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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
THE OVERTHROW OF LONDON
AND GALVESTON.

The Ne,os thinks that Morgan's City
of Clinton will outvie Galveston and
Houston when Macauley's New Zea-
lander sadly contemplates the ruins of
London. II Russia and England come
to blows and Europe be involved, the
issue of the contest will involve more
than Egypt, the Suez canal and safety
of India. The strife will not have
ended when burdens of taxation, even
now intolerable, will compel revolts.
People and soldiers are now one and
the same. Every German and every
Frenchman and Austrian Is an armed,
disciplined soldier. The soldiers will
be the taxpayers, the oppressed and
wronged and not, as in former times,
class distinct and separate from the
people. These are they who will seize
the reins of power, and England will
as surely come out of this pending
conflict utterly impoverished, as will
Russia, Germany and France. The
people having arms in their hands,
and knowing how to use them, will
never more submit to the domination
of kings and aristocrats. There will
-ifeTerbe, after coming revolutions are
ended, hereditary aristocrat or
crowned head in Europe, and the Neacs,
when telling Texas that Clinton will
be a great city supplanting Houston
and Galveston and absorbing the wealth
and trade of both cities, when New
Zealander swills Dallas whisky on the
Thames Bridge and weeps over the
ruins of Westminster, may not be
dreaming OF a distant future. The
coming war in Europe, if it come, will
not last three years. When single
guns cost $50, 900 and iron ships from
81, 900, 900 to SIS, 900, 900, and when it
costs 5000 to fire each gun and only
one shot IN two hundred is effective,
when England must transfer armies
and munitions of war to Egypt
and Asia = such war cannot last.
Its echoes and thunderous battlefields
will shake down every throne in Eu.
rope. Governments will have at the
close of this conflict neither credit nor
money with which to maintain organ
lied armies, and working peoples socie-
ties, and the Internationale and Com
mune pervading even now every coun-
try in Europe, there can be but one re-
suit Of these terribly disastrous and
costly conflicts. The Bible perhaps re-
fers to them. Read ''Armageddon,"
and those whose reason may not lead
to these conclusions may be influenced
by vague visions of prophets of old.
What may be the relative good fortune
of Galveston, Houston and Clinton
signifies comparatively little, but when
the Meas can only postpone Galyeston's
overthrow to that Of London it may
not contemplate a very long lease of
existence for the city in which it dwells
and dreams and philosophers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
a SIMPLE STATEMENT.

During and before the trial of Male
the STATESMAN declined to make any
issue for or against the accused, and
this, too, while the public was express
ing deep and bitter feeling about the
killing of Markley. This paper
gave only the facts in the case
as contained in the evidence elected
before the courts, and no position of
the paper can be pointed to In evil
dence that it took sides either with the
State or for the defendant. The
STATESMAN represents the law abiding
people of the community in which It
exists, and none others, and it Will
continue to do so. No influence can
be exerted over it for any other end,
and if few have been dlspleased be-
cause the STATESMAN did not do as
other papers in the city have done we
have no apology to make them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

Mr.. GARFIELD, of Ohio, was a COL
lege professor. He has big brain and
generous impulses and now and then,
breaking away from partisan restraints,
expresses himself rather than the party
he is forced, perhaps, to serve. He
said few days ago, in the House:
The people of this country, the large
minded, generous men on all sides,
sought to inaugurate, at the end of our
centennial year, an era of absolute.
civil, constitutional peace, and thev
sought it against fierce and turbulent
party pressure from both sides. And
the present chief executive carried that
purpose further than any other citizen
of America ever carried a great and
generous p9rpOse in his desire to &C
complish that result.
1t was in view of facts thus presented
by the ablest Republican in the House
and the intellectual peer of any Demo
crat that the STATESMAN insisted that
the prosecution of the returning board
by the Nichols courts of Louisiana was
unwise. Now, every body confesses that
the sport was not worth the candle and
that no good and only unmeasured evils
came of the useless and exasperating
proceedings in the courts. Mr.. Gar
field is not close sdherent of the
President and yet the eulogium he pro-
nounces is most flattering, and however
men may question the success of the
administration there are none in the
South who doubt the honest sincerity
ofhis purposes and purity of his patriot
ism. To this extent, it seems, the
South for the first time concurs in
opinion with Mr.. Garfield.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

President in vain. They are not con-
tent that he vetoed the silver bill. They
insisted that he should have initiated
Grant and exerted his power and
patronage to gain votes In Congress.
But honest patriots approve all that he
has done and done so honestly and
fairly that they who differ from him in
opinion most widely assert for him the
profoundest respect. 1t is certainly
the most singular incident in the course
OF public events and strsngest phase of
public opinion that the press of the
West and South, against whose favor:te
measure the President issued his bull,
sustains his Excellency and refrains
from harsh criticism and abuse while
Eastern newspapers indulge most
violent invective.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

HERE there are people asking every
body how to abolish this and other
municipal governments in Texas.
Towns and villages Incorporated by
special acts or under general laws are
crazed to diyest themselves of these
garments with which they are clothed
by law. But acts of Incorporation
stick like Nessus's shirt, and there IS
no present relief. But why, instead
of filing bills in chancery or appealing
to the Legislature to annul municipal
charters, may we not have suffrage in
municipalities restricted to taxpayers
Then thieves will not be invested with
office, and taxpayers will hardly rob
themselves. The poor of to-day win
not be always made the poor of to-
morrow by ignorance or knavery
clothed with office. Ignorance, when
it cannot vote, will not sell votes for
whisky, and the business of repeaters
will be at al end. Every voter will
then be known personally. What
strange cowardice is this which i'm
pels people to seek the abolition of
towns organic law and extinction
of its life because they are
afraid to offend tramps and
roughs and an ignorant mob that
swills mean whisky on election days,
drives decency and intelligence from
voting places and subjects towns and
villages and cities of Texas to the
domination of the most incapable and
corrupt. Let everybody vote that pays
a poll tax, if need be, in State cleo
tons; bnt none besides taxpayers in
town elections. The towns govern
ment affects property alone, and not
life or liberty or the relations of man
and wife or parent and child or guar.
dian and ward. II the town, IN main
tanning order, violate personal liberty,
the States court stands by with Aa6eas
corpus, proffered to the unfortunate,
and there is no reason In nature or ne
cessity or in principles of free govern
ment why tramps and roughs and wan
derers and people having no interest
in town should vote in its elections.
If such people were honest they would
not vote in such elections.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
Texas Politics.

John Henry Brown says he will not
be candidate for Congress.
Hon. A. Kessler is named IN Hous.
ton, San Marcos and New Braunfels
for State Treasurer.
The Comanche Chif is satisfied that
carrying Hubbard would ruin the Dem
ocratic party in Texas.
The Mason NetcS Item wants Savers
for Lieutenant Governor. Itcoasiders
him q true man, and so does every
body that knows him.
The Gonzales Enquirer is satisfied
that sQuabble between Hubbard and
Throckmorton Will result in the ad-
vancement of Sayers to the governor
snip.
The BRENNAN Banner says "Texas
now has three parties. two of which
are well detined-the Democratic and
the Republican. The third is the Tad
pole or Greenback party; IL is not yet
on Its legs"
The Waco Telephone and Graham
Leader shake hands and congratulate
one another because of concurrence IN
deemlng Throckmorton the properest
man for Governor Hubbard's place.
The Galveston Nele$ is for Hon. John
Ireland.
The Gonzales Enquirer. suggests. in
view OF tue diversity or opinion that
obtains with reference to the use of
the two-thirds rule in the State Con-
yention, that the delegates be instruct
ed in relation TO the wishes of their
constituents, and that the convention
he governed by q decision of the ma
iority of the delegates on this point.
The Luling Signal regrets exceeding
ly that Judge Ireland has declined to
allow the use of his name for Govern
or, but is rejoiced to sec this token of
estesm bestowed upon one so worthy
to receive it, and hopes the day is not
far distant when the people of Texas
will forget the prejudices and snimos-
ities which have so long existed, and
unite, as one man, in doing honor to
one of the ablest and purest men OF
modern times-Hon- John Ireland, of
Guadalupe county.
The NeicS Echo says that certain
newspapers in this State. calling for the
repeal of the RUtabags smoke house
tax LAW, are down on Col. Darden for
his construction OF the law. II these
journals would take the trouble to ex-
anime the law and constitution in con-
nection, and be candid in their Judg-
ment, they could not come TO any
other conclusion than that arrived at
by Col. DardeD. Go on, then. and
gIumble to your hearts content" even
as Col. Darden must 90 on and collect
the tax or perjure himself.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
THE invasion of ENGLAND nv the %

The invasion of England by the com
bined armies of Russia and Prussia is
not impossible. The difficulty consists
in crossing the Straits of Dover. Eng
lands fleet Is the only obstacle. Bel
GUM and Holland, without struggle,
would yield TO resistless Prussia and
Russia, and France, however nearly
a match for Prussia alone, is impotent
against these two great continental
powers. Stranger events In the
worlds history have occurred than
this assault upon England by the COM
bined forces of Russia and Germany.
Russian zealots fight for their master.
who is their Gods vicegerent as well
as llberator from serfdom, without pay,
aud bankruptcy.in Russia is not fatal,
as in other European states, to the ca.
pacity for war. 1t is now stated that
the masters of different European
states, even Austria and France, de-
cline alliances even when England
proposes to supply the money required
IN mobilizing the strong Austrian
army. England will hardly go to war
alone in behalf of the balance of power,
and peace, however furious England
seems, is still possible. Russia having
cared for the sick man and admins
tered heroic treatment and having been
rendered no assistance when the
malady was at its worst, will hardly
suffer England to lead the pan-bearers
at the funeral. Another temporary peace
may be patched up-a peace which is
no peace. Six millions of armed men
uphold kings and aristocrats and rob
to wretchedness the people of Europe.
The end comes and Europe must be
.disarmed, public debts repudiated and
states repubfcanized. War is impos-
sible because kings see that these re
suits must follow, and yet peace and
war are almost convertible terms and
an armed peace only postpones the in
evltable result.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

EVER since the silver bill became the
law the newspapers of the East have
been deploring the failure of Hayes
administration. The South and West,
on the contrary, think that H$yes's
failures, as the veto of the silver bill,
have been practically, his chiefest tri-
umphs, and his successes have crowned
him with renown and won for him the
undying gratitude of the South. lie
failed to defeat the silver bill and Ia
this his luck was sublime even as his
obedience to the Constitution in freeing
States was singularIy wise. just and
generous. The South sees nothing to
deplore in Mr.. Hayes's defeats or tri-
umphs. Both have been the chiefesi
bonefactions to the South and West,
and both constitute series Of acts ss
honorable to the patriotism and wis
dom as significant of the good fortune
Of the President. What has been done
that he thought wrong was perfectly
wise and right, and that which he
vetoed in vain especially commends
itseH 10 the West and south. Eastern
newspapers. hike the Word, Herald.
SEA- and Tsms4 iaveieh against The
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

THE Legislature Of Kentucky has
given $40, 600 to the John c. Brecken-
ridge monument. On it IS proposed
TO be inscribed the following excerpt
from one of his speeches, delivered
January 4, 1853:
Is there an Amencan who regrets
the pastl Is there one vino will deridc
bis country's laws, pervert her Constr
tuition, or ALLEVIATE her peoplel II
there be such a man, let his memory
descend to posterity laden with the ex.
ecrasions of all mankind.
The best mems lives, this paragraph
serves to show, are not always consist
ent. he exaggerated in nothing his
love for the onion when this sentence
was uttered. and still he did not deny
IN this his over-mastering affection for
the South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28


THE Bolton Journal, referring to a
matter to which the STATESMAN allud-
ed Saturday, says:
We regret to learn that on last Tues
day F. M. Maddox, of Austin, came to
this place and filed four $40 acre Certi-
ticates of the International Railroad
on two surveys, w. w. Hurd 1880 and
Thomas Buckley 1880. The former
comprises the greater portion of the
town of Salado, and the latter lies
south of 1t, on which several valuable
farms are located. These two SURVEYS
were patented in 1856, and Maddox
claims that the certificates were forged.
aud therefore the patents are void and
the land vacant. 1t is to be hoped
that upon investigation of the matter
Mr.. Maddox and the International are
laboring under mistaken idea.n
The International sold the certifi-
Gates; Mr.. Maddox bought them and
located them. In what is the Interna.
tionsl culpable. Maddox says he will
sell out for the original cost of the
land, and thus relieve the owners of
State taxes for twenty-five years. Per,
haps the change of title will prove
most fortunate for the people about
Salado.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
RLAINE AND sonuRz.

The Nation pronouuces the most ter
rible dlatribe upon Senator Blame it
has published affecting any man.
Blaine has been criticizing aud ridicul-
ing Carl Schurz and telling Schurz
that il Prussia were as large country
as Montana German timber laws would
not differ from those In force in Amer
lea. The Nation suggests that this may
be true, but that there is another little
popularity of Prussia. II the Presi-
dent of the lower House OF the Landtas
were convicted on his own ipse dixit OF
having ruled officially in favor OF spec
ulators and called their attention TO il
khat they might pay him for it, and
had denied all connection with = spec,
nlatiye scheme seeking legislation in
the house over which he presided,
and in which it afterwards turn
ed out that he was largely
involved, far from being promoted
70 the Upper House, he would not only
be expelled from the Legislature or
civil service, but forced to withdraw
totally from pablo life. Moreover, be
would be excluded from the parlors
and dining halls of honorable men. II
Germany, knowing what We know OF
Mr.. Blaine. heard he was about to be
born on German soil it would seek to
impose the catastrophe upon some
weaker power, and he would come into
the world a Belgian, Dane or Dutch.
man. While no man can determine
the place of his birth. il Is every mans
duty to see that bis life reflects honor
on il. Mr.. sshnFz has discharged and
alf. Blaine Neglected this highest duty.
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

EX-SENATOR CLAYTON, who is fear
less, reckless soldier of fortune, has
become Senator Dorsey's enemy. Dor
sey and his brother or brother-in. law
were bidders for one hundred or more
Western mail routes, and, curlously
enough, were the lowest bidders for
each. How did they know what 9th
ers bid0 The guarantors of their bids
are said to have been men of straw,
and, in one or two instances, wholly
innocent of existence. Clayton is in
Washington, and since the routes Dor
sey sought to control are those that
Austin and San Antonio bidders ex-
pected to get, it may be agreeable to
these places to learn that the Dorsey
ring will probably be exploded and
the next lowest and best bidders tri-
umphant.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

to seventy-five cents on every hundred
dollars worth of property.
A fatal shooting affair took place in
Kim5le county on the eighth instant.
II which four men were killed. Major
Wright and the Brazier brothers had 3
contest in a civil action for the posses
sion of yoke of oxen. During the
progress of the trial the Brazier broth.
ers raised an alteration with Major
Wright and used very harsh words.
The deputy sheriff and one Mr.. Cor.
man, a brother of the sheriff. inter
fered to keep the peace. One of the
Braziers turned upon Mr.. German and
fired, killing him instantly. The Other
Brszier then shot Major Wright. The
sheriff, Mr.. German, then commenced
firing upon the Brazier brothers, and
both were killed.
An essay read before the Georges
Agricultural Society on tea culture in
that State states that tea raised there
and carefully prepared is superior tc
any imported. There were those pres.
ent who confirmed all that was said in
reference to the excellence of the ties
raised in Georgia. The essay conclud.
ed with the assertion that tea could be
raised profitably in this climate. The
Commissioner of Agriculture has re.
Gently purchased from Mrs. Screven.
of Liberty county, Georgia, Go, O0O
young tea plants for gratuitous distri-
button in the United States. The
fNlanf hos haaF trfaA -,
well here.
M. w. Convey, of Kildare, IN making
remittance of money renewing his sub
scriptIon to the STATESMAN, writes
1.-The STATEsMAN's course universally
meets with my hearty approval. feel
that l am unable TO take the paper, but
cannot do without it. The low price
of cotton and contraction, with burden
some State and county taxes, has made
money incredibly scarce. The laborer,
If he has cotton on hand on the first
of January, has to pay taxes on the
same when he does not OWE a pound oil
cotton, having consumed it in its pro-
duction, and the real owner paws nc
tax on 1t. If l had the power l would
make the law as follows: Let all men
render their personal and real estate
under oath at its value and then deduct
their Indebtedness therefrom. III pur-
chase tract of land, giving my note,
| pay the tax, and the party who holds
the note and is the real owner of the
property does not pay any tax. If you
could bring about change in behalf
of iustice in this matter I ne we'll nc
all Others, could support the press with
more liberality and become more en-
lightened. / must add my little mite
in sustaining the STATESMAN IN its
manly struggle for the right. Let it
60 on with the good work In behalf of
limited suffrage, sustaining good gov
eminent by whomsoever administered,
approving the good and condemning
the bad, without regard as to whom it
NAV hurt
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
THE SILVER DOLLAR,S ARID.
INC PLACE

The newspapers criticize, without
stint, the new silver dollar. To make
1t pretty, there was a special engraver
and artist imported from England.
There are half dozen counterfeiters
in Texas prisons who could have served
the people and their dollars more
tastefully. Sherman only pays out
silver for gold dollars. The people are
curious to see, and therefore buy them.
When thispassion of the boar subsidies,
silver will seek its proper level, and be
In demand for the payment of duties at
the custom houses. When this exac-
ton is supplied, silver and bank
notes will have perhaps equal value.
Bankers and merchants will prefer
paper and the country people will take
the silver, and the great volume of this
new coinage will be absorbed gradu-
auy by farming districts, and seen no
more in commercial centers. Eastern
newspapers and merchants and manu-
facturers do not like silver. Their
transactions involve immense sums,
and for these silver currency is wholly
untitled. On the contrary, the sepa-
rate neighborhood transactions of the
farmers of the United States do not
average ten dollars in amount, and
they prefer the clinking music of the
dollar of the daddies even to the fas-
cinating sheen of lustrous tawny gold.
Eastern capitalists need have no fears
of the rapid depreciation of silver. If
Sherman send twenty millions of silver
to Southern cotton markets next
winter, it will be taken into the inte-
rior of the cotton States and do service
there through the ages.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

THE Austin correspondent of the
Galveston Ne'cs says he is now satisfied
that the Markley-Nalle market house
embroglio was ''neither caused nor
brought to an immediate issue by the
article in the STATESMAN. The publ
cation evidently brought the PROPOSE
ton suddenly to the ground, and like
ly the parties who favored it felt sore
over the fate of their proiect.n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

EACH dispatch from Europe renders
continental war seemingly more and
more inevitable. The end is more and
more difficult to predict. The Bank of
England will soon tell the story. 1t
will raise the rate of interest, and all
the worlds gold will flow to London
that owns it all, aud this will be the
first step in the conflict between the
great powers of Europe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

THRocKMoRToN even among his per-
sonal and political foes has ever been
deemed.a excellent, honest gentleman,
and the fact that Sayers likes Throck-
morton lessons in nothing the worth of
Sayers and can repel no friend of Say
ers even though such friend be mimi
cal to Throckmorton. Therefore it is
that there are devoted adherents of
Hubbard, who will vote for Savers.
Sayers is no rival or enemy of Hub
bard. He only proposes to become
Lieutenant Governor, while his Excel
lency would retain the place he holds.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

TIE currency in use in the United
consists of greenbacks and national
bank notes amounting tie SG43, 900, coo
and silver coins So, 900, 900, or about
81 for each person. Gold is not part
of the currency. Nobody, outside of
banking Institutions, has seen gold
piece in sixteen yeals. But it so hap
pens that Mr.. Sherman never pays out
greenback, and only bank notes.
No bank pays out but each retires its
own paper, and thus the process of
contraction is more rapidly progressive
than that of expansion, even if four
millions of silver be coined each month.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28

weight of metal. The process of dis
tributlon will be speedy, and to the
very extent that it progresses, and
land Is sold for it and the products OF
farms have value in this money, TO
that extent will the tramp nuisance
and the violent revolutionist be abated.
Compulsory idleness and want, begot-
ten by selfish legislation and capital,
which Congress represented, produced
the tramp, and this silver and currency
legislation of the people will extermi-
nate the evil,