The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-20

Why ds poslnumOus NOrk-the puuHu ~
have some respect for the dead. the actually
apd physically dead.
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EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.
Tbs lsrgest bank In Mexico will declare a
o.v!uend OF 1873 per cent. Mexican hnan-
clcrs deny that their country has anything
approaching a panic,-oonzsles Inquirer
There must be somc dreadful mistake about
this? Isn't Mexico on a silver basis?
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The GNrmans have prohibited the intro
duttlon OF American pork, and now Russia
hog products. II looks like the Germans
WIZ nave to eat their own hcgs.-Paris Ad-
vccate
In other words. n now stands hog and hog
eh?
The newspaper goes into the senate Of the
untteu S a es IN tho person Of Editor Thomas
M Patterson OF Denver San Antonio Light.
And Editor Edward w. Carmack Of Ten
nessee, and Publisher W. A. Clark OF Mon
tana Newspaper men are at the front in
all vocat'ons these days. Perhaps that ac-
counts for the rapid and irrepressbe move
ment forward!
All this nonsense about Hill and Bryan
Ia too carly. Four years is long time to
wait and sweat over such 0ffairs.--Corsicana
Democrat
Such talk was started by those people who
have injured the democratic party in the
past ten years more than It's open enemies
Aside from dts being untrue and lndelicate,
1t was an Insult aud Misrepresentation Of
the intentions of the state legislature.
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riot has occurred at Wichita Kan. be-
tween VIII ties and negroes. This is the North.
remember. and State that has but recently
sucCunbed to the Establishments and c0resses
OF the republican pariy.-sherman Register.
ct tn. Sunaowerdom! Kansas has ever
been the most vlrdictive and unreenung
critic the South has had. Now she is be-
ginning to reap her reward Verify what
soccer you do unto others, others are liable
to do unto you. even If it takes quarter
of century to do it.
The Karnes City Kicker seems to be "ooth
for and forninst'' the proposed constitu-
tional amendments or changes, In the same
column it prints these two paragraphs
II the constitution which has been in ex-
istence for so long time Is not substantial
enough. we cant see where revision Of
the same or the adoption Of new consti-
tu-lon, would benefit the people OF Texas.
Mr.. Hogg Is at Austin In the interest of
his amendments. We are not overhead iii
love with the amendments. still they may
be all right, and viii probably be adopted as
a part Of the constitution.
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The very poorest way for farmer or
business man 10 make the times better Is to
sit down and find fault. Not great amount
OF gray matter is needed in the brain to
md fault, Anybody can do tina: but TO
get up and dust around and bring things
to pass is altogether different thing. -Port
Layacaen,
y monkey might criticize the grace of a
venus de Milo It is those who not only
point out the errors of the times. but amend
aud improve. vino are benefactors of the
human rcce. ANY one who IS not disposed
to help perform has 40 right to suggest
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ono of the standing Jokes Of the funny
mel on the newsparers is that the demo-
cras of the backwoods districts in Tegnes.
jackson for president It would be hard 20
hnd evidence 20 convict on this charge. But
1t 10 net w.rse. even " the ignorant back
wcodsmen stAuld vote fer Jackson, than the
act az prominent republ can poit cal leaders
whom the people Of Wisconsin had chosen as
ther presidential electors, who met last
Garrett V, Hobart for vice president Mr.
Hobart Is as dead as Andy Jackson.--Fort
worth Register.
Even deader for that matter. The eminent
critics north az the Ohio river are gradually
finding GU, that their better than thou policy
is being eNploded--that they are as ignorant
and as bad in every way as other people, and
worse than somc.
The average Texas farmer is now begin
ming 70 paw less attention to pol tics and
moro 20 economies. He is beginning TO raise
more az home and buy less away from
home Els stock OF hcgs. cattle horses and
OTHER domestic animals he is improving His
ample orchard is no longer In Arkansas nor
his smokehouse in Kansas. He is diving at
home. --NioniSguo Democrat.
Since when has "the average farmer be-
gun 10 pay less attention to politics? As
a rule the average farmer 81 Texas has
snent during the past half century a small
norton Of one day in about every two years
in going TO the polls aud voting, Surely,
he should think enough of his precinct, coun-
w. State and National governments to do
this II not why not? The proDer sort of
officers frequently save the farmer and the
business man hundreds ami even thousands
OF dollars in the course of year Il has
become the haiti Of certain newspapers 10
contend that every decent man should shun
politics as II IT were smallpox Then wher
a der'agoguo is elevated to pedestal these
papers are loud in their denunciation of a
system that would allow such persons to
occupy places OF trust-an elective system
advocated Nv them.