The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08
TER AND DANGERS OF THE
COMING TEMP EST--A PILOT WANT

We do not see how the financial issue in
Federal politics is to be evaded, or how it
is to be so adjusted that the bullionists of
the New York World and kite-fying ex-
pansionists of the West are to be recon
ciled. Sunset Cox was recently sent to
Ohio to bridge the ugly chasm, but the dis
cussion progresses, and differences grow
more and more irreconcilable. But even
this money question, concerning us ard the
whole people more thoroughly than any
other, might be pretermitted in behalf of
economy and good government, hoped for
at the hands of Democracy. But in States
in which Democracy has been triumphant,
the number of barnacles preying upon the
body polite has never been lessened, and
there is such an Unsuitable greed for spoils,
among those kept aloof through so many
weary years, that lawgivers have never
found it in their hearts to relieve the peo-
pie of burdens at the cost of the poor
hangers-on, who have served the cor
ner grocery conventions and party
leaders with such unfaltering fdel
ity. Reform is an admirable platform
while the election is pending, but when it
is over the promises of yesterday are forgot
ten in the sweets and money and power of
to-day, and after the ballot-box has suoken
the power of the people is felt and courted
no more. The people are potent before, the
placeman after, the election; and we have
yet to find men whose devotion to reform
was not paralyzed by investiture with high
position. 1t is therefore true that we can
hardly make the presidential contest simply
as Performers y We must go back to first
principles and become pure Democrats, and
fight it out on the tariff and against the
BANKS and against the bondholders. The
wisdom or unwisdom Of. expansion and of
Pendleton's od-of-greenbacks theory are
yet to be determined. 1t is one of those
propositions and inquiries which will be
solved by the growing crops. Money
comes, if there be enough money, wherever
it is needed. Texan wheat and cotton will
solve the problem. We have magnificent
crops, and only need currency enough to
move them. If enough for this be furnished
we need no more, since it only lessons pro
tanto the value of that which we have.
That NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. question is
also literally raising the d....l in
OHIO. The Catholics are commonly
Democrats, and demand, as Romanists, the
control of the schools to the extent that
Romanists pay for their maintenance. In
cities, too, everywhere the same trouble
some question arises, and party leaders,
eager for triumph and power and Office, are
grievously annoyed by this religious ques-
ton. The denominations, Methodists and
Baptists, most remote from Romanism are
absolutely omnipotent in Texas, and if
this biblical question be discussed in this
latitude, the Catholics may be expelled
from the party even in the South, as in dis
may be confounded tomorrow. Il is well
enough to look these issues in the face and
present them for the consideration of the
country. They must be met or obviated,
and it is time that our Texan heroes and
statesmen who have usurped the exclusive
right Of thinking for the press and people
were up and doing. The great battle Is at
hand, and the warriors and GoliAhs are alb
solutely quarreling and seeking to expel
soldiers from the ranks because these have
some peculiar opinion about Texas finances.
1t were well if brosier and more compre-
hensive intellects, SRtapacity to cope with
great questions that create aud destroy par
ties, were dominant at this hour in Texas.
We may be wrecked. ter want of askillful
pilot. viii not Reagan and Throckmor-
ton and Hancock speak aga