The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-06-23
HOW POLITICIANS ARE HUNT
ING THE SOUTH.

Mr.. j. g. Roberts of Rremond
Texas, IN letter to the Manufac
turers' Record says:
Your letter of May 9th inst.
wishing to know if we will bore
down u test well for oil with d
view to extensive development
received. Will say that W. A
Rumple, A. G. Walker, j. g.
Taylor and myself have made up
a small amount of money. and
have made u contract with a gen
tleman of Corsicana, Texas, to
move down his machinery and put
down a we'll for oil 1900 feet. Oil
is found in wells and gullles near
this place, and we believe from
all indications that there is plenty
of oil near Bremond, Robertson
county, Texas. We have cheap
lands in two to three miles of
Bremond that can be bought at
from So to 81 per acre, with fire.
clay; Ignite from seven to ten
feet thick in thirty to forty feet
of the surface and in three to four
miles Of the Houston & Texas
Central Railroad, and we believe
oil in paying quantities. We
have known this for forty-elght
years. We have no money to de-
velop these properties in Texas,
and unless we can get foreign
capital to risk their money and
develop the resources of Texas,
or modify our laws so we who
live in Texas are willing to risk
our money to develop Texas, her
wealth Will never be known. We
have u new crop of political dema-
gogues who come to the surface
every two years and ask for office.
Their whole time is spent in trav-
cling over the county and telling
the people how the money power
is expressing them, how prosper
Gus the country would be II we
had the free and unlimited coin
age of silver of Ii to |, and then
make and advocate rigid trust
laws which are never enforced
against any citizen of Texas by
the law officers of Texas, and never
were intended to be enforced
against a resident citizen who be-
longs to trust or combine doing
business in Texas. These Texan
trust laws are rigidly enforced
against men who live out OF Texas
and do business in Texas. A Mr..
Hathaway, an agent or member
of the Waters-Piece Oil Co., was
fined and placed in jail at Waco
Texas, for making contracts and
selling oil to our merchants at
seven or eight cents per gallon.
And now the company has been
refused a permit to do business In
The State of Texas. We have
men all overTexas doing business
who belong to combines and be-
Iong to trust, living and dong
business in Texas, and who have
been and are now doing business,
but our attorney general and other
officers have never heard OF them.
The Manufacturers Record
would lady hail the opportunity
to be able to say that not only
Texas. but every Southern State
would give the amplest protection
to capital, local and foreign, but
unfortunately the curse OF demo-
gogism--the demagogism against
which only one man IN the House
Of Representatives dared to vote
last week on the trust question
still prevails wherever politicians
live. The cotton spinners OF the
South, at their annual meeting in
Charlotte last month, unanimous
lv decided that the time had come
when the business men OF the
South should dictate to. the poll
ticians, and not permit the polltl-
ciaI : to rule or. ruin simply for
their own personal greed and gain
and the whole South must follow
this example.