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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

Those thrown in direct con'Ac II
Bryan pronounce him a most cna'n
personally. Rev. c, r. Wright s'
minister at Mexia, was out on w
him, and he says the man is lo'a' n, ~
acter and lovable in disposition. !. 4,
is pure in thought and he mas 80
preserve that degree Of lnnos'.., D,
attracts men everywhere. "ha ". III \
may be wrong" said Mr.. Wri wy, j
writer. "but his heart 10 r'ss-
ought to be president"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

A statute providing for struck jurics Is
sustained in Lommen VS.. Minneapolis Gas
Light company (Minn.) 80 l.. Il. A. i37,
right to trial by jury and the right 10 OBJ
tain justice freely and without purchase,
although the party demanding the struck
jury is required to nay the expense thereof
without any allowance therefor in the taxa
ton of costs.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

Failure OF temporary operator TO con-
meet his instrument with the telegraph line
for few hours Is held, In Birkett VS. West
ern Union Telegraph company CMchl 80
l.. r. 4. 40i. not to constitute gross negli-
gcnce" which will make the company liahle
for the consequent delay OF an unrepeated
message Will" there is valid stipulation
AGAINST liability, whether by negligence OF
otherwise. except for the amount paid for
sending the message
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

a local passenger railway built along a
turnpike road, outside the limits OF city
under previous purchase from the turn
pike company without any franchise or con
cession conferred by the city is held, in
Baltimore vs. Baltimore c. and T. NJ. =.
Railway company tMdl IS l.. Il. A. SOB
not to 10 street railway" after the cX-
tension of the limits of the city to include
a portion of the road. within the meaning
Of laws imposing park tax on stree. rail-
way lines.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

Boatable waters, within the meaning c.
a constitutional provision giving the right
TO fish I'm all boaiable and other waters
(not private property" are held in New
Eneland Trout and $ club VS.. Mather IVA
80 l., R. A. 500. to include waters OF COM
mon passage as highways for business or
pleasure. hut not other waters. although
they may re hoailhlc In fact.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

A we'll defined subterranean stream Il
held, In TAMPA Waterworks company VS.
Cline (Fla.l 33 l.. Y. A. 3lS, to be within
the rules applicable 10 surface streams an,
the owner OF the land is held to have thu
same risht 10 the use Of the water as !
it ran upon the surface of the ground hu
can not divert II. rollute II or improperl!
use It any more than II 1t ran upon TIT
surface.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

His manner is that Of tn. .arr,
the bar. The people before bin !,
jury. and he wishes to get val,
vorable to his side. Therefor. h
proaches his subject cautiously. m,
points in behalf OF his ellen, n,
handled. The manner is calm. NJ 4
is made TO secure a verdict On n
What the preachers call junction i
ing possibly the lecture platform
sponsible for that.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

The ass Enmeut law appears 20 he wor-
rying legislators as badly as It has wor-
r.ei hona tide creditors who have been
lef, with the bag TO hold.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01
LATE LEGAL DECISIONS.

Presidential electors. although they are
not named In the State constitution, are
held to be State officers, In Todd VS.. John
son tKy) 80 l.. X. A. 800, within the mean
Ing of constitutional provision providing
Tor flling vacancies In office which occur
before an annual election at which state
officers are to be elected.
deposit OF public money by a county
treasurer in bank designated by him as
depository for public funds and which has
given bond to secure its repayment Is
held. In Alllbonc VS.. Ames Is. D. 80 l.. X.
a. 5s'. not to constitute loan within the
meaning Of a Law making loans of such
funds unlawful
The herald., 1897-05-20
THURSDAY, nay 10, 1897.
THE RESPONSIBILITY PLACED

1t is Of the greatest Importance that
the people of California should clearly
understand the San Pedro harbor situ-
alton, and that the ultimate response
bility be placed where it belongs. The
petulant vagaries of Secretary Alger and
his personal desire to serve the inter-
ests of his great and good friend, Mr..
Huntington, do not fully explain the in
Justice which the eXasperating and un-
warranted delay in advertising for har-
Dor bids has visited upon Southern Cali
fornia. 1t is the Republican admins
tration and the Republican secretary
that must be held to account.
This is the only logical conclusion. 1t
may not be denied that the Republican
party is the party of monopoly and the
creature of corporate greed. 1t does not,
and it cannot, represent the people. 1t
is mortgaged to the Money Power, and
the mortgage is overdue.
Secretary Alger, representing in his
official capacity the Republican admin
istration, ie only discharging the obiiga-
tions of his party in serving Mr.. Hunt
ington's purposes. Incidentally as an
old friend and in pursuance of his per-
sonal ideas in such matters, he is acced-
ing to Mr.. Huntington's wishes. A poll
tician like Mr.. Alger never loses the
opportunity to kill two birds with one
stone.
The local newspaper apologists for
the Republican party and it's obsequious
representative in the war office are be-
tween the two horns of a mighty dill
emma. Their efforts to serve two mas
ters would be laughable if they were not
pitiable.
1t is not to be presumed that the peo-
pie of California will patiently endure
the wanton eubjugation of their inter-
ests to the demands of one of the Re-
publican party's chief slave-drivers.
They have the remedy in their own
hands, and they will administer it at
the first opportunity.
The herald., 1897-05-20
Woman's Influence

B. who attended the woman's congress
in San Francisco maintains that the
Brahmacharin. who, although he fool
shly lost his temper. forgot his manners
and belied his philosophy, gave utter
ance to a just and pertinent criticism.
Do nations, asks B, or do individual men
and women in Christendom uniformly
or even generally observe the golden
rule which, after all, Is the essence of
Christianity? In the Nineteenth Cen
tury for April there are two articles that
avow and defend the pol
icy of aggression which powerful Christ
ian nations have adopted toward weaker
nations. If the women of Chrstendom,
who as rule are both more spiritual
end more sensitive to the right than men,
will exert their tremendous power, they
can do much to bring back Christian ma
tions to the practice of distinctively
Christian principles. so that the sneers
of Hindus, Mohammedans and "barba-
rians" will fall to the ground. B is
glad to know that there are women here
and elsewhere who believe (whatever
men may believe) that Christ's last will
and testament has been admitted to pro-
bate by the world, and that it's mandates.
literally interpreted, may be, and ought
to be, applied, in good faith, to every
relation Of human life.
The herald., 1897-05-20
THE WHIRLWIND ROAD

The MUSES. wrapped in mysteries of light
Came in a rush of music on the night;
And l was sifted wildly on quick wings.
And borne away into the heart of things.
The dead doors of my being broke apart;
A wind of rapture blew across the heart;
The inward song of worlds rang still and
clear;
felt the Mystery the Muses. fear;
Yet they went swiftening on the ways un-
trod.
And hurled me breathess at the feet of
God.
felt faint touches of the Final Truth
Moments of trembling love, moments of
youth.
A vision swept away the human wall;
Slowly | saw the meaning of IT all
Meaning of life and time and death and
birth,
But cannot tell it to the men of Earth.
! only point the way and they must go
The wirlwind road of song If they would
know.
Charles Edwin Markham in Scribner's.
The herald., 1897-05-20
TARIFF AND CURRENCY

Chairman Dingley of the ways and
means committee, and expounder of the
high tariff doctrine, recently caused a
statement to be prepared for the Exam
iner in which he revealed the whole
scheme by which the new prosperity"
is to be introduced. Dvested of all YER
bal adornment the plants this To hoard
all legal tender notes except such as may
be demanded at the treasury from time
to time in exchange for gold To enable
the treasury to adopt this course high
protective tariff is an indispensable pre- =.
requisite. Through this agency there
will have to be accumulated and main
tained surplus in the treasury equal to
the gross amount represented by the re-
tired paper. Thus reasons Mr. Dingley:
When disbursements have to be made
for the current expenses of the govern
ment, the payments will be made out of
this coin accumulation and not out of the
greenbacks in the treasury which, when
paid out, make brief circuit through
the channels of trade and return to the
treasury in the form of an ever recur-
rent demand for gold.
According to this program, as will be
seen at a glance, there will be left no
sphere of usefulness for legal tender
notes, and for all the purposes of busi-
ness nearly $500, 100000 of currency
greenbacks and Sherman demand notes
might as we'll be consigned to the fur
mace.
TO relieve the conspiracy against the
legal tender paper of the government
from the adherence that it is expected
to evoke as soon as the real purpose and
inevitable effect of the scheme shall be
generally understood, Mr.. Dingley has
had the forethought to postulate meth
cd by which the discredited currency
will still find its way into circulat ton
Referring to the calling in of the green
backs for retirement, he says: 1.-The re-
The herald., 1897-05-20

deemed greenbacks would have been
kept in the treasury, and before $50, 0,000,-
900 had been redeemed there would have
been such a scarcity of legal tender notes
that the holders of gold would have been
glad to present 1t to the treasury and OBJ
tain the more convenient greenbacks
for use."
This reasoning Is wholly specious.
The only means available to restore the
boarded greenbacks to circulation would
depend upon the volition of the bankers
and money syndicates generally. But
this is the special interest that is seeking
the retirement of the legal tender notes
and the identical interest that is repre-
sented by the Mckinley administration.
The single gold standard would not be
quite supreme as the fiscal standard Of
the country so long as the credit of the
nation represented by legal tender notes
could also serve as a medium Of ex-
change. It would be useless, therefore, to
consider legal tender notes as part OF
our monetary system under the arrange
ment prefigured by Mr.. Dingley.
1t is not physical strength that the
tiger lacks in order to fit him as the
guardian of the flocks, and upon like
principle it is the disposition that is lack
ing on the part Of the banking interest
of the country, rather than its ability, to
continue the circulation of currency
that is antagonistic to the supremacy of
the single gold standard.
The manifest intention is to eliminate
the national credit as a factor in the
monetary system, and to wiring from the
consumers of the country, through the
agency Of an inordinate tariff, surplus
in gold equivalent to the whole volume
of the retired notes. The taxpayer has
submitted to many schemes of robbery
at the hands of capital, but they will
probably draw the line at this latest
project Of plunder.
The herald., 1897-05-20
THE TYRANNY OF PARTY

AS under the came or similar environ
ments men will differ in opinion on
public questions, the formation of polt-
cal parties is inevitable. Popular gov
ernment in a measure, therefore, be-
comes party government; that is to say,
it will reflect party views and be sup
ported by party organization.
So long as party is animated by pa
triotism only its existence and control
will be public blessing, for all methods
will then be devoid of corruption or op-
preston, and its measures will be wise;
but there is tendency to prejudice and
esprit de corps which causes men to be
extreme and forget that individual and
class interests should be subordinated
to those of the general public. When
party feeling is moderately developed
reason and high motive are liable to be
supplanted by intolerance and sordid in
fluence. A cause cannot be very sue
cessfully served by lax organization, and
it is quite true, also, that the best re-
sults are often retarded or finally de-
feated through too much zeal or the en-
ployments of methods dictated by dis
position to achieve party triumph
without due consideration of the general
welfare.
There have been times in our national
history when party spirit ran 80 high
as to DO injury to the public interests.
Partisan feeling. however, is subject to
vibrations and alterations, sometimes
descending almost to dsorganization,
and then ascending to the climax of COM
pactness and discipline. In the one con-
diton there is indifference to public af-
fairs. and in the other unreasoning,
proscriptive and oppressive action is
often displayed. Able but unpatriotic
men encourage organization and discip-
line, which convert party into an instru-
ment that they can more easily and ef-
fectively WELD to their own advantage.
Patriotism and virtue never incite ty-
rannical or indefensiblo measures. but,
on the contrary, they counsel justice and
moderation. No oppression has ever
been so unrelenting and cruel as that
which has sometimes been imposed by
a highly disciplined and prejudiced par
tisan majority. There have been in
stances in our history of extreme action
on partiean lines, but nothing thus far
has equaled the tyranny of the majority
in the present national house of repre-
sentatives.
The ability to apply its tyranny re-
suits from the restrictive character of
the rules adopted for the government
Of the body and from the disposition OF
the speaker to be imperous in their en-
forcement.
The innovation introduced by Mr..
Reed during his first term as speaker
The herald., 1897-05-20
A Cripple Creek Bank

CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, May 10
The doors of the Miners State bank OF
this city were closed today and the fol-
lowing notice posted: This bank is in
possession of Harry H. Clark, assignee,
under general assignment for the benefit
of creditors" Assignee Clark says he
is informed all creditors will be paid in
full. The bank is owned by E. r. jacob,
who came from Duluth. MINI. 1t was
started last summer, just after the big
fire. The capital stock is 100000. The
deposits are not large, but the amount
Is not stated. A few days ago Mr..
jacob discharged his cashier, who be-
came involved in suit over a mining
stock deal, and assumed entire charge
of the bank himself. jacob is said to
own much property in the east.
The herald., 1897-05-20
The New Road Law

w. F. HENNING reviews the "Clarke
Road Law" the effect of which, il put
into operation, will be to take from the
board of supervisors all control over
roads and highways and place the same
in a board of three trustees to be elect
cd in each of the several road districts.
1t has been suggested in some quarters
that the new law cannot be put into op-
Grafton for year hence, because 1t pro-
vdes that the trustees of the several dis
tricts shall be elected on the las,t Satur-
day in May of each year, and that the
trustees shall give notice of elections
and appoint the officers of election, and
there is no provision made for appoint
ing or electing a first" board Of trus-
tees. If the above suggestion has any
vital force it will prevent the law from
ever going into effect and will not mere
ly postpone that event until next May,
since there will be no board next May to
give notice of election unless one is pro-
vided in the meantime.
Again, it has been suggested that the
Clarke law is in conflict with the new
county government act. The latter,
however, in two instances shows the in
tention of the Legislature to provide a
law which would relieve the board of
supervisors of this branch of business,
to wit: Substitutes and 81 of Section
25
From and after June /, 1897, the office
of road trustee will exist in every road
district in this state. and there will be
no incumbents. and there can never be
any incumbents under the law as it will
then exist, unless our general laws per-
nit the appointment of trustees by the
supervisors or permits special elections
to be called by the supervisors for the
election of such officers. There are
numerous adjudged cases in various
states to sustain the theory of vacancy
in office under such circumstances, and
it would seem reasonable to contend that
such vacancies should be filled by ap-
pointment by the supervisors. Will the
supervisors see it that way?
The herald., 1897-05-20
MISSOURI JURIEs
Lead Judge to Make Some Strong
Statements

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, May 19.-"Its
beginning to look as If any man with
money can kill another in this country
and get clear"
This was the startling statement made
by Judge Wofford from the bench Of the
criminal court yesterday. The Judge
seemed to be angry when he spoke. He
said afterward that he was annoyed by
the fact that several persons charged
with murder and other serious crimes
had recently been acquitted or their
trials had resulted in hung juries. He
had particularly in mind the case Of
Benjamin Gates, indicted for the mur-
der of Munroe Bates, who had been tried
twice and each trial had resulted in
disagreement of the jury. The Judge
believed, he said, that in each case
jurymen were bribed. He believed that
the office of Samuel Childs, county mar
shal was responsible in a large measure,
for the disagreement of the juries.
The herald., 1897-05-20
Mr.. Brooks Makes a Remark

To the Editor of the Los Angeles
Herald: see by the local papers that
there is move on foot to give Hon. Will
liam ]. Bryan a banquet and reception
in the city on the 5th of July, under the
auspices of the Silver Republican club,
and that 5000 invitations to a banquet
will be issued at IS each. This would
bring in gross sum of $4,000, or net
sum of, say, from $12, 500 to $1S. 500.
There Is no serious objection to this
proposed banquet. Mr.. Bryan, as the
recognized leader Of all friends of BIZ
metallism, is entitled to this recogni-
tion-and the silver Republican club is
entitled to lead in this matter, but not
to the exclusion of all other organiza-
tions who hold Mr.. Bryan in the same
respect. Now, my objection to this BAN
quet is that it confines this reception Of
the people to Mr.. Bryan to few to the
exclusion Of the many. He Is the cham
pion of the cause of the people. and no
one knows better than Mr.. Bryan the
condition of the people today. They are
poor, and IS is large sum to pay to hear
and see their leader.
I propose this: That Fiesta park or
tribune grounds" at corner of Twelfth
street and Grand avenue be the place for
this reception. 1t is capacious, will hold
by proper arrangements 10000 people.
Let subscription be started with May
or Snyder at the head to raise funds for
this purpose. Let the mayor call a
meeting at once of those friends of free
silver and it's champion, Mr.. Bryan and
let the necessary committees be appoint
ed by the mayor or some one authorized
to appoint such committees.
For such a reception as have here
briefly outlined 1 will give $50.
BY all means make Mr.. Bryan's recep-
tion glorious one. Let the rich and the
poor all join, without money and without
price. ]. MARION BROOKS.
Los Angeles, May 49, 1897.
(Mr. Brooks is evidently laboring un-
der a misapprehension. The banquet
rendered to Mr.. Bryan is to be merely
social function. While it is proposed to is
sue 5000 invitations,a "a large share of them
will be sent to friends of free silver
throughout the country, merely as tok-
ems of respect, and it is anticipated that
not more than 600 guests will be present.
Mr.. Bryan will deliver one or two ad
dresses while here. and for this it is quite
likely that the tribunes or some other
capacious place will be secured. The
Herald agrees with Mr.. Brooks that the
public should be given an opportunity
to hear Mr. Bryan without money and
without price" If this is acceeded them.
there is no auditorium in Los Angeles
large enough to hold the people who will
assemble. Without doubt it will be the
greatest political assemblage ever seen
in Southern California. The expenses
necessarily incident to such a great
gathering might be raised by the sale of
reserved seats or by.a subscription, or
both. In which event Mr.. Brooks $50
will be very handy-Ed. Herald.)
The herald., 1897-05-20
COMMUNITY OF INTEREST

The spirit Of Southern California was
by the comment of its newspapers upon
the hasty action of the Riverside county
board of supervisors in voting to discon-
tinue the county display at the Los An
geles chamber of commerce. 1t seems
as if every paper in this section of the
state considered it a solemn duty to
protest against it. The board long ago
discovered its error, and will doubtless
rescind its action shortly, if it has not
already done 90.
1t is gratifying indeed to see that the
different counties, cities and towns of
Southern California manifest such
great degree of interest in the common
welfare of the section. 1t is a commu-
nifty of interest that has helped to make
Southern California populous and pros
peroue; that has made its name syn
onymous with enterprise, sagacity and
the capacity for hard, earnest work.
1t would be only the part of ordinary
human nature for the press and people
to regard the Riverside county incident
with indifference, to hold it to be a mat
ter concerning Riverside alone. A keener
sagacity cav that the interests of the
whole southern part of the state were
made up of the single interests of its
counties, cities and towns, and that
what affects the welfare of one affects
all.
The Riverside county board of super
visors was unwittingly the means of
presenting a most valuable object
lesson.
The herald., 1897-05-20
Presented a Weak Case

Durrants attorneys have. made their
appeal to Governor Budd and. judging
from the newspaper reports. they pre-
sented a very weak case. The appeal
was backed up by the statements of i
lot of cranks who did not believe Dur
rant guilty" and the affidavit of a
horsethief, who swears that he and not
Durrant committed the murder The
governor will hardly feel called upon to
interfere on the strength of such a show
ing as this-Santa Ana Blade