San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-16
STOP THEM DOINS.n
An Indignant Protest from an Old
Timer.


town good long time on visit to ole old
BAN, and as an old sitizen amt Statistic
with the doins of san marcos. while wa
ava. the fust thing reed was new raj
rode now what do We want another raj
rode for2 bime by II will bring NOR pee
pie here and they will crowd us ont. the
win by our property an 60 intu bizness Al
take ava sum ov the protects from our biz
ness men who Ia Established. and II tn
rule rode puts up masheen shops, the moi
will disturb the quietnes of this vale. lot
and lots ov workinmen will be neediI
houzes and supplise. why thare amt anuf
empte houzcz in the town to put 'em in
therefore we must 60 to the truble Of bildiI
bildins.
then, again, hev seod many large nj
dwellins who hev bin bilt fine enuf fur {
prinse. why when waz boy folks wa
satisfde with log cabens, an they waz COCO
people as yu find nova das. taint the
hous, mr.. editur, that makes man. agin
thare has been barrels and barrels ov pain
wastid all oyer town-on fences, on houses
hev fgered up how mulch oil them i'm
provements cost, an taint no wonder thare is
hard times when so mulch mummy is spent
in fixing up town like what is goin on
hear. then git mad when here about
150O0 dollars to be spent fur sorgum MILL
and 5000 dollars fur paper mill. then
Just to think sum ov our sitizens is goin
to donate money to help thee farmers to 10.
kate thare cotton factory and county fare,
when money is with II to 20 per cent. why,
if all them things is done, more people will
chants will hav to by more goods an hire
more klerks. so just see the truble On anx-
ieties which is brewin by the acts ov
sum people which kant let well enuf alone,
when money is worth from 10 to 20 per cent.
an then hav seed that large, splendid, nu
hotel. why mr.. Hofrhinze he don't no what
work he haz got into. them fine, airy runs
and other fixins vii cauze folks to sta lon
ger, and in hot wether crowds vii sta thare
all summer. now see the truble he will hav
to by eatibles for the table, and look at
the mummy no viii hav to pa out, and 1t
worth IL to 20per cent. folks tel me that
hotel is ointment to the town. why when
waz II boy folks nevur thot o. orninlentin
q town; tina just let things sta az tina waz.
of i he'd owned the ole frame hotel on the
corner, and any traveller complained, i'd o
just told him he needn't sta of things didn't
SCOT.
talk about public improvements incresin
the value of property, why, goodness noes,
property IL hi enuf now. but mr., editor,
am madden about the wa people is talkin
about bildin large publick skule hous.
why when waz boy we childrun waz larnt
in a log cabin chluked with mud, an mar
rer benches to slit on. an tel yu we larned
just az mulch or eff we waz in pallis.
now, too satisf myself eff the childrun waz
O needin bildin, gocsto thee publik skule
houses on i found a CRATE deel bettur hous
than had when waz boy. But then
teechers pointed too menny defects
the runs waz too small and too crowded and
the childrun suffered in kold wother and hot
wether. i just told them when waz boy
we crowded around the stove in cold wether
and in hot wether we went out uuder the
trees and sifered. then teechers sed they
wanted maps and globes an apparatus. now
q globe it teeches that the world is round.
/ don't want my boy larned eny SIGH nonsense
when mr. Voglesang an other scientific men
is fgering out that tho world is fiat. thare
are to mulch attention paid to childrun now
adas anyhow. why, every suuda my wife
she gifts US all up arlier than eny other day,
just to send the childrun to suuda skule.
tell her its all noncence-ef the lord in
tends to sav 'em, he will sav EN- without US
a goin to al that truble an expence, when
mummy Is with IL to 20 per sent.
why, when waz boy, and am nigh
onto 80 year old, there waz no doins ov
that kind. when a preacher come round
our wa, he he'd too preech in the woods or
barn. nowadays folks hav grand meetin
houses that cost q heep-when mummy is
with IL to 20 per sent.
Some peeplo tells me Of the childrun is
edicated tbare will be less krims. amt we
got sheriff an marshul which is armed
with loaded pistils to shute the childrun if
they does eny krime-sa2 amt we paid fur
n gloorius kort hous and tip-top jale-sa9
after goin to all that expence, does we
want to keep that jale empte-sa2 of this
town puts up a ten-thousand-dollar skule-
hous, then the truble begins. people will
flock in here, and, to accommodate them,
we will hav to send for CRATE deal of lum-
Der, and make more brick, and quarre more
rock, and make more lime, and thare will be
hurre and rush in every direcshun, which
we amt used to.
before went AVA my nabor offered me q
lott for 100 dollers. tother day told him
I'd take that lott. Why was amazed when
he said yes, for 400 dollars.
let well enuf alone, SEE !, specially when
we eau lone out all our munney at ~ per
cent and shave notes at "a per sent.
There are many more points i'd like to
menshun, but an q doin all can q talkin
TO thee citizens to stop all this improvement
aud progress fulishnes, specially when mum
ney is vuth ~ to 81 per sent Stop them
caryins on, sa, and let us hev
pees. Yoors trooly, OLD Timer.
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