The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-24

and have access to the cities and States Of
the Union, to make a subVention Of fifteen
thousand dollars per mile, while the bare
proposition to cOncede three millions to six
hundred miles Of road in Texas gave many
wlseacres moral jim-jAms. Ireland, Of pious
memory, has not yet recovered from the
shock administered TO his, tender sensibili-
ties, though there came a degree of relief
when IL, 900 square miles Of untaxed land
were substituted for the three million loan
We love 10 think about these pleasant con-
trasts between the divinely inspired wisdom
of Texan lawgivers and the barbarous ways
of those copper-bottomed Mexicans Our
vanity is soothed and selflove gratifed,
and We are naturally proud Of the splendid
genius and intelligence and wisdom of our
people, strongly presented side by side,
even now, with this barbarous legislation
practiced at the Mexican capital at the in
stigation of Mr.. Plumb. See how Mexico
will be ruined by it ! People there annually
transport silver and copper ore, SEQ, O0O,
600 of silver. and SIG, 900, 600 worth of
copper, 200 o. 500 miles in wagons to be
guarded at. heavy cost against highwaymen.
Plunb's railroad will change all this, it is
true, and the value of the mines and metal
wall be doubled; but for all that Mexico
and Texas should be bored for the simples
for expending money OF credit on railroad,
as DeAIorse knows. Then the coffee crop of
Mexico is worth $50, 600, 600 and the sugar
$50, 900, 600, and two-thirds of this would
reach consumers over this railway line.
Cuba is destroyed for years, and Mexico
must take its place and supply America and
Europe with coffee and sugar as well as
with copper and silver and fruits. Those
Mexican statesmen, having a map Of the
continent before them, counted the value and
the cost of the road that doubles, to them.
the value Of their sugar and coffee, enabling
them to take the place of Cuba in the
worlds markets. reached, when this
International road is finished, mainly
through Galveston and Houston. Mexican
craftsmanship invests millions in the attain
AOhG VI bhCSO haSulHOSnI puIpOS6S,r dud
poor old DeMorse, and Ireland, impersona-
tions of the unselfsh wisdom of Texas and
comprehending the needs of the empire
and earnestly anxious to promote the
growth of Texan cities and to enrich and
aggrandlze Texan communities, pronounced
men corrupt and fools who proposed to
invest three millions in this scheme and
at this hour approve the deeds of Mexican
stateeraft and the benefcenee of Mexican
legislation. What barbarians are these
Mexicansl What Solomons, and how NOR
ally brave, were those masters of Texan
legislatlonI The product of the industry
and toll of nine millions of people to be
emphed into the lap of Texas and of Texan
maritime cities and the commerce of two
empires and of two oceans to be drawn
centrally throagh-the State as funnel, and
yet Texan statesmen could only lift up
their hands in holy horror and cry "eor-
ruptioni" ''corruptionr', when we approved
the proposed concession. Never let it be
forgotten what fools and, knaves are these
masters of Mexico and how stupendously
comprehensive and majestic and sublimely
grand through all coming time must be the
Irelands and DeMorses of Texas. = -