repeal of
* a certain collection or ancient docu
incuts, heretofore held to be given by in
spiration of God, known to men as the
Bible, we shall decline to accept his
philosophy as to tin* relative demerits
of begging and stealing. May no read
er of this ever feel compelled or impelled
to do either.
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ll is announced that Governor Col
quitt is ready to join a number of other
governors in a crusade against all forms
of gambling, from craps to church lot
teries.
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The clipping from tin* San Antonio
Express, printed in today's Herald, con
cerning Mr. Thomas F. Love, contains
a well merited appreciation of a wor
thy Texas Democrat, and The Herald
is glad to tpiote it. It also affords us
its pleasure to an non nee that Mr. Love
has given his unqualified endorsement
of our esteemed fellow citizen. Frank
Itabb, for eolloetor of customs for this
district.
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It is really amusing to see what
a fuss the interior papers are mak
ing about mini and bad roads. They
should rejoice over such conditions,
for they illustrate the truth of all
that they have been saving. Hons
ton uhjroiiirle.
Yes. yes. but one gets tired of saying.
“1 told you so" every time it rains, es
penally when it rains as often as it
hus sinee the Uaineron county Yoad
bond election. It irritates the other
fellows to have it rubbed into them in
that way. And it does not mend tin
roads.
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Time has been, in the history of our
country, when the opinion of Judge Max
ey. to the effect that tin* president ol
the United States has no right, in linn
of peace, to enuse the arrest of a in
man. citizen or foreigner, by means ol
the military, without ordinary civil pro
cess, would have lieen accepted as si
matter of course. However, in these lat
ter day*, with our tremendous trend
toward centralization, li will jierluips
require the superior authority of tin*
highest tribunal in tlu* land to settle
tin* question of the exact limits of the
powers of the chief executive.
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JFDGE WELLS DEE LIGHTED.
- A Washington special to the San An
tonio Express, dated Dec. Ill, says:
Happy beyond adequate expression is
Judge James B Wells of Brownsville
over the National Democratic victory last
month.
"1 never will get tired crowing over
it.” said the judge, who spent today in
! Washington on his first visit to the cap
j ital in many years. Tlu* veteran Demo
rrat of Southwest Texas is pleased, fur
tlicrmore. over tin* prospective appoint
incut by Governor Colquitt of Col. !’. M.
| Johnson of Houston to succeed Senator
Bailey, in view of the announced inten
lion of the junior senator to resign his
toga early in January.
"Stn li a recognition of Col. Johnston's j
lengthy service for the Democratic party i
is due him by all means.” said JiidgtC
Wells. "And it is a very graceful tiling j
lor Senator Bailey to do. inasmuch as In ;
would leave public life in March any
wav. That I regret to see. however, foi
jl think with Culberson and Bailey, Tex
jas lias the ablest senatorial delegation
of all states. Colonel Johnston has dc
j voted his energy, time and money without
stint for many years in advancing the
democratic cause, without any hope foi
reward.”
Judge Wells visited tlu* Texas senators |
j and congressmen /ml Speaker Champ
I ('lark at tlu* capital today and left to
night for the North.
TOM LOVE OF TEXAS.
There isn't a really “original Wilson
i man” in all the limits of Texas who
doesn't ascribe to Thomas B. Love of
Dallas, fornvr speaker of the Texas
Legislature and right arm of Thoms M.
Campbell, much of the praise for tlu*
splendid organization which swept Tex
as for Wilson on May * last. With tlu*
possible exception of Charles A. Culber
son. there isn’t a man in tlu* modern
..history oi Texas who can see farther
(into Hu* complexities of a political prob
lem. Pope "lisped in numbers and /In*
numbers eanuC Tom Love’s first lisp
was about a convention and a primary
and the nomines came-usually as lie
wanted them.
lie learned back in Missouri in tlu*
days wluin tlu* "old tguard” wrestled
manfully to prevent some Hadley from
doing what Herbert S. <Ful in 1 DOS to ap
ply the maxim of Napoleon. "God's on
the side of tlu* heaviest artillery." to;
| political struggles. No better organizer
ever came on the field of Texas polities
None ever came, when needs must, with
more r.Jfidity or better prepared. Tom
Love outlined tin* fighting ground and
the Houston convention which, by tlu*
way. nearly forgot him. breathed the es
sence of his handiwork.
Tom Love was burying his mother in
Springfield when the Wilson forces
gathered by Buffalo Bayou. By all tlu*
rules of right lu* should have been one of
tin* delegates at large to tile Baltimore
convention But for tlu* recollection, at
the last moment, of a Sjiu Antonio
lriciul. wlu* put him up Tor alternate.)
tlu* roster of the National convention
might not have borne his name. Even
then, tlu* battle having gone Wilson's
way decisively, tlu* "originals” were
crowding those who had been on tlu* j
driver’s seat into that place where one,
in order to ride alkali, must hang his
foot down in the vicinity of the rear
wheels. Lockjaw had ceased to be pop
ular.
Love is not nil aspirant for any of
fiee under President Wilson. There is
none, lie lias written it and said it broad
cast. lie desires. But lu* is taking a
powerful "dish” lor bis friends, and
most of those lie will visit Washington
tor were seen at the garnering held in
Austin on August 7-. 11*11. lie says he
knows all the "originals” by their first
names and that lu* is going to see to
it that Mr. Wilson knows them.
It was at first devised to have Sen
ator Culberson act as president of tlu*
Wilson Texas League, and a telegram in
viting hint to accept the place was sent
him tlu* day before Hu* convention met.
Even then it was known the attitude
the senior Senator would assume. Sen
ator Culberson said it would 1m* better
to wait and come with his supjtort lat
er in the campaign. Whereupon the
presidency of the organization was fore
ed on Love and the battle Itegan. Cato
Sells ot Cleburne was chosen chairman
of tlu* executive committee and no man
ever worked harder to accomplish a po
litical purpose. But the battle front
that crossed Texas and back again was
Tom Love’s, and none of those who ans
wered the first Wilson call to arms and
enlisted for the war will over dispute
tlu* correctness of this statement.—San
Antonio Express.
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YOU GET WIIAT YOU ASK FOR
at our grocery. An order will be filled
with first choices which could not Ik* bet
tered by an expert in fiwid products with
a full assortment of everything to pick
from. Knowing precisely what is wanted
by careful housekeepters, we buy such
things as tally with the standard of good
livers. Brisk business, short prices, noth
cheap.
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Now is the time to plant sugar beets for stock. Sugar heets
do very well in this section and are very productive, making a
very svcculent nutritious food, for milk cows, pigs etc. I have
the three best varieties: Kleinwanzleben, Golden Tankard
and Giant Half Sugar.
Price 50c per lb. Ten pound lots 45c. '
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occasionally: He may not know much
about it, but even he will see why you in
sist on doing your meat buying here.
The cleanliness will appeal to him for
one thing. The prompt and courteous
service for another. And as we k«*ep
choice meats only, he cannot go very far
wrong in his selection of meat for the
table. But come mostly yourself.
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