The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-17
VOL. VI.


Cooper, the latest candidate for the presi-
dency, refers, results mainly from the costli-
ness Of governments. Remember that these
suffering poor are in towns aud cities, and
| IN each town there are certainly four
weiOh'S, monstrous pieces of governmental
machinery which must be oiled by the toll
and sweat of the laboring classes. Even
here, 10 the lowest of the systems Of gov
eminent. in this blessed city, bonds sold
at ~ / 2 cents are held at 104, and the loss
must be paid by the sweat and toll of idiots
who voted the government into power that
wrought the calamity. This is government
| No. /, and No. 1t is in its extravagant fol-
lies. On top of this is another machine,
crooked and complex, sustained in part by
''perquisites," q system of flching from
dead men and from widows and orphans,
and so deVisel that we are to be taxed not
only while living, but the hsrpies follow us
aud pick our bones after death. This scheme
sprang from the brain of Ru'abagaism and
was injected, like all other follies of human
government, into the Constitution. Then
|
system Of local rule, aud then we have the
splendid government of Richard Coke,
which came in aurora-crowned and goes out
beneath the shadow of a mightier than
| Coke who robs the future of Texas of its
ernndest resource, and failing to secure, as
he will, subventions at the hands of Con-
gress, will build never a mile OF railway
beyond the States confines, and reign in
Teas mighty landed poten ate, shaping
laws and State policy forever. This will
be the fifth government we are to maintain
the splendid aristocracy Of Tom Scott
another Duke of Sutherland occupying
and leasing his millions of acres. Then
there is the blessed government of
Texas authorized to issue bonds by this
new Constitution to extngush a floating
debt, and this is to be done rather than
meet now a necessity only doubled in its
terrors by postponiRg its extinction. The
sixth plunderer of tue people is the system
of Federal courts which has become, as or
ganized aud managed in the Syuth, an in
comparable system of villainy, devoted to
the purpose of paying mileage for deputies
of all sorts, and of lncalcuiable sums in the
shape of fees and perquisites, wrested from
unfortunate wret ches VINO fall into its re-
morseless clutches. The system is some
times used, but not here, we are happy to
say, as means of convening the great
Radical leaders who are brought together
as witnesses in bogus whisky fraud cases OF
as jurors, and having mileage and per diem,
they plot the overthrow of decency and
trIumphs for knaves and adventu-
rers to be elected to Office through
the Intervention Of universal suffrage
as perfected in Texas by Rutabagaism.
These burdens are weighty, and the cost
enormous and ceaseless, and the laboring
poor pay every dollar of it. Superimposed
upon all these agencies of exaction is the
tremendous government at Washington. 1t
it is wholly corrupt. 1t boasted its econ
omy and simplicity; it is wasteful as no
government was ever lawless and lavish in
its wasteiulness. There were few sine
cures; these are now countless. There waS
parsimony; there is splendid extravaganza,
ana the number of men in office supported
by the toiling poor of the United States is
not less than 80, 900.
Iu the face of these facts comes one Peter
Cooper, almost as old as the government it.
self, telling the people that he, candidate
for the presidency, would remedy hard
times by flooding the country with paper
money. Who will be the victims2 Was there
ever paper bubble burst that the rich were
not made richer and the poor poorer
They who have will retain the gold and
when the end comes, as come it must, of
Peter Cooper's moonshine, the poor tax
payer will be robbed of his last farthing and
they who are rich will be richer and of these
Peter Cooper, if he live five years, may be
chief No, no, the evils incident to depre
ciated currency are borne by the toiling
poor, who lose everything, hoarders oi
money gaining everything lost by cur
rency expansion with which Mr.. Cooper
would delude the unthinking, and the only
true remedy for sorrows of fifty thousand
, unemployed hungry laborers iE New York
city and for the poor of all the States mus
De found in relieving the industry of the
country of countless exactions by which
industry is made so pro6tless that many
are driven to robbery and crime. In othe
words Peter Cooper is venerable frauC
and Tilden wise and practical and capable