Orange Daily Tribune. (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 135, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 1, 1903 Page: 2 of 4
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> Incoming crop;
Mr. Brown
1 him engineeLjrie recent "corner"
5. rost asks: "Doe* Mr.
a, imagine lor one mo-
i have participated in this profit?
; an exactly opposite condition
admitted that practically all the
had passed out of the hands of
'the deal was put through?"
I that the bulls took advantage of the
supply tii cotton and forced prices up,
id vantage of themselves and those fanners who
parted with their crop. It is hardly fair, how-
as has been suggested by one or two interior
s, to blame the bull operators with the shortage,
neither controlled the acreage, the weather nor
laws of supply and demand—they simply took ad-
je of the opportunity presented by the shortage
and "made good" on the deal. * '' I' 1
When the price of cotton had been forced to the
highest notch by the bulls, even Secretary Wilson, of
the Agricultural Department, joined in the howl of the
i*said the ^gartWefW" had forced the price of
> so high as to neceSMtote the closing down of
i oí the -mills. S."
: be true that "coming events cast their shadows
the bears and the bear millers had ample warn-
ag of the present shortage some months ago. In the
of the cotton season of 1902-1903 ti bulls,
; by infallible signs that there would be a short-
, began a campaign for higher prices. The entire
[ country was soon aware of the true conditions and the
them just as well as the bulls. The spin-
warned of the approach of of a higher mar-
to get in the game if they expected to
> supplies at present prices. They heeded not the
giving as their reason therefor, the belief that
were only given for the purpose of push-
' the prices and they only bought enough cotton
for immediate consumption. While it is true that hag
the spinners come injotftc market 4hen they would have
had to pay an advanced pnccfTor cotton, it is equally
true that they "Would have secured it for far less than
"now.
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the cotton grower is only getting a moderate
the profits from Jthis huge corner in cotton,
of them are getting none at all, still the
is one that each and all of them can appreciate
As the Waco Times-Herald puts it:
e sees the fellows who beat down prices when
tions demanded an, advance, on the gridiron now
the folly of their action is brought home to them,
can enjoy their writhings as they turn in their
to the Agricultural Department and plead for
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There are many who think that the influence of the
partment and its secretary, thus so
to beaf upon the situation, may suc-
lowering the price of the stiáple, but an enor-
shortage is staring the bear operator and his
the bear spinner, in the face, and
crop, be it twice as large as at present pro-
can not wipe out the shortage. While Wall
tainly exercises great influence upon the price
, the law of supply and demand exerts an even
, and the prices received by the farmer for
> hid fair to be higher than at any
and the prospects are still
aeedJ
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' '&"i|lipdo not
soil He gave us a
I jt., m a>iiininlii'i■, etiAur
orougnt a pumpictn, too, to ng
iust what can he crown from
"I deserve not «0
raised; there is no need toil in
grdm just w
ange Tribune.
That's * short and
it thus! Music's bad
had for us, Tell jedge when next he'
of that sort, and would try for a meed of
praising, that we, too, like pumpkin pie.
hoarding house kind, never! But the kind
make! Well remember them forever,
the storms 'round us break! Boarding house
is tougher than a
the stuff er—-makes the filling hard to find. But we
pause, our tears are falling and the world seem dark
and blue; and we hear the coasting calling of the pie
our boyhood knew.—-J. M. Lewis, in Houston Po t|| I
Easterling is away and Ford is gone today; as we
cannot write a "rime," well have to hide our
When Easterling come home, bell answer with a
cs in ctfcutp^crfncc fltod vcij^hin^ H&lji n
That's a peach. And still it is not a.
now a Gonzales man comes along with a pcadi that
measures twelve inches around
Smithville Times.
Sorry for you, boys, but we've get one tint
twenty-two inches around and weighs one hundred
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ana tmrty ponnas.—nouston row.
Say, are there any more peaches on that tree? We
want one.—Pecan Valley News.
We trust Mr. Harrison will be socoesaful in ob-
taining one of the aforesaid peaches. If Hooston is
short on the product just come over to Hfc , Chester;
we have an abundance of that variety.—Hioo Review.
Orange has for yean hdd first place when it
to the possession of this particular brand ofpeacbea.
We've got 'em in shoals here, hot if you want one you'll
have to settle in Orange. Like world's fair exhibits,
they are "not to be removed.
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The Sheldon Sun man seems to be aflhetad with a
disease very prevalent among members of the craft.
There are various terms, both scientific and
wiae, for it, but its common appellation is "Trouble."
He seems to he getting it in gofa , to judge fay the
following:
In the rush yesterday we omitted to print a re-
port of the ban game the day before between Shel-
don and Le Mars, and a a result three
scriptionists came thundering into
wanted to know if we wenr dead. Xngrates!
phools! lifEr havjfc mi«ed a few meals as we
have reports of tfce ball gWca, both last year and
this, they haven't gone hung ? than twice. The
game was won fay Sheldon ; sodNfcffi to 4.
nic Gontfwt ipf in
■§ Orange ha .,
that town, and we
Port Arthur has not|
is oil in this vicinity miI
f£t on her hands and tackle «he job ag*ta; Great is
Southeast Tenas and all of her towns and peoples-
Port Arthur Herald.
We've got two rigs nearly
and we ase going to get oil in
old Orange hump herBelf.
has gone Easterly on a
There's one boy on the Tribune staff
to drink" if he don't get back p. d. q.
S*n Antonio seems io la _
away from her regarding
Herald.
Poor old Orange. She's
younger sisters of the Sta
wall. Sad, Sad, Sad.
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Rein, Charles M. Orange Daily Tribune. (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 135, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 1, 1903, newspaper, September 1, 1903; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth182910/m1/2/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.