The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-18

me IOSt LIuSLS ludL puollC bFlilN wiz
rise TO the demands of the opportunity.
Public sentiment will be sounded on the
proposition and II the right kind OF en-
enlargement IS met Houston will take
the longest step forward it has taken in
many day.
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Il seems frsm al accounts and the testi-
mcny especially OF exper enccJ oil meu that
!, was doub!y stroke OF fortune that the
character OF oil struck at Beaumont was
fuel rather than Illuminating oil. such u
volume OF light oil would have rendered the
product SO cheap that capital would not have
cared 10 develop It and beside the well
discovered would have created panic IL the
oil markets, For fuel oil a great demand can
DO developed, market can be made that
will not only pay the oil men but Will s,lmu-
late industrial enterprises Of every kind that
require large amount OF fuel. fhe rike
at Beaumont In word. ouSAt to boom fac
tories and machine ships and transportation
power.
IT begins to look new as II the detectives
knew Ell, ugh to keep out II the way Of
thoroughly hrst-class k.dnapers.
while The Eastern papers Nere full Of a
lot OF di sustng twaddIe the her dav about
the approaching martlnEe Of alfred Gwynnc
Vanderbilt, the older brother. who was vlr-
tualiy as Inherited fer Alfreds sake was
reading entiic paper or locomotive FIRE
hnAea before m eng noering association. AMI
tho papers rero giving him only passing
notice Cornelius Vanderbilt ST.. diu other
| mean things beside doeg ng his taxes.
/ The rivers and harbors bill is always safe
for a passage through tho house--there arc
/ few men who are not fond Of pie.
Tho w. c. T. L. ladies are now bending
their enersies to secure legislation prohibit
INK the sale 0. liquors. in our new posses.
sions II heglns to lock as Il congress wa,
supposed TO be an easy mark Tor temperance
reforms.
Messrs. Pc dgrew and Teller are simply
making lie miserable for the adm nistra Tor
JUS now. And they are both old time re.
pubhcana
rhe shin subsidy bill would undoubledI,
stand better chance IN the senate II the
bounty grabbers were disposed to divide ut
with all kinds OF ship lines, The pending
htll has been shrewlly framed to benefit
oply two or three big compsn es
Tic Hon, Benlnain T.llmans pitchforR ha,
been in a sUnic ont state of preservation. 4
seems, to get the senatorial hay In for an,
other Term,
Il is very evident that the congressional
committee invesiga Ing matters at Yves
POINT are not pr JUDGED favor of tn,
young sayases whl have been hazing com
rados to death and are not likely to boon
the whltewash market
General Miles Is now doubtless fellcitatinc
mseif upon the acquisition of GOOD ex
cuse FOR publishing volume OF memoirs
after his retirement
! Commercial Jealousy, in rope, of TIL
, United States is giving the leading men an,
papers over there a good many seeples
p'ghts. But they may. after all take some
thing for the trouble We ought not to b,
100 arrogant
II Great Britain refuses to take ae ion o,
tho Hay-Pauncefo,e amended treaty Ia
Ions tail WI deserve all the twisting /
will undoubtedly receive
Six years svo Senator Chandler promises
, thai If ho WAS reelected at HAT time h,
would not again be candidate TOR tAe sen
axe. II is ey dent that New Hampshire
memory IS in no way Impaired.
S me fellow intimales ma. congress vii
net be dAng It's full duty to the eountr!
until it ready 70 sen bouquets to tn
, ladies' as well as seed to tho farmers
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