The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-02

He Dox'T TAKE THE STATEsMAS.-The
following letter was written by a gentleman
who has seen the world in all its aspects.
and gathered information from all eonceiv-
able sources. Wehsve sspottedn Just such
characters as this which he describes, and
can now put our dnger on the man he des-
! ignates. He lives within and for himself.
and should be avoided by those who would
promote the city's growth and greatness
that it may have and sustain magnificent
daily newspaper. Even now the STATES
MAN is more enterprising than they whom it
represents, and, as we have already an
nounced. the quantity Of reading matter
will be augmented; but this benefaction 10
the public is not due to the acts Of such
splendid specimens of Incompatible stu
pidity and despicable seIfshness as the
growing ass who runs the dirty store de-
.scribed below:
AUsTIE, August 81, 1875.
Editor Democratic StatesmGn--.'Will you
please allow me TO look at your morning
STATEsMAN?'
mo; we don't take any of the id pa.
pers there isn't paper in town that's worth
d." -
The above little episode took place this
morning in front Of store not thousand
miles from your Office. l was somewhat
surprised at the loud, rough manner of the
answer, and so with the gentleman with
whom l was conversing, we being but
few feet away. The man who gave the
answer, and who is the proprietor Of the es-
| fah lizh of no aAau
splenetic looking sort, from whom just
such language might be expected. His eye
reminds you of the hawk, and his general
appearance would attract FalstaH when
on the look out for subjects ''tit for
powder" On peering into his store we
found conglOmeratiOn of filth, chaos and
| trumpery, such as you could not again find
in travel of many days. The hardened
dirt on his floor was an inch thick on the
average, and nobby, like the back of an
alligator. His glass jars, which ought
TO have glistened and shone with purity,
were covered with cObwebs and dust and
looked most vilely; the packages of spices
and cans of fruit, vegetables, ETC., were
dingy and dirty and looked as if they
might have been filed several times. Bar
rels, wilted potatoes and fiy-blown eggs
were scattered prOmiscuously around, and
u"N SH~e oPPSoAohOC Va oioOtuCi
which young earthquake might produce.
On going up the Avenue we asked gen.
tlenlan if he knew the proprietor, and what
kind of man he was. He answered, $50
soish. He merely founders along" We
more than thought SO. Can such people
have the effrontery to say that they are
merchants" while their places of trade
are pig styes2 Do they advance the morals
of their community by proper example2
The intelligent people do not expect the
publishes of their papers to give them as
much reading matter as those of lsrger
cities, because they cannot afford it; but, as
newspaper man, 1 know that the matter
in the STATESMAN as daily doled out to its
readers is fully equal to that of any paper in
the country-although it may be lacking in
amount-and in the same comparison just
as newsy. 1t is just such people as the one
We are now speaking of who are the draw
backs of society, aud who would be per-
fectly willing that society should resolve
itself again into barbarism. They have no
idea of broader and higher civilization,
and therefore have no idea of the means
the newspaper being one of the greatest
by which such consummation can be
reached. -