The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-10-27
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
MOUNTAIN PEAK.

Mountain Peak. Oct 2T.-Cotton
picking is now the order of the day
and farmers seem to be we'll along
with their work. Cotton is turning
out well in places, while it is report
ed very light by some of the valley
farmers. The farmers seem to be
turning their cotton loose on the
market as fast as it is gathered, al
though the price realized is not salts
factory. The writer has always
thought that supply and demand
ought to govern the prices of all
commodities, and if we raise more
cotton than the factories can use
we need not expect fancy prices for
their surplus, and to try to force
buyers to pay certain price for
their cotton is not a reasonable bus
mess proposition. They should cur
tail the acreage, and raise things
that are in greater demand by the
buyers.
There is considerable sickness in
the country at present. John Brom
ley has a very sick child with mem
hraneous Group. DR.. Keplinger of
Waxahachie, assisted by DR.. Shytles
of Mountain Peak, inserted a tube
Into its wind pipe, by which it was
enabled to breathe until the disease
was overcome. 1t is now better DR..
Keplinger says he has recently treat
ed eight cases of this disease, all
successfully. Arthur Campbell is
very sick with slow fever. Mrs. Nc
Lane has the slow fever.
Two new corners, a boy and a girl,
at Of II PiShnn
Oak
Lector Holland says that the re-
port that he had gotten married was
too good news to be true.
The two Misses Price, twin sisters,
and Miss Eva Forbes, accompanied
by Messrs. McWhirter and Odom,
were at Mammoth Springs Sunday
Albert Eckerbergher and Poyce
Curry, two Mountain Peak gin hands
were at Mammoth Springs Sunday.
Ed Ferguson and Hugh McAlpin
visited Mammoth Springs Sunday.
j. T. Meredith and Willie Morgan
went to Dallas Saturday.
John Forbes has been having
sores on his hands that were rather
| inconvenient.
Capt ]. P. Belew and family spent
few hours at Mammoth Springs
last Sunday
j. W. Battles visited Mrs. Eliza
Morgan Sunday.
Edgar Goodwin has sold out and
expects to go back to his old homl
in Tennessee soon.
Capt. Quientin Rankin. who was
so foully murdered by night riders
in Obion county, Tennessee. and
prominent attorney of Trenton,
Tenn, was well known by the writ
er from childhood, and his own
cousin, and it was with sadness he
heard of his brutal treatment and
untimely death.
AS the tariff is the leading issue
in the coming election of course it
has received the very careful atten-
ton of the voters which it deserves.
The writer became convinced that
high protective tariff was wrong in
principle in this way:
In 1881. We remember paying
$3.50 for an ounce of sulphate of
quinine. There was then but two
manufacturers of quininine. Powers
& Weightman being on the bottle
bought by the writer BY some
free list, and soon it could be bought
for 40 cents, and soon there was
such a demand for the drug that
perhaps twenty or more factories
We're started up to supply The writ
er reasoned from this that the same
effect would be produced on any or
all the other commodities of life
were it placed on the free list But as
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government. tariff for revenue
only, sufficient to run the govern
ment economically administered is
what the people should advocate.
The protective tariff came into exist
ance with the government, and was
levied, it was said. to protect infant
industries, but now some of those
infants are full grown children, and
are trying to protect the govern
ment.