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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
BEN WADE, THE PRESIDENT
AND THE SOUR BONS.

The Presidents assailants and the
lovers of party, consisting of those in
the line OF promotion and of those who
can only secure office through the ma
chinery of psrty, should be silent in
the South. Let Ben Wade, that great
and good man of Ohio, have the floor.
He concnrs precisely with the Bour-
bons of the South and declared, after
reading some of the speeches OF the
presidential junketing party, that -
President had "misjudged his duty
shockingly," made "a complete sar-
render to the South, /" and that "we've
got to give up the government to the
Democrats." Whatever Ben Wade
approves We have ever felt il our duty
to condemn, and whatever he crit.
cizes most severely deserves most com
mendation. Nobody, North or South,
outside Of lunatic asylums, ever ques-
toned this proposition, and Jet We
find newspapers everywhere in thG
South 30 eager TO discover defects
or vices Of speech and conduct in
the President and his Cabinet thAl
when . southerner stands before q
multitude Of blue noses, away down ID
yermont, and Is their CREST and they
welcome him night royalty, and whez
he iacalariy tells them-and peopl'
srs always jocular when talking frou
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
wheat.
The Brcnham Banner is responsible

The Brenham Banner is responsible
for the following excellent article:
The fact that wheat can be success .
fully raised in this locality has been
demonstrated by actual experiment in
this and Austin county. A prominent
citizen OF BRENNAN who, prior 10 the +
war, farmed in Caldwell county sayak
that he and his neighbors always faiscs
plenty OF wheat TO make their own
In Victoria county, stiIT fuftlief soutn,
wheat has been successfully cultivated,
the yield being about thirty-five bush. /
els to the acre. The importance OF a +
wheat crop can hardly be ovefesti7
mated.
We have in this county populationl
of upwards of 40,000-say about 7000E
families; each family viii use on AMI
average, say three barrels OF -four per
year; the flour costs not less than ten
dollars barrel, or thirty dollars per
year for each family in the county,
This makes grand total Of $2i0, ,000l
per annum, which is an underestimate,
for the one article of flour alone, not al
single dollars worth Of which is pro-
duced in the county.
At the average price of cotton II will
take 5000 bales to pay for flour. Thgl
amount expended for bacon and lard
will considerably exceed that for flour.
The county produces little more than
| 80, 600 bales OF cotton, and of this|
more than one-third is expended in|
| the purchase OF meat and bread, which,
could be made at home. We submit|
the proposition to any candid thinking
man: lis it any wonder that there e
a constant complaint OF hard times and
scarcity of money!"
The average farmer produces neth-|
ing but cotton that will realize ready
money. He expends one-third OF it
for meat and bread, the other two,
thirds are readily disposed OF for
sugar, coffee, clothing and few lux
uries, and at the end of the year y
no better of than when he commencS
his cotton crop in January. There arc,s
OF course, many energetic asd thrifty
farmers, TO whom the above calcula-i
tion does not apply, but taking the av-
erage renter, either white or black
and some OF the smaller and less
thrifty farmers, and il will be found 70
he very near the truth.
An experienced farmer says wheat
in this section can be sown, fall, in
November and December; spring, in
January and February; the average
weld is from twenty to thirty bushels
per acre. Wheat is worth at least one
dollar per bushel, and at that rate nets
fully as much profit as cotton. One
bushel 10 the acre is enough for seed.
The expense OF cultivation Is cornpara-
lively light.
To overcome the objection that there
are no mills in the country 10 grind
wheat il it were raised, we will state
that our neighboring city ol Hemp
stead is well supplied with first class
Touring mill, and that as soon aa
farmers evince any disposition 20 raise
, wheat enough TO justify the erection>u.
, Touring mill, there are gcntlemen
here who will put up one.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
REFORM IN RAILWAY MAN.
AGEMENT.

The Railroad Commissioner OF Mis-
souri, to learn every fact and inciden.
affecting Missouri railways. is walking
over the whole length of each line in
the State. He must walk 32O6 miles.
He has already gone over 455 miles and
grows vigorous as he steps from one to
another crosstie. BY the distance be-
tween these are his habitusl strides
measured and nevermore can Mrs
Hardin keep step with the ex-Gover-
nor, and they must ever hereafter jog
along together very swkwsrdly. He
will go through life with rapid sue
cession Of jerks. But be viii know ali
about Missouri railways. He viii see
what injustice IL done each neighbOr-
hood in freight and passenger rates
what iron is defective and where fish
bar fastenings should be substituted
for 'schairsn and where the crossties
have rotted. Most railroad commits.
sioners 60 over the roads twenty 1--WE
/, miles an hour. and make reports a
suggested by the officers Of roads; but
Missouri, first among Southern States,
win be accurately advised Of the true
condition OF the severAl roads OF thu
State. Massachusetts, il wisest In
local legislation Of American common.
wealrhs. Everybody reads the nevs
papers in Massachusetts, and pablis
opinion absolutely cryssallizes itself
without the Intervention OF the LeEis
lAtare, into omnipotent Law. Thar
are three railroad commissioners OF tn
old Bay STATE, one Of the Adams fsnill
being Of he number, These thre'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
THE DYING SENATOR.

Oliver p. Morton, OF whose progress
towards the grave our dispatches tell,
is too yound and, perhaps, in Christian
eyes, not good enough to die. There
fore he may be spared. Proximity to
deaths door and then step backward
and escape may beget reform, and
While the lamp holds out TO burn
The yilcst sinner may return"
He was born in 1928, in Indiana, and
has been invested with every honor
which this great State can bestow. Not
only was he born iu Indiana, but edu-
Gated there, and there he studied and
practiced law. Soon he was circuit
judge, and became lieutenant governor
In 1850 and governor in 1861, when
Lane was made United States senator.
He was elected governor in 1864, to
the United States Senate in 1867, was
reelected in 1872, and his term expires
March 4, 1879. There is no denying
Mortsn's intellectual greatness. We
have listened to and watched the ter
rible declaimer against the South while
he shuffled the sheets of manuscript be-
fore him and hobbled nervousTy and
painfully about his desk in the Senate
Chamber till our blood ran cold. His
face expressed all demoniac passions,
and his words and gesticulstions were
rs hideous as the pictures he drew of
Southern habits, purposes and morals.
There was a very fiendishness in his
seeming hatred of "rebels." He may
have been honest in all this. Very GER
tainly he seemed to feel all that he said
most profoundly. His voice and man.
ner were as vigorous as his modes
of expression, and as the admira-
BILE logic which distinguished sue
cessive sentences. He was not the
equal of many senatorial rivals as
rhetorician, but as a forcible, effective
speaker and reasoner and in fierceness
of invective, inspired perhaps by foul
and painful diseases that preyed upon
him, he was simply peerless. We have
respected the genius of Morton, his
earnestness, and devotion to any cause
he espoused; but he was never just or
truthful in dealing with Southern facts
and it is needless to say that when
he breathes his last, and his end, if
dispatcher be trustworthy, approaches,
the South can shed no tears over his
bier and tender no honors to his mem
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
a GRAND OLD TEXAN IN LOUIS.
WILLIE.

The following letter, from Louis.
vile, Kentucky, tells its own story,
and has interest for the people and
pedagogues:
Editors Democratic Stdtesmaa-The
National Educational Association is
still in session. The best paper of the
occasion was read to-day by DR.. r. c.
Burleson, of Waco, on the educational
Interests of Texas. 1t received uni
versal commendation. Knowing ones
say that it will be worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars to Texas, and
that the Doctor should be employed by
the State to go TO every city of the
Union and repeat his great Grafton.
lie spoke of the vast extent of the
State, the fertility of its soil and the
mildness of its climate. He gave an
epitome OF all past legislation in re
gard to schools, pictured the present
condition of the same, aud then
painted in glowing words the great
future awaiting the educational inter
ests of Texas. The effect of the speech
was simply wonderful. Words fail to
describe it. JEAN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
THE FALL TRADE.

1t Is stated that the New York banks
are unable to supply the money re-
quired for the transfer of Western and
Southern crops to market. These banks
are related to interior and Western
States and cities, as the Bank of
England to the commerce of Great
Britain, each year holding reserve for
this purpose. The volume of currency
has been lessened more than twelve
million dollars, and while the emission
of silver has been larger than the with
drawal of fractional currency much of
this silver has been exported, and
much has gone to the Pacific States,
and it is assumed that the volume of
currency has been reduced fifteen mil
lion dollars In twelve months.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
GOOD OUT OF EVIL.

A decisive battle in Bulgaria may
have been fought since Saturday.
Suleiman Pasha and Mehemet Ali have
consolidated their forces, and this
strong army and that of the Russians
are strongly entrenched. The fortunes
of the Turk will be determined finally,
it is SAID, by the result of this strug-
gle. We wish it would end the tire
some, brutal, disgusting conflict, in
which women and children and help
less peasants are the great sufferers.
But it is we'll for republican systems of
government, and for the freedom of
Europe and for the growth of Chris
tian civilization that the Turk and the
Russian are rendering each other in
capable of mischief for many years to
come
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30

A FAST young man fascinated, of
course, by the peculiar charms of Dali
las writes under date of the twenty
second from that blessed place:
Editors Democratic Statesman In your
beautiful City of Austin yesterday it
was exceedingly hot and intolerably
dusty; here in this flourlshing North
Texas metropolis to-day, it is very cool.
The rainfall has been abundant oyer
contrast is remarkable. This country
is an Egypt for all sorts of crops. There
is no trace of the cotton W )rm this side
of Hearpe From Austin to ilearne
oue-third of the cotton is riddled by the
worms. In the Brazos bottom, where
the weed is large and splendid, it seems
to be almost destroyed by this cotton
planters memorable enemy. The cot
ton crop from Austin to Hearne will
not yield over half crop, but thence
to Dallas and around about, the crop
bids fair to make full yield, with
one-third more in acreage than in any
former year. You all talk about Aus
tin and the country around it as peer
lessly beautiful, but you have no such
country as this of ours. There is q
good deal of stir about the district
judgeship. His Excellency had better
appoint Judge Hunt unless he wants
the very sky to fall on his virtuous
head. G.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30

THE lnterviewers beset Mr.. Schleich-
er the other day at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, but he was not in a talking hu-
NOR. The day was hot and MIR. s. is
somewhat fat and does not like to be
squeezed, certainly not by common
place reporter. Therefore they could
get little out of HIM. The World SAYS
He declared that he knew nothing
not already in the papers as to recent
events in Mexico. When asked what
he supposed to be the object of the fu-
rious march of Col. Estrada to the from
tier, in which that impetuous Mexican
left nine of his men on the way, struck
down by the sun, Mr. Schleicher
laughed and said he thought it unlike
ly Estrada would have been in such a
hurry if he had been coming merely to
prevent Mexican raiders from crossing
into Texas. 1t was rather fortunate
for Estrada, Mr.. Schleicher added,
that he did not happen to meet Lieut..
Bulls when he was making this forced
march. Lieut.. Bulls moves rapidly,
also, and collision might have had
consequences. As for the people on
the frontier, Mr.. Schleicher smiled at the
notion of their expecting anything
from any attempt of the Diaz govern
ment to do its duty on the other side
of the Rio Graude. Old Texans have
heard of this sort of thing before, and
have very clear sense of its exact
yalue SGWhat the hordernrs will do
just now, said Nlr. Schleicher epigram-
matically, sis to trust In Ord and keep
their powder dry"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30

TIE Dallas Commercial says that the
climate of Texas, being dry and sub
ject to the salt currents OF air from the
Gulf, with the equally important pres
sence of large percentages of lime,
gypsum and iron in the Northern and
Western portions of Texas, constituting
combinations especially adapted to the
production of wheat of superior bread
making qualities, lead US to state that as
the country becomes more settled, and
with increased facilities for Transports
ton, Texas will place herself in the
front rank as a bread producing and
exporting State. AS has been said OF
our capacity for producing cotton,
''that Texas contains sufficient good
cotton lands to produce enough to
supply the entire present consumption
of The world" we could, in addition
to raising the cotton, produce more
wheat thsn the entire wheat crops OF
the United States for 1877. Qal
only great need to accomplish these
NOT possibilities but probabilities Il
population.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND
THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC.

Attorney General Boone thinks the
STATESMAN has been led to comment
upon the Texas and Pacific Railroad
forfeiture from personal feeling against
himself. No reason exists for personal
or political feeling against him, or his
assistant, and the STATESMAN has
taken position upon these questions
years ago, and long before Mjor
Boone was elected to Office. 1t would
see the State protected against imposi-
tions from not only railroads, but all
corporations, and this ia why it would
have them placed promptly where
the law provides they shall he.
The opinion of the Attorney General
as to the rights of the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad,
which we published yesterday, has
been claimed, justly, as We think, as
bearing upon the Texas and Pacific
question. The charter OF the San An
tonic road expired January %, 1876,
a I'd no legal steps were taken against
it, and should a similar course be pur-
sued towards the Texas and Pacific,
the delay would certainly allow
the company to prosecute its
claim before the Legislature for
af he
the old law, carrying with it twenty
sections of land to the mile. The
opinion of the Attorney General says: ::
This fact, taken in connection
with the other fact that this com
pany continued to extend their road
in good faith after the twenty eighth
day Of January, 1876, without any
attempt ON the part of the State
to secure forfeiture Of its chartered
rights, and have, within what
might be considered reasonable
time, completed their road to San An
tonic, might be considered waiver
of the right of the state to refuse the
land bonus given to all such works of
internal improvements.
And here is the point in the opinion
that would bear upon the Texas and
PAcitic charter. II the State delays
suit it "might be considered a waiver
of the right OF the State to refuse the
land bonus" of twenty sections of land
to the mile, and its reservation. which
Judge Terrell's bill would hold for the
State. Extensions have been in order
with the Texas and Pacific for over
twenty years, and it being clearly
the wish of the people that rail-
roads as well as the State fulfill their
part of the contract, the STATESMAN
would see it held to strict accounta
bihty. The question is simply reser-
walton to the State of Texas, or a res
ervation to Tom Scott-.wenty sections
of land per mile laid aside for him or
sixteen sections gwen to his as to other
works of internal Improvement. Pre-
cisely the same feature might arise
with the International, should it not
comply with the requirements of its
charter. Should this road fail to
build the number of miles re-
qulred of it, it would stand ex-
actly in the same lighs as does
the Texas and Pacific, which disre-
cards its charter requirements. be-
lieving that time VIII afford relief.
The Attorney General has given no
opinion, as yet, upon the Texas and
Pacific forfeiture. This far the
STATESMAN was led astray by publica-
tions made in other papers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30

TEE Augusta Ckrsaicle and Sentinel
publishes 9 statement Of Commodore
Pegram, of Virginia. It seems that
when Pegr2m commanded the COnfsd-
crate steamer Nashville, and the vessel
was lying at Liverpool or London, Daw-
son, . mere boy, concealed himself on
board, came b the United States AMI
fought through the war. He was
severely wounded in his first battle,
bat Afterwards was unharned. Peg
ram says there was never . better OF
brsssr soldier in the service on sea OF
iani-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
THE DISTRICT COURT, COVER
NOR. LEGISLATURES AND FOR
FEITED PUBLIC LAND.

We feared it was the policy of the
Executive to postpone action in the
matter of forfeiture of the land grant
to Tom Scott until the Legislature may
be convened, when the question of
retrocession would be injected into the
contest and each candidate for the
Legislature must declare for or against
the Tom Scott land grab. Men would
then come as law-givers to Austin
simply as hired agents of mighty cor
poration, and Texas would be griev-
ously wronged by the delay to enforce
the rights of the State against the
mighty corporation. After the courts
have declared, as they will, at the first
term, unless Tom Scott interpose, that
the land grant has been forfeited, the
Legislature will properly have nothing
more to do with the question. After
forfeiture has been declared the COM
pany would be compelled to take out a
new charter under the general law grant
ing sixteen sections of land to the mile.
Hence we may find Scott's agents urg-
ing the speedy convocation of the Leg
lslatuIe. Just so soon as the Attorney
General files his bill and Judge Turner
is about to state the single fact assert
ed in the statutes that Tom Scott has
forfeited his land, at that very hour
will the uproar begin, and the ennis
s2ries and agents of Scott will demand
the meeting-of this Legislature. I'm
less Scott secure the Federal subsidy,
which he seeks, he will build no more
miles of railway. In fact, he cannot,
and this Texas land grant, in the pres
ent condition of the money market,
would not enable him to do 1t. II
Scott secure the Federal subsidy he
does not need the Texas land grant,
and in no event will the Governor
or Attorney General or Legislature or
district court interpose obstacles or
delays to aid the great Pennsylvania
in regaining title to the public domain
Of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30

hotel windows and from balconies
that he is ''repentant SINNER" hav
ing been an awful rebel and secession
ist-when such a speech is made by
such q. man on such an occasion, the
sorehesds and straightouts and Bour-
bons show the whites OF their godly
eyes and are sad that Key so degrades
himself. 1t is awfully bad. But this
little speech of Ben Wade should
serve to make uschary of criticism and
condemnation affecting the President
and his Cabinet. Southern patriots, if
partisans may not, would do we'll to
leave the ungracioHs task OF assalling
those who serve US and sacrifice party
to serve the country, to Wade and
Blaine and Butler.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30

THE New Orleans Democrat. in a
caustic criticism upon the conduct oi
Judge Billings, of the United States
District Court, complains that he
spends six months of each year at his
northern home, and the growing bust
ness OF q court that never doubts the
universally of its jurisdiction musI
be transacted by mail and telegraph
six mouths in each year. Perhap:
there is no Louisiana lawyer fitted fol
q place on the Federal bench, and
therefore the imperative necessity fOl
the appearance Of Blllingscs IN tb'
South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
THEN COMES THE DELUGE.

The intervention of working men as
a class and party In politics will compel
Congress to address itself to new ques-
tions involving to greater extent the
interests and fortunes Of Northern peo
pie than the blessed negro. Partisan
ship addresses itself at last to the
pocket of the capitalist. The South,
meanwhile, escapes and Democracy
and Radicslism alike must consider
new questions and individuals must
discover new partisan associations. Old
questions and issues are subordinated
to the new and the President finds his
policy sustained by the very incidents
of which old party-leaders complain.
The working men may demand the as
sumption by Congress of supreme
power over railways. The international
road is wholly within the State of Tex
as. 1t is a Texan institution, created
and controlled by local law, and affect
ing directly the rights and fortunes Of
no other State. And yet II Congress
interpose and seize railways or under.
take to regulate freight and passenger
rates, and such are the exactions of the
Commune and of the labor anions, party
leaders will be silent for time. They
will hesitate and watch the course of
events and opinion, and finally fall,
each on the strong side in his own dis
tIict or State. Sunset Cox represents
district that gives him II, 900 "Dem-
ocratic" majority in the city of New
York. This majority consists of mem
bers of the Commune or of labor
unions. Ben Butler is the peculiar
representative Of the working people
OF Massachusetts,. Win it amaze
mankind when the issue Is made in
Congress, and when the Commune
stands before the country declaring
that Congress shall control the rail-
ways and regulate tolls, as Sherman
proposes-will it amaze mankind il
Butler and Cox stand side by ade and
cooperate in accomplishing the pur'
poses of the working peoplea 1t will
be hard test to applyto TO the Demo
cratic virtue OF Mr.. Cox, and hs
will triumph over himself and remain
true to the faith and to hls theory O
constitutional Law and government
but there are few who may not be cor
rupted by the sllurements Of place ant
power and the Democratic party in thu
North consists mainly OF men Of tn
Commune or of labor unions or OF tn
Iuternationale. On the contrary tn
Democratic party Of the South consist
OF Democrats, per q, and Of old Wing
and Of Conservatives who have com
to the ballot-box since the war. Be
tween these and the sans eallottes anC
the followers Of George Francis Trail
and the mob that lifts Cox into Con
gress there can be no sympathy, anl
we cannot fail 70 see that if the cours
Of events be unchanged and politicA
organizations be effected BY Granger
and by working men and BY the Con
muns there nuss follow q thorough n
Organization Of partisan association
TIE very fountains Of the great dee
win be broken up.