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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-12-28
LOST AND FOUND.

FOUND-Small fraternity pin, at
Electric theater. Owner, on identify
ing same. can get it from c. B. S.
Wharton, at Ohio and Texas Sugar
Plantation. C12-2S-2
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-12-28

FOR SALE-A1 gentle buggy
horse, also an upright piano good as
new. Apply to w. H. Mason, ST.
11-14-tf
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-12-28

FOR SALE-One complete modern
sugar mill, 1000 tons capacity, in
GLIDING complete railroad equipment;
two complete modern sugar mills,
500 ton capacity each. For price and
terms, apply to Business, Herald
Office. C12-23-6
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-12-28

FOR SALE Fifteen inch Morris
pump, complete with boiler engine,
etc. Address The Hidalgo Irriga-
ton Co, McAllen. Texas. C12-19-tf
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-12-28

Mexican mines, lead, zinc and sill
yer. See samples. Room 10, Puente
building, near postoffice. Browns
vile Realty Company C12-22-tf
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-12-28
BUSINESS NOTICES.

NOTICE-At Schreck's Bowling
Alley in Matamoros beginning the
21st inst. free bowling to ladies ev-
cry Monday and Friday. Finest as
sortment of refreshments and cigars.
Also Monterey beer. C12-1S-13
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

or set of men to organize a $4,000
bank. then create a lot of fictitious de-
posits as the proceeds of a lot of dunn
my notes, then let the bank close its
doors and call on the guaranty fund TO
pay these deposits. Naturally, the de-
posits will be credited to men in no
way identified with the note itself.
"We had one bank failure in my town
for something like $~1,000,OO0. This
would have taken more than five per
cent assessment on the deposits of the
state banks of Oklahoma. Surprising a
bank had 100000 deposits on a capital
stock of $4,000. Fifty per cent, or one
half of it's capital stock, would be con-
fiscated to make up the n loss. 1t is
more dangerous to the honest, small
banker than to the large one, because
the large one can prepare himself to
weather the storm.
Under guise of this law an attempt
is being made to put all banks on an
exact equality. The man who has spent
a lifetime in building up an honorable
reputation is sacrificed for the sake of
making some poor, incompetent, dis
honest banker exactly equal to lin. 1t
is a mistake to suppose that sacrificing
the assets of the solvent bank is going
to prevent the rascal from failing.
There is more money in it for him to
fail, under this law, than there will be
tO run"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
Duties Of Next Administration.

The function of the next administra-
ton is not to be spectacular in the en-
actment of great statutes laying down
new codes of morals or asserting a new
standard of business integrity, but its
work lies in the details of furnishing
men and machinery to aid the hand of
the executive in making the supervision
of the transactions (of corporations) so
close, so careful, SO constant, that the
business men engaged in it may know
promptly when they are transgressing
the line of lawful business limitations,
and may be brought UP standing when
e this occurs, and may be prosecuted
when the violations of law are fragrant
and defiant, and promptly restrained
and penaiized.-Judge Taft, at st.
Charles, Mo.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
VACAVILLE DAYS.

Fond memory minds me of a maid. q May
day morning mild,
A wagon, and a way that wound through
wooded waste and wild,
10 a CHEEKY, coy canyon, with calm Sc
clusiOn crowned,
And sweet-fern, shoot and shrubbery, song
bird and StreamletS sound;
The proper place for people to repair to
plight and pray,
Amid Gods might and majesty. You
might remember, May,
VINO sought the steed and surry, and
seems to see you still
Bring vintages and viands-vowed to va
cate pacaville.
Undimmed: undulled, in dreams how dear
the distant day we drove,
Mid gaping gulf and grot grotesque,
through gorge and glen and grove!
The meadows, marshes. mountains, and
the music no man made.
The fairy flowers, whose fragrance and
whose flush refuse to fade!
But no place presents q picture, with all
it's pOmp and pride,
Like the staid and simple sweetness OF the
soul l sat beside!.
And stout resolves and secrets sweet, long
sealed and sacred still,
Are revived with vivid visions as 1 visit
Vacaville.
Twas treasured territory that we Travelled
through, and time
Has sweetened every smiling scene and
solitude sublime.
" Lie green duu SOluGu SlOly-Luc SIdHu-
eur, grace and glee!
That morning the Almighty must have
made for May and me!
On, steadily and silently, the still sun
steals-and soon,
AS morn moves on to midday, meltS the
midday, and the moon
Succeeds the shimmering sunset-I see him
smiling still,
O'er veering vane and villa, at v~ineclad
Vacayille.
In memory. money-madness, and the mean-
err motives melt
To the nobleneSS we knew when at her
knee we nightly knelt;
And changed are cOurtly castles, with their
crosses, cares and crimes,
To calm and cheerful cottages, and child
hoods charms and chimes
To StreakS of Summer sunshine, that
through sylvan shades were seen,
And the trills and thrills Of twilight, and
the tales we told between;
When the scenes we saw were Sacred-and
we seem to see them still,
With valor, vim and virtue in the van at
Vacaville.
The summer still is smiling, and the sun
lights silver sheen
Still gambols DER the golden grain, ana
g~listenS on the green;
The daisies and the daffodils the dreamy
daleS adorn,
And myriad Ministries music make for man
from merry morn
Till twilight tells the tender tale-the tale
through time that takes.
All, many a mile the mortal mind Of man
in memory makes!
And the scenes are smiling Sweerly, ana
my soul is stealing still
Through verdant wales and vineyards, on a
Henry Reed Conant.
Los Angeles, Cal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
LETS CAT OUT OF BAG.
German Manufacturers to Flood
America With Goods if Bryan
Should be Elected.

America with GOOuS IL bryan
Should be Elected.
The following cablegram to the New
York Sun under date of Oct. 3 shows
what German manufacturers expect to
do should Bryan be elected:
Berlin, Oct. 3.-The gladiatorial
fight between President Roosevelt and
Mr.. Bryan has suddenly aroused Ger
man interest in the American Presi-
Dental campaign and columns are now
devoted to extracts from the mammoth
campaign documents of the combatants.
German hopes of Democratic Gictory
hare been reuiUed and many merchants
and manufacturers haze suddenly
| gr0tCn optimistic about q reCiSiOn OF the
| tariff ichich tUiU enable them to flood
America Uith their goods"
The German manufacturers evidently
are shrewd observers. If Mr.. Bryan
should be elected and his downward
revision" doctrine with ultimate free
trade be carried into effect we would
soon be flooded with G~erman-made
goods of every description, and u fac
tories could go out of business.
Protective Tariff Theory.
On the other hand, should Mr.. Taft
be elected our friends the German man.
ufacturers would not be able to break
| through the wall of protection which
would be maintained for the benefit of
American labor.
The protective-tariff theory as de-
fined in the Republican platform, and
as adhered to by Mr.. Taft, is that in
order to maintain high wages in this
country there must be 'the imposition
of such duties as will equal the differ
ence between the cost of production at
home and abroad, together with a rea-
sonable profit to American industries"
Mr.. Taft points out that the cost of pro-
duction is determined chiefly by these
three elements: 1.-THE cost Of material,
the cost of labor and the interest on
capital, or what is known as the manu-
facturer's profit"
"The normal operation of protection,
where competition has free scope" Mr..
Taft asserts, 'is to lower the cost of
producing and so to reduce prices to
the public. AS a consequence, after ten
years operation of a particular sched-
ule, it ought to result that the cost Of
production in this country is made less,
and therefore that the difference be-
tween the cost of production in this
country and abroad is less, and there
fore that the duty ought to be reduced"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
Political Snapshots.

1.-THE present business system of the
country rests ON the protective tariff
and any attempt to change it to a free
trade basis will certainly lead to dis
aster."-Mr. Taft, at Columbus, o.
Bryan is developing into a real hui
morist. He has advanced so far along
the line that he can now announce him.
self as "the advance agent of prosper
ity" without cracking a smile.-Sioux
City Journal.
About the only one of his original
dicta that Bryan still sticks to is that
1.-The President is a hired man."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
When Taft's voice fails, his record
and the party principles remain. If
Bryan's voice should fail there wouldn't
be any remains.-St. Louis Globe-D Demo-
crat.
Mr.. Bryan has been his own advance
agent so long that the public will hard
ly be disposed to recognize him in his
new role Borrowed at that as ad-
vance agent of prosperity.-New York
Tribune.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
TO MIDDLE WEST and ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES REPUBLICANS.

You want Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Sherman elected, and they cannot De
elected unless the Republican National Committee has sufficient money
to pay the legitimate expenses of the campaign. 1t costs money 10
maintain a n organization. 1t requires money to pay for printing posC
age, salaries of stenographers. and clerks at headquarters, travelhg "a
penses of speakers and numerous other details that 6 to max ue
campaign end successfully Congress, is you know, has passed a law
making it unlawful for is to solicit money from corporations. w {
must depend upon the contributions of individual voters. If every he
publican in this Western Division would contribute one dollar TO TN
campaign fund, w e will be able to do all the things that the voters
want done; We will be able to elect Taft and Sherman. Will you hep!
If so, please send one dollar to the chairman of your State Fmahce
Committee, whose name appears in the list following, or send IL dnec'
to me and you will receive the official receipt Of the Republican Ma
tOnal Committee. Respectfully,
FRED w. UPHAM,
Assistant Treasurer.
Contributions may be sent by check OF money order to any Of the
following named chairmen of the various State finance committees:
Colorado, Hon. Whitney Newton, Denver.
Idaho, Hon. Frank L. Johnson, Wallace.
Illinois, Col. Frederick III. Smith, Peoria.
Iowa, Hon. Lafayette Young, Des Moines.
Kansas, Hon. Frank e. Grimes Topeka.
Michigan, Hon. John n. Bagley, Detroit.
Missouri, Hon. O. I. Whiteaw, 400 North Second street, ST. LOUIS
Montana, Hon. Thomas A. NARROW, Helena. M
Nebraska, Hon. John G. Wharton, Omaha.
New Mexico, Hon. j. w. Reynolds, Santa Fe. +,
North Dakota, Hon. James A. Buchanan, Buchanan.
Oregon, DR.. H. w. Coe, Portland.
South Dakota, Hon. o. W. Thompson, Vermnlon.
Washington, Hon. james D. Ioge, Seattle.
Chicago, Illinois.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
REMEDY WOULD l L
Hard, Painstaking Work Necessary
to Reforms-Not the 1nstantane-
Panaceas Of Bryan.

to Reforms-Not the Instantane-
Gus Panaceas of Bryan.
Governor Hughes at Sioux City, Ia,
Oct. g.
If you look conditions squarely in
the fact, you see that what labor wants
first of all is work, and that is depend
ent upon the country's prosperity. 1t is
hard to protect the prosperity of the
country and cut out abuses; hard to
provide schemes that won't hurt bust
ness and will cure evils. 1t is hard to
do things right, but we have got to lake
the time and labor to do them right.
In answer to a question 1 put to him
the other day Bryan said that an ou1ce
of remedy was worth a pound of cure.
That is a fallicy an ounce of his REM
edy would kill the patient. What we
need is the expression Of the sonnd
thought and good judgment of the peo-
pie upon which we can depend. | have
had a time for two years in New York
fighting the fight and / know it is hard
work. You can't have a flash of genius
and change it all in a twinkling. What
YOU have to have is work-hard, on
scientious work, intelligent and thought
full, as we'll as determined, to make
remedies square with the e~xigencies of
our life.
When we consider everything, what
we want is to perfect the u%pbuilding OF
our county and promote a steady, for
ward movement in the middle OF the
road, as is the aim of the Republican
party and our great future President,
Taft.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
Reasons That Are stilI Good.

81 am sending Taft to the Philip
pines," said President Mckinley, ''be-
cause he is the broadest and the most
unselfishly brave man / know, and be-
cause he will carry the spirit of the con-
stitution of the United States in his
very blood" These seem to be excellent
reasons also for sending Taft to the
White House. The American people
will undoubtedly show on November 3
that they have come to that conclusion.
Canton, O., Repository.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

The Republican party is not only
rich in men, but rich in practical and
beneficient principles-it is rich. too.
in it's record, in promises performed
and pledges fulfilled, and so we are for
party and party principles first, and
will acquiesce in the choice of the ma
jority, rallying around the standard
bearer who will carry us again to vic
tory.-H0n. James S. Sherman.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

DIR. *. Il. Irvine, who was for seven
teen years prison physician at Sing Sing,
and who has witnessed no less than six
ty-four executions and participated in
subsequent proceedings by attendant ply
sicians, combats the opinions of those
who are declaring that electric shocks
do not kill, but merely suspend breath
ing. He asserts that death is certain
in such cases, az the amount OF blood
found in the craniums of the executed
criminals precluded the possibility of re-
suscitation. He says also that the shocks
change the structure of the blood This
testimony is the strongest that has yet
been offered on the subject. which is i'm
portant only because of its bearing on
the cases of men who are shocked out
of existence accidentally, in commercial
power plants.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
Don't Forget 1t.

Critics west and east should remem-
Der that it is pre-eminently important,
as President Roosevelt has recently
pointed out, that Mr.. Taft should have
a Republican Congress with him. This
is a consideration which ~transcends in
Importance the personality of any one
man, or his views On any n topic
Boston Transcript.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

According to the opinion of the at
torney general, that milliners in Wis
consin can offer for sale the plumage of
birds which are not natives or habitants
of Wisconsin, will give the plumage-
hunter of other states a market for the
nlumage of certain birds. This shows
the need of uniformity in game laws,
and laws for the protection of birds
whose plumage is sought by millinery
supply hunter.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

Paris. has discovered that she is badly In
need of a cleanup if she is to make a
successful fight against a visitation OF
the cholera. She is also short of funds,
and will therefore experience difficulty in
providing for the necessary sanitary
work. The municipalities Of the Old
World seem to have difficulties similar
to those which are experienced by cities
in the United States which are laying
their troubles largely to politics and mis-
management.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

Wireless telephony has been tried with
complete success between the Brooklyn
navy ward and a station on the roof
of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York.
This is evidence that the wireless method
of transmitting human speech may event
ually have commercial value in a re-
stricted way. 1t is now valuable at sea.
where ships of various natives communi-
cate freely over comparatively long dis
distances
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

A London dispatch. states that an
American inventor who has been working
ing in Coventry for some time has pro-
duced an automobile engine which does
its work without noise or vibration. If
this be true the improvement will be
generally adopted, and then inventors
will nave before them the harder task
of making engines odorless.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

It is greatly in the interest Of the
wOrkingman, therefore, that corporate
capital should be fairly treated. Any
injustice done to it acts directly upon
the wage earners, who must look to cor
porate wealth for their employment
Hon. VIM. H. Taft, at Cooper Union,
New York City.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

In reviewing "a Year of Business Re
covery," in the current issue of the Re
view of Reviews, Charles +. Speare de-
clares that although the situation is not
one to he greatly enthusiastic over; while
there rs a long, hard pull ahead for many
of us, and consequently room for econ
omy just as much as there was last No
vember, or in February of this year, the
tide has turned permanently, and each
month viii see some gain over the month
before, until business rests upon a nor
NAL basis A hopeful outlook makes
economies easier than they are when
people are pinching and at the same
time looking Aown-lili.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

The tariff affects trusts only as it
affects all other interests. 1t makes
all these interests, large or small, profit
able; and it's benefits can be taken
from the large only under penalty of
taking them from the small Also
President Roosevelt, at Minneapolis,
Mimi, April Z, 1903.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

Navies are expensive war sdjuncts in
directions other than their maintenance.
Statistics of the French navy show that
since August, 1900, twenty-one wrecks,
explosions and other catastrophes have
caused the death of 2SS officers and men
and the destruction of property valued at
ST., 100000. The United States navy
has had heavy losses of this kind, but
the French navy seems to have been es-
p~ecially afflicted during the past eight
years.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

The slide into the river at New Orleans
of railroad land 3OOx2O0 feet bearing
four lines of tracks occupied by seven
loaded freight cars, is evidence OF the
manner in which the Mississippi river
will trouble those who imagine that 1t
can easily be kept within bounds for the
maintenance of deeper channels. The
river was boring it's way under the prop
erty while railroad operations were III
nrogress on the surface.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

What / am anxious to emphasize is
that there is q wide economic and bus
mess field in which the interests of the
w%ealthiest capitalist and the humblest
laborer are exactly the sanction.
VIM. Fl. Taft, at Cooper Union, New
York City.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
Banks Without Capital.

1.-TWO men recently started a bank of
$4,000 capital, in Oklahoma City, a
town of forty or fifty thousand inhab-
itants. When asked how they expected
to succeed with a bank of $25, 900 cap
ital in a city of that size, one of them
replied what do we care'about cap
ital, the state is in partnership with
us?" The president of the First Ma
tional Bank of Perry was also a mer-
chant and failed in business and was
compelled to go through bankruptcy.
Naturally he had to resign his connec-
ton with the First National Bank. He
new has taken out a charter and is
president of a state bank in Oklahoma.
One man, when prohibition closed his
saloon. quit the saloon business and
forty thousand on deposit.
There can be but one deduction
from this enormous rush for starting
new state banks. They are being start
ed by irresponsible, inexperienced
men, and, instead Of indicating a solid
growth for the state of Oklahoma, they
indicate an era of irresponsible and
wildcat work
"One of the dangerous evils Of this
Guaranty Law is that it guarantees
credit deposits as well as cash depos-
it's. Now, you all know that not more
than one-tenth of a banks daily depos-
it's are in actual cash. Nine-tenths are
credit deposits, are either checks and
drafts or proceeds of loans. When
these credit deposits, that are made as
the proceeds of a loan, are guaranteed,
the guaranty certainly reaches to the
guaranteeing of the loan itself, for the
reason that the deposit is merely the
result of the loan.
Fictitious Deposits.
II have heard it discussed, and /
think it feasible for a dishonest man
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

I'm his own personal experience MT
Bryan furnished proof that the people
do rule. His candidacy now is a pro-
test against the popular verdict twice
officially recorded. He is arraylng ms
soaring ambition against the repeated
decisions of the millions Of electors"
Hon. James S. Sherman, Republican
Vice Presidential candidate.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

The corn crop has thriven %gloriously.
1t is now out of danger, and is officially
estimated at 2,614,0OO,OO0 bushels. This
is 12.0oO,OOO bushels more than the ac-
tual Weld of last year and has been ex-
.ceeded only twice in the history of the
country-in 1905, when the total crop
was O. S,OOO,O 900 bushels, and IN 1906,
when it was 1927, 100000. The bounty
of the harvest will help to hasten the
return of ,prosperity-if the election re-
suits in the defeat of Bryan and his
,iSms.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., . Publishers

A new torpedo boat destroyer built in
Great Britain for the government of
Brazil has achieved a speed of 27A
knots an hour. 1t is now in order for
the sensational reporter to circulate the
story that this fast and efficient ''scor-
pion' is to be sold to the japanese gov
eminent.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

at has been said that Mr.. Taft is
not a friend of labor. That is a u
and unjust accusation. No man in
public life has shown himself to be
more friendly to labor. At the same
time he has not tried to get your votes
by offering remedies calculated mere
ly to please the fancy."-Governor
ugheS,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

The dismasting of the old cup-defender
Mayfower during a hurricane off the
south Atlantic coast reveals the charac-
fer of the Yachts which formerly did the
racing for the Americas cup Racing
machines like the Defender or the he
lance could never be taken to sea ON
expeditions such as that upon which
the Mayfower was bent when she was
struck by the hurricane which wrecked
many >stanch merchantmen.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

A report of the Geological Survey
shows that since 1899 the United States
has held first place in coal mining and
is now producing 1913 pei cent. OF the
worlds annual output. Supremacy IN
this regard is due to the fact that in
dustries are multiplying and demanding
increased supplies of coal, and miners
have been striving so effectually to meet
that demand that the United States has
had coal to export in large quantities.