Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 16, Saturday, November 4, 1899 Page: 4
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TEXAS MINING AND TRADE JOURNAL.
(The (Tetas plintng ani> Crabc Journal
Owned and Published bv T. P. M. & M. Co.
WALTER B. McADAMS, Editor and Manager.
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hurbkr, Texas: Saturday, November 4, 1899.
Director Merriam of the Census Bureau is trying to meet
and overcome some of the obstacles which have heretofore pre-
vented the gathering of statistics relating to several indnstries,
accurate enough to be of any real value. For instance, the an-
nual changes in ownership, management, etc., of factories turn
ing out dairy products, have operated to prevent the securing of
data from them for an entire calendar year. To meet this trou-
ble, circulars are now being sent to those engaged in this indus-
try asking that they prepare a detailed statement before closing
up the year's business, showing exactly what they have done
and preserve the same until next June, when census enumera-
tors will be around after them.
The prodection of raw iron in Germany, England and the
United States is interesting the industrial centers of the world.
The figures for 1890 furnish an instructive array of facts. Eng-
land, that formerly led both the other countries, is now far be-
hind the United States, and is having all she can do to hold her
own against Germany. American methods are so highly devel-
oped as to put the iron industry here in a position to compete
with England and Germany, not only in international markets
but in London and Berlin.
Few people believed the charge that American soldiers dur-
ing their campaigning in the Philippines looted churches after
the fashion of a Paris mob. Those who did take any stock in
such stories should read the address of the Chaplain of the First
California regiment. Coming from a priest who was a soldier
and who was on the ground where the alleged outrages were re-
ported to have occurred, his sweeping denial of its truth ought
to dispose of that infamous scandal.
The title of the United States to the sovereignty of the Phil-
ippines is as valid as our title to New Mexico, and the President
is just as much bound to quell insurrection in Luzon as in any of
the territory of this country. Had he failed to move against the
Tagal rebels, for the restoration of peace, his conduct would not
only have disgraced the nation, but subjected him to a trial for
impeachment.
The President needs in Luzon only an experienced and suc-
cessful soldier and an officer of high rank combined in one per-
son. This combination he has in General Nelson A. Miles. No
one could so promptly and so effectually deal with and settle the
military problem in the Philippines than the Commanding Gen-
eral of the Army.
It ought not to have required a law suit to prove that women
may not hold elective office until they have been given suffrage.
Yet a woman who was elected in Michigan to the office of pros-
ecuting attorney, had to be turned out of her office by a decision
of the Michigan Supreme Court.
General Jiminez has been duly elected President of San
Domingo, but his assassin was selected some time ago.
We are often spoken of as a "nation of coffee drinkers" and
recently issued statistics support this statement. During the
present year the consumption of coffee in America exceeded the
consumption in Europe by almost 20,000 tons.
The opinion seems to be growing that the Western Union
might have been left to defend its Cuban cable monopoly in the
courts, without the War Department interposing bayonets to
prevent the landing of a competing cable.
The assumption that sleeping car rates will not be advanced
by the proposed consolidation of the Wagner and Pullman Sleep-
ing Car companies, is based on the fact that the limit of extor-
tion has already been reached.
As President McKinley has become a stonemason, Admiral
Schley a Free and Accepted Mason, it will now be in order for
Dewey to join some secret society so as to get accustomed to
the official grip.
Captain Coghlan's assignment to inspect lighthouses in the
Alaskan district can hardly be considered a reward of merit.
He will sing to small audiences there his popular song, "Hoch
Der Kaiser."
Those who are familiar with the conditions in Washington
will smile when they think of some of the Congressmen who
will sit in judgement of Mr. Roberts of Utah, for breaking the
moral law.
It is said that Admiral Dewey does not relish the fact that he
has received the endorsement of that freak in national politics—
the Honorahle Billy Mason, the man who is ashamed of his
country.
In estimating the resources of the Boers, it must not be for-
gotton that there are a number of gold mines in Boer territory
with which President Kruger can open an account should he run
short.
"What are the needs of the country?" shrieked the orator.
Answer—More activity in the manufacture of boxcars and fewer
politicians performing in private cars.
Up in Michigan there is a man who is said to have two stom-
achs, which prompts us to make the suggestion that he ought to
be able to stand Pingreeism all right.
The views of Candidate Amos Allen of Maine have expand-
ed considerably since he quit as private secretary for Tom Reed,
and began running for Congress.
Perry Heath's scoop on the War Department respecting
the offer of a commission to Aguinaldo, he now acknowledges,
was on the pipe dream order.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about some orators this
fall is their ability to deliver elongated speeches without the aid
of a bicycle pump.
If the censored dispatches from the Transvaal can be relied
upon, there has been considerable unladylike conduct in prog-
ress at Lady smith.
The experience of Mr. Bryan should cause all young and am-
bitious men to avoid corresponding with the Honorable J. Ser-
ling Morton.
President Andrade of Venezuela can appreciate the feel-
ings of the base ball umpire who is escorted from the field by the
police.
The average citizen is always disposed to take chances on
his country being in the right.
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McAdams, Walter B. Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 16, Saturday, November 4, 1899, newspaper, November 4, 1899; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200530/m1/4/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.