The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
THE KEaRNEx OF TIE SOUTH.

others voted against secession il IL NJ
phis in 1861, is now iiiing the Ma
tiOnGl Flag in NashSi.le, Tennessee.
Brooks Is = deycut lit nsc G. ecnb5ck-
er. He hates every body who thinks
like the IGd anopol;s JWnal, that
there is tou much freedom in this
country rather tban too little. II es-
pecIally sbhurs the NV y Hk Herald,
because whea the NIB was destroying
P,ttsburg it Sal .: 'ShOot the strik-
ers down like wild beasts. They aIe
only the robbie" Brooks hates Tom
Scott brcause he is charged, III justly,
We believe, with having said ac the
same time: &c We them the rife diet
for few days, ana see how they like
that kind of bread" But then Brooks,
VINO, In all bis tastes, hsbI.s of life
and thinking, is thorough represen-
tation OF the poor and illiieraie and
unthinking, is pleased tp cay ths, the
when h. proclaimed the fast that, AIS
is gratifying to b. able t. ob serve thai
indications all abound Us point 10 $
speedy return to p sPerCus times. ="
b Books il again cxaspelased
when the Cnicagn Times declares that
The old English system of im-
prisonment for debt would be far pref
erable to our preseLt bankrupt law
When the miliiop aire, jay Gnuld,
like the rest of his class, 5earning for
the empire ana . centrrlized arIsto-
cratical government, blotting cut the
States, said:
We shall shortly find ourselves under
monarchy. ", uid give m,l:ion OF
dollars to see Grant back in the White
House,
Brooks was frantic with rage. Abuse
him men may, but Brook. with all his
incursble Radicaii,m and idlosyncra-
s;es, loves liberty aud loves the
"mob," and the Tree government and
free States of cur fathers. When the
New York Herald, exasperated by a
terrible crime, such as tramps have
often peIpetrated, exclaimed: "The
best meal that can be given 10 a regu-
lar tramp Is leaden one, and it should
be supplied in sufficient quantity to
satisfy the most voracious appetite, "
Brooks National Flag was furled and
dressed in widows weeds of sorest
grief. Brooks loves the trsmps. In
fact if he were not en editor he would
in their forces and march In
gypsy-like freedom over the world
Brooks again loves Stanley Matthews
because he advocated the eight hour
law, and when the Cincinnati CONNER
ciaL innocently asked Matthews
"Whether the government employees
should be raised to the rank of favor
;tss and classified for pamperlng at the
public expense ~
Brooks was piping hot. He discov
cred for the first time that he had been
advocating the creation of an aristoc-
racy among lsboIing man. But no
paragraph has been penned of recent
years that so exsspersted the alternate
lY fearful and hard-swearing ,kno;ty-
headed Mr.. Brooks -As- this from the
brutal Chicago Tribune, which pirates
volubly about the barbarism of Texas:
s'The simplest plar of getting rid
of them, when one ls not member OF
the humane society, is to put strych-
nine or arsenic in the meat ana other
supplies furnished tIamps. This pro-
duces death In q short time, and is q
warning to other tramps to keep out
of the neighborhood."
Brooks is a godly man on all ordi-
nary occasions. He sticks to his church.
but his politics constitute his religion,
and when excessively religious In this
behalf, he rises on his launches and
out swears Horace Greeley of old.
Beecher asked scme time ago if:
"a dollar a day is enough to buy
bread Water costs nothing; and q
man who cannot live on bread is not
fit to live. A family may live, laugh,
love and be happy that eats bread in
the morning with good water, and
water and good bread at noon, and
water and bread at night"
That choice bit of religious aristocra-
tic philosophy was quite bad enough to
energiza the devil in Brooks, and he
still execrates the name and instincts
and morals of Beecher. Brooks, oi
course, believes in the sublime virtue
of universal suffrage, and when Raw.
Joseph Cook, of Boston, panderlng to
the instincts of Boston wealth, ex-
claimed:
Come on with your schemes OF con-
| fiscation and forced loans, and income
taxes and irredeemable currency, un-
der universal suffrage. Under military
necessity, and even here in the United
States, we must get rid OF universal
suffrage, and we shall. Rather thar
allow these things we will have one oi
the ,tiercest of civil wars.
Then Brooks drew his sword and
calling in colored divine, swore eter.
nal enmity to Boston and Cook.
Brooks accepts universal suffrage be
cause he believes it wise and right
PMty-leaders have sssented to Is be
cause they feared the very rabble tha
Brooks loves. Both are wrong, anC
for the simple reason that sutfrsg'
should be universal where and wheI
all the people are affected by results o.
voting, and since taxpayers alone ar
interested IN results of municipal elec
tions, and the State guards and modi
| fiss popular rights, all should vote il
State but not in municipal elections
II it be just that those protected by th
State should provide for its existence
polltax might be properly exacted a
condition precedent to voting. Blu
the loyal Mr.. Brooks would have 9th
ers pay while he draws fatness froI
the State. He would hold offices an
draw salaries, but never contribute
penny to the maintenance Of govern
J ment. It is 3 bad rule, he thinks
that works both ways and wit
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