The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-27

long ssIstsness tviv pfssss. gissN ia sais
state sns furnishes the ussv.s com
piesr long distance SERVER In ssfs
country fuaars che requirement In
connecting With other telephone
companies. that the same styl~ Of
trans. nisscrs be asAsd as they as.a.
this fer the purpose os HAVING ami
form service. to facillsass prompt
merstr~ an @eli as To be able IA
promptly detect brcakdoHns and
make rea#ir= Ttr hiii iti ID. heass'
permits any Kind of trausnailt.rr go
b. used TN other words II sou hasc
taiephon. service and ! sant Ia
connect with you. am 10 haze the
tight Ia say how shall do II and
Wha, | shall us. In doing IL and this
whether or not II ruins the unlforfni'
~ OF vour service or not Nu~
these transm.tters are rented To all
other companies al "a rate of on. dol"
lar q year and are guaranteed and
kept In repair and replaced when
they burn out OF are DESTROYED, the
OBJ Iecf being To have u uniform sNs-
TEN. But a certain Chicago firm
that sells another Kind OF transmit
ter that the uthwesiern won't use
has established an office In Texas
and sent agents down here and are
doing what they can To compel the
Southwestern to use their transmit
tiers. The Chicago firm wants 10 sell
the transmitters vet force the other
company 10 perform the public SER
vice and get the cussing If things
don't go right.
The anti-pass bill has passed the
house and the provision OF the sen
ate that railroad companies shall not
exchange transportation with news
papers still sticks. | suppose this viii
teach the weekly press of this state.
which have always been used as ex-
ponents of the irridescent dreams of
the fellows with an itch for pubic
office. good and a useful lesson.
The Washington hand press artist
who has wandered into the far west
to work by day and dream dreams
bv night on development of the
country" will not have a chance to
come to the great state fair and tell
stories to rubes from Indiana OF the
wonderful resources of his section OF
imperial Texas.
Lives of small men oft remind YOU,
They disgrace poor Mother Ma
ture,
And when dying leave behind you,
Earmarks on the legislature.
During the coming week 1t Is eX-
, pected the Legislature Will pretty
| thoroughly clean up the calendar or
! local bills and commence real work
on such new legislation as may come
before it from the committees.
The town will be full of citizens
! in all branches of commercial life,
as there is hardly a business in the
state that has not been attacked by
some legislator with a bill of some
kind providing for some regulation
of the other fellows business. The
only business that is left free ant
untrammeled is the law business ant
majority of the legislature arr
LAWYERS | do not mean to give the
impression that all members or even
a majority is of this class of med
lers for I do not believe II is fact,
but one pestiferous meddler can in
troduce more bills providing for the
regulation of somebody else or his
! business in a day than you can
| imagine. They remind me of horse
| flies. Did YOU ever notice how one
of these insects can worry the life
| out of a mule team and put murder
! in drivers heart II YOU cannot
understand how one little legisla-
/ tor can worry a whole lot of people.
go ask some farmer who has had
! experience with horse flies. There is
nothing more certain than the propo-
! sition. that the state would save
! thousands of dollars worth of time
! and thousands of dollars In printing
1 bills and laws. if the membership of
! the house was cut in half and IL
made an object of our best men to
come here.
One thing that has impressed me
strongly with regard 20 the hous"
membership Is that most of the
strong. conservative and able men
come from the country and small
towns the farthest away from The big
cities You wouldn't think That
would you9 Well It's a fact
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