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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22

and 1t is quite probable that the J. +.
Keith company, ship owners of this city,
Will represent the firm in this section.
The vessel owned by Mcintyre Bros. &
Co. are all steamships, and are the Elphin-
stone. 11i6 tons; Endeavor, 1910 tons; Ma
labar 1908 tons; Monarch 1922 tons:
Scraps, 1871 tons; undaunted, 2026 tons,
and the Victory, 1774 tons The Kansas
City. Pittsburg and Gulf road Is under
stood to be figuring on establishing line
Of steamers between Sabine Pass and Mex
lean ports, and one of the vessels above
named may enter this service. AT all
events, the visit OF large ship owner to
Sabine Pass. seeking tonnage for large
vessels, is testimonial OF no inconsider-
able value to the safety OF the port and
it's rapidly increasing business.
NOTES AND PERSONALS.
Mr. John n. Gilbert and Mr.. G. r.,
Ferguson went up to Mona on Tuesday
Colonel d. Tramway Call was in town
Tuesday morning en- route to his mill at
Call.
MIR. c. 7. Patterson, Southern agent Of
the Dlsston saw manufacturers, spent sew
eral days in and about Beaumont during
the week
Mr.. ]. T. Keith Of the Texas Tram and
trip through old Mexico. He VIII be absent
about ten days or two weeks.
The Consolidated Export Lumber com
rany has chartered the steamship Nanette,
which is due TO reach the Pass on next
|! Thursday. This vessel will load 100000
| feet for Manchester.
Mr.. II, w. Potter, vice president 1.-the
Reliance Lumber company. returned last
| Sunday from visit 10 his old home In
Wisconsin. whittier he was accompanied
! by Mrs. Potter, who will remain in that
State until the latter part Of October.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22
MORE FINISH FOR EUROPE.
IMPROVED CONDITIONS.

yellow pine lumber OF all grades Is az
yancing In price in all the large markets.
The Northwestern Lumberman says prices
are In better shape than they have bee.
for over a year. The manufacturers are all
getting into line, and yellow pine IL worth
81 more a thousand than IL was few
weeks ago" The Timberman states that
in the Chicago market yellow pine rep
Irrsentatlves are asking more for their
stock and that buyers refuse to concede the
advance, although they may be Wiling 10
do this later For instance salesman
thIa week asked SIG for finished lumber
but was informed by the people to whom
he was irving to sell that they could pur-
chase nj lower price. which the sales-
man refused to consider. PROBABLY had ne
quoted SIS. so he could have secured con-
siderable order Those who handle yellow
pine In this market are beginning TO reailZe
one thing and that IL that the day OF Sl5
for frsts and seconds inch finish Is past
and IL Is doubtful whether they can much
longer obtain fiat-sawed flooring in the
nelghborhood OF s12. as has been the case
for some time past. In fact. II seems as II
the era OF low prices In all commodities
was passing away" The st. Louis and
Kansas City markets also show advances
In price, due ~, improved demand and
comparatively light stocks. During the
prolonged dry spell many inland mills
were shut down for want of water. and as
the movement OF lumber was quite active
stocks at Texas and Louisiana points were
reduced by several million feet.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22
PINE PASS AND OTHER LUMBER
EXPORTING PORTS.

ne progress made In lumber exports
Pngh Sabine Pass has been frequently
mented upon in these columns Not
iung the efforts of few years ago to
oish permanent trade in this line,
rts which were permitted TO exhaust
nseives after few months OF expert
ntai detail, the business OF lumber ex-
ing from the point named has not
continuously conducted for three
IS and for more than a year after 1t
become fixed feature OF the trade
water depth was insufficient. to en-
age rapid development Thus for fully
teeh months after the expert busl-
had become firmly established in This
MY sabine Pass and these .loing husi-
through the port wero compelled 10
'keie against adverse circumstances,
the least OF which was the fear OF ship
nefs that their vessels would incur
aase In passing over the bar Indeed,
ultii iourteen months ago was this
acis L. the ports Advancement salts
.oriiy reduced, and even after fhis had
accomplished it took more time 10
vince ship owners that vessels could
er and safely load to a depth OF twenty
4 - N"Shty-iNt itSl. ana tudt the LN-
sc otean lumber carriers could make as
rable charters here rs elsewhere in the
ports Having thus earned and unia-
uptedly maintained standing among
ppers and ship brokers, easy and rapid
anee has followed From an insignifi-
place among the lumber exporting
nus IN the South, Sabine Pass climbed
[some prominence during 1886, when the
shipments reached 10 nearly So
ovp rect. That year WAS regarded as
E"od start, considering the inadequate
Fer depth during the fiist six months !;
wnen ~ July last II DEVELOPED that
shipments for the first six months OF
current year We're about 5000. 900 feet
Excess OF the total for he whole of 1896,
vas seen that the expectation OF lumber
nush Sabine Pass WAS growing to Inn
Pant proportions, It's importance will
Re impressively appear When IL IS stated
during tho fiscal year ending June
saline Pass ranked fourth among South
foris IN lunibcr exports. the order OF
being Pensacola. Mobile, Brunswick
sabine Pass. Inasmuch AZ Bruns-
re shipments amounted to only 10000
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22
LARGE SHIP OWNER HERE.

Mr.. Thomas G. Mcintyre OF Mcintyre
Bros. 6 Co., ship owners and brokers Of
London. was In the city Wednesday with
the view OF forming connections whereby
his ships may have chance at the tom
mage through Sabine Pass. lie left on the
evening train for Galveston, but will re-
turn Monday, and In company with Treas
ursr Norvell Of the Export company, so TO
Sabine Pass The firm Of which Mr.. Nc
Intyre v = member now has seven steam
ships Afoat and another nearly complsted.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22

The steamship Albania. chartered b,
Donald & Co. is due at Sabine Pass am
will be loaded from the mills At Orange.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22

for timbors for Mexican railroad that will
keep them running for sixty days. with
an option on n stiil larger order that viii
months.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22
A GOOD NuMBEHh

th its Issue Of the IL hs instant the
Orleans Lumber TradIs Journal be-
It's fourth year as a dkN unctive repre-
tive of Southern lumt Il and timber
ests and observed the ar liversary most
gly by publishing a pecial edition
ed to the exploitation of Southern
and the importana % fe they ovcupy
. country's commerce. is three pages
itorlai matter treat : Il various sub
OF timely inteest Hnd undoubted
TO all connected 9th the yellow
industry. while the $i,pecial articles
Instructive as well as Entertaining OF
fst value, however, ana most appre-
ve is its complete report of the lum-
timber and manufactured woods ex-
ID from Southern ports during the
year ending June 30. The grand to-
bf such exports, Incredibly large, is
ut 1.133 ,233,546 feet, representing
hewn and sawn timber, boards, deals.
ks, joist and scantling, and In addi-
millions OF slaves, shocks and shin
1t is on the whole a valuable pub
lon and will be preserved by intel
lumbermen throughout the South.
NOpbIl iIE WILDE OF MEhlCO.
+ Mark Wiess returned Sunday even
from his tour through Mexico to the
PIC coast. He had delightful trip,
ping many miles by team and camping
pg strange people. One OF his stops
at saw mill, operated by a Mormon
in Mormon settlement, which has
pacity of about 5000 feet per day. One
pe elders numerous wives, who made a
Pd' In the mill, had recently met with
ccident, cutting off two toes but de-
! the misfortune she was at her post
Pting in rolling logs and removing lum-
as IT. dropped from the saw. This par
% wife was not ornamental and would
pc awarded the blue ribbon at beauty
but she was decidedly useful and
led her keep. Mr.. Wiess has photo
N OF the mill, but the wife with ban
"a loot is not discernible; perhaps she
rustling slabs when tho kodak fiend
ned the button. In his travels the
PSF paused among the cliffs and caverns
sheltered ancient cave-dwellers in life
served as their tomb after life's fitful
from these he procured grinning
Is ana ether grewsome specimens which
pas properly labeled and will present,
ugh the agency OF a friend in London,
ne British museum. Other mementoss
ne trip he has stored away in his pri-
collection of curiosities gathered in
travels TO various countries.
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snyder Locals.

Snyder. Texas. Ausust lo,--Nafriases
J. A. Coed u Mis- LAZY HuAdisstn. ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22

this week from Galveston and will load q
the Liteher & Mooro Lumber company
mill for Tuxpan. Mexico.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22

The Brice sswmili and Logging COM
psny It HartburS. havs secured contract
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22

Tho Lcesville, La, Peoples Friend men
lions the fact that two Of tho officials OF
tho Beaumont Lumber company have been
up In that section buying timber and that
tho company will erect II mill there with a
CAPACITY OF 100 900 feet daily.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-22

Tho schooner Susie took on cargo Of
lumber and Shingles at the A. GIlmer
mills and sailed Wednesday for veiasco.
To which point her cargo was consigned.
Tho Schooner J.. ~. McInnis came In
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-12

The strongest gold advocates in Eng
land are not prepared to say that the
minis of India shrould remain closed
against silver. There is, however,
determined opposition to any conces-
sions on the part of the British gov
eminent to the demands of those de-
sirous of securing international bime-
tallism. The United States will do
we'll to note the attitude of England
and to take hint for guidance Great
Britain asks no odds of America, and
will do nothing by way of courtesy. II
gold is considered good for England
and silver coed for India, then Eng
land will maintain her gold standard
and India will resume the coinage of
silver. This country should manifest
an equally Independent spirit Inter-
national bimetallism can never be Sc
cured by pleading. Its adoption must
be made a necessity. While London
newspapers are attacking the govern
ment for paltering with the bmetallic
commission, the Standard confesses
that the scarcity of currency in India
since the minis closed has been a seri-
GUS matter, but it says that a small
committee of business men might be
appointed to settle the question with
out reference to the wishes of America
or other silver mine owners. IF sill
ver," says the Standard, lis the best
currency for India, let her have it; but
no rash decision ought to be taken
without ample discussion" With like
confidence the people of the United
States should say: IF bimetallism is
the best thing for this country, let us
have it." The time for trucking to
the money powers of Europe has
passed. The battle should be fought to
a finish here at home. The hosts of
the gold clique should be vanquished
and the money of the constitution re-
stored to it's rightful place in the cur
rency.-Chicago Dispatch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-12

1t would be curious result of the
bimetallic controversy in England if
that country should decide to open
the India minis independent of the ac-
ton Of any other nation. Such con-
tingency Is not at all improbable.
Many of the opponents Of information
al bimetallism have frankly advocated
single-handed action of the govern
ment in this matter. The editor Of
the Statist, the most radical of gold ad
vocates, has boldly and frequently
urged the wisdom Of throwing open
the minis of India to the free coinge
of silver Nor is the Statist alone in
maintaining this position. Many lead
ing English monometallists admit
that the gold standard has proved
vastly injurious to India, and while
opposing any international action on
the money question, favor wider use
of silver in India.
The fact is, England wishes to main
tain the absolute dictatorship Of the
world in the matter of finance. There
is no disposition to accept suggestions
or to follow examples. 1t is England's
desire to set the pace. If she finds
silver useful in India she proposes to
use it entirely Independent of the rest
of the world, but she wishes the
United States to stay on the gold basis
and remain the tool of the money
power of Lombard street. 1t would
be wise thing for the United States
to initiate England's example. The
independence which was won in 1776
and which was surrendered in 1873
should be established The plain peo-
pie of this country are the constant
losers in the present pact with Eng
land; the spectators of Wall street,
the bondholders and the money deal
ers are the only gamers. Let none
tary independence be declared. The
only path to international bimetallism
lies through the field of Independent
action.-EX.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-12
SOCIETY OR CHAOS.
SHORTCOMINGS OF OUR FAM
CIED WISDOM.
What We Have Lost and What Wo
Have Attained-We Suffer tho Com
mon Penalty of Being Plundered-
Low Wages and Business stagnatlon.

Society-in its true and lawful
meaning-is as necessary to man as
rhe food he eats, the air he breathes.
II is the uniting Of man with his fell
low-men for mutual succor, mutual
aid, mutual good. First comes the
family-then society. Both good, both
natural, both lawful, both uplifting
man from the brute into the human.
Our civilization is not society, but an
attack upon sccety-the short-lived
triumph of revlving brutishness still
lingering in human nature, which, tri-
umphing. Stays itself. In spite of all
its wealth, of all its machinery, of all
its knowledge, Of all the gorgeous gar
ments with which 1t hides its slckli-
ness, civilization and the civilized peo-
pie are perishing together. Life has
ceased to be worth living. We have
learned how to build great cities, but
we have forgotten how to build homes.
With all our fancied wisdom, we have
broken the law of God-the law which
teaches sternly and pitilessly that no
good can come excepting as kin-folk
care for each other. For Communism
is not an experiment. Communism,
gradually broadening, gradually wild
ening, gradually adapting itself to
more intricate ways of living, has ever
been the law since society began,
thousands of generations ago. We
Germanic people came into history as
Communists. From our communal
villages we drew the strength which
broke Rome down, the energy which
even yet let's us live. Not where men
beg landless for work in electric light
ed factories, not where women, pow
erty-fearing amid heaps of riches,
shrink from collaborating, was the
courage born that still keeps the drum
tap beating with the sun. 1t was
from wife-kept homes in free villages,
where the land was common and all
were equal, and only the sluggard and
the criminal were outcast, where every
man had friends to stand by him in
his need, where none could injure one
without injuring all, where every
usurer was accurst, and the children
came unquestioned into their birth
right. This we have lost, and for
what? For the right to be homeless
in our own land, to be outcast among
our own people; for the rare privilege
of plundering our brothers, if we can,
and the common penalty of being
plundered ourselves if we can not; for
the wonderful liberty to change our
masters, and the strange reward of be-
ing hung in secret should we dare to
assert our God given human rights.
CLARK ERWIN.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-12
What VIII He Do?

If the Morgan syndicate buys in the
Union Pacific railroad under the terms
of its agreement with the government
it proposes to capitalize the road for
$2OO,OOO,0OO.
In other words. the astute bankers
and financiers, who are managing the
syndicate think that the road has now
or will have an earning capacity worth
S2OO,OOO,OO0; that it will earn dividends
on that amount of capitalization. 1t is
now earning enormous profits on the
capital represented in it's stocks and
bonds.
President Mckinley is confronted by
plain business proposition. The road
is worth every dollar of it's indebted
ness with millions added as clear profit
The Morgan syndicate offers to pay
the government s2O,OOO,OOO less than fts
mortgage calls for. If the scheme Of
the syndicate, which has been ap-
proved by Attorney General McKenna,
is consummated the government will
add to the great profits of the syndi-
cate $2O,OO0,O0O of the peoples money
as free gift.
Under the scheme proposed the terms
Of the sale are such as to bind the
government to this sacrifice. All other
bidders are cut out. The government
is estopped from saving itself from
ic of IT,,
tails you lose" 1t is clear steal of
$4,000, 900 from the people.
The government is not under the
necessity of submitting to these robber
terms. President Mckinley has the
power to prevent the contamination of
the deal. He can have the sale post.
poned and effected under conditions
which will enable other bidders to of.
fer a price which will secure to the
government all of its dues. He can
have the road bought in by the govern,
ment and resold to advantage.
II the president accepts the propo-
sition Of the Morgan syndicate he will
give his full and free consent to the
robbing of the people. But he will do
more. Back of the scheme is said to be
a corrupt political deal by which the
Morgan syndicate contributed $2,O0O,>
600 to the campaign fund of the Re-
publicaon party in the assurance that
this scheme would be approved and
consummated by the administration.
What other Interpretation could be
placed upon the presidents approval of
the syndicate's looting proposition, but
that the president consents to and con-
hives at the corrupt deal?
What will the president do? Will he
demonstrate the supremacy of Boss
Hanna and the money power. with
which Hanna is in alliance, in the
counsels of his administration? Will
he stand for the interest of the Morgan
railroad combine or the interest of the
people?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-12

prosperity, they are making the mis-
take of their lives.
If silver had not been demonetizcd,
the crops of India, Argentine and Eu-
rope would have failed just the same,
but the East Indian would have had
more money with which to ward or
starvation, the European would have
had more with which to buy our wheat,
and the American farmer would have
received more for his crops than ne
can possibly obtain under the gold
standard. If he Is now relieved to any
extent, 1t should nerve and strengthen
him to strike with more vigor Tor
monetary reform.
If we relax our efforts whenever
ray of sunshine crosses our pathway
we shall put ourselves in the absurd
position of the man whose roof was
leaky, and who gave as a reason Tor
not repairing it that when it stormed
he could not. and when it was clear
there was no need of any repairs.
Under any monetary system there
will be seasons of comparative pros
perity." That is, times will not De
quite so hard. If we do not take ad-
vantage Of these seasons when the
skies are comparatively clear, little
later when the storms come again. and
with renewed severity, we may find
that we "can't"-like the man with 2
leaky roof.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-12
military Slavery.

The American volunteer soldier by
his valor and endurance is supposed
to have abolished slavery many years
ago. The old vets, evidently, have
been deluded, for a considerable of it
still remains in quarters where one
would least expect 1.-THE government
service. The case of Private Ham
mond at Fort Sheridan reminds us
that, in the regular army, even to this
day, there prevails a system of bodily
punishment that hardly had it's equal
In the days of the slave driver and
the "blacksnake." Hammond, for re-
fusing to work when in the guard
house for some petty offense, was
dragged from the guard-house to head
quarters by a rope tied to his feet.
The superior officer justifies his treat
ment and says there will be no inves-
tigation. The man who would under
go such treatment and not kill some
one before the episode ended, is a
menace to free Institutions
Labor World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-12
THE SAME GAME HERE
AS is BEING PLAYED IN
INDIA.
Foreign Ownership OF All Our Public
Utilities and Foreign Domination OF
Our Great Corporatlons-Chaun
Wall.

The masses in Europe are poor and
dependent because the classes own the
land and the railroads and the money
and the laws, says the Appeal to Rea-
son. In these great free United States
who own these things? Is 1t the
masses? Not much, European noble
men. own hundreds of millions Of our
best land, own all the land granted to
railroads, own the best mines, own the
control of the coal, oil, the breweries,
dlstilleries, cotton congresses, packing
houses, stock yards and all other great
industries and no American can use
these things except on conditions i'm
posed by these noblemen. They give
the orders that their American allies
and confederates issue. This Is done
to deceive the American public and
have them believe that Americans are
operating these industries. The same
game has been and is robbing the peo-
pie OF India and causing pestilence,
famine and crime. Americans are be-
ing fooled and robbed just as easily
as the people Of India, and by their
own number who have taken part of
the booty to aid in the looting Of the
nation. Do not think for a moment
that all the wealth accredited to the
Morgans, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts,
Carnegies, and that class belong to
them-the greater portion of their
holdings belong to foreigners through
the bank of England, just as was
shown to be the case in the estate of
the late A. T. Stewart. 1t was bank
OF England money hid under his name
that made him suddenly burst out In
mercantile glory. When his estate
was settled his wife got only five
millions or so of the sixty millions he
was accredited to be worth. 1t is true
with all these greater fortunes of to-
day. 1t is the cunning manner in
which European capitalists control ma
tions and rob them. And the great
American citizen goes about in search
of work, too ignorant and prejudiced to
see how and who is skinning him.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-12

An officeholder in Cincinnati drew
thirteen monthly salaries in one year,
which occasions the Common Cause to
remark: THAT is perfectly proper.
Where did this twelve-month year
come from, anyway? In the words of
the great Mckinley it is "un-Amer-
ican." 1t was invented by Julius
Caesar, improved by Augustus, and
perfected by Pope Gregory the Great,
all ignorant Italian foreigners. Long
before that other ignorant Italian for
eigner, Christopher Columbus, set sail
in his pauper-made mudscows to dis
cover this country, its inhabitants had
made a genuine American year, with
thirteen moons or months; and Mr..
Brown, in drawing his salary, like
good Republican and consistent pro-
tectionist, used the high-priced Amer
lean year instead of the pauper-made
foreign year."