The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-17
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.
Texas comes FIRST In everything Last week
Texas camo forward with heavy shipments
OF peaches TO tho New York market. Last
and previous years very few peaches were
shipped to New York City Reports credit
Texas with the largest fruit crop in her his
tory -Smithvillc Transcript
The outside world ia at last beginning to
learn that Texas is something else than a
bic long horn tattlc ranch when Texas
wheat and fruits and vegetables. as well as
cotton, BEGIN TO make an Impression on the
couDtrys mni''ts We may expect a new in
forest abroad III this big domain. But we
can hardly blame the ignoiante OF the out
side world in so long falling to appreciate
Texas when her own people arc only now be-
ginning to discover her possibilities.
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The print cloth trust. controlling thirty
mills and 10000 wofkmen. has closed down
for a month. in order to tocn prices, Is
there nc way Of rrey enting ouch conspira-
CIV against tho wage earners OF tho country
Mckinney Courier.
Certainly there is. Elect to power in the
national government sn administration and
congress that will put down the trusts as
the democracy promises to do. and the wage
earnors OF the country will at least be eman-
cipnted from Industrial slavery We can
no, expect party supported by combine
money to fight tho combines.
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Every true democrat In Texas should take
Tho Houston Post. If you arc not able to
take the daily, subscribe for the semi
weekly. The Post is the most aggressive
as well as the most progressive democratic
paper in tho South. --smithville Transcript.
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Urcls Sam is row well in the broils OF
democratic at the general elections in No
yember. ho end John Bull will cut high
old caper together in the Far East. And II
Will be game wherein John Bull will be
at homo and Uncle Sam the greenhorn-
Laredo Times.
That accomplished old mperialistic bunco-
steercr, Johnny B.. has been rorinE unso-
phsticated Unclc Sammy into dangerous
paths for two years or more now. and If
the victim sticks to him long enough he will
go broke sure There are some chestnuts to
be pulled out OF the FIRE Just now in the
Far East and II Uncle Sam will only lend
his aid John b. will agree to eat the fruit.
It's pitifu to see a respectable old fellow
fall into the hands of sharpers and be made
to put uo and pay up at every turn OF the
wheel. He's beginning to need an honest
guardian
The Houston Post is still regular and
welcome visitor to this office. which we re-
gard as an indication that the paper is stIll
being pushed. regardless Of the censure ad-
mnistered by tho Harris county convention
-clarksvlls Times
The German Americans are this year for
Bryan and Stevenson. every man OF them.
This must make the republicans feel trhe
blue, and another fact to add indigo to their
teeIings is the Germans can neither be
begged bought or 5ulled into tho support
OF Mckinley. Tempe Haymaker.
The Germans in the United States NAV not
be TO a man for Bryan and Stevenson. but
it Is beyond dispute that manv of their rec
ognlzed leaders are and that the democrats
VIII get at least half probably more. OF the
German-Americau" vote, and thus turn
thu scale in some big Middle States. Tho
foreign vote in this country came to America
largely to escape imperialism and miitarlsm.
ana is not likely 20 want to piay the trick
IF Jumping from tho frying pan into tho fire.
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The, canning factory should be within
wagon haul of tho producers as at Jack
sonViilc, and elsewhere In that section. II
Tho Post would post itself on the subject il
would learn thnt Houston has no use for a
canning factory until ier large cattle ranches
arc converted into orchards and truck farms
and her country roads are thrnnged with
lam vngons.-Farm and Ranch Texas pub
licntion.l
II the Farm and Ranch would learn more
Of this section II would not fall into the
error Of overlooking the fact Of the great
development Of the country Immediately ,rib-
utary to Houston in fruit growing and v0ce-
table ralsng Houston, in wore. is nearer
to a larger fruit growing and market gar
dening area at present thlu any town in
tho state, and The Post is surprlsed nj the
apparent ignorance Of the Farm and Ranch.
we have almost forgotten what cattle
ranch looks like down here and are VET on,v
in tho infancy of our fruit and vegetable
production. We need canning factory IN
Houston and big one And by the way. |
we are going TO BEGIN this year building
fo'r" fine country roads for the benefit of
tho wagon haul"
Since the holding Of the democratic Ma !
tonai convention in that city Kansas CITY |
hotter manasero have all planned extensive /
ard expensive trips abroad Nothing Tx
ne ns the proper man at the proper time.
He.laa Times Herald
feece and enjoyment go with them, They
Eave the country. or rather the democratic
convention, such a shiver Of apprehension for
awhile, that atterward proved to be inbound
ed that we can now view their trips abroad
as KIND of Just compensation for an unex-
peeted leniency toward patriots whom they
had completely at their mercy Such adj
self-restraint is entitled to a holi.
day!
SOME PosTsCRIPTs.
Not alone III the Wild West do men brlua