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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
THE WOES OF ICELAND AND OF ICE
LANDERS. i.

There was never such pleasing oppor-
tuniiy for the practice of heavenly charity.
But 1t seems to havkescaped the attention
of good people everywhere. Exeter Hall
has been wholly silent, and we have heard
nothing from Boston. Surely the gener-
GUS and good did not die when the negro
was made citizen, his voting power util-
ized, his bank robbed and his country
plundered and desolated. The negro as an
object of charity rapidly loses attractive
ness, and it Is very strange that eyes of hu-
mAnitarianism are not directed inst now
towards the North Pole. A change of po-
sition would surely be agreeable to those
who have strained their vision in tireiess
watchfulness OF the conduct of the South,
and Of the woes and fortunes of the hap
less African. Not many mouths ago we
were reading the story Of the celebration Of
the great patriotic and civic anniversary Of
Iceland. BAyard Taylor told of the strange
doings Of strange people, who, for aught
Of influence wrought upon them by the ex-
terror world. might IS well irhSbit Mars or
Mercury. They would surely see and know
more Of US II they dwelt with Troglodytes
IN the Mountains Of the Moon. These Ice
IAnders were happy in their isolation. Their
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
THE pRErrY GIRLS.

Ouida pronounces harsh criticism upon
the conduct and character of her sex when
she says they have no such notion of ! amor
as that entertained by men. They tell
falsehoods and circulate scandals because
never called to account. and such is the
laxity of honor in trifes in the school-room
and nursery that their sense of right, in ell
after life, is very obtuse. Men err from
passion or ambition; but women's faults
spring from petty motives, envy, spite, NAL
ice, jealousy and eagerness to outshine in
society or letters. Their sphere, continues
Ouida, is little; their vices and vanities are
little and mean. A boy Is soon taught that
he must not "peach," and learns rough
sort of Spartan honesty. A girl, on the
contrary, tells tales of her sisters unIe-
proved, and hears mamma, in the drawing
room, take away the character of that
Z" dearest FRIEND" whom she sees her meet,
the next moment, with fondest smiles and
caresses 0uida is very harsh, and often
very unjust, in condemning her own sex,
and yet, from the very modes of women's
lives and habits and training there comes a
basis for these structures. We advert to
them that the daughters of Austin may
avoid vices of conduct and character por-
trayed with merciless rigor by the most
original and forceful of living story-telIers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

THE Gonzales Inquirer is mistaken. The
STATESMAN never "sought to make it ap-
pear that there was a fight before the con-
ventlon between Ireland and BurlesoR, in
which Ireland was defeated" On the con-
trary, Burleson had no opposition, as we are
informed. The Inquirer also says "that
Burleson did not and could not have OPP
posedi Ireland any more than Haynes or
Cook" We know that Ireland is q
smasher, but he himself is sometimes
smashed, and Burleson or Cook could have
defeated him more terribly than did
Haynes, the latter comparatively stranger
in the district. But this matter signifies
nothing. 1t is not John Ireland, or his per-
sonal strength or weakness that the people
care about. We speak of HIM as the en-
bodiment of an idea, He is selfish. Of
domineeriHg temper and ambitious. He
represents class in Texas of party leaders
who would marshal the serried hosts of
party on all occasions, because they are
leaders of party, and are thus made con-
spicuOus, and placed in front whenever q
battle is fought They are therefore emil
nently partisan and eminently pugnacious-
They are always looking for the enemy,
and, with or without proper occasion,
are for war. They win in every conflict.
They themselves are made notorious. even if
the battle be lost, for then they have secured
the sympathy of their followers. II the
battle be won they are surely crowned with
laurel and bay, and therefore these frantic
partisans are always ready for battle and
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

THE traveller judges of the intelligence
and industry and good morals of a country
by tastefulness of its houses, the beauty Of
its gardens, cleanness of its fence corners,
the careful cultivation of its fields. He de-
termines the culture and intelligence of a
towns population by the excellence of its
newspaper. If the paper fourishes, if its
pages be attractive, if filed with local ad-
vertisements indicative of intelligent ac-
tivity, if it be apparent that the people
think for themselves, and approve free
thinking, and freedom from prejudices
of ignorance in religion and in politics, the
stranger confesses at once the attractiveness
of such a locality, and there he would have
an abiding place. OF all our Texan ex-
changes, produced outside the cities Of
Texas, the Bolton Journal tells, perhaps, the
best story of its home and people. 'a)
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

THE most attractive throng at the Bunker
Hill centennial was constituted of the first
old ladies of modern Boston dressed as
were their mothers one hundred years be-
fore. We have here in Austin at least one
excellent lady who cooked corn dodgers
and prairie beef for men who fought at San
Jacinto, and she moulded bullets through
many a day and night for the soldiers of
that war. Why may we not honor the
women as well as the men of those terrible
days and reproduce the home-spun cos
tunes aud thus never forget the virtues and
heroism of the bravest of those old TexansG
Mems modesty does not intervene to award
oblivion to their deeds and very wrongfully
do we forget the daring and toll of the
women of our revolution. sidf paio
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
HOW no MAKE TIMES EASY.

H". 2 rH
There are more than one thousand millions
of time bonds, and only four hundred mil
lions Of currency. They who hold the bonds
practically hold the currency. They can
borrow all of it at four per cent. per an
mum on Ghese bonds as collateral IT Nobody
else can get money. City and county secu-
rites, as the, country Is now governed, are
valueless to borrowers, and the only remedy
is to oconvert these. Federal bonds into green
backs. Then they will be boarded no
longer, or withheld from circulation. There
will be then no more paper Indebtedness,
and no more paper against the government
outstanding than to-day. But it will not
be in shape that the premium-the inter-
est coupons-wlll be preferred for with
holding it from circulation, n Transform the
bonds into greenbacks and these will seek
investment in factories and railways. Now
all money seeks investment in bonds. If
we would make the country prosper as
never before and enable the last debtor in
the South to get even, and do no wrong, it
is only needful to make bonds no better
than greenbacks. The country will owe no
more then than now, but its Indebtedness
becomes its currency. Now it absorbs and
paralyzes the currency and breeds hard
times h s ''- s'HG ret
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
THE COKE ORGANS AND HARD
m MONEY. T7.G

The Age says that the Telegraph, in a
leading editorial, comes out squarely for
hard money and contraction. In other
words, the Telegraph goes in for keeping up
the present stagnant times; for keeping the
honest laborer and mechanic out of employ
ment; for increasing the purchasing power
of money, and therefore approves q de-
crease in wages and values. 1t would
build up the rich at the cost of the indus
trial classes. To be brief, the Telegraph, in
espousing hard meney, says in effect that it
is for grinding the industrial classes in the
mills of penury for the benefit Of the aris-
tocracy of New England. But the TeIe-
graph has perfect right to take which side
it chooses, and when the question of cur
rency comes to be decided by the people it
will find itself wofully in the minority.
The Austin organ, like the Telegraph, has
pronounced for hard money. How do the
people like it9 Would they give the bond
holding Shylocks the pounds of fieshG
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
WHO WILL CORRECT THE Nh A'
YORK HERALDsS STATEMENTS9

Races, like generations of men, succeed
one another as do the oceans billows.
On the grave of enc is built the tomb of
another, and conquerors anG masters of to-
day are the vanquished and slaves of the
morrow, and States and empires of our
time will be as utterly forgotten as are the
primeval kingdoms and races of the CONT
nent. There were the cave-dwellers or
Troglodytes, and then the mound-builders,
and then the Aztecs and red men of our
time, the last to be exterminated by sheer
contact with civilization. After US what
new race may fill places we occupy2 Does
each succeeding wave of population that
sweeps around the globe rise higher thanits
predecessor Is it clearer and brighter,
and does it reflect more brilliantly the stars
and glory of the bended heavens2 If Chi
nese and red men, and blacks and whites.
must constitute an unit, as designed by
those now shaping the fortunes of America,
will the ''conglomerate" surpass in intellect
and moral virtues the foremost race of our
time? What is to come of this aggregation
of all the races of all the continents even
here? Charles Nordhoff states, in his latest
letter from Montgomery to the New York
Herald, that the assertion that the negro
race is rapidly lessened in number is with
out foundation in fact. He believes that
the blacks multiply more rapidly than the
whites, and that the black race will abandon
its white leaders, and become trustworthy,
voting population, absolutely deserving
rights of citizenship. 1t is commonly as
serted, by ex-slaveholders, that the number
of negroes has been rapidly lessened; that
marriages are few; that the care of children
is no longer profitable, and that the instinct
of affection does not torture the maternal
bosom. Who tells the truth Has Mr..
Nordhoff discovered it while in towns and
cities and traversing rallways2 He has only
encountered the most intelligent and ad-
vanced and capable of the race, and really
knows little of the people of Ujijl to be
found in the jungles of Arkansas and Louis
lana, and on the great cotton, rice and su-
gar fields of the Gulf States. The race
does not multiply in cities. 1t surely does
not on the plantations. Formerly, where
any great numbers were aggregated, super
annuated women were made to care for the
piccaninnies. Is the mothers love stronger
now 2 Are marriages more frequent, and
the VOWS more respected Who can tell
rrtt n NJ
Nordhoff's assertions should do so at once,
since his statements, characterized by ex-
traordinary fairness and good sense, may
be otherwise accepted as final, even as is
the assertion of Greeley that the late war
was a " shareholders rebellion" when
shareholders, as class, were quite gener-
ally Wings and Union men One Radical pat
ent universal falsehood of this sort is enough
to send down to posterity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

EVERY intelligent Texan will surely pc
ruse with infinite interest the article Untitled
''Anent Ants" by E. r. Leland, ..in the July
number of "Appleton's Popular Science
Monthly" 1t only happens that the writer
of the curious paper has not studied the
habits of ants, that frequent Texas, as care
fully as of those of other countries. We
have here the very same winged ants of the
same habits with those, described as pecu-
liar to Brazil and Central Amenca. In fact,
if there be anything curious in the animal
kingdom, whether bird or beast or editor
or politician, that can't be found in Texas,
naturalists are greatly at fault. Moreover,
intelligent, thinking people could devote
an hour this blessed Sunday most profita-
bly, TO the absorption of many novel ideas
presented in an article entitled "The First
and Last Catastrophe" :" and to another un-
der the caption, "The Deeper Harmonies
of Science and Religion lido All H. .gir
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
OUR NATIONAL SONGS.

The writer of the following sketch says
he furnished one somewhat like it to an
other paper some time ago. This fact does
not detract from its value. The facts given
are certainly curious. He says:
It lis a singular fact that all of our national
songs were composed and introduced to the
public by play-actors. The words of "The
Star Spangled Banner were by Key. 1t
was set to music and first sung on the stage
by Ferdinand Durang, at Baltimore. The
words and music of ''D1xie" are by Dan
Emmett. ''The Bonnie Blue Flag" words
and music, are by Harry Mccarthy. "Hail
Columbia is an Italian air, but the words
are American. 1t was first sung on the
stage by an actor named Robinson, COM
monty called Hop Robinson. yankee
Doodle" was written by British officer in
derision of Bostonians. Burke or Sidney
Smith said, ''Let me write the songs of
people and I care not who makes their
laws" When thinking of the fate of the
song writers of this country, would
rather make their laws. During died at
New York miserably poor. The ''poor
players" supplied his last wants and gave
him decent burial, but up to the present
time no maidstone marks the spot where
lies the man who first sung 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner" Dan Emmet is playing
banjo in a variety show at Chicago. His
salary for season does not amount to what
Nelson gets for a night. Harry Mccarthy
is giving entertainments in Texas, but
the amount of money he has in his
pockets does not cause him to be
round-shouldered. Hop Robinson died
in extreme poverty at Philadelphia. ThS
song of "Home, Sweet Home" was intro
duced by an American actor by the name of
John Howard Payne. The words were his,
but the air is Swiss. When boy Payne
was greatly admired and received large
sums of money as the American Roscius, but,
like other precocious children, he ceased to
be great when he ceased to be littLs. Ar
rived at manhood, he wrote plays. In pne
of them, ''Clara, or the Maid of Milan, he
introduced the song of "Home, Sweet
Home" Payne was appointed United States
Consul at Tripoli, and in the evening of life
became very poor. One winter night,
cold and without dollar, Payne wandered
in the streets of New York. He stood be-
fore mansion on Broadway, looked into
the parlor and listened 70 lady playing on
the piano and singing his song, "Home,
Sweet Home.n Poor old man he had no
home. He crept to his lonely room through
the snow and died. He fell ''llke q rich
ear of corn whose blossom escaped but was
withered in the ripening." So much for the
song writers of America.
OLD STAGER.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
DEATH OF GEN. RKNNINe.

Georgians everywhere in Texas will read
with regret the story of the death of Gen.
Henry L. Benning. He was born in Co
lumbia county in 1914, and graduated At
Athens in 1884. He became lawyer and
Solicitor General and then Of the Supreme
Court bench, and then of the secession con-
vention of 1861, in which he enacted the
role of an "ong1nal secessionist." !" He be-
came colonel of the 18th Georgia regiment,
and in 1852 was brigadier, and won the
prouder title of sold Rock" He surren-
dered at Appomattox and returned to the
practice of his profession. He declined
positaon on the bench because the salary
would not sustain him and his family. His
most enduring monument win ever be
found in !" Benning's Reports Of the high
Court of Errors and Appeals of Georgia, and
in the concurrent tradition that win ever be
incident 10 the mention Of his name that be
was anearnest, henest gentleman and labo-
rious and learned lawyer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

Next after the country between Austin
and San Antonio and dreamland Of the
San Marcos, that between Sherman and
Mckinney is the most beautiful in the world.
But these plains are like the sea, bright
and boundless, and at last become monot-
onous, Here, at Austin, we have the most
beautiful of rivers and parti-colored noun
tains, gray and brown and red, and beyond
is the sea of endless yerdure. A fresh and
more charming picture is presented from
every hilltop and mountain-side, and the
Colorado is broad, glittering sheet of sill
yer, in which the stars watch their faces,
and in which the sun is mirrored in all its
undimmed splendOr, zephyrs come, an
endless train, tripping away from the trop-
les and, kissing the blossoms on the plains,
diffuse refreshing fragrance everywhere.
There is no such heaven-fayored land as
this.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
THE Ronham Me,na saws:

San infamous secret circular has been
sent out from Austin. closely sealed, and
though protesting to emanate from the i'm
ner circle of the Democratic party, it bears
the evident earmarks of the Austin STATES
MAN. Prepared with consummate skill ito
that exteat it is very like the STATEsMAN's
work.-EDs. and Stimulating endorsement
of the present administration, it pretends
to give the arrangements for the next cam
paign, thickly interspersed with contempt
uous illusions to the Changers and to the
masses of the Democratic party. While
intended to be understood as coming from
the friends of the administration, it is so
worded as to exercise most damaging in
fuence unless exposed and counteracted.
1t is simply a trick of the railroad ring, who,
ever SINCE they were foiled by Governor
Coke in an attempt to burden our people
with Sc, 900, 600 subsidy, have been i'm
placable in their hatred and untiring in
their SANDER and abuse of the man who
rose up as "a lion in their pathway" f1
Will not the Neps send US a copy of this
circular9 We never before heard of 1t and
never saw copy. Moreover it is proper to
say that it would have been infinitely better
for Governor Coke if he had approved the
three million (not So, OOO, 900 as the Nesos
has it) bill than the untaxed land grant
which he has fastened on the State. But
we are content, and the State will never be
the loser if the road be built. But let us
see COPY of this secret circular.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

A DYING EDITOR. profound grief
the story viii come to those that knew him,
that Willard Richardson, the creator Of the
Galveston Neses, is dying. He is not only
of the Oldest Of the citizens Of Texas, but
perhaps the oldest and most successful Of
the journalists of the State. he is about
sixty.fve years of age. For his toll and
energy and pluck and Independence, defy
ing alike men and parties and wealth, when
he honestly differed from them, he deserves
even prouder monument than the Nsps it
self constitutes; but while It exists, the
name and fame and deeds Of Willard Rich
ardson cannot be forgotten.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

The Rval Tszan says that We have no
comparative statistics bearing on the relA-
tive prosperity Of the two distinctive por-
tons Of Texas, which are in contrast as to
style and labor, and productions, nor do we
require any to justify the assertion Of pros
penty prepondsrAting in favor Of the north
ern, where diversified crops are planted and
white men ara the lab0rerAs The eTAxEs-
NAE would promote the immigration of the
best classes Of whites who will seek frst
country governed By white men and .
country whose towns and counties are
taxed and governed by white men, There
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

IT is all bssh when. timid demagogues
say we can't restrict suffrage in corporation,
city and county elections. People that
have no possible interest in voting, save to
the extent that they are hired for whisky
or money, win not be conscious of any sac
ri6ce when they incur none. There is no
deprivation of right when they who have
no property can have no right to tax those
who have. They surely will not claim the
right to be robbers. Corporations concern
nothing but property, and property should
govern them. In State and Federal cleo
tions different principle obtains.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

A corr of the secret circular, that was
charged 70 the SrATEsMAH by the Bonham
Nsws and the Houston Telegraph, has
reached Us through the kindness Of Hon.
]. ii. Helton, of Bosque, who received 1t
by mail from Austin The thinking press
Of the State, Il viii be seen, regard this cir
cular q the work Of the Radical leaders
here. We care nothing for the opinions Of
the ignorant and depFaved upon this sub
ject The circular, however, Is rather an
ingenious thing-hAs points N it-and, from
this alone, might be credited to the STATES
NAN. n room can be spared in another
issue some Of its text viii be given.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

BEAUTIFUL streams are everywhere ten
and twenty feet beneath the earth's surface
at Hillsboro, and yet the gardens and farms
are parched and no one has the energy or
skill to devise and perfect system Of irri-
cation. Egyptians and dwellers in Nine
yeh of old were wiser than we. A frag-
ment Of history, ascribed to Herodotus
tells of wheel driven by steam that
pumped water from the Nile in ancient
Memphis, and yet Hillsboro has not washed
Its pretty face or bathed since the hot term
dawned upon us.