The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-09

cause Mr.. Louis Workman and Mr.. X. Lam
ity Bonner fail 10 put into it's columns the
ability which they possess to such a marked
degree. Mr.. Workman 10 a most graceful
and vigorous writer, broad On bis view OF
public issues thoroughly up in current
events. as wen as grounded in the higher
studies. and equipped with all the weapons
of intellectual disputatlon. Mr.. Bonner Is
keen and incisive, possessed OF fine vein
OF humor. drilled in literary work and fully
in touch with men and things. 1t would be
singular, indeed. II two such gentlemen
striving to conduct an independent. high class
Journal devoted to the purely intellectual
presentation of current Issues their causes
and consequences. failed to fill long felt
want In tho literary Acid OF Texas. or to
achieve a most notable success. The time
Ia ripe for such a venture the demand for
such discussion widespread. and Tho Post
predicts. as It desires. for Ths Current Is
sue an accomplishment worthy OF its design
and fully commensurate with tho laudabls
ambition Of It's promoters.
At any rate the returns from ArkAnsaw
don't show an irreparablo breach in the DEM
oeratio party OF that STATE.
Notwithstanding our abandonment Of the
Monroe doctrine lately 1t Is thought the
powers will stall allow the South Americans
to night 1t out in their numerous little fam
lily Jars, If, however, Europe should feel
like returning the compliment OF our in
termeddling In Asia there would bs some
seepless nights ahead Of Uncle Sam.
Whom Mr.. Croker eollscta his big election
debts 1t IS presumed the hostile press up
his way win stop asking him where he
got it."
One OF tho silllast and most sensational re-
publican campaign stories in tho East is
the report that in the event OF MIR. Bryan
election Altgeld is to be appointed TO the
Federal supreme court. Now. canddly. ian ,
a crowd hard UP for campaign material that
will resort to such methodist
However Houston may have grown since
1890 II is just now at q point where the
right kind OF effort will sson mako a giant
OF d..
We are told from Washington that our
government 10 evidently contemplating a
new move OF some kind in the Chinese mat
ter. When man moves up a blind alley
until no encounters the frowning wall. new
der the circumstances
The barbsrous conduct Of the powers in
China ought to be enough to demonstrate TO
tho Boxers that they are ridieuously out
chased.
Portland. Me-. kind Of side port with
the bleak New England fields and woods
back OF It, shows a greater percentage of
I Inc nF nafv ttA
fertile Texas and the great West bshind it.
There's screw loose somewhere.
The English apinners appear 10 be mad
enough to cut their noses of to spite their
faces. It's Just as we'll to ind "saueeLlng"
a mutual affair occasionally.
Another war ia brewing In South America
between Chin on one side and Peru and
Bolivia on the other. There's no baby nation
on earth that needs good spanking as badly
as Chill. but like most sauoy children. Il is
likely to escape ~.
Mr.. Bryan needs West Virginia this year
and a kind Providence sent him President
Rogers OF the Ohio River railroad. Who
gays there Is NO divinity that shapes our
ondsf
The retention OF the Texas quarantine
against San Francisco after a recent invest.
cation would seem to indicate that San
Francisco has lately been INDUCING some
Shanghai methods with the outside public
The coal baroAs can not expect to grind
down labor in seasons OF poor demand and
not find trouble in the day OF coal famine
The miners do not often hold a winning
hand. but they know how 20 play one
Mr.. John %. Rockefeller continues to have
alarming trouble with his digestive organs
but no has not yet reached the polnt wher,
he is Offering his fortune for a poor mans
appetite.
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