The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-06-16
X. r. ID. COLUMN
n. Il. NAYLOR.

Say boys, I'm glad live In "OId
Ellis county, for I'm proud Of her
and her people, her productions and
the various advantages she offers to
the rising generation to make them
selves good desirable and independ-
ent citizens. Even now there is no
excuse for idleness or grumbling
since the harvest is white and the
laborers few. believe every rural
carrier in our organization can own
a bone by practicing reasonable
economy even at the salary that is
promised. This is the time Of year
to save the dollars. If they are not
put by now we can not hope to save
many during the chilling blasts of
winter. 1 believe / have mentioned
before that there is hardly any man
who has reached the age of thirty
five years who has not spent enough
money foolishly or unnecessarily to
have paid for good home and 1
guess 1 am almost a crank on the
subject of home, bat boys the one
hope of my early life was to some
day sit under my own vine and fig
tree. Many of the carriers own
their homes already and Pm glad to
see disposition on the part OF
others to save their Unite" to invest
ia home / cannot understand
that cutting off our newspaper sub
scription commissions and adding
on $40 to the present monthly sal
AIRY will leave US in a worse condi-
ton than we were in year ego, for
| hardly think that the average
route will pay $40 per month on the
side and i think 1t would be to our
final advantage to abrogate all ex-
press business from our work for 1t
seems the "parties in power" have
greatly overestimated the earnings
of the side lines commonly used by
carriers and by taking from the ser
vice all business except mail bust
ness we would stand in "A fair way
of promotion and reasonable and
sensible salaries would be the prob
able result and the service be dig
nified accordingly. ! don't think
every carrier believes as / do
neither do / expect them to for
every man has "A royal right to any
reasonable opinion of bis own and
a man without an opinion OF his
| own Is like "a ship without rudder
and liable to be influenced by every
wind of doctrine heard, for 1t has
| been SAID that II man is not a law
| within himself, no man C n con
vince him either pro or cou on any
position.
/ am requested to ask those of the
carriers who intend to 20 to Hills
| boro on the 4th Of July To notify the
| Farm Il Ranch at an early date OF
their Intentions as they desire to
/ know how many to prepare for.
! These people have been very courte-
| Gus To the boys and we should recip-
| rocate to the extent of letting them
| know how many to look for. Who
| knows but what our next state con-
| vention will be at Waxah ACHE? Are
we doing anything now toward get
| ting the Texas carriers To come to
our city, If not, why not? There
are but few of us who have not
some friend in other counties we
could write to setting forth the ad-
vautages of meeting in our Central
city and by the time the convention
meets we could have considerable
sentiment In favor of the banner
city of the banner county of the ban
ner state and possibly land the con-
vention of February ~, 90. Our
delegates are already instructed To
use their best efforts To bring the
boys among us and think these
delegates are men who will go their
whole length on the convention floor
To carry out the Instructions of
those they represent. think 1t
well TO have special invitation
from some OF the citizens OF our
county capital extending the invita-
ton to come over and see us.
Remember boys while you are
reading this, at our next regular
meeting is June ls:h, Saturday
evening about 50 or : O'Clock aud
while think it hardly necessary tO
mention this again | wish to inn
press upon you the Importance Of
being on hand At the appointed time
and place aud that 100 or $ O'Clock
does not mean . O'Clock or 10 o. clock
but you make "a special effort To be
there on time. Trusting to meet the
entire force of Old Ellis county car.
riers next Saturday evening | close