The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-15
DANGERS IMPENDING.

People who have read the history OF
republics are apt to think that ours is
doomed TO share, and speedily, the
fate of its predecessors. In the pres
ence of revolutionary and ruinous ten
denotes of opinion and action begotton
by the selfish greed for gold distin-
gushing those who have used the gov
ernment simply as an agency of money
making it Is difficult to repress the ap-
Prehension that anarchy slowly sup
plants law and order. 1t seems utterly
impossible, on the one hand, to make the
rich comprehend the fact that the
government is no longer their own
peculiar property, or, on the other,
to induce the multitude to suffer exist
ing evils to correct themselves. If we
were driven too far in the direction of
Capitalization and personal govern
ment by Grant we should not, in order
to correct violence done the country's
organic code, go backward to disinte-
grafton and disorder. If the bond
holders and rich have made money too
dear it is even a greater evil to make
it too cheap. If contraction have
given enormous riches to the few it
were wiser to suffer death and time to
distribute this wealth than by violating
fixed rules of right make the law
lawless and its opponents high
waymen. If property rights be not
maintained youth discovers no vir-
tue in providing for the wants of
age and idleness and vice would
become universal and proper govern
-ment impossible. All the signs of the
times, whatever optimists say to the
contrary, impel US to confess that the
two extreme elements of society, as it
exists to-day, while bitterly hostile to
one another, are cooperating in the
attainment of results which both ab-
hor. The dread of communism founds
the empire, even as the triumph of the
widest Greenbacker or Communist
would beget anarchy, the dissolution |
of society and its reconstruction by
despotism. We should not drift list
lessly down the tide. If we see palpa- |
BILE danger, why not confess it, And |
yet the Waco convention is one of the !
signs of the times most portentous of |
evil. The few men composing it sig |
nifty little, but they represent |
40, 600 negroes and 10000 whites,
and five'thousand carpet baggers, who, |
trading IN negro votes, have transferred |
these 40, 600 Africans to the ''destruc-
tIves." These negroes, armed by
knavery with the ballot, become a
dangerous force In any government;
but we cannot help expressing a
share of qualification when we see Sam
bo, the blessed tool of New England
Radicalism, fondleo and caressed and
made fat and powerful by the rich
bondholders of the East that the South
might be enslaved we cannot help
expressing our delight that the adder
warmed into life stlngs the hand that
it. Capital and the East
tremble when Cuffee, bearing the bal
lot, marches under the Greenbacker's
flag toward anarchy and the confsca-
ton of property. AS some one has
said the hope of the country lies in an
and determined effort to
rouse the better half of the people to a
recognition of the fact that honest
and trained capacity in our public SER
vice is essential to our well-being. As
long as suffrage is debased the danger
subsists. But when majority of the
people become convinced that ''no
aggregation of folly can produce sense,
and none of, worthlessness, honesty"
then it may be possible to exterminate
deceased suffrage and the danger threat
sning US will be no more. The bond
holders, constituting the other class of
enemies of the people and country,
may be readily mastered. The very
next Congress will have in 1t hardly
one single representative man Of the
gilded autocracy of to DIV.