The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05

erty, or the mere ipse dirt of govern
ment, has signally failed, to the ruin
ana bankruptcy of the people that at
tempted it. Imagine the government
issuing a note promising to pay one
hundred dollars, receivable only for
public dues, what in that note does the
word dollar meant Demonetize gold
and silver, and so far as the govern
ment is concerned it means nothing
but piece of paper that has on it the
figures 100. The people of this coun-
try are largely commercial, and they
will have, and they must have, gold
and silver money for their own pur-
poses if the government should not.
And if such system were carried out
there would not be one money for the
people and the government and its Off
GERS, which is now and always has
been the doctrine of the Democratic
party"
Randolph Foster, of Fort Bend coun-
ty, died on the eighteenth instant.
The -Four Counties says of him:
Eighty years ago be was born in what
Is now the State of Mississippi, then a
wilderness but little known to the
white man. He was a soldier of the
war of 1912, and for a while was q
member of the company commanded
by the late Capt. Randall Jones, which
was employed in holding the S )uthern
Indians in check while the war was
raging in the region now comprising
the States of Indiana and Ohio. He
was in Texas as early as 1917, and his
camp was then situated but two miles
from the spot where he died. His
presence here antedated the settlement
of Austin's colony. He knew Aaron
Burr, Gen. Wilkinson, Gen. Long,
Magee, Kemper, David Crockett, Ellis p.
Bean, Latitte, and others, whose shadows
fit along the haze of early Texas his
tory, and seem to Texans of the pres.
ent generation as myths of the dreamy
past. But Uncle Ran was the con-
Meeting link between the traditional
era and the present era, and authenti-
Gated as facts what otherwise might
have been deemed as tictions of poems
and romancists."
The National Moss Back Alliance"
has been organized at Lampasas with
500 members, and it is going to swal-
low all the isms of the country. Its
platform reads as follows:
Our great object is, and ever shall
be, the defeat of the Democratic party,
and to effect this great and desirable
end we hereby invite the cooperation
of, and promise to cooperate with, all
Radicals, Republicans, Greenbackers,
Farmers Alliancers, Kearneyites, Com
Runists, Free lovers and tramps.
We demand the abolition of all poll
taxes.
We. demand that no license be grant
ed to any merchant who shall refuse
to extend credit to any citizen of his
county.
We demand the repeal of all laws
providing for the collection of debts.
We demand that no person be al
lowed to own at one time more than
eighty acres of land, and that the
owner thereof be required to live
thereon.
We demand that all the land in the
country, both public and private prop
erty, shall be surveyed into eighty
acre tracts, and that each head of a
family, whether black, white, yellow
or copper-colered, shall be entitled to
receive one of said tracts.
We demand the passage of law
making four hours legal days work.
We demand the repeal of all marri-
age laws and call for a new deal.
We demand the passage of law for
ever disqualifylng all lawyers, doctors,
merchants, bankers, capitalists and
land agents from holding offices of
trust or profit until they shall have
abandoned their trade or profession.
We demand that the government is
sue So, 600, 900, 600 in greenbacks, that
the same he invested in mules which
shall he distributed one to each head
of a family, without regard to race,
color or previous condition.
We demand that laws be passed to
protect that large and worthy class of
our citizens, known as tramps, In their
occupation and privileges.
We declare the repeal of the vagrant
law to be necessary to the preservation
of our liberties.
We declare that public building,
public printing, public schools, public
debts and railroads are contrary to the
spirit of our Constitution, and demand
that they be abolished and all laws in
relation thereto be repealed.
We demand the repeal of the dog
tax law.
We declare the old settlers to be re-
sponsible for the financial condition OF
the country and the great distress
prevailing, and therefore demand that
no person who has been in the coun-
try more than three months shall be
eligible to any office.