The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-02-25

And no wonder. KnaYes that made the
bill never footed them. Offices were null
tiplied and courts and judges and
counties, all resulting in the multiple
cation Of loafDg place-men who live
by plundering the people. These facts
point cut true paths for reformers.
The number Of Offices and sinecures under
State, county, city, Federal and State
governments, North and South, have been
doubled and quadrupled since 1850. Office
holding has become a profession; Office
seeking, q trade; and we have a potent
class, in each community, who deem the
country's offices their peculiar property.
Here o wise Legislature would find its
chosen field Of reformatory action and for
the incubation Of lessons in true economy.
It would not be found, II constituted of
wise lawgivefs, fighting a proposition
which, consummated, would surely double,
within ten years, the wealth and population
OF Texas.
Popular intelligence is promoted to such
an extent by railway systems that European
political economists say they have contribu-
ted more to the diffusion of liberal, useful,
political learning, than the most benefcent
systems Of public schools. The school tax
might even be lessened rather than have
the measure for the relief of the Interna-
tional Company defeated. We may state
parenthetically that the educational and
liberalzing force of railways is demOnstra-
ted beyond cavil by two illustrious excep-
tional facts. The Bonham N6lcs and Sher-
man Courier, fogged and lectured hourly by
railways, have learned nothing and forgot
ten nothing. They are opponents OF shame
full local and personal prejudices and self
ishness to which they pander with tireless
assiduity. They impute base motives to
others as if others might not wish to share
benefactions at the cost of Texas, that bless
towns of Northern Texas at the cost of the
State. Have not all districts equal rights
If their investiture with these cost more
when conceded in behalf of one than an
other district, this is the misfortune of the
State, and should not be felt by the people
of any district. The State should be just
and alike generous to all counties. II
towns and newspapers throughout Texas
were animated by the unworthy spirit that
degrades Bonbam and Sherman, as misrep-
resented by two newspapers, Western
Texas would properly seeede. But there
are none to sympathize with the Nescs and
the Courier, save the Dallas Commercial.
Its excuses are due solely to jealousy. Its
local rival is one Of the wisest papers in
the South, and the Commercial, in denounc-
ing the international, thinks to assail the
sagacious Herald, even as the Houston Agt
would break the backbone of the saurian
Telegraph with the broken International.
Equal justice to different sections of Texas,
justice to the fame and honor of Texas,
to the States commercial credit, to a corpo-
ration that has invested $1s, 900, 600 within
the State, the extirpation of robbers and
raiders, the solidarity" of Texas, the
unity of the Democratic party, the connec-
ton, through Texas, of Mexican and
American centres of population, and inter
change, through the towns and cities Of
Texas, of tropical and hyperborean pro
ducts-these are ends to be attained, and
worthy of the highest, noblest endeavorl
of statecraft. In contemplating these mag
nifcent results of the completion of the
International road, how contemplate be-
come unworthy, pettifogging insinuationl
of those two newspapers we were talking
about. They disgrace the people they
assume to represent.