The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-11-12
Letter from nTontgomery county.

Editors Democratic StatesmdR-I have
read your usury articles with good deal
of interest. The arguments to my mind,
are forcibly presented, and must convince.
The Decemvire of the Telegraph must all be
money loaners. Cushing may not be-he
looks plaintive, and may be a borrower.
It's Just the standpoint from which the
thing is contemplated. When the Decem.
have I'd borrow they will see a rat floating
in the air, and want his wings clipped, 0ide
Sir Jonah Darlington. aA
Money loaning demoralizes dreadfully.
One looks ct another with interest, to see
how much interest can be got out Of him.
/ have an intimate friend who, since the
war, has become money loaner. Not over
twelve per cent, and he, genial-minded
gentleman, has got to be hard, with lines
of pinching care and severity marking q
kindly, handsome face. / have an abhor-
renee of them, although / never borrowed
never loaned money at interest.
Where usury prevails money is Withdrawn
from enterprise, or does not engage in it,
and It finally consumes the debtor. Our
social obligations demand that no one shall
have so great power over another.
In hard down East, they protect the un-
fortunate to a certain extent, with equi-
ties of redemption in forced sales. l re-
fer to the principle of restrainst against op-
pressiVe evils Of all kinds involved in all
social existences.
Some time since you examined the de-
fects of the Constitution, with view to.
cause the public, or rather the legal mind,
to take notice of them. presume these
commentaries viii be needed again when
the convention meets, and hope you viii
renew them. Half the world has to be
told what it should do, remindingly- that
is the way good wives insure success TO
their husbands in their business, telling
them what to do next. In this view, the
convention had better bring their wives
along. In the hurry and confusion Of "de-
lucrative bodies, many things are omitted
or forgotten, and so reminding will be use
full and pertinent. Here and there care
| ful rejecting man has laid your papers
away, but nine out Of ten have forgotten
your remarks, and SO need renewed sugges-
tions.
The convention ought to establish the
tax-paying period, and those of the main
or general elections. / am persuaded that
if 50 established, day certain always that
habit would bring more persons to the
polls Election day would be as regular as
the idea or habit Of sowing ''roots" in the
dark Of the moon. Our folks here, old Al
abamians, want the first Monday in August,
when farm business is over.
There is one thing special, think, should
be published-the United States law re-
straining persons thas cannot read and
write from setting on juries in the Federal
courts. presume Dir. Matthew Hopkins
has il. It IS observed in South Carolina,
see by my late papers. Our folks should be
famiiiarized with the idea in preparatory ef-
feet for future legislation.
I see that Mssourians who don't read and
write viii, after 1876, not be permitted to
vote-so states the Willis Observer. Can It
be so9
With others, must compliment you on
the enlargement Of your journal, but can
not the editorials they were always good,
better, best.