The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-30

,KLY HERALD, APRIL 81
Burnett OF Fort Worth; he was ac-
cused Of accepting fees from j, d.
sugg; he was accused OF accepting
fees from Judge Lindsey Of Gaines
vile; be was accused OF corruptly
accepting fees from sheb Williams OF
Paris, Texas, All these charges in
yolved the violation Of federal law
and the deepest corruption in public
office Not only that but he was
charged with debauchIng the prIma-
rles held at Austin bv the corrupt
use Of money, aud yet not one par
tlcle OF evidence WIS offered In sup
port of these terrible crimes, and the
witnesses summoned TO support them
were not offered by the posecutlon,
but we're placed upon the stand I'M.
der the direction Of the committee
and testified to their ialslty. Place
yourselves in Senator Bailey's shoes
and imagine how you would have
felt and what you would have said
under the same circumstances. As
fair-minded man you must admit
that Bailey had a dozen provocations
for every offense given in that
speech.
General VI. VI. Crane.
| heard the speech delivered by
General Crane in this courthouse
last Monday. / head him announce
the scriptural doctrine that No man
can serve two masters" He apple
this doctrine TO Senator Bailey. He
assumed that Senator Bailey was the
attorney OF a public service corpo-
ration and that therefore the corpo'
ration was his master and that he
had ceased to serve the people. /
then thought and yet think that II
this assumption was true as TO Sem
ator Bailey, 1t was equally true as
TO General Crane. General Crane
IL the admitted attorney " many
corporations and the attorney of re-
cord Of the Millers' trust. II, there
fore, Balley's client was his master,
Cranes clients are now his masters
and he is the acknowledged servant
OF many corporations and at least
one trust, but he failed to tell the
people that he stood here in the ser
vice OF his masters and not in the
service OF the people and as the
mouthpiece OF the corporations and
trusts OF Texas was advising them
how to vote in the coming primaries
General Crane made another scrip
tural quotation and left 1t as a text
from which he asked the ministers
OF Cleburne to preach. That text
was. The Borrower Is Servant tc
the Lender" He argued that Bailey
had borrowed money from Pierce &C
cording to his own admission, and &C
cording to the Bible and this tex
quoted Bailey was admittedly the
servant of the lender. Under this
law upon default in payment the
lender could take possession of the
borrower and have him imprisoned
or force him to work out the deb
as his servant just like a crimina
can be forced to work out his fine
upon our poor farm.
Borrower and Lender.
The language quoted by Genera
Crane Is taken from Proverbs vii, 90
the whole verse reading as follows;
1.-THE rich ruleth over the poor and
the borrower IS servant to the len
r der" This language was used by
Solomon a thousand years before
Christ and was quotation from the
, old Mosaic law. This is not the Law
= now thank God. 1t has been re
pealed by many statutes written II
blood and in no state in the Ameri
can union can man today be i'm
prisoned for debt or forced to worl
, it out as the servant Of the lender
Not only the person but much Of thu
property OF the debtor under thu
new dispensation and under the law
, OF civilization are exempt from thu
tyranny OF the creditor and the Dor
rover is no longer the servant Of tn,
lender.
This doctrine OF General Crane
exhumed from the relics OF the baI
barous and dead past should be re
ceived as an insult by every poo
man who is forced by his environ
ment to borrow money from the
vaults OF the bank or from the treas
ury OF the rich. appeal to tn,
great army OF debtors in johnson
county and throughout Texas, Il