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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

We may not understand 1t, but those fell
lows they call the american rifle team "
are n team of asses, and if rifled-abso-
lutely wrenched away from us forever-we
think the calamity might be endured. The
Eastern papers have pictures of the targets
sent by telegraph, and page after page is
devoted to the description of the target
practice. Then we have, too, a surfeit of
boat racing. Nobody, save those directly
interested, ever read the story of boat
race. 1t is quite as entertaining, however,
as the literature of base ball and of bill
liards, and this is the stuff for which the
agents of the press association delight in
making us pay. The New York Herald
belongs to rollicking fellow, and his en-
ployees, pandering to his tastes, do all these
absurd things, and other newspapers think
there is nothing like following In the foot
steps of the Herald. In this IT Is fearfully
stupid
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05
REsTRICTED sUFFKAGE.

The Dallas Herald discovers" to use It's
own language, ''sound sense from an unex-
pected source" Col. F. w. Miner, of
Paris, Texas, has written most sensibly Of
the constitutional convention in NortOn's
I.telligencer. His conclusions are that:
1. All male persons heretofore registered
as electors under the Constitution of 1869
may vote.
2. Hereafter no other persons shall be
permitted to register or vote unless they
have the following qualifications:
1. Freeholders in the State.
2. Able to read and write, unless the in
ability to read or write shall result from
physical defects after the person has once
learned to read and write.
3. Residence of two years in the State
and one in the county where the vote is Of
fered
4. The elector, if challenged, shall be
able to prove payment of taxes assessed the
previous year.
5. No person shall be permitted to vote
who has been convicted of theft of the
grade of felony, perjury, swindling, enbez-
element or forgery.
Mr. Miner says: 81 am well aware that
such restrictions may not be popular. Dem
sgogues will howl against them. Frank
Inns anecdote in opposition to a property
qualification will be repeated. The pas
sions of that dangerous 'tody without a
head, the unthinking mob, will be ap-
pealed to in opposition. Yet, after all that
has been said, we will find sober, rejecting
men settling down to the conclusion that
such restrictions upon the right of suffrage
at least embody the offer of a slight reward
to the poor man who becomes ambitious to
acquire a home and educate himself and
children. Statistics show that our jails and
penitentiary are mainly filled from the ranks
of the Illiterate and non-freeholding class.
1t is seldom that reading freeholder gets
into Jail. A reading farmer as not by nature,
but most assuredly as By force Of surround
ing circumstances, better man, better clti-
zen, and far more reliable neighbor, thar
one of the ignorant and floating class oi
our population. To sum up: would have
the State furnish every possible facility to
the poorest citizen to educate his children,
and in the future would place the control
of the government in the hands of thOst
best qualified to govern, and most interested
in the government"
In the main, says tho Hdru19, we heartily
approve the above suggestions. The grea
curse OF our system Oh government Is uni
versal suffrage, and here is a practica
method of restricting it to those classes o
society who have an interest in the country
and sufficient intelligence to understand tn,
duties and privileges of citizenship. Th,
investiture of vagabonds with these privi
leges Is fast bringing our country to ruin
We are glad to see that Mr.. Miner approve
should be two Supreme Courts-one civil
the other criminal consisting each of thre'
judges, located at the capital of the State
He thinks, and We agree with him, that '''
Supreme Court on wheels was suited TO tn,
days of horseback travel, but now there il
no excuse for holding at different places.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

1F THE Denison Ee,os would induce the
advent Of the best and exclude the worst
populations Of the old States, why not have
corporations, towns and counties exempted
from terrors Of bad government and .enor-
nous tsxationi Exterminste rabbIe suf.
frAge in local elections. and then the State
can liberate towns and counties, and pro.
gress win be sure and limitless and Texas
becomes veritable republic. People OBJ
ject TO the immigration bureau, because Il
imports loafers ard dead bests, overunnine
towns and controlling corporaAe elections
and destroying cities ike Memphis and
Houston Why not provide against such
calamities in the State Constitution
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

OF the 1856 members Of the present Con-
gress 1913 are 3lawyersg so merchants, 20
editors and 1s farmers. There are in the
United States 40, 900 lawyers and 2, SOC, 600
farmers, showing that there is one lawyer
in Congress for every 200 of that profession
and only one farmer to every 100, 600.
These facts have excited the jealousy of
farmers, and therefore the conduct of the
Oranges as disposed to exclude lawyers
from future control of public affairs. The
public action of lawyers, of recent years,
has been distinguished in Federal and State
governments, by lawless, reckless extrsva-
gance. In fact, when they make money,
it comes SO easily that, practically, they
believe it grows, as babies should, on trees,
and lawyer-politician, the Changers say,
thinks he need only shake it down. The
profession should adopt measures to restore
its power and popularity. If they could
only get inside the Grange the desired END
could be easily attained.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

TIE Charleston Ne'es aud Courier saws that
the Southern Democrats are in favor Of re-
pudla,ion not repudisticn ot any pecu-
mary obligation, but repudiation of the
Manton Marble and Tsmmany Hall Democ-
racy. The Sonth is sick and ured OF the
lecturing AMI posturing ofthese professional
patriots, whose highest aim is to retain
power in New York State, and TO install a
New Yorker al the White House. Any day
this crowd would sacrifice the rest OF the
country to secure New York add If they
can't nominate Tilden, or some other New
York worthy, in the national convention,
they don't dare copper which side whips.
1t is time that the whole set should take
back seats. They count for something in a
fight, but it is supremely ridiculous tor a
third-rate newspaper like the New York
World, which has not the confidence of the
Democrats in its own State, to assume to be
the mouth-piece of the national Democracy.
We hope that the party will stick together
but the South aud West can do without
New York far better than New York can
do without them. The South has put its
foot down, and will neither be eoaxed nor
driven into making hard money or soft
money the main question in the next Presi-
DENTAL election. That's fixed fact, Mes-
sieuFsi
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05
THE coUnT HOUSE AND TIE JAIL.

At the last meeting of the county court,
held in this city, on the twenty-ninth of
the month, 1t was unanimously decided to
build the court house, and the one hum
dred thousand dollar plan for the building
was the one adopted. We had all the time
believed that when the pinch came, the more
reasonable conclusion, that what was nee
essary to be done should be we'll done,
would influence the action of the commits
sioners. There has been no doubt in the
minds of the people of the county
that a new court house and Jail have been
sadly needed, and none can object to the
action of the court for allowing them to be
built. Some may have believed that the
county could do without court house and
Jail, with other necessary buildings, cost
ing hundred and forty or fifty thousand
dollars, but we have reason to believe that
this question of economy has given way be-
fore circumstances. Austin is proud city,
the fair capital of the grsndest state on
the American continent, and her public
buildings should be commensurate with its
dignity The State has donated the county
one of the finest situations in this beauti-
full city for the location of these buildings,
and standing, as they will, at the head of its
grandest avenue, they should be looked
upon with pride by every Texan, and be re-
garded as monuments of taste, refine
ment and benevolence by strangers.
Travis county will have the finest
court house in the State, and so it should
have. In the midst of the States public
buildings these county structures should lifi
their commanding forms so as to refleci
/ credit for the honor conferred. In possess
ing the best Jail in the South, the people o.
this county should take a pride. Its con
struction with regard to the requirements
OF humanity will be consolation to oul
people, and an example, in humanitarian
/ ism, to other communities. Besides, thes'
buildings are not to be erected for use 70
a day or a year, but hundred years henc'
they viii, if not destroyed by FIRE. which i
next to impossible, be as firm and as soun,
IS when they are completed. They will b
built out of the very finest material, am
no palms. which skilled labor knows, vii
be spared to make them lasting. Let u
all take pleasure in indorsing the actiol
OF the county court, and extend our aid te
wards achieving the grandeur and great
ness Of our growing county and city. Tn
STATESMAN has been consistently in favc
OF such improvements, and is delighted :
tie result.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05


THE Montague Ners is bitterly opposed
to the whipping post, and says it is our
true policy, if we would lessen the number
Of criminals,
"To change the Immigration Bureau into
an emigration bureau and transport the
paupers back to their mother country and
let them pilfer in their own native land ;
and suffer no sne to come to our borders
who is not able to come on his own re-
sources"
The whipping post is not designed for
the advantage of panperz. but Of thieves.
II poor people come TO Texas. there Is nc
reason why they may not be also industrious
and honest. Their toll is needed in the
fields and farms of Texas, and many such
have been properly brought hither by ths
immigration Bgrean. Thieves and loafer'
and whisky guzzlers are not attracted b.
those influences which this bureau exeTts
It tells Of fields lying fAllOw, Of nch land
and cheap, and Of the habits Of agricnltu
raj industry in Texas Such recitals an
not calculated to entice knases into coun
try. On tho contrary, the very facts O
agricultural industry and productiveness
indicative of popular sObriety, repel th'
rabble that curses cities and towns and
shapes their local governments Theseter
rible mobs are gathered BY railWAyA b.
speculation, By hopes Of Sudden. and svel
Of lawiess, gain. The bureau may not b
as blessed, in all is aspects. as Gossrno
Coke dreams, when he woald expend SIS,
coo annually upoa Il; hnt i dos ne sncl
(, wrong. and promotes no snch calaminss
as the Nslrs sapposesL f q
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05
KEEP 1HE PREACHEIts OUT.

There is one special prohibition that might
well be asserted by statute law, but it is of
such vast importance to public decency and
to public and private morals that even the
States organic law might recognize and
adopt it. No licensed minister of the Cos
office. When preachers abandon the pulpit
they become desperately reckless, and have
done infinite harm. Beecher's degradation
began in his Kansas rifle and other political
speeches and culmiuated in the infamies of
the recent trial. Kalloch and Simpson, the
latter Grants confessor, are names that be-
come hideous in the country's history, and
the more because, not long ago, they were
brilliant lights illuminating the pathway Of
the blest towards Gods throne. Grants
conscience-keeper has been polluted, and
the cause he represents degraded by his
fraudulent investiture with an Office, which
was no Office, that the government might
pay HIM $40, 900 and his wife $4,000 while
he circumnavigated the globe discharging
the pretended duty of an inspector of consu-
lates. The pretence for public robbery is so
thin that men contemplating it are lnsulted
that the priest and president thought to
cloak fraud beneath the cowl and cassock.
That this graceless public plunderer should
come back to Washington, and, before the
public, turn up the whites of his awful
eyes, and ask God to bless the country he
has ROBBED, crowns depravity with such un.
hallowed impudence and publicity that the
| country's morals recognize the shock, and
men ask, is there truth or virtue or Christian
honesty under the sunl Let the Constitu.
ton of Texas render Simpsons and
Beecher's names and vices immortal by de
claring that no proiessed evangelist of God
shall be a government placeholder. Lei
this temptation to evil be removed, and
since church and State, in accordance with
the faith and practices and wisdom of oul
fathers, are wholly distinct, let rs assure
the perpetuation of this relation Of church
and State by excluding the special repre-
sentatiYes of the churches-the priesthood
of all denominations the country
offices.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05
aEsrRIcrED sUrFRAes.

The Dallas Herald goes even a bowshot
beyond the SrArEsxAS. We have never
proposed to restrict suffrage save in local
county and cry and town elections. These
elections concern nothing but property and
taxation. 1t is the State that protects life
and liberty and property, and men are in
terested in laws made by the State whether
they own property or not Such is not the
case, however, in reference to their rela-
tions to corporations. Therefore, the
STATESMAN has only sought to protect towns
and counties against the frightful mob
which has already sent to perdiuon the fair.
est cities of the South. If suffrage be re-
stricted, ss proposed by Mr.. Miner and ap.
proved by the Dallas Herald, the potency
of Texas in Congress will be lessened for
the reason that under the constitutional
amendments, If Texas lessen the number
who may vote for members of the Legisla-
ture, the representative force of the State
in Congress is diminished pro tdnto. More
over, when the whole State votes, as in
creating the Legislature, the danger from
the incapable and ignorant and lswless is
not great. The power of this mob is then
diffused. 1t is only terrible in local elec.
tions of local officers, as in Houston, Dal-
las, Lulirg, and other ike places, and in
certain counties of Texas. II the Constitu-
ton restrict suffrage in all local elections to
freeholders, who can read and write, there
will be no speculative jobs conceived in
towns and counties to rob one class and
give money to another. No Texan city,
like Houston, win be plunged into inextri-
cable debt and hopeless bankruptcy, and
no poor mans home will be confscated by
tax gatherers. The scheme of reform de-
fined by the Herald is better than none, but
it is too radical, perhaps.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

GRANTS GRANDcHH.D, U. S. G. No. a.
Sartoris, though his farther Is a British sub
ject, is himself invested with all the rights
OF an American citizen and owes no allegi-
ance to the imperial crown. On the con.
trary, IL sartoris were a German, this child,
born here, would be German subject and
might be victimized by Bismarck and forced
into the Prussian service at any time when
caught within the. confines of Faderland.
Grant, it is commonly stated, doesn't love
Hebrews or Germans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

horse conventions. But the absGrditles O.
tue Mexia part lers and organizers did
not end with .lc ,, solution requesting :"
US to print for nothing all they said and
did. The very gentleman and newspaper
who managed and created the convention,
and approved the interposition of John
Ireland, and denounced the so-ealled sin
dependents, is now himself, with his news
paper, the foremost of Independents. 3"
He declares himself-it is none other than
Mr.. Fishback, of the Leclger-.'a "a straight out
Democrat, having no other course left US
but TO rePudiate this great error (the nomi-
nation OF Mr.. MARTINI of the Democratic
convention" The Ledger is so preterna-
turally independent that its own Demo-
cratic convention cannot bind it to sup
port an independent" 1t is like the IRISH
mans tree, SO exceedingly straight that it
leaned over. In fact, it has Topped over to
the other side, and we have no doubt Mar
tin feels very badly about it. But consls-
tency is Jewel" and the Ledger man or
his bredstpin is 'brick"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

THE Ledger opposes the election of Mr..
Martin, one of the nominees OF the Demo
cratic John Ireland convention held at
Mexia. Moreover, the Ledger man himself
was Of this convention, and gave paternity
to very absurd resolutions, which he ex-
pected us to print, at our own cost, because
q learned and able and patriotic body of
our party leaders were supposed CD to de-
mand it. People of this sort might IS well
foot their own bills as merchants who pay
twenty cents per line for advertising, and
who would be required to pay less IL news
papers did not suffer themselves TO be
robbed by all sorts of good men and ',gOod
causes and by towns and courts and
States. All should pay alike for like ser
vices, and none would then be necessarily
wronged- OF course we refused to print
more of the doings Of the Mexia conven-
tion than pleased ourselves, and, using ouE
own money and materials in doing this, We
did not see Why, since those good peOpls
didn't send the cash, they expected rs C
do more We print paper for the people,
and canB Afford to lose column or two il
advertising eammOnplsee platitndes Of one
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

THE Comanche CHEZ is honest and
truthful and doesn't fear to tell what it
knows, and yet it says, it is to be regret
ted that Judge Ireland would not allow his
name be placed before the Quling dis
tricD convention, as he would have been of
great service in framing the new Constitu-
tion." The last clause is true enough, but
the first would mislead the readers of the
CHG. Ireland was beaten in the Luling
convention by Mr. Haynes, after an excit-
ing contest, and after seven or eight ballot
ings. Haynes at last received two-thirds
majority, and Ireland, Cincinnatus-ike, has
withdrawn from the public gaze.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

Next after the premiership of Great
Britain, the highest Office in Europe is the
premiership OF the London Times. Its edi-
tor wields greater power over the world than
the British Queen. The present editor,
Mr.. Delane, has occupied this Office for
thirty years, and when he has spoken of re-
firing the selection of proper successor
concerns the cabinets and plenipotentiaries
and rulers of Europe and of the East more
deeply than would the death of the British
Queen and coronation of the Prince of
Wales. Win newspaper men everywhere
learn to aspire to like honors in their mar
rover spheres
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

THE hot term Is fearfuIly destructive 20
young life in the great cities. Poor moth
ers, in crowded tenement houses, can barely
provide themselves with the meanest sub
sistsnce and the cost Of buryiEg the dead
is grsateF than that Of maintaining the lty-
ing in heAlthfnl localities on the suGmit OF
the palisades along the Hudson. Thous-
snds Of women and children will be thns
cared for. it Is stated, by the city govern
ment Of New York where human suffering
in all IL forms, is ineaiculable, in the nun-
Ger that endure and thousands that dae.
Here the people know nothing Of the mis-
eries OF the poor or Of the tsrsOrs Of pow
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

THE constitutional coayeution win leave
most questions now discussed By candidates
for seats in that body to succeeding legis-
latures. The convention viii neither pro-
hibit nor establish the whipping post or
solitary confinement. Time and experience
must regulate these necessities, and there
fore the convention win avoid enacting inn
mutable law in reference 70 . system whose
value must be determined BY experience.
Canada, as any one will confess who resides
there through summer, has the best gov
eminent On this continent--certainlF the
best while Radicalism reigns and robs on
this side of the St. Lawrence-and IN Cana,
da the whipping post Is = most approved
and useful institution. Il sends rs 9 ms,
jority Of the thieves Of the Dominion ever
vsar
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

The EatePriss wisely suggests the avoid
ance OF the financial question. Let it be
pretermitted, and Congress, as it must,
finally determine IL. Then the question
need not arise in the presidential contest,
and only those papers of the East viii seek
TO force Il on the Democratic party and
country that are paid organs of the bond
holders. II Democrats cannot agree on this
single question there is no reason why it
should be made the subject of ruinous con-
troversy when dozen other questions of
even greater importance separate us from
the Radical party and make its overthrow
eminently desirable.
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Miscellaneous.
DR.. c. M'LANE'S
Celebrated American
WoRM SPECIFIC,
V E r M | FUGE F..
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS

H@A = DAfAC Vi W ON Mo.
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semicircle runs along the lower eye
lid; the nose is irritatsd, swells, and
sometimes bloeds a swelling of the
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an unusual secretion of saliva Shiny
or furrsd tongue breath very foul,
particularly in the morning; appetite
variable, sometimes voracious, with a
gnawing sensation of the stomach, at
others, entirely gone; Aeeting pains
in the stomach; occasional nausea
and vomiting; violent pains through
out the abdomen; bowels irregular,
at times costive; stools Shiny, not
unfrequently tinged with blood belly
swollen and hard urine turbid; re-
spiration occasionally difficult, ani
accompanied by hiccough cough
sometimes dry and conyulsive; un-
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but generally irritable, etc.
Whenever the above symptoms
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The universal success which has
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symptoms attending the sickness of
the child or adult should warrant the
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=, Sc For sale by Druggists and Country Store
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