El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-29
Bryan and His Example
'sGive-a-Dam7 Jones Comments on
Secretary Bryan-The German and
MexicO-Little Interviews.
wv HAT constitutes a great
Ma man?' asked c. F., alias

! - zwy > HAT constitutes a great
Ma mann" asked c. F., alias
Give-a-dam Jones. Answer
! ing his own question, he said: Ny
( father taught me that an honest name
J was better than great riches, but can
/ 1 teach the same doctrine to my pcs
! terity, when l see William Jennings
| Bryan holding the most hOnOred pO-
/ sition outside Of the president of the
! United States, leaving his duty undOne
| and lecturing for. a dollar a head2
[ Isn't it a pity that great intellects like
! his will grabbIe for the lust of a dol
! lar, and lose his respect and honor to
/ the nations yet UNBORN Me thinks I
/ could see him in debate with that giant
! Daniel Webster, Calhoun, John Quincy
/ Adams, James G. Blaine or many others
/ who would make him look like a 80
[ cent Mexican dollar in the arena Of
/ debate, yet We find none Of these
J honOred men who stOOp so low as to
/ make their position place OF revenue
! for their beLterment: me thinks I can
/ hear the giant Webster in debate with
a pygmy Bryan, and how small he
/ must feel after Webster shows him
/ the duty and honor of an American
/ citizen; how small he must compare
I with the giants who filled that hon
| ored position before him Bryans
I speech on the Prince Of Peace is be-
1 Titled by that grand Grafton of Dan
lei Webster, when he says cat the lay
7 ing Of the corner stone of Bunker Hill
( mOnument): Let It rise, let It rise,
/ till it meets the sun IN its coming; let
! the earliest light of the morning gid il
and the parting twilight play on its
/ summit
1T surely makes me smile to see
/ Willie trying to wear Daniels clOthes7
| it's an awful misfit; its like putting
/ a No. 4 foot in a No. 9 shoe and and
| a No. s head in a No. hat, and the
| tail Of the coat that Daniel Webster
wore would drag in the dust if it were
put. on Bryan; it is sure that Daniel
I Webster never disgraced the American
| people while he acted as their repre-
| sentative. Can we say the same OF
Bryan, begging for a dollar?
/ Let me say that I voted for Bryan
| three times for president, but there
/ must be a divinity which shapes our
/ end and I am surely glad he was never
| elected
He was a German. leaving Mexico
/ for his own good. He had been a
week or more getting over the country
| from the small mining town where
! he had been located for years. to the
\ border and safety, and he was not in
4 a very good humOr. On the way out
/ OF a pass. and a federal officer had
| thrown him into Jail in a little town
/ in the interior, and two miserable days
! had been spent in a dirty cell before
! the matter could be Strengthened out
| That added to his bad humOr. When
| he reached Juarez. he engaged a coach
/ to bring him over, forgetting for the
time that street cars connected the
| two cities When the center Of the
| bridge was reached, the German refu-
! gee called to the coachman to stop
Then the subject of the kaiser de-
/ liberately descended from the coach
I and walking to the spot where he could
stand in the United States and lean
over into Mexico. he spit with great
asked what was the matter 7 am
splitting on the dam country said the
German Then he came OF to FL Paso-
= X
"T know the people Of the United
States probably as well as any Of my
countrymen and I have the highest
respect for the honesty and fairness OF
your people" Mexican consul A Miriam
da said Senior Miranda was engaged in
business in New York for q number Of
years before coming to FL Paso as
Mexican consul and his knowledge has
been obtained at first hand in his bus
mess dealings with Americans in the
United States. Il have always found
that once an American IS brought to
see the facts as they exist, he may be
depended upon to act fairly and to do
the right thing" he says My ad-
Mexican people are realizing this great
truth in the present crisis and that
president Wilson may be depended
upon to act fairly toward the coun-
f 60F that is his '0untry'' nearest neigh
"The Herald certainly has the straight
dope on these prize fights which are
nan, dean of the fight fan fraternity.
Il don't know who writes your fight
stuff, but it is always well done and
what is best. 1t is never prejudiced in
favor Of one or the other fighters, but
is a fair exposition Of the fight as if
occurs. giving the readers the chance
to judge for themselves. I have been
following these fights closely and I
have yet to find a serious error in your
fight reports and / congratulate your
paper upon its efficiency in this de-
partment"
Look at that and think Of going to
war with these people" said Jimmie
Rous Sunday in Juarez- as a company
OF Mexican federal soldiers passed
There is one little lad who is no big
ser than my oldest daughter and good
to carry his gun Why, that would
be fighting children for our big hus-
kies to stack up against such an army
as that represents" Jimmie was
right. for many Of the Huertista fight
ing men" are mere boys who should
be in the public schools learning to
read. write and cipher The little fel-
lows cannot keep step with their big |
brothers and the ammunition belts.
canteens and muskets weigh them
down until they could not march across |
town without being exhausted"
=
There is a sparrow up there on my |
corner who may not know it but he |
is lowering between this world and |
the next with only an inch between his !
family and the future" said A
Schwartz. THE sparrow family has |
built a nest in the switch box Of a |
high power feed wire and the exposed !
surface of the deadly wire is less than /
an inch from the brOOding place OF !
the little Sparrows. There viii be /
a flash, a smell of burning flesh and /
there viii be a few less sparrOws to /
fly around the corner Of Oregon and /
Boulevard some of these days"
\
California Is a country which every 1
man ought to see,' declared A T. Thurs /
ton Tuesday morning 1T is the garden /
Of the earth, and the peculiar part Of it |
is that they scarcely have a rain there 1
once in six months. Irrigation does it /
all The first people met in Los An
seles from FL Paso were Tom Lea and ]
Dan Jackson, strolling along arm in 4
arm, on Broadway"
Col n. D. Lane, Of the United States !
weather bureau, has returned from Rui-
dose, N NJ, where he spent the last 10 /
days on vacation. Col Lane returned /
from the mountain town Saturday and {
left Sunday morning for a short trip (
up to Las Cruces and his ranch. at 4