The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-07
NOTE AND COMNfENI.

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Some Of the newspapers opposed to the lead,
| ership of Representative Bailey of Texas have
| been coming In for o deal OF abuse at the
hands OF fcw Washington correspondents
| n tho next house had been democratic It was
expected that Mr., Bailey would be speaker
| Mr. Bailey had himself expected as much
| and In anticipation of that event, 1t h under
| stood, promised to turn three or four demo-
| cratic correspondents loose among the fat
house offices to take their pick OF places thn,
| pay along In the neighbo.hood of $500 or $4,000
annually, with minimum amount OF labor.
Washington Post
Whether there be any truth In that state
ment or not, 1t comes with questionable grace
from n paper which has several of it's EN-.
poyes staked out on fat government Jobs.
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Houston is busy showing that the shipping
facilities az Galveston are wholly inadequate
TO handle the business OF that port. and that
therefore, the construction OF canal forty
miles Inland y commercial necessity. II
people. Of Houston chip IN and build 1t? The
Port Arthur canal was thought TO be good
Ting tsig and there was no trouble in finding
private capital for Its construction. Ar
thur Herald.
The Port Arthur enterprise, while meritor-
ious. no doubt, had n town lot scheme behind
IT. With Houston It is different. We hays
the commerce ready for the ships and no
ccnrnny to get even and make money on town
lot sales. But Houston has nothing against
the Port Arthur enterprise. The people here
WISH 1t success certainly The Post does
There will BIO business enough for half
dozen Texas ports In the near future.
~
The dethronement OF Bailey. we are told,
means the disruption Of his party. The truth
is 1t Is n disrupted party that is already at
war with itself. and 1t sowed Its death seeds
az Chicago In the year OF our Lord. 1885,
Dallas Times Herald.
The auimus OF the fight on Bailey is grad
ually oosing out.
Prosperity has struck the seafarng laborer
s ssry hnrd., dispatch ANNOUNCES that the
ShipoNntTs' association OF the Pacific coast
has ordered an universal reduction of So per
month, which makes the lowest wage scale
ever In force on the oast.--Indinnapoils SEN
tincl.
Let's see. II was out Westward, wasn't t.
where President Mckinley found that work
was hunting labor?
:, The Dispatch publishes elsewhere collec-
non OF Interviews with all classes on the
sSallect OF tho proposed annexation Of the |
made that there is an overwhelming popular |
demand for this measure II is cogent 10 |
point out that these Inquiries among bus!- |
labor leaders show tho reverse OF that state
ment, so far M Plttsburg Is concerned The |
~ ,lt oi tnt expressions quoted elsewhere liz |
that more business mon are opposed 10 the
imperialist. policy than In favor OF it. tae
Clergy and bar are divided about equally; |
tho representative women frankly ronfess
mat they do not understand the subject sniff
cieptly TO form Judgment, and tho two
NEST significant features are that even the
pollt.cians are divided on the question. and
the labor clement IL dead against it-pitts.
burg Dispatch (Rep).
1t will not take very long for the thinking
people OF this country to reach the conclusion
that this Philippine Job is bad. considered
from any standpoint The effort is being
MADE TO convince the Southern cotton planter
that tho annexation OF these islands will give
nm better market for his cotton. This is
either mere subterfusc or ignorance. II would
hot nave any such effect ut least To any an.
pfeviabe extent. We can sell those neonl.
ali the cotton now that they arc able to buv.
" hen the Nicaragua canal Is built of rourse
our trado In the East will be greatly facn,-
n'ed. and that is what We need and not the
ownership of the Philippines
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The Mobile Register urges a constitutions, I
IonscnVt'h Tor Alabama. IL s about time to I
nol9 one N Texas, to lop or some OF tho |
anslent o,strnctioIs which bloSk the material
prt gross 81 the state.-Waco Times Herald.
Now you are on the right track The best 1
[hins the coming legislature can do will be "a l
submit the question Of constitutional con- | /
vention to the people. and the best thing tho r
people can do Is to order the convention.
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