The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-31

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thing that has a price till pecans
and bones and horns and hoofs be-
come staple products of Texan indus
try, almost unknown till rude war and
negro emancipation gave Us invaluable
lessons IN practical economy, and thus
in personal and civic independence.
We buy the least possible from Eng
land and sell the most possible. Our soil
and climate and endless summers and
the spontaneous products OF nature er-
able Us to live for less than any other
people, and very certainly for the past
few years We have been prscticing arts
and habits which Dame Nature sug-
gests, and thus while Texas and the
Suth will sell New aud Old England
within the current year $3.50, 600, 600
worth of cotton alone, to say nothing
of wool, hides, beeves, tobacco and
nuts, We need buy from abroad hardly
half this sum in values. 1t is apparent
that we are growing rich, and Europe
and England were never so pinched
by poverty or oppressed by debt.
What will be the end of this condition
OF affairs, made painfully visible by
the explosion of the great bank at
Glasgow, 1t is hardly difficult to pre-
dict. Many violent revolution has
been wrought by throes of terrible pow
erty. People have often ascribed to
government vices of their own conduct
and character. European governments
are ruInously extravagant and costly.
Perhaps these may be reformed, the
church, as barnacle, excised
from the ship of State, and hereditary
Incomes aud pensions may be abol-
ished. Evidently enough there must
be reform or reYolution. How this can
be wrought it is difficult to see. Many
years must elapse before redundant
populations will absorb all profits OF
Industry in America as in Europe, and
the colder ATTITUDES and less productive
fields of Europe, yielding only one an
nual crop, can never compete with
these of Texas. If the resources of
British trade are lessened by our capac-
ity to live at home. and if our resour-
ces and capacity for cheap production
be limitless, as seen in these boundless
plains even in the vicinity
of Austin, how infinite must the de-
mand for our products become when
VIC have access to the nine millions of
Mexico and direct trade with Brazil
and Central Americas Our manufac-
lures will supplant those Of England
and Germany and France in all these
American states. Difference In the
cost of tranpor:ation gives US adven-
tages enough, but the manufacturers
of the United States undersell those of
Europe in Europe and surely Europe
cannot compete with us on this hemis-
phero.
The Congress that sits on the first
Monday of December will devote itself
to the mastery and practical solu-
ton of these problems. Happily
Potter ls defunct, Blaine 81
fenced, the bloody shirt is the furled
banner of moribund Radicalism. De-
mocracy, triumphant, will be practi-
cal, while the President wields power
enough to prevent excuses of unre-
strained partisanship. The conquest of
Mexico effected by the extension of
railroads will cause Germany, France
and England to lose the commercial
mastery of Mexico, secured mainly by
the ownership of the Vera Cruz and
Mexican railway, and degree of pros
perity dawns upon America rendered
even more splendid by the motionless,
impenetrable gloom that overhangs
European commercial capitals.