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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

IF Texas towns and tradesmen W. n.
the wholesale trade of Texas, the FUt
Wort Democrat says, they can only gain
it by getting access to purchasers.
Make it cheaper for retailers to buy
here than in New Orleans, st. L uis or
New York, and they will buy here
He who imports large stocks from
Europe and the East pays less freight
per dollars worth of goods and rela-
lively less travelling expenses and ex-
change than the country retailer, and
the country retailer will buy in Texas
if he have cheap and easy and daily
access to the Texas city. Therefore
Austin must have cheap railway with
many branches, and therefore it were
infinitely wiser to get this interior
trade by legitimate methods. We
must work for it, "drum" for it, ad-
Vertise for it, provide transportation
for it. As long as we depend on State
pride while live men in foreign cities
build railroads to carry off the COW
eted products, so long may "Texas
wholesale trade" dread determination.
When commercial cadavers in our
"wholesa:e" centers make way for live
men, Texas wholesale trade will be-
come il fact what 1t ls in name.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

EVEN Mr. Smslley, the admirable
correspondent of the New York Tri
Jltne. is moved to condemn as needless
the horrible and profitless public
schools of Texas. He says of Waco
that it has a military institute, Meth
odist university for both sexes, which
would be called an academy in New
Eugland and grammar school in Old
Eagland, a Baptist seminary for girls,
q number of small private schools.
Inc newspapers sometimes speak of it
IS the "Athens of Texas" They are
foSd OF the classics in the South and
every State ms an Athens. There is
no public school building, however.
The State educational funds are given
to the private schools or spent in a
proftless way on free schools, kept two
or three months In the year in old ter
ements rented fo- the purpose. The
population is of mixed extraction. AS
everywhere in the South, the Jews
control large share OF the shopkeep-
ing business; there is aprlnkling of
business nen from the Northwest, but
a large majority of the people come
from the old slave States, and society
has strong Southern tone. Bnh OF
the daily papers are Democratic,
though one is a shade more liberal thar
the other. The lawyers, who here, as
in the n )rth, are the actual politicians,
are strongly Southern in their opin
IONS: so are the preachers and the doc
tora
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12
RELATIVE DEPRAVIrY OF THE
NORTH AND SOUTH.

The New York Tribune gives inter-
esting details of the robbery of the
Manhattan Bank which occurred five
or ak months ago. The bark last
three million dollars. FIVE of the rob-
bers have been arrested. They have
i, flnential friends a. Washington and
eveu I'm iertook, by bribery, to prevent
tie enactment of law by Congress
authorizing the Treasury to issue du-
plicates nf bonds stolen. Bat think
of il When few BedOuins of the
West rob q stage coach nr secure a
hundred dollars by sssaulting a rail-
way tIsiu, what an infinite ceaseless
upToar rends the heavens! The North
turns away aghast weeping oven the
uuiettered vices and un-free-schoeled
miseries Of Texas. Bat here we have
an illustration OF vices that distinguish
cultured intelligence down East. 1t
steals millions and crime, thus gilded,
becomes respectable. These New York
k knaves are Ouly "defaulters. There
is some mistake about it. The Tri-
bHns doesn't measure its words. L.
rails them "robbers." But II Western
highwaymen content with modest
gains and never forgetting respect due
the sex and standing hatless in the
preseuce Of venerable years, ss always
happens when the Judge rs among the
plucked--if these Tex ts highwaymen
sent n lobby even to the modest
Texas Legislature the uprOsr would
deafen the continent and Europe
stand appalled, when contemplating,
through magnifying glasses of New
York and Boston, crimes aud vices of
Texas. Even the Congress of the
North has been so brutally corrupt
that bank robbers undertook 10 shape
or retard legislation AMI devote large
sums TO this execrable purpose. Aud
yCI tiO HtG-bte"H anu IdJch ahu
Conkling roll up their godly eyes
in we'll feigned horror whenever
bloody devilish deeds in Texas are re-
counted. There are basest crimes and
moral perjnries aud frauis perpetrate /
every day on Wall street and de-
basing brutal deeds in New York
city each week Outweighing in total
depravity all the violent su iden pas
sionaie violations of law done here
in twelVemOnth. Wall is only
worse than Mercer street bagni0
and gambling hell, and the pulpit AMI
press declare the city to be more
degraded than GomOrrah or ShdOm.
Aud yet, bow saints following Inger
soll and B.echer and Talmage and
other great headlights of Eastern vir-
tue and piety do pray for us, pro-
nnuncing us unworthy even OF modest
provincial association with those godly
and grand States OF the Federal
Union. Will not the Inter Ocean and
Globe Democrat assent to silence until
peccsdillces Of petty knaves and dash
ing highwaymen of Trxts equal in the
magnitude and volume of crime this
vast sum of villainy, heaped up in one
single week and in one single act in
New York cityg When the virtue of
Southern :women is reduced to that
depraye: standard that obtains on
Fifth Avenue and Southern bswds are
IA numerous as honest maidens and
when dishonest "defa!cations" for
thousands are no longer more numer-
Gus in the East than negro hen roOst
depreda ations in the Gulf States, the
GloJe Democrat and Inter Ocean might
surely spare us their homilies and stop
the outrage mill.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

competed in vain. But politicians are
doing even more harm than Lead Vile.
The whole force of the great ntwspa-
Pers beyond the Ohio, aud Republican
orgar are twice ~ poten, rs those Of
the Democratic party, IS dir, ed to
the single purpose Of ex4speratIng the
North against the South.
No reader OF savage X dIcal organ
deems life or property ssfe in this
State. Therefore only the worst ele-
ments of Northern society are Attracted
to Texas, and Northern people Lying
here, IS matter of self interest, should
send abroad proper statements of facts.
Bat there can be, until after the presi-
Dental election, no help for us. Poll
ticians have renewed the old contest
aud there can be but one result. The
5 lutb, even If victorious in a political
contest, is the loser. We are to be
brutalIzed and damned and vililied,
and no agency of immigration could
avail anything when party y-leaders and
newspapers combined to render immi7,
grafton impossible.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

ONLY forty years ago great party
convention in Georgia II red reward
of $4,000 for the head Of Wm. Lloyd
Garrison. Olly yesterday the wofd
bowed reverently, Ge,gis with the
rest, beside the bier of M fanatical
philanthrOpist. Georgia thiBSs to day
that Garrison was wrong; bat he
was the enemy of bis race aud of AZ
ricans; but his purposes and aims
were good. He was honest and faith,
full and fearless, and is therefore hon
ored. The only good wrought by war
was the liberal ItIon Of mems opin-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

MEMPHIs free schools ate never sus-
pended. They had superintendent
costing $4,000 per suuum tail $ learned,
rich and fauitless cii = served the
city in this behalf " fart salary.
The school buildings sud fixtures are
simply magnificent. Every ehIid from
six to eighteen years OF age il freely
sducared, and fires and books, states,
etc, are furnished. or woTc until re-
Gently, when popular poverty aud tax
alton became Intolerable. Ii may be
proper to say that the city reared its
costliest school hon e, costing more
than $40 600, hsrd by iis jii, that
cost nearly half a million. And now
come the painful facts The ledger of
Memphis is compelled to cosfess that
II is set down by those familiar with
the true inwardness of the situation In
police c.Tcles that there are more bad,
>sal bad, boys, the offspring Of promi-
people. in this city than are
q in any other of double Its size
on q Rtinent. We have among the
rising Stion those who would cat
throat - pocket or tap a till in
the twin e or an eye, and many of
this class are sous>of shining lights in
the churches, too.
The best and most ihFefigeut boys
are necessarily thrust in and acquire
the vices of the mosNdepraved. IL is
easier to drag down than to lift up.
The public schools destroys Of Course
by bribery, all select and private
schools, and by total deprayitS it de-
s,rOys the youths sought to be tralned
for Congress, but really fitted for the
penitentiary
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12


Most people have heard OF the
''Seven Wise Men OF Greece" but
very few knew who they were or how
they came to be called so. Here Is the
story, aud the moral OF 1t is worth re-
membering, il iheir names are not:
The Seven Wise Men Of Greece are
supposed to have lived in the fifth cen
tury before Christ. Their names are
Pattacus, Bias, SJlon, Tnales, ChIlon,
Cleobulus, and Periander. Tine reason
of their being called wise is given diff
ferently by various authors; but the
most approved accounts state that, az
some Coans were fishing, certain
strangers from Melitus bought what
ever should be in the nets without see
ing 1t. When the nets were Brought
IN, they were found 70 contain q golden
tripod which Helen, as she sailed from
Troy, is supposed to have thrown
there. A dispute arose between the
fishermen and the strangers AS to
whom it belonged, and as they could
not agree, they took it 10 the Temple
or Apollo and consulted the priestess
as TO what should be done with it.
She said it must be given to the wisest
man in Greece, and II was accordingly y
sent to Bias, who deciarr that Thai
was wiser, and sent it I MIN; Thales
sent it to another one, nB so on, until
it had passed through the hands of all
the men. II was finally sent to the Tenn
pie Of Apollo. where il long remained 70
teac. q. 8 -on that the WiBeet are the
most u .sLI ustIul Of their wisdom.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12
HOW BOB ACRES'S COURAGE
OOZED OUT.

The wealth of Texas is proximately
the same as in 1860; but the poPula-
tion of Texas Is three or four-fold
greater. The cost of maintenance of
courts is ten times greater than in
1860. The number of convicts Is five
fold greater than before the people
were plunged into sea of woes and
vice.. The number and costs of courts
are simply ru'nous, and therefore the
terrors of taxation. Perhaps half the
people of Texas pay no tax whatever,
and hence the desperate straits to
which lawGivers, who fear the voting
mob, are driven to find subjects of tax
alton. Therefore the nervousness of
the law and of the taxgatherer. We
have, however, a patented nobil-
ity. 1t rules the country, and especi-
ally counties and towns; is protect ed
in life and liberty and pursuit of
whisky; is invested with all the pre-
negatives of citizenship, but contrib
utes not penny to the State or county
or city treasury. Fearing to offend
this nomadIc mob, the Legislature sim
ply enacts a farcical law taxing polls
but dares not authorizs the only posi-.
BILE means of collecting this poll tax.
Drummers also ought to pay taxes as
do other merchants. The politicians
do not hesitate and the drummers are
brought to terms. Luxurious sleeping
coaches should be taxed as are our
pleasure carriages and other property of
equal value and the Legislature has the
nerve to go for the foreign, non-voting
owners of the sleeping coaches with
peculiar unctiousness or ferocity. But
when legislatures tackle trsmps, ad-
venturers and nOmadic mobs of towns
and cities they hesitate. Patriotism
however exuberant; love for taxpayers
however passionate; devotion to public
credit however irrepressible are stag
gered by the frowns of this voting mob
and the very foundation Of our social
and political system Is polluted and
one-half the people are made to defray
the whole cost of guarding the lives
and liberties and right to driRk whisky
and shoot people ana crowd the peni-
tentiaries practiced by the other half.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

DURING the date Regular session OF
the Legisture joint resolution was in
troduced asking our Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress to secure, i:
possible, law granting q subsidy to
a mail steamship line between Calves
ton and Mexico. While the United
States government gives nothing to
mail lines between this country and
Mexico, the Mexican government pays
in subsidies to four such companies
over $500, 900 annually. The burden
should be mutual and Congress should
be led at the earliest moment possible
TO make II 80. 0ne Of the four lines
referred to runs TO New Orleans GAL
weston. in view OF its rapidly Increas-
ing railroad connection with all points
in the West and Southwest, should
have similar line. and the govern
ment of Texas would do well TO effect
what il may in this direction.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12
rs THE SOUTH TO HE VIC.
uIZEDl

The Republicans sre sharp, shrewd,
adroit, above all party leaders, See
how earnestly and vigorously and sud-
denly thoroughly sectional platform
is built up in oiIol That platform is
literally deadfall, aud when the
Democracy met and nominated Gen.
Ewing, an excellent and able leader,
they walked into it. Randall and
Tilden devised it; Congress built
it. the brigadiers, fast aud furious,
''set it," and Themselves, even if vic
torious, have been caught.
Ever since Grants last election each
Southern newspaper and statesman has
been deploring the sectionalism of
party conflicts. The North, out voting
the South and having the blood and
crimes Of war Is stock In trade, never
fails to fight every battle of the inter-
State war over again, and the South Is
always victimized. Lies promu' gated
aud den1uciatiOn of Southern States
and people, begotten of such q
coatest, are as ruinous as civil war.
The whole world, never affected by
southern newspapers, and deriving
It's opinions Of us through New York
and Boston alone, deems these ex-
slave States abodes Of uumixed mar
der, hpe, whisky and bsrbarism. We
have entered upon contest inaugu-
rated aad shaped for US in Ohio, to end
in 1886 which will turn upon these
ectSQna issues, as defined by Congress.
THOSE fellows that nominated Foster as
HaNes,s friend snd then enacted Conk-
iingIs and Blaine's sectional platform
have consolidated their psrtisans. 1t
Is the tfisest scheme Of parhsanship rs
Il is mcs,nniisastrous to the North aud
the Sol 1t Il compsls the South to
accept wosfeAs and Randalls policy
and SousI' IN Democracy are to follow
the dict df their Northern leaders.
invest srorm with Offices, take back
seals, vote as ordered in and out Of
Congress and everything is lovely ex-
cept that the Ssuth is either the SER
want aud suppls toel Of Northern pArti
san matters. OF. what is in6niteIy
worse. the victims of r .dical rage and
despoeism. There We no necessity
for this strife. The ssoalh is night.
Freedom is right and The right will
surely triumph, But iss tnnmph is
only postponed lndehuilelY by rrojsct
ing the issue. INVESTED win ME hide
business OF the bfsody shiFt. ,infn the
arena OF party strife and srciiou rase.
Ba, Blaine and Conkling have hines
their own way. Wiseaeses have Eiven
them the mastery and given them the
reins. They are first drawn tightly
and the lash is first used in Ohio.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12
TIE Fort Worth Demoerqt says

The hue and cry raised against Gov
ernor Roberts that the credit of the
State has been or will be impaired by
reason OF his veto Of the appropriation
bills is the sheerest mons :nss. The
money is in the treasury vaults TO meet
and discharge the interest on the State
debt to fall dus ia July, and the Leg
islature has been convened on the tenth
instant TO make the necessary appro-
pristion to pay it TO the creditors OF
the State. There is nothing in this to
create alarm or distrust.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

THE main business OF the politicians
in power is to multiply offices. 1t
multiplies the fellows seeking them,
and thus magnifies the appointing
power and patronage of the Con-
gresham. The patronage Of the
United States Senate has been increas-
ed recently $4,000. But the Senate is
now considering the cattle disease law
and propose to have nice little inspec-
tors at the por's of Texas and at the
towns along the border. These good
men may not know broadhorn from
II buffalo, but will have $500 worth
of accurate knowledge of the murrain,
hollOw-horn and rinderpest and other
ailments of cows. Ia any event the
cattle men are to pay this sum to have
their cows viewed and passed upon be-
fore they can pass cut of the State.
Isn't it singular that the most ignor-
ant lsw-giver proposes such measures.
Cattle have no disease IN Texas. The
rinderpest originates in Northern and
Western stockyards aud oVer-crowded
cars. b 1t the people love to be plum
dered and can we'll maintain twenty
or thirty Thousand more Federal office
holders. There ought to be at least
one nIacp-hnl6er for each hard work
ing farmer to support. The State,
county and Federal governments must
increase the number of sihecures till
this proper equality of numbers be-
tween the "ou's and ins" Is fixed. 1t
would make elections exceedingly in
,t4resting.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12
THE GRIM, GRIZZLY GRIMMER
OF THE PACIFIC COAST.


We published one bright Sunday
morning, not long ago, series oil bale
ful prophecies pronounced by one
P<of. Giimmer, devout sstrologer,
who assume, tO interpret the voices oil
the stars. He states that impending
calsmities will grow more and more
freq lcnt until the last vials OF God's
wrath are emptied on the earth in 1880
to 1897. The conf Dint periheliOn of
Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune
begets these dire distresses to culmIn-
ate IN one universal carnival of death.
Does il not begin to be evident that
the grim prophet Grimmer is not
half as grim as specters already
evoked Mount E5ns was never
so convulsed. The earth's bowels
were never go disturbed. The first
recorded irruptiOn Of this volcano Oc-
CURED during the Trojan war and its
most dreadful contortions and uphea-
walls are only witnessed at intervals Of
centuries. But the groaning mountain
never so lsboTeh and Sicily may be
submerged aud the Mediterranean
tecome a boiling caldror. Famine
desolates India; war, broad districts Of
Asia. Russia moves steadily south !;
Fnglan north, ami Asia IL To be great
b4Ltl field as when OVerruu by AlexaA-
der. Aslatic chnlera has moved west
wardlY from it's native m0rasses of the
Ganges. Cetewayo has an ally IN the
African climate and swamps aud slaugh
I rs the f ,glish as did the Afghsns.
Crime runs riot everywhere and decency
shudders when contemplating the vices
and miseries and brutalities and drum
kenness and bloody deeds of our race
most dcpraved where there are most
mOckeries OF Chnst's example and
most costly temples lifted up in HIS
honor. A bloody Indian War along
our western border is brewing and the
yellow plague lifts its hIdeous shape
from the impenetrable jungies of Hayti.
Political events in this country pOrtend
the restoration OF Grant to power and
thus we have pesGilerc'. the sword,
famine, revolution, wars, tornadoes,
and volcanoes, all moving
steadily to the contamination of terrors
and human griefs and the extinction
of our race Just as the gray aud grim
and grizz y prophet Grimmer grimly
reeites.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

Way not, sihcs the PostOffice De-
partment loses million per annum by
the second use of postoffice stamps, re-
duce the price of stamped envelopes to
that OF stamps and recognize no pay
ment of postage save when made by
government envelopes. These would
hardly cost million dollars. One
an iot be used second time and the
saving in clerk hire, expended in de-
facing stamps, would be enormous. If
the government supply all three-cent
envelopes perhaps it would not pay to
steal those of the value of one cent :;
but one-cent wrappers might also
be sold at one and two cents each and
no more stamps be made. Honest peo-
pie and the government would both be
profited by the change. But Is 1t not
singular that no art in chemistry has
ever discovered any cheap preparation
which will deface stamp so that it
cannot be used second time? The
rude country postmaster, who simply
makes his cross on the stamp with pen
and INK, aloue heads off the knaves
who wash and use second time each
stamp that reaches them. Aud do the
innocent people know that those East
ern curiosity hunters" who advertise
that they will pay ten dollars for each
one thousand three-cent stamps are
only unmixed knaves. They cleanse
the old stamps, replace the gum arabic
and sell for three cents that which
costs only one cent. A Boston adver-
tiser has made many thousand dollars
in this business. But the Postmaster
General has studied and solved these
questions and there must be some I'M
perative business necessity for the use
of stamps instead Of stamped envel-
opes and wrappers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

The dome of 81. Peters, at Rome,
Is 432 feet above the ground. The
dome OF 81. PauI's, in London, has q
height Of $50 feet. S rasburg Cathe
dral spire has an elevation Of 4G6 feet (;
Amiens, 422 feet; ChartTes, 37l feet I;
Salisbury, 3S7 feet. The towers OF
Notre Dame, At Paris, measure only "A
feet; The Pantheon, 267; the dome OF
the lnTalides, 80; and the Arc de Tfi-
smphe, the largest triumphaI arch in
the world, 161 feet. The beautiful
spire Of Milan glistens in the air at an
elevation Of 400 feet; the
spire OF the Hotel de Vile. at Brus-
seIs, il 3G3 feet high. and the famous
leaning towers Of Pisa and the ASH
neIli, 1t Bologna, have elevations re-
specIively Of $50 feet and 32i feet, the
latter measurement including the Ian
tern. Upon the dome Of 81. Sophis,
1t ConstantinoPle, the crescent now
glistens where formerly the cross wne
planted, ~ an elevation Of irZ feet.
HnheFto the pre-eminence in hsiRht
has been accorded 20 the g1ezt pyra-
mids. That Of Cheops 4 464 fssl, &c
cording 20 Smyth; shat Of Cssphern u
455 feet, and that Of Mycenmus 216
feet. Now, however, we are told that
the new spfre Of R0aen Cathedral has
ovcrtopped the great pyramid. Its
hsight = given at 467 Ia feet.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-12

The sblest and most widely ciIcu-
lated Southern newspapers, if our ex-
changes do not mislesd US, earnestly
oppose any plan of party action which
includes starving the army. They de-
clare that such action would ruin
the party, and consequently greatly in
jure the South. Leading Southern
statesmen, like Beck, Hill, Chalmers,
Blackburn and Others, are In favor of
starvation, revolution and general
disturbance rather than yield. II
would be interesting to know which
represents the South more correctly,
its press or its congressional delegs-
tion. MIR. Reagan is right and Mr..
Cuberson nearly 50. Senator Thur
man, whose wisdom and craftsmanship
are unquestioned, has not hesitated To
say that the army must not be starved
ont