The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 18, May 18, 1895 Page: 7
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THE TEXAS MINER.
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scrap to much. I o accomplish any good, every workingman
and every friend of the workingman must stand together in this
great fight, discountenance any and every attempt to create
strife and division in the ranks. By so doing we can roll up a
majority in November, 1896, that will shake the foundations of
Wall and Lombard streets. A Coal Digger.
WHAT A WHOPPER, ELI !
ELI PERKINS, in an article from which he sent us a clip-
ping, says: "I went down into Mexico and found that
they have the same debased money that they have in
China, Japan, South America and all Africa and India. I found
that every Mexican had lost half his wealth."
Oh, fie, Eli. What a whopper ! We have just returned from
Mexico, and while there had exceptional opportunities to know
the facts—and know that exactly the reverse is the case; that
Mexico is in a better condition to-day than she ever was, and
making greater progress. Some one has fooled you, Eli, and if
your statements about China, Japan and South America are no
more reliable than those about Mexico, then they are of very
little value. We know about Mexico. And the statement about
Japan, we have ample testimony of English officials warning the
English people that they will lose Eastern trade because of the
progress of Japan in manufacturing. The report of Mr. Words-
worth in the May Review of Reviews—"The Yellow Man and
the White Money," L. A. Thurston's article in same number
"The Growing Greatness of the Pacific," and many, many other
proofs, show us, Eli, you were making loose, very loose
statements, and they should not emanate from your pen. If you
cannot win your point without distorting facts, Eli, don't do it
it won't pay in the long run.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Editor Texas Miner:
New York, May 11, 1895.
THE event of the week, politically, has been the approval by
Mayor Strong of the bi-partisan police bill which has much
disgusted the committee of seventy and correspondingly
elated the Republican machine. Mayor Strong is evidently do-
ing his best according to circumstances, and has appointed
Theodore Roosevelt and Col. Fred D. Grant as Republican po-
lice commissioners and Messrs. Andrews and Parker as Demo-
c
A BOOK! A BOOK!
LEVELAND is writing a book. Will he tell us about the
misery brought on our country through his theories? Will
he tell us where the five or six millions of dollars he is
said to be worth came from in the last ten years? Will he tell
us the relations existing between him and his late partner in ne-
gotiating the last $62,000,000 loan? Will he tell us how he in-
tends to "squelch" the free coinage feeling in the country? Will
he tell us if tariff reform is filling the Treasury to overflowing?
Will he tell us what a great "I am" he is in his own estimation?
Will he tell us honestly how near right that Boston minister was ?
No, we know he won't; but in his ponderous, dull way will tell
us his "theories." Well, Grover, you have not been so success-
tul in them that the world need pause in its course to hear them.
We don't believe (although you probably do) that the world will
fall down and worship your views, especially if you do not bring
it out before your power of granting Government "pap" to
cuckoos is ended. We heard a cowboy talking about you. He
said "he did not take any stock in a man who could pull his
shirt over his head without unbuttoning the collar." It was ex-
pressive, if not very elegant. From all we can see and hear, we
don't believe you are the chosen one to lead us "out of the wil-
derness, and in fact that if you were we would be more years
in the soup than the children of Israel were in the wilderness.
All Free.
Those who have used Dr. King's New Discovery know its
value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try
it Free. Call on the advertised druggist and get a trial bottle,
Free. Send your name and address to H. E. Bucklen & Co.'
Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills,
Free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Household In-
structor, Free. All of which is guaranteed to do you good and
cost you nothing. T. P. M. & M. Co.'s Drug Store.
If you are intending to buy FARM WAGONS, SULKEYS,
CARTS, we will save you lots of cold cash.
T. & P. Mercantile & Mfg. Co
cratic commissioners, making altogether an excellent board which
will run the police department on business principles without re-
gard to politics. If he had done the same thing in the dock
department we would probably have had a better administration
there, but political pull was too strong to be resisted, and it is a
good man who makes the best of circumstances. The Legisla-
ture has passed a bill permitting the mayor to remove the pres-
ent police justices and while the present incumbents threaten to
contest the constitutionality of the act it is probable that they will
not succeed, and that the mayor will replace the present Tam-
many incumbents with a higher grade of men whether they
make better magistrates or not. There is "good in all, none all
good," and it is by no means certain that lawyers will come any
nearer dispensing justice to the class that come before them than
the laymen have who now fill the positions. Nobody is quite
satisfied with the existing situation, but perhaps everybodv will
be a year hence. We must work and wait.
1 he Legislature will adjourn next week, and the general feel-
ing is that it is about as bad a Legislature as we have ever had
—that is, there is as large a venal element in it as usual notwith-
standing that it went in on a wave of reform. Theodore Roose-
velt, our president of the police board, said some years ago
when he was a member of the Legislature that about'one-third
were absolutely venal men who went to Albany to sell their
votes to the highest bidder; that another third were interested
in getting through measures which by log-rolling with the venal
third they could carry; that the other third were honest but
powerless against the combinations of the other two thirds. And
there is no doubt of the substantial truth of this diagnosis. We
have just had an investigation of a charge of bribery made by
Hon. Lemuel E. Quigg, editor of the Press, in connection with
the passage of a bill increasing the pay of the firemen in New
\ork City. Lon Payne, a Republican lobbyist, testified that he
habitually represented the interests of certain corporations be-
fore the Legislature and incidentally the interests of the Repub-
lican party, and that he "didn't work for fun," but disclaimed
bribery of Legislators. It looks as if Quigg would not be able
to prove his charges, but no one doubts that he is substantially-
correct. A sensational circumstance was the suicide of a former
chief of the fire department who was expected to testify, but this
link dropping out leaves Quigg in a hole. It all comes back to
the conclusion that I have alluded to in former letters that it is
very hard to keep a reform movement going in the face of op-
posing forces, and that it is difficult to make a great citv better
than other great cities. Good men get tired, but bad ones like
the brook, "go on forever."
The currency fight waxes hotter and hotter. The "campaign
of Education" in gold vs. silver "goes on apace." National
politics will undoubtedly turn on this issue.
^ The presence in Washington at one time of T. C. Piatt, ex-
Governor Foster of Ohio and one or two other political bosses
gave rise to a rumor that it was in the interest of booming the
McKmley canvass. Of course this was denied by the partici-
pants, but in walking down Wall street yesterday I saw ex-
Speaker Reed and at the Union League club last night it was
talked that Reed was in town looking after his fences.
1 he straws indicating the business situation have been en-
couraging this week. Crop prospects have improved, and
stocks have advanced an average of 52 cents a share for in-
dustrials and $1.75 for railroads. Heavy purchases of bonds by
European investors have taken place as well as a liberal amount
of railroad stocks.
In the produce markets wheat has declined from 68.50 to 67
against 59.50 a year ago. Corn has fluctuated considerably
but closes at 55 against 54.75 at the beginning of the week and
43-75 same time last year. Cotton has been weak, closing at
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 2, Number 18, May 18, 1895, newspaper, May 18, 1895; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200508/m1/7/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.