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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-31
Editorial Eotes.

A man never more firmly believes in
the motto "Look forward, not back
ward" than when be has been looking
back and smiling at q pretty girl who
mas Just passed, while at the same time
he most unceremoniously bumps into
his wife, who has thus caught him in
the act.
When a woman drinks soda she
hoists the glass at an angle of eight
degrees, bends over, holds in her dress,
N as she looks out Of the corners
Of her eyes, seeming to be in an ecstacy
OF appreciation, a little drop of soda
runs down off her chin and goes like
pearl plummet to the floor.
Some Of the sentimental papers are
going into rsptures because the Rus.
SLAMS have for some purposes prescribed
the Polish language in Poland, so that
where a man would have said ''0isch-
ski willski givski youski q punchski
in the snootski," the poor fellow il
compelled to say "Oiskvitch willvitch
givivitch youavitch a punchvitch in
the snootivitch."
Secretary Sherman rendered the ap
pointment of Solicitor OF the Treasury
70 ex Governor Chamberlain, of South
Carolina. The offer was made at the
instance of the President, who also
urged its acceptance. Governor Cham
berIain felt obliged TO decline, how
ever, on accodnt of professional en-
gagements previously made, which
81 80
professionally and pecuniarily.
The expiration Of the sewing ma
chine pstsnts and the reduction in
DR. ees promised for cash recalls the
fact that, by special arrangement, some
Of the companies have for SONS time
back, at least two years, been selling
mschines for cash TO the members OF
TIE order Of Patrons Of Husoandry at q
discount Of 40 per cent, that is to say,
the $65 machine for $50, Gad the $55
for $33.
A Western railroad has adopted
emigrant sleeping-cars between Ohio
and Kansas, one leaving Cleveland
every Tuesday eyenirg by the regular
express. Special Il 3 are issued for
L.; the backs Of the ais are movable,
and with clothing and wraps readily
converted INTO beds, the toilet arrange
ments are on liberal scale; snd there
is large stove for heating water, 50
that with lunch basket, tea or cof-
fee pot and couple Of spare towels,
family moving West can house and
feed itself as Comfortably Hs and more
chesply than IL iss members Patropizsd
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-31

A COLONY is organizing at Spring
field, Massachusetts,, for settlement, the
st. Louis Republican says, in Burke
county, North Carolina, and an Irish
Catholic association in Canada is pre-
pairing to colonlze settlers IN the west
ern part of the same State, on land to
be sold at S. per acre. II would not be
surprising if this tendency became i'm
portant. Migration westward has been
discouraged by the remoteness of the
Western frontier from market, render
ing it impossible for Kansas or Ne
braska farmers to get anything like a
satisfactory price for their grain. The
Southern States are not subject to this
difficulty. There are millions of acres
of unoccupied lands in them purchase.
bic at low prices and capable of yield
ing crops that will pay twice or thrice
as much for the same labor as the grain
lands of the far West. The cotton
that one man can raise in Texas, Ar
kansas or Alabama, or the sugar that
one man can make in Louisiana or in
Texas will bring double the money
that the grain or potatoes raised by one
man in Iowa or Nebraska will sell for.
Sooner or later the fact viii be recog-
nized, and the effect viii be to defect
q portion of the Western migratory
movement to the South, and to stimu-
late organized agencies in the North
for the settlement of favorable manu-
featuring and farming localities in the
Southern States, in the Gulf or Allan
tic coast.
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lists and life and property must be pro-
tected, there is no form Of organizA-
ton which demands the concession OF
less at the hands of individuals and
gives them more of freedom and secu
rity in return for it than the republi-
can institutions of the United States.
1t is only intolerable in Its municipal
tiles. These affect property rights
alone, and yet they are administered
by those who have no property. Rep
resentatives Of this class govern towns
and hold municipal offices and have
wrecked capitals and corporations
from ocean to ocean. Party leaders
have not the courage to restrict suffrage
IN municipalities, and America endures
greater evils than Europe in insuffera-
bic burdens imposed upon taxpayers
of corporations by non-taxpaying
classes. 1t is unjust and wrongful
and ruinous alike to rich and poor
The poor are plundered by landlords
because these last are plundered by tax
gstherers. The difference is that the
landlord, by possibility, gets his
money back, the poor man never a
shilling, and therefore we find the nom
taxpaying classes insisting that suffrage
in corporations be restricted. Despite
all evils incident to free government,
there are none who would return to
the old world and to that slavery to
which German and other European
are subjected by vast mil
ltary establishments and by enormous
public burdens imposed to support i'm
perial facts and forms. We have a
too, of our own. There are
no neighbors to dread and none whom
we would wrong or rob, and while
German newspaper of New York pre-
tends to prefer the strong, consolidated,
iron-handed sway of the good Empe-
ror to that of the republican Presi-
dent of these republics, there are few to
give credence to his assertions, and no
German will return to realms of Bis
marck and Moltke while freedom may
be inhaled in the winds and lager i'm
bibed IN the homes of the people of
Texas.
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The printers of the United States

The printers of the United States
raised fund for the erection of a me-
mortal monument to Horace Greeley,
which resulted In consummstion of
the scheme on the fourth of December
last. The monument is over the grave
of Greeley in Greenwood Cemetery.
1t is twelve feet high, with base of
Quincy granite, while the pedestal and
cap are of lighter colored granite
from Maine. They are eight feet In
height. On one face of the PEDESTAL is
a bronze bas-relIef representing the
youthful Greeley with composing stick
IN hand at his case. On the opposite
side is bronze plate containing these
words: "Horace Greeley, born Feb
ruary 3, 1911. Died November 90,
1872. Founder of the New York
Tribune" On other sides of the pedes-
tai are a rude plough and pen and
scroll, cut IN relief from the granite.
The monument Is surmounted with 3
bronze bust of Mr.. Greeley of the full
heroic size. The whole cost $4,000.
1t was the first intention to build the
monument from type metal, but this
idea was abandoned on account of its
corrosive tendency. ....
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having but small army under COM
mand of Hassan Pasha-smsll because
Asia Minor has already been compar-
atiVelY drained to supply the Europe
an army-have no communication with
Constantinople, either by railroads or
good highways, and must subsist off
the country, inasmueh as any possibili-
ty of communication Uia Black Sea and
Trebizond to Erzeroum would be inev-
itably disturbed by the Russians. Let
it be borne lin mind that there is a
probability that Persia is IN alliance
with Russia, and that while the Turk
ish troops are engaged with the Rus
SLAMS in Armenia, the Persians, whose
territory extends to the very foot of
Mount Ararat, can pour in an army of
20, 900 men to the southwark, and
thus take the Turks on the flank. Not
withStanding Turkish dispatches of
victories, the progress of the Russian
army through Armenia eastward to-
ward the Bosphorous to cooperate
with the European army is morally GER
tain. 1t may be many weeks, it may
be months, but the time will come
when the Turks must find themselves
driven south of the Balkans, and hem
med in between two powerful Russian
armies, where they will be crushed like
an eggshell, leaving Russia in COM
plete possession of the Black Sea.
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Inc mediterranean neeC IS Sectlon
of the Baltic.
There are small squadrons on
the White and Aral seas. The
fleet is quite formidable in numbers,
but includes many weak ships, though
among them are twenty-nine iron
clads. The mastless turret ship, Peter
the Great, Is over nine hundred tons
burden, and carries four thirty-five ton
Krupp guns, and several other arm
ored guns are quite powerful.
The Turkish fleet includes 90 iron
clad ships and 20 other steamers.
Most of the former were built in Eng
land. The two largest are of 5000 tons
each, and carry 10 eighteen ton guns
throwing 400 pound shot. We do not
see from these statements that the
Russians are not equal to the Turks.
In number of vessels they are stronger
the inferlority may only exist in the
Black Sea, where most of the Turkish
ships are, and which is inaccessible to
the Baltic fleet.
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-31
HOW 1T COsIES ABOUT.

Mr.. Bsbcock, president of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, does not
look upon it as strange that commerce
and industry languishes, when the gov
eminent annually expends $780,
100000. 1t pays alone in in
terest, each year, $21O, 600, 600, near
ly one-third OF the above amount, and
figures show that the government has
attained to such extravaganza as to
consume almosts every increment of
wealth in the support of itself. In
1870 the taxable wealth of the country
was little over S14, 600, 600, 900; now
it has probably increased to over S16,-
600, 900, 600. Let us assume, however,
that the taxable wealth of the country
is geo, 900, 900. 600. Political econo-
mists estimate that the annual growth
in wealth in the United States is at the
rate of 1-2 per cent. the rate of
interest, as exhibited in the sale of gov
ernment 2 per cent. bonds at par,
appears to confirm the estimate. Four
and half per cent. on $40, 900, 900, 900
is 5000, 900, 900 and this, therefore, is the
annual net earnings of the country or the
annual increment of its wealth. Seven
ninths of the amount, or 500, 900, 900
are paid for the support of government
and interest, leaving to the people only
two-ninths, or 5000, 900, 900 as savings.
This is only So head for population
of 100000 Certainly, then, it is
not strange that our commerce and
great industrial interests are languish-
ing. Mr.. David A. Wells says that
for the past fifteen or sixteen years we
have been spending more than we
earned; and the above figures come
near proving the correctness of his as
sertlon. If We add to the annual ex-
penditures for government, the annual
excess of our imports over our exports
during the period named, it will be
seen that Mr.. Wells's statement is true,
and that the unIncumbered wealth of
the country Is no greater in 1877 than
it was in 1861. A blow then must be
struck at the root of the evil that is
the country. In Texas we
are burdened, too, with a judicial sys-
TEN that makes the onus proportion
ately greater here than elsewhere, and
were it not for our fine crops, our cat
tie, horses, sheep, and the millions of
dollars brought annually into our midst
by immigration the condition of Texas
would be as sad as that of any State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-31

THAT widely circulated journal of
advanced thinking, the Evolution, Of
New York city, almost copies the
STATESMAN when it says that suffrage
is not a right or even privilege. 1t
Is burden, like that of bearing arms,
to be borne only by class fitted to it.
But when tie door was once opened
wide, without regard to race, color,
behavior, 'or previous condition, there
was no other way to determine suprem-
acy except natures laws. No guber-
Material chair can we'll rest on bayo-
nets. We know how slim an argu-
ment it is, but we have yet to meet
personally the man who does not ap-
prove the Presidents Southern policy.
All our exchanges Indorse il. What a
feeling of repose it gives to be in the
majority for once! Neither has our
rest been disturbed by the Democratic
ass who thinks his party drove the
President through fear into his policy
of peace. The voice of this animal at
a sufficient distance excites to mirth."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-31
WHICH GOVERNMENT IS BEST

People rarely reflect that whatever
may be said of social vices and rude
ness or coarseness of manners, or of
the brutality of local governments, as
created by universal suffrage, and
whatever the evils of the Federal sys-
tenn, ours is infinitely best of existing
so-called Christian governments. Our
public Indebtedness is very great, and,
unfortunately, that of States and towns
and cities and counties Is infinitely
greater than that of the Union. 1t is
also true that public finances are mos.
shsmefully managed, as shown in the
fact that while England and France
pay two and half and four per cent.
for loans, our bonds draw five and even
seven, and part of the debt of Texas
produces ten per cent. to the fortunate
holders of these securities. 1t is also
true that dishonesty and malversation
of public funds are infinitely more
common here than IN England or
France. "Defalcations" here are
"thefts" there, and thieves must go to
the hulks in France, and in England
to the gallows or Van Dieman's Land.
Punishment is as certain as conviction
is rarely evaded. The courts appointed
by the central power are reckless of
popular clamor, and, holding Office for
life, are rarely accessible to bribery.
The rich and the poor alike are pun
ished with absolute certainty, and thus
the poor are richly compensated in the
administration of even-handed justice
for the deprivation of the privilege of
voting for judges. Here the "fun" OF
voting Is deemed OF greater value than
the creation of learned and incorrupti-
BILE courts. Monarchy, 1t must be con-
fessed, has its advantages, and repub-
hes defects which we should remedy.
But even as they are, our system is
greatly to be preferred. Perfect, ab-
soluts freedom of thought and expires :
sion is hardly known elsewhere than in
America. Here the churches have no
power save that which each may exert
over the consciences of the people.
There, religion is part of governmental
systems levying tithes or other contri-
buttons upon popular industry, or own
ing vast estates and demanding tribute
to gorgeous splendors with which
modern refinement invests the simple
poverty and majesty of the Savior.
Nothing less than two hundred feet Of
vanity, embodied IN . church spire,
can accurately point the way to God.
There is less of this false show and
glitter, and of Journalism in morals,
and lighter burdens are imposed here
than in Europe by church and state I;
and while in America the tendency is
to progressive diminution of these
evils, in Europe it is in the opposite
direction. Our standing army is hard
" skeleton of the mighty body which
would be gathered around its chisftain
II the country's freedom and unity
we're endangered from abroad sRch
As it is. the press and people talk un-
wisely Of disbandiag it. 1t costs
more than it should, and this sum
should be lessened and the army
strengthened. But whale society sx-
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The Man who stops His Paper.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, In his ad-
mirable papers on intellectual life,y
thus talks TO q man who ''stopped his
paper:" Newspapers are 70 the civ
ilized world what the daily housetalk
is to the members Of the family-they
keep our daily interests in each other,
they save US from the evils Of isolation.
To live as member of the great white
race that has flied Europe and Amer
ica and colonized or conquered what
ever territory 1t has been pleased 70
occupy; TO share from day TO daY ltn
thoughts, ITS cares, its inspirations, It
is necessary that every man should
read his paper. Why are the French
peasants 80 bewildered and at seat II
Is because they never read a newspa-
per. And why are the inhabitants OF
the United States, though spread over
q territory fourteen times the area OF
France, so much more capable Of con-
cert Of action, 90 much more alive and
modern, so much more interested in
new discoveries of eli kinds, and cap
able of selecting and utilizing the best
oftheml IL Is because the newspapers
penetrate everywhere, and even the
lonely dweller on the prairie or In the
forest Is not intellectually isolated
from the great currents Of public
which dow through the telegraph q
press."
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SPIR1TIsM has been very cffectually

SPIRITIsM has been very cffectually
knocked on the head. In any event,
the papers say so, and they ought to
know. 1t seems that one Cook has
cooked Mrs. Miller's goose. We don't
know much about Mrs. Miller. She is
a pale. nervous, sickly, lackadaislcal
sort of an unsuspecting female tished
up, full of nerves and electricity as
gymnotus or lamprey, from the lagunes
of the lowlands of Arkansas. She,
like her husband, Miller, the mind-read-
er and table-tipper and spokesman of
1efunct Indian named Redface, sees
ghosts and plays fantastic tricks with
them in and around wardrobes in dark
ened apartments. She is the great
spiritual gaslight of the valley of the
Mississippi. Cook Is sort of Bald
win, juggler and necromancer, like
Heller and the late Signor Blitz. He
undertook to duplicate Mrs. Mlller's
performances, and Governor Harris
and Rev. DR.. Sam Watson and other
gentlemen sat upon the stage to see
the culinary performances of Cook,
while Mrs. Miller and her ugly
worse-half were boiled and stewed
and friccaseed. The guests were
delighted, and Rev. DR.. Watson
was ''undone." When ones credulity
is once excited IN behalf of the truth
or reality of any character of sensations
it becomes iasatiable. Nothing, In that
peculiar direction, can stagger it. 1t
accepts everything, however absurd or
impossible, and listens to nothing that
does not crafty the inordinate appe-
tite for the marvellous and ghostlY. On
the contrary, there are people who shut
their eyes and ears and will listen to
nothing that is not conformed to their
preconceived notions and prejudices.
These "spiritists" do perform wonder
full fests and as mind-readers are now
and then almost workers of miracles,
but there is still wanting, at their
hands, absolute demonstration of the
fact that the dead live after death.
That fellow at Oenison who had a.
strong bug pasted to the bottom of
cup and thus made tie cup move has
extinguished more spirit light in Texas
than can be made to glow again in
century, and the exposure of Mrs. Mil
ler's shallow tricks at Memphis have
almost put an end to the amusing
farces enacted by supposed dead people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-31

The extravagant stories told in the
East about the gathering of forces in
Western Texas to invade Mexico are
wholly without foundation. Esco-
bedo and the excellent Padre Vasques,
both deemed excellent gentlemen
where they are well known in Texas,
are spending delightful days of idle
ness beneath the moss-cr crowned live
oaks and bathing in the refreshing
waters of San Pedro Springs. We
think it will be impossible to induce
them to return to Mexico. Very Ger
tainly Gen. Mejia, another of these ex-
lies, who has spent many weeks il
Austin, seems little disposed to change
his peaceful modes of life. He is only
anxious that Mexico may have peace
and order and good government.
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GABRIELLE GREELEY is the prettiest
girl in New York. In any event she is
most beloved of newspaper men, and
most honored, and deservedly, in her
own person and virtues. The univer-
sal press association should guard her
with its life. Whatever the faults and
folbles and eccentricities of Horace
Greeley, his exalted moral and person
al worth were never questioned, and
of these Gabrielle is the embodiment,
and in love for the living child we re
verc the virtues of the dead father, and
our choicest memories of the matchless
editor are crystalized in love and en-
bodied in the person of this charming
ri ri
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FRAUD.-A letter-wrlter in the Gal
weston Neos calls attention to the fact
that time has been given to the con
tractors for opening Caney creek and
the San Bernard river to comply with
the provisions of law. The best thing
that Governor Hubbard can do in this
connection is to stop the work, if with
in his power to do so. The bill passed
for this purpose is such glariug SWIM
die within itself as to vitiate the whole
matter. 1t was worked through the
Legislature by the men who have con-
trolled the contracts, and eight or ten
times the pay necessary to clear these
streams is given. No one can connect
himself with the scheme without be-
ing tainted by it, and we are anxious
to see Hubbard do just as be has done
keep his gubernatorial foot on the
outrage.
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ment we will surely be content and
none the less prepared than to-day to
approve or condemn the conduct of
the President. We approve not be-
cause he would or would not confer
offices upon our friends; but we re-
spect and will serve the President just
so long as he serves the country faith
fully and wisely and patrIotically.
The mode of distributing spolls is the
smallest and meanest and unworthlest
test of the worth of these who fill non
orable Offices.
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The Turf, Field and Farm explains
how racing associations viii circum-
vent the anti-pool-selling bill recently
passed by the New York Legislature.
They viii fence of space on their
grounds for an exchange, admission
70 which will be by tickets, distributed
critically. In these exchanges" every
mans word must be as good Is his
bond; there will be no Stockholders I;
the loser will pay to the winner on his
own motion, and he who fails 70 meet
bis obligatieu viii 60 on general
black list. -