The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 48, December 15, 1894 Page: 3
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THE TEXAS MINER.
New South is really only the old South tempered by the light of
experience. A few years ago the writer had the pleasure of meet-
ing the then Governor of Texas (Ross) at a dinner given in New
York by that magnificent son of the South, John H. Inman of
Tennessee, and I was more impressed with his simple, patriotic,
but forcible, statement of the object and aims of the Southern
people than by all that I had read and heard of the South here-
tofore. It was an exposition of the aspirations of a people—an
honest people. Some of the big men of New York were pres-
ent, and each of them made a speech. Finally your correspond-
ent was called on at the tail end to "make a speech, tell a story
or sing a song." I couldn't do either of the two first, and under
the inspiration of the moment sang a song that I had heard thirty
years before, entitled, "The Yellow Rose of Texas." The din-
ner was given in honor of the chief magistrate of Texas by a dis-
tinguished son of Tennessee. The Governor was, like many in-
habitants of "the Sunny South," a little sallow, and the words of
the old negro melody rose involuntarily to my lips:
"Dar's a yaller rose in Texas dat blooms for only me,
De fairest rose in Texas, de fairest ever see,
I'se gwine down to Texas, my Rosy for to see,
For de yaller rose of Texas beats de rose of Tennessee."
My song was accepted as a doxology at the dinner, and if any
of the eminent citizens of your great state who were present
should happen to see these lines they will remember the occasion
and the spirit which dominated it. It was the spirit of the late
lamented Henry W. Grady—the spirit of the New South—upon
which we must rely if the South is ever to become great and
prosperous. Lord Bacon said: "There be three things that
make a nation great and prosperous—a fertile soil, busy work-
shops and easy conveyance of men and things from place to
place." What section of our great country presents these requi-
sites in the same degree as "the Sunny South?"
But, to revert to the immediate business situation: In finan-
cial circles public attention has been occupied with the awarding
of the Government loan of $50,000,000, which was all taken by
the syndicate of bankers headed by John A. Stewart, president of
the United States Trust company, on a basis yielding 3 per cent,
interest. A large part of them have already been resold to the
public at a premium, and it has had the effect of stiffening rates
for money, which are one-half to 1 per cent, higher. Instead of
the stock market advancing on the strength of the Government
loan it went the other way. Railroad earnings have made a poor
showing, and the industrials equally so. The sugar refiners are
running only half capacity, and none of the great industries are
booming except boot and shoe factories. In the great staples
cotton advanced to 6 cents, but fell off again to 5.81. Wheat
advanced 1 1-2 cents to 59 1-2. Corn advanced 1-2 cent to
58 1-2. Pork and lard a little firmer. Coffee and sugar un-
changed. Wool quiet and unchanged. The bar silver market
Hat at a decline, closing at 28.g6d in London and 623-8 cents in
New York. Business failures for the week in the United States,
289, against 271 last year, and it is notable that last week was
the first for a long time in which the number of failures exceed-
ed those of the corresponding week last year.
While we naturally expect that business in its larger aspect will
be quiet during the last month of the year, there is a feeling
more than usually pronounced to wait and see what the New
Year will bring in the way of national legislation by the expiring
Congress.
In current distribution, both wholesale and retail, a moderate
volume of business is doing in the principal lines, but prices are
low and margins small for distributors. F. B. T.
THE HOME AND THE FLAG.
STUDIES IN SOCIAL ECONOMICS—BY J. ELLEN FOSTER.
XXI.
'"THE man who would help his fellows to right a wrong, physi-
i cal, social or political, should first find out what are the nor-
mal conditions of the individual, the society or the state. The
fuller this knowledge is, the more exact in details, the better the
would-be helper is qualified to afford the desired aid.
The physician, called to the sick room, feels the pulse, takes
the temperature of the patient, and by comparison of what he
discovers with what he knows to be normal conditions concludes
what is the disease and how far it has advanced.
The standard of "normal" conditions is obtained by a study of
much data gathered from wide area. These normal conditions
may have been modified in the case in hard by hereditary tend-
encies and climatic and other enforced influences, which have
changed the natural normal into an artificial normal, and thus
formed a new basis from which to calculate the inroads of disease.
The conscientious and comprehensive analysis, with scientific
accuracy of every pathological feature, is the first work of the
physician; the absence of it marks the pretender—the quack.
To know what is the matter with the patient is the necessary
beginning of the physician's Avork; it is only the beginning; next
follows the administration of remedies.
For successful administration the samewideness of observation
and scientific discernment is required; also coolness of judgment
and calmness in action. Emotions of personal affection, of fear
or hope, should be absent 01* dormant. Physicians seldom are
competent to minister to the serious illness of members of their
families. Mothers often are unable to assist, or even witness,
the suffering of their children under the heroic treatment some-
times required to save life.
These evident truths are stated and these familiar illustrations
given to prepare the mind of the student of social economics to
accept as essential the same necessities of preparation if he
would give his brain and his hand to cure social ills and to restore
politics to even a semblance of ideal relations.
Society is an organism. Its similitude to the human body,
within which vital functions go on, and by which the brain and
heart think and feel, is close enough to aid us in social pathology
and therapeutics.
No training of schools or books is needed to see that society is
not moved wholly by the golden rule. The ideal state exists
only in the dream of the humanitarian and the hope of the Chris-
tian.
The common indictment of society is an unconscious tribute
to the universality of standards of righteousness. The optimist
may well cite this fact in evidence to prove the oncoming of mil-
lenium glory. If all men know the right and by the pain of dis-
cord attent true harmony, are we not forced to believe that some-
where and at sometime the reality of the shadow will be found?
When, therefore, the humanitarian or the reformer or the mere
agitator, presumes to prescribe for social-ills, we bring him at
once to the test. Does he know the body politic? Has he made
a careful diagnosis of its condition? Has he counted the pulse
and taken the temperature? Does he know when the trouble is
organic or fnnctural? Is it a case of indigestion? Has assimi-
lation stopped because too great demands were made? Did such
conditions ever exist before? What is the normal pulse and
heat of a nation of 65,000,000 of freemen? Have any tenden-
cies inherited from the races which constitutes the composite
American, produced an artificial normal state which must be
taken as the basis of comparison between what is and what
should be in social and economic life ?
The real helper of his time and of his race will accept the facts
of human society as he finds them. He will survey the country
as a whole, because he knows that a political entity must rest on
unified social and economic interests. He will not be hasty in
judgment or emotional in the temper of his responsible action.
The impassioned philanthropist and the true economist are sel-
dom united in the same person. Philanthropy yearns and pleads
and gives. Social economy investigates, compares, weighs,
analyzes, acts. As the physician builds up the system and pro-
motes the general health in order that an organic weakness or
functional disturbance may be overcome, so the intelligent friend
of the people will stimulate every organ of society, social, eco-
nomic and political.
Any measure of so-called reform which does violence to com-
mon intelligence and assails moral sense, weaken the social or-
ganism, lessens power of resistance to social disorder, and de-
lays the realization of social health.
To wreck society by social, economic and political anarchy, in
the hope that a better organism may evolve itself out of the de-
bris, is like the fabled doctor who -'was death on fits," and at-
tempted to cure all diseases by first bringing on fits.
AN Associated Press telegram from Melbourne, Australia,
says: "The feature of the Victoria elections held recently was
the annihilation of the free-trade party." That's exactly what
the American people did on the 6th of November, and let us
tell you more—your large constituency will not follow you in
your monometal, single-standard views, which are in the interest
of the creditor classes as against the interest of the mass of the
people.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 48, December 15, 1894, newspaper, December 15, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200495/m1/3/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.