The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

approved by the Legislature. 1t were
wiser to pay honest debts. hsve per-
feet credit, enact Inns four per cent.
bond bill and thus get out Of debt,
and be Just before we are generous 10
the pedsgogues and State police.
The newspapers are watching tie
course Of events II the capitol. They
seem to be nightly scared about the
suspension Of prayers for the lower
house. l. were wiser &c have retained
Bro. Patue than subject the pious
press 20 such unessiness. Nobody
knows when the old bgt.ery, somtimes
called Tookery, in which the lawyers
roost, may fan, and then legislation
unmixed with piety may Prove intin-
itely mischieYous. SIrmises SIS 10 the
fste OF the sinful Legislature sre end
less sn3 Numerous.
The Speaker OF the House is q nat
ursl arithmetician and mathematician.
| He is still familiar as when 4 SENIOR"
though growing little gray, with
| slues and cosiues. He PHILOSOPHERS
| iamlliariy about the table of logsrith-
inns and comic sections, and those
that are elliptica, and paraboacal and
disbolical, with singular Righteousness.
! He attended al examination of the
| juvenile mathemGtic ans % Gen. Wal-
lace's scai>uy yesterday and was in
ecstacies when witnessing the alge-
braic achievements of the boys at the
black
The bad blood of the Polk family
breaks out in remote generation.
This John Polk at Marlin, charged
with robblng the mail, is said to be q
kinsman of the late President, and an
other of the name and family was
jagged for theft At San AutonIo, and
the rascally politicians, those old
Wings, used to swear that enc Zeke
Polk, of North Carolina, was traitor
to his country in 177G. Bur that crime
has become virtue in the lapse Of
years to the extent that people regret
that they ever seeded " from Cd,
to f0ll under the dominion Of New
England.
And now two idiots at Texarkaua
quarrel about ring worth ten dolls,s.
Gao threatens, and the other shoots
him to death. Such fellows names
should never be printed. It Is the
love or cowardiy fear OF notoriety that
lmpels to such 'disgraceful deeds or
their necessity for them. 4 vulgar
rough often shoots fer the noise he
makes IN the world and for the ap,
plause murderers and buliies give, and
then again he is scared, as when this
| low hnf
Hanks, a lawyer. Hanks is dead.
Was his soul worth $40, and is the
other fellow safer nov.
If all property OF each church socl-
ETY. in each town and county, over and
above 5000 worth, was taxed, like
the property OF sinners, there would
be more ana palmer churches and the
roor would find seats everywhere and
sun-bonnets would he fashionable ana
the poorest of Us, even if trousers be
ink-stained or blackened by the smoke
of blacksmIth's forge, would find q
fitting place in the humble house OF
God. But politicians are too pious to
tax churches and religious societies be-
come spectators In realty, as has hap
pened in Cincinnati. The temporal
and money power of churches should
surely be restrained and ii Is not toe
late for Texss to provide against evils
that have betallen older governments.
The Boston Inoestigator ascribes the
authorship of an article that appeared
originally in the STATESMAN to the
Denison Ne'cs. The unauthorized
piety of the Macs properly "goes
farther" than that OF any Texas editor
We were dreaming one day about the
$50 feet of vanity, called an inspi-
rational spire, tackled to $50, 00O
church, and the exclusion of sun
bonnets and checked aprons by trails
as long as the spire, and Murray, lik-
ing thequeeI conceit, appropriated it,
and thus caused bis name to be
made a household word IN the
"steple"-chase Of Texas editors Co.
reering onward ard upward towerds
fame's proud temple. Murray Is hap
ply, and we arc blest in his perfect
blessedness.
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