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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24
WE WANT A MILLION Our.
SELVRs.

The bondholders' organs insist tb,,
the poor will be the losers by u,-e ro
monetization of silver, We ',ave car-
tainly discovered tnat COZ, traction and
demOnetizatio-. male myriads starve
anu cfeF-te armies of tramps, put q
Period to Hti active industry, close
raills, shops and factories, stop railway
building and render it impossible for
farming populations to live without
great suffering. These conditions of
the country can be ascribed to no other
cause than Sherman's thumbscrew.
Nobody has ever looked for any other
origin of the sufferings and idleness of
working people. Suppose, then, that
the financial policy of the government
be wholly changed, and that currency
be made so abundant and be given
such value that capitalists will no
longer hoard it. Will it not be used
in giving employment to multitsdes
and value to property Land, farms
and cheap railways will rapidly absorb
the idle money of the country, and
working men will have abundance.
Even If it happen that the silver dol.
lar given for labor will not buy as
much wheat as to day, yet it will create
onnh 6nTnan6 fnr Ial,N.
will be no compulsory idleness, and a
given amount of labor will secure a
richer reward. The working man
never idle, and making two dollars in
silver instead of one dollar in gold,
can we'll afford to lose five or ten cents
on the silver. But there will be no
such loss. Western mines still pro-
duce each day and week more gold
than silver in value. and silver is only
at discount because the bondholders
induced Congress, when asleep, to leg
islate against silver. 1t was deprived
of Its value because no longer suffered
to be coined, and was stripped of its
legal tender properties for greater sums
than five dollars. When reinvested with
its original properties, popular indus
tries revived will create demands and
markets for vsst volumes of currency,
and then $50, 10000 of silver, which
the mints can hardly coin, will not
supply the demand or lessen the value
of this coin. The STATESMAN office
itself would gladly be supplied with a
million or so.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

THE organs of the bondholders con-
stantly assert that the reconciliation
of silver will cause q depreciation in
Europe of the bonds of the United
States. Why not state, as well, that
it will cause the same depreciation of
bonds in New York and New England?
There are two parties to these bonds,
the holders or Payees, and the makers
or taxpayers. The loss of the one is
the gain of the other, and il perfect
fairness characterize the advance or
decline, end no fraud Yitiate the
change of value, 1t can only be said
that good fortune attended the taxed
or those who absorb taxes imposed to
pay the bonds. What signifies It
whether, so long a. We deal with per-
feet fairness with the bondholders,
bonds advance or declinel We have
only to pay interest, and fralIy the
bonds themselves, IS the contract stip-
ulstes. We would not change the
contract as originally defined, and
would not suffer the bondholders to
change it, a. they have sought 70 do.
When silver was demonetized Iawiess
and unjust change in the terms Of the
contract ,Fas sought to be made. and
We only propose TO execute the con-
trsct literally and as originally speci6-
eAlly agreed uPon-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

WHAT most sstonishes the extreme
partisans of both parties is the fact that
the New Hampshire Republicans utter
ly obliterated the gifted Chandler on
the ninth instant. Chandler, not many
days ago, promulgated such a fierce
manifesto against me President tho,
Its authorship Tas ascribed 20 C1uk-
ling. Even Ben Butler was supposed
10 nave suggested several sweet little
paragraphs in the ugly publication.
ChaaDier was persuaded by Blaine that
the ierce and furious document would
give Chandler seat in the Senate.
Unhsppily for poor Chandler and for
Conkling the people of New Hamp-
shire do not approve Chandler's as
saults upon the President and people
of the South. In fact, members of the
New Hampshire Republican Conver-
ton seemed 10 suspect that this war oD
the President Is only diversion de-
signed by the bondholders to distract
public attention from the iutolerable
wees of progressive poverty. 1t is sup
posed by the leaders that partyism will
rise superior to patriotism, and that
congressman will forget the needs of
the country in devotion to those of
party, that lawgivers will reck more Of
Hsyes's and Buffers and Conkling's
fortunes than of those of the toiling
millions, and that whenever the con-
hIet between the President and his
party-leaders becomes fierce and IRE
pressible the miseries OF the poor will
be forgotten in the contemplation of
the greed of the rich for office and
gold and power. 1t seems, however,
that the people of New Hampshire are
not to become the dupes of the great
leaders ct Washington, and Conkling,
Edmunds, Butler and Blaine will be
forced to discover a more adroit local
leader than Chandler if they would
have Republican States, like New
Hampshire, betray the Republican
President.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24
PuS = MOnTEm.

Fernando Wood is cooperating
with Conkling and Butler. He would
hardly confess it, but introduces
extraordinary resolutions contemplat-
ing the investigation of the accounts
Of every placeholder at Washington.
Great partisan feeling and excitement
Is begotten, and for the time the real
necessities of impoverished, bankrupted
industries Of the country are forgotten
in order that Democrats and Republic
cans may fight desperately over Woods
writ of inquiry. The people, Mr..
Wood should know, even though be
be representative bOndholder, ex-
pect something better just now at the
hands Of Congress than these windy,
interminable discussions. It is easy
enough to stir up Radical rottenness.
People have been breathing it so long
that they have absolutely lost the
sense Of smell, and such processes as
Wood proposes to adopt signify moth
ing We nsver recover stolen mon
ey. and the rnscals have no character
10 lose No impression can be made
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24
THE WORST PROGRESSIVE
CRIME IN TEXAS.

The policy of Comanche county in
investing school funds in Texas State
bonds is very well, but these commodi-
ties, called bonds, often take unto
themselves wings, and, angelic as they
are with gold-bearing coupons, they will
fly away or become spiritual and dis.
solve into thin air. But what insanity
is this which induces a county, having
land, to sell it2 Why convert it now
into bonds when the price of land is
the lowest possible, and of bonds the
highest possible If Texas must
grew with unprecedented rapidi-
ty, when Sherman untwists the
thunbscrews of contraction and
when money and bonds, now boarded,
must seek investment in land and rail-
wsys, is not this sale of lands at this
hour an act of sublime folly7 What
robbery of the countless poor children
of the future in order to give a smat-
tering of horn books to the few of to-
dayl The laws of the country, if not
its good sense, should put a period to
this criminal sacrifice of the school and
university lands of Texas. When re-
suits of practices now in vogue are
witnessed they who do these things
or suffer them to be done will be
Infamous for the crime or criminal for
their ignorance and stupidity. There
is not to-day rich or successful in
stitution of learning hoary with age
and splendid in its worldwide re-
nown which is not maintained by re-
atty. Bonds and money have disap-
peared, and only land rented or leased
is retained, aud gives to Oxford and
Cambridge and to old German and
New England institutions revenues
that gather and maintain at these seats
OF learning the scholars and orators
and profound thinkers of the age. If
the land of Comanche county were
withheld from sale aud leased for
twenty years, a day IN the lifetime of the
State, at the termination of the contract
not only could the county maintain
faultless public school system, but a
high school that with princely revenues
might speedily become an university.
Comanche county Is richer in natural
resources of soil and climate and capa-
BILE of greater production than Connec-
ticut. The areas of the county and
the State are almost the same.
If the priceless public domain
given to the county had been assigned
10 the little Yankee State the treasure
would have been boarded until the
thorough education of each child of
the commonwealth would be accom-
plished by this public school property.
But Comanche county, like the State
of Texas itself, in dealing with its uni
versity domain, kills the goose that
lays golden eggs, The Legislature
that authorized the sale of these lands
was only doing the bidding of heart
less spectators.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24
AUSTIN AND THE TEXAS PA
CHIC RAILWAY SYSTRN.

The newest Pacific railroad bill does
not make San Antonio a point On ~ q
line of the road. 1t is not stafed ~
What place the International shall Al.
verge northwest towards II Paso. If
Ell Paso be the point aimed at. Nor
gan's road should ipe extended from
Cuero to Austip giving us a railway
route to the sea and to San Antonio,
ana then C.organ and the International
Corapar-y might we'll proceed together
TO 81 Paso. Morgan would control
tLe shortest line to the Gulf, the Inter
national to New York, and the Gen.
trail road, connecting at Houston with
a road to New Orleans, would give the
Central and its copuecting lines the
shortest route to the Crescent City.
But We only proposed to say that it is
very needless for the International
Railway Company to build eighty or
ninety miles of road to San Antonio
in order to reach El Paso. Time,
money and distance forbid. Austin
is the natural and necessary point of
northern departure towards Ell Paso.
What do Messrs. Hoxie and Hayes think
about it2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24
The new Tax mi.

For kissing q pretty girl, one dollar.
For kissing u homely one, two dol
lars. The tax is levied in order 10 break
up the custom altogether, It being re-
garded as piece of inexcusabie absurd.
ity.
For every Irritation, ten cents.
For every young man who has more
than one gIrl. five dollars.
CourtiDg in the kitchen, twenty We
cents.
Courting in romantic places. Eve dol
lars, and fifty cents for each time there
after.
For girl giving . young man the
mitten, five dollars and costs OF suit.
Seeing 9 young lady home from
church, twenty cents.
Failing 70 see her home, five dollars
and costs.
Bor ladies who pant, two dollars.
Proceeds 20 be devoted to the relief Of
dlsconsolate husbands who have been
deceived By outside appearances.
Bachelors over 80 years old, ten dol
lars and banished 20 Utah.
Each boy baby, fifty cents.
Each girl baby, ten cents.
Twins. one hundred dollars premium,
70 be paid out Of the funds accruing
from the tax on old bachelors.
Heads Of families Of more thsn thfr-
teen children. fined hundred dollars
and sent 70 jail.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24
THE CONSPIRACY.

If Butler and CGhkling give counte-
nance to Chandler it is only to annoy
the President and not because they
contemplate the possibility of his re-
moval from Office. A majority of the
Supreme Court DEGREES Hayes's title
perfect and he has done nothing to JUS
tify impeachment. Twc-thirds of the
Senate can never be induced to pro-
nounce against him, and successful i'm
peachment demands this majority.
Seeing even now, as Conkling and But
ler must, that the President cannot be
removed from office, the only purpose
of these accusations and of this pro-
posed action of his enemies must be to
divert the eyes of the country and of
Congress from the great financial sues.
tions demanding instant legislative &C.
ton. And therefore it Is that each
Southern Democrat in Congress should
vote against every proposition to in
woke these dead questions. Hayes is
President, and whether Louisiana and
Florida voted for or against him it
signifies nothing. He was never
charged with completely In crimes
done by returning boards and special
providence, it seems, using the un-
worthiest agencies, gave the hapless
country the President whose very Re-
pubhcanlsm enabled him to serve these
States rs no Democrat could have
done. TIlden himself, if really great,
and a patriot, as he is a match
less railroad wrecker, should rejoice
that he was bereft of Office and
power that the people sought to
give him. But we are told he still
urges his partisan adheFents to dis
turb the ceuntry's Tepose by thrusting
this question of impeachment and of
the Presidents defective title to Office
before the House of Representatives.
Butler and Chandler should find among
Democrats no co-conspirators against
the country's peace. The Supreme
Court will bold, as is already known,
that IN counting votes for the candi-
dates for the presidency Congress can
not go behind the returns sent to the
President of the Senate aud opened In
the House. M conceivable good,
therefore, even if the substitution OF
Tilden for Hayes be deemed possibly
benefcent, can be attained by assent
ing to Buffers and Conkling's pur-
poses, and, in whatever shape these be
presented, Democrats in Congress
should vote solidly against every out
cropping of the foul conspiracy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24
THROCK nOn Ton AND HISTORY,

The East Texas Patron is satisfied
that Throckmorton is a statesman, and
that he would make an excellent gov
ernor, and says the only objection it
has to him is his connection with the
International Railroad subsidy. Had
Throckmorton been connected with the
International Railroad bill we would
not regard it as an objection, but the
Patron is mistaken. Throckmorton
had no connection whatever with the
International, either while the bill for
Suite aid was before the Legislature or
at any other time. Everybody ought to
know this, and the Patron will be salts
fed when it investigates the matter.
Throckmorton was attorney for the
Texas and Pacific, and when the bills
for this road and the International
were before the Legislature Throck-
morton procured the adoption of
a land proviso IN the Texas and
Pacific bill. This provision left
1t an open question between the
State and the Texas and Pacific
railroad company, whether the subsi-
dy should be paid in money, or a COM
promise made in lands; and when the
Thirteenth Legislature met Throck-
morton figured actively in procuring
the substitution of the land in place of
the money subsidy, measure emf
nently satisfactory to the people of
the State. Throckmorton was not in
favor of the money subsidy, and
Texas owes it to him that
the substitution of land for money
in the case of the Texas and Pacific
was made, and that, too, without an
exemption from taxation, as in the case
of the International. Again we repeat
it, Throckmorton was meyer connected
in any way with the International and
its measures before the Legislature,
but for time he was attorney for the
Texas and Pacific, and he prevented
the very complications with it that
arose with the International.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

on the public r.ind, and sIr. Wood
should subside and let the silver bill
and repeal of the resumption act have
the floor. Then, when the national
banks are abolished and silver bearing
bonds are provided to be sold, like
English and French consols, to the
people, and popular industry and pub
lie and private enterprises are reinau-
gurated, then Mr.. Wood may provide
for all the investigations he chooses.
Just now the country demands sound
practical legislation. 1t is the special
province of Congress to dissolve the
army of tramps, and give employment
to the people by stimulating business
activity. This Is not the hour for the
institution of post mortem examinations
of dead Republicanism, Illuminated
solely by the lamp of the sepulchre.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

whirlwind of passion. Nothing is more
intolerably tiresome than the perusal
of half hundred newspapers, each and
all floating down the same sluggish
current of reasoning to swell at last the
great ocean of human thought and yet
never producing a ripple on its surface.
Bowles's newspaper was not OF this
character. He was a freethinker In
politics and religion, and in this the
Republican differed in nothing from the
most profitable and successful and
powerful organs of opinion published
in the United States. II was once true
that a newspaper could be destroyed
by the breath of party-leaders; but
with increased cost of conducting daily
journals there has also arisen increased
inherent strength and people read the
daily paper for the dispatches from Eu-
rope and America and for the infinite
variety of news and opinions
of which they are the tireless
vehicles. Nobody understood this
better than Sam Bowles, and
in his editorials he dared, regard
less of the dominant prejudices of the
hour, to tell his readers the simple, un-
vanished truth. Happily for Bowles
and the Republican, New Englanders,.
whatever vices of character we may
ascribe to them, never object to one
saying what he thinks, and they esteem
him none the less who honestly thinks
differently from themselves. Bowles
was genuine, just, acute and adroit
Yankee. His lecture last September
before the Social Science Association
at Saratoga Springs was an honest, fear
less exposition of his views. He did
not hesitate TO declare the necessity for
the restriction of suffrage in municipal
elections and assert his Confidence in
the possibility of the reform of abuses
that distinguish governments of Amer
lean towns and cities. His moral
courage and def2.lce of the rich and
powerful: All even of the caprices and
prejudices of the multitude, made him
an admirable journalist, and meyer has
citizen of New England, since Gov
ernor Andrew was no more, died more
universally honored and beloved. 1t
is well. He never held or sought an
office, and, like faithful editor, never
wanted one.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

WE can only hear from the East
through dispatches and newspapers
written or published by bondholders.
We had thought, because of the
unanimity of the great newspapers of
Boston and New York, that North
eastern States and people were wholly
opposed to the silver and anti-resump-
ton bills now before Congress. And
yet it is now demonstrated that each
labor union and industrial league and
the great body of the working people
concur perfectly with those of the West
and South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

THE Mexican war question is no
more. Peace is the programme, and a
liberal commercial treaty and exten-
sion of the railway system of Texas
into Mexico. 1t is the policy of wis
dom and not of crazed folly. The wis
est soldier is ever slowest in inaugural
ing hostilities, and only savages should
wage war, and for the simple reason
that war merges civilization and Chris
tianity into savagery and demonism.
And yet there are not few who, for
selfish and local gains, have sought to
precipitate conflict between the Uni
ted States and Mexico.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24
Huntlng.on,s side or she a uss,,o,

G. p. Huntington, Of the Californi
and Texas Road, was in st. LOUIS fe
days ago and when approached by
reporter for the Republican said 'sW
have built" said Mr.. HuntiLgtol
''some $50 miles OF road from Sac
Francisco and are coming now up thd
Gila. We don't talk much but keep oil
building. We are heading for FL Paeo.
seeking the best line 10 the gulf or NeH
Orleans. We come IN autAeoRisFl
anybody who asks aid to build q To6
along side of us. ! like Col. Sco.
personally and am willing he shoui
get all he can, but we don't ask coz
gressional aid. We would like Ian
grant. II Scott had built his read
the law required him 10 do, 100 mIIe1
year, we would have had the Paciilc|
road nearly done to-day. Now thefe'
is a gap Of 1900 miles. We have al30f
$50 miles yet 70 build 10 reach FL Pas.
and he has about $50 miles 10 build "a
reach the same point. What We ask n
for Scott to build q road TO meet uei
We don't want TO wait tin be can gef'
a subsidy, as q road can be built n1w|
for one-third the money it cost then. I
We don't think . subsidy can be oil Z
tanned and we can't wait q year for tll|
chances Wa have land grant -si44I
to Yuma, but the grant don't congd
any minerals or precious metals, an
the land has TO be located here "a:
there outside Of previous grants. "
are going right along to build = road
. I'd IL Scott gets road, we'll build
road TO the Rio Grande. We wOr|1
not object 70 prorste with any road =
meet. st. Louis Is great city, In flf
destined TO be the great inland city
the Mississippi valley, but il has no
terest in Tom SCOTS road over n1
other. The Central Pacific has no q
terest IN the Southern Pacific, bui
have an interest in both. The 6oulil
ern Pacific offers to proratc, OF couTss
with any road IL may meet. We don'H
build the road because il is Ia she Cen +
trails interest. You can't disturb ~ t.
Louis. Il 10 bound TO be the greatest
inland town In the country, and -
Horace Greeley once said that ail the
railroads then building are bound -
centre in New York, the came may -
said OF st. Louis regarding any South
ern transc3ntinental road"
Mr.. Huntington then referred 70 the
bills before Congress, staslDg that they
asked Congress In their bill 20 prick %
the land grants ill their road meets o.
connects with Scott's, or some ofhef
road. II was = surprise 70 him thst
Scott did not push through bic rnsd
with the land grant befoTe elren - tit
country was 20 neh tbrough ahith -
road passed.
As for the Southern Pacific read
AF. Huntington said it had been bnilt
through some Of the most terrible aii
culties of any IN the United state
The section through the Tbaehapi pt
. distance Of tWenty-six miles lhfou
the Sierra EeFadas. has eighteeu q
nels Of the most expressive cqpsl<
ton In the United States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

THE Russians, seemingly, have Tur-
key and even Constantinople at their
mercy. The Russian victory at Shipka
pass practically closes the war, and if
an armistice and peace be not agreed
upon, the end of the Turkish empire in
Europe is inevitable. Europe would
hardly be the worse for it, and yet
there are few to rejoice that Russian
autocracy and semi-barbarism must
supplant. In the fairest district of Eu-
rope, the supreme power of the Moham.
medans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

THE Telegram wants to know, if the
preachers succeed in sbolishing hell,
''what we are to do with our delin-
quent subscribers" We propose to
send them to Houston when the streets
are moist and to the Staked Plains in
a dry spell.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

tat Cortina had been liberated, was
then in the Crescent City. and would
soon flourish in the coma l2,re. President
Diaz has provided against such a de-
plorable contingency which be would
not have done so carefully if be did
not propose to maintain friendly rela-
tions with GoYernor Hubbard and Gen
Ord - >H'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

BLAINE made little speech in Ar
kansas congratulating the people there
on the good feeling subsisting be-
tween the races in that State. Blaine
would find it the same everywhere,
but he commonly sees through the
eyeglasses of the Inter Ocean.