The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-01-27
STATING THE DIFFERENCE.

for liberal policy, They have been
listed by the executive as sinister
agencies"
The executive as regards railroads
stands for tight-wad policy, says
the Fort Worth Star and Telegram.
He has listed himself as a patriot
laboring unselfishly for the people.
Which side is right, and who are
the people?
Certainly the farmers come high,
If not first in this class. Then take
a farmer as an example. He lives
forty miles from a railroad and
. travels an average of 500 miles a
year on railroads.
BY cutting fares from 3 cents to 2
he would save $25 in five years.
First blood for the tight-wads, but
that policy would perhaps keep him
the same forty miles in the sticks
for the five years. He would pay
$500 year for wagon freight on his
products or $1,000. Net loss 1915.
The liberal policy might give him
a railroad station in a year or two
and save at least half of this 1915,
which would oyerbalance the tight
wad gain several times.
Second blood and more of it for
the liberals, with the tight-wads
backing off. Then the liberal policy
might give the county of the far
mer's residence thirty or forty miles
of railroad to tax-say nearly a mil
lion new values. More blood for the
liberals with the tight-wads retreat
ing to their corner. Then the advent
of the railroad into that county
would increase land and other val
ues more than another million. Pick
us blow by liberals; tight-wads over
the ropes, but still reminding the
farmer of how twenty-five good dol
lars could have been saved in five
years by fighting the railroads and
pushing the fare to 2 cents.
Now which is the farmers real
friend-the sinister agency, or the
avowed unselfish patriot? Is it so
difficult to figure out that the far
mer can't see it? Putting aside need
less suspicion of the motives of the
Commercial Secretaries or the exec
utive-admitting that all are desir-
Gus of the greatest good to Texas,
the secretaries have the advantage
because they have wider and more
solid grounds to stand on
They walk a broad plank laid
Pathways.
The executive draws on distrust
suspicion and alarm for a balance
pole TO walk similar plank set up
edge-wise.
That's about the difference.
The state senate has shown dis
position to recognize the side of the
platform plank as better walking.
The executive splits on his hands,
grasps the pole more firmly and
swears there's lots of room on its
edge.
liberal policy has room for con-
cession, compromise and final agree
ment.
A tight-wad policy is too narrow
to split-too razor-backed to carry
double.
1t requires the leader to look
straight ahead into a narrow per
speetiye and his followers to look
straight ahead into a narrow per-
spective and look straight at the
leader to keep from losing the pre-
carious but precious trail.
Broader roads to broader progress
lead;
Dim paths to mossback methods
tend.
Which system shall this year sue
coed,
What guerdon at the journeys end?
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And now comes Senator Murray
who halls from the chaparel district
of Floresville and declares that de-
mocracy of Texas is trying to fool
the peopie in the matter of submis-
sion, that the state convention hal
no right TO construe the law. There
may be good reasons for the opposi-
ton to the submission question, but
when the ants attempt to discredit
the democratic party for entertain
ing the question they very material
ly weaken their cause. That old say
ing about giving a calf more rope,
etc, seems to apply in the case OF
the above mentioned seator.
Senator Culberson's probe seems
to be reaching the tender spot In
the trust combine. That man from
Texas has a way of going deep
when he gets after something.
ont of he MANY bills being offered /