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The Light and Gazette Is on sale at hotels and news-stands throughout the United States. IWiram CF ZNV PAPER IH SAN ANTONIU The beef trust seems to . , be doing exactly what it DC€I dflu promised to do when the Solidarity beef boycott wns started — ■ — raise prices. There was slight decrease for a day or two in some large centers —re- ductions made principally by retailers on their own respon sibility, but the reaction has set in as promised and stiil higher -prices are admittedly in view. So far the trust has lost no sleep and no money and the cattleman has been given a bad scare and is out several dollars. As for the people, they may be a little thinner and a trifle wiser, but that's all. The immunity promised by Taft to the meat barons before election seems to have been of the right sore because it has stuck through all the hulla baloo raised throughout the country and with Aldrich and Lodge in the senate to block any real investigation into the meat question through “rear of bringing up the tariff ques tion,” there seems little hope for relief. High meat prices, it may be said without overreaching the truth, are due largely to Mr. Taft’s highly prized party solidarity. He bought and paid for solidarity, but solidarity seems to be more fleeting than party promises because a look at Washington shows several active volcanoes in the repub‘ iican territory and others smouldering. When a man like Senator Elkin®, roped and branded by the high protection ists years and years ago, jumps the corral and kicks up his heels in the big pasture, there is something big—BIG doing in the G. O. P. and it promises to be so big that even tho combined avordupois of Taft and all his henchmen cannot smother it and throw it into the Bosphorous. The more doing • the better for a quickening democracy in 1912. Bosphorou.’, volcanoes and corrals may be mixed simile but it is neces ,'sary in referring to the conditions prevailing in the ranks that paid for solidarity with millions of the people’s money and got ti gold brick in exchange. Peary, like Alexander, will so«n be forced to tears because of there being no more poles to conquer. Now he is going to give Bob Bartlett a chance to win a place in the hall of fame and nail the stars and stripes to the final pole. Mean while Lieutenant Shackleton better get busy if he does not want to play- 3 minor role on the pages of history. Doc Cook must be using a flying machine these days. Not over a week ago an enterprising American tourist found him in a Heidelberg sanitarium, a physical wreck, and now he bobs up smiling in Bermuda feeling pretty good, thank you. It is time for a commission to investigate just what sort of things cur tourists are seeing abroad. It now seems to be quite a fed to “see Cook.” Harry Whitney is <?ff for Etah again and he is yet to be heard from. In the meantime where is Cook? Once more the Seine is rising and Paris is threatened with a second inundation, which would in all probability cause greater damage than the first, with thousands of buildings weakened in their foundations. It must, indeed, be hard for Paris to be gay amid the peril and ruin. The proposition which is set forth in today’s issue of this paper for the building of the railroad to Fredericksburg looks feasible and is one by which, with a pull altogether. San Antonio can have the engine whistles blowing in Fred ericksburg within a year. Great sacrifices are not asked and positive assurances are made by the men who propose to float the bonds, so let’s get together again and push ’er through. , ________________ Fifty widows, many- with Burden of the babes in tbeir arms ' pres5 >ng against an iron rope Weak I which separated them from ——————— the open mouth of a mine. Down in the depths, their lives snuffed out in a moment the mangled remains of their husbands. Dotting the mountain side, little cottages which had been their homes, but which the widows and orphans must leave.. This is one view of the explosion in Colorado. These widows and orphans, facing the world penniless, are a living argument in favor of some system of compen sation which will take the burden from the shoulders of the weakest factors of industry and at least share it with the strong. Just as necessary to the mnintcnance of this great industry as the dollars of the stockholders, were the muscles and skill of the miners. Th" world needed the coai. With it homes were heatci. Great furnaces glowed and furnished work for thousands of other men, whose product in turn satisfied some need >f society. It is declared and not yet disproved that the mine was ‘•safe”; that al] laws were obeyed; that every safety devic 3 for the piotection of human life was in use. It would seem, therefore, that such catastrophes are beyond human fore sight. The fact remains that these men who died were devoting their lives to the use of society at large. Th" company directly obtained great profits from their toil. Indirectly Society as a whole profited from the fruits of their labor. The burden uf risk, however, was bornd by the men whose recompense was gauged by the supply and demand of mere muscle. It is passe? by them after their deaths to THURSDAY, the women left behind. Its effect will be shown in the dwarfed lives of the orphans who will enter life without a chance. Perhaps some day a law-making body with respect for fair play, and with a heart great enough to feel for the weak, will pass a compensatory damage law which will equalize this burden. Perhaps the profits might dwindle. More likely a few cents added to the price of each ton of coal would suffice to pass the burden along to the users o, the coal. Even that might be “cheaper” for America than turning those women and children out, homeless, upon the snow-cltl mountain. Why not an investigation into the cause of the present brand of weather? Major Buell is not living up to his obli gations. J As Others View It TAFT AND THE WEST “Some things are going to happen to President Taft out in the western country- that are not exactly on the ‘insur gent’ program,” said Capt. Seth Bullock of beadwood, S. D., when lie was asked about the political situation today-. Read ers of the Herald know Captain Bullock so well that it is scarcely necessary to describe him as the first sheriff of Deadwood, chief of the Pinchot Black Hills forest rangers and now United States marshal for South Dakota. “In Iowa,” continued Captain Bullock, “somebody's scales have been tanqiered with, and 1 think-they belong to Senator Cummins. When the time comes to put the flatiron on things in Iowa I am of the opinion that it will be found that the republican party is in po mood to follow Senator Cummins in revising and tearing up the tariff again. Iowa will be fort Taft. I know my state will be all right, and be fore long a backfire will be started for the men who see noth ing in the situation but what Dr. Albert Shaw would call a recrudescence of the democracy, and it will make the near * Pops ’ out there jump like jack rabbits. Alexander McKenzie is here from North Dakota, and he tells me the same thing about his state. He and I agree that there are perhaps more men who believe in the republican party than in the ‘insurgents’ in Minnesota, j Oh, yes, the icicles ai;e going to drop from the eaves on somebody out that way—and they won’t touch Mr. Taft. “Oh, you want to know something about Wisconsin, do you? Take it from me that La Follette is unhappy this min ute. The eold has got into the soles of the boots of some in dependent republicans who have been romancing around throwing the harpoon into Mr. Taft. Pretty soon the air will be full of Senator La Follette; It all amounts to this: The republican party is going to take control of itself out in that country.” , . “What do you think of President Taft as a politician? Captain Bullock was asked. “He’s all right, but I wish he had been a county judge before he was a federal judge. The trouble we find with him is that he is a little slow to move. If we could feed him oftener on antelope steak I am sure we would have him go ing fast earlv in the game. But he has started all right, and you will see the dust in his wake before many- day- now.”— Washington dispatch to New York Herald. YES, THE TARIFF. With somewhat unexpected candor, the ways and means committee at Washington admits that the tariff may be considered by some —probably misguided—citizens as closely i connected with tho present reign of high prices. Chairman Payne's resolution calling for an investigation of the whole subject empowers his committee to inquire into “the causes of such increased cost and prices; and whether and in what manner such cost and prices are af fected, increased or otherwise, by apy laws of the United ’ States'; and to investigate, recommend and report such ’ legislation as will, in its judgment, contribute to restore 1 such prices to their normal level.” So the tariff is to be under fire, along with the trusts and the increase of gold! But what sort of fire? Is it to be a harmless volley shot over the head of the offender, or a real and vital r Hack I The “stand pat” tribute and the trust armies will be fully and ably represented at these hearings. Who will appear for the people and against a species of protection that is no longer for the help of “infant in dustries” but for the continued entrenchment of greedy monopolies? Over in the senate Mr. Lodge’s resolution will bring another smelling committee into operation. If Mr. Aldrich does not dominate it, we may hope for fully as much en lightenment and perhaps more action from it as from the kindred body in the house. Its intention of taking up the wage question in connection with high prices is to bo praised, although the members-to-be may bo assured now that wages have risen somewhat in the past five years. But have they advanced in any such ratio as have prices oi commodities? With both branches of congress working at the high price problem, the people have a right to expect definite re sults. This is one of the very things for which they send their representatives to Washington.—Boston Post. SAN ANTONIO LNJ H T AND GAZETTE IF IT WERE’NT FOR FATHER. (Copyright, 1910, by the Now fork Eren inf Journal Publishing Company.) i ALL SORTS | : Copyrtirht. 1909. by Post Publishing Co Bv NEWTON NEWKIRK. SHAKE WELL AND SERVE. Many drops of water And a little “dust,” Mako the capitalization Of the mighty trust. Josh Wise Says: “Th’ more food prices go down, th’ more food will.” FIRST AID TO CUPID. The Rev. Wright Gibson of Pitts ! burg. Pa., seems to have the correct । idea on the marriage question. The i Rev. Mr. Gibson recently notified the [ members of his flock that until the necessities of life are reduced to a reasonable figure he would absolutely refuse to perform a marriage ceremoy nnless the prospective husband is able to prove that he has an income of at least $2000 a year. Here is a parson who can see farther ahead than the end of his nose, and it would be well for young folks without a bank bal ance who contemplate matrimony to take a squint into the future through his eyes. When love is young and ar dent it is also as blind as a bat —love that holds hands and whispers swe’t nothings, dreams blissful dreams of marital happiness without suffering from any cost of-living nightmare. When a young man falls on his mar row bones before his lady love and swears that he w-ill protect her and feed her clothe her forevermore — and several days after that —he for gets that he is earning only $9.70 per ingrowing love in a malignant form robs a youth of his good judgment and destroys his perspective of the future. In order to live and thrive and with stand the wear and tear of adjustment love must have three square meals a day, it must have over its head a roof that won’t leak, and it must have some ..coal in the bin. The parsnips must be buttered and there ought to be some molasses on the bread occa sionally. When eggs are 50 cents a dozen, a sirloin worth a day’s wages, and a pound of butter worth nearly a pound of pennies, it makes Cupid so nervous that he can’t shoot straight. The tem perature of love can’t be maintained at 75 degrees in the shade if there is no fire in the furnace. When the bill collector com.es in at the door, Cupid jumps through the window, breaking the glass and taking the sash with him. There is nothing will induce the wolf to tuck his tail between his legs and hike down the pike like a wallet with some long green in it. .The Rev. Mr. Gibson's rule in the matter of marriage will seem like a hardship, perhaps, to sweethearts who have lost their eyesight in their ardor, but better a shattered illusion now than the wreck of love’s bark on the shoals of high living later. TOO OSTENTATIOUS. Blinks —I know you’re a multimil lionaire, but don’t you think it’s rub bing it in on the proletariat to wear such expensive jewelry ? Blanks—What do you mean? Blinks—I mean you’ve been com ing downtown for a week with a splotch of soft boiled egg on your shirt, instead of your diamond stud. Observant Citizen j he city dog ropers are finding it no easy matter to corral members of the eaniue tribe these days. Not because the the dogs are armed with the neces sary license or muzzle, for it is a well known fact that half the dogs in the city are not proper’;- licensed or muz zled, but because the dogs are begin tacg to get wise to the ropers. An inciden: was witnessed the other cay that pliinl; demonstrated that tho "'emhers .if the dog world realize that danger lurks nearby when the ropers appear, especially those canines whose ewiters have failed to provide them with a lieinse making them immuno from capture. “I was standing ou a street corner, when suddenly I saw a dog that had been lying in the street, jump up and with his tail between bis legs, scamper to the home of his master as fast aS h’s feet would carry him,” said the Observant Citizen. ‘I was puzzled at the seemingly strange actions of the dog, but a few moments later when I glanced in the opposite direction I understood why the dog .had taken su; h a hasty departure. Coining down the street about a block away were the dog ropers. When they passed tho house where the dog bad taken refuge, the dog stood on the gallery, barking at them. Tne dog wagged his tai] in such a manner that would indicate that he was happy that he had eluded the lariat thrower.” SAS ANTONIO 21 YEARS ASO (From The Light, February 10,1889.) Henry Semlinger is in the city from Houston, where he has been in the em ploy of the I. & G. N. railroad for some time. Patrick Henry Tansy of Houston is in the city on a visit. Hon. James H. French is ill at his home, but is expected to be out in a few days. Tho city government election is being conducted in the city today, and is re garded as the hottest battle of the bal lots ever held in San Antonio. A heavy vote is being polled throughout the city. The first baseball game of the season was played yesterday between the Lit tle Jokers and the Browns. The Jokers won by a score of 5 to 3, after an ex citing contest. Duffield will be the new catcher for the Jokers. At the meeting of the state execu tive committee of the Young Men's Christian association at Dallas, it was decided that the Texas state conven tion be held in San Antonio from April 25 to April 28. F. D. Sauer and Judge Reinhard of Boerne are registered at the Malyicko. No district courts were in session to day because of the city election. SOT IN HIS WAYS. Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, the popu lar writer, was talking on the Arabic, en route for New York, about mar riage. “A pretty girl,” said Mrs. de la Pas ture, “couldn't make a better resolu tion for 1910 than not to marry an old man, no matter what his wealth. She might also resolve not to marry a widower. Widowers are, as you Ameri cans say, so sot in their ways. “They tell about a pretty girl of 20 who married a rich widower of 50. He was very much a widower. This girl was in fact, his fourth wife. “Well, on the return from the honey moon, the husband, after dinner, took up his hat. overcoat and umbrella. “The wife, beautiful in a white de collete gown that was no Whiter than her shoulders, said: “ ‘Where are you going, dear?’ “He gave her a stern look, and an swered, coldly: “My dear, I am not in the habit of telling my wives where I am going every time I step out of the house.’ ” Texas Talk HELP NEEDED. If Texas has not the dairies, she can make cotton seed oil products, and even Dr. Wiley, that watchdog of the pure food bureau, says cot ton seed oil is nutritious and a pure food, but when cotton seed oil was made into butter the dairymen in duced congress to place a tax of 10 cents a pound upon it. Now this cotton seed oil product, which the northern farmers, according to their own papers, have been buying and using, instead of creamery butter, could have been successfully made and marketed at 18 cents, but to place the 10 cent tax upon it brought the cost up to 28 cents, at which price the public would not ■ buy it until the price of creamery butter was forced out of sight. The people of the cotton states should get together and insist that this tax upon their product be taken off in. all fairness. —Beaumont Enterprise. The tax on oleo is the price paid for the dairy states by the republican par tv. It is up to the other states, of which there are some 3(1, to force this tax off. Cotton seed oil products are cleaner and more healthful than some of the awful stuff that is sold as butter. MUST KEEP PACE. If the weather continues as sea sonable as it has been for the last three months Texas will solve the problem of high living by produc ing enough to meet the demand. — ' Fort Worth Record. But the demands are becoming greater! every day with an average of ten train-1 loads of new residents daily. COULD WE? Not only material progress in corn growing is attributable to the X splendid energy and intelligence of Texas youngsters who answer roll call at the boys’ corn clubs, but there's inspiration for tlfeir elders in the good work accomplished. Let the corn crib not only sustain the making of next year’s crops, but leave a surplus shipment or two for market. Grow more and better corn. —Fort Worth Star-Telegram. We could grow more corn, but conld we grow better corn? 1 EYES AND AYES. “All eyes on Texas,” says an eastern paper. Well, there is one thing about it, Texas is large enough to accommodate them all. — Terrell Transcript. And with the liomeseekers it's all “ayes” for Texas. HARPS AND HALOS. Marriage is a partnership.—Fort Worth Record. Hu! How can partnerships be made in heaven? Two people can not wear one halo or play one harp. “There is no sorrow there,” and there is sorrow here, when some of the musicians go on a tangent. —Dallas Times- Herald. Partnership there as here. Often mar ried folks order one steak served for two, so why not one harp and one halo served for two. He can play the harp while she looks to see if her halo is on straight and—but why harp? USED. Also Lent gives the feminine population an opportunity to devote a considerable amount of time to designing the costume for the Eas ter parade.—Galveston Tribune. Which time is being nsed to said pur pose? FEBRUARY it?, 1D10. Little Stories BABY’S CRY SAVED HIM. i James Flynn, 21, stood before Judge Warren W. Foste)- in general sessions (yesterday. He. Charles Smith and Pe ter Fitzpatrick had been convicted of robbing a man oi a nickel watch worth '$3 and six loaves of stale bread. Smith jand Fitzpatrick, old offenders, were Iseutenced to It) years apiece in state , prison. “I don’t sec that there is much dif- Iference in your ease,” said Jnjge Fos |ter, as Flynn stepped up. “You^hre —” .lust then a baby's wail came from* the rear of the courtroom. The baby was in the arms of her motljer, a pale young woman, who appeared to be much frightened. “Officer,” said Judge Foster to Cot fey of the court squad, “please (that that baby stops crying.” । Flynn, looking toward the place [whence the cries came.’ began to sob. “Flynn,” said Judge Foster “do you know anything about the baby crying Ibaek there?” “Yes, sir,” replied the prisoner, ‘ [“that’s my little baby and my wife.” ! “What? Well, that makes all the dif ference in the world. I did not know you had a wife and child. Why wasn t I told of that before? 1 see from the reports that you have never been in Troi'hje before. Is this you 'first of [fense?” [ “Yes, sir,” replied the prisoner. I The baby's cry was heard again. It was too much for the judge. There were tears in his eyes as he said: “Flynn, I think your case requires (further investigation. I shall have your record looked up very carefully. I'will [send you back to the Tombs for one week. You may see your wife and baby 'there.” . ! “Thpnk you, judge,” mumbled Flynn* dabbing at his eyes with a handker. [chief. As they marched him out of court he threw a kiss in the direction of the wife and baby. The little- girl had stopped crying by that time. Men about the courthouse said. “Bet yon that lit t/ girl saved her father. The judge give him another chance.”—New York .World. HE GOT HIS DESERTS. Jacob A. Riis, the brilliant and so cial reformer, said the other day to a reporter in New York: “A good New Year’s resolution would be for us all to get in closer touch with the poor. A football team from Columbia, for instance, shouldn’t hesitate to play with my college settle ment team. “We can’t do our charity by proxy any more than our churcligoing—and you know the churchgoing story. “There was once a man who never attended church, thinking that his wife’s regular attendance made up for his own omission. Well, the man died and duly appeared before St. Peter at the gate of Paradise. “ ‘Who are you?’ the saint asked, curtly. “ ‘Why, St. Peter. I am John S. _» ■Nicholson of Chicago. I thought, of* course, you knew me.’ “ ‘No, I don’t know you,’ said the saint. “ ‘But, St. Peter, I am Mrs. Nichol son’s husband—tire charitable Mrs. Nicholson, don’t you know, who regularly to church and was so kind to the poor. ’ . “ ‘ Why didn’t you do like her?’ said the saint. ’ “ ‘Well. St. Peter. I was always so worn out from business on Sunday 1 .at I had to play golf to avoid getting neuritis; and. anyhow, I understood that if Mrs. Nicholson went to church regularly it would do for both of us.’ “ ‘Your wife,’ said the saint, ‘was a true, faithful Christian. She came to these gates four years ago, and she went in—for both of you.” —— “The railroads are discharging all men with gray hair.” “Most of the married men will be safe.” “How so?” “The majority of them are bald.”—Houston Post. 'QUAKER MEDITATIONS. Even the new wom an is not averse to hearing the old, old story. A fortune is coni posed> of rocks, but it takes a certain amount of sand, too.. When a fellow is head over ears in debt he is naturally deaf to his creditors. Useful wedding presents are just about ns scarce as the proverbial hen's teeth. When a man is the architect of his own fortune he doesn’t figure on any exits. On the other hand, you occasionally meet a dog whose bark isn’t half as bad as his bite. . When a man is * generally disliked his own opinion of him self usually brings the average pretty well up. “I am seeking tho poet of divine things. ? “Peroxide, or anti fat?” giggled the frivolous maiden. The doctor's suc cess is based upon the theory that a j wealthy patient is too rich to be cured [as quickly as a j>oor I one. I Hungry Hawkins (looking in restaur ant window) —“Git onto de guy eatin’ tripe an’ sojtr- kraut. Don't yer month lV a- Hr for it?” Tliirsty Thingumbob— “Wa ter? It positively beers fer it.” -Phila delphia Record.