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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

Every voter In Waxahachie who
Is acquainted with the crowded con-
ditions of our city schools should
&C to the polls October 10 and vote
fer the bond issue for new build
ing. The present conditions should
Lot be permitted to exist another
year.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

The Trinity football team Il work
lng hard every day TO get In shape
for the opening OF the season. The
prospect IL good for a strong team.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

The prohibition election in Tar
RAFT county grows in interest and
intensity. Both sides are putting
forward every effort for success,
and each Ii claiming the victory.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

The Delta Courier says Barry Mil
Ter viii be the next federal appointee
from Texas. but Barry may conclude
that the state needs his services
worse than the federal government.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

n IL said that Joe Bailey will run
against Morris Sheppard In 1918.
Well. he will have to run. for no
nan can win over Morris IN a walk.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

Texas democrats are responding
literally to the call for contributions
to help out the national democratic
committee. If your name is not al
ready on the list. get 1t there at
once.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

Three bonds iEsucs ere 10 be voted
or October 10th and II Is important
20 tho city that each be adopted.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

We must confess that We are not
as meek os we might be. AT any
rate We see no Immediate prospect
OF ipheriilng the earth.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

Mol all the mud singing IL being
done by one eide In the local option
election In Tarrant county.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

No matter how hot the fight be-
Gomez. = saloon man is always ready
welcome counter ATTACK.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

This Is Monday. You have OPP
port9nity before the week closes TO
DO Of some service TO your fellow
man.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

Mat Robinson of Ray offers a
grand sweepstake prize of a SIS pig
for the best Duroc Jersey pig under
year old.
Cash prizes furnished by Waxa-
hachie Chamber of Commerce.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

There il no objection TO a Girl
with rough hands IT. she came by
them b. singing skiilets and try
Ing pans.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

That man Is benefactor to his
town who causes two factories to
grow where but one grew before.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

There is some consolation in the
icct that the candidate PROBABLY Is
- tired CT bis handslahes as those
-e uses II on.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

speaking OF Hughes qualifications
FOR The office OF president, Il n
claimed that he cannot even play a
respectable game of goif.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

There il already some little sus'
picion that the year 1918 Is going
10 DO atem-winder.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

The democrats are showing a lot
Of questions at Candidate Hughes
which thar gentleman viii find IL
soinewhat difficult To answer.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

II begins to look like IL will be
necessary 90 kin villa several more
times before they will be able To get
rid Of him down in Mexico.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

about preachers a. he ga in bis
open letter 20 Evangelist Ham.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

Judge George Armstrong ought
10 ls sshsnsd Of Lsmtei! % talk
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18
SIX PA0ns.

We can never hope for permanent
peace until the naticns quit going
to war.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

Second (50pounds flour. 200
Third nursery stoek). .. loo
Glass ".
Corn - Largest Single Ear - any
variety. Length 40 per cent, weight
so per cent?
First ............. .sz.Vv
Second nursery stock) ... loo
Third ............ Ribbon
Glass 4.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18
PREMIUM LIST FOR FALL EXHIBIT

September 20 and 80 and OCTOBER z
NheFarm pemohr ration Agent andh
$4,000 IN PRIZES
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18

M rAs" R p r.s Davis
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-18
THE CROP SHOW

All the corn and grains entered iI
the Crop Show must reach Waxa-
hachie not later than 800 a. m. Sep
TENDER 20. Experts in judging corn
and grains will be present to sup
ply special information on request.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22

law.
Wetz is the self-styled "egg king,
who boastfully said, "I've got the
eggs; what are you going to do about
it?" He evidently imagines that he,
like other kings of earth who claim a
divine right to rule, has divine right
to buy up all the eggs of the country,
withdraw them from the market and
hold them in cold storage, so that
people who want eggs must come to
him and pay his price, as the people
far and near had to go to the Pha-
raoh of Egypt, during the seven lean
years, for corn. He is said to be one
of four men who control the egg mar
ket of the Middle West, but as long
as they operate alone and do not leave
any trace of conspiracy among
themselves, it appears that they can
not be reached by law--either Federal
or State.
Well, the sooner both Federal and
State laws are passed to meet such
conditions the better. A ban and ad-
equate punishment should be placed on
such wholesale boarding of all neces-
sary staple food stuffs, authorizing
the courts, on conviction, to throw the
stuff thus cornered on the markets at
whatever price it may bring. No
man, however large his means and
facilities for cornering food stuffs
for speculative purposes, should be
allowed to exercise such means and
facilities for that purpose. The pro-
hibition should extend to all neces-
sary food stuffs.
In the meantime the people can on
ly fight these food sharks by boy
cotting their special commodities and
substituting other foods, until the
constituencies spectators are forced
to sell at reasonable prices; and to
hold all such food spectators up to
scorn and derision until their names
shall become a hiss and by-word
throughout the length and breadth of
the land.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22
THE MODERN REVIVAL

Bishop w. T. Quayle of St. Louis,
addressing the State Methodist Con-
ference at Fort Smith, Ark, on the
9th inst, discussed among other things
the modern sensational religious re-
vival, and appears to have taken the
position that they are far from ac-
eomplishing all that is claimed for
them. We haven't seen the address
to read it, but he is quoted as having
handed the great sensational revival
list Billy Sunday the following left
handed bouquet: "a tofots
"When Sunday is in town he has
all the Christianity there is in town,
and it looks big. The same thing is
happening every day in other cities,
but it doesn't look SO big because it's
all spread out. If we'd omit the set
revival altogether for a year ! think
it would be good thing, for this
conference. We get 100 conversions
and 10 of them join the church, The
80 Just evaporate." re; as.
The Bishop expresses TIE view We
have more or less secretly held for
a long time as to the methods pur-
sued and the doubtful good accomp-
lished by modern professional reviv-
alists. Their purpose appears to bel
not so much to present the inspired
Word in its purity and simplicity
with the aim Of reaching ones reason
ir~ facult;
as, through a SOFT # vsudevillan per-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22

Torrance, to attract crowd and ap-
peal to the unreliable emotional
senses, which fare up like Pickering
blaze from a smoldering fire at a gust
of wind and dies down as quickly as
the wind lulls. But when one of these
revivals is in progress, every church
member, of whatever denomination he
may be, is expected to put forth all
his persuasive influence to help along
the big show, whether he can indorse
the methods and utterances of the
professional evangelist or not. One
usually would rather keep quiet than
to be practically ostracised by the
applauding crowds, and if he escapes
ostracism in that way and is not
looked upon askance as one of the
DEVILS own he is fortunate. So it is
refreshing to hear one of Bishop
Quayle's sturdy Christian character
frankly speak out his honest feelings
and sentiments on this subject.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22

C. C. Michener, wealthy manu-
facturer of Boston and New York, who
is devoting his entire time to effecting
a working organization of the League
to Enforce Peace, while on a visit to
st. Louis this week, said that the
League had in view no plans for the
settlement of the present European
war; he says the whole plan of the
organization is to make a repetition
of the present deplorable war an i'm
possibility. 1t is not probable that
any effort on the part of people in
this country at this time would hasten
peace in Europe; severely as the bel
ligerent nations have punished each
other, the powers that be are not
ready to consider peace proposals. The
issue at arms up to date is too doubt
full for either side to take any step
that might be construed into a sign
of yielding.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22

The Lead Belt News recently took
The Times to task, in a lengthy edi.
torial, for the efforts we have been
making in regard to improving the
Pennington telephone system. If the
News editor will go back in his files
a few years, to the time that the pres
ent manager of the telephone system
complained of was editor Of that pa
per, we believe he will find criticisms
at that time, which are far more harsh
and severe than is anything that The
Times has said about the present sys-
tenn. And there was also far less
cause at that time for criticism than
there has recently been. 1t sure does
make difference whose OK is being
gored.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22
ON THE WRONG TRAIL


State Senator John F. Morton Of
Richmond, chairman of the Senate
Appropriation Committee of the last
session Of the Legislature, at the
Gardner conference in st. Louis last
Friday, antagonized the position TAX
en- by the Governor He de-
clared that the last Legislature did
not make appropriations in excess Of
the States anticipated revenue, and
that the 1916 taxes yet to be collected
and turned into the State Treasury
would more than pay off the estimat-
ed deficit of $1,70O,OOO or &2,O0O,O 900.
He contended that if the fiscal year
ended in February instead Of the 1st
of January, there never would be a
deficit in the State Treasury.
But we can't sec how the shifting
of the fiscal year to subsequent date,
until all the taxes of any given year
could be turned into the Treasury,
would change the conditions under
which the State is laboring, even if
the anticipated revenue were suffi-
Gent to cover all expenses. A large
part of the present deficit is for sal
aries and expenses of educational,
eleemosynary and other State insti-
buttons, and these could not be met in
any event until the money is in the
Treasury, whether the fiscal year end
cd in January or February. Then the
next fiscal year would start in again
on a practically empty Treasury with
another two-years' appropriations to
be paid out of an uncollected antici-
pated revenue. The result would be
the same; the Treasury would not be
able to meet all the obligations as they
fell due-not until all the revenue for
the fiscal year was m-which would
mean that creditors would have to
wait for their pay, just as they are
waiting now. ,
What is needed is a system of tax
alton that will leave sufficient rev.
enue in the Treasury at the close of
the fiscal year to meet, with the anti
cipated revenue coming in each month,
all bills of whatever nature as they
fall due, SO that creditors may not
have to wait until near the close of the
fiscal year to get the money due them
Once started on this healthy business
system, with a constitutional prohi-
bition that the Legislature may not
exceed in appropriations a definite
budget of expenses based upon the
estimated revenue Of any one year,
the affairs of the State could be con-
Quoted more economically and escape
such recurring financial embarrass-
ments as the one with which it is now
confronted.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22
OTHER COUNTIES, TOO

1t has just been made public that
the County Court of st. Francois coun-
ty has issued between $4,000 and
$4,000 county warrants that draw
six per cent-and no money. The
same conditions exist in Pemiscot and
Scott counties, and probably in many
other counties. The reason for this is
the ever-increasing cost of govern
ment, and the ability Of the owners
to evade taxation.
Not only are officials continually
alloying themselves more pay, but the
cost of the keep of the paupers and
the insane jumps alarmingly. And
when an effort is made to raise the
necessary revenue, the owners of the
county kick and insist that the poor
pay the cost in increased poll tax, or
a higher assessment of their little
household goods, pigs, etc. n
The chief industry of Scott and
Pemiscot counties is farming-and a
few men own the land-resident and
nonresident, The chief industry of
st. Francois county is mining-and a
few Eastern capitalists own the mines.
The Pennington Times says the Lead
Companies own rs per cent of the
wealth of the county and should be
made to pay more taxes.
l should like to be present when an
effort is made to raise the assessment
of the lead companies. 1t will be an
eye-opener for The Times. The Times
will discover that rs per cent of the
wealth of the county is not all that
the lead companies own. The Times
will discover that, in matters con-
corning their interest, the mine own
ers also own the government.
In insisting that the mines be made
to pay more taxes, The Times comes
dangerously near limiting at confisca-
ton. 1t says, Mature did not place
these rich deposits in the earth for
the exploitation and sole use of few
favored individuals" -Scott County
Kicker.
We only wish to comment on a
part of the foregoing article-next to
the last paragraph. The intimation
that the mine owners of this county
own the county government as well
as rs per cent of the taxable wealth
of the county, is hardly borne out by
the facts, at least as to a part of the
county government, for through the
hammering of The Times the assess
ments of the mining companies have
been materially increased the past
year-not sufficiently, of course, but
they have been increased. Our new
County Court, the Assessor and the
County Surveyor, who constitute the
County Board of Equalization, are
not creatures of the mining companies
nor are they owned by the mining
companies. Just watch this comb,
nation. The mining companies may do
some kicking but they are going to
have to pay something nearer their
equitable share of the taxes, unless we
are mistaken. st. Francois county is
not a pauper and ought not to be
placed in that attitude by having the
State pay back to it in school moneys
several thousand dollars more than
the county pays into the State Treas
llrv.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22
THE. LAW DOESN'T REACH HIM

,a 1t is said that after three weeks of
investigation of the operations of
James E. Wetz, who is reputed to be
have 100000 eggs, Cor is it that
many dozens?) cornered in cold stor-
age in Chicago, the Chief of the Blu
reau of Information of the Depart
ment of Justice has reported to the
United States District Attorney that
he has been unable to obtain any ev-
idence Of conspiracy upon which to
base prosecution; that Wetz operates
lnrelv el0re ana his actions - rot
a~r,p v,i+L;r fte -~-7 - ~ u.s.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22
BLAZING THE WAY

AZ d COlhSIthCe VI DIdJS ulilCSIs
elect, members of the Legislature and
others, called by Governor-elect Gard
ner last Friday in st. Louis. Mr..
Gardner set forth in an address the
necessity of raising more revenue to
meet the States deficit and to pro-
vide against the biennial recurrence
of its financial embarrassment. Along
with his address he furnished list of
sources upon which he would draw or
raise the additional necessary reve-
nue.. Both the address and the list
may be found on another page, and
we commend them to the careful con-
sideration of the reader.
Mr.. Gardeners ambition is to give
the State a business administration,
to pay off its Indebtedness and to
keep it clear of debt. He is disposed
to take the public into his confidence,
tell them of his plans and invite dis
cussion and criticism. There was ma
turally some opposition or exceptions
taken in the conference to several of
the means suggested by Mr.. Gardner
in his list, but that is not surprising.
While everybody recognizes the fact
that government necessarily embrace
es taxation, as without it government
could not exist, invested interests as
well as the average citizen want to
get off with just as little tax as pos
sible, and any increase that is calcu-
lated to touch them at once arouses
resentment.
The taxing of real estate, Mr..
Gardner holds, falls heaviest on the
farmers, because theirs is one of the
least remunerative, while at the same
time one of the most important and
necessary of all business callings, one
that should be encouraged and in no
way oppressed, and for that reason
he would place a larger share of tax
es on privileges. That is not only
reasonable but just, for it is the PEG,
pie through their representatives who
grant these privileges to organized
concerns or corporations-privileges
that confer on them many advantages
not enjoyed by the private citizen.
The State protects them in their priv
ileges, and they should not only pay,
but pay cheerfully, for these liberal
grants and protection.
Mr.. Gardner, perhaps, did not ex-
pect that his suggestions would meet
with ready or universal acceptance,
but gave them as a foundation upon
which to build, to bring out sugges-
tons and discussions, to the end that
something may be done. He has shown
that he is not afraid to take the mi
tiative and is ready to shoulder what
ever responsibility he may incur in
this direction. He is endeavoring to
point the way, and it rests with the
General Assembly to say whether his
suggestions shall be carried out or
that body can devise some
thing better or more satisfactory, for
it is apparent to every one who has
given the subject a thought that
must be done. The sug-
gestions of such an experienced and
successful business man as Governor
elect Gardner, when it comes to plac-
ing the affairs of the State on a sound
business basis, are worthy of weighty !
consideration.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22

Col. N. A. Zimmerman of st. Fran
co.'s made The Times neighborly
call last Saturday and in his talk we
incidentally caught the impression
that he would not be averse to re-
ceiving an appointment from Gov
ernor-elect Gardner as State Hotel
Inspector. The Colonel is himself a
l,osteler Of no mean repute, knows the
business thoroughly and is as practi-
cal as he is observant. Besides he is
one of those active working Demo
srots who arc net in TIE habit of IS
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22

satisfied to help the party win its
victories. 1t will be remembered that
as a former Chairman of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee of
this district he came right up to the
scratch every time. If the Colonel
wants to be State Hotel Inspector we
are for him.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22

Governor-elect Gardner has an
nounced that no intoxicating wines
or drinks will be served at the Inaug-
uration reception, nor at any of the
Executive Mansion functions during
his administration. He makes this
announcement at the wish and special
suggestion of Mrs. Gardner, with
whose decision he most cheerfully and
readily comedies.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-12-22

Judge Kimbrough Stone of Kansas
City, son of Senator Stone, has been
appointed Judge of the United States
Circuit Court by the President, vice
Judge Elmer B. Adams, deceased.
The Washington times., 1916-12-16

THIS WEATHER

BE good enough to remember,
while you are grumbling at warm
fireside. about the discomforts Of the
cold spell, that there are multitudes
Of other people who don't have
warmth at their hearths; who are
underfed and i'll clothed. You will
make yourself happy, and some Of
these unfortunates likewise, il you
will think on these things just a
little. Forget yourself for little
time, and in the forgetting you will
find a JOY of well-doing.
Are there some old clothes in the
closets, that you have carelcssly
hung there and then forgotten save
when they become nuisance be-
cause Of the space they occupy?
Those old clothes will be exceeding
good and useful clothes to somebody
who very much needs them tonight;
and chances are, in this little world
of sadly varying estates, you may
find inside your own immediate
neighborhood the place where they
will do much good.
When you are chilly, let IL be a
reminder that others are cold. When
your are shivering. make IL tes-
timony that somebody is freezing.
And then do the very best that is
within your capability and your OPP
portunities, TO relieve the hardships
Of somebody else.
If you haven't tried it, you will
be surprised to discover how very
much happiness IL will bring you
to subtract just little. from the un-
happiness Of Somebody Else. And
however much you may pity your
self, there is Somebody Else 10
give you a little more happiness by
showing you what a bit Of thought
fulness, unselhshness, love, will
contribute when IL is most needed.