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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
ISN'T 1T SHAMEFUL

The losses sustained by creditors Of
Southern Safes exceed $272, 000, 900.
II losses incurred by giving credit to
Soutt ern counties, towns and other
corporations be added, the sum total
of losses sustained by those who have
trusted our boasted honor exceeds
$500 900 900 Eighty millions of this
sum Is los' ny foreign money Lenders
aud $3.50 O00 900 by Northern credit
ors of the South. The facts are
hideous and disgrsceful and no hon
est Southerner can contemplate them
without confessing the load of iufamy
that attaches to such q record. The
largest portion o. this debt was coz
trsctel by representatives OF negroes
and carpi t-hsggers when Southern
whites were disfranchised and another
large share was created when the prop.
erty to pay 1t was held in the shape Of
slaves. These were liberated and de-
stroyed as property by the holders of
these bonds, and to this extent the
debt was scaled; but there Is still left
a vast sum which should be paid
But let Texans reflect with pride that
Texas have never refused to pay debt
whether contracted under honest or
dishonest government. It has even
borne expenses that rightfully should
have been paid by the general govern
ment; such, in fact, as have meyer been
paid by any other State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

THE result OF the election in Csl.-
fnrnia and the aspect of sffairs in other
States will cause the multitude to ap-
prove he wlsdcm Of Senator Coke,
WAC tecentiy startled the party man
ageTs of the Senate and shocked the
imperial Tiiden By declaring th.t the
SsnatG snd the party should change
i(s course and confine itself to practical
and not 70 theoretical questions. The
practical business interests OF the COUP
try presen. iesucs enough without re-
currencc II that infsm US letter that
Tilden wrote during the last ten days
of the last presidential campaign in
which, with syi!t and eupercllious iu-
dlguaIion, he sGore he would never
assent to any demand made By the
8 nth for payment Tor slaves or for
C ,ston claims and for losses sustained
By any sort Of Southern people during
war. Daes Tiiden deny, as alleged,
that he wrote this letter L. was tele.
graphed to US from New York, and
everywhere accepted as genuine. Did
our nephew PeIton forge it and palm
it of as the ''old mau's"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

SENATOR BEcK of Kentucky, IN re-
ply to questions of Fraphio reporter,
says he considers It yet to early to
predict who will be the next Demo-
cratic candidate for President, and
that nothing can be considered certain
on that head until after the elections In
Ohio and New York and the meeting
of Congress. II Ewing is defeated In
Ohio, then John Sherman will coma to
the front. But great deal depende
upon New York and the unity Of the
party In that Stlte. II the Democrats
of New York present solid front ar
the pole, 10 has no fears for the re-
suit. He considers that the chief meas
ure to be brought for the consideration
of the next Congress will be "the i'm
proving and extending our commerce.
and this question will take precedence
Of all Others. If the 6TATEssIAN's
opinions had been accepted such ''chief
measures" would have occupied the
whole time If the two last sessions of
Congress ard the result in California
would have bt Ell wholly different ana
that anticipated in Ohio by no means
doubtful. But we are glad to see that
Beck is coming round to Coke's plat
form of common prsc ical senae.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

EoS jon. lANc 81 h>s baeH . :
EeIsirg t1e c6u.ir5 Iron M;arrs a a.
Miunehsha, even 10 New Ynk and
B son and thence - Ansl.n lie ia
of those who go ab ut w,,h eyes aad
ears open and IS impressed With the
c1uviction that resul-s Of pending
State elections and the violence Of per.
sonal pa. I slnship aud antagonisms in
national conventions and newspapers
will compel the nomination of new
men. he is still of the opinion, II
which Ccnkling now concurs, that Mr..
Window of Virginia, equally well
esteemed by the stalwsrt and Sherman
Republicans, will be the nominee of
the Republican convention. Either
Blame or Grant Or Washburne) or
sherman is strong enough to defeat the
aspirations of either of these three con-
spirators and the conflict will induce
the acceptance of powerful compro-
mice candidate like the facils, smil-
ing and kindly Mr.. Window
Judge Hancock further states that
among the people, North and South,
Republicans and Democrats, Bayard is
more esteemed than any man named
for the presidential Office. He AIDES
that there has been so much knavery
and corruption and base concession to
mere partisanship by presidents and
by those high in Cffice that the people
are ready to accept an honest man even
if, in supporting HIM, they must sacri-
fee partisan prtjudlces and even
share Of their polt cal creed. There
was never such universal desire among
the masseS of the people for the eleYs-
tion Of such q man as Baysrd. The
Judge says that only the politicians
and professional officeholders and seek
ers are for Tildep.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

Ey.GovERN r DAVIS is absolutely
certain that Grant will be the nominee
of The Republican party, This failing,
Washburne, he ssys, will bs the mex,
President. II Giant do not want the
office he thrusts it upon his old friend
OF lanyard days. Sherman will b.
beaten because he is strongest or be-
cause all other sspirapt' will first COM
bine to destroy him and when his is
accomplished Grant must be the can
dIdste or he viii; designate the cand!-
date. Such, substsntially, is the reas-
onIng Of the Ex-Governor who appoints
the Congressman for this district, and
may next choose to appoint himself
Very certainly devotee at tie giided
shrine of hard-rnoney, he will never
mere sufIer his antipathy to a hsrd-
money Democrat aud uubending Union
man, like himself, to tarust the Aircsn
vote Of the district into the bfeeches
pocket OF an. ex-rebel and furious far
money philosopher. The facts, when
contemplated abroad, place the ex-
Governor in queer and false position
before the country, AID these facts
caused him to lose caste at Washing
ton, making him impotent in the de-
paltments ard at the White House,
and thus inspiring hss own antipatby
to Hayes and Sherman and intensity
ing his dew ton tn Grant.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

TIE election of tuesday in Califor-
mia may determine who will be the
next President. The presidential cleo
tion may be determined by the House
by failure of the people TO elect
There will be three, possibly four,
presidential candidates. A hard money
Democrat, soft money Democrat, q
Greenbacker and then Bsecher and
Conkling and Thompson should have
q candidate of great moral ideas. But
the candidature of three men will be
enough to reproduce tie state of facts
that almost resulted in civil war when
jefferson and Burr were rivals. Each
State having only one vote and the
States being equally divided as repre-
ssnted in the House, the transfer of
California to the D .mocracy or to the
Republicans or to the Kearneyites be-
comes q matter of grave import. I'M
usual interest therefore attaches to our
dispatches this morning since they
surely tell whether a majority of the
congressional representatives of Cali.
fornia may be Democrats or Republi-
cans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
TuE states' r,ghts is,ue. a. involyed

THE States rights issue, as involved
in pending political contests, is wholly
distinct from that of secession. Mr.,
J, fferson Davis thinks differently, but
as discussed by Northern Democrats
and newspapers, the old issue, which
Lamar, Davis and Yancey delighted to
expound In 1860, is entombed With the
ruins aud hopes and ambitions of tho
extinct Confederacy. State rights and
8 ate autonomy are one thing and the
ght of State to secsde q wholly diff
ferentsthing. This latter right is not
proposed to be asserted or discussed.
Abe Lincoln, Andrew johnson, An
drew jackson and Thomas Jefferson
were States rights men, and were ntt
secessionists. II johnson were 6 De.
cessionist, when an ardent sdherent Of
Breckenridge in 1860, he was not when
he wrote those admirable State papers
as President, which commended the
outspoken admiration even of Mr..
Jefferson Davis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
WE HAVE HtD ENOUGH OF RR-
VUL~IONS AN0 REV"LuGfONS-
THE HORST PROPERTY.

Il was a terrible process through
which Sherman forced the country,
reducing the volume Of currency one
half and leaving debts unscaled and in
full force. In other words he doubled
the amount received by the creditor
and doubled the amount paid by the
debtor. No wonder the land was fill-
ed with misery and with tramps. But
the question presents itself, shall we
reverse the process and again food the
country with paper money, again dou-
bic aud quadruple the fictitious value
Of land and houses and labor to be
again depressed again qusdru
pie the fortunes Of the credito: class2
Remember that those creditors and
those money lenders always anticipate
the effect and operation Of every
echeme of finance snd are the winners
and the pc ople losers 10y every change
There are class of ShJlocks, even in
country towns like Austin, who grow
rich simply because of these revo-
lutions in finance. l. signifies nothing
in what direction the change is made,
whether money he made abundant or
scarce, those having Vt take instant az
vantage OF popular necessities
as affected by the new scheme
of legislation, and the poor are-robbed
and the rich apgrandizsd. Purchasers
of the Horst property in this city may
well weep that they agreed to DAY $500
four or FIVE years ago, when $500 were
more easily obtained for goods or labor
than $3.50 to-day. Property has lost
half ana money advanced one-half in
value and widows in many instances
are robbed by remorseless spectators
Of money and homes and driven forth
TO starve while the speculator in finance
grows enormously rich. But the
greater rumber by far of incumbrances
on properly have been foEeclnstd, and
the property, as in the case b.fore u,
IS held by the Shylocks. Shall we,
like idiots, legislate for their sdvsn-
tsgs and again double their for
tunes by doubling the value of
property which they have taken AZ
trustees aud sheriff. ssles2 WHAT in
finite folly is this of Greenbsck.,m,
which sells itself, when weeping over he
woes of the workingmen and of
tramp0, to the speculatols and Shylocks,
and reverse Sherman's policy and ag-
grandize, as never before, the Peter
'Coopers and money lenders and bond
holders of the United States. We have
had enough of political and floanciai
revolutions, and through the few years
of the current century of follies and
crimes and revulsions would move
steadily and slowly towards the perfect
freedom of people and States which
can only be attained through the
maintenance of q perfect Uaion.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

A RADICAL paper boasts that 'the
children OF the wealthy Serator Hill Of
Denver are classed and seated, in the
public graded school of Denver, WITH
those of an humble negro family. :"
This is proper enough. The negro
children may be as good and well
reared and devoid of vices as those of
tho 1ch Senator. But suppose Hilps
children are lousy, that they have VT
messed or participated in every form of
human vice. Suppose Hill's CHILDREN
use coarse language and vulgarisms in
hourly conversation. Ought not the
negro parents complain that the State
and city authorities interpose to render
it impossible for them to have ether
schools9 Their parcchial. schools, II
they he Presbyterians or Catholics or
Rpil lcopalians or BsptiHts, are destroyed
and the proper moral education of the
helpless, bus honest and pIous, Degro's
children u made impossf6le BY law.
Il II an cs4rsgs upnn the good negro
when a whole community is brihed by
the State TO destroy ell schcois bu: this
in which the best snd worst, the most
virtuaus and most depraved are
rapidly reduced, as stated Of the
splendid and costly free schools OF
Memohis. to the s-ms denrsvsd leYel.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

ALL over tae Stsss the innocent,
good members of the two houses ART
rising to explain their votes and
speeches or silence IN reference to the
Sunday law. It will csuse the Ioss Of
many votes when candidates again
seek popular favor and when parties
would control the distribution Of I'll
ces. Hon. W. s. Coleman Of M,.snsll
is the last to declare that he oppose
the enacsmep', as did Col. SOFT. Bat
ISN'T it san that 50 MANY Senators an6
representatives. opposed the thing al,
set 1t wens 20 The Governor. VIII
neither opposed nor condemued ofii
ciallY. Bat IL it be'not the law, IS row
stated oy CD viii LAmbert, woy ncr
suffer it 70 so into desuetuds Shile
f6e OfO- - m Itgtib Oeor4tiVe
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

IN is iegi.imsse 70 question ar e. :
to,'s gently. u ss71rt hls s'upIdi,y, 70
exssgera'e h;s nsliRess, 20 beisbSr his
p4rsonsl folblee aad aocuse him wroI 2.
fu y OF III 5 re OF weaknesses that sre
uot crimes. Surely the field in which
legitimate pers9Ral journalism may
gather lau-tls is broad enough. II
there be vt or ingenuity it has scope
enough, and lava Of decency an pro-
priety need never be violsted. But II
happens that coarse and vulgsr natures
now and then have contrel of newspa-
pers. These are incapable Of discov.
ering the broad lines that separate the
inclosure in which insult never enters
from that in which redundant coarse
ness and brutality have choked every
flower that blossoms in fields Of cultl-
vated newspaper taste and intelligence
We sec how little controversy be-
tween two of our contemporaries is
about to degenerate into vulgar quar-
rel. l. is II be hoped, however, that
these mowers In the great WheatHeld
of letters will never get over the feacs
to gather stones to be hurled with NAL.
ice at each others head.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

THE New York Tribune of the TWEEN.
ty-ffth ultimo says cit is grstifying to
see that moral teaching in schools is
more and more widely demanded by
teachers themselves and by the press.
Here Is The National Journal Of Educ0-
tion complaining that the system Of
education, public and private, deals too
exclusively with the intellect, and neg
lect the affections and the will" In
this we discover an outright confession
Of the necessity for that sort Of instruc.
ton and training which is impossible
in the great graded free schools. The
Bsptists at once rise up and protest
against the instruction Of their chill
dren by Romanists or Methodists and
these and the Presbyterians are resolv-
ed that the morals of their boys and
girls shall not be perverted by other
''false prophets" and the Catholics,
having as perfect right Of access
to the public schools as Protest.
ants, are absolutely expelled from
them by their rules of faith, which
compel the family to educate the child
as a primary Christian duty, and In
this the Catholic is right. Those par
ents that fail to educate or to control
absolutely the moral and intellectual
education of their children are false to
themselves, their children and their
God. But this confession by the New
York Tribune Of the necessity Tor
moral as well as intellectual training
in public schools Is confession of the
,nsuperable obstacle TO the success Of q
system that sprang from the commu-
uistic and corrupt tendencies Of Narth-
ern society. Uufortunately the South
is infected by the same disorder, de-
veloped in the miserable inefficient and
Corrupt pubic school svsteu of Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

Ma. DELone sues Rev. Dr. Tnonp-
son for only $4,000. Il cost DsLs, z
this sum TO maintain his wife 10 East
ern and European cities while she
studied music and things and while
the reverend and learned Dt. Thomp-
SOB was paying court t. the fsseinat-
ing queen Of senS. Their letters are
choicest q ns OF New York literature,
illustrative of New York taste and
morals. :
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
RAu.RoAp expsrts have sstis6 a


RAniRoAD experts have sstisd d Ca
court and listeners at Erie, New York,
that it is impossible for the Legs'stn,5
or the courts or for railway owners ana
managers of New York to define and
regulate rates of transportation and
travel. These rates in New York are
governed often by schedules made IN
Philadelphia and Baltimore. GArIets,
of the Baltimore and Ohio, and Scott
of the Pennsylvania Central, can ix
schedules which the krie and New
York Central must accept or
trains viii rot on the sidiS Van.
dsreilt and Jswes. ,1SSisss that thsy
are not invsstsa With su.ocrasic powers
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

We have = clgcuiar .esser from '.c'd
eiD of the Atlanta Constellation Ia
.hich this fsnsas snd vsnsrabie son
of Hsm says be proposes 10 sggrsyHts
popular distress " irficsing upon
mankind . new book. Il win be filed
With tho philosophical lectures and rs-
fecnous Of the unique and popular
sam " snaIi, ''oid si,D Of AtlantA.
who has Won e widsspreads and salnA-
ble fame ss J0sh Billings. Thsss srs
solid nuggets Of invsIuaLIs wisdou
discovered N thsss drol.slt psealiasi'
tiss of Essro lhinkisg sd ssssrzpUs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

THE effect OF the War upon,the South
aud North, the frs. impoverished and
tie latter gaining all that we loet, is
shown in the fact thst the wealth OF
OHIO, interEected in all directions by
railwsys, is 1920. 900 600 more than
tha' of twelve S7u1heru S,ates exclu-
size Of Texes. The wealth Of IIino,e
and Iaaisua is $40, COO, 600 mere than
that of ih.so uiI,e St..es s,f he South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

THERE was fsllOw aAmso Ogle in
Congress just forty years ago. he wss
the most marvellous liar of his time.
He made q speech descriptive of the
splendors Of the White House snd Of
the luxurious habits Of President Van
Buren. The people read and believed,
At least those Of them that gave cred
spcs TO the Arabian Nights, and Mar
TN Van Boren was buried out OF sight
By popular frenzy bsgOtien Of ogls's
smszins spssch. It wal repeated
evsry where, In every newspaper and
by evsry orator OF the time. The next
we hear Of an ogle one appears among
he innocent sovereigns of Buruet
county. he smiles upon them &c edI-
tor and gathers in many nickels and,
finally, through the exceeding good
nsss Of his newspaper ard b. the dis
pisy Of many virtues, this modern ogls
bsconss county treasurer BE has
ellsd bis pockets and hsd. TIE rtorJ
| q p1la u snstbss Plses.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

IT is sunounced rn c DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes is Just seventy years
of age. One can hardly believe 1t.
Dssthless youthfulness marks the pages
OF his books A degree of kindness,
generosity and freshness marks HE
thoughts, bis unique expressions, his
sit humor and carefully wrought
verses that smack OF immortal youth.
Tue Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
could hardly be otherwise than youth
,ul and jovial bon sissnt. Hs cheek
are ruddy, his eyes sparkling. bis fsoe
sglow. The boArders ell greet him
gladly and listen E;;6 Smiling sacss
and eager loo,s while he tells US in tbs
iae.s ssrsr.sph in the Eaelish iar.
S6eee how II happens that man is =
tnirlv.vesr clock wound up and set
. going. and tha. the kew, given over
to the angel of the resurrection,
who, when the old machine runs
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

THs D. Young family zperhaps mort
than twenty years ago left Cincinnati
with their mother and lived Aor q time
In Texa', going heace to Caliternia.
They are Hebrews. We believe. In
any event the Cincinnati IsYGeii.e as-
ssrts their virtues aud the purity and
honesty Of their mother, so shamclessiy
and brutslly assaiied by the coarse
preacher, KAlloch, who p,esehed wal
Of eXterminstion sgaiast Southern
whites from 1853 uuti! after the close
Of the war.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11


WE have often adveIsed to the vast
ness of sums expended by the people
In the maintenance of civil courts and
their incidents and prerogstives. The
sum expended in thIs behalf each
year by the people of Texas is varlously
estimated from six to fifteen millions /;
but the grievance is fifty years old and
the habit of endurance so fixed by the
weight of a thousand years, that the
people tolerate the calamity without a
murmur. They feel the evil, they
count the cost, they geek in vain for
compensating and resulting good,
and yet are content to wear q yoke
imposed when despots shaped codes
and systems, and when people had no
right to think. R&e Telephone is at
last induced to cry out against the
system of intolerable iniquities. It
costs Texas $40, we are told, for each
81 collected through courts and paid
over to plaintiffs, and yet we pay con-
stsutly and forever for this absurd sort
of machinery worth ten times less than
nothing. Men in private affairs are
guilty of no such follies, and sane
men, as citizens, should not tolerate
LheP,. Let courts pay their own costs,
as those that dance pay the fiddler.
The people should be freed from the
fearful tax. The late Legislature, IN
stead Of lessening, absolutely aug
mented ruinous burdens imposed by
civil courts and when we add these
sums, paid in fees and costs ty the
people, to enormous burdens imposed
by Systems of taxation in behalf of
these courts and then by schemes of
taxation for the city, the county, the
State and the Union, there are few who
can discover ct the close of each year
the meanest rewards OF most tollsome
industry. Therefore the Waco Tets-
phone spt.y characterizss the present
judiciary system as milestone fastened
around the necks of taxpayers, and tn
Galveston Neses says student Of polIt-
ical economy might make an instructive
lesson by figuring up the amount pad
in year in salaries, fees aud costs to
public officers. There sre millions in IL
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

We heartily wish tie indefa.igabie
and excellent journalist, Cspt. MartIr
OF the GAINESVILLE Register, boundless
success in his new homo. The 6rsi
number Of the Ryistsr reddi0ioas iS be-
fore rs. Politicians in ell parts Of
Texas should read it. Il mxkes . spe.
cialiy of Safe politics, of the devious
ways of which the editor ls thorough
mnafer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11

KALLocH had the ngns t0 say what
he said. II he violated any law he was
amenable tn the lsw. II be violated
no Law he should be ,ansincd in his
righ, Of free speech. The law OF Cali
fornis puaishes libel adequately ss thst
OF Texas does not. To aas q ibeles
svAils nothing when he Ii impecunisus
and only imprisonment ayails anything.
The only ad.qaaie protection against q
p-Toang OF Texas is 10 be found In q
shotsuD, and many people prefer SUBJ
mics on even TO outrage to bloody
deeds and a murdCrer's or sssaasin's
fame
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
ErnAers i. hn.Ilg speusslsss.

Col. Plesce, ssys yhs EsPrsss. is hav-
ing housss brilt near OF - New Phila-
I5elpkiA, on the line of has road. TO-
English immigrants. Land sections Of
e4O scrss ara divided Into eighty nrEs
Isct. asd h0ns.s are constracssd upon
them when the property Il sold . len
nasing . capifL q st least s1.V0
Twenty-six hna-cs hsVs ALREADY ossl.
sold. snd CaL Pierce expects 70 di.Ress
a 900 within tbs coming yees. Rev
PniisdelpAis IL ns4r DtrB.sd s,at3ol,
u WbaEt9a pEaty.