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LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN SAN ANTONIO
Prohibition and
the Poll Tax
voters now qualified to oust Callaghan and his little poll
taxed Mexican machine—ls that any reason why one sin
gle resident of San Antonio should neglect to arm himself
with voting papers?
Consider this for a moment from one viewpoint only.
The state legislature Is now battling over a great issue am!
divided into two camps, one the pros, the other the antis.
It is the most bitter legislative fight the state has seen in
years. It affects every community in the state of Texas,
every city, every county, every village. Beyond and above
this it comes straight home to the individual as few politi
cal questions ever do.
Just now it is the members of the legislature alone who
have a voice, but before long the people of the state will
be given a chance to speak. Do you want to be dumb on
that day?
Already the state has voted in favor of submission. This
is virtually a direction to the legislature to call a special
Btate election at which the people themselves may vote for
or against statewide prohibition. There is scarcely a possi
bility that this election will not be called! The date now
talked of Is the usual primary date, this year. July 22.
In Texas, though, when grave matters are left to be de
termined by the people at an election it means that those
persons who have paid poll tax prior to the previous
February Ist will determine it. "The people” in this state
are the people who have paid poll tax. To many men this
poll tax requirement savors of tyranny, but what an in
dividual thinks about it matters not for it is in the state
>onstitution, the fundamental law.
There is then nothing to do except to pay poll tax first
If it is the desire of any man to vote for or against state
wide prohibition. With poll tax receipts, city and county,
In his pocket, a citizen may walk into the polls that special
election day, drop a ballot in the box and make his opin
ions count. If, however, he has neglected to qualify, he can
Bit in a corner like little Jack Horner, and suck his thumb
tor all anybody cares.
San Antonio is against statewide prohibition. It ought
to be the banner city on the wet side. It ought to cast
more votes against prohibition than half a dozen country
counties can put in the box to make the state dry. It will
do this if the Callaghan counsels do not prevail, and if
♦he people continue to qualify.
The report of the tariff commission of 1882 survives in
two musty volumes of 2617 pages. Its members were John
L. Hayes. Henry W. Oliver Jr., A. M. Garland, J. A. Am
bler, Robert P. Porter, J. W. H. Underwood, Alexandei
R. Boteler and Duncan F. Kenner—all dead, or at least
retired.
Miss Ida M. Tarbell remarks: "The gentlemen who
expect to get us out of our present tariff difficulties by
shoving the work onto a commission would do well to
Btudy the operation and the fate of the commission of
1882.” It requires no elaborate study of the matter to
learn that tariff reform was not accomplished by that
method. But It is possible that public sentiment has made
Borne advance in the meantime. Even in the life of a na
tlon, twenty-eight years is quite a spell.
A Millionaire
and Railroad Rates
tlon.
Barber has written every member of congress a letter
protesting against the pending increases in freight rates.
If the interstate commerce commission permits the rates
proposed by the railroads to go into effect, an additional
tax of $500,000,000 a year will have been saddled upon th«
American consumers.
LaFollette, Brandeis, Barber and others who are so
vigorously opposing the advances in rates are not ncces-
Jarily prejudiced against the railroads, as the latter are en
deavoring to make it appear. The men opposing the $500.-
000,000 increase have no objections to the railroads mak
ing a good liberal rate of interest. The public should not
allow Itself to be misled on that score. The entire fight
Is centered on the action of the railroads in forcing the
public to pay dividends on money not Invested In railroad
property, but that is represented only by the water in
Btocks.
"What is the matter with congress?” asks Barber In his
letter to the members of congress. “Why has the seat of
government been transferred to Wall street?
"These are questions which 1, in common with the peo
ple of the United States, would like to have answered sln
rerely.”
Barber declares that of all the railroad regulation legis
lation, "the Hepburn bill was the supreme travesty upon
right and justice. This law forced upon the railroads an
economy of untold millions of dollars, by prohibiting re
bates and passes, yet there seems to have been neither suf
ficient intelligence nor honesty In the house or senate to
compel a lowering of freight rates against this enormous
saving. The railroads were left free to increase their rates
as before, and right well have they done so. Since the
passage of the Hepburn bill the capitalization of the rail
roads has Increased nearly 25 per cent.
"All told, there are less than 1,000,000 railroad stock
holders and bondholders in the United States. In 1909
railroad employes numbered not more than 1,600,000. So
possibly 3.000.000 people profit from the railroads. Yet
last year the railroads exacted from the American public,
approximating 100,000.000 souls, a toll of $2,513,212,763, a
figure so staggering that one must be almost criminally
Indifferent to contemplate It with calmness. Ten times as
many persons. 30,000.000 in all, are investors In or em
ployes of other Industrial enterprises. Last year the gross
earnings of all the Industries reporting to Poor’s Manual
were only $2,165,786,015. The railroads earned $347,426,-
748 more than all! Though the net earnings of the
railroads in the last ten years exceeded $6,600,000,000, they
claim they are not earning enough.
"Approximately nine billions of the eighteen billions of
railroad capitalization is fictitious; purely and simply
watered stock upon which the people of the United States
arc taxed in railroad rates to maintain the annual divi
dends. Despite the tremendous stock watering, the rail
way net earnings have advanced steadily and the aver
age dividend rate has more than doubled In the last fif
teen years. In 1894, the dividend rate was 1.66 per cent
Last year It averaged 3.68 per cent and the railroads earn
ed a net income of $852,153,280. And the people paid the
freight!
"Senator LaFollettc has been trying long to get a lav.
passed to provide a physical valuation of railroad property.
His failure cannot he attributed to the will of the people
The always effective opposition co—O from another
source. The railroads dare not permit the public a peep
♦*to their stock irrigatix— "
FRIDAY,
— Let no one decide that
there is no need to qualify
to vote this year because
the registration figures are
mounting up so rapidly.
qßnoua oju ajaqj Sujsoddns
Millionaires a re • n o t
generally very militant re
formers. Ohio C. Barber,
n llionaire president of tho
Diamond Match company
of Akron, 0., is an excep-
A Final
Tribute
mite explosion would tear from him.” This makes the heart
of every man beat a little faster, for true friendship is as
rare as it is priceless. All the world doffs a hat at the friend
who sticks fast.
Considering the matter further, the report calls atten
tion once more to the human side of our manana mayor.
The man is so typical of old San Antonio that he is in
deed an interesting character. Callaghan personally has
very fine traits. He is a bright man and his education is
one that no one could get in schools. His own friendships
are sincere, except in in politics, and he is generous to a
fault. Most of us wonder how it is that on the days when
our alcalde feels more like a prince than usual he has
avoided giving a city school or a fire station to some old
chum.
Callaghan has a personality that attracts and many men
who have known him a long time feel like slapping him
on the back and shouting: "How d'ye do, old boy," or "how
are you. this morning, old sport.”
So no one can complain that a meeting so essentially
a parting tribute to the man Callaghan as that at Bee
thoven hall his old friends all showed up and took seats
well in front. But this is as far as their personal friendship
for the man should carry them. After this they can best
show their friendship by being faithful to Callaghan when
the people of San Antonio have completed the necessary
but rather disagreeable task of putting him out of the of
fice he now occupies.
Would any one of these men. for instance, turn over the
business, in which his own fortune is invested, to the
management of Callaghan?
By far the most important business enterprise in San
Antonio is the city Itself, or at any rate it should be. In
the last five years, taking Callaghan's own figures, the peo
ple have paid in taxes for the expenses of the city gov
ernment $4,029,206.70. Others show that the figure is
closer to $6,000,000. All that money is gone now and the
city Is in debt at the bank for money borrowed to last
through half a year. Where Is there a single permanent
improvement to which the citizens may point with pride to
show for all this money?
There is no street or series of streets over which it
would be safe to drive a visitor from the asphalt In the
center of the city to the county roads outside. Coming in
to the town the jolting begins as soon as the city line is
crossed. Where else in the worst mismanaged cities in
the United States are there better roads outside than with
in the town?
Stating the thing briefly, there is not a single business
man in San Antonio who does not know that he could
have done more with $4,029,206.70 than Callaghan has
done. Distasteful though it be, the picturesque old jefe
must go.
Chinamen still struggle to get into the United States.
They are willing to suffer and to pay for the privilegy
It costs them about $350 for passage across the oceai.
and services of guide to show them the weak spot on the
border. Once safely across, they get jobs as cooks, gar
deners or laundrymen at $35 to $5O a month, as much as
they would make In a year In China. They mortgage them
selves to refund the company that finances the adventure.
But what if they don’t get In and are sent back to China?
Ah. there's the rub, for then they are rtiortgaged until
they can pay back the whole expense, including return
trip, at Chinese wages. And that is practically a mortgage
for life! It’s awful to be a Chinese coolie!
Uncle Walt
The Poet Philosopher
The Laird of Skibo, noble soul, believes the world Is in
a hole while war drums throb and cannon crash, and so
he gives a wad of cash, to end the reign
CARNEGIE'S of blood and woe. and give the White
GUT Winged Dove a’ show. He dug ten million
from his shoe, and sprung it. with a how
dydo. Far be it from a grass-fed bard to say things
ertieal or hard, about a princely gift like this, designed to
further human bliss. But where will all this money go?
And will the White Dove have a show? Methinks I see
the highbrows meet, and make long speeches and repeat;
I see the long-haired, four eyed sports hold congresses of
divers sorts; they’ll file reports that no one heeds, they'll
write long books that no one reads, they'll write peace
anthems, full of thrills, while he of Skibo foots the bills.
Methinks that when Peace does appear, and earth has
lost the battle fear, 'twill be because men grow more
wise and gentle as Time onward flies; 'twill be the har
vest of the tears that men have sown in bitter years.
This boon will have no branded hide; no Skibo cost mark
on its side.
Copyright, 1910, by George Matthew Adams.
As Others View It
THE MYSTERY OF THE MAINE.
A New York newspaper a few days ago published a
story to the effect that tho detached turret of the ill-fated
battleship Maine had been found near the wreck in
Havana harbor, and this fact Is conclusive evidence that
the ship was destroyed by an internal explosion. The
public, however, will not hastily accept the accuracy oi
such a conclusion, but if the story is sustained by subse
quent developments, the original report of the naval board
that the Maine was sunk by the explosion of a mine, will
become a laughing stock.
One of the latest narratives purporting to account for
the explosion was recently contributed to the Portland
Oregonian by J. C. Crowley, an American, who says he
was in the service of the Cubans .at the time of the dis
aster, and who is now a resident of Aberdeen, Washing
ton. According to Crowley's story, one Jose Seavaldo, an
electrician, attached to the signal corps of the Spanish
army, prepared and connected the wire to the mine which
destroyed the Maine, and the man who touched the but
ton that set it oft was Don Pedro, a high Spanish officer.
Crowley's story should be accepted with a few grains
of salt, because it does not chime with several other stories
that have been told, hence the destruction of the Maine
must still be regarded as a mystery until the question is
settled by the raising of the wreck, but even that may
make the cause of the disaster more obscure,—New Or
leans States. /
Pointed Paragraphs
occasionally a political reformer is merely envious of a
political grafter.
While the other fellow is talking about it you can beat
him to it by acting.
There are a great many things that drive men to drink,
but the principal one is thirst.
If walking were as popular as talking, a lot more people
would be both healthier and wiser.
A brainless man may win a wife, but when It comes to
supporting her —well, that’s another story.
After a man has been married a few years he wonders
why It is so different from what he thought It would be.
A laborer in Vermont had to take a poor farm in pay
ment for work, and latter it developed into a rich marble
quarry. Another case of hard luck.—Chicago News.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
A woman's dearest religion Is sacrifice.
Men calculate their blessings in money; women in chil
dren.
Everybody cart instantly detect conceit in everybody but
himself. I
A man will let his barber talk him to death, and get furi
ous with his wife for saying a tenth as much.
Self-control in a child begins exactly where paroltai dis
cipline does, consequently there is no self-contro/ln chil
dren —New York Press. ’
— In the news reports of
the Callaghan meeting we
read that in the audience
were many old friends of
the manana mayor “whom
nothing short of a dyna-
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
I ALL SORTS I
Copyright. 1909. by
Post Publishing Co. !
■ Bv NEWTON NEWKIRK.
THE SUFFRAGETTE.
Now women’s suffrage is a thing that
interests us all—
It is the question of the hour, th.
quiz that has the call;
Come, gentlemen, make up your
minds, in sober thougnt and
then,
Giw answer to the proposish, "Shall
* women rule the men?”
The dictionary tells us "suffrage” is a
vote, or voice;
Interpretations in this case are at the.
reader’s choice;
Now if you choose the latter, the
question must be dropped,
For a woman's not a woman it hei
word or voice be stopped.
So the problem dwindles down unto a
vote and nothing more,
Since, when it comes to talking, why
a woman has the floor;
But when it comes to voting, and the
, lady “pols” begin.
Then needle work for us poor men,
or taking,washing In.
Not Patrick Henry's honeyed flow,
nor Webster at his best
Would e’er have dared to speak a
piece or once expand, a chest;
When lovely woman gets her vote ano
takes her final stand,
Then Dr. Mary Walker will be presi
dent of the land.
And Laura Jean will get the job as
secretaire of state—
Her brave heroes will have a place
upon the cabinet slate;
The axe will fall on homely guys—
the handsome they’ll promote;
And only pretty boys will win, when
women have their vote.
BEAN.
ODORLESS CABBAGE.
Miss Nellie Woods, the professoress
in the culinary department of the
Ohio State university, told her class
of young ladies the other day how to
rob boiled cabbage of Its pungent
aroma when it is served on the table.
Miss Woods is authority for ths
statement that if a cabbage Is cooked
with the lid on and if the kitchen
windows are left up, the fragrance
of this vegetable will exhale itself
from the boiling pot, chase itself out
of the windows and become dissi
pated in the neighborhood air and
that when the cabbage Is brought into
the dining room it will bring with It
no olfactory reminder.
This may all be very true, Nellie
(pardon me for calling you “Nellie,”
but when you talk about cabbage it
makes me feel as if you and I are old
friends), but who wants all the neigh
bors for seventeen miles around to
know that one is going to have boiled
cabbage for dinner at one’s house?
Why should this fact be so widely ad
vertised? There is just so much odor
in every head of cabbage which Is
bound to escape when the cabbage is
brought to the boiling point, and in
our opinion this penetrating aroma
should not be permitted to roam at
large around the neighborhood to
tantalize those who are not fortunate
enough to Indulge In the luxury of
boiled cabbage. Let’s by all means
keep this delicate fragrance within
the confines of our own homes.
Next thing, somebody will dope out
s P me scheme to rob a llmburger
cheese of its "forget-me-not” essence,
or to wrest from the onion its con
centrated extract of odoriferousness.
A BARNYARD DIVIDEND PAYER.
William Lewis of Scranton, Penn
invested 75 cents in a hen a few
weeks ago. Now she wasn't a thor
oughbred hen and no guarantee went
" ith her. On the contrary she wasn’t
much of a hen to look at from the
standpoint of a poultry fancier—she
had long ungainly legs, a rubber necK.
was short on feathers, possessed a
sad eye. and walked pigeon-toed.
William purchased her for the
table, but after he had sized her up,
he was afraid to take the chance. She
looked tough and he feared she would
Play the part in the stew kettle—
William figured it would take more
coal in the range than she was worth
to bring her to an edible state, so he
concluded he would keep her, merely
as a curiosity.
After the hen got her bearings in
her now home and became accustomed
to her surroundings, she hunted out
a nest and engaged in a business of
laying. From that day to this, she
has been delivering the goods at the
rate of seven eggs a day, which Is go
ing some for a sad-eyed, pigeon-toed
fowl. Every twenty-four hours this
wonderful hen lays almost enough
eggs at tho present price to reimburse
William the money he paid for her.
William figures that If he had put
that 75 cents Ip the bank, it would
have earned him only 3 per cent,
whereas this hen declares nearly 100
per cent dividends every day.
There is nothing too good for her.
She gets the best feed that money can
buy. including all the hen delicacies
you ever hoard of, and it is said that
every time William moots her. he
takes off his hat and bows politely.
If anything should happen to this hen
and the income of seven eggs per
should cease. William would consider
it a terrible financial wallop.
DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY
Pierre Loti is a famous French
novelist, who can make the reader
see and feel the
ivvi mt;
wonderful things
he does. He wrote
“Madame Chrysan
theme” and "The
Island Fisherman,”
I which are well
liked tn America.
His house Is fit
ted up with rooms
In Moorish, pagoda,
empire, Breton
। peasant and
* mosque stylo, per
fect to tho slightest
icvi IO me Slightest
detail. He surrounds himself with
flowers, mummies and cats. He lives
as a hermit as much as his friends
will let him except when he gives a
bizarre entertainment. He will be 61
years old tomorrow.
Arc You Well Informed?
Jack Johnson had his brain ex
amined because he forgot things that
he thought he had learned. Have you
forgotten the answers to these:
What is meant by the tonnage of a
ship?
Who was Sam Houston?
Whence comes amber?
Who is the king of Italy?
What is a Zollvereln?
Sherlocko the Monk
Observant Citizen
Fire Chief Wright was holding a
little conference with John Wicke
land, chairman of the fire commit
tee of the city council. They were
standing in the corridor of the city
hall when a third party walked up.
"Good morning, gentlemen, when
are your new combination hose wag
ons and fire engines going to reach
San Antonio?” queried the thiru
party.
"When is it going to rain again ?'•
asked the fire chief in return.
"I don’t know,” frankly admitted
the newcomer.
"Well, neither do I,” said the fire
fighter; adding, “and I know just as
much about the arrival of those new
engines.”
Some six or eight months ago tho
council purchased the new apparatus.
The engines were to be delivered It.
120 working days. The time has long
since expired. Aiderman Wickeland
says he expected a delay. Delays in
such matters are to be looked for. but
the present one Is much more than
was ever contemplated.
SANAKTONIO2IYEARSASO
(From The Lights Jan. 13, 1890.)
J. H. Copeland has returned from
Beeville.
T. W. Mullaly is up and out again
after a spell of the grippe.
J. S. Maffitt, the Lone Fisherman
with the Evangeline company, is an
old partner of Frank Donaldson of
this city. These gentlemen met yes
terday and talked over old times.
The prize masquerade bill at Gam
brinus hall Saturday night was well
attended.
William Perkins, a negro, was shot
in the leg at 1 o'clock this morning
while in the Grey Mule on West Com
merce street. The man who did the
shooting is under arrest.
Some of the advertised letters at
the postoffice are those of well known
citizens.
Rev. Dr. J. W. Niel, who has been
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of this city for the last fif
teen or twenty years today tendered his
resignation. A meeting of the church
will be held this week to consider
the resignation.
J. W. Nixon, manager of the Wells
Fargo Express company in this city
has tendered his resignation and will
accept a position as superintendent of
the Mexican National Express com
pany in the City of Mexico.
Albert Devine is building a brick
residence on San Pedro avenue.
The San Antonio Gardners’ asso
ciation held their anual meeting at
Krlsch's hall last night and elected
the following officers: President,
Louis Layer; vice president, Jacob
Schumann: secretary. William Layer;
treasurer. Leopold Scherer; finance
committee, Henry Kerber and John
MockerL
Chicago boasts of the second mean
est thief. He stole an aged newsboy's
life savings of $6OO. The first mean
est thief Is holding back to steal the
pennies off the old man’s eyes when
he dies of Infirmities and starvation.
The Unraveling of the Mysterious Cipher
Coryright. 1910. by the New York Evening Journal P übllshlng Company,
Texas Talk
Mr. Colquitt states that he
hopes for a short and harmonious
session of the legislature. If the
session will be short enough the
general public will dispense with
the harmonious end of the deal.
—Beaumont Journal.
Indeed, a legislature which starts
out with a mysteriously padded vote
in electing its presiding officer can’t
quit business too soon to please the
people. With the governor interfer
ing in the speakership fight and
bringing out a “stall” candidate the
outlook for the future is certainly not
bright.
Warming up considerably at
Austin. Politics and hot air are
almost synonymous. — Galveston
Tribune.
Some of that hot air in Austin could
be easily traced back to Its source In
fire and brimstone.
The legislature will be peti
tioned to grant an appropriation
of $200,000 for a training school
for delinquent and dependent boys.
It has been the idea of tie Times-
Herald, so expressed on many oc
casion, to convert the Gatesville
reformatory Into just such a
school, and this suggestion is here
renewed.—Waco Times-Herald.
Modern scientific study of the youth
ful criminal leads to the conclusion
that the incorrigible and the delin
quent require the same method of
treatment. They need good food,
plenty of outdoors, healthy play and
simple studies within their mental
reach.
It Is anounced that only the
women of one township In Ad
ams county, Ohio, can vote be
cause every man has been dis
franchised through conviction of
the offense of selling his vote.
There’s the ideal place of the
world to try women’s suffrage.—
Austin Statesman.
Chances are If all the male of
fenders have been imprisoned the suf
fragettes would be so busy carrying
bouquets of cut flowers to jail that
the county government would go to
the bowwows.
As well as we are able to de
termine the democratic press of
Texas is everlastingly split on the
tariff question. It seems to be
the same way with a lot of poli
ticians who have managed to get
themselves Interviewed by report
ers. What has gone with all that
solid phalanx business we heard
so much about a couple of months
ago?—Denison Herald.
If there is any "solid phalanx busi
ness” anvwhere in Texas the chances
are Senator Bailey knows where it is.
OH, HOW LONG?
WARMING UP.
FOR DELINQUENTS.
PURE POLITICS.
BAILEY’S GOT IT.
JANUABY 13, 1911.
Little Stories
LITERATURE LABELED “RYE.”
"H. H. Baish, superintendent tf
schools, Altoona, Pa.," was the ad
dress on a box a brawny expressman
toted Into the Altoona high school
and deposited upon the floor of the
main corridor.
"Three gallons of old rye whisky,”
read big, black letters on four sides
of the box.
The students raised their eyebrows
in surprise as they read the address
and the letters Indicating the sup
posed contents, and hurried on to the
classrooms snickering.
Superintendent Baish was minus
his usual poise when he saw the box.
He was puzzled to know whether the
contents were really what they were
represented to be or whether he was
being made the victim of a joke.
Without stopping to Investigate he
ordered the box returned to the sen
der.
After it had been removed the mys
tery was cleared by the receipt of a
bill for books. The packer had used
poor judgment In the selection of a
box of shipping purposes, that was
all.—Altoona Cor. Philadelphia Rec
ord.
TEN EPIGRAMS OF CITIFS.
A Naples by any other name would
smell as sweet.
Every Pittsburg has a silver lin
ing.
Chicago is paved with good inten
tions.
It’s a poor Paris that does not
work both ways.
A Philadelphia in time would save
nine.
Boston to him who Boston thlks.
Leadville is only skin deep.
It's a long Reno that has no turn
ing.
London is no respecter of persona
New York city is covered by a mul
titude of skins.
GEESE WENT ON A SPREE.
Two policemen and Max Bash, pro
prietor of a saloon in Trenton, dash
ed in the saloon from three different
doors In an effort to capture burglars
that were wrecking the place. The,
found three highly intoxicated geeM
smashing everything behind the bar
The geese had wandered in during
the evening and gone to sleep In i.
warm box, which was upturned out
of sight of everybody. In the nighx
they had risen to investigate. Break
ing a bottle, they eagerly gobbled up
the whisky which flowed from it.
Then they started in to wreck the
place. More than $5O damage was
done.—Philadelphia Press.
SACRED SUBJECT.
Robert, aged 10, was playing with
the other boys on the corner of Nine-*
teenth and Tioga streets, when his
mother, who had been listening to l)is
conversation, called him.
"Robert,” she began, in a grieved
tone, “I never thought I’d hear you
swearing."
"Why, I wasn’t swearing, mother."
the boy defended himself. "I only
said 'the devil.' That isn't swearing."
"Well,” replied the mother, quick
ly. "maybe it isn't exactly swearing,
but It is making light of sacred
things."—Philadelphia Times.