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SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
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LARGEST CIRCULWDN OF ANY PAPER IN SAN ANTONIO
Mr. Yoakum's
Mistake
————————— brainiest railroad men this
country boasts are committing a blunder in Texas. B. F.
Yoakum and other men of like ability have been deluded into
entering a newspaper campaign to try to force the repeal
of the International & Great Northern bill, passed by the last
legislature.
No one can presume that Yoakum or his associates would
come out in the open and stand sponsor for what they knew
to be a manifest wrong. So it must be that these great
railroad men are deceived and do not know that the issue
in the International & Great legislation turned
upon the question of common honesty.
The International & Great Northern railroad was literally
caught trying to get away with the goods. That road was
given enormous land grants in Texas and manv other favors
from the state. In short, its property gifts, if wisely man
aged. would have enabled it to pay the whole cost of con
struction. Putting it the other way, Texas built the railroad
and then gave it to the Goulds.
Subsequently, the road by mismanagement, and the milking
of its earnings to support the extravagances of the Goulds,
was bankrupted in times of prosperity when it should have
enriched itself. The collusive receivership through which
the road has been passing was plotted five or six years ago
with deliberate intent to defraud the creditors. This is a
matter of almost common knowledge to railroad officials and
it is strange indeed that it did not reach the ears or eves
of MrSl oakum. The plan was to send the gross earnings of
the road to the east to pay interest on bonds held by the
Goulds and their clique, letting the Texas creditors wait for
their money, though these Texas creditors were paying the
operating expenses, supplying the funds that kept the rail
road a going concern. By unquestioned proofs it has been
shown that since 1908 the receiver paid out of the gross earn
ings $1,900,000 as interest on first, second and third mortgage
bonds. An amount almost as great was expended out of the
gross earnings for permanent betterments. The total of
the gross earnings thus diverted was $3,500,000, while the
Texas debt* accumulated and left unpaid through the same
period amounted to a smaller sum, this being $2,225,000.
There is no getting around these facts. The money that
came in from passenger fares and freight receipts was sent
east to the Goulds and the Texas creditors were bilked to
keep the road running during this deliberate diversion of
the gross earnings. And then, the acme of the fraud, came
the announcement of proposed sale, which was sure to cheat
all these Texas creditors out of the money they had advanced
to aid the road in its extremity. Their claims would not only
be left unpaid, but literally wiped off the books. It was a
fraud out and out and conceived in sin.
No one will believe that'Mr. YoMsurn and his friends stand
for this. It is a plain question of right or wrong. The Texas
legislature, in stopping the sale until the Texas creditors
were paid, did no more and no less than is done when a de
faulter is stopped at the railroad station as he attempts to
flee the town, while the authorities take his loot away from
him and turn it over to the rightful owners.
When Mr. Yoakum and his associates hold meetings and
pass resolutions declining to build this or that extension—
that they did not expect to build, in fact—giving as a reason
that they dare not build because the International & Great
Northern bill was passed, they do themselves a great wrong
by appearing to condone the boldest fraud in high finance by
which Texas has ever been threatened.
Do the gentlemen stop to consider that in standing by the
International & Great Northern, right or wrong, they tire
placing themselves in an attitude which will wonderfully
encourage the legislators who favor a two-cent fare! Bather
than take such a risk, and rather than uphold the Interna
tional & Great Northern when it stands self-convicted of an
attempt to swindle, wouldn’t it be a more popular move for
Mr. Yoakum and his railroad colleagues to unite to compel
the International & Great Northern to pay its honest debts in
Texas!
If the mayor really wants an unbiased opinion concerning
the commission form of government, why not write to Des
Moines, Galveston, Shreveport, Fort Worth and a few other
cities that have been progressing under that sort of rule, wip
ing out their debts and building up fine cities and oiling
*streets and abolishing dust and collecting garbage in a sani
tary way and doing a thousand and one things that our
city government is not doing. Of course, no one doubts that
the mayor will appoint an unbiased jury to find out for him
what the charter is all about, anyway. Evidently he has been
reading it over and there are some things in there that
scare him—the recall and referendum for instance—things
that would give people too much voice in their government
and would abolish one man rule. The nine men the mayor
names to poke holes in the charter cannot find as many
flaws in it as the mayor has already discovered. There ought
to be a law for the prevention of cruelty to charters.
Own Your
Own Home
Own a home.
It seems like we have read that line before. O, yes, it was
in the real estate columns. It was paid advertising, but this
is rot. It may pay you to heed it nevertheless.
If you are getting any kind .of an income at all you can
save part of it. Don’t spend it' all having a good time. Go
out and use your judgment in the selection of a lot. Make a
payment down and arrange to make additional payments at
allotted times. You will find the investment fascinating. It
will take you out of a rut and give you a new grip on your-
WEDNESDAY.
Sometimes very bright
men make very bad mis
takes, and it happens just at
this time that some of the
This is not a real estate
advertisement, but a straight
heart-to-heart talk to young
men who are working on
salaries.
self. It will make you interested in the neighborhood and in
the community. Out of self interest you will become inter
ested in the tax rate nnd in the spending of public money.
It will make you a better all around citizen.
San Antonio real estate is the best possible investment.
It cannot get away from you. It will not depreciate in value
unless you blundered in your selection.
Use the money you are using paying rent to make pay
ments on a permanent home. In a few years you will find
yourself the possessor of a valuable property, instead of the
owner of a handsome collection of rent receipts. You can’t
sell rent receipts, but you can usually find a buyer for good
property.
While we, are on the subject of investment, just remem
ber that 60 years ago the relatives of John Hnnt of New
York tried to have him sent to the insane asylum because he
paid $2400 for a strip of New York real estate. A few days
ago the same piece of property sold for $1,825,000.
It is announced that the San Antonio Press club is to gam
bol on the green next Thursday. No rangers need apply.
The passing of the railroad pass did not come to pass. Ac
cording to the figures, just published, it would appear that
the newspaper men are the only people in Texas who have
to pay.
Uncle Walt
The Poet Philosopher
I spend my weary days in jail, and O, the hours seem sad
and long! I lean against the bars and wail, and gaze upon the
passing throng. Why are these fetters on my
legs! Why do I sleep on mouldy straw! I sold
a man two dozen eggs that would not pass the
pure food law. The peelers came then to my
JUSTICE
IS BLIND.
store and smote me roundly with their staves, and cast me
on this dungeon floor, and no one succors, no one saves. I look
through the prison bars and watch the flood of humankind,
and see men pass in motor cars, who tried to rob the city
blind. Across the street a statesman stands, his pockets full
of ten-plunk notes; he often uses both his hands dish^ibut- (
ing the price of votes. The grafting aiderman drives by,
big diamonds glowing on his shirt; he sees me, and he winks |
an eye, and leaves me to the gloom and dirt. The plutocrats i
are on parade before my dark and dreary cell; if they were
asked how much they’ve made, I doubt me much if they
could tell. They break some laws most every day; they all;
hire lawyers by the year; and yet they blithely go their!
way, while I, alas! am weeping here!
Copyright. 1810. by Georg* Matthew Ad»m»
Letters From the People
To Editor Light and Gazette:
Sir—Yon are certainly to be congratulated on the publica
tion of the facts regarding the deliberate disregard of the
state laws by those who were put in authority by the electors
of the present administration of San Antonio.
That men who solemnly swore to uphold the laws of the
state should deliberately hold a council for the purpose of
agreeing as to how far they should violate their oaths, by
permitting the sale of beer, etc., on Sunday, and also the run
ning of gambling tables in the open, and on city property, is
beyond the comprehension of all law-abiding citizens. It will
be a strange thing to the writer, now that the state offi
cials have had to take a hand in the stopping of the games,
and the calling on our county officials to have the taws ob
served, if they do not go Lwther, and indict all who were
direlect in their duties, before the grand jury, and see if
they too will condone such lawlessness on the part of our
citv and county officials.
If the law is to be defied by our present authorities, in
order to seek favor with the Mexican electors of our city, it
is time that we got a new broom and sweep them all out of
office, and try if we can find a few honest and capable men
out of our boasted population of over 100,000 to take office
and run our city as it should be.
Had any American started a crap game during the Fourth
of July celebration he would soon have found himself be
hind the bars in the city hall, so I should like to know for
what cause, if not to gain votes, the Mexicans were per
mitted to defy our state laws with impunity by gambling
and selling liquor.
Yours very truly,
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
“PRO BONO PUBLICO.”
PERCY THE
PRESS AGENT
“I seen you looking cross-eyed at
that tall blonde in the second row to
night,” said the Show Girl to l’Acy
as he joined her in “Kids.”
“Aw, forget it,” replied Percy.
“You’re so jealous that you’ll be kick
ing about my collar next because it
clings around my neck.”
“Don’t you flatter yourself,” sniffed
the Show Girl. “I’m not as nutty over
you as all that, but when a guy has
pestered the life out of a girl to be
hia’n for life and she hollers ‘yes’ just
to make him quit annoying her, it’s
he ought to have a little
consideration for her feelings.
“Don’t think I’m telling you this be
cause I‘m jealous. Thank goodness,
the gheen monster and I aren’t ac
quainted, although green would go well
with my Titian hair, but what rankles
me is the laugh I t from the other
skirts when they see my supposed
fiance goo-gooing it with a brassy
blonde. What you could ever see in
her is”
“Say, for the love of Mike, cut it
out,” expostulated Percy. “I came in
here to eat food, not to swallow words.
Your accusation is both baseless and
foolish. The blonde was telling me a
funny story, and I had to listen. When
a guy’s a press agent he’s got to be
pleasant tp everybody.”
“Does that include looking up into
her eyes like a chicken with the dys
pepsia?” asked the Show Girl, icily, but
Percy threw up his hands despairingly
and motioned to Joe, the waiter.
“Br-r-r! Chee! but it’s cold arouud
here,” said Joe as he got to the table
and noticed the curling lip of the Show
Girl, and the savage expression on
Percy’s face.
“Never mind the atmosphere,”
'growled Percy. “Bring me a plate of
; New Yorks, a side of buckwheats and
coffee separate, and please remember
that I’m hungry.”
“My, how happy we are!” comment
ed Joe as he bawled out the order.
Then he waited for the Show Girl to
' begin.
“Oh, is that you, Joe?” cooed the
Show Girl sweetly, as she looked up,
pretending she hadn’t seen the waiter
up to then. “Oh, Joe, I wonder if you
could bring me a plate of butter cakes,
nice, soft and fluffy, like you did last
night. You know you can be so nice
if you want to,” and she gazed earnest
ly at him.
“You bet I can,” replied Joe in his
softest tones, at the same time giving
the Show Girl a knowing wink, “and
there isn’t anybody I’d rather be nice
to than them as is nice to me.”
There was a smothered ejaculation
from PercjNas the waiter moved away.
“What did you say, dear?” mur
murmured the Show Girl,
“Oh, nothing,” answered her com
panion, “only if I’d know you wanted
to flirt instead of eat, I’d have sat
somewhere else.”
“How unjust you are,” replied the
Show Girl, feigning surprise at Percy’s
remark. ‘ ‘ Even if I did, didn't you
read the other day where some wise col
lege professor said flirting a little was
good for girls!”
“He was either dippy or was feeling
good over some co-ed leering at him,”
said Percy.
“Oh, my; are getting jealous of
cur old friend, Joe!” asked the Show
Girl.
“Of course not,” said Percy, “but if
you want to flirt, I’d think you’d pick
out somebody with a little more class. ”
“Oh, I suppose you are real class,
hey?” she asked, while Percv groaned.
“I give up,” he said, finally. “Now
look here, Kid, I ’ll promise to pull my
hat down over my eyes every time n
blonde hits mv horizon if you’ll cut
out the kidding and make this a pleas
ant meal.
“Now you're talking” said the Show
Girl, brightening. “Flirting is no bus
iness. Percy. ’ ’
“You’re right,” he replied; “there
never was much nourishment in it.”
THE HALL ROOM BOYS.
Observant Citizen
“We've all heard the famous negro
expression attributed to the old aunty
who was asked where she was going.
She replied: ‘Whar is Ah gwine? Well,
Ise gwine whar Ise gwine, dat’s whar
Ise gwine. ’ But I heard another the
other night that I considered almost as
gdbd. ’ ’
Several men listening to the travel
ing man leaned back ia the lobby of
the Menger and waited.
“I was sitting in San Pedro park
the other night when a parcel of blacks,
men and women, came along. There
was some talk, and then one negress
accused a stalwart buck of being a ‘ ho
tel bully.’ I don’t know what she
meant, but it sounded as if she meant
all sorts of things.
• “The stalwart black vehemently dis
claimed being any such thing. He
iterated and reiterated his innocence,
but the negress was skeptical.
“ Yas, you is, nigger,’ said the wom
an. ‘Dey tells me you sho’ is a hotel
bully.’
“ ‘Now, you look yere,’ said the
black. ‘Ah ain’t no hotel bully.’
“ ‘Dat’s what you say,* said the ne*
gress.
“ ‘Yas, dat’s what Ah say,’ replied
the big fellow. ‘Ah ain’t telling you
what Ah is; Ah is telling you what Ah
ain’t.’ ‘
“I thought that expression about as
good as the old aunty’s,” finished the
traveling man, (did several present
agreed with him.
SANANTONIO£IYEARSAGO
(From The Light, September 21, 1889.)
Miss Lillie Peats is celebrating her
birthday anniversary with a
party of friends on Dallas street.
Messrs. Rose and Post are in the
city for the purpose of taking photo
graphs to he used in illustrating the
pamphlets and folders of the Sap and
I. & G. N. railroads.
Simon Veith and party have returned
from a hunt on the Medina.
J. T. Gunter and Nat Gunter of Dal
las, are in the city.
Amos Graves Jr., and his sister, Miss
Smithie, have left for Philadelphia, to
resume their studies.
Frank Renny’s tall form appeared on
the streets today. Te has gained ten
pounds since his trip to Kerrville.
H. A. Blair now drives out in a fine
new phaeton.
Col. W. J. McNamara is in the mar
ket after 10,000 bales of cotton and
8000 hides.
Uvalde will be represented at the San
Antonio fair by some very creditable
exhibits.
Southern Pacific freight is unusually
heavy for so early in the season.
San Antonio Maennerchoir held re
hearsal last night at Scholz’s hall.
A called meeting of . the Bexar
County Farmers’ alliance was held this
morning at Meyer’s hall.
F. Saltzer, Louis Robin and Alex Bar
rera left this morning for A. Robin’s
ranch for a few days’ hunt.
A class of twenty was organized in
the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium by Dr.
Bliem last night. Dr. Bliem delivered
a splendid lecture before the meeting
on the uses and benefits of the gym
nasium.
A. Schumacher will soon begin the
erection of a $2OOO brick building on
West Houston street.
GENEROUS.
“Come here. Tommy,” cried his
mother from the edge of the pond, as
she concealed the birch switch behind
her.
“What do yop want, ma?” asked the
little boy, suspiciously.
“I want to give you something.”
“I—l ain’t doing nuttin’, ma.”
“Then I shall be even more liberal.
I am going to give you something for
nothing.”
Texas Talk
twaddle.
Texas legislators in their zeal to
pose as stranglers of monopoly
make some breaks that prove dis
astrous to the people. Take the
case of the Ban Antonio 4 Aransas
Pass railroad as an example. The
state compelled the Southern Pa
cific to go through the formality
of a bogus sale instead of requir
ing the Southern Pacific to oper
ate it in a first-class manner. Why
ravp about dishonesty in public of
ficials when the public are gold
bricked by the Sap’s service? —
Corpus Christi Herald.
Curious logic these railroad newspa
pers are forced to depend upon. If it
was a “bogus” sale the Southern Pa
cific was forced into, then it must be
assumed that the Southern Pacific is
still secretly in control and therefore
responsible for the bad service. In
fact, the Southern Pacific runs half a
dozen of its branch lines with the same
disregard of public necessities as seems
to prevail on the “Sap.”
RAILROAD HOGS.
The railroads are spending a
whole lot of money In an endeavor
to get the farmers of Texas to raise
more hogs. There is money in the
proposition beyond question. Tex
as is ideally situated for a hog
growing state. The climate is fav
orable and there is hardly a month
in the year that good hog feed can
not be grown. Now that it is pos
sible to handle the cholera prob
lem every farmer should have a
herd of hogs and raise the neces
sary feed for them. —Denison
Herald. x
Evidently the Herald favors other
Ilogs than railroad hogs. Not so long
ago this contemporary was fearful that
the legislature had made a mistake in
forcing the International & Great
Northern tor\flisgyrge that $2,500,000.
TO QUELCH HIATUS.
If Governor Campbell has really
discovered a hiatus in the prison
bill it is to be hoped that he will
depend on the rangers rather than
another extra session of the legis
lature to squelch it.—Dallas News.
If the governor merely announces
that he thinks of sending the rangers
it ought to be enough to put the hiatus
on the run. It had that effect on Cal
laghan.
OLD SCORES SETTLED.
That I. & G. N. bill put the fin
ishing touches on a lot of contem
plated construction. But there were
some old scores to even up, and
hence the bill.—Waco News Her
ald. *
A'
Whatever may be the facts about
the old scores that hadn’t been“set
tled, there were some old and honest
debts that the I. & G. N. had not set
tled and was trying to get rid of in
order to continue paying gross earnings
to the Goulds as interest on bonds. It
is this little scheme that has been halt
ed by the I. & G. N. bill.
SHOCKING.
The Chicago policeman who mis
took the chief for a newspaper re
porter and thefi got fined ten days
pay for talking “sassy” will not
fiake the same break again.—Gal
veston Tribune.
It won’t do to be too kind to report
ers. If policemen don’t “sass” them
I they may suffer from undue surprise
and nervous shock.
EPTEMBER 21, 1W&.
Little Stories
MOTORITES.
Mr. Newear (about to start on his
first trip in his recently purchased
motor car, to his new chauffeur):
“Now, William, I want it thorough
ly understood I will not have fast driv
ing, Always keep well under the legal
limit—not as close to it as you can.
Twelve miles an hour is enough for me.
What I want is comfort—not excite
ment. Do you understand}”
Three days later:
“Er—William, I must be back home
at 7 o’clock. This road seems very
straight and wide. Don’t you think
you might go just a little faster with
out danger? ’ ’
Two days later:
“William, this dust is very unpleas
ant. If you could pass that car ahead,
now—it seems to be going rather slow
ly.”
Next day:
“Put on a little more pace, Wil
liam. There’s no use being a crank.
This road’s too good to lose ths
chance.”
A week later:
“Open her up, Bill. There are no
police within five miles, I’ll bet, and
if there are, who cares! I’m 0 ,- c,for
fun! Let her rip, my boy—let ihei
rip! This isn’t a steam roller! Let’s
have some speed!”
Two students were one day riding
along a country road. Thinking to get
some fun out of a country fellow whom
them met, one of them said to him:
“My man, we will prove that you
are a horse.’’
“Dunno ’bout that,** replied the
witty rustic, “but I can prove as your
saddle be a mule.’’
“How can you do that!’’ they
queried.
“Well, it’s something between an
’orse an’ an ass.”
A HARROWING STORY.
“Extra! Extra! Nine lives lost!
Horrible accident!”
Attracted by the cries of the bright
looking newsboy, a gentleman pur
chased a paper.
“See, here, where does it tell about
the accident?” asked the purchaser,
after looking all the way through the
sheet.
“Second page!” retorted the Lay.
“Tells about ‘Killing of a Cat’—lost
her whole nine lives.’’
COULD HE HELP IT?
A lady and a little boy entered the
car, but’ the boy squirmed and fidget
ed so much on his seat that at last one
of the other passengers expostulated??
“For goodness sake, keep your child
still, madam!”
“I’in very sorry,” said the mother,
“but the truth is, until I get to the
hospital I shan’t be able to quiet
him.”
“Dear me! What’s the matter with
him! ’ ’
“He swallowed a teaspoon yesterday,
and ever since he's been on the stir!”
FEMININE CURIOSITY.
Her husband was a merchant, and one
day while down town she dropped into
his office.
“What are all those books on top of
the safe?” she asked.
“Those are the daybooks, my dear,”
he replied.
“And where are the nightbooks?’'
she queried.
“Nightbooks?” he echoed in sur-
prise.
“Yes,” she rejoined, “those you
have to work over at night sometimes
when you are kept here until 2 o’clock
in the morning.”—Cihcago News.
Pride goeth before a fall, and a
fool before a speeding automobile.
REFLECTIONS
OF A BACHELOR
Reputations a”
made on billposters 1
boards. ■
A late repentance
saves a lot of dull
ness up till then.
Man works for
woman so as to
make her work twice
as hard for him.
Everything in life
is a gamble, except
that you will lose,
which is a sure thing.
A costly thing
about, getting mar
ried is putting it off
and spending more
being engaged.—New
York Press.
POINTED
PARAGRAPHS.
Jealousy indicates
misplaced affection.
Many a far-sight
ed man is a close ob
server.
The rest microlie
is responsible for a
lot of laziness.
Wise is the man
who doesn’t know
more than he should.
After a young man
kisses a pretty girl
once, he gets the
habit.
It takes a widow to
flirt and make a man
believe that she
doesn’t.
Smiles cost less
than electric lights
and they make the
home brighter.
Too often the sup
posedly dead past is
merely a case of sus
pended animation.
It’s surprising how
many things a girl
can learn at a board
ing school that will
never be of any use
to her. — Chicago
News-