The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-09
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

The Ennis News believes in free press
when 1t remarks:
When the people OF this nation submit to
ornamental censorship, such as tne mil y
tary officials in the Philippines are trying to
, stablish there, the liberties of Americanism
viii be gone.
OTIS never should have established press
censorship. All that was necessary was to
have secured some OF the decisions of the
Texas courts on libel. That's censorship
enough, Even the Russian car would be
satisfied with its workings,
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Says the Waco Times Herald:
The Houston Post comes up smiling with
rs ADVERTISING patronage.
sure. The Posts advertising columns show
that Houston Is the best business city in the
South.
The San Antonio Light sums UP the rail-
way outlook in this manner:
There is only one way that San Antonio
ian secure that brownsville road, ana thar
is to put w for It, The road is needed. The
read would greatly benefit this city. The
soad would open vast trade to the merchants
here and head off Houston and Galveston from
LAUGH of that Rio Grande valley business. Inc
;ond would pay good revenues In time and
would have fair trade from the outset. All
this is true but no existing road is going to
and San Antonio must pony up for 1t or 1t
will not be built, And II not another line
will be built into that region and Will carry
that trade 10 the cities of Galveston and
Houston and North Texas by that route.
It's good thing push 1T along, All roads
lead to Houston. and with connections via
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Interna-
tonaI and Great Northern, Missouri. Kansas
and Texas and Southern Pacific, Houston
merchants will be able to reach the lower Rio
Grande territory.
The Brownsville Herald notes that:
There is still good deal OF sickness about
town. due doubtless to the inferior class Of
walermelons that are so freely INDUCED in by
cur poorer people Much OF this fruit when
sold Is in condition that renders It posi-
lively injurious, and eating OF 1t results In
fever or other sickness The authorizes should
promptly condemn all fruit that is unit TO eat.
glance at the mortuary list Of nearly any
town Of size would indicate that both unrpe
and overripe fruit kill more people than any
;ning else.
The corsicana Sun believes In keeping
enough money at home. 1t says:
Substantial prosperity never comes without
aid While the people OF Texas were looking
anxiously Tor prosperity last year they sent
wenty million dollars out of the state to
hog raising States In the Union. Bacon aud
ether hog products can be raised as cheaply
here as anywhere. These twenty million dol
lars had the people raised their own meat,
would have built and equipped several hrst-
Class factories. But Texas continues to 20 10
mill with a peck OF corn In one end OF the
meal sack and stone to balance In the other
end.
Down in South Texas farmers are raising
more hogs than ever before. They find a
ready market In Houston. Local jobbing
houses state that their sales Of bacon are
c,eadily falling on and in = few years more
little II any viii be shipped to interior towns.
The Palestine Visitor notes that:
There IL q water famine at Shreveport;
there are no wells and most OF the cisterns
are dry.
& 1t is generally thought that up in shreve-
port water is only used for purposes OF ablu-
ton and floating steamboats,. II the natives
have learned that water can ~ used -
but that ths supoly = phert tAsy