The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-23
4 GREAT RNAVEAG GREAT PUB.
LEC REHEFACTOR.

The great and good man Sehon, who
has been robbing the Odd Fellows and
life insurance companies, has been
wretchedly unfortunate. Every few
months he has been burned out and his
jewelry establishment has ever been
Insured for Its full value. GA paper
his losses have been enormous, while
in reality none but his uninsured neigh
| bors have suffered. He was not only
at the head of the Odd Fellows of
Tennessee, but "burning light, F."
properly go called, in the Presbyterian
church. We do not deplore the fate
of the life insurance companies,
Tuthlessly plucked and plundered as
they have been by Sehon and his
pals. People idiotic enough to
part with their money to be
loaned out for them by insurance
companies deserve to be robbed. Very
certainly every citizen of Texas
every man at least, while the home
stead exemption law is operative
should be the insurer of his own life
by becoming the head of q family and
owner of an inalienable farm. Such
Is the policy of government which
would attach citizens of Texas to the
very soil of the commonwealth, and
thus guarantee the enduring strength
aad steadtastness of local patriotism.
But Sehon and his associates in crime
suggest an invaluable lesson to the
rIople of Texas. We have been pluck
e and plundered since the war, to an
inealculable extent, by foreign corpo-
raions of all conceivable descriptions.
Ora hundred or more life and other
ins fance companies have been
robied till bankruptcy came to
the Aescue Of thieves like Sehon. From
fitch to thirty millions have annually
gone North out of the South in forfeit
ures and lapsed polices end in annual
dues and few have been the thousands
retur,ed to US Ill Texas, and 1t is pleas
ing 4 those who would have the State
prosA = and its wealth retained within
its o confines 10 contemplate disas-
ters ! this wrought by this pharisai-
cal II Sehnn teaches the proper
lessonil HIS knaVery should induce
the pl lie Of Texas to insure their
lives the benefit of their families,
and tt there is only one absolutely
perfect II safe method. It's defined
by thea te Constitution, which would
make r b citizen a freeholder and
giving nj secure home, of which
death sn, can rob him, induce its
sdornmt lspy art and taste and tireless
industryE Fesides, it Is the purpose
and efie9'" this organic homestead |
code to 1itent the drainage of money |
fromS Tie into the great river of |
gold ,kuJ as Wall street. These
IDsuran Cd orporations Of New York,
such was le wisdom of that State
and such .e folly OF Texas, are CON-
pellcd by IA law, to invest their gains
in New Yes When money leaves US
it returns ~ frmOre. 1t is used there
and cannoti he elsewhere. Therefore
the cheapneI of money in Wall street
and its cOstli,ess and scarcity here.
Sehon and hs pals in knavery are
great benefactqs If they teach the peo-
pie of Texas tebeware of foreign cor
porstions of ei ~ kind and character
if they induc@ erchants of every town
of Texas to ine aud insure, them
selves their property; and if Sc
hon extiDguislnhe last life insurance
bubble that tNsts on the surface of
luck and specuh ion in America and
robs the South tt penury, be will de-
serve a monumessas great practical
benefsctor of desI Ided, swindled null
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