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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
THE SOUTH IN NO NEED OF SYMPATHY

The Salt Lake Tribune strong republican paper
of the far West says that in magazine before us"
there is "a plea for the South" 1t tells what the
South has suffered what trumphs the South has won
since the war when her social system was all smashed
to pieces ut begs the North to be patient and to have
sympathy for the who have gone through SO much
In the short generation since the of the great war
grew still"
Then the Tribune, with what is meant doubtless to
De burst of great magnanimy declares that the call
is altogether unnecessary, THE pulse beats OF the
North says the Tribune are all in harmony with the
South The North has not hope that does not linl,
the South with it, but there some fools still in the
South and there is nothing to do with them but to wait
until in the Kindness of allmercifu Providence they
wear themselves out and go into silence"
1t might be retorted that there are some good
average fools still left in the North who are not only
narrowly prejudiced against the South but who as
sumo Pharisaical attitude that is as ridiculous as it
is Offensive But controversy is not with the Salt
Lake paper SO much as with the southerner presume
bly, who wrote the magazine article begging the North
TO be patient with the South" and asking for the
Norths sympathy for the South" in view of the lat
ter's sufferings' and post-bellum trials
Such an appeal is the Tribune remarks "alto-
gether unnecessary" 1t is apparently an apologize
vein that ought to be distasteful to the South as
Northern Pharsasm 1t is wholly unauthorized or uu.
warranted by the existing conditions In the South n
is piece Of that latterly developed toadysm in the
South which has for commercial and other reasons
been dofing its hat to the North and saying by your
leavel'
The South stands in need of nobodys patience or
sympathy. For ten years past, and when other sec
tons We're depressed the South has been phenomenal
y prosperous increasing in business in volume and
variety of production, in manufacturing plants in
banking capital, in industrial activity and In popula
ton 1t has the most homogeneous white citizenship
in the country and has practically eliminated the
from politics. Is raising its food getting out
its own iron and fuel and learning to make its own
cloth and clothing. 1t is hopeful happy and pros.
porous.
Why ask for the North's patience" or ''sympathy?p
Why apologize for existing sentiment or conditions?
Why toady' to any section any people in this day
Of our strength and our rapidly approaching financial
and industrial independenos2 II there we're fewer men
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
40 PAGES TODAY.
SHOW THE IRON ORE REGION TO VISITORS.

communication appears in The Post this morning
from New Birmingham, in Cherokee county, regret
ting the oversight that occurred when the East Texas
iron field omitted from the itinerary of our
New York visitors.
The explanation given is probably the correct one
that our own people have not been sufficiently inter
ested in or informed about the vast possible wealth
that lies actually in sight in that section the State
No such field of iron exists anywhere else in this
country. There is actually iron mountain there
and the is practically the surface of thousands
and thousands of acres.
Now that Texas receiving greater attention from
the outside than before this iron field is not 60
ing to remain much longer unattended to- Its posi-
bilities are sure to be appreciated early day
Ex-Governor Hogg has only recently acquired control
OF large properties there according to report will
soon begin development on large scale Capital will
follow capital in this movement, and if Independent
companies, or home companies. acquire the field, we
can expect such an impetus to industrial expansion
that part of the State has rarely been witnessed
anywhere.
There is one danger in the way--the possibility of
this splendid iron region being obtained by the
great steel trusts the Standard Oil kings who own
such large fields in the upper lake region Indeed the
has already been heard that these latter gen
tiemen have been figuring grabbing the major por
ton of the field. Their possession would doubtless
mean continued stagnaton No development would be
contemplated until years hence, possibly when their
other ore fields were virtually exhausted. The pur
chase would be made most likely simply to foresta
competition.
Texas ought to awaken to such possibility We
want this iron worked. We furnaces and rolling
mills and foundries and great steel plants in East
Texas and at Houston To accomplish this desire in
dependent capital from the outside unconnected with
the trusts and home capital Interested in pre-
empng the field
we lot great chance slip when the New Workers
were not shown Cherokee county As suggested in
the communication from New Birmingham let us not
repeat this mistake when other delegations of CAPT
talists or business men from other sections visit us
Soon very large party of st. Louis business men
viii visit this part of the State. They ought by al
means and at whatever cost be shown the iron field
and the Ignite field OF East Texas. 1t is positively
discreditahe to the intelligence of Texas that such
field has so long remained undeveloped that such
riches have been left comparatively untouched IN TO
this very day. Possibly If We show the possibilities
of the field to some of these visiting capitalists they
will be able more quickly to appreciate and utilize
them than our people have done
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
BEYOND THE REACH OF THE OCTOPUS.

There appears to he much greater uneasiness
and apprehension in of the other States that
oil field will fall into the tentaces OF the octopus
than is felt in Texas. Indeed many of The Posts
teemed contemporaries its exchange list be
positively this possible fate of the Texas
oil field
One of the latest to express its fears is our old
friend the Charleston News and Courier 1t credited
the story that the Standard Oil company had bought
out the Port Arthur company and would thus shut off
the oil field from the II quotes dispatch to the
effect that by controlling that outlet the Standard Oil
company can control every barrel of oil taken from
the field" Then the Charleston paper continues
This is easy understand is the object OF the trust in
buying the railroad terminals, whaves and shipping fac
at Port Arthur and 10000 acres of land surrounding
the port While resident and other prospectors and spec
atos have been buying up stray farms and tracts in the
booming the great find with all diligence and publicity the
Standard Oil company with its large experience in such
into effect and with plenty Of for immediate has
quietly struck for the control OF the whole situation by
going to the only practicable the few miles
distant and buying all present possible transportation erm
50 make itself literally the gatekeeper OF the whole
field, and the selling and distributing agent, on its own
whatever its later and larger developments may be
The trouble with distant contemporaries is that
they do not know what they talking about As a
matter of information for them it be stated that
such purchase by the Standard Oil company as sug-
gested has been made. But even if the octopus CON
troled Port Arthur that would not control
barrass the Texas oil field. 1t is already becoming
recognized necessity that pipe lines shall carry the oil
to larger commercial center and extensive ship
ping point than Port Arthur, Sabine. 1t is possible
to reach Houston the west and New Orleans on the
east with pipe lines and then go much shorter
distance than of the pipe lines in the East and
through a far less rugged obstructive country.
But back of all this the very magnitude OF the
Texas oil field will prevent any company. even the
king of the trusts, from monopolizng It, Practically
onethird of Texas territory large the States
of New York and Pennsylvania combined, would have
to be bought bodily by acre before corpora
ton could control this field Great as is the
Standard it would undoubtedly shrink from such an
undertaking.
The more likely truth is that the Standard will be
forced to division of territory with the Texas com.
panes The Russian oil interests compelled such
division few years ago when they sprang into OK
stence and here is field larger and richer than
that controlled by the Rothschilds.
our esteemed contemporaries, therefore, may rest
their fears Texas oil discoveries, even In their in
fancy are OF too huge proportions to be gathered in
by an octopus however resourceful and powerful it
may be.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
SOME PosTscRIPTs.

1t is stated that three fourths of the Irish membu
parliament teetotalers.
London covers $4,000 acres, Leeds is next with aicn'
Sheffield third with o65o.
In the last 90 years the speed of steamers ~
creased from IL to ~ Ia knots an hour.
The population of France is 3S 1903 ,ooo Of whom JUS
third live in towns of 5000 inhabitants.
The chiefs of Api one of the islands of the New Hs
group, are petoning Great Britain the slana
1t is believed that the figures of the recent English e
will prove more reliable than any similar returns pfssa
made.
regimental surgeon finds that soldiers can march
with rubber than with hard heels they obvate the =
the system.
Electric windlasses to replace winches ere ao
be installed by the White Star line for hosting carso
the company's piers.
The newspapers of Brooklyn say that the free eeu''
TEN has proved great During the course 7
lasted thirteen weeks II2444 people attended.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

President Diaz Of Mexico is most absten1ious man
daily fare is almost Spartan and when he attend
fetal banquets he departs but little from his regular dill
Countess Alinto wife of Canada's governor general
written letter to the mayor of Ottawa stating her s
to become the head of movement to establish I'D
hospitals throughout Canada.
Prof Charles Villiers Sanford who succeeds the lal
Arthur Sullivan conductor of the Leeds musical c
is native of Dublin and since 1887 has held the chdl
music at the university of Cambridge
NJ de Giers is the connecting link between the CHI
and the Russian courts. He has appeared, while Ru
penpotenary at Pekn apostle of peace but beneath
placid, mperturahle surface of the there Turks fRl
The dowager empress of Germany was described vi
late Lord Clarendon possessed of statesnHl
views OF the proper Prussiap policy than any native a
with the single exception of Prince Bismarck" YET 4
two were bitter enemies.
The magnificent Archepiscopal throne which was Il
tured at Rome has arrived the great Roman Cahkl
thedral Westminster 1t is of white marble with M
work replica of the opal throne i'll St John Lateran
is gift to Cardinal Vaughan from all the English bhfl
his diocese.
The death is announced at the age of &c. Of Dr. Da7
the founder of the French Anti Tobacco society and The
GUS advocate of horseflesh food Born at Saw Pa1
Calais he became the chief military veterinary surgeon
saw service in Africa the Crimea and Lombardy and
war of 1870 His Algerian experience convinced him
wholesomeness of horsehesh.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
A Great Negro.

From the Galveston Tribune
From all accounts Booker T. Washington the greatest
negro and one of the Americans his time Be
tore the Methodist missionary conference New Orleans
yesterday he easily ousarred ex- Minister Barrett and
Bishop Hendrix though upon all occasions he bore him
self with becoming modesty.
educated handicapped by the heaviest and 20
ca weights he has taken the leadership his race and
OF race thought by sheer force intellectual and moral
character
lis school at Iuskegee, Ala is the model and marvel
OF its kind His addresses essays and books command the
attention OF the English speaking world.
IN sense ne is heorist That is he is treadng an un
known way But in the all pioneers thought
ana acton are theorists So far Washington has kent his
his track. 9 NP "a
mere may be other and better of negro advance
ent han the Washington way but they have never been
pointed out certainly his plaint is the way of in
dHsa usefulness good citizenship sound morals pure
Religion Unless all history is fault and all philosophy is
aiss ms way win lead to higher and happier ground
~ the moment statistics OF morality, insanity health
ETC. according to the Satstcians encouraging 10 he
cause OF negro education but inclined the obinon
mat the negro education of the past the adaned
70 the neeros 1t very different sort from, The
Washington system. Anyhow, such a character such
force such Light Booker T. Washington can not nass
~ generation Something remain better and N
bless for such OF mind and purpose can not be
wholly wrong ~ 'e
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
TAMPERING WITH TRIF1 \

HOP ALONG, HOW DYE DO,
There's little enough at a Teller can 4.
Take it any old way yeh may
Ter make this wobbly OF world run 49,.
Or brighten feller's way;
If any Teller should fly tn track
Don't let i'm git feelin' blue
Jest give i'm hearty Of slap on til ba,l !.
Tell i'm Hop along how dye dol
Tell i'm Hop along how dye do, 81 y.
Jest Hop along how dye dos
Jest brace up, oil Teller, much as web y.
I'm walkin' along o. YOU
Our ways lie together piece. oil chan
l know where TIL flowers bloom
TIL world amt askew yeh've had ~,
An stumble amt astin' doom.
"Be chatty an comfy, an we'll content
An look Fates frown with la,,sh
Fer dimples o mirth with her frowns ar M
An out o TIL cup yeh quaif
Comes sorrow or mirth, dark despa;r
It's all yeh happen ter think;
But strength to bear all of lfes ills Is ma.
SO lift up the bcaker and drink.
Gust drink to the soul in its earthly flight
An drink with laugh to voc;
For hack of despair, and the dark ard MI.
Sweet blossoms of promise blow
An as you may lift the glass OH high
So courage shall come to you;
Yeh're bound ter win out II ych never say d.,
So, hop along, how dye dor"
II = Il *
Now fugitive from justice has been captured il ri
II will soon he the fashion in the Windy (ity 4 M
stranger within the gates what was your name 49,
zane TO Chcago?"
4 woman physician in a Northern city has been Il
for picking mans pocket of $50 1t is well for A.
10 have delicae tc.ci, but she seems to nave e,,]
oo far.
Learning that Chicago professor had never becn n
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says The man who has peve,
Kissed has lived" That professor had better Nj
he timber if the poetess of passion gets after him
81 i; i *
Ten blind physicians praccing medicine in The N
States, and poor little blind Cupid has to cover he
world with his specially; but he wins every case evl
where there's money.
* IL II
London spends $ra,ooo,ooo a year ON education
some of the samples who have come to this country n
seem to have brought much with them.
Il Il Il Il
This everlasting talk of oil
Doth rend Our bosoms core
And ev'ry dadblarned we'll they sink
Turns out TO be bore.
J. NJ. LsvnI
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
Morning Newspaper Field.

Waco Times Herald
The morning newspaper field Of Texas has certainly been
difficult farm. The Galveston News got in on the
ground floor the outset hut all the had 10 con
tend with Johnson grass Even the Dafas News launched
under apparently favong skies rough seas for
nearly two The San Antonio Express had paplr
struggle through decades The Fort Worth Gazette could
not weather the gale Here in Waco there was succes,
was white elephant. II takes considerable cash 10 con
duct morning paper and right here in Waco are IN he
qured - % "
Recurring to The Post il 70 be noted that Houston did
not begin grow real city until after The Post NJ
attained success And Fort Worth practically led Dallas
when the Gazette its paliny days Here In Ms
everything standstill years wne now H.
is gratifying growth Newspaper Is the kew to
communitys prosperity.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
Is IT rHE SAME OLD sroRYi

From the Savannah News
The Charleston News and Courier takes the position that
the policy of the republican in respect to the
South indicated by the appointment of Mr. Capers United
district attorney for South Carolinathe new policy
being build up white republican party in the Southern
States by bringing into prominent deooratss the same
old story That paper points out that the same thing mas
been many times since the civil and gives the
names of number of Southern of prominence who broke
away from the democratic party accept appointments UNI
der republican administrations.
Governor Gambler of this State in interview in New
York Tuesday last virtually took the position He
said that the effort few gold democrats to McKneyze
the South will successful The South is soidy
democratic and will remain No attempts of Senator Nc
Laurn of South Carolina of his ilk will cut in on
big majoes in any of the Southern state The News
and Courier and Governor Gambler may be right The prob
ability is they STILL might be we'll to take notice OF
the fact that the situation is somewhat different from
what it times past when Southern of prominence
loose from the democratic party and accepted offices from
republican president
There is now an influential element in all of the Southern
which is in sympathy with of the policies OF
the republican party We refer chiefly the factory
and with them be cassed considerable percentage
of the business The business with the re-
pubcans the question and the factory owners be-
eve in the gold standard expansion and protective tariff
Another thing that not be overlooked in the con-
sideraon of this question is that in at least four OF the
Southern States the question has practically disappeared
from politics and there indications that it will disappear
from politics in of the other Southern States very
The Importance OF maintaining the supremacy OIL inc
white has been strong factor in holding the white peo
pie together in the South and it still in most of the South
States When the vote shall be eliminated alto
gehe it will not be matter hold the white voters
together. Their readiness divide shown by the
markabe strength developed in few by the pop
uis party.
II there had been force of behind Senator
McLaurin of South Carolina the resolution introduced into
the legislature of South Carolina its last session censung
him for supporting republican iii the senate would
have PASSED without dissenting As he had
friends enough that body the passage the
resolution That fact alone has sufficient significance to
justify the inquiry to whether the effort that being
made to establish white republican party in the South is
the same old story While confident that the South
will remain solidly democratic for long time yet
free confess that the chances for building white
publican party in the Southern States better than
they have been before.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

New York Press
woman's chief charms her instincts and her NJ
The average woman is funniest to man when sue 8
she is most sarcastic
One year of married life brings man his senses
generally makes him crazy again.
Very often it is the who look most like eop Z
pie who are really like curried peppers.
smart woman fool a man all his life, but 4
man can only fool until she finds it out.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
Woes of the Craft on the Farm.

|
printer recently tried his hand al farmirs 49,.
maze Things work right and is back at the "co ~
iAu wrong font team--a mule and horse nd / -,
hls wouldn't Justify" He said the farmer .,6redu
h n"a p'ed three or TOUR columns" Of potatoes n.
showed his limited experience by asking the fa,s
sne wanted the hens set loaded or solid, wac II
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05

like the author OF this magazine article and IL the
South only felt to still greater degree it's match
less position and resorcefuness and strength and pos
sbiities for absolute independence and freedom from
necessity for reliance upon any other section it would
be far better for the South it is true but yet
in no need of sympathy" from any quarter of the
globn
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
And -onger, II 1t Isn't.
Flatonia Record.

TIdtohla Record. l8I :
The next eclipse of the sun will occur May ~ % K =.
occasion the orb will be of sight six and 0n
minutes, provided the day is clear.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
The Ways of Dear wor

Weimar Mercury. r. =.
number of women in Houston have formed 2 'a', I
Silence club and at recent meeting their complains
heard two blocks AWAY
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
Mistake only as to Locality,


~ N@yasota the other day the fire department t,,,,sd
N force installing the bell ringing at the M,hod ou
r an alarm Of FIRE. The alarm was all r;sb, S..
mistake as TO locality. ' ou' was a
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05

Why does Houston capital take hold of the man
uacturing business? Why big mill in this CITY
We the apex of triangle with sides running to
lano and Cherokee counties The ores are abundant at
both those points The haul is direct and easy either
side to Houston Here is ideal point for great mills
the fuel to be Ignite briquccd with Texas oil Will Hous
ton capital not seize of these unfolding opportunities
Notwithstanding the great steel trust all independent
mills in the country making big money because OF the
phenomenal and still growing demand here abroad for
the products of the iron and mills 1t time Houston
were reapng great and notable rewards from the
derfu commercial and industrial activity and DEVELOPMENT
OF the day
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
Similarity aetween the Two.

Mckinney Courier.
he new hats you see this year both in trimmns
shape atsmilar in this respect TO poor old dscs
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05

Mr.. WlLIAAt JENNINGS BRyAs having declined with h;
characteristic modesy and hrmness the question narrows
down to what will the republican editors do now
thingsi" 49,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05

DR.. Won MIGuKl, Prussian minister of finance bas 90
signed Translated into Irish his name would read von
Mike but so far as further oce-holdng goes it will prob
ably be Dennis,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05

IHE fire at Jacksonville Fla terrible catastrophe
and with hearts still aching for ves that were lost
the late Galveston disaster Texas ympathzes with her
Houses he rebuilt but loved go down in these
terrible vatous be replaced this side of the
bourne.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05

THE British chancellor has refused abandon the sugar
AK The chancellor evidently appreciates sweet thing
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05

Il CONSIDER our stop in Houston the most ENJOYABLE so
far the trip the words of the president himself OF
course Houston is the biggest and best or it's size
either.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05

Mr. KRueeRs visit to this country viii be sort OF good
bye howdy'do affair but we won't let him sit cut on the
steps in the cold as the kaiser did