The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-27

pays It's millions to Its men. its millions
Tor rolling stock and steel rails and
equipment and then bearing It's burden Of
, taxes. et cetera, there is bu. little ittt TO
tina stockholders whose money is invest
ed In the enterprise. believe the cure
for pretudlce against railroads Is ia ex-
tensiye travel. ! believe tho more any
man travels on railroads the less inclined
he is TO flght and kick against railroads.
| baye learned not only TO appreciate
our great railroads. but have learned 10
appreciate. by contact with them. the
+, men who manage these men and run these
trains from the p9es.dent down to the
brakemen, / never lie down al might on
IN pu,sman car but what feel grateful
to the faithful man at the throttle, TO
the fireman who heayes the coal into the
engine furnace, 10 the vheilapt conductor
ard brakeman who overlook the train, to
the faithful train dispatcher. and to the
man who sets the signals along the way.
| exposing the white signal when all Is
wol and throwing out the red signal
when there is danger ahead Let tho
public begin 10 esteem the value OF rail
roads aui look upon the cool they do us.
| There are two sides gentlemen, to the
question Let MS cultivate the friendship
and good will OF railroad men md rail-
roads You will find it wilt pay. 1t Dies
not ray 10 kick and growl and tisht.
|
about who we would have. with us for a
Christmas dinner in our home this year.
In the past We have had ltinsmea, neigh
Lors and young men. This year with one
, accord we agreed that We would have a
railroad mems dinner at our home and
| iavite company of ATTY OF more railroad
/ men to come and dine with us and enjoy
| ii.e Christmas Lay with US at our home.
| Ara We decided on the 9th day OF De-
| friends with us. II had a dining room
ten miles square and tables ct from side
| 10 side and from end to end l would love
| 10 sec every table filled with railroad men,
and have them enjoy courtesies from me
! in return for the thousands OF courtesfes
| I have received from them. have
! learned 10 cali kind word courtesy. ]
| believe politeness Is coiruesy. ] bLove
| that giving me a SAFE trip Is courtesy
| I believe That getting me on lime Is u
! courtesy. No man knows tie strain of
| tl, faithful engineer as he pu-ls his long
brain up the hill and runs safely down.
| What a strain there Is on him Ihsy
bring articles of commerce from every
| quarter of the globe to my door az mimi
| mum cost They carry me across TIE
| country and back home again safely. On
the trains | 20 to visit my ffieaHs' on
\ che trains friends come TO vlslt me
Some Kicker or GROWER VIII say sun,
Jones is paid TO wTlte inns way ans
lanswar him in the language CT Marx
Twain: .eThat IS le.' and II that kicker
4 or GROWER WAN ride ns much as ! nave
he wil9 write like | write. IL he has got
sense enough Yours truly.
\ Sam p. Jones.
p. S.--The Macon Telegraph repoGten Nv.
savtns in one Of my prohibition speeches
/ =, Waco,, that / was a. pure as the God
who made mr.. some Of the editors OF ths
etate a,aye taken the cxpression 70 az Sc
r,n,,s statement OF truth on tao psri OF tht
rerorter, simply rise TO say that wpa'
l really did ray was tina, the man wni
ioyed the truth and lived the truth 81 Go
~ - as In,vuInerable TO the Attacks % ulef
and the deyii rs the Goa who made MN
Tha pnnlic must remember tina; that wa.
ne, reporter reporting dry prsscnci
for wet pspsr