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THE WEEKLY HERALD, JUNE 6. Iqo7 THE WEEKLY HERALD Published weakly on Thursdays . 61 Polk Street, Amarlllo, Tmis. P. E. HOE.HEX, Publisher. S. A. BREWSTER, Editor and Mgr. Entered at the ro.tofflce at Amar lllo, Texas, as second claso mail mat tsr. O.'flclal Organ of CHy of Aioerillo and Poller County ADVEKTIS1NQ RATES. Display 20c per Inch wh Insertion. Locale 10c per Inch each Insertion. BUDSCniPTlON 11.00 PER YEAR. The Herald will m coming to you when your time expiree unless we are authorized to continue It. Should any subscriber fall to re ceive The Herald regularly, please ad vim us at once by card or leie phone. Any errors reflecting upon the character, landing or reputation of any cereon. firm or corporation which may appear In the coUhids of The Herald will be gladly corrected upon lit being brought to the at tention of the publishers. THURSDAY, JUNB 6, 1107. HIS LITTLE MAJESTY. . Blue blood or red, whit matter It? What matter pride 6f race? This little manikin bedecked With dainty lawn and lure, Like any lowly col tor's child, Must grow Into his place. Oh, baby eyes that blindly blink, What visions will you bee . Of kingdoms leve:od, kings un crowned, And wonders thnt shall be, When every men rtall wilk erect, Unlettered, brave and (reo! Dine blood or red, what matter It; Oh, ch id of ancient lKie? Tho p:cs upholding kingcraft rot; TIio f Is trro and, the vino Kv.ch mm must liuve who earns It. and Heboid In love the sign. -Frunk Fair, la St. Louis Olobo Coiiiocrnt. ' "I like to pay my money to the ranhmdle," said Judge Barrett, last evening, when paying for the Pan handle. "I do It without grudging it, and I have my printing done by you, and pay you much more than I know I could got it In some little towns, whore they do not have the expense you do, but I like the tone of the paper, and the way It Is run now, end want to do my share to as sist It, for It la doing a good work for the city and country, and is run on the proper principle," added the Judge as he took his departure. Such compliments are appreciated by the management of the Panhandle, who la trying lo give the city good, clean, up-to-date newspaper. ' The Panhandle has been talking tree planting In Amarlllo and the plains. It Is the thing for every property owner to do. Here is some thing of Interest along this line from the Claude News; "When tree cult ure on the p rains Is mentioned, u good many people show themselves to doubting Thomases In spite cf the tact that the Claude News, J. H Howe. P. Warner and others preach' the doctrine of tree planting as duty. Apart from the beauty and pleasure that trees carry with them, they have a money value that makes them worth while. J- H. Howe can testify to this from actual expe rience. A few days ago he made one hundred fence posts from Cot tonwood. poplar nnd black locust trees six and eight years old, 'which he has grown In his own . forest. Trees are a good Invpstmcnt" CRITICS OF MR. BRYAN. It Is really . amu.slny to see the sickly opposition put up by some of the members ot'the press against W. J. Bryan and the government ownership Idea he Is advocating. In the Lubbock Avalanche, of the cur rent week, appeared an Article with out comment, from the Dallas Times Herald, In which It stated that Mr. Bryan had made a treat mistake In advocating government ownership of rlilroads, for tlie reason that S.000V 000 Democrats of the nation who bad followed Mr. Bryan were opposed to government ownership first, last and 11 the time. .. ' ; '.; , , amu tha T-H. know that to te a fact? Can that paper spe.k for five million voters In this country! The same naner stated thnt Mr. Bry an'a statement nient con trol of the railroads Is a failure Is a humiliating adnMsHtotV Possibly so, but neverthelwi If is i (aft, and If the editor of tkat Uler Is a student of current ovorilsl'and is honest, tie must admit the1 truth of the state ment. ' ' " Over fourteen years the first at tempt at controlling (hfc railroads In the matter of 'IriVeriliile' commerce, has been on tr 11 . and proved auch a dismal failure that I the Interstato commerce commission threw up Its handa, and asked" for' additional leg islation to give it owcrs to do what It was established for. It may he humiliating to admit that the rail roads were so stjcciji.fiil In guarding the Cullom intersiate commerce bill against anything effective, but four teen years experlearit has proven the truth of the statamtnt, and in tho meantime the railroad have tieen robbing the general ' public at will, unmolested. I I Oovernments arj Instituted for the convenience, accommodation nnd ser ving of the whole people of the gov ernment. The government does not (arm out its 'postal business, though. It pays the railroads enough for car rying It In this country, yearly, to pay the coat of buHdlng and equip ping is.owa.xullroadA, In a short time, and then It 'furnishes govern ment employes to, handle the malls on tihe tralnnj lfriiddyiod. The government dons not farm out Its armies nd natles, for protection of the people, to some corporation. If the government can operate the great postal business successfully, why can It not also own and operate Its grent public carrier systems, and operate them fortho benefit of all the people? ;i ,i ,- . - , The people pay the bills of the railroads, In passenger and freight tariffs, and the great corporations have grown wealthy but have not devoted the rpvonue- received to bet tering the service, building double tracks, and; jlncresalng ithe rolling stock sufficient to loeeiii. pace with the advancement lithe country, but have dlsHtD&ted tan, funds, and let the people put up, wl.th any old ser !vlct Uieyvfpuld, got,- w-,. " If the igflver'ntnen. owned the rail roads, tsrlffs wo Sid; be lower, and the money made iwodld be devoted to the Improvement of the sorvlco, and rates would be reduced, when the surplus became too large. Gov ernment ownership Is no experiment. Btatlatlrs show that In other coun tries it has been and Is being tried, with great success. The most humiliating admission that can bo made( Is the argument against government ownership, which Is an admission that the people of this country,'; who compose, through their chosen representatives, the government, are Incompetent to man age their own affairs .nd run their railroads. The, man who believes such stuff Is surely no good Demo crat. Ho surely does not believe thnt the people are capable of man aging their own' affairs, but wants them to delegate" It to corporations of mon to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses. The Panhandle 'believes In gov ernment of. the people, run by the people, for the, whole people. It be lieves that the government should make every dollar of its own money, whether specie or bills, making every dollar legal tender for all dobts whether public pr private, permit ting no set of men to Issue the money of the people, and speculate upon it at will. Banks should only be permitted to deal In the money of the government being established when a man or ,set of men had ac cumulated enough of It to open up In business. I, The government should own and operate all of the great pub lic carriers of Interstate business, and states the local ones, railroads, tel egraph and express lines, and operate them at. coat, for the benefit of all the people. Such we believe to be pure democracy, and In accordance with the Intent, of our form of gov ernment, We have" faith In the peo ple to dq this , business for them selves, without the aid, consent, ad vice or dictation of any of the great captains of finance or railroads. 8uch Is Mr. Bryan's democracy.. YES, XT, APOLOGIZE. " After .opjfjijpin full-' the Dally Panhandle's statement of the condi tions of tfte"smalr' pox situation in Amarlllo, the Plalnvlew News, of the curreM 'week's issue says: "We olio thf above from the Dally Panhandle. ,'. f,. . . "We did not know we were doing Amarlllo an Injustice, and us the Dally seems to want an apology we hereby offer It., We had seen tho statement In the dally of conditions, and having business In, Canyon we hastened thither, nd foud ( It, cur rently reported, and by ,mf-n w.ip pretended to know that there were 160 esse. Quite a little difference In figures, eh!' "Now will Amarlllo be as ready to apologize for telling prospectors that our country down here was nothing but a sand bed and that we could not grow, thus turning them to New Mexico and eleswhere, as we have been In the small pox situation." Yes, the Panhandle apologizes with shame, for any of its citizens who 'have been guilty of such j mean act, as the News charges to theni, of making such unfavorable statements concerning Hale county land". How ever, we do not know of any such having been made. The Panhandle would not mako any such statements about Its sister county und city, for It does not be lieve any such to be true. On the contrary, wo have uhvaya heard from traveling men, and others who have visited tftit territory, that It was one of the. finest farming por tions of the Plains. There Is no cause or reason for Jealousy between Amarlllo and her sister cities of the plains. We are all located in the best portion of the globe, not fully occupied, and there Is room and work for us all to boost our respective localities, without at tempting to do any other portion an Injury. Is this apology sufficient, Brother Shufflor? i A GREAT MISTAKE. The DUly Panhandle Is Informed that the Commercial club has given up the Idea of raising the funds, to rent or purchase tho present site of the government experimental farm, southwest of the city. It Is also said that the appeal to wealthy, in fluentiil and interesed citizens has failed to arouse enough' enthusiasm and Interest in the farm to cause them to dig up, and - secar.v-thi ground for the goverxtmenbt ftr h long term of years, illif r. iHof. In this the panhar.dfMiln1es the Commercial club, ah dilerfy1! in terested men of Uil8 cWahdoflvtl. ty are making a KftuWzmletliKSd When the average ttUtnhfwrh ttlw North and East comei thfoilgh'thJls sparsely settled country knctitteos It dotted, only Tnllos apart, -with wrfarni and a ranch, here and there, he In variably asks Jn surprise, "If this land Is ALL good, and all of It will produce, like that farm, why Is It that more of It Is hot used for farm ing purposes, and under cultiva tion?", He does not know that only a few years ago, all these vast plains were the range of the cattle man, and that they discouraged -the farm er from settling here and .(breaking up the soil, and It was. only a few brave souls who thought for them selves, and took nobody's, word for it, who had the sand to locate farms, and go into systematic, farming on the plains He does not (Understand, also that more money has poen made, in buying and selling thoso lands, by speculators,! than culd . have .been, made In farming, which process has brought the lands to their present price, but which has also brought to the attention of the outside world the real value of the plains of the Panhandle. Many a prospective buyer from the North and East "has..dls: credited all the explanations which have been made, to him for scarcity of farms . in the Panhandle, and has returned to his home, afraid to Invest In the Pan handle .' . . There Is nothing which shows what the Panhandle lands will do, one year with another, to the strang er, more' than government govern mental farm. There all classes of farm crops, grasses and fruits are ex perimented with and It is found what classes do the best, and what char acter of cultivation. Is. needed for each. Besides, It Is a government Institution, and when a stranger gets a report it -Is' coming' from his-government, and is not simply the state ment of an Individual, and carries more weight with It. t The agent of the government re cently ' here., said to the Panhandle that experiments were contemplated, which' would take, several years to properly demonstrate,- and It would not pay to start In them, unless the permanency of the Institution was. Commissioners uae ; CEST,licTs established by a permanent and long time lease. ..." The Panhandle thinks the men who are vitully interested lu the fu ture of this city nd country, if they are figuring for time, malf a great mistake If they allow the experiment al station to be discontinued here. Now Is the time to net. Other en terprising localities want the satlon, and will furnish he land on long time leuse, ' If the government will re move It. Amarlllo citizens and prop erty owners are surely short sighted, sleeping on their oars, and are not flouring on the' future. If they do not arrango to malie the gnvernmont experimental station a permanent fixture hero. The Campbell dry fxrnilng prnjort Is being considered, also. Oct them both, but at all' hazards, do not Iobo what wo now have. t ()X( KItXING DIVORCES. The Fort Worth v Record of tho 29th! contained a spiendld editorial on the disgusting divorce subject, which tho panhandle would have liked to copy, but, 8;(mre forbids. The enuor or me l'annanuie nas time and again nurd his pen against the Increase of the divorce evl. There Is too little thinking In the matches made these days, and too little Im portance Is placed upon the mar riage vows!' Too many present day wedding contracts are made without due regard to the promises they make to take' each other for better or worse, until death do them part. Especially In' high society and among the rich Is this true, and the' mar riage contracts seem to be viewed simply as business engagements, to last during the pleasure of either or both of the contractors. Marrlago In high society has become but little more than legalized prostitution When either party, lo the contract gets tired of It, or sees some one else who appears more agreeable, than their mate.'they get the knot untied, by the courts, and, tie another, and, thus It goes, until many pass through, several different marriage contracts, during the life of all of their former associates. In closing Up article, using as an. Illustration the'recent disgusting per formance of steel magnate Corey.'aju'd. Mabelle Clllman, the Record closes with the following pertinent para graph:'' '" ..... :.. . . , ... . "It Js such fcaserf ks these that is awakening the public conscience tj the depths of abandonment to whici some of the people of this country are willing to descend In their in iquity 'and arraigning the church and the state against the 'blighting evil. The time' fs not far distant when participation In a Boclal divorce scandal will be'thenlgn of social os tracism, as ' It Is now the badge of loss of honor, and In that day the divorce evil will be the means of ef fecting Its own adjustment." "What's the' mltter' with your business men, that they do not adver tise more In the only newspaper the city has," is the cbnjmon remark of strangers ;iri Amarlllo. One gentle man said to the editor recently, "I see the president of'you'r Commercial Club, supposed to be an organization of progressive 'live business men who would apreclate a good newspaper, and give it proper support, is In busi ness, but I do not see his advertise ment In your paper." Don't he ever advertise? " The editor was com pelled to'answer "no." It e too true, that of the 'number of prominent bus iness houses, 'in the city, the names of but few of them are seldom seen in the advertising columns of the only 'pap'e which' has been able to live' in the city, and if it looked to such firms for its' support, It would follow the 'numerous 'newspaper corpses in the newspaper graveyard of Amarlllo. 1 These are other, en terprising business men Jn t'ne city, however, -who 'appreciate the bene fits of a' good 'newspaper to their tdwn, and' through the patronage of such citizens,' the Panhandle is en abled to furnish the community and the outside world with the paper it Is giving them. . . ; ' Mr. M. Miller, general manager ot the Superior, OH Co., who has just onened a '"branch of his business In this city, was In the city today.' His' company has a branch at Roswell, as well. He tella the Panhandle that at Roswelj the Standard people have begurt a fight to drive out the'com' pany, by cutting the price of oil 10c on the gallon. Mr Miller says that in" New Mexico the lawS'are hot' so strict ; 'against discrimination in freight'' rat'es, anil' the Standard Is thus en'ab'led to sell for lower price thanttBcaif In this state 'against a competitor and make money: -' The Roswefl' people should remember what caused the Standard people to cut theYr price,' and should give thej. 1 ! 'l - ft'' '., Now For Puro Food iisjho Examine tho labal. Tho now food lawi roqulroa thai statements aa to tho eontonts of tho paokago must ho true. Knowing tho oontonts, you can ho ouro to purchase only puro, oream of tartan baking powdor i rv 1 Mado front Crwo9 " new compauy a good patronage, for If It was not for the new company, they would be paying the Standard for every donation Rockefeller makes to charity and the colleges.- The Su- erlor Is furnishing pure good, ud should receive a welcome, where they 'come in competition wlth the Standard, which has furnished the ieopletof this country some of the orst gwods, at big prices for a good ntfcle. rfM r.' .rr,(, .' ' , ,, ' SELECTING A CANDIDATE. ' W: J Bryan's Commoner of, tlie current week, contains-the following on the selection of party candidates: These are busy times for the king makers. The national conventions are only a little more than a year off, and the state conventions will be meeting and Instructing in less, than a year, in both parties favorite sons are being brought out and the avail ability of eligible candidates is being discussed. In the Republican party the , main question seems to be whether the president will be allow ed to pick out the Republican candi date or whether the Republican vot ers will have opinions of their own. Secretary Taft seems to be the Pres ident's choice',' but Vice President Fairbanks Is busy with his confer ences and Speaker Cannon Is con ducting foimself like one who would not prosecute the nomination for as sauit and battery if it took him by force. Poor Paint is Expensive. If one is rich enough to repaint hii buildings every year for the pleasure of having a change of color scheme, the quality of the paint used may cut little figure.' But if it is desirable to cut the painting bills down to the least amount possible per year, it is of the utmost importance that the paint be made of Collier Pure White Lead "' and the best of Linseed Oil. There are imitations in the form of alleged W,hite Lead, and there are substitutes in the form of ready-prepared paints. Wc guarantee this Whits Lead'to be absolutely pure, and the Dutch Boy on- the side of every keg is your safe- guard. Lopkfor , him.( , . , ( SEND FOR BOOK. "A. Tlk on Ptnt, mAlinn on thi imlnt , miliars. Sant Ira apuct raquaas. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY Clerk Avt.and loth St., 6t. Louts, Mo. Cream Bailing The Democratic party Is not with out Its excitements. Jn the nws col umns of the Commoner mention has been made of a number of men whoso friends have vouched for their will ingness to run and for their popu larity. Now comes the veteran Journalist, Henry Watterson, and volunteers to give Mr. Bryan the name of a Dem ocrat who, "without entangling alli ances with any of to money powers, jet without, a!m,i antocedenls whlcty, could drive away conservative D'uj ocrats, fills the specifications mad'? in Mr. i Stealey's Washington letter exactly; 'a good organization Demo crat who supported the ticket In 1896;' who, lu our Judgment, could still the discords and restore tho hur monies, yea, fill the loose sails of the Old Ship or Zlon with hopeful gales, and perbapa prove an Abra ham Lincoln to the lost sheep of the house of Jefferson iand Jackson and Tilden." Who Is this man whose name is concealed but whose personal fitness and political pre-eminence are thus vouched for? Mr. Bryan dors not pose as a Warwick. He has no de sire to assume the role of candidate maker. He mildly protests against the mlsrpresentatlons of his position by thoso who prefer 'some one else, but he Is not eager to have a hand In the making of a candidate, The would-be W'arwicks Bhould not forget that, after all, the question of candidacy can 'not be settled by a few leaders. Leaders propose but the voters dispose Mr. Watterson may object to the initiative and ref erendum when applied to govern ment 'although to' do' so h9 mUst discredit the intelligence, of the peo ple to whom his eloquent; appeals are made but he',will not deny that we hive the Initiative and referen dum in the matter Of nominations; The friends of the various candidates employ the initiative; they bring the names of the candidates before the public but tho people, through the5 referendum; sit In- Judgment npon the claims of candidates. Who are more Interested than the people themselves In the selection of a can uldate? And yet, :from the manner of some one would suppose that the only thing necessary to the selection of a candidate, was agreement among the leaders. And who is a leader? Is It not one who is going in the same direction with the people and, as someone has said, a. little bit ahead? Mr. Wattrson ovyes.it to his party and to his country to bring out his candidate one If he has but one, several If he has sev eral. Every member of the par ty owes It to the party to con tribute his part toward, the, party's success. The psrty Is eiUlled o the most available man;. and availability depends upon two things. . First, no one Is available who does not stand for Democratic principles and poli cies as they are presented In the Democratic platforiin,. 8ndthat plat form must - represent tho wishes of the voters. Second, among those who represent the p'il.clplcB and pol icies ot the party as-stated "In 'the if Poivdor platform, tho choice should fall up on the one who, all things cnnnld ered, gives the best promise ot strenRthening those principles and policies before the public. No per son Is Infallible In Judgment even a majority may make a mistake, but the rcHpouslbllty of selecting a can didate is too great for a few leader to bear; it rests with the voters. Tn.Jf(i Hie Pot master's Word for It. 1 1 r. F. M. Hamilton, postmaster at ilorryvalo,' Ind., keeps also a stock I'lr general merchandise and patent medicines. He says:' "Chamberlaln'a Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy Is standard here In its line.' It' never falls to give satisfaction -and we could hardly afford to be with out It.' ' For sale by Goldlng Drug. Company. (. 201m yi DIVERSIFY VOCU FARMING. a mm From the observations of the ed itor of the Panhandle, he would give the advice to farmers In the Pan handle, not to think that they can make big money out of the wheat crop every year, and sow large tracts to wheat. While we believe this country will prove well adapted to wheat growing one year with anoth er, yet the failure wJM come. Tho farming for the Panhandle farmer to do to make sure money one year with another Is, to get his farm In a proper state of cultiva tion. Strat with pltney of hogs, have a few sheep, some grood brood mares, some of the draft breeds, and some good cows, of an approved beef and dnrylng type. Then plant kaf fir corn, mllo maize and cane, the crops that are sure In this country. Put In the low places to alfalfa, and try some Indian corn, and sow some wheat and oats. If the wheat crop fails, he has not lost all, but has plenty to fall back on. If the Indian corn does not prove ft good crop, he hns his alfalfa, and the sure crops of kafflr corn, maize and cane, ou which his stock will thrive and do well, and if he raised a few good colts of the draft breeds each year, has a few sheep, which live on 'al most nothing, and which furnl! some ready money in the spring, in their wool clip, and the young lambs, he has a few cattle to turn off Oc casionally, and his hogs multiply rapidly, and when he figures up at the end of the year, it he has not raised a fine wheat, oats or Indian corn crop, he has still raised enough, to keep his stock, and he has turned that Into money, and he will be sur prised at the resu'.t. Diversified farming lis the on' successful farming, one year with another, In the Panhai.dle as well as. In any other part of the agricultural portion of the United Statts.- Don't be a knocker. If you cant say something good of your , home city and country, keep your mouth shut. Bring the Dally Panhandlfli atlj, your news items. They help ta'm&e.. the paper newsy,. t , . paMt al aaa i r t,avuAj.a -- ' ' pM as a urn