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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

RoPERs-IN Tor Justices courts are
useful and ornamental adjuncts of So
ciety. Active agents of the lowest
grade of dispensers of justice they are
as energetic and adroit as ropers-in for
gambling bells in the great cities. Con
stables and baihffs are chosen, like the
shyster of the court, with reference to
their skill in beggettipg litigation
among the unlettered. While the
courts and all Its hangers-on I" out,
swear our army in Flanders" only last
week an innocent countryman was
hauled up for public blasphemy and
fined one cent, which carried with it,
into the pockets of the illustrious
court, its shyster and constable, the
comfortable little SUM of SIS. Magis-
trates' courts, in many instances, are
horrible nuisances and deserve to be
abolished. They cost the people
large sums, and only exist to secure
NOSbS. Au hab1 VI IucSc mOOcl COuIlS
new trials will be granted as often as
an applicant pays costs. Costs out
measure fines as ten to one, and costs
are sums wrested from poverty and ig-
norance by cunning, armed by the law
with the right to rob. The unlettered,
helpless victims of these merciless
shyster courts, to be found everywhere
in the South, have no remedy. They
cannot write, and cannot, therefore,
complain before the public that they
have been shsmelessly victimized.
These evils are of hourly occurrence,
and it is hardly necessary to Say that
disgraceful processes employed by
justices courts spring from that
plethnric womb of all human Ills, called
the RutabsgsCJnstitution, which, enact
ed by demagogues, makes salaries the
products of peIquisites. Sums taken
from the people remain unknown in
amount while widows and orphans are
mulcted on all hands for fees, and JUS
tees courts are institutions erected as
monuments to that extraordinary leg
islative skill which created the won
derful organic code ~ Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

AN East Texas gentleman writes to
the STATESMAN expressing the hope
that Judge Roberts, when elected Gov
ernor, will give to that part of Texas
north of Tyler and Austin the assist
ant attorney generalshIp, the adjutant
generalship and the office of Secretary
of State. North Texas was a power
in giving the nomination to Judge Rob-
erts, and, being entitled to more con-
sideration at the hands of the Democ-
racy than has yet been received, it mag
be presumed that its claims, while
those of West Texas are considered,
will be properly regarded.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

The Mckinney Adoocate thinks it
quite likely that Herndon or Charles
Stewart will be appointed by the late
"Honest Dick" to fill the vacancy on
the Supreme Bench for valuable ser
vices rendered in the late convention,
and the STATESMAN thinks it quite as
likely that the people, and not "Hon-
est Dick" will be heard upon this very
important question. Judge Roberts
will no doubt act so as to permit such
result, for certainly the people who
houored him did not propose that his
place should be filled by the act of
one man. Judge RDberts will no
doubt hand in his resignation, to take
effect at given time, at which the
people of Texas will be permitted to
select judge for themselves.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01
TIE banks are not who

THE banks are not wholly Gu pable
because they must accept old halves
and Mexican silver dollars at dis
count. They cannot pay them cut in
New York except at a discount Of one
and half or two per cent. and, there
fore, when q tradesman here pays an
Eastern debt to an Austin bank he
must pay the New York discount on
silver as well as the current exchange.
The new silver dollar, on the contrary,
though 1t contain less metal than the
trade dollar, is at par every where.
This coin Is used in paying duties and
thus goes back as rapidly as rad out
by the minis, into the treasury. The
least valuable silver, meanwhile, is
constantly forced out among the PEG
pie. When cotton and wheat are
marketed Texas will be surfeited with
silver and it will constitute the great
volume of the coin used by agricultural
When the new silver
dollars get abroad su2plarting the old
halves which must go to the mint, all
small amounts will be paid in silver
and among populations whose transac-
tions are few, involving small sums,
silver will he the preferred currency.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

IT IS true and properly stated by the
Goesbeck Era that Col. Lang made
reputation and friends and won popu-
lar respect and confidence to a wonder
full extent by his sensible, practical
speech and personal conduc; during
the session of the Democratic cenven-
ton. 1t is proper for the STATESMAN
to say this since it did not fail to crit
else Col. Lang's diatribe upon the press,
uttered month ago, with no little
harshness, and then we may add that
in this Col. Lang insists we did him
great injustice. He was surely misun-
derstood by our reporter.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01
AusT1v having los. commerce.

AUSTIN having lost Commercial i'm
portsnee by failing t. attract trade by
means of a narrow gauge railway, can
only hope to exist as place Of resi-
dences, churches, courts and schools.
II Austin be stupid enough to sacrifice
healthfulness, and thus attrsctiyeness
as q place Of residence. the end has
CINE. Therefore we have often ad-
verted to the necessity Tor cleanliness.
The health officer does bis whole duty,
bus Until the city Is drained, At least
in its most densely populated districts.
1t Is liable to final destruction At the
hands OF fatal epidsmscs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

HoS. o. NJ. RoBARrs is sixty three
years old. and is possessed not only of
a strong bur highly cultivated mind,
ana the people OF Texas may be salts
Ted that with him as their Governor
the Administration of laws will be most
faithfully carried out. and the hosesty
and integrity of the States chief ex-
ecnlive win rever Be questioned.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

THE doings OF Providence are just.
If community suffer jail to breed a
pestilence the people should not forget
that they first suff ]cate the innocent
and guilty, and deserve to have ven
geance of heaven wreaked upon their
own heads
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

Ar the first official notice of the
presence of Yellow Jack in New Or
leans Pottei's blessed committee,
though devoted to good works, incon-
tinenily fed. Patriotism aud wisdom
and ear,h's millions weep that the
plans and purposes of this bentficen,
committee have been thus frustrated
by Providence. It is too sad to think
ahont
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

TINS North Tssaa d,pIOres the defeat
Of Mel ir Dorm. Il says he is ''the best
man TIE Lord ever made, y and that the
convention disgraced itself IN defeat
ing him. Did not Fannin county by
y coalition OF interest between Dorm
and Maxey defeat itself I Il defeated
Dorm. and Msxey will be defeated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

THE GreenOack club at Chapel Hill
"discard and cast away the convention
system as practiced bypolitical parties,
and yet on the seventh of August a
Greeuback convention, to nominate a
State ticket, is to meet at Waco to act
on the plan denounced.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

THE Christian Messenger says "the
county attorney of Rockwell county,
Texas. has resigned, because, since the
adoption of local option, there is not
enough for him to do to make living"
Only two indictments by the last grand
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

HoN. BEN BUTLER, in dealing with
Hiscock, of the Potter committee, is
deplorably violent and, it seems, de-
void of wit and force. Buffers wit,
like his skull, is very fat, and the stu
pid Mr.. Hiscock does not seem to feel
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01
PRICE OF WEEKLY REDUCED

In view of the hard times and the
extraordinary interest attaching to the
approaching State canvass, the price of
the WERKLY STATESMAN will hereafter
be only 50 year; S125 fo- SIX months.
Now Is the time to subscribe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

TxEr call them IN Tennessee ''1ae
Taxpayers and the Tsxeasers." The
people aud he ofiies seeking and Office
holding crowd are thu. Distinguished.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

II GosgksoR 1nAockm RroN has
.;eniisd bis attention to stump many
rtioos Of the Safe in the interest of
'hs Democratic ticket
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

One would suppose from the name,
which shapes peoples characters, that
Mr.. Schleicher would be much looser
than he is On the money question,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

Mr.. SCHLEICHER loves to behold
that traditional ''sea of upturnCd
faces" He just floats away on 1t like
a cork.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

YELLOW JACK has gone ashore at
Fernsndina, Florida, md discovered
three victims.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

Square Nv NV ,r I'm N sra sn On ry
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19
Our Paris Gable Letter.

We suppose the particular JOY which the
average Partisan derives from the success OF
the Exposition in it's Justification OF the
royalists' prophecies of failure is human
enough The men who are happy for hap
piness' sake alone are not a large majority
OF the happy people, and certainly IN the
country Of the wise and witty Rochetoucauld
some felicity is still derivable from the pain
of others. The position is o droll one over
there Here are the French royalists who
do.e on dukes, the older and crustier as to
lineage the better, who banker after princes
and whose teeth water for kings and queens,
sulkng up in the Faubourg, while republic
can Paris is stuffed delightfully."- full OF arch
dukes and Serene Highnesses and High
Mightinesses, with heirs apparent knocking
each other over at every street corner.
This is the revenge of the republicans as
we'll as Madame la MARKETABLE, from whom
the royalist DANES broke away when her
husband was sensible. enough to turn out
De Brogle and Submit" as NJ. Gambetta
put it, The Exhibition is now nearly in full
running order, and is sure to be a tremen-
has no intention to fire anything but blank
cartridge this year. That is not pleasant
item about the gathering of the demi-monde
daily in certain prominent portion OF the
Exhibition but let US not forget that when
strangers 60 to Paris one Of the first things
that majority do is to pay sly visit to
one of the numerous balls d6tf, where this
class of women is to be seen dancing wicked
dances At the Exhibition they are, no
doubt, less demonstrative. General Grant
proceeds with his seeing life, and is receiv-
ing delicate attentions from the most nota-
Bile people in every walk of life abroad,
and yet we do not think that they will spoil
him or that when he comes back he will
bore his familiars with much OF that "When
Wales and I were at the polo game" which
we hear ad nauseam from the lips of less
discreet celebrated Americans who have
been abroad. The Prince of Wales, by the
by, seems to be enjoying himself too.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19
Peace In Mexico.

The news that the adherents Of Lerdo
have failed to create q revolution in Mexico
and have given up the attempt in despair
will be exceedingly welcome intelligence to
the people Of this country. There are pos
sibly few hundred or few thousand en-
terprising citizens on the border who will
be disappointed, but they are SO infnitesi-
NAL portion of the population that it is not
worth while taking them into consideration.
Lerdo's failure to stir up strife shows
that the government of President Diaz is
firmly established and that he has the sup
port of the large majority Of his country
men. We sincerely hope he will be wise
enough to avail himself Of the splendid OPP
portunity which this satisfactory state of
affairs gives his administration and that he
will SO shape his policy as to introduce
greater stability into the government of our
sister Republic. 1t is exceedingly impor-
tant to the United States that Mexico
should be at peace with herself If we
had designs upon her territory we should
of course wish to see her in constant
revolution. That would afford us the pre-
tence to interfere and help ourselves
when the end came. Butwe have no such
ideas All we want from Mexico is peace,
favorable commercial treaties and good will.
We desire to see her great and prosperous
and enlightened, her miserable revolutions
at IN end, her government strong her
people happy. President Diaz has the
opportunity to bring about these results.
We sincerely hope he will have the wisdom
and patriotism to turn it to the best inter-
ests Of his country.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19

Blackwell's Island. 1t is place whore
Professor Chandler. of the Board OF
Health, might recover the sense of smell |;
and it would not be an unfruit-
tul fancy to put the excise men
within sight and hearing Of the Lunatic
Asylum in order that they might become
acquainted with some of the peculiar results
OF the indiscriminate sale of liquor. But
it would be a hardship, with the proper
discipline in it, to deprive offending officials
Of that customary association with their
fellow citizens at summer resorts which is
no doubt great part of their happi-
ness. Is not Long Branch, that bowling
Wilderness Of white sand and baked
CLANS, putting on its holiday attire
just nov? Does not Coney Island
once more reappear above the surface Of the
sea? Will not Saratoga, Newport, Cape
May and fifty other places near and far be
prepared to receive the public in few
days, and are not all the steamers that sail
for Europe crowded to their utmost ca
pacity by people on their way to the Expo
sition? These are the ways in which the
public run to enjoy themselves in
dulgences of the season, therevival of those
heather Maytime gayeties that Dutch Peter
could not suppress. 1t may be thought
cruel if ali the city boards are to be de-
prived of all that fun, but if outraged JUS
tice will have it SO we can surrender them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY NAY 49, l87s-QUINTUPLE

with Hagar and Ishmael will be detailed
and brought out by Mr. Lloyd, and the adj
vice of David to Solomon will be made the
basis of good counsel to young men by Mr..
Hatfield. From the New Testament MI.
Burch will review the conversion OF Cor
nelius; Mr. Davis will discuss certain petit
tons of the Lords Prayer; DR.. Crook VIII
analyze predestination and it's effects; Mr..
Hepworth will introduce a poor bind
beggar to his congregation, and Mr.. Sweet
ser will urge his people to follow Christ.
''Jesus as Poet" is the topic that DR.. Ar
mitage will dwell upon, and "The Peace
that Jesus Gives" will be described by Mr..
Griffin. What Trust In the Lord Is and
How 1t Is to be Developed" will be made
clear by Mr.. Goddard and "The Doctrine
of Perfection" will be discussed by Mr..
Muir. OF the topics that belong to both
dispensations we find "The Study of the
Bible" selected by Mr.. Colcord, "City Mis-
sion Work" by Mr.. Morehouse and others,
'Wives and Mothers" by DR.. King, and
s.The Witnessing and Singing Church"
by Mr.. Searles. Temperance also
will be discussed by DR.. Lees and
Mr.. Todd, of England; Miss Willard,
of Chicago; Mrs. Peck, of Brooklyn,
and Thurlow Weed, Of this city. Subjects
that cannot be classified under either OF the
foregoing heads are, ''China and It's Temple
in Heaven" by DR.. Newman; "The Problem
Of Human Life" by Mr.. Richmond, and
'The Study of Human Life" by Mr. Alger.
DR.. Talmage will extract certain moral les
sons from the life and death of General
Dakin; DR.. Beach will commemorate quar-
ter century passionate in this city, and Mr.
Courtney will review the years work of the
ladies managing the House OF the Good
Shepherd
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19
The Sunday schools.

Brooklyn, commonly called the City Of
Churches, might be more appropriately
called the City of Sunday Schools. In the
Sunday schools of that city there are, it
appears, ninety thousand persons regularly
assembled rs teachers and officers, while in
our own city, with twice tho popula-
ton, there are but eighty thousand.
Brooklyn may, therefore, be looked upon
as our best behaved suburb, so far
as relates to the small formalities
Of good conduct. In this city the extreme
elements of population prevail. There are
more Of the very rich and Of the very poor,
and the Sunday school recruit does not
come very largely from either Of these;
for the children of the very poor work six
DAYS and insist on their freedom on the
seventh, while the children Of the rich have
that day accorded because it is thought that
six days OF schooling is enough. Some
remarkable Sunday school statistics are
given in to-day's HERALD. The aggregate of
Sunday school scholars throughout the
country is given as upward of six millions.
In the Sunday school labors the sectarian
spirit is apparently not sustained with the
tenacity that prevails in the churches, since
at the forthcoming grand festival the schools
of the Methodists. Baplists, Prosbyterians,
Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Dutch
Reformed and Lutherans are all to cello
brate and rejoice side by side.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19

An analysis Of our topics to-day will show
that they may be classified into four groups
as follows:-Topics from the Old Testa-
ment topics from the New, topics from
both, and, lastly, topics from neither. Our
list is nearly equally divided under those
four heads. The colossal image which the
prophet saw broken by the little stone out
of the mountain will be traced by Mr.. Mo-
ment; the fiery furnace into which the
three Hebrew youth were cast by Nebuchad-
nezzar will be described 10y Mr.. Huh; the
fifth commandment will be enforced by Mr..
McKelvey; the fallow ground will be broken
by Mr.. Rowell; the Sabbath question will
be considered by DIR. Potter, and the Great
Physician will be introduced by Mr.. Hump
stone. The dramatic incidents connected
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19
The strikers I'm England.

An attempt to reconcile the differences
betw cen the mill hands on strike and the
mill owners had apparently made progress
enough to induce those who acted for the
owners to agree on resolution for the re-
sumption of. labor, but there was some mis-
understanding in the case or hitch has
occurred since, for the operatives repudi-
ate the arrangement made in their name,
and the latest report is that in
the present temper of the men compromise
is impossible. In other words, their terms
must be accepted or they will 90 on till
starvation and the want in their families
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19
The New Theory.

st. Louis is to have to-day Communistic
demonstration, as to the possible conse-
quences of which everybody out there is not
of the same opinion. Some Of the leaders
promise that it will be quiet and orderly
parade, but it seems evident that if it is
many of the participants will be disap-
pointed. These fellows mean trouble and are
ready to seize any pretext in order to apply
their new theory of the relations Of
man to society. 1t is the same theory
that was held by Hoedel in Ber-
lin. Hoedel intended ito show the
rich the condition of the people," The peo-
pie are poor-t therefore kill somebody, and
in proportion as the somebody killed is
great, exalted or famous, the people will be
rich and consequently happy the day after
tomorrow. If any one is downcast,
wretched, poor, society is to blame, and if
society is to blame few timely murders
will make things all right. This was
the theory acted on in Paris in 1871,
now cherished in Germany, and preached
somewhat softly in this city and very loudly
in San Francisco. For the miseries of any
given individual the whole universe may be
to blanc the individual himself never.
The solar system, the attraction of gravita-
ton, the constitution of the United States
and the organization of society-these are
the things that arc at fault when some old
hummer comes out from a prolonged de-
bauch without o sixpence in his pocket
and finds his furniture set out on
the street. He demands, Of course, that
they shall be altered Immediately,
and is ready to give emphasis to his de-
mands with firearms or edged tools. One
must not suppose or hint that sobriety, in
dustry, courage, patience. sagacity are the
factors of success in life now, rs they al
ways were, and that n mans efforts to make
his way in the world can fail only in pro-
portion as he is without some or all of these
virtues. Such words are treason against
the people-an insult to the new doctrine
that society itself is to blame for the short
comings and failures of all individuals.
They are all Jean valjeans. Victor Hugo
showed that society was to blame be-
cause m unsympathetc police could
never discover the psychologist moment
when certain thief had become an honest
man, and persisted in dealing with him on
the police basis. TO impeach society on
that score was beautiful fancy, very ac-
ceptablo in the lower world generally; and
it is not strange if many others beside
thieves and tramps have found in it solu-
ton of theft difficulties more satisfactory to
personal vanity than the ancient notion
that most men have only themselves to
blame for their mishaps. Hocdcl showed
''tho condition Of the people" more accu-
rately than he thought when he showed
them rs the victims Of these dclusivc
theories and shallow fancics But the peo-
pie OF st. Louis will be able TO take care Of
themselves against a large army Of these
fellows,