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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07
HABER.... Y DEBE

Q1e los jueces penetran con
la gu4rdia civil on las sesiones
de IN ayuntamiento Y detienen
q los concej les sin causa y sin
pretex o.
O. los dsleg .1os de la For
ta'eza 50 atreven, audaces, a des
1ruir la ley de reuniones
Y gus ell general Marin per
manece impavido. como 81 su au-
toridad no pasara sobre sus pro
pios sub alternos.
G mo 81 en- sus manos 40 estu
viese a { tcu'tad d. cont >ner ESQ.,
desmanes Y ev tar esos abn sos
Como 81 no le preocupase Ia
estupef4cc;6o de la isla entera
que no comprende, que no Sc es-
plea este camblo singulac.
Y % claro no otros nos IAN
55' emos & la sombra de una re-
serva aItlv. y prudente.
n N,s otros 10 nos resoIvemos
4p,audir al pasividades del go
b ernado", ri q guardian silencio
ante las tropsi1as de los alcaldes
Sin duda al general Marin nc
SO le informa ben; sin du la des
conoco los sucesos que vienen a
b eric su prestigio ; SIN duda ig
nora to 10 el alcanc5 de 10 de 20
merfo, de 10 de Camuy y d. 10
ds Vrga alta.
D. abf que Is de nos nosotros
81 aierta
Como no3 dolerfa censurar 81 :
actos, 10 saba 81 general Maria,
dada Ia pred Iecesoa que Il "a Y
otra VIZ lie probamos, 10 con pa
Iabras, siuo con b 9chos
Pero el general Marin sabe al
misno que los partidos tieaen d.
beres muy altos que cump.lr, Y
que, por nuestra part3, preferi-
rfamos de ap2rec5r antas que de
f f:audar la confanza p1b.ica.
Aotos repara lores demanda-
mos. Medidas jasticisras psdi-
mos
V.viendo es la oposic;on, no
1os es islto aguardar apoyo al
5uno: quele ahora ese priviIe gio
pa. loo lucondi-, ,onales, que 10
-ttlz z N a d7stp Nosot~ os pc
dtmo> y cemanuamos que tanta
ulqn'1ados no p7rmane zcan i'm
puu 8 que no valga, en- tiempos
le' Z neral Mal1a. la acerba fca
50 de Leon y Castillo.
No qu r-mos nutrir la colum-
"a del DEBE.
No queremos rastar cifras a la
columus del HABER
81 b,ista la una con 81 b arm J.
4, lima d1ta de MOBILES actitud 80
Slbslsta la otra vacfa, sin Ia
ma+ levo partida de cargo
Lo dimes todo; aplausos, sfec-
tos consider aciones, simpat1as. !.
bVan & darsenos, en- cambio
i 1lezas amargaras, par ecucio
nes y desaire,8
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07

r creeran ustedes que es Ia " ge
sima letra de uu sstro a.f absto. Y no
van ustedes deeacertados.
Psro r. es tamb:en Ia letra ma
charlatana de la imprenta de Ell Pats
Una may1scula hab'adora, pero sin
.6gica para convsncer.
Tamb'6a creer4n ustedes que en-
Cayey "todo es tabaco se eDgsn an
ustedes otra vsz d, Cayey es Ia
r. esa de que b hab.ado antes, letra
simpatica, pero de dificil acap.aci6n
On Ell mercado po!itico;
Por su POGO valor nomina';
Y porque vamos q prosastar para
bsne6eio De incausos y ensen snza de
futuros compradores.
Ea una seria ds artfculos. q1s con
el rub-o de "E Turno." publica en-
El PAS, trata de d:mostrar-sin
conseguirlo, claro esti-que ell turro
en- pol1tica es antipatriotic y PERU
dicial nuestrs terra; y como va
Va el articu|ista pr ell turno D1me
70 III y por mas que. imitando la
mula de qua nos b .b B slisario-no
ell gran general del Imp -rio de Oe;en
te. sino slissrio del Valle-hac-
todo re zero de esfuerz %, es 10 cier-
to qu- r en- R SO queda. y nada re
sue!vs nj resulta de su lucubracio
nes.
Los pactistas-escribs-parece
q ae No tienen mas armas de combate
q lie Il ida del turmo y por ESQ Sc 'es
ve & ,onerla y defenderla con tanto
ardor como fslta de sentido po 1tico,
demostrando en- su emp n Ia caren-
cia abso,nta de principles, de los que
b cieron form al renuncia al imponer
la evoluci6n que hoy maldicen los
dem6cratas antillanos .
ESQ escrib,: y no d .dimos: se
queda tan fresco, "porque viviendo en-
C.yey, bajo china du' 'cey template"
pueden escrib rse cosas mss atrocs ss
al sin nscesidad de acu dir al h;elo
iFeljz ns.ed, amigo T.rtarIa de Ga
yey!
iConque los pactistas erponeu q
defendea su idea con tanto ardor co
mo falta de sentido polftico7
Ago es ago; porque bueno es
consigaar que en- ell siguiente para
70 hacs decir listed q los fusionistas
No SO aspira 8 convencer con axio
mas con demostraciones, con razona
mientos, olvidandose de que en- el
anterior p lrrafo usted mismo confiesa
que e9ponem q defender 7 Olga u,
ted, estimauo sprimtev de Cayay ! e
puele egponer una teor1a sino es con
demostraciones? Y cusndo SO egp me
una teoria, IN sistema 6 una doc
trina Icrse listed, connotsdo stfios.
que es con el ctistiano prop6 dto de
exponsr.ss JNo Ie parecs q listed que
cuando uno enpo,se una teor1a es con
ell fin de convsncer & a'guien Do su
vsrdadi
A usted todo sc le vaelve en- con
ira; p,rque en- 10 de qua no Sc aspira
& convsncer, tamb.6n tiene su mia
jita de vsrdad iCiaro. hom bre!
SCree usted que los fusionistas, que
.xponen su idea sin p;zca de sentldo
po f,ico. seq uste], Sc atrevsrfan
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07


Por Usuado tampoco SON muy cor
dIales las relaciones de nuestros ad
versarios.
Peto aun no han llegado Was de
h .cho nj q Was pubIIcas, com , los de
Barceloneta.
All la division que reina entire el
elem .nto fntegrista no reviste carac
tsres tan belic osos.
La luchs es puramente moral.
Pero no sera ex,rsno que el M y
d;a s: tiren los trastos 4 la cab.za.
3 sen II Casellas Sc empef16 en SCI
alcal' e. y 10 ha conseguido s despe
cho de don Eu eolo Petez, que es
ALI el cacique m mo del incondicio
naljsmo.
Admiremos este ejem2lo de disei
pima
Andan sus huestes ma q aistas
y de So 1ir. 4 ojo vistAs,
esa Iucha de fgoismoa,
ea b eve los iategristas
Sc destruitan ST mismos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07

e p.(, ae lndigna
Nos 'gGamos 20 otros.
Su G "a v.vi' protests, del parsid.
liberal
Pero % b terodox ,s ne caman q
Ia u p-otestsn nada
s. o So les ocuere deer:
H hh{ el resn tado one Ell !.
.rActica eta dando 81 fasionismo T"
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07

Nunca Sc vi6 en este pals IN
periodic en- que la prensa liberal
guardase a los gobernafores res
peto tan afectuoso como O. que
hoy guarda al g general M erFn.
Jamas en- las columnas de nues
tros periodic ,s hub tai cantidad
de ap.ausos para el poder publ
CO, nj tai cdmulo de eonsidera-
clones para sus representatives.
Asi facilitabamos el cam'no 3
un hombre jasto Y a una P Utica
reparadora, y sabIs; al demo :
trabamoI que nue,tra ooosicl"r
no bedece q praiuicio, sistema-
ticos.
El general Marin, aclamade
por las mu h hedumb es, aplaudld'
por la opinion, rec.bio de toda
parties manifestations de carif'
y correspondi6 & elias con salol
dad inalterab!e
En- nuest oos meetings de propa
ganda. en- los discusses 10 nu-s-
tros jefeo, Sc deetacaba siemprt
ell p4rrafo en- que la 6gara de
general aparecia noble, bizarra
sobre ell nivel de ,os partidos M
litantes
81 En- las asambleas populares
confundfanse dos vftores expon-
taneo~, robustos, entusiastas. O.
vftor p@ra Espana, primers 81
vftor para el general, de pues.
C1ando Ia Dipu6ac;6a , adj
que SO le coacediese ua tftu!o de-
Castillo, nosotros nos unfa nos al
acuerd,.
Nuestra puma fae la primera
en- tributar aabaazas Y en- escrl
bir loas y di9irambos al militar Y
al estadista
Y de ESQ moio, Oh Ia cuenta
que nuestro pueblo, como todos
abre a los que rigen y le ad-
ministran, la coiumna del HABER
ap4rec3 nutrida de l l1m sros y cl-
fras; la columna del DEBE queda
en- blanco.
Ojala que en- b'anco eonti1d Is
Zero estamos vlendo Que i
incondicional smo es du- no alb
soluto de esta TERRA
Que 70 reconoce nirg1n fml
to a su preIondelaIcla ,uda J
depres.va.
Que. les 9: car da os e'ectorale
llegsn a un mo1ammm j comoren
sib Q.
Que los a'caldes imriden Ii
cons tituci6n de los coleglos el
que la mayol1a es nuestra
Que elcarcelan & cludadanos
sin ,acha De! modo mas to1pe =
arb tra-io.
Que computan q los candidates
conservadoles los votos de nues-
tros amigos.
Que arular, per ST, actas lt-
vantadas an'e los Notarios, po
nieodcse por encima del derech
patlio.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07
~ SO qneia1 fan fre scos!


Parece mentira qne SO pretenda
copvsncer IN pals con barharida-
des de tai calibee.
D: ea 4 a6 mar 1e los fosionis-
tas somos autores de tanto escandalo,
40 hay mis- que ell limite de un ca
belio.
Cualquier dia 10 diran.
Vaya 81 10 diraa
500 muy polfsicos esos puros. -.
de Vuelta-ab 10.
7 muy nigos de los incondicio-
uales
Como que les tapan las faltas, ha
ciendo responsab'e nuestro partido
de los ehaachulios ses vadores.
I'll smos dich) mas de una vez, 10
le,mos ahora. y 10 repstiremos ma
mana y siempre. que no somos gubsr
1amsn5slss de Canovas
Q,s no q1eremos NADIA con los
conservaaores de la peninsula. nj es-
p ramos NADIA de ellos
D aqnf que suframos ahora las
iesv 81 tai As de Ia oposici6a
Esas desv vsntsj as son mas rudas hoy
que aver. porque nuestros adv sr-
-arios estan en- peligto y txireman
sus recarsos para anu'ar nuestra
obra.
Para mantsnerse en- ell po Ter.
Para p1olongar eternamsnte gu
labor de perjaic Y de desc Tito.
Cuando suha al COB e:no Ell sen u
Sag ,sta, todo ESQ c.sara.
Y nosotros, liberales, antonom stas
y p1artorriqu n os, daremos a nu sstro
pueblo 10 qne ruassro pa BIO necesi-
ia:
Verdadera unprecedented, tx r;cto
,ump plimiento de la ley. tan inicua-
ments atropellaaa hoy pr c, ele-
meuto adve .sario
Eos atropelos, esas ileg g.lidades.
ssas tsansgrssiones dsl deyech, pub
CO no son os feutos de Ia propaganda
fusionista.
PoFqne nnestra p-opegands es de
aver.
I pogqna esos ffutos son antiques
Nacieron al calor dsl regimen qas
aos exp' ota y nos opr;me.
Solo 81 apasi n ,m'snto 6 9. ma
quiav slismo puedan o:curecer verdi
des tan cla-as como las nuestras
Los disidentss usurpan IN carse :
que 20 les corresponds
Ss rodean de una aureola que -.
sus actos no msracsn
n ,sotros vamos fememente. fean
camente. contra Ell incondicionalis-
no
Los disidentes, no.
Por Ell nero b scho de comb atirnos.
"a fav,recen Ia caasa del psrtido
adv .rsario
Y aun nantienen coa inadmisi-
bles inteligsnciaa q los ojos de Ia
4zoa, de la moral y de Ia hiisssss ssss.a s:
No p1edea -puss. acusarnos.
No tienen derecho para acu sarnos.
NJ Msdrado estarfa ell pats 81 espsra-
ra su ga vAcioa de los qua, por name
ga indirecta y del mo1o mas insane
y toep,. sostienen Ia ob.a del ineondi
.ionallsm;
La polftica del ensuen, consiste en
dejar hocer.
Aqa1 os di-identes.
La de los frutos positivos en- i'm
pedir Qwe Sc hgg0
Aqaf 'os faslonistas.
n hsy que confaudir uaos fsu os
son otros.
No hay que mezc'ar Ia c;z n a con
+~'g,
Lo d, Vega alta, 10 de Comerfo:
80 80 cz n sernbsada por los in
coniicion sies.
+ z II. disp @rsada a todos los Wien
50 70. los diside, tes
E igo vend,a despues
May en- brave gsrminara Ia nuev :
m Il Sc nb-~da por nosot-os
I 70 b b cuasro va-as de tie,ra
ps~s cs m&'os |ab sd ,ras.
- = =
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07
BONITA PROPIEDAO .

La de don Jaime Segura, constituida
por dos casas con un amplio solar con
magnftica hortaliza, situada en- Yauco
d Ia salida para Guanica, Sc re,ade.
Dirijirse al senior Segura que La ocupa
8 al que suscribe.
Ponce, Julio de 1897 A,stoaio
huyorU IN alt
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07
SueltOs atadOs

iOh. Ia l6gics disident !
iEstan divlros nueetroe corre.i
giouarios de aver!
G. meten 'os iDcond G onats lss
coacc:t mes mas escsndaloeas al cons
titu;r<e 'os rus vo syuuiam'eEtos
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07
QUIEN NO ESTi HECHO i BRA CAS-.

Cantar bien 8 cantar NAL
en- el campo es diferente,
pero delante de gentes
cantar bien o no cantar.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-07
A DlRSTRO Y SINIRSTRO

P osiguen las h3rmonfas integris-
,as.
Ei d{a primero. raiz de hab.rs
consti :uido el nuevo Ayuntamiento
lie B isceloneta, armaron varios con
servadores Ell gran ziapiz ap las mis-
mas pu ertas de la Casa Consistoriat
Y seg1 dicen las geates
habo N ientes como pun os,
y hubo pun d como mientes,
y ehicho ones y rasgun IS.
L,s hefoes de tan edifcante pugi
ato fueron don B ,nocio B, L!ensa y
ia sen n Lavandero. que por 10 visto
Ignora 8 faj. ignorar que Ia ro2a
sucia deb lavarse en- casa.
Y ESQ qae es Lavan Zero.
Asi es que sin miramiento aiguno
lie sac6 al seHor L!ensa los trapos
la coiadl. en- p!ena VIA pnb.ica, po-
n'eadole como u estropajo.
Y dio comieozo Ia btonca, con gran
regoc j, del pu5lico.
Y como fin del disgusto,
eatre graudes batacazos.
menudearon los porrazos
que era un gusto.
En- vista dc que llov{an las b If .ta
das acudio don Agus,fa Gonz ilez con
un paraguas.
Y en- vsz de abrirlo para prscavsl
SO del ehaparr6n. arrem stio Goa e'
Contra Ell senor Llensa.
El conf cto subi6 de p1nto.
Uno de los contendientes. cuyo
rostro parecfa un concilio ecumeaico
4 causa de los muchos cardenales
reunidos en- sus vsnerab.es carrillos,
,lama aba con desaforadas woes
E precise lavar estas { f ,nsas :
Q1s tra'gan pan % de arnica-
apunto un X ,8ctador.
-Aqui no h.y que andarse con
panos calientes nj con pan 80 de min
g0a &c zero.
NJ han causado graves dafios ;
10Y lleno de rag amos;
aqu{ no b ,cen fa'ta p,n,s
slao pnn)s.
Entire tanto ell senor Lavandero
,bstinabase con que tsnfa que lavar.
y Iavar con sang:e aquellas Of snsas,
pass seg1 parecs, es hombee qae no
90 para en- b,rras de jab5n.
Por 6a apaciga6se ell tr~nulto,
quedando demostrada una vsz mas
la buena harmonic que reina entire
los 'ncondiciona'es. qua procsdieron
cou mucho acierto q! vsntilar sus rem
cillas on plena Gale, pues es innegab' Q
qua do ade mi ,r Sc ,ntilan las cosas
as Al aire I:h.e sssa.-.s..,~v@~s
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12

| X. Drew. has lust handed us copy of
| the Evansville und) Courier. containing
q report Durporting to have been sent out
by the Associated Press from this city. To
read this report. accompanied by half a
column Of scare headlines" the reader
will assume that New Orleans and all the
gulf port resorts are already in the th,oes
OF residential endemic and that the
yellow death is spreading with great
raDidity throughout the country.
Now this is a base Islander and calculated
to do our people great injury. The Whole
situation as 1t actually exists in its length
and breadth and thickness Is simply this:
There have been 500 cases of dengue fever
at Ocean Springs and such is the utterly
depraved sanitary condition of tire town
that some few OF the cases have assumed
malignant type. resembling yellow fever
in its mildest form. The death rate has
been lust l per cent. One of the cases,
young boy. was brought to New Orleans,
where he died, and the case was pro-
nounced "vellow fever" Not single case
has developed here: but the one single case
mentioned has developed here; there has
not been another enc. not even What Is
termed SUSPICIOUS case, and today New
Orleans must be classed with the hen tn
lest cities on the continent.
This dispatch printed in our Evansville
CONTEMPORARY is wholly sensational. When
II was brought to our attention, re irnme-
diateiv had Major Mcdaniel the able,
faithful and highly honorable representa-
tive CT the Associated Press, interviewed
and he disclaimed ever having sent such
misleading dispatch or OF even taying
heard of 1t before. We have closely ex-
amined every newspaper that comes to this
office with the Associated Press rews and
not one of them except the Evansville
courier contains any such bogus newg. The
to lsGhe people Of New Orleans ami Ocean
Springs know where it got its rews
There is not a particle OF .larn in this
city. The scare has died out and has
ceased to be a TOPIC of conversation. The
States regards 1t with so little consicera-
ton that for two DAYS past we have not
considered 1T worthy OF editorial comment
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12
SOME POsTsCRIpTs.

Paris is full OF mosquitoes this summer.
The sheep market In Montana is said
10 be better than for the past four years.
Georgia woman killed her child be-
cause she said 1t was too ugly to live. II
probably looked like It's father.
Urbino, Raphaels birthplace, has COL
lected 100000 francs for the monument II
is going to erect to his memory, but wants
more.
In Mexico City "first-class American but
Ter, made by an expert is advertised at
90 and 56 cents a pound. at wholesale and
retail, respectively
An so-year-old man of Somerville. Me-,
who for half his life has been partly blind
and partly deaf. has recovered his senses in
tuli without treatment.
All Menelik's power can not make tho
Abyssinians take to the new dollars with
ms image They still want the effigy OF
siaria theresa on their coins.
Ludwig Fulda, the author Of THE Tails.
man, has written four-act comedy called
Friends" which will be brought out at
the Berlin Deutches theater.
Ten judges of the English supreme court
continue on the bench, though they have
passed the period at which they are by law
entitled 10 retire on pension.
kenesaw Mountain, Ga, around which
, ,Sere were weeks of furious fighting In
1864, is terraced now and ia covered with
peach orchards in full bearing
There is great deal OF sickness in tho
British Mediterranean fleet the Malta
navai hospitals being full. One storeshin
from Crete brought seventy men sick with
dysentery. 'A Win
Austria. with Hungary had 57s7 miles =,
railroad at the end OF 1896. The gross
earnings were s52.ooo.oOo. the working ess
ae ens oes sso'ooooOo and the net revenue ST.
000 '"p''ai VI so'o,ooo,-
Eng!and's so-knot torpedo boat destroy.
ers iail Tar below their trial speed in aetna,
- osF the 2s, q and 20 knots was all three
put into commission recently. "s
FTemiet's statue of the Arcbana., ,,,
r r, trampins on the dragon has bssr
paced on the highest steeple Of the eb urch
Of . sum-, 81, Michael; 1t takes the place
ing the French revolution, a'"n our
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12

thing. since direct State operation OF the
mines can not be considered as d cues
ton within the domain of practical poll
tics at the present time 1t IS, Of course,
quite possible that after government OH II
alton OF the railroad. the telephone and
other monopolies of situation has been sue
cessfully established the State aud National
governments NAV be able 10 take Up the
operation OF coal mines. but suGn work
as mining is carried on so far removed
from the public eve that the possibilities
Tor abuse are far greater than III thl case
OF the so-called natural monopoles, WI lie
coal mining. aside from that of anthracite,
is not vet sufficiently monopolzed in the
hands OF any one corporation or small
group OF CORPORATIONS as to render the as
sumption of the industry by government an
easv one.
Most remarkable is the claim of Mr..
Debs and his friends that revolution by
force nf arms Is more and more likely to
be the only remedy for the condition of
the coal miners because of the issuance of
iniunctions by the courts. To be sure,
these iniunctlons are being greatly abueed.
While not forbidding quiet persuasion OF
public streets. these late iniunctions in
PENNSYLVANIA and West Virginia do inter-
fere with strikers marching along PRIVATE
roads. where shouting and music reach
the miners on the lands of their employers
and the iniunctions further permit the
Judge issuing them to try men without
Jury. and to sentence them to prison in
definitely for their violation.
The remedies. however. seem rimple and
easily provided for at the primary and at
the ballot box. Statute law may be made
providing that roads leading to mines shall
be public as far as the rights Of the people
TO use them are concerned. and providing
further as the famous constitutional liw-
yer. Stimson OF Boston. has suggested,
that an arrest under injunction shall mere
" take the Mace Of an indictment ~ grand
Jury. but that 1t shall not dispense with
the right Of q man to a subsequent trial
by Jury OF his peers. The judges. too,
who enforce these iniunctions are either d.
reotly elected by the people or appointed
BY the president and confirmed by the sen
ate. which is so elected.
Edward W. 3emis.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12

A dav or 30 since. The Post took occa-
sion to call attention to the efforts Of the
Baltimore Manufacturers Record to note
tho want OF the South In the matter OF
securing more Eastern capital and invest
ments. The Record seemed to Imply that
tho South was especially antagunistlc to
outside capital.
In RESPONSE to Its editorial. 1.-THE Sou l. a
Opportunity" It received many conimuni-
cations from capitalists. and among Others
the following from MIR. N. +. Thompson,
from the YOUNGSTOWN. Pa. board uf trade:
In ali the glorious work that you have
done Tor the South, In my judgment, moth.
ing has ever been more timely or OF more
value, y accepted, than tho advice con-
tanned IN your editorial, entitled Srhe
6outh's Opportunity on various occasions
during my residence Ia this section hayu
essayrd To give advice to my Southern
friends, and 1t has always been from the
knowledge that there was n strange mis-
conception ON the part OF the true men
OF the South Of the damage that was he
Ing done TO that section by demag ogtes
and politicians but | have only had evil
dence of misplaced confidence and de.
stroyed usefulness for my reward But
Win all this, l can never be silent when
] SEQ the fairest land that Ger the ssun
rhone on In the grasp of those who are
rctardAng It's progress and destroying It's
chances of development How long will
II TAKE the true SONS OF the South to
learn that their one great need In lesa of
politlcs and more of business, as the Man
ufacturers' Record has 30 often told
them
1t is really pathetic to see how Mr..
THOMPSON has 'essayed to give advice"
which has not been taken. Demagog,es
and politicians have gone on In The evil
tenor Of their wav and no improvement
whatever has boon noted.
Mr.. THOMPSON should not be particular
" detected, however. by reason Of his ex-
periences in his work for the South We
nave the best lands, the best manufacture
ing cities and the best business openings
down In tho South. and II you do not now
want to take advantage OF them It Is your
own fault
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12
VACANT CHAIRS
In the Medical Department of the
University of Texas.

In the Medical Department. of the
University of Texas.
Southwestern Medical Record.
The fall session OF the medical depart
ment Of the University of Texas will soon
begin. and at the present time no an
nQuncements have been made in regard ia
filling the recent vacancies In the faculty
OF the chairs on practice and physiology.
We sincerely hope and strongly suggest
that they be filled by gentlemen from
Texas. The board of regents will, we are
sure. when the matter is presented in the
proper light and manner. give more con-
sideration to the applications from this
State than they are reputed to have given
In former times. Everything being equal,
the applicants here should receive the
same treatment given to those outside the
State-this should be so for several rea-
sons.
Sam Houston was not educated and
trained for the presidency OF the Republic
of Texas, Terrell did not graduate as
foreign United States minister and still
these men and many others who have also
filled high and important public offices.
nave done so with much credit to them.
selves and pride to their State. So 1t viii
be II the qualified members OF the profess
sion of Texas be given the opportunity in
the matter. Do not for a moment suppose.
In the latter instance, that because the
number Of professors in the State is small.
that they tTexas doctors) do not possess
the material out OF which to make teach.
ers OF medicine, or that all the material
has been used up. One other good reason
why the profession OF Texas should be-
carefully scrutinized for available candi.
dates, Is that the last legislature put an
occupation tax on the doctors of SIS each.
and there being about $500 or 5000 In tina
state. the amount Of revenue raised from
this source will be from $27 500 to $50 600
this amount viii almost meet the yearly
SsSooo last year, appropriation for tho
maintenance OF the medical department..
hence, as the profession in the future will
ray the salaries OF the professors, 1t should
be given the privilege from the standpoint
OF fairness, II for no other reason. 10
express the hope that the board OF regents
WIN tender the opportunity to Texas doc
tors. IA NJ