The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-23

he in turn will trasmit with his own eN-
| perience to his brother of the coming age.
| The combat with disease then is properly
| left to the skin of the Enlightened rhysi-
| elan, whose requirements NJ him for the
| contest, and not to an unloucrcd but
| shrewd fakir playing upon the rrednlity
OF the masses. nor 60 the charlaiun or
| medical mountebank.
Srhrador has expressed himself highly
| delighted with Galveston and with his
| reception here, IT is matter ot local
patriotic regret that In hts tour through
Texas Galvcson should have pleased him
most. 1t would have spoken better for the
Intelligence OF our people and for their
unbelief in his magical powers II Calves
! ton had shown him the marble heart, as
Fort Worth and Houston did. lie has
| oppressed n willingness to stay with us
| as long as our people want him. IL Is tot
probable they will want him much longer.
| When he and his manager have drained
! the town and his unhealcd victims become
clamorous 10 be cured, he Will hnd his
exortations 10 faith unavailing' ana they
Will fold their tents like the Arab ana
| quietly steal away.
| 1t would seem that the presence Of
Schrader In Galveston for an indohnitc
| time IS a public calamity, suhvcrsivc OF
good morals, but TO have the cnusions of
HIS fellow fakir, Edward Atkinson,
pamphleteer ana gold standard ayndi-
cate writer poured upon MS poor silver
| News day after day without ccasing, "a
an affection so terrific that we would go
even TO Schrader for relief IL We din not
know that ho and Atkinson are OF the
same kidney ana playing their game FOR
money on the creiulous element in hui
man nature.
1t wonld he Impossible in a dozen news
paper articles to notice and rcfute the in
| Vulnerable msstatcments of ms most in
exact and unveracous old bumhus. Every
argument has has ever repeated second
hand has been thoroughly demolished hY
| Mr ttcY and Q. $. Thomas In their mas
| terly articles in the Arena, and yet this
| veteran iakir IN the art OF playing ON
! crcdulity, continues to gable day after
, day like a parrot. polly wants cracker"
His vocabulary is complete In such phrases
| as silver lunatics silver craze, asses, sill
yer miners trust ana other choice cpi-
thets. Now Mr. Fakir Atkinson has vol
| untecred u great deal of advice 10 The
country at large and the South in par
ticular in the last twenty-four years. But
| In all this time what has he sad or done
of hrnciit to tic people, What financial
| sickness or monetary maladv has ie cured
in the body poiltic2. The country Is sick
1 10 death OF financial paralysis and Fakir
Atkinson says the country j. all right.
the patient IL doing well aud by faith
will recover. lie and Fakir Schrader rea-
/ son alike. only Atkinson Is aEgressiVe
and would bite If he had fanss. while
| Schrader is moro gentle and conciliatory.
! Now Atkinson has only in two instances,
as far as my knowledge extends. attempt
cd to do two things for the ma sses but
| the propositions involved so much mean.
! ness to the masses and so much profit to
himself that they can only lie mentioned
with contempt few years ago Atkin-
son invented what he called and Aladdin
cooker. This was a device 20 utilize the
| heat of a Kerosene lamp to cook the work
| inPmans breakfast AT night while he
slept. His wife WAS supposed 10 put some
| oat meal, potat oes, beans ana "A beef bone
| In the Aladdin cooker. apply the kcro-
| scnc cooker, go to sleep, AMI next morn
! Ing she md the family would wake up IN
"A nice, elegant breakfast ready To no
eaten, She was 10 do the same thing for
dinner. shut ,ip the house and she and her