The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

Those VINO attended tne IeCeuL les
rivals at San Antonio and listened 90 |
the generous eloquence and liherallzed
patriotism OF Governor Hubbard, and |
the applause that greeted it every
where. supposed that the jeremiads of
the Herald were forever silenced. But
the Herald was only soothed, and even
now it recites through column and a
half the wrongs OF the West endured
at the hands Of the East. 1t finally be-
comes excited, and In leaden sentences
declares that:
Western Texas in fact receives moth
ing from the State OF Texas, but she
has to aid by her taxes and by her lands
situated IN her limits to build railroads
in Trans. Colorado Texas even to build
\ new State house in Austin. This
has taken from Western Texas millions
OF acres OF her soil, and we notice a
peremptory demand made upon the
State by the press OF Austin that it
should take from the State treasury
moneys to build sewers for the city of
Austin, in order to give employment
to her idle and beggared population,
which the State is called upon to feed
and board. This includes in the pau
per status not the mechanics only, but
-,sIUfv5si0uai mgu, clerks ana many
other classes OF society. Are the peo-
pie of San Antonio and Western Texas
TO be gouged in taxes to meet the ex-
orbitant and still increasing disburse-
ments made by authority of Rutabaga
governors and legislators for the bene-
fit of Trans Colorado Texas
The Herald seems to forget that the
State has provided for the construction
OF two railways to meet at San Anto-
MO. 1t might have done less. 1t
could do no more. The International,
like Pierce's road, must be extended to
San Antonio or lose its land grant.
These TWO roads that owe existence to
subventions given by the State will
draw others to the venerable city whose
venerable editor growls gloomily and
prates of blessings as of insufferable
wrongs.
There are several public build.
ings in Austin owned by the
State; the Supreme Court building
with its librarian and clerks and re-
porters; the Land Office, the only
structure at all worthy OF the State or its
wealth or hi3tory; the Treasurer's and
Comptroller's little domicil, in which
clerks and accountants and guards.
men and iron safes are packed away il
hot summertime, with every conceiv'
able architectural appliance to render
people uncomfortable and contract
their miserable lives. The Capitol it
self IS an unseemly, dilapidatcd den,
constructed of the mesnest, softest ma
terial. The apartments Of the gov
ernor of the commonwealth arc in the
basement of the building, even on the
very ground. There is no ventilation
beneath them, and the atmosphere Of
the place is thick and dank like that
OF q dungeon, and its comfort in sum
mer consists in the denseness of the
walls and in processes Of evaporation
from the sodden floor. The structure
itself is as devoid of comfort as O
beauty and grandeur of design and o
adaptedness for purposes...of its cree
ton. When, some days ago
we said that all these build
ings should be cleansed by currents
of water, and that the old sinks, filled
with filth accumulating through thirty
years and dilfusing odors in summer
-tsnnu that make buzzards weep-wheI
we said that these sinks should be ex
purgated by living streams of waite
which God sends down from the noun
tains to purify the morals when cleans
ing the persons of unwashed Texal
lawgivers, even then the Herald lift
up its voice and weeps. There arr
baths within and sewers beneath ever
modern Capitol Of each American State
and il another objection oe made t
the expurgation of the Capitol of Texas
to the construction of drains and bath
beneath and about it, we would hav
the journalist of San Antonio, devote,
as he is to irrigating bitches, attend
meeting of the Legislature of Texa
when the fat and coarse gsntlema
from 80. becomes excited and elC
quent He smells to heaven, and tn
Le sislature will adopt or vote down an
proposition whose tendency Nigh
make him ''lift an arm" or utter
breath in it's defense. The first act c
= the next legislature of Texas, even
the Herald swoon, will be the col
struction Of a drain from Capitol Hi
three-fourths OF mile to the Colorado