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


IN the present condition of the pub
lie mind, as developed In the press
and upon the streets of this city, it
would be most h, z4rdous for one man
to kill another. The point reached,
because of the multiplicity of violent
deaths, is that man can have 10 right
to take life. But how can this be
when the slain, if suffered to live,
would have killed the slayer. II men
may become such heavenly minded
creatures that they would prefer suf-
fsring death to inflictiDg death, then
we may live to bless and laud those
who die rather than cause death.
Until this millennisl condiuon of
humanity supervene We should never
forget that justice and reason should
precede passion, aud while murder de-
serves swift and sure punishment, a
community should never incur crimi-
nality, which would make an iudi-
vidual shudder, by executing mob's
blind, unreasOnIng vengeance. The
Kansas jayhawker, who slew the actor
at Marshall, should have fair and i'm
partial trial. That he ought to be tried
ct once and hanged at once is certainly
true. For this result the law makers
made very inadequate provision.
Therefore the disposition of the people
TO intervene and wreak vengeance
themselves for an outrage done hu-
manisy by this detective of Pennsyl-
vania railroad managers. To the ex-
tent that the criminal code is defec-
tive the State is at fault, aud when
the people have exhausted vengeance
upon the bloody-hsnded, they should
hold legislatures aud governments re-
sponsibie for the enlargement of mur-
ders that ravsge the fairest land over
which . magnificent God diffuses
shadows and showers aud sunshine
and ekorms
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
Mexicsn News Items.

Diez, wiser than the government of
Texas. is reducing his etandiug army.
Great activity is being displayed In
the work on the exposition building.
Two of the principal revolutionary
leaders of Tepic have abandoned the
cause.
The PGtria states that Mexican bonds
continue TO fall in value in the London
market.
A society of artisans in Puebls are
making arrangements for holding an.
nual fairs in that city.
Gen. Rumolo CuelIar has been ap-
pointed commander of the forces sta
toned at Matsmoros.
The government has refused to per-
NIT the sale of the Jslapa lottery
tickets in the City of Mexico.
A lawyer in Puebla has presented
over 300 petitions for ampdro against
the railroad tax in that State.
Gen. Francisco Sarns is heading a
revolutionary movement against :he
State government in Sonors.
1t is stated that before the recent de-
feats Of the Tepic revolutionists, they
numbered more than HOO men.
A soldier was executed in Vera Cruz
on the twenty-second of February for
the murder Of an officer of his COM
pany.
Mexican towns and cities are put
ting down earthen pipe sewers and
cleansing crowded streets that Yellow
Jack may not render their worlds
fair failure.
The mint of Guanajlato, Mexico,
coiued in the first half of the past
year, 81, 229, 900 in SEQ gold pieces,
81, ,043, 900 in 81 pieces, $4,000 in
half dollars, $96, 900 in quarters, $50, :
900 in dimes and 500, 900 IN half
dimes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

WAYS and means are sought to be
devised for the restriction of the pay
ment of debts due on account of PEN
sions, while no act of taxation required
to protect bon ndholders will be omitted.
The old soldiers are poor and proven
before the courts in each instance
to be ''indigent. They sold or hold
their claims for pensions. II they sold,
some taxpayer of Texas bought, and
he bought that he might relieve the
sufferipgs of the old soldier. II the
old veteran still hold his unpaid war
rant his poverty and miseries are only
aggravated by the delay Of payment.
The question arises whether the State
should not be just to its own citizens
and its own defenders rather than gen.
erous to the good people OF Wall street
who shaved Governor Coke 30 barbar-
ously and mercilessly aud plucked the
State with frightful cupidity when
Davis and his Mamelukes were our
ravenous masters. Suppose the vet
weather schools die Of the dry rot.
Nobody is harmed and the State and
taxpayers save about one million dol
lars in one year. Then all honest debts
of Texas can be paid and rates Of taxa
ton lessened twenty per cent, and
then, If We cut OF the State ponce
force, the State may deal honestly with
the old veterans and with those who
have advanced money for them. Bat
then the old and helpless cannot, like
the pedsgogues or the potent Yoice Of
Wall street, make great noise in the
world. and it il this noise rather than
statesmanship that Affects the politi-
clans. Pedagogues must be psid and
Ne must cultivate and perpetlate that
spirit Of base dependence On charity
which suffers the government 10 Wrest
money from toiling industry to sdu-
cate thu children Of idle vAgsboudisn-
Tie theory o. such lzw-mxkiug Il not
only uawi.s. but innoral, and tsx-
psysrxs IN tia present condition Of the
money msrkst win sesR rurolt nRslnst
tkls whsls schsns Of tazsfIoaA
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03


Over $1,000. 900 in pension bonds
bearing 10 per cent. interest are in the
hands Of the creditors of the State of
Texas. The bonds were issued to
run twenty years, the State reserYIng
the right to call them in after FIVE
years. The five years will expire In
July, when the State with means at
hand may proceed to tske them up.
To raise funds for this purpose, bill
was introduced In the Senate, early in
the session, authorizing the issuance
and sale Of 81, 900, 900, thirty year,
gold bonds of the denomination of
$1,000, bearing 5 per cent. interest.
These bonds, it is known, can be sold
at par, and the proceeds used in
taking up pensions, bearing 10 per
cent. at par, would save to the State
annually for fifteen years, about $685.
600 in interest, or about $500, 900 in
the fifteen years. The bill passed
the Senate, and the House viii not
neglect to adopt 80 wholesome iuan-
cial scheme before the labors of the
Legislature are at an end.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

THE Leadvllle fever having sub
sided, the collapse comes and multi
tudes are more eager to get away than
they were to reach the tabled land OF
boundless fortune. Texas is good
enough for people taught to make
money by steady industry and econo-
my. The soil is fertile, climate fault
less, the laws most generous to the
poor and unfortunate, and yet one
would imagine, in town or village,
that We only need multiplied dry
goods establishments to make nice
young gentlemen rich and happy.
Can't: the Legislature authorize the
substitution OF "stores" for "farms"
and give one to each neat young man
who will come to the State with his
hair parted in the middle and "biled
shirt" in his valisef These are the
idlers and these the luckless people
that are now Gagged at Leadyille. May
they never return, and If honest,
bronzed farmers, proposing to abide
by Gods edicts and grow rich by
clothing the fields with redundant
crops and making modest homes redo
lent of the perfumes of new mown hay
and roses, may supplant the idle mob
that saunters sadly abou. Leadville and
about village greens in Texas "look-
ing for work" in ''stores," Texas will
speedily grow itch and powerful.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03


AUSTIN COUNTY has only twenty five
delinquent taxpayers. How many
voters pay poll-taxi d. hsli3 And
yet they sll do vote. The poorest
farmer, having the meanest little home
stead, is forced to pay on his little
property, and having this little prop
erty must pay for having his head his
pol'-keps on his shoulders by the
State; but the worthless vsgrant who
sells mis- vote to the highest bidder and
votes again and again pays nothing
into the common treasury and yet re-
celYes the same boon at the States
hands as the toiling head of family.
Bachelors commonly contribute not
copper to the public good. They are
afraid they cannot support q family.
They never wed. Penuriousness or in
capacity prevents, aud therefore, in
many countries, they are specially
taxed. How do they pay In Austin
county, May we not have full ststis-
tics on this point gathered by the GEN.
sus of 1892
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrollton,
one of the few very rich men who de-
voted life and fortune to the cause Of
American liberty, was Romanist, and
there were very many of the same
church who adhered to him. In Ger
many to-day the priests are Republi-
can and opposed to the strong central
ized autocracy of the empire, and yet
the Austin correspondent of the Dallas
Commercial would not have Roman
ist made chaplain of the House. The
Irish are straight Democrats every
where and all Romanists. Catho-
lies condemn the persecution
Of the Hugueaots as earnestly
as Protestants, even as Protes-
tants are ashamed that they per-
secuted Roger Williams and burned
spirituslists and witches at Salem or
hunted down the Mssons in New York
or slaveholders in the South. 1t
would hardly be safe, even in this age
of intelligence, to invest any sect or
denomination of Christians with Obso-
lutism. An old John Brown or Wen
dell Phillips in the church, or an elo-
quent enthusiast, like Ysncey, might
become q msdman and tyrant and en-
ploy force, if suasion and money and
fashion failed, aud men would be
driven into heaven by. fire and sword.
Religion is emlnently good, but igno-
rant religion is as dangerous as igno-
rant politics, and whether the religion
lists be Protestant or Catholic, the dan
ger is not so much IN the form or name
of the creed as In the fanaticism
Of it's subjects. The church of Rome
is only more dangerous than any other
to the extent that it's mode OF organi-
zation is such that its whole power
for good or evil may be welded by
one man. There are other Christian
organizations hardly less efficient and
perfect and dsngerous, and the securi-
ty of popular liberty consists as much
perhaps in the j=alousies of these re-
lIgious bodies, as shown by ebulitions
of this correspondents emotions, as in
the fact that legislatures and Congress
eschew Romanism.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

MCCULLOUGH, the editor and &C.
proprietor of the GlObe-DeDl0crdt is a
Democrat. But be is only Democrat
as private citizen and at the ballot
box. Professionally and editoIialIy he
is Republican. These facts account
for the over-zsalousness of the Demo-
crdt. 1t has all the worst aspects and
character silica that distinguish q new
convert. The Northern secessionist in
the South was ever the sublimated
quintescence of Southern Radical
ISM" Quitman even out Heroded J #
Davis end Gen. Leibetter, from
Maine, was fiercest OF Confederate
masters of East Tennessee and West
Virginia. Even 80 the Gl0Js- Democrat,
wheh it became Republican, leaped
naturally into R4dicalism, and Mack, :"
the whilom conservative writer for the
Cincinnati Commercial, when he
plunged into disgrace and stultified
himself, went further and deeper than
all his predecessors. The Inter Ocean
is made to blush, outrivaIed as it is, by
this ass in lions skin-the Globe
Democrat. 1t is good newspaper but
beyond this Its passionate hatred of
truth and of everything Southern rem
ders it abhorrent to hopesty aud de-
ceRcy everywhere.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

LASHoRN, WHO murdered q woman
last year in Sen Antonio, pleads tenn
porary insanity. TIE Kansas jay
hawker who killed Porter at Marshall
is sweet on temporary insanity. The
man who slew Aston at Atlanta was
seriously insane for the occasion.
There's nothing like the courage
screwed up by mean, maddening whis-
ky, which does its foul, bloody work
and then gently gets down on it's
knees in the presence of outraged law
and piteously pleads temporary insani-
ty. The country has heard enough of
it and juries will listen to no more of
it in Texas. If man would murder
and escape the hangmsn, let him at
least be sober when the horrible deed
was done. Cowards and sneaks resort
to whisky TO strengthen nerveless as
ssssins' arms.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

TENNESSEE proposes TO settle the
bonded debt at forty cents aud four
per cent interest. The creditors de-
mand six per cent and sixty per cent
of the full amount. When john c..
Brown was Governor the whole debt
was funded at six per cent, and new
bonds for the whole issued. The rail-
road law required the sale OF bonds at
par or the bonds were void. Railway
builders hypolhecated the bopds at
forty and fifty cents after the war and
failed to redeem them. The Law WAS thus
violated but the State is helples, now
that the creditors have confused the
whole mass of Indebtedness by the
funding process. The people sought
to be robbed by the bondholders by
this funding operation were required
to pay more than ten cents tax on each
hundred dollars and seem TO
bear the disgrace" OF discredit
with singular patience. The legis-
lature proposes to pay forty cents,
but the bondholders will demacd six
ty, and there the matter rests. The
debt will never be paid.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

CHANDLER's extraordinary speech,
full of bitterness and wrath and di-
rected against Mr.. Jefferson Davis,
had more readers than any production
of the last session of Congress. IL was
a frlghtful philippe. We are accus-
toned to ridicule Mr.. Chandler. His
violence is commonly ascribed to the
bottle, but there is an internal native
genius for denunciation developed in
this diatribe upon Mr.. Davis that
speaks of rare and peculiar ability. 1t
makes one shudder to read it and
must delight the maleYolence of insane
Radicalism.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

The Sherman Register says the chief
est accessory IN murder is the con-
temptible and cowardly practice oi
carrying deadly weapons, which has
as its attendants offensive speech and
defiant air, and reckless disregard oi
the law. Young men grow up with
the six-shooter ss q companion, per-
mitted by parents to go unchecked,
until such education culminstes in
murder, and with the brand of Cam
upon them they fee from the country,
leaving pious but too indulgent parents
to mourn the day that gave them
birth. The remedy for this dreadful
state Of affairs II to be found in brave
and fearless public sentiment that
brands the murderer as an outcast, and
the wearer Of concealed weapons as 9
coward whose presence 10 TO be avoid
ed - that of the rsttlesnake.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

Nor more than one hundred of the
brave men who followed ne banners
Of Milan and Johnson into the strong
hold of B=xar, in December, 1885, and
Houston and Rusk to San Jacinte, ID
April, 1885, survive. More than half
OF this one hundred are now old men,
with hoary heads and empty purses.
Men who gave their youth and man
hood to Texas. aud whose days are
"dwlndling to the shortest span, ;" were
stricken down with Others, perhaps
DO less deserving, by the recent repeal
of the pension law. Gentlemen vot-
ing for the repeal of that law affirmed
that their purpose was not to deprive
the genuine veteran of anything possi-
BILE to be gwen him under the Consti-
tuition, but to prevent frauds on the
State by the unworthy. II they were
sincere in their assertions, it is asked,
are they possessed of sufficient states
manship to shield the worthy while
discarding the undeservlng, or are they
of that class described by S1r. Stewart,
of Harris, "who know how to pull
down without the ability to build up"
The surviving veterans meet at Gal
weston on the twenty-tirst of April to
celebrate the anniversary of the battle
of San Jscinto, and all may imagine
their feelings when they recite In
tated breath their suffering and ankle
ties caused by the action of this Legis-
lature. These poor and aged men, be
it remembered, won for Texas all she
has, as we'll as all she has do
mated, and 1t would be more
just than generous to pay the
debt the State owes them. An
appropriation OF seven or eight thou
sand dollars per annum will be enough
to pension, so far as the Consti-
tuition permits, all the survivors of
those who actually fought the battles
of the country, and patriotism and
State pride require the Legislature to
act in this matter before adjournment.
Does not the State owe more to these
venerable heroes than to pedagogues
And yet it is proposed to leave the old
heroes in want, and squander a mil
lion dollars on worse than proftless
schools. But the pedagogues and
those too mean to educste their own
children, or those bsser still, who
would have other people do the
service for them, they themselves hay
ing the ability when the State gives q
homestesd-these are they who would
MAINTAIN the pedsgogues and suffer
the old soldiers to stsrve. The peda-
gogues have many votes of their own,
but these veterans, and their hosts Of
friends and descendants, will be a
power at the pslls, and if these pro-
posed wrongs-that Of squsndering
wealth on worthless schools, and this
of consigning TIE old soldiers to beg
gary-be consummsted, many leaders
OF the people to-day will be consigned
to final obscurity on the morrow.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

wrong or error OF injustice in the gov
ernTent of roads. their interpretation
and the remedy are instantaneous.
Either have such board or suffer the
laws of trade and of mutual interest
between the roads and people that sus-
tain them to govern the management
OF these highways. Arbitrary retric-
tions ard rates fixed by law would
only compel the companies to wrong
one description OF business il another
be exempted from burdens, and after
all, whea q town or district of country
finds itself paying higher rates than
smother, it must lie recollected that
competition does its proper work. If
g city be fortunate In having compet-
ing lines these lines cost twice the
money OF one route and the city hsv-
ing them ia entitled to half rates.
There is no recourse and should be
none for the oppressed" community,
except in the construction of rival
line. This doubles the country's
wealth and the original road loses
nothing, because it soon finds business
and travel doubled. The more roads
the cheaper freights and travel be-
come and the more of both are pro-
duced. But railway legislation is
worse than no legislation and evils
done by it bave ever been found
to efiict as great, probably greater,
wrongs than inflicted by railway man
ayers. These cannot harm a com
munity without harming themselves,
and cannot enrich community with
out aggrand z;ng the potent corpora
tiona-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
A DELIGHTFUL TEXT FOR THE
6LOBE-DEMOCRAr AND IN
TRR-OCBAS.

The murder OF the actor at Marshall
will be remembered DO more forever.
OLe man, and he of Kansas, did that
deed. Bat resd the fearful story that
comes in brilliant, startling, lightning
flashes even from Fort Scott. Thlther
the suffering blacks of the South were
recently invited. Thither they were
going in great multitudes, and Louisi-
ana babe them G1d-speed. But q
negro in Kansas committed the pegro's
special crime. 1t was neither better
nor worse than the bloody deed done
at Marshall. in this State, by Currie,
the Kansas jsyhawker. The people of
Teas were terribly iueensed and al
most moved to put the sctor's mur-
derer to instant death. Meanwhile
those goodly people of Kansas and the
Missouri GIo6e-Demoerat were frantic
in denuncistion of crimes and enormI-
ties done in Texas. They are silent
now. Not only does negro transcend
the white man In depravity essential
tn the crime he commits, but the white
people Of Kansas oitVie both the brutal
negro Of Kansas and the bioodthirsty,
whisky-maddened Kansas murderer
when at Marshall, in this State. The
poor ignorant negro, heaven-endued
with disbolical lusts, is first hanged
till almost dead and then cut down
and slowly roasted by those internal
iends called men in derision of their
kind. But they do vote. are citizens
of Northern State and were born Of
Northern piety and sanctimony and of
Northern public schools, having been
imbued with sweetest lessons of acute
philanthropy by Beecher's gospel ac-
cording to Sharpe's rife twirled glee-
fully by John Brown. whose soul Is
still marching on. As it ascends, it
looks down with heavenly ecstacy
upon the negro's writhing body licked
by fiery tongues of hungry fame, while
godly Kansians dance around in dew
ilish delight like the witches in Mac
beth. The Missouri Globe Democrat
and Inter Ocean may enlarge upon the
delightful theme.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
RAILWAY LEGISLATION DAM
GRROUS.

The people Of Eastern States and Of
Europe have learned long ago thar law
makers gathered at random from all
classes of people. and having among
their number no experts in railway
management cannot regulate success
fully the business of railways. That
corporations are tyrsnnical and selfish
is often true; that their agents are
sometimes bribed or affected by per-
sonal relations to individuals may be
true; but the remedy does not consist
in lawmaking. A general law to gov
ern q special case or remedy q special
evil would prove ruiAous. An un-
skilled lawmaker would bankrupt .
railway If he make special rates OF
fariff universally applicable. The In
ternational road may take carload of
fr1eght from Austin to Houston, 500
miles, Is chesply Is the Central road,
200 miller. It costs no more to move
= car 100 than ten miles; but If the
Legislature made these facts standards
for the definition Of rates of freight
there would nevermore be 9 pound
hsnled BY q Texas railway. Com
panies must pay costs and salaries and
wear and tear. Lifelong experience
has taught experts in railway mshage-
nent how to cooperate must Justly
with the people who must pay the cost
Of creating and maintaining these con-
tributors 10 the wealth and comfort
and intelligence Of our race.
In view Of these facts and the utter
impossihility Of regulating the manage
ment Of roads By chsngeless statutes,
and because . lawyer, doctor or farmer,
ss lawgiver. can have no adequately
accurate technical knowledge Of the
intricate business Of railway govern
nenf. We have insisted that there
should be here, e In Massachusetts,, .
board Of railway eomnlsiionsEs. Thsss
nzs onnipotsnk Wksa thsY asss1l 81
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

WHEN Senator McCullochl on Fri
day opened speech on the question Of
final adjournment, with the remark
that the Legislature had been delayed
in its work by an "unmitigated, God
forsaken, hell-deserving, Granger Con-
stitution," even Assistant Secretary
VIM. Neal Rsmey, one of the jealous
fathers Of the Constitution, could not
but join in hearty laugh at the ex-
pense of bis bantling.