The Caldwell News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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CALDWELL MKS-CBII0\ICL1.
BlIRTtJOINEK. Editor* akd PttopHirrou*
And now they have seen a 4 'fly-
ing man" in Arkansas, but they
do not state how many creditors
•iter him.—Ex.
The goldbngs of TexM have di-
vided the people of Texas into two
dwiei—"anarchists" and "lead-
lag citiaens"—-Poit.
Aa an indication of the faot that
"prosperity has not returned" it
is only met sear y to call attention
to the fact that National banks are
•till closing their doors and going
oat of business in the Eastern and
Weatern states.--Brenham Uknner.
A serious drawback to the distri-
bution of aid in India is the long
distance names of the people.
Many will starve to dtath in the
length of time required to pro-
nounce a few names. The fol-
lowing named citizens signed an
address to Queen Yiotoiia: Dr.
Bhalcandra Kriehna lihatawadkar,
Mr. Byranyee Nusserwsnyee Seer-
▼ai, Dnraahab Ratarjea Chickgar,
Bao Bahadur Dhakjee Kashinath
jee Pardurjee Bisnee and Cnsetjee
Joorlawalla. And there are oth-
-millions of 'em.—Waco Tele-
me.
An editor's duty ia to speak of
bia town as the loveliest placa be-
neath the blue arch of heaven,
Speak of a dt ceased c'.tizep as t
"fallen oak" when he died oí jim-
jams. Call a man a prominent,
influential citizen when you know
he ia the b9Et poker player in
town. Speak oí a street Arab as a
bright-eyed youth on the road to
fame; a big-footed, newly-mariied
woman as the beautiful and ac-
complished bride. Call a man
who has a few dusty bolts of calico
anda soldier's blue coat a pros-
perous and expetierced dry good*
merchant; call a lawyer a leading
light, of whom the profession
should be proud, when you know
him to be an ordinary pettifogger.
—Hailey (Ia.) News Miner,
Frank and Back Whitiow, of
the La Grange News, are conduct
ing a Dr. Jckjll and Mr. Hyde
paper. They believe in th* widest
possible personal liber y of the
oitisen code i t*nt with the public
good; and although they a 'mit
that the state law sometimes sus-
tains a compound fracturo of the
vertebra) in order that a few so-
cially inclint d La Grangers may
bit their solar plexus with some
thing more soothirg than Bob
Fitasimmons' fiat, yet they claim
the great and inalienable Ameri-
can privilege of dcing as they dad
gam please, so long as the right?
of others are not interfered with.
As an offset to this wide-open
policy they give up a column of
their space to the Epworth League
far the promotion of temperance.
Back and Frank are all right.
Like the nigger's coon trap, they
catch 'em comin' and gcin*.—Port.
The public debt statement given
oat from Washington at the olose
of business M.y 20, less cash in
the treasury, showed the amount
to be 1996,684,052, a decreaae o
#1,560,<80, whicb waa cau-ed by
an increase oí about $2,000,000 in
the cash balance in the treasury.
There was an increase in the debt,
independent or receipts for the
month, on account of redemption,
The total debt is 11,226,797,864.
Money In the treaaury ia olassiihd
as iollowi: Gold, 9181,707,391;
silver $519,764,907; paper, $147,
894,920; bitburaing officers' ba).
I, $18,129,555, againat which
are demand liabilities
to $637,383,018. leav-
cash balance of $¿¡40,113,-
receipts for May
\797,890, and th*
expenditures, $29,109,259. The
receipts from customs for the
month show $16,885,011, and from
internal revenue, $10,673,011. The
defioit for eleven months of the
present fiscal year is atated to be
$82,273,121. The production of
gold and silver in the United
States for 1806, was: Gold $58,-
000,000; silver, 57,000,000 fine
ounces which shows a large in-
oresae of gold over the previous
year.
A country editor, longing for hay
seed in bis hair, expresses himself
thusly: "I want to bo a farmer
and till the virgin soil, and labor
in the sunshine to stew and aweat
and boil; I want to own large
acies, there the rye to sow, and
watch the cornstalks wave and
hear the mortgage grow; I want to
be a farmer and grow a Hubbard
squash, and pumpkins and pota-
toes and other stuff, by gosb; I
want to be a farmer, I do upon my
soul, but I haven't got the money
to buy a gopherhole.—Ex.
The Greenville Herald accuses
a neighboring editor with being
the author of the following item:
"Somebody is writing for the pa-
pera that apples eaten just before
retiring are a grt at help f,r indi-
gestion. We tried it and about
two o'olock we dreamed thai a fiery
red dragon with a i>ea green tail
and eyes as big as &oup plates was
carving us w th a sword. We
finally awoke to find cur wife fan-
ning us with a bed slut and trying
to get the baby out of the ooal
scuttle, where wo had put it to
keep the dragon from getting it.
Daru the apples. Give us prunes.
Joe Bailey has had a chunge of
heart. Less than a year ago when
he came back from the national
convention at Chicago, ho wanted
to rt-sign his etvt in congress be-
cause he could not affiliate with
B/yan, whom he then believed
would ba the next president. He
now c< mes cut and says: "Wil.
liam Jennings Bryan will bo the
n;xt prfsident of the United
Siatee, and that no true, g-rnuin-
democrat will fail to vote for him
when the time comes." We have
always wondered huw so bright n
man i s we have always thought
Bailey to be could have beeaother
than for Bryr.n bll time.—
Gattsville Messengtr.
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papers: Tim Texas Ckrlstluii Atlvocnti,
Tin- llaptlst, Iferuld, The Christian Courier,
The Texu* Farmer. Tho Svubodu, (llobem-
Inn). Froolr Pressc, (Herman.) Purchasers «if
flfty couta worth of Cheatham'a Chill Tonic
Hunt's lilftlitnliiK oil. I r. Simmon Liver
Pnrlfler In tin boxen, and Hunt'* Cure, will
be «Ivon a freo subscription to any of tho
above named newspapers. For aalo by
Srowr /fc IIitciicwk, Caldwell.
SnbEeribe for thS Nkws-Chromiclk.
A Remedy tor the Lynching Problem.
Houston Post.
Port Lavaea, Texas, June 8.—
The discussion of "mob law" and
the various remedies suggested for
the lame from ex-Governor Hogg's
idea of punishing innconnt com-
munities, down through the dive
suggestions oí other waya and
means has been carefully atudied
by the writer, and the recent Ohio
outrage with the national and inter*
national comments on it, causes
me to ask space in your paper to
suggest what 1 beleive is the true
remedy for the evil. The funda-
mental prinoiple of our govern-
ment is that the sovereignty resides
in the people. The very founda-
tion of our existence as a nation
is founded in what is kuown as
"the tea party," which in Boston
harbor, by mob violence, offered
the first resistance to illegal op-
pression from the crown.
And in the settlement of all the
vast territory now comprising
thiBs United States, the first and
almost only protection of the front-
ier settlement:) was the mob juris-
diction of Judge Ljncb, that is
the people of all communities in
defense of their lives and d^ar
ones have from time immemorial
executed the law in their sovereign
capacity, and while they have or-
ganized a clumsy contrivance of
oourts and juries to take charge of
these matter.-1, the people have not
abdicated their natural and sov-
ereign right to proteot themselves
nd inflict punishment for crimes
when their tribunals through in-
efficiency or corruption fail to do
so. When the courts cease to con
aider ;he senseless technical ruled
they have established for admis-
sion of evidenco aB of uioia im
portance than the sctual guilt or
innocent, e of th* cccubed and tho
legal cobwebs of ccriupt or per-
verted preui deuce is no longer al-
lowed to thwart justice and turn
ted handed criminals 3o;se en
society, the people will leave ths
tourti to dtttoimino ¡ht-se matters;
but, so long as the prtseut condi-
tions ex'st, tho peoplu will con-
tinue to visit saift an.! eure ven-
gonce on the bruits who violate
their loved ones and commit brutal
murders.
The rimedy for this thing which
1 would euggi s is, iirt>t, io f iibid
¡ny appeal from th« verdict of the
jury. In theory the jury is tlu
side judg oí the evioer.ee of the
guilt or innocence of the accu. ed.
L-r t this bo so in fact, it is so una
sidedly, for if the v«:di'"í is an hc-
quittal, that endj the case, then
when 1he verdict is guilty, ltt that
also end it. And that jus ice m y
not bá Si) often defeated, us every
one has eten don?, by some friend
of the accused getting on tho jury
&nd hanging it, let a majority of
the jury bring in a ver lici. Bat
as there is little chance of getting
such a change in our courts, iu op-
position to the multitude of aim
inal lawyers who make their liv-
ing in defending these elimínale, I
will make another suggestion
which I think will do more to pre-
vent crimes of rape and assassina-
tion than anything else. It is this:
PasB a law permitting the people,
or rather reoognising their sover-
eign right, to punish crimes of
rape and murder with instant and
just execution.
No sort of enactment will pre-
vent people from inflicting terrible
and deserved punishment for these
orimes, and if the law recognised
this faot, and provided this as one
of the tribunals for meting out
punishments for eximes too horrid
to await the slow prooess of other
courts, then the people would not
bu technically, as they aro not in
faot, guiity of violating the law
themselves. And men who live
by perverting the machinery of
the law (o ihield criminals from its
just verdiot, will oease branding
oommunities of good people as
"morderoue mobs," and want laws
passed that may make back fiom
count.es in damages to the famil-
ies of wretohes the fees they ex
pected to get in defending the
criminals and 'urnipg them loose
on the pubiio.
H. M. Hknueb-on.
There is no record of a poker
game in which two bands were eo
strongly baoked as at a certain
fishing club up the lakes last fall.
A limit was fixed which would
prevent auy member from he
ooming financially crippled, but
after the o hers had laid down
their hands and the two capiul-
ists were "buoking" each other,
the embarrassment of a liin't wat*
removed. All the available catli
was soon on the table and then I.
O, U's went, for either could stand
a million and then be rich.
After they had been raising a
thousand at a oraok, the Delroiter,
with a eteady voioe, though tb<?
cold eweat was pouring from hit-
face, said: "I'll se you and raise
you $50,U00."
"Fifty thousand better," gently
announced the man from ( levo
land.
"Great heavens! gentlemen,''
shcuUd a nervous member who
hed just como iu, "this won't do.
No euch gambling can be tolerated
hero."
"They're putting up thtir own
money," growled a phlegmatio
player who had laid down a full
hand. "I tilt jou SlCO,UtjO."
from the Ddtro'ter.
"Two hun—,'' began the Cieve-
lander, but the nervous little im-.n
said if there was another lai.-e he
would appeal to the directors.
"Very well," laughtd the For
rest City man, "I'll juet call. It
isn't abadnistht's b ifcioes°.''
"I rather tuess no'," txulttjH
the Dttrdter aj he spread a
stra:gh'. flush of hearts on th;
tabl*\ Then they looked foolishly
it •'.ich o'her ns th« (/''evehmder
showed the same hand In clubs.
The others rushed outside to do
their laughing and the man who
rang in the oold deok kept under
cover for a week.
If fou ask what Is the quickest, bost and
safest Chill Toalc. the answer will Invarl-
uhly lie. My friend use Cheatham's. It Is
pleasant, and RUiirantMtd. Put up In Iwitb
the Tasteless and Meter styles. Tasteless
vi cents.
There ia a beautiful rich piece
of land containing 185 acres situ-
ated about 1 mile northwest from
Yellow Prairie which can be had
at a low figure by calling at this
office. Will sell f r cash or on
time, or tr:<de for Caldwell city
property. Call fct the New -
Chronicle office.
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Every man s interest
Is not always to send to New York, Chicago, St. Louis.
Fort Worth, Houston or Galveston for what hc wants to oat
or wear. More often it is more to his interest to trade at home and
thereby strengthen the home merchants and build up thi- the town
and thereby directly benefit and enhance the value of his property.
-«vQ-Kt.
We Can and Will —mst*-
Sell ¿foods at ju-.t as reasonable prices as can be found in any
of the cities of the north and east, if allowance is made for
freights and for the fact that you do not have to take any
risks of paying for something you don't want, but can call at
our store and select just what you want.
Herbsl & Windliattseti,
EVEflY OH EARTH
Can find all he wants to eat or wear
in my store, and at reasonable prices.
1 am making the lowest prices ever
offered in Caldwell.
JACOB PIWETZ.
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Mk
Did You Know
That I am prepared to do all
kinds of repairing and engrav-
ing in the latest and most cor-
rect manner. If you need any-
thing in my line, call in and see
mc. Will give you satisfactory
work and prices the same.
Jesse W. Jenkins,
At Stone & Hitchcock's.
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Rust & Joiner. The Caldwell News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1897, newspaper, June 18, 1897; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth169158/m1/2/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.