The Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1902 Page: 8 of 16
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THe j& Brand
A WeeKly Journal Devoted to tHe Interests
of tHe Panhandle Country of Texas
B. P. STONE, Editor
P. L. VANDERBURGH, Publiahw
GUARANTEED
rhb 1,000 '"ue
CIRCULATION
A little Presbyterian girl
In hot discussion took a whirl
Against a lad who argued warm
Episcopalians knew "good form."
"Oh, I don't know," the maiden said,
In rugged Calvin's doctrine bred;
"As style goes, you are in the shade—
You get your prayers all ready-made."
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So FAR. as our town and county
are concerned we advocate the Re-
publican idea of buying your goods,
at home.
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Things of this world are valued
fat comparison to the standpoint from
which they are viewed. Virtue,
goodness, wisdom and riches are but
relative terms. One man may be
accounted rich with an income of a
thousand dollars a year, while an-
other may be considered poor with
an income of ten thousand. Before
we say a man is good, great or bad,
let us see by what standard we are
judging him.
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Nbw Mexico cattlemen have been
fighting the order to remove their
drift fences for the past two years,
but it now looks ás if they had
played their last card. In a letter
dated March 5, 1902, United States
Land Commissioner Binger Hermann
orders A. J. Hobbs, special land
agent at Roswell, N. M., to enforce
íhe order immediately. This will
be a hard blow to the affected cattle-
men in that territory.
The prosperity of every town in
the panhandle is a question that
concerns all the citixens of each and
every tpwn, regardless of his poli-
tical, social, or religious affiliations.
When, the welfare of a town .or
p&mmúnity la at stake, there should
be' no'' holding back on . account of
j&rsonaí"differences of opinions on
thefe masters. What we. need is.to
get together and stay , together—«ot.
staná apart. The sooner we come, to
41 realisation otthis fact, the better
it will be for all our mutual interests.
In united, effort nothing is impossible,
that isright and for tj^e welfare of
the community at large.
Prince Henry doubtless returned
to his fatherland greatly impressed
with our country and our people;
but he will never know what he
missed by not visiting the Panhandle
of Texas.
A great reduction is threatened
in the output of diamonds this sea-
son, and the editor of this paper has
received due notice from a New
York house to this effect. This will
probably not interest many of our
readers outside of the newspaper
fraternity; but we take this occasion
of suggesting to them the advisabil-
ity of laying in a supply of the
stones at once, giving them the bene-
fit of our "tip."
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There is a single course for the
Democrats to persue the coming one,
two and three years 1 to bind up the
party's wounds; to heal the
branches; to mend the fences, and,
when the time to act rolls around in
1904, to separate the possible from
the impossible, and, instead of strik-
ing out blindly and in the dark, to
move in solid columns, keeping time
to the drum-beats of common sense,
whilst flying the flag of the constitu-
tion as the only true symbol of na-
tional safety and glory.
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It is being strongly urged by the
opponents of capital punishment that
that' method of punishments does
not deter criminals or other classes
from committing crimes that by the
law require the death penalty.
The divine law—an eye for an eye—
a tooth for a tooth—and other like
quotations from the Bible, is toot the
command of the almighty or any
other unseen power. The clemency
of the law of today is not due to any
maudlin sentiment. They are for
the better protection of criminals
who in moments of misdirected pas-
sion commit an act tor which they
are not wholly responsible—dia-
bolical and brutal. To get at the
vital conception of a crime it is nec-
essary to trace the cause, and as a
general thing we find it the result
of,a lower order of intelligence, a
weakness.of mind, a shallowness of
moral..responsibility. To put a
human being to death is not putting
a stop to crime, as one can readily
see. by referring to crimes which are
repeated from time to time.
As a Weekly.
With this issue of The Brand it
becomes a weekly instead of a month-
ly journal ;> and simultaneous with its
publication as a weekly the Here-
ford Reporter ceases to be issued,
having been merged into The Brand.
Thus, though we have dropped the
name of The Reporter, that paper
will continue to reach all its old sub-
scribers though, and it still lives in
The Brand. It will hereafter con-
tain sixteen pages every week, and
be devoted, as heretofore, to the
whole Panhandle of Texas, and at
the same time giving our local sub-
scribers the benefit of all the local
news of Hereford.
This very impoxtant step has been
rendered possible by the moral and
material support given us by a gen-
erous public. It has been rendered
expedient by several causes, some
of whieh we will endeavor to enu-
merate. We say this is an impor-
tant step, and we use the term ad-
visedly, as we will also endeavor to
show.
Not least amongst the many rea-
sons for merging the two papers into
one, is the fact that it simplifies the
work of Our office, from which both
papers were issued, and reduces the
expenses fully one-third. Thus, we
will be enable to put all our capital,
enegery and talent into the making
of one good paper, instead of being
obliged to divide it into two. The
Reporter was an established paper,
with a rapidly increasing subscrip-
tion list and advertising patronage.
It loses none of its prestige under
the new order of things. The Brand
is just in its infancy, and necessarily
it had many barriers to surmount.
The hardest of these was the fact
that it was issued only once a month.
Some of the leading men of the Pan-
handle have requested us to make it
a weeklyand, indeed, so universal
was the demand that we could no
longer disregard it.. Both papers
gain by the new deal. To the Re-
porter's already large list of patrons
is added that of The Brand, and to
The Brand is added the strength of
the Reporter. It gives us a much
larger circulation and greater pres-
tige.
Nor are these benefits all our own.
To our patrons must some of them
accrue also. It gives our subscribers
the benefit of the reading matter
contained in both papers, at the cost
of one. It gives our advertisers the
benefit of both lists of readers, at
half th? cost.
Under these conditions we can
safely assume that The Brand is a
fixture. It can no longer be classed
in the domain of experimentation; it
is here to stay. We have now only
to call the attention 0! the people ot
our immediate ioq&fa to the real
significanqRaitJÉyHTt'iii 1 of. this
move fowatafcU YW- them speci-
fically, that we write.
We have a growing, thriving town,
which has created surprise every-
where by its push and pi ogress. By
a spirit of progress which dominates
here, and the united effort of every
class of our citizenship, we have
landed several important enterprises
calculated to make our town one of
unusual importance. We feel here
that we have only to call your at-
tention to the magnitude and impor-
tance of this enterprise to secure
your continued most hearty co-oper-
ation in promoting it. Let us co-
operate.
Yours for the Panhandle,
The Publishers.
Farmers throughout the Panhan-
dle generally seem to be in fine spir-
its, since the rain, and they are go-
ing at their work with renewed
energy and determination. The
only thing now to be hoped for is a
fairly good season, and the people
will do the rest. Prospects for this
line of industry never looked
brighter. The coming year prom-
ises to be one of great prosperity to
this class. They have learned much
by experience and observation, and
are profiting by it. Crops will be
more diversified than ever before in
the history of farming in this coun-
try, and year by year they are
learning how to utilize for profit
much that has heretofore been re-
garded as worthless, and has been
let go to waste. The introduction
of cotton in some of the lower coun-
ties seems to be the only serious
blunder into which they have fallen,
and this will be corrected, we be-
lieve, when the resources of one
country are more fully understood.
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The Rock Island claims to make
quicker time into El Paso than the
Santa Fe by at least six hours, and
it is pretty evident that this will
force the latter to improve its ser-
vice by building west from Amarillo
or southwest from Roswell % if it con-
tinues to carry the United States
fast mail to California. It is pre-
dicted by many well informed rail-
road men that the Santa Fe will
make the Panhandle road its main
line to California. Whether this be
true or not, it will doubtless lose no
time in shortening its western line,
since the Rock Island is said to be
making a strong effort for the wesU
era mail.
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The action of John W. Gates, in
presenting the wife of a telegraph
operator with several thousand dol-
lars' worth of his watered < stock os-
tensibly because she cooked him a
lemon pie, is open to some criticism.-,
and doubt. The question that nat-
urally arises is, Was it the woman
or the pie that he got "stuck" on?
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Stone, B. P. The Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 1902, newspaper, March 21, 1902; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142289/m1/8/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.