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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

IN December trains will pa73 fIon
o 'ange to New Orl, ans Austin will
soon have an all rail route to the Cses-
cent City. Heavy freigh.s may still
60 tn Clinton or Galveston, but light
to H uston and New Or.eaus. The
distance t. New O:leaa. or time was.-
ed and cot incurred in reaching the
great ci y will be greatly lessered and
Austin becomes. prscloaliy, al upper
faubourG of the Or, scent City. II
Asstin would induce Tie Houston
Narrow Gauge to come TO Austin in
stesd of goirg to l. ckhart, if Austin
wjuld attract the Iudianola and Cuero
road by an irresistible force, if Austin
would compel the trurk line or 8
branch Of the Galveston aud Sinta Fe
to come to Austin as well as BsltoD,
this capital would become the great IL
terror city Of the S puthwesi The cad is
easy of achievement and VIC arc happy
to learn that the oldes. and most caps
BILE of the citizens OF Austin are moving
slowly in ffecting the great ends here
defined. They can easily make this a
magnificent and most prosperous CITY.
Then we will have factoIits and free
schools ard splendid private academies
and not till then.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

A BILL before the Georgia Legisir-
ture requires the ccurls to suspend ali
other business and try at once any and
ali murierers. II case be appealed
the Supreme Court it is required to drop
all else and t'y the bloody handed
fellow, instrucling the court below or
ordering the execution. If the court
be not in session when murder &C.
ours it mus. sit and try the case at
once. Ii the case go up and be re-
versed there must be an instantaneous
new trial. With such a code opera
tive there will be no more killings IN
Georgia.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

except to the extent that they pun sh
crime, are an unmixed calamity. They
DO not collect and pay over TO the
plaintiffs one-teuih of the sums they
cost the people. They are worse than
profitless and therefore worthless and
should be abated as public nuisances.
But the people have been thoroughly
misled by the party-leaders. The y
have never considered these facts.
They have been "whooping up" the fe-
rocious game cocks Of the psrty-those
that stIutted up most gallsntly, shak-
irg their little fists in the face OF the
-burly, vigorous North, and we hive
screamed with delight. Meanwhile
the taxgatLsrer has robbed us to AZ n
decent poverty and our fa.ma and
houses and broad acres are vAluslss'.
and poor oil JEFF, blest by ex'rao'di-
nary luck in winning an old iadg 5
love and admiration, is still haTdlS
better than pOVerty-stricSen.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

GOVERNOR THRocKNoRToN talks
about inducing immigration by cfTer-
ing school and university lands for
sale. Land is already cheap enough,
God knows. 1t is so cheap that people
refuse to pay taxes on it and this fact
Is hardly calculated to attract immi-
grants. In truth, the reduction Of pub
lie burdens is the surest road to pros
perity. Cheap lands and low taxes
will make Texas grow great, but when
the ravaging taxgatherer spares no
thing and there is nothing untaxed
and courts are multiplied and burdens
Of government consume all profits oI
industry, there is no aitractiOn for
immigrants or prosperity for the peO-
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

TEXAS owes one and one-balf FER
cent. on her taxable property. About
one-half Of this debt is due to her
own special funds. Why have her
gold thirty year tives not been readily
taken in New York9 Simply becau:e
one million of her Indebtedness is held
in that city, for which the holders are
annually drawing ten per cent. inter.
est. So soon rs the fives are sold Ie
ten per cent. bonds cease to exist
hence the difficulty in selling five per
cents. 1t is urged that Texas hesita-
ted about paying her July interest. The
funds were In New York months be-
fore the interest became due. The in
terest was promptly paid, and will be
in future. In the discussion uf the
appropriation bill, of 130 members Of
the Legislature, not one opposed the
payment of interest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

thief, so does the unrestrained msjorl-
~. WIong-doiDg snd robbery are
none the less re1reher sible because
prac;iced by the many, and individuals
who are naturally or instinctlvely hon.
est will not Cooperate with those whe
would n take something for nothing,
even when the theft is Effected through
the balln;-box We cannot well see
how msn who pays no taxes, poll or
property, can rcco2ci!e his conscience
with his acts il he vote - compel
Others to ray tex which he himself
d'es rot pay. He is surely robbeI
and 4 thief AID would steal onI'-
purse if the ballot box preferred the
power and oppor. unity. Therefore ihe
.sU intends to declare that IN corpC-
rate elections, the Tesul, OF which i'm
P sc burdens, none shall vote except
these WHO pay taxes. Blu. &en, this
law is needless. Honea. people wou' d
no, vote to impose burdens ON others
which they do Lot al the ssme time M
pose upon themselves, aud surely they
will rot vote to accomplish purpose
10y which they will draw more from
the city treasury an they psy into it.
Al Honest AID fair election sffecting
the schao, question, if any be held, is
acc ssAry to any good result. Ii Y
payers b. unfair!y mule 10 behalf OF
schools they will file bill TO set aside
the result of the cCutt ttmpla'ed cleo
ton.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

AND the great moral and legal ques-
ton In Texas is whether one may sell
sermons or ice on Sunday. Both are
designed to keep fellow cool, the
latter in this, the first in the next
world. The preacher does harder
work aud gets worse pay than the ice
man sud needs more rest. The be-
neticent Law was evidently designed,
since there Is no exception IN behalf Of
ministerial work, 10 protect Overtasked
labor and Il must have been made IN
behalf OF the pulpit. II the excellent
ministers woui; have long respite
they need cniy intimate 20 the pious
constables that they would gladly be
arrest ted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

The Legislature has NC right to in
terfere in matters of conscience or OF
religion. These are left by the Con-
stitution of the United States and by
our common law to that forum which
God built within US and the church un-
dertakes to keep ia repair. Whenever
the Legislature, therefore, goes beyond
the limit of making Sunday holiday
aud undertakes - enforce religious
obserYances and compel people who do
not wish TO abstain from any pursuit
that does not interfere with gool or.
der and the equal rights of others ia
perfect holiday enjoyments, such q
Legislature transcends it's powers, and
il the test were made the highes
courts would strip the existing code ol
much of its nonsense.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21


THREE hundred thousand BUSH
els of wheat per week are
brought 10 New Orleans by The
barge line since the jetties were
perfected. A single company has
more than forty barges, each having
capacity for $4,000 bushels and each
costing $4,000. The same company
has seven steam tugs costing $40, 600
each, and towing six barges, which
move more rapidly than steamers, from
St. Louis to New Orleans. Bus three
weeks are consumed in the round trip.
We give these facts to show how pro-
gressive Is that revolution in the course
of trade which is destined to build great
cities along the shores of the great
river. Yellow fever is impotent TO
prevent it. Kansas city and Topeka
are forced now to connect with the
Mlssis sippi at Memphis. The route to
New Orleans by st. Louis Is too long
and costly.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21


AWAY down Northwest under the
shadow of the North Pole, even in
that blessed paradise for which Sew
ard pa Nicholas 81, 900, 900 in solid
gold, the people discuss local option,
and get drunken than Chinese opiuq,
or Arab hsshheesh eaters. They make
q sort of rum called hootchenoo oul Ci
molases and coarse sugar which is fierier
than molten lead, and makes these
refrigerated people hot and comforta-
BILE even down in their boots. But the
people are drunken, beastly ana worth
less and an American commander,
Besrdsley, has taken his crew ashore,
and like common United States
marshal devoted himself to the business
of destroying stills. But the ugly
business can only be stopped by pre-
venting the Importation of m )lasses
aud sugar and then those good people
may confine themselves to innocent
drinks like dynamite.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

IT's great pity the Radical party
VIII not believe that the war was
fought half a generation ago and when
slavery was dug mp By the roots and
forever destroyed secessionism was
finally extirpated. The South on no
terms could be induced to re-establlsh
the baneful institution and, however
great the loss in MONEY, none have
been heard to deplore the industrial
revolution incident to the changed re-
lations Of races. These being con
fessed facts. everywhere asserted, why
do Northern party-leAders and respect
able gentlemen persist in declaring
that ''the old, slave-holding, secesslon
Epiut Il still dominant in the Southf'
When slavery died secenicnism per
's&.. |'I4r81,@. There Was no
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

ONLY seven thousand negroes, all
told, have gone to Kansas. Its pity
that one hundred times as many have
not departed for that paradise. 10
fact, Kansas and the Sluth and the
negro would each be the gamer if the
process OF migration were steadily pre-
grcss,ve. II the number of negroes In
the South were lessened until they
would no longer vote and act as q dig
tinct race the evil OF their potency at
the ballot box would be felt no longer.
They could no longer insure the cleo
tion Of the worst and most incapable
a1d dishonest candidates, and that
silent hostility to savage suffrage con-
fessed everywhere would never have
expression even in words. It Is to be
hoped that the Kansas land agents and
railway land owners win not suspend
operations in the South in behalf OF
the removal of large number OF col
ored people. II Kansas wants them
now, as the State did not in the halcyon
days of old Ossawottamie and squattei
sovereignty, surely Barkis is willing
and Kansss csn have them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

The only way to silence the lying
Globe Democrat, which sends all the
k1aves of the continent bither By con-
stantly asserting cur blood-thirstin6s ss
AID murderous spirit, consists IN divert
ing Texas trade from st. Louis. The
Globe Democrat derives its support from
s.. Louis merchants. It is filed with
their advertisements. Meyer trade with
house whose name appears IN the
Columns of the lying SHEET and buy all
that can be bought in Galveston and
New Orleans and thus from New Yoik,
which is the cosmopolitan city of the
continent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

IF the Democracy OF Kentucky don't
do better in 1880 than in elections of
last week, Rsdicalism will be encour-
aged to sind money and peace officers
into the State and bulldoze It into the e
support of Sherman. If Tilden be re-
nominated this would not be a big job.
People down South, except to the ex-
tent that names are things and that
they abhor RadicaLsm, would never
weep If, in such case, their candidate
were beaten. The defeat of the party
is not, however, to be contemplated.
Kentucky, like Texas, must stand
erect But this vast falling off in the
Democratic vote is significant of pop
ulsr loss of interest in public af-
fairs. False questions have been
thrust before US, and those of which
we were weary even In 1860, and local
issues have arisen of such magnitude
that those involved in Federal contests
have lost interest. EYen in Texes the
people for a time forgot RandGll and
the Congress and Tilden and Tam
many that we might discuss the public
schools and Stat. credit, and even in
Texas the omnipotent party may be
rent In twain. Certainly 1t was smit
ten with temporary paralysis in Ken
lucky. But it signifies nothing. Tht
Republican party in that State consists
of enough good fellows to hold all loca'
Federal offices, and thsparty can only
grow as these are multiplied.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

In many counties the teachers hive
proper associations. None except ed
ucated gentlemen are admitted, and
grest good to the profession ard to
the. cause of popular intelligence re-
suits. But they don't accept Web
ster's indefinite crudIties and non COM
mitslism as authority in letters. They
don't say efficient" when they mean
proficient" or coniound "pupil''
and Scholar" or say section"
when they mean vicinage," or
"guarantee" when they mean as
sert." These teachers associations
are most proper institutions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21
WHY MR. JEFFBRsON DAVIS is
NOT RICH.

The value of the estate conveyed by
Mrs. Dorsey to Mr.. Jefferson Davis will
not exceed $4,000. Estates of the
character she owned, unless the pro-
prietor in person supervise their man
sgement, as does Governor Alcorn, are
wholly unproductive or worse. Plan
tations worth $50 aud 800 per acre,
before the country went dersnged in
1901, are worth from nothing to So
in Mississippi. "Wild lands" in Ar
kansas, like those of Texas under oper.
ativs codes regulating assessments and
fixing public burdens, are not worth
having, and yet people ask why immi-
grants do not flock into Texas. The
tax on ones home and farm is only
fifty cents per acre, but Texas legisls-
tive genius exhausted Its resources in
search of something else to tax. The
whole burden falls at last on producers.
II must be dug out OF the ground and
the ground cannot pay il aud, in ad-
diuon, profit to the farmer. There
fore business is stagnant. and therefore
people are idle. Add to these burdens
imposed by the State those inflicted by
corporate, county and town govern.
ments, and then superadd the Eve hun
dred millions exacted by the Federsl
system, and tell us il it is strange that,
with all the once magnificent estates Of
Mrs. Dorsey, Mr.. JeI-rson Davis is
still poor in Northern eyes. Is il
strange that the Texan owner OF estates
as broad as Rhode Island is in common
l;zrgon- 1sland poorsn But is 1t NOT
amsziDg that lawgivers persist in levy
ing burdens for the accomplishment OF
fancied good when by ruthless taxa.
ton they have introduced such q
pkfase a. s'land poor into the fixed
Iiansuage Of the country. They viii
deny that their conduct has aughk 4
10 with woes OF the POOR. with th,
production Of tramps. and thus viii
Z the multiplication of idlers or crimin
q ais, and yet when the Tzst sum
gathered in By those levying taxes an
5aggregsted, we are forced to coufes
ssshat no people can still hive and toler
> ls such wholesale systems OF remorse
Rass robbery and wrong. The court
AZ Texas alone, OF high and low de
|ee. cot tue people enough to excii'
tSrofolution. Read The Comptroller
ort. and remember that these ceQr,s
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

REV. NEWMAN HALL OF England,
famous for earning and elcquercp,
blackered the fame and destroyed the
usefulness Of Baecher. Hall sues his
wife for divorce for adultery. She
proves him guilty of the crime and he
and she should have kept their loose
mouths shut. But how humanity and
the cause OF Chri. tians suffer when
great teachers are found to be unfai b.
full. But that's the way the world
wags and the times are surely sadly out
of Joint.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21
TRIVIAL SENSATIONS.

The killing of sort of judge, who
had held officc in eastern Mississippi,
nd death of his little daughter, caused
infinite harm. The world still thinks
at least corner of Missippi given over
to murder, rspine and demoniacal
brutishness. Even while organized pi
rates, as hundred years ago on the
high seas, prey upon commerce in New
York harbor, the affrighted world,
through the infinite power Of the Re
publican press, is made to contempltt'
with bloodshot eyes the misdeeds of a
vulgar drunken mob in western Missis.
sippi, which threatened one Dixon's
life il he refused to withdraw as a can
didate for sheriff. Dixon was Radi-
cal, we suppose, and proposed to gain
Office by inducing negroes to vote for
him. People who have been subjected
to the domination Of such kpsyes are
not apt to tolerate patiently second
term of such q placeholder, and since
Yszoo county is part Of the immortal
shoestring district, we imagine that
Dixon was white negro candidate.
We are not amazed that decent people
were gneved and ashamed or enraged
that such man might win an cliice,
ami it is only to be regretted that facts
of this character are never fairly stated.
la truth, one who has never seen q
earpetbag system of government can
h.ve no adequate comprehension OF its
terrors, pecnlstions and enormities.
But then there is and can be, in popu
lar eyes, no apology for this outrags
upon personal rights and freedom by
the shotgun chivalry, and Yszoo, from
sheer force Of newspaper repetition and
denunciatioD, may become the synonym
of Yahoo. Meanwhile, Reputation il
Tennessee, the yellow plague IN thu
States chiefest city, the threatened
disruption of Democracy in Texas, the
appearance Of cholera IN London, thu
ruinous drought along the border ant
in the Southwest. the Conkling-Spragu'
denouement, the diversion of the whes
crop from New York and Boston Il
New Orleans By the jetties are th,
great exciting topics OF the hour, ant
this incident II Mississippi, in tn
midst 81 grand e0aeursen, ersn,s, Be
comes even irii',oo il he 3or;5 s srss
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than Erebus, but, ike these
twins, they expired at the same me-
ment and were buried out OF sight
forever Why not have This fact
printed in every Northern Democratic
Newspaper and in every organ of Re-
publicanism honest and fearless
enough TO tell the tIu.h. In any
event let the party leaders give us
peace. Hayes with drew the army and
declared that zee and concord
reigned, and now these raining, raw
ing party leaders re-lsstr tie lie again
aud again that the South would secede
and rt-,nslave the blacks. 1t is an
lie.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

The President of the S:nste, Lieu
tenant Governor SIyers, was in his
seat whep, on the nineteenth of Feb
ruary, vote was taken ON the present
Sunday law in the State Senate, but
there was no necessity for his Interven
tion and he had no right to vote. The
Senate stood 13 to Il aud there was nc
tie, ss the Netos was led to state, be.
cause Senator Martins name was acci.
dentally omitted in the printed jour.
nal. Governor Sayers. as between the
new and Old Sunday laws, uniformly
favored the Old law.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21
THEY ere called the Depression In

THEY ere called the Depression In
vestigating Committee. It's chsitman,
Hon. Mr.. Wright, cOnfesses that in the
last twelve months busiHoss activities
of all sorts haYe been steadily reviVirg
and the probabilities are that when the
committee makes it3 report Cpngresi
will be forced to change it's rame and,
instead of "Dspression Wight" il
will be RISE up Wright" which, fol-
euphony, will become 'tRise upright,
and the dear old departed R!se-up VII
liam will have an nelr to his name and
fortunes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

OUR Greenback friends who were SO
desperately enamored of late of Ben
Butler, should listen to the Boston
Herald when it says thst the three best
jokes of the season are these: 'tBen
Butler as a Democratic candidate, ask
ing Democratic votes after eighteen
years abusing that party. BD Butler
as friend of labor, asking votes as
such, he being a capitalist who pays
labor the lowest wages. Ben Batter
as reformer, when be has beer, and
is the thing to be reformed"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

UNDER iosmsr codss Of l. u sians
New Orleans has been forced TO psy
quite $50, 600 each year, after proVid-
ing for the city's public schools, to those
of other parishes. Under the new
Constitution Of the State each parish
must provide the funds for its own
schools. There are several counties in
Texas which have drawn more money
ench year from the State Treasury for
the free schools OF these counties than
these counties have paid into the State
Treasury for al purposes.
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to be educated, the more it pays. Eng
lish university lands to-day are rented
at from ten o fifteen and even twenty
pounds per acre from fifty to one hun
dred dollsis) To-day Texas real
property is comparatively valueless, and
greed for money still forces the ssc-
nfice.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

CoEKLING, Of course, when not foI
Conkling, is for Grart. ~ ,1G v
ernor Fenton is 80 ai,i.b' uPpuf;. 81
Sherman, and ihs P,e.ideht { y. rat
ing with him, CcLK.i9g mas h.Hsei u
incapable OF cor trolling absolutely the
conduct of the greet 5 ae % NV
York. Ia fact, Sherman gains p0wel
every day. The chances seem To he
that he will walk over the race course
and then he is the wisest leader Of hi,
nartv.
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AxD now poor old Garibaldi. unfOr-
tunAte and broken IN health aad for
tune, would hAys = divorce IRON his
w,fe. Tae Pops refuses to grant il,
11l LlAlil.lII.i <. InrIn1.I1 10.
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Ladies

DO you want u pure, bloom
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few applications Of Hagan's
MAGNOLIA BALM will grat-
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tent. Ii does away with Sal
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BlOtches, and all diseases aud
ilnperfectiOns Of the skin. Ii
cYerc0mps The flushed appear
aBec Of heat. fatigue and eX-
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THIRTY appear bat TW IN
TY; and so natural. gradual,
and perfect are its effects,
that ii is impossible TO detect
its application.
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Having been tested with the polariscope, the
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They are ground with great scientific accu-
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s.s-sse,s ....s' n ,ksldren. makes i an
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.rs.ls. rnysicia ians use the CAzHsf
Se.sre,~ IL lhsll practice, and :
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