The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-12
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

The Calvert Chronicle sees the danger OF
inaction in local affairs and warns its read
ers a. follows:
Calvert will wake up some morning ana
rub her eyes and wonder how II happened,
when the busy wbirl of a cotton factory comes
from one OF her little neighbors or is To-
Gated Just beyond her reach in the fertile
Brazos bottoms
With full opportunity it now remains TO
be seen what congress will do in the way OF
extravaganza. Unbrdled by strong mi
nority, the party in power is apt to do
things which 1t will be sorry for when the
people speak again.-Galvestou Tribune.
1t may be that the republican party will
hang itself now that an unlimited amount
of rope is at hand But, until the execution
is over, there is very good reason to believe
that the people will have what might be
termed a monkey and parrot time of ii.
49,
Bouh0m has a big Touring mill, bis
cotton mill, two big wholesale grocery
houses. ships thousands Of bales of cotton,
thousands of head of horses, cattle and hogs,
and yes has only one railroad to haul her
shipments She has no outlet north or south.
Some OF these days she will have to build a
road OF her own.-Bonham News.
Here is a town that wants railroads. Now,
where are the capitalists who promised to
do so much in the way of railroad construc-
ton !s Mckinley was elected?
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The Tyler Democrat Reporter makes thi,
sensible suggestion.
With the increase of industrial schools
more children will be educated along indus.
trial lines and fewer of them will take Ut
the professions and the discomforts of want
Texas needs more industrial schools, where
the practical things Of life are taught
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The South is today the most inviting field
In the world for legitimate employment Of
both capital and labor Philadelphia Times
In making this discovery the Times sus.
tains the reputation OF its abode. Twenty
years ago we formed the opinion now reached
by the Times; twenty years hence We belle VI
Houston will be the third city of the South
Glen Rose Herald.
Atlanta and New Orleans have. perhaps
too much of lead in population for even
Houston to overcome in twenty years hui
the Herald is quite correct in believing that
only they will be ahead of this city tive
decades hence.
Tho Denison Herald suggests how censu,
figures may be made satisfactory:
Make it your duty and your aim in the
next ten years to do all you can to advance
/
| people In the older States what good land
We have here cheap. and what IL will pro
| duce. and you will see that the great Lone
| Star State is the most progressive in all tbs
| galaxy OF States at the end OF the decade
| Then you Will have reason to boast of YOU
census-Iot to kick about IT.
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! Some OF the woes of the country edito,
are told of in the following from the Hone,
| Grove Citizen:
| This has been rather trying week or
weekly newspapers. Everything the pas
week has been of political nature, and o
course everything OF that kind up to Tues
| day night would be out OF date by puhlica
| ton day, and had to be skipped About tn,
! only thing to do was to watch and walt fol-
| the result Neither did he know how to in
| dite his editorial matter, whether to pattern
| 1t aftcr the I'VE did 1t" style or to oxblair
| how 1t was done" and when the result wa.
! learned there was a rush and IL becam,
necessary to rush things UP in few hours
| and GO to press. But these big election.
only come once in four years, and We car
stand II.
The Wbhewrieht Sun has the situation
sized up this way:
MR., ROOSEVELT. MIR. Hanna and mr.
mckinley will jointly preside over the des
tinea OF this Nation for the next four years