The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-20
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

| yet there are merchants who say 1t Is
waste OF money 10 advertise.
There can be no DOUBT whatever, about the
result between the Mistrot sort of mer
chants and the undiscovered species. The
enthusiastic advertiser generally knows how
to advertise so as TO make II pay-to adver-
tise intelligently, so to speak. and from one
end of our country to the other are examples
OF the biggest advertisers being the most
successful business men. zone drop of
printers INK" judicously used. makes mill
ions think"
| The Eagle knows that few Texas nows-
paper men are in and around the state capl-
| toll and there be some who have been IN
would use all legitimate effort to put Toxas
newspapers on a footing to publish facts
without encountering the damages OF har-
assing libel suit.--Mouton Eagle
Maybe they are examples of the old Ger
man law, that "a shoemaker is generally
barefoot. and matchmaker never knows the
time" 4
The Nocona Times comes forward with this
| cheerful bit of industrial comment;
Our whole country is enjoying an era of
| prosperity such as II has not had for many
years, and no one can deny that Texas 10
| getting her share Of the good times. There 10
a growing sentiment in favor OF mannfactur-
ing our products at home and letting the
neople of Texas get all there Is in an article
from the producer to the consumer When
this Idea is realized prosperity will be with us
TO stay, aud not transient visitor, Texas
soil VIII produce anything which grows IN
the known world that Is OF use to mankind.
No other State can say as much Our ad
vantages are truly wonderful, and should
not fail to improve them.
49,
The Chicago Chronicle makes this grace
full and pertinent point on behalf of "pon't-l-
look-lke Lincoln" cullom and the bell rang
fully half dozen times;
Washington correspondent who seems to
be acting as press agent TOR Senator Cullom
takes the trouble to deny that that states-
man is negecting pension cases intrusted to
his care, The assertion Is entirely supernu-
Gus. Everyone knows that Mr.. Cullom ia
yors liberal PENSIONS the fact being made
manifest when no introduced a bill to pen
sioi. all the deserters, bounty jumpers aud
the war department records, The super
servceable correspondent might have saved
himself the trouble of defending Mr.. Cullom
Incidentally dragging In story about ME
: and Blaine" The truth Is known of all
men,
The st. Louis Republic takes tho same
y view OF the trust question that The Post has
: advocated for long time The Republic.
like The Post behaves In beginning at the
fountain head of the trust fortress and throw
, Ing down tho bars OF protection This done
the capture Of the octopus will be easy. 1t
says;
The unfalrness and iniqulty of the high
protective tarin OF today is apparent Ia
the worlds daily market transactions. Tn.
trust, the greatest existing menace in Ameri-
can life az the present time is the creature
S OF the high protective tariff, Abolish the
tarin as no longer necessary to tho pro
lection" OF American Industries now able to
Q undarsell Europe in her own markets. The
moment that is done the worst trusts will
die for lack OF sustenance unjustly drawn
from the general stock for the hloat-fatteh-
, ing OF favorite class. The trust system
Q moment protective tariffs were removed from
all articles controlled by the trusts. The
intrenched fertilization behind which the
trust forces have been organized would 10
o swept away, and this tremendous influence
forced into the open, Competition with the
e whole world would mean, first and foremost,
4 healthy competition at home. The centrsla
Ing tendency Of commercial and Industrial
enterprises would thus DO etfectually checked,
9 The American people, the consumers, would
thls Wholesale reform,
y ~
n The further we delve into the mlre OF NAL
n administration In the treasury the worse the
smell. Whether Gage was profitable specu-
o lator or tool is not known, but we do know
that stillmap, by the combination with Gage,
made thousands Of dollars. controlled the
market and euchred New York City out OF
= Boerne Post.
), And tho people know these facts therefore.
d they will insist that Ly be "Algered" along
d about the ides OF November, 1900
y Senator Hale Is reckless in his denunoia-
A ton OF the action OF our country in IRE
serving neutral relations with Great Britain
and the Transvaal, lie secs In the Beers a
people uEbtlDg for their liberty no nc
Q tho Hungarians and Poles fought for theirs
9 and he does not understand why we should
not express sympathy for the former as wo
y did for the latter, in their struggles against
e despotsm. Mobile Register.
y The esteemed Register should possess it's
S soul In peace. yet awhile. According to the
declarations OF Mr. Macrum the United States
has not preserved neutrality to any OK
y tessiye degree, to say the leas. of it,
~
r The Texas Railway News and Illustrator, n
/. monthly magazine published In Houston. un.
"a der the editorial management of that pFinco
of gentlemen Colonel Edwin f. Overall. is
q attracting much favorable attention to Texas
and 1t will no doubt do much toward making
what General Lew Wallace would doubtless
!, style "the land OF the fair God" take Us
place among the world beating powers of tho
), times Success to Colonel Overall and hi,
worthy magaziuel
~
" One OF the best weekly papers Of Southeast
IA Texas is the Orange Leader. II Is well edit
n ed nicely printed and its column rules arc
II bent into double how-knots with business.
The Leader is credit to it's town and seems
to be appreciated by its constituency.
l. ~
u II is rumored on what appears 10 be ren.
Al able authority coming from political center
west of us that Judge John IA Reagan mas
under Amusement his candidacy Tor governor
"a We sincerely trust he will not permit himself
to be coaxed into the race for governor Tyler
Is Courier
This rumor has been started every two years
- for the past quarter OF a century. There is
no reason for It to gain any credit in this
,s instance Fact IS we doubt II the venerable
OF statesman would accept the office Of governor
is were It rendered to him. much less mako ,
scramble for It.
70 The Post has received the initial number Of
IN Tho Confederate Daughter" pretty aud
A. entertaining monthly magazine. published NJ
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