Southern Mercury United with the Farmers Union Password. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 22 x 17 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
wuiflfilW MEBCUHY AMD FABMBB8 UNION PASSWORD-
6RUB5S SPEAKS
ONJDUCATION
Address Delivered at Capital on
Tnesday Night.
AN INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
Education of a Child Not Complete Until a
Knowledge of the Useful Arts
is Gained.
Austin, Jan. 26.—In speaking before
the Texas legislature on Tuesday night
Hon. V. W. Grubbs spoke substantially
as follows:
Mr. Speaker, ■Members of the Texas
Legislature, Ladles and Gentlemen:
1 am pleased to aeknowledge th^r
courtesy extended to me through my
friend and associate in a former legis-
lature. Mr. Clements, of an invitation
to address you upon a subject of spec-
ial interest to myself and of general
concern to the people of Texas.
I am not unmindful of the fact that
you have Just passed through a most
Btrenuous and somewhat acrimonious
contest and that you have not had time
to cool off sufficiently to appreciate
and enjoy a speech upon mailers de-
manding a more serious and dispas-
sionate consideration. I confess that X
have been drawn away from the pur-
poses of my visit to Austin by the elo-
uent and exciting debates which have
been prolonged from day to day by
those engaged In the memorable con-
test for the mastery. To the victors, I
beg to appeal for generous treatment
toward the vanquished, and to thorn
•who have gone down in defeat, I would
Offer a word of encouragement. Did
you know that no defeat Is without Its
peculiar consolation I once knew a
man who had, through bad liquor and
worse associations, descended to the
lowest depths of human depravity. Ha
decided to reform and the first thing
he thought of as a means of working
out such reformation and reinstate-
ment in public esteem was to offer
himself as a candidate for office. Ho
announced as a candidate for mayor of
his town, assuring his neighbors that
he had determined to forsake his bad
habits and that nothing would be more
bracing to his good resolution than an
election to the chief magistracy of the
city. They led him to believe that tliey
■were for him, but when the votes were
counted out he did not have a solitary
vote, not one. But lie was equal
to the occasion. Ho said, "it is all
right. They have accused me of being
a drunkard, a vagabond and a thief.
They have accused me of selling
whiskey without license. They havi
accused me of running a gambling hell.
They have accused bo of perjury, of
bribery and about all the crimes and
misdemeanors named and described In
the statutes. But I have one glorious
consolation at the result—no man can
accuse me of being mean enough to
vote for mysslf." I am tempied to il-
lustrate furthar, but must proceed to
a discussion of the subject announced.
In the latter part of the year 1897 I
was engaged In the publication of a
newspaper and superintending the cul-
tivation of a few small farms in Hunt
and adjacent counties. It took all that
I could make on my farms to keep my
newspaper going and all that I could
make out of the newspaper to keep up
the farms—leaving my good wife and
Children to "rmtle" for a living for the
family. Through Intimate contact will)
the tenant classes with whom I had to
deal somewhat extensively, I found out
that those who wore possessed of the
most "book-learning" were almost with-
out exception the least contented nnd
least efficient In their work. They
spent much of their time In political
discussion. They seemed to know all
about the financial condition and poll*
cies'of the government and indulged in
vigorous protest and complaint against
the tendencies of the times. They ac-
cused the political leaders of both
parties with treason and corruption In
the "contraction of the currency" and
cried aloud without ceasing for an In-
crease of the "per capita." It occurred
to my mind that there was a cause for
this prevailing discontent. I began at
once to study It out, and, as I did so,
I wrote down the result of my Investi-
gation. It led me to conclude that
the fault lay In our educational system.
I said so, not only In my own paper,
but in others of more extensive and
general circulation. Early in the fol-
lowing year I became a candidate for
the lower house of the Twenty-sixth
legislature. As usual and as ts the casa
no doubt with many of you, T was over
persuaded and practically forced into
the political arena. After a memorable
contest, In which B. Q. Evans, Col.
Campbell, the much respected Tatlier of
tho governor, and Mr. Hogue, nlnr>
noted as a promoter of railroads, I was
• elected by a very small majority. On
the 10th day of January, thereafter, I
was sworn in as a member of that au-
gust body. Prominent among my as-
sociates were the Honorables Phil H.
Clements, Hilling P. Bobertson, A. M.
Kennedy, John T. Brown, Lea Beaty,
Geo. B. Terrell, members of this house,
and Farmer Travis Henderson, Dr. A.
C. Oliver, W. B. McClellan and Da a
Phillips, Clements, Henderson, Oliver,
McClellan and Phillips being distin-
guished members of the "Gimlet Club,"
of which I was also a member In fairly
good standing.
It might be of Interest to you to know
something of the patriotic and benevo-
lent purposes of that great organiza-
tion, but not hnving time to do so, t
will refer you to my friend Clements
for further Information upon that sub-
' Ject.
On the 20th day of January, 1899, I
introduced a resolution In substance
as follows:
"Resolved that the object and pur-
pose of the state In the establishment
and maintenance of public free schools
should be the preparation and qualifi-
cation of the youth of both sexes for
the practical duties and responslblll-
• ties of life, and that any system of edu-
cation which fails in the accomplish-
ment of such object and purpose Is In-
herently defective and ought to be Im-
mediately reformed."
On the 28rd day of said month I In-
troduced in substance the following
resolution:
"Resolved, that In the enactment of
laws for the government of our people
and the promotion of their welfare and
happiness, no distinction should be
made on account of sex, and that the
facilities, opporunlties and encourage-
ment should be given to the female as
to the male portion Of our population.
"Resolved, that an Industrial college
for girls should be established and
maintained by the state, affording to
them facilities for Industrial training
equal to those enjoyed by the boys at
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege."
On the 16th day of the same month,
house bill No. S2>, to establish such in-
, dustrlal college for the white girls of
Texas was Introduced. It met no favor
~t the hands of the committee, and but
ttle In the house, it was ushered into
the house of representatives under most
unfavorable circumstances. It was an
unwelcome guest and had a hard road
to travel to final passage In that body.
It was killed In the senate through
dilatory tactics. But the fight served
a good purpose. It directed* tho at-
tention of the people of Texas to tho in-
justice that was being done to our
girls. It also suggested to the most
thoughtful observers the need of a more
practical system of education generally,
one more thoroughly adapted to the
conditions and needs of the people, and
especially of the industrial classes.
On tho 6th day of April, 1899, the
state committee of industrial education
was organized In this hall at a meet-
ing presided over by the late lamented
state superintendent, J. S. Kendall.
That committee systematically pushed
the Idea of Industrial training in all
portions of the state. Its efforts were
strongly supported by the leading pa-
pers of the state, notably the Post,
News, Express and Dallas Times Her-
ald. The state Democratic convention
at Waco in August, 1900,, made the in-
dustrial college for girls a platform de-
mand and early In the regular session
of the Twenty-seventh legislature tho
original bill, with some amendment,
was Introduced in the house and also
in the senate. It had a rocky road to
travel to final passage, fatallv vicious
amendments being defeated In each
house by the casting votes of tho pre-
siding officers. Speaker Prince and
Lieutenant Governor Browning.
In due time therafter, it was located
and organized as provided by the act.
In the meantme the Seaburv bill was
passed, providing for assistance by
tho towns and cities In the estab-
lishment of manual training schools
for both sexes. Under the provisions
of that act, sixteen such schools were
established In tho now enterprising and
public spirited towns and cities of the
state. Since the appropriation ceased
to be available, a number of others
have been established by local effort,
there being now, I think, about twenty
such Institutions in the state.
On tho 16th day of December, 1905,
there a.ppeured In the Farm and Kan<
a leading agricultural paper of Tpxhh.""
a communication suggesting a system
of sViool lectures as a means of in-
troducing Into the public free schools
some industrial feature. It was pro-
posed to secure from among the peo-
ple of a district or community those
who have been successful in special
lines of Industrial effort to deliver
weekly loctures to the school children,
patrons and the public on practical
subjects with which they were familiar
through personal experience, observa-
tion and study. The plan met the
prompt approval and endorsement of
many leading educators of the state, In-
cluding our able and efficient state
superintendent, whom 1 note recom-
mends the plan In the admirable course
of study recently sent out from his of-
fice. Wherever Installed it has proved
a decided success.
The little Pompey school near Green-
ville having been the first to introduce
the system, it was named the "Pom-
pey School Lectures," and as such It
has attracted the favorable attention
of many leading educators nnd publica-
tions beyond the limits of this state.
I cannot take time to discuss the
system in detail—I wish that I could.
In March last, the Farmers' Union en-
dorsed the plan and the educational
reform generally, and organized the
State Board of Industrial Education to
push it in all portions of the state. I
held the presidency of that board for
about six months, during which time
we succeeded in interesting about a
dozen othor state industrial and civic
associations, which adopted strong
resolutions to that effect. Among these
were the Texas Farmers' Congress, the
Bankers' and Cattle Raisers' associa-
tions, Texas Press and Teachers' asso-
ciations, and by no means least, tho
Texas Federation of Women's clubs,
which Is a host within itself. Wu
formed a committee composed of rep-
resentatives from all these organiza-
tions, and after three meetings we
worked out and drafted the nineteenth,
or educational plank of the State Dem-
ocratic platform. The committee
adopted it just as it was presented to
them by our sub-committee. It reads
as follows:
"That there be provided adequate
agricultural equipment and teaching
force for the state normal colleges, the
College of Industrial Arts for Girls and
the Agricultural and Mechanical C0I7
lege: and that the industrial thought
In the schools be encouraged by teach-
ing the elements of agriculture and the
industrial arts: that the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, the College of
Industrial Arts for Girls, and the State
Normal colleges be authorized to grant
diplomas having tho force of state
teachers' certificates to all who com-
plete the necessary course as graduates
In the industrial branches. We recom-
mend tluvt liberal support bo provided
for the Agricultural and Mechanical
College experiment stations, the Farm-
ers' Institute, tho College of Industrial
Arts for Girls and the Texas State Uni-
versity for tho technical training of our
youths, and the more liberal educa-
tion of our citizenship."
It will be noted that the text as
printed by the papers wns slightly In-
correct. Where "teaching" and "train-
ing" Is used in reference to the State
University, it should be "technical"
training.
For reasons entirely satisfactory to
myself, I teslgned as president of the
Farmers' Union Educational Board nnd
soon after was associated In the organ-
ization of tho Texas Society for the
Promotion of industrial Education, of
which I was made president and which
office I now hold, and In which capac-
ity 1 appear before you this evening.
Having gone over the history of the
organized efforts which have, up to
this time, been made for the advance-
ment of educational reform, I shall
now talk to you a short time upon the
conditions with which wo have had to
deal and which now prevail In the
state.
A casual survey of the situation will
suggest that our educational system Is
based upon conditions which passed
away with the abolition of slavery.
From Infancy the children of the South
have been Inspired by false teaching,
with the dangerous Idea that manual
and physical labor Is socially degrad-
ing. Go with me into the home of the
humblest farmer or mechanic in the
land and this is the way he talks in
the presence of his children: "I was
not educated In my childhood and
youth. I was deprived of opportunity
to go to school. I had a widowed
mother to support, the war came on
and I could not finish my education,"
or he may honest with himself and
confess that he played the truant and
would not go to school. "As a result, I
have had to work like a negro all my
life. If I live 1 Intend to educate my
children for better and higher things. I
want my boys to be lawyers, doctors
and merchants. I want my girls to be
educated so that they can enter the
upper crust of society." In this way
he teaches them to despise him, and
especially should they be educate^ for
high stations in life. Often they are
ashamed to recognize their parents In
public, becoming totally destitute of an
impulse of filial love and respect. I
once heard of a young lady who had
been raised In the country. Her par-
ents were poor and uncultured. After
leaving college she returned home and
■Mat man* hours of each day la Mil
effort to refine the rough manners of
her father. When he would say any-
thin* harsh, having general applica-
tion, she would admoninh him to say,
"Present company excepted." She in-
vited a company of her college friends
and associates to dine with her. and
while at the table the old man suid:
"There were some youi.g people here a
few days ago, and they ate more like
dogs than any people I ever saw In my
life." The accomplished daughter was
astounded, and said: "Why, father!"
Then the old fellow thought of himself
and said, "Present company excepted,
of course."
In the spring of 1900 I accepted an
Invitation from the superintendent of
a city school in this state to address
the school under his charge. There
were present about 200 boys and young
men. At the outset I said: "Voung
duced In this house a resolution look-
ing to the Issuance of state bonds to
cover the present and prospective In-
vested permanent schools funds, which,
on the 31st of last August amounted to
$945,811.70, and which is now a little
less than that amount, but rapidly aug-
menting by reason of the activity in
the sale of school lands, as well as the
redemption of bonds held by the fund.
I think it ought to be adopted. I can
see no reason for piling up In the
treasury so much money, withdrawn
from circulation and contributing
nothing to the available school fund,
wiille the people are being taxed out
of money worth to them at least eight
per cent per annum on the average.
The principal should be used to en-
large and equip our educational Inst!-
stutlons, establish and maintain tho
agricultural department, and tho
men, ns many of you as desire to be | equipment of the state reformatory
well educated hold up your hands." All j lln(j orphans' home with umple me-
haii.ls went up. I then said: "As
mai.y of you as expect or desire to be
good farmers, mechanics or workmen
hold up your hands." Not a hand went
up. Hut when I asked: "As many of
you as aspire to be lawyers, doctors,
merchants, etc., hold up your hands,"
and all hands went up—not one excep-
tion yu far as I could discern.
About tho surue time the principal In
one of the high schools in North Texas
requested the members of the senior
class to report to liiin In writing their
respective choice of a calling or occu-
pation In life. Thirty-one reported,
and of that number not one chose an
Industrial pursuit. Ono of the class
chanlcal devices for the manual train-
ing of the inmates. The balance. If
any, should be used in the betterment
of our public free school system, us
contemplated by the educational plank
of the platform. If there should be
any b'llunce. it should be used ill the
payment of the general expenses of the
government.
But I have already detained you too
long, no doubt, and while there is much
else to bo said on tho subject. I think It
imprudent to suy more at this time.
Before closing, Judge Grubbs dis-
cussed the juvenile court bill, and In
that connection paid a high tribute to
industrial pursuit. «n 01 1. ... . organized womanhood of the state,
said he expected to be the president of thnw«g ,t f„w bouquets at the repre-
A few'years'ago I was at Pittsburg, enora ^ ^
In this slate. The lady who was keep- terested "■ tenors.
in
Ing the hotel told me of a young man
who had become quite skillful as a me-
chanic. having worked himself up to
the second nl.'ice In the machine shops
of a great manufacturing establish-
ment. He had been f-ugal as well as
industrious and saved up enough
money to purchase a good home and
give him a good start In life. He mar-
vied a society girl, who had no con-
*the Ion ol' the duties and responslblli-
HMTof a housewife. She had spent her
life in the enjoyment of the vanities
and frivolities of high life. Her asso-
ciates wore the accomplished daughters
of those in the professional, commer-
cial and literary circles. Soon after the
marriage she Kiiggested to her sturdy
TERRITORY TOWNS ARE
TO BE CONSOLIDATED
Rival Committees Get Together on
the Proposition.
Lav.ton, Okla., Jan. 26.—Making the
most of a couple of bad deals and re-
solved to inako the best of one now
good one. representative citizens of the
■ ■ - . , rival towns of Manitou and Slboney,
young husband that he abandon in j otcluhomct. have reached terms of
workshop and embark in a moie 111->r 1 -
toned anil highly respectable calling.
of
two newspapers, a score or more of
business houses and all the other attri-
butes that go into the making of a
Epical new town of Oklahoma. Slbo-
r.ey is to be abandoned and all Its
buildings moved to ^lanitou. Hereaf-
ter the. name of Slboney, Oklahoma,
will be a misnomer.
More thnn a thousand people, resid-
ing in twenty states and territories of
the Union, are the owners of lots in
Sihoney. and a majority of them have
l.ever seen the lots. They were sold
by traveling agents for the townslto
company, of which Charles E. Hunter,
chief clerk of the Oklahoma supreme
(1 urt, was piesldent. Hunter is a vet-
eran of the Spanish-American war.
He fought at San Juan as a Rough
I-ider under Roosevelt and was with
the first party of United States sol-
diet? that reached and took possession
of Slboney, Cuba, after the Spaniards
had deserted it. Hunter made a hero
of himself In that Incident and when
he retired to prirvate. life and came
into the "new country," he purchased
a tract of land, opened up a townsite
and called it Slboney.
Like a nunibT of other towns of Ok-
lahoma, Siboney's lots were owned for
tin most part by non-residents who
failed to Improve them, and the resi-
dents of the village took umbrage at
llcnter and his promises, and now thsy
have abandoin J his townsite to coyote3
and prairie '1 -bs.
HOLLAND.
agreement whereby the citizens of eae.li
— — ----- - , , . 1 utwn and the work of consolidation be -
At first he protested, saying that he, jmmediately.
knew rio other business; that no was |)ew- town will have a population
getting $100 a month, and that in a n|. uj,out fifteen, hundred, two banks,
short time he would be promoted to
foreman of the shops and get $150 a
month. She said thai did not satisfy;
that his calling was a low one, and that
if he remained In It should wou il be
forced out of her accustomed social
circle and have to associate with the
families of Ihe working classes, and
that she Just could not stand it. She
bad her sisters Importune him, and
Dually she set the mother-ln-'aw oi-.to
him, and he surrendered at discretion.
He became a merchant. In a few
months he was a bankrupt. Later on
he became n drunkard .and finally a
vagabond and a wanderer In a strange
land, and Ids young wife worse than a
widow.
I once thought that the school teach-
ers were to blame for the false notions
of life, inspired by our educational and
social system, but I changed my mind.
They are not so much to blame. Our
schools and the courses of study pur-
sued are but the creations of public
sentiment. Public sentiment degrades
Industrial ' activity and the schools
simply respond to popu'.ar demand.
When the people declare that the chil-
dren shall be taught the dignity of
honest labor and Inspired with ambi-
tions to become skillful farmers and
merchants Instead of pettifoggers and
quacks and even clerks at starvation
wages, the school teachers will at
once prepare to meet tho emergency.
To tho present time the organized
movement of which I have had the
honor to be the head has had for its
object the awakening of popular senti-
ment in favor of the proposed educa-
tional reform, it has recently forced
upon the domlnunt pnrty the nine-
teenth plank In its last platform, and
II is now up to the legislature. From
letters received by a large number of
the members, both of the house and
senate, I am fully assured of your pur-
pose to carry out that platform de-
mand. You want only to know how
It may be accomplished.
The first proposition is the estab-
lishment of a separate and vigorous
agricultural department. A bill to that
effect will be offered In due time. Con-
stitutional questions are now being
considered by the attorney genera', and
as soon as he reports the bill will be
forthcoming, nnd Its friends anticipate
110 serious opposition. 1 shall not now
discuss tho proposed bill but proceed
to speak briefly of the other proposi-
tions'embraced In the plank.
We are confronted In the outset by
two extreme views upon the proposed
Introduction of Industrial training, In-
cluding agrlcluture and kindred sub-
jects, in tho public free schools. Ono
is that It cannot he done nnd there 1s
no use to attempt It. The othor that all
that Is needed Is for the legislature to
require those things to lie taught in all
the schools regardless of actual condi-
tions. Neither is right. Tho latter is
entertained by the president of the
Farmers' Union, Mr. Calvin, who re-
fused to co-operate with our society,
while proposing to ask the legislature,
as the representative head of that non-
polltlcal organization to put It into the
schools without any additional expense.
The plank Is self-explanatory in so
far as tho equipment of existing state
educational institutions for the prepar-
ation of teachers Is concernod. All Is
needed is nn appropriation of about
$25,000 a year nnd the management of
those institutions will do the rest.
In my judgment, tho bill recently In-
troduced by Representative Neblett
providing for the appointment of an as-
sisting superintendent of public in-
struction to take charge of and per-
sonally direct the work of Introducing
such training into the schools accord-
ing to their respective conditions and
needs ts the very best plan to be pur-
sued. In some localities the teachers
and the people are ready; in others
they are not. When they are ready;
this official can, with the assistance
and co-operation of the county super-
intendents and local school authorities,
Introduce It In a practical way. When
not ready, he can materially help them
to get ready. He should be able to
report to tho next legislature the con-
ditions In so clear a way as to give to
It a basis for general legislation to
that end. The state superintendent
could do It If he had time, but he Is al-
ready overworked and In need of addl-
(By Randolph Church.)
The Hague, Jan. 8.—The kingdom of
The Netherlands, known as Holland
from Its leading province, is In many
respects the most marvelous country
In the world. Dutch Influence has
shaped the destiny of more than one
country, and the leading city of the
new world (New York) owes much to
the men who founded New Amsterdam.
Holland occupies a portion of the
"Great Germanic Plain," and is pro-
tected from the sea by dunes (sand-
hll's) and its mountain dikes, the mean
elevation being only thirty-seven feet,
And 25 per cent of the land is below
sealevel; hence the Dutch had to make
Holland before they could take it.
Small in Area Only.
This mighty kingdom is small only
In area, for in co onies It is powerful,
and Its commerce Is Immense. Hol-
land's area is 12,740 square miles, with
much waste land, and yet it maintains
5.600,000 of the most prosperous peo-
ple to be found.
Of the total area 28 por cent Is high-
ly cultivated, 34 per cent consists of
meadows and pastures and 7 per cent
form the famous woods of Holland.
The chief Industries of Holland are
Its great fisheries and Immense manu-
facturing Interests. Last year the Im-
ports amounted to $905.00,000 and the
exports footed up $760,000,000, there
are 1772 miles of railway and 197 miles
of canals In this thriving little king-
dom. The merchant marine is superior
to many larger countries, there being
over 700 vessels plowing the world's
seas bearing the Dutch flag, and tho
Dutch steamers are among the finest
that cross the Atlantic. The Dutch are
a commercial people as well as the mas-
ters of colonial undertakings.
♦ ♦ ♦
Government of Holland.
Tho government Is a constitutional
monarchy, a people's parliament being
the responsible body, and If we except
the real republics It has about the best
government extant. Despotic rule is
unknown in Holland, and no house of
lords has the power to throttle the will
of the people, as is the condition in
Of course, Holland has
tlonal office force for the discharge of
his duties already Imposed upon his
department.
We are met by the objection that
the vaults of the treasury are empty
and that aa Increase at taxation will
be necessary to carry out the platform
demand with reference to tho perfec-
tion of our public free sehools, as well
aa to establish and maintain tho pro
posed separate department of agrl
culture.
▲ tow ten ago Mr. Clements Intro-
Real Wealth of Holland.
The real glory and wealth of Holland
lies In her colonies, the East Indies be-
ing the greatest and most successful
colonial scheme on earth. In these
there Is an area of 900,000 snuare miles
and a population of >2.(77,000, and then
there Ts the West Indies and other
small colonies.
80 great has been the success of
Dutch colonial rule that the world ad-
mits their genius and capacity for such
efforts. If ths Boers had formed a
Dutch colony Instead of an Independ-
ent state Great Britain would not own
the Rand today, and one less cruel war
would disgrace modem civilisation.
Bpaln mete a miserable failure eC
colonial rfale. France has all but fail-
ed. Gormany ts having a hard time of
It; and England has both failed and
succeeded, but the Dutch have uniform-
ly succeeded to the point of genius, and
this accounts for the greatness of lit-
tle Holland. The people are highly In-
telligent, Industrious, and, for artistic
cleanliness, I have never seen their
equals, even the humblest homes be-
ing clean and cheerful. There are no
beggars and few real poor people. It Is
a great relief to explore Holland after
witnessing tho heart-rending poverty
of Great Britain. "Beggars and rags,"
so common In London, are absolutely
absent In The Hague. There are no
slums here; all Is bright, artistic and
prosperous, and the people—well, there
never was seen such evidences of pros,
perity and real happiness In all my
travels, for even the United States has
Its slums and poverty-stricken people
to mar tho beauty of the great Re-
public.
♦ ♦ ♦
Cities of Holland.
There are many, beautiful manufac-
turing and thriving towns In Holland,
and several cities of great importance.
Amsterdam, with a population of 550,-
000, Is a great metropolis of wealth, art
and commercial Importance: then there
Is the second great city (Rotterdam),
with 350,000 people, and, like Amster-
dam, it Is a great port and metropolis;
then comes The Hague, the residence
of the court (but Amsterdam Is really
the legal capital), and one of the most
prosperous, beautiful and unique cities
in all the world, with a growing popu-
lation of 225,000; next is tho great man-
ufacturing city of Utrecht, with 125,000
busy folk: and besides these great
citlea there are Gronigen, 75,000; Haar-
lem, 70,000; Amhem, 60,000; Leiden,
50,000, ar.d too many other smaller
towns to mention in this brief artlc'.e.
♦
No Socialism.
Socialism has made rio headway here,
and, like the United States, Hoiland
gives her citizens a free hand in indus-
trial life. The state developed the coal
mines and owns some railway mileage,
but It is where private capital would
not operate. The policy of the govern-
ment is to do nothing that the citi-
zen can and will do. but to regulate and
justly tax all corporations. Of course,
the great canal system, which traverses
the country, is built by the govern-
ment. The sfet car service is perfect
in all the cities and towns of Holland
and owned mostly by private compa-
nies.
♦ ♦ ♦
Crime Reduced to Minimum.
Crime here is reduced to the mini-
mum, for there is little poverty and the
people are honest and Industrious; be-
sides, the saloon of America and the
public bars of England, which form
such an unpleasant problem, Is not to
bo found here. The Dutch have set-
tled the drink traffic, so perp exing to
many countries.
The coffee house Is a popu'ar insti-
tution in Holland and universally pat-
ronized. It is simply comprehensive
restaurant, kept wide open and con-
ducted just as any other business. You
go In, seat yourself and call for any-
thing you want to eat or drink, and of
course, there is 110 gambling, no loafing
and no questionable characters in these
coffee houses.
Beer Universal Beverage.
The Dutch are no longer "gin drink-
ers," for they brew the best of beers,
and this is the universal beverage In
the coffee houses, the hotels and the
homes of the people—even the church
bazaars and entertainments serve beer
and other light drinks. In a coffee
house you sit down at a tab'e and one
man has coffee, another tea, another
beer, another wine and stlli another
may have something stronger, but the
light beers of Holland and wir.es have
practically done away with the drunk-
enness so common in America.
Coffee Houses.
The coffee house is well regulated by
law, and he who sells to a drunken
customer or adulterates his goods Is
surely severely punished. There are
some coffee houses In England, thanks
to some of the bishops an:l temperance
leaders, but they a-e few. However,
the present able premier favors the
Holland plan, and he has promised to
pass needed legislation in Great Bri-
tain. It seems strange that little Hol-
land and Switzerland have settled this
distributing question in the interests of
the state, the sobriety of the people
and with justice to all concerned, when
great countries like England and Amer-
ica are all at sea.
Of course, it Is needless to say that
there is litt'e drunkenness here, and the
coffee house is just as respectable as
the ice cream parlor In America. If
the American people will get down to
business and inaugurate the Holland
coffee house there will soon be no dives,
joints and whisky holes In our great
country, and the light beers and wines,
protected by stringent pure food laws,
will soon drive out "fire water" and
Fave an army of men annually from
the gallows and prisons, as we 1 as asy-
lums. Holland Is a sober and temper-
ance country; It has no whisky ele-
ment and the temperance fanatic, who
demands the Impossible, is not to be
found in Holland. Yet there is still
8omo who drink to excess, and the
church and state tries to save them
from drunkenness. Of course, the "pro-
fessional prohibition politician and par-
son" Is not found here, and such a
thing as a "whisky political ring" is
unknown. '
♦ ♦ ♦
Palace of Queen's Mother.
I have Just come from the palace of
the queen's mother. It Is a plain brick
and stone building, in a block at the
head of a great street, which has six
rows of trees in its parkllke appear-
ance. and the soldiery, etc., of the Eu-
ropean palaces is lacking here. I will
write of the queen's palace later.
The Dutch are so simple In all their
ways and the happiest people I know
of. If I could speak the Dutch lan-
guage, I suspect I would be In The
Hague more than I am in my home,
or headquarters—Dallas, Washington
and London—for I love Holland, and
main cities In a day. I have been
flooded with questions about Dallas and
Houston. The people also ask me about
Mills, who was Cleveland's great friend,
and Diss of Mexico. They want to
know all about him. Tbey have gotten
ths idea that the great Mexican presi-
dent 1s another Washington, which
shows the Dutch know what goes on
In the new world.
Great Britain. Of course, Honana """KlVe" art. slmpllclty. beauty, etc., of The
a beautiful and lovely queen, but she jjasue fascinates me. I had been
has no power to misrule, as Is the case
In many so-called constitutional mon-
archies. The annual revenues amount
to $15,000,000, and the government
maintains an army of only 40,000, and
yet the navy Is Immense for so small
a country, there being 129 vessels, thir-
ty-two of them being Ironclads.
Hague
through Amsterdam before this trip,
but I knew but little about this won-
derful country till now.
♦ ♦ ♦
American Minister.
Our minister at The Hague ts Dr.
D. J. Hill, formerly president of the
great Baptist university of Rochester,
N. Y., and he ts very popular here. The
Dutch love Americans, and they are
highly elated over the fact that the
world's greatest personality is the
"Dutch president of the great Ameri-
can Republic," as they unanimously
speak of our strenuous president.
Asked About Texas.
I am asked so much about America,
and Texas, especially (most of the ed-
ucated people here speak English). I
hope to see thousands of these hardy
and delightful people emigrate to the
imperial Lone Star commonwealth.
The Immensity of Texas astonishes
wao caa visit all their
Educational System.
Holland has a fine educational sys-
tem and less than 2 per cent of the
population is illiterate. Of course, the
Dutch, or state church, is the main re-
ligious denomination, yet there are
many Catholics and about 100,000 Jews
In Tho Netherlands.
In future articles I will have more to
say nbout this wonderful country, but
I must close for this time.
NEW INDUSTRIES
FOR SOUTHLAND
This Week's List of Proposed Enter-
prises a Long One. •
Chattanooga, Tonn., Jan. 26.—The
accompanying list includes the more
important new industries established
In the South during the week ending
today, classified by states and cities.
Among the large transactions may
be noted a $1,000,000 coal and coke
Company In West Virginia; a $100,000
stove company in Virginia; u $150,0J0
oil and compress company in Texas; a
$500,000 asphalt comi any In Tennes-
see; power plant in South Carolina: a
$1,500,000 mining company in Oklaho-
ma; several lumber companies in North
Carolina; land and mining companies
in Missouri; .vater works in Mississ-
ippi; a $100,000 tie company In X^ouis-
lana; a $100,000 cotton mill In Indian
Territory; a $5,000,000 railway Im-
provement company in Georgia; a
$200,000 cotton mill in Alabama. The
complete list as compiled from reports
made to The Tradesman Is as follows:
ALABAMA.
Brighton —Loan company.
Mobile—$5,000 investment company;
$4,000 lumber company; investment
company.
Coffee Springs—$40,000 cotton gin;
eloctric light plant; water works.
Bessemer—$5,000 lumber company.
Alexander City—$200,000 cotton mill.
Jasper—$7,500 warehouse company.
Opelika—Fertilizer factory.
Montgomery—Four loan companies;
$25,000 warehouse company; $7,000
stone company.
Birmingham—$5,000 land company.
ARKANSAS.
Harrisburg—$10,000 supply company.
Endora—$5000 investment company.
Van Buren—$25,000 development
company.
Fort Smith—$15,000 hardware com-
pany.
Fordyce—$25,000 lumber company.
FLORIDA.
Gainesville—$5,000,000 railway im-
provement company.
GEORGIA.
Butler—Saw mill.
Adel—$25,000 water works.
Savannah—$20,000 machine works.
Atlanta—$20,000 bottling works.
INDIAN TERRITORY.
Okmulgee—Oil company .
Chlckasha—$100,000 cotton mill.
KENTUCKY.
Murray—$4000 telephone system.
Covington—$10,000 automobile com-
pany.
Bellvue—$250,000 building and loa'n
company.
Burgin—$10,000 warehouse company.
LOUISIANA.
Shreveport—$100,000 tie company.
Kenner—Broom factory.
Franklin—Concrete block factory.
MISSISSIPPI.
Laurel—Planing mill.
Newton—$50,000 water works.
Jackson—$6000 amusement company.
Horseshoe—$10,000 spoke factory.
Lake—$20,000 spoke factory.
MISSOURI.
St. Joseph—$5000 land company.
St. Louis—$20,000 land company;
$60,000 mining and milling company;
$30,000 glass factory; $15,000 manufac-
turing company; $15,000 heating and
metal company; $20,000 Investment
company: $120,000 land company? $10,-
000 manufacturing company.
Crane—Manufacturing company.
Piedmont—$20,000 mining company.
Kansas City—$10,000 gas equipment
company; $20,000 investment company:
$5000 land company; $10,000 investment
company.
Joplln—$10,000 sign works company.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington—$50,000 lumber c om-
pany.
Mt. Airy—Hardware company.
Lexington—$20,000 furniture factory.
Sanford—Yarn mill.
Everetts—$20,000 brick and tile
works.
Apex—$125,000 tobacco factory.
High Point—$50,000 lumber company.
Wllllamston—$4000 brick and tile
works.
Asheville—Land company.
OKLAHOMA.
Zelma—$5,000 land company.
Enid—$110,000 investment company.
Guthrie—$5,000 mining companl; $20-
000 tobacco factory; $30000 manufac-
turing company: $600,000 amusement
company; $100,000 oil company; $500,-
000 power company.
Oklahoma City—$50,000 granite com-
pany; $1,500,000 mining company; $6000
ice cream company.
Selling—$10,000 hardware company.
El Reno—$100,000 creamery com-
pany.
FairvieW—Telephone system.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia—$10,000 bottling works;
$12,000 manufacturing company.
Seneca—$20,000 warehouse company.
rOangeburg—$10,000 buggy works.
Anderson—$4000 brick works.
Spartanburg—Power plant.
TENNESSEE.
Chattanooga—$5,000 suspended com-
pany; $12,000 land company; $50,000
candy factory.
Fayetvllle—$75,000 thread mill; $10,-
000 tobacco factory.
Clarksvlllc—$25,000 planing mtlls.
.Bristol—$70,000 development company.
Knoxville—$160,000 slate company;
$10,000 land company.
Ricevllle—$5,000 canning factory.
Memphis—$5,000 land company;
$500,000 asphalt company; $100,000 soap
factory.
Nashville—$15,000 stave and lumber
company.
Newport—$40,000 chair factory.
TEXAS.
Belton—$3000 cresmery.
Waco—$50,000 brick works.
Palestine—$15,000 lumber company.
Houston—$10,000 oil company.
Beaumont—Lumber company.
Hitlsboro—$50,000 car wheel factory.
Dallas—$15,000 electrical supply com-
pany; $10,000 bottltng works; $15,000
development company; $50,000 con-
struction company.
Cuero—$20,000 ice and cold storago'
plant.
Quanah — $5000 rock crushing com-
pany
El Paso—$100,000 lend company.
Denton—$26,000 hardware company.
Wehdem—Telephone system .
Wichita Falls—$150,000 oil and com-
press company.
Killeen—$20,000 lumber company.
Fort Worth—$30,000 manufacturing
company.
VIRGINIA.
Big Stone Gap—Coal and timber
company.
Lynchburg — $30,000 manufacturing
company.
Manchester—$100,000 stove works.
Tazewell—$50,000 coal and land com-
pany, . ,
Willis—$10,000 telephone system.
Rocky Mount—$50,000 furniture fac-
tory.
Norfolk—$60,000 grist mill; $25,000
warehouse company.
Charlottesville — $10,000 amusement
company.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Charleston — $100,000 mining com-
pany: $30,000 oil and gas company.
Bellngton—Amusement company.
New Cumberland—Coal mines.
Paw Paw—$25,000 lumber company.
New Martinsville—$1,000,000 coal and
coke company.
Lumberport—$25,000 oil and gas com-
pany.
Indian Mills—$5000 construction com-
pany.
Lewlsburg—Oil, gas and mineral
company.
Astounding Developments Come Thick
and Fast in Trial.
Scranton, Pa., Jan. 26—Following the
arrest of Charles Reldel and A. N.
Bauman, the principal witnesses for
George B. Schooley of Philadelphia,
claimant of the greater portion of the
estate of the late millionaire coal oper-
ator, James L. Crawford, come as-
tounding developments. Schooley, on
the strength of an alleged will, sought
to get the bulk of the Crawford proper-
ty. Riedel and Bauman were the wit-
nesses to the alleged will.
Judge Sando, of the Orphans court
of Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania,
recently received the following letter
from A. L. Labarre, an attorney of
Easton, Pa.:
/"Hon. M. F. Sando: Dear S*r—If you
will kindly hand this note to the at-
torney for tho estate or the widow of
the lato James L. Crawford, I can fur-
nish valuable Information. Either a
will or codicil was written here. The
stenographer is now employed in my
office. I believe the information a for-
gery. I am, very respectfully yours, A.
L. Labarre."
Bepresentatives o fthe Crawford 03-
tate opened communication with La-
barre, which developed the following
facts:
Some time in May or June last.—
more than a year after Crawford's
death—a man identified by his photo-
graph as Mr. Schooley, called at the
office of George M. Weller, a real es-
tate broker in Easton, and dictated to
Miss Giulia E. Evey, his stenographer,
a letter directed to George B. Schooley.
which Mis3 Evey identified as being
the letter which constituted the alleg-
ed will. He then dictated the alleged
codicil.
Crawford in his earlier will left near-
ly all his estate to his widow.
C. F. Riedel and A. N. Bauman, wit-
nesses to the alleged will upon which
Schooley bases his claim against the
Crawford estate, were arraigned this
afternoon before Magistrate Kasson
and held in $4000 bail to answer to the
grand jury. Miss Evey says Schooley
represented himself as James T. Craw-
ford of Scranton.
POPE STRICKEN WITH
A FAINTING SPELL
Rome, Jan. 26.—It developed today
that following the auSlence which his
holiness granted to Manager Kennedy,
rector of the American college, yester-
day, at which the latter presented the
pope with Peter's pence sent by Bishop
O'Connor of the Newark, N. J., diocese
to the amount of $6,000, the pontiff was
stricken with a severe fainting spell
which made it necessary for hlin to
have medical attention. The condition
of his health is causing considerable
worry to the Vatican attendants, but
he declines to see a physician unless It
becomes absolutely necessarq.
The French clerical troubles have
greatly preyed upon his mind with the
result* that he refuses to eat at this
time, and in fact he confesstd to his,
physicians lately that he eats but one
meal a day.
When the doctor remonstrated with
him, he replied haughtily: "1 assure
you if I ate once a week, In every way
I would be and feel as energetic leader
as the Roman Catholic church needs."
The pope has given Manager Ken-
nedy's sister a magnificent cameo as a
memento of her audience with him.
Chicago, Jan. 26.—Was twelve-year-
old Walter Krupp strangled by a mad-
men before hla body was thrown into
the lonely swamp where It was found
frozen In the ice Thursday, nearly six
weeks ufter the date of the lad's dis-
appearance?
The boy vanished Dec. 14. Playmates
told his father, superintendent of a
Chicago rolling mill, that Walter wa3
run over by a delivery wagon and that
the driver picked him up, tossed him
Into the wagon and drove a*Ja
gallop. The police believed that th*
boy was killed and that the driver had
hidden the body that he might not be
held responsible. They stuck to this
theory when the body was found. The
body was so solidly frozen however,
that It was Impossible to hold an au-
topsy until today. This revealed that
the boy had been strangled, though it
was not decided whether he was dead
when thrown Into the swamp.
Bruises on the head seem to bear out
the story of the delivery wagon, but the
authorities do not believe that the
driver would have gone so far as to
strangle his victim, when he found that
the boy still lived after being run over.
They incline to the belief that the boy
was lured from home by some one who
persuaded his companions to tell a
story of his own invention. It is be-
lieved only a lunatic would have com-
mitted so brutal and unnecessary a
crime.
The swamp Is about half a mile
square and Is near the Calument river
at 106th street In a remote part of the
south side. The city Is belnj: scoured
for the murderer, but the strange char-
acter of the crime, the time which has
elapsed since Its commission and the
absence of any clue leaves little hope of
success in the search.
William Alden Smith, the new Unit-
ed States senator from Michigan, Is a
comparatively young man, though he
has served six terms In congress. He
was born In 1859 and was admitted to
tho fear when twenty-four years old.
¥
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Southern Mercury United with the Farmers Union Password. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1907, newspaper, January 31, 1907; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth186278/m1/2/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .