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Mr George "Fcdcrolf, who lives five miles north of Brownsville,
Toxuh, in the Gulf Coast; Country, planted nine acres in cabbages,
from which lie marketed 227,000 pounds. lie sold the entire crop to
McDavitt Bros., Commission Merchants of Brownsville, for $4,000.
According to Mr. Federolf 's statement, it only cost him ,$400 to grow
tho entire crop and load it on the cars. His net profit, above all
cost, was $3,000.
This crop was planted In December and sold in March, a pretty good
allowing for four months work.
The same land will produce, two or three crops a year.
Do you wonder that so many men are leaving their-jobs in the North
and going down to tho Gulf Coast Country to ilnd fortune and independence,
Why don't you do the same? Anyone can raise fruits and vegetables in the
Gulf Coast Country oven tho city man. It is 'simply "making garden"
oh a larger scalo. You will only need a few acres and can buy the land on
easy IQllilB. il piopuny uuiuu lui, iuu uiau uiui uuuum mmu iiiuu yajr lui iv.
The Gulf Coast Country has passed tho experimental stage irrigation,
and quick transportation to tho large markets of the Mississippi Valley
and tho East, have made largo yields and big profits a' practical certainty.
Growors can reach tho northern markets .weeks ahead of the products
of othor soctlons, thus insuring enormous profits.
Tho Gulf Coast Country is a delightful place in which to live. Mild
Bunny winters, summors pleasantly tempered by Gulf breezes.
A great change has been wrought in tho Gulf Coast Country within the
past two or threo years. Prosperous towns and cities have sprung up
irrigation has boon systematized and extended methods of marketing have
boon Improved.
Iuvostlgnto this proposition whllo tho land Is within your reach. Next year
it will cost more
A trip of Investigation will bo Inexpensive. Twice each month you can buy
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'Those tickets will bo good for twenty-flvo days
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On oxcurslon days tourist sleepers run through
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Frisco Lines.
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PLUTOORA.OY nMADE UNIVERSI
TIES Guegielmo Ferroro. tho famous
Italian historian, after ten weeks in
America has sailed for home. Dur
ing his stay in this cpuntry he was
honored by , scholars, educators,
statesmen, men., of affairs, by tho
president of the; United States him
self, as ono at whose-feet even our
wisest men might well sit in learn
ing, aeroro no left America he sub
mitted an interview in which he gave
ttu JJtV OIU l0 tne PeoPle of the
United States. His message is that
of one learned in the history of em
pires and peoples, of a philosopher
whose wisdom has been gained by a
life-long study of 'the tendencies, in-
ai-iiuuuus ana events that have
marked tho -progress of the world
and the rise and fall of nations.
The most slcniftannt'nnrf m
sage had to do with the tremendous
part recently taken by the American
PlU?l:acy in e .educational system
of this republic, It bears so direct
ly on the Rockefeller and Carnegie
efforts to gain a . foothold in the
University of Nebraska, and on the
Rockefeller project now to. establish
a University of Omaha," that the
vvuwu-iuenua Herewith renrodnopc
seller. Vie commission: Write quick Tfor territory it out nf tho -mT, reproduces
A .; , OI uus clty and state:
.-S??B?.ur millionaires are
XrZL VI ,BO many ways, you
YOU CAN STOP
DRINKING
Your Husband, Son
or rriand from
Wrltn mo. nnil T will tnii ,.., i.
oitljor with or without hla consent, nnil without
SoWub to fcvPr Vr f hL? tlmo- "t wmoo tyou
iioiiuu to try. I have jiivon my advleo tr inin.i
reds upon hundreds, and never hoard or nin
where it falloib Address 15. 1'orti Tpi oh
ko, iu.. 00 Doarboro su Ataoluto secrSr pJoSSJS:
allow them to do some things 'which
wo would nevor nil, m. .
Europe You, allow them to found
universities! -You allow them to de
vote their millions to founding and
supporting vast establishments in
which tho youth of the nation is to
acquire its Ideals. If the million
aires themselves can not teach the
rising generation the ideals they
would like them to acquire, they
can at least select the men who are
to teach them. May there not be
some method in this kind of giving?
" 'Why do you say that a million
aire could not found a university in
Europe?' asked tho writer.
"Tho state would not allow it. If
the millionaire started to do any
thing of that sort the state would
instantly step in and say to him:
'No, my dear sir, do what you like
with your money, but leave the train
ing of the youth to me. I, tho state,
havo charge of that. It is for me
alone to say how the young men and
women are to be brought up; I will
place before them the ideals that I
think they should have. I will Ill
low of no interference on your part.'
Such an institution as Chicago Uni
versity is unimaginable in any coun
try of Europe. It would not be tol
erated for one moment. It is a
beautiful place. I was glad to lec
ture there, but I could not help
thinking what a peril to America
it might become, what sinister pos
sibilities are latent within, it. Mr.
Rockefeller, I understand, does not
interfere. at all in the management
of that university; he does not dic
tate the professors who shall lecture
there nor the curriculum that shall
be followed; and from what I have
been able to learn of him I don't
think he ever will. But some suc
cessor to his millions might choose
to wield the power which Mr. Rocke
feller has thus far let alone. Think
of the power such a man would
have if he wanted to exercise it!
Think of the ideals that might be
set before the youth of America by
an unscrupulous millionaire con
trolling a university through his do
nations! It is too great a power to
be permitted to any man, and I am
amazed that iti America, where the
millionaires are checked by public
opinion, no question seems ever to
be raised as to the possible danger
of the university that is millionaire
made." .
This is the thoucht-nrovoldncr
message left with us by one of the
most illustrious scholars of the Old
World. It sustains exactly the posi
tion this newspaper has taken from
the beginning. It is in line with
the recent powerful letter on the
subject for the World-Herald by
William J. Bryan.
No thoughtful man can look about
him and not see the danger Ferrero
saw so readily that he was "amazed"
at the seeming blindness of the
American people.
Mr. Rockefeller has p.ut $35,000,
000 into the University of Ghinnern.
so that it completely overshadows the
public supported University of Illi
nois. He has put $43,000,0.00 into
an educational fund. Mr. Carnegie
nas put i$ib,uuu,quo Into a profes
sors' pension fund. And these are
only beginnings., Universities not
particinatinjr in all thasa rfoVioc m.
pitifully handicapped. They can not
offer the facilities, the costly instruc
tors, the buildings, equipments, li
braries, that do' these millionalro
made institutions with unlimited
wealth to back them. The small
universities, the sectarian schools,
feel the crushing weight of this
plutocratic competition more and
more keenly. If present tendencies
continue unchecked it requires no
especial faT-sightedness to see the
time when tho stato universities and
smaller private universities will be
left lagging hopelessly in the rear
and when the flowpr nf w ,i.... '
tional system will be in the hands",
u uuuui mo control, or the heirs
and administrators of the present
American plutocracy.
Did Ferrero overstato the case
when he said, of the plutocratic edu
cational system, that "I eould not
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