The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-23

get enough, II IL were all true, 10 con-
sign the whole national congress from
the white house to the page in congress
TO infamy and the penitentiary.
Who can distinguish the truth from
lie when spoken of public mcn2 There
ought to be some means by which the
public could know whether these say
ings are true or false. Partyism Ii the
fond parent Of the politician. dena-
gogue and blatherskite. This blind adj
herence to party politics will not only
ruin IAN butdamn the nation. When
thing is simply "democraticnlly right
or "republicanly right" or "populistly
right" and wrong from every other
view, then it is altogether wrong. \
thing is right or wrong in itself whether
championed by party or nation. man or
angel. l have no patience with demo-
cratic policy or republican policy or
populist policy. like patriotic prln-
ciples, unseltish devotion to humanity
and undying loyalty to right. Weneedn
living, vigorous conscience, not only in
the national congress, but In the every
banker n few days ago who was lending
his money Mt IL per cent. in violation of
the laws Of his state and against the
hest interest of his constituency. His
highest reason for such business trans
actions was that his stockholders 6e-
mandcd their dividends, and he had to
make the dividends, which was all right
from, h.. 1,ll stn
how mcrcilessly it grinds the life ont of
the borrower. don't believe TINT any
business in America to-day, not even
Wall street speculation, us infamous az
that is, can pay such interest and live.
one-sided view, and every fellow in
his line reminds me of the fellow who
was Dragging on his father as doctor,
and he said AN illustration of his skill us
surgeon was when n neighbor came to
his father one morning, who, while cut
ting n stick of wood, had knocked out
one OF his eyes. His father locked, and
saw that the eyeball was gone. Then
bis father turned to him and said:
Son, catch me the big old tomcat."
He said he caught the eat for his father.
and he took one of the cats eyes out and
put it into the mans head, and it jus.
fit.
We'll" said the friend to whom he
was telling the story, "how did 1t do?
Could he see out of it?"
"Oh, yes" he replied, "he could see
out of il just as well as he could see
out of his own eye; and the only diff
ference was that when his own eye was
asleep at night Che cats eye was awake
watching for rats"
If gain and position could be put
in fellows ear there would be thou
sands of men like the one OF whom
preacher once told me. He raid ms
lie rode up to church one Saturday
he saw group of brethren standing in
front of the church, and as he rode up
nearer he met n man coming away
from the church, whose mouth was
terribly disfigured, 1t was simply a
little hole ON the side of his face, half
way between the front Of his face and
his ear. He said when he got up to
the brethren. he asked them: who
was that / met down the road ?" They
said ~ was Blil johnson. lie asked
them how came his mouth all round
on the side of his face? Was he born
that way?
"No,' they replied, sit has Just been
in that shape for two years."
What In the world did it?" the
preacher asked.
One of the company replied: about
two years ago, or n little more, he was
the worst drunkard in this country,
md he quit all at once, and has drunk
none since. But shortly after he quit
drinking, he took ear-ache one night,
and the doctor poured little brandy
in his ear to relieve him; md his
mouth just got TO reaching around for
the brandy, and has never got straight
since. SAM Il. JONES.