The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-16

ment has made them surrender their
political manhood.
The states of Mississippi. Louisi,
ana. South Carolina. Florida and
North Carolina are Republican be,
yond question. and will be shown tC
bc so if the proscriptive and intoler
ant spirit is DESTROYED.
NO good citizen can object to the
enforcement of a law that bears
equally upon all, if it will result il
the interest of the common good.
Il repeat that if il requires inter
ventiOn upon the part of the genera
government to protect in their right:
the citizens of the South of al
classes. the government should dc
its full duty unflinchingly. Ii should
exercise Il paternal care overy citi
zen, and see that none are molesteG
in the peaceful enjoyment of the
rights guaranteed 10 them under the
constitution. If any Northern state
msbehaves, apply the same rene
dies TO ii that YOU would in any
other section. Ii the election OF
Gen. Garfield does not positively
mean a rebuke TO the intolerance
prescription and Acknowledgement
of Republicans, it does not mean any
thing"
"What about Texas p
"Give us compulsory education
and the practical fund to sustain it,
and aid to immigration, which, with
the aid of our national resources,
she will advance to be the greatest
state in the Union. She is more lib
eral than any other Southern stats
more of a cosmopoliton population,
and in the end will prove to be the
equal of any. She has now a popu-
lation of million and half. and if
Ex-Governor Hubbard was correct
when he stated at the Centennial
that her population numbered three
million, she has certainly retrogaded
in this respect"
"Do YOU think that the election
which has just passed will have a
tendency to increase the immigra-
ton to that section. or should il have
that effect?'
This victory alone is not all that
is required. We have n clause in the
state constitution prohibiting the ex-
penditure of one dollar in advertis-
ing in any way the advantages and
resources of the state. Repeal this,
and our state will reap the full fruits
of this victory"
you remarked before that Texas
had extraordinary advantages in the
matter of climate and soil. Do YOU
mean advantages over the states of
the North. such as Ohio, Indiana,
New York and Pennsylvania
IL do, Enthusiastically! Z"
What are those advantages from
an agricultural view?'
"Our soil is better as whole, and
our climate is milder. A man can
work three hundred and sixty-five
days in the year, if he wants TO break
the Sabbath. Our soil does not need
manuring nor fertilizing, and it is
easily cultivated. Since the intro
ductiOn of the barbed wire fences,
using our range, which is a native
growth, for fence posts, the lanus
under cultivation can be more
cheaply inclosed than anywhere in
the North, and when inclosed is
much more easily titled. Two horses,
w ~
turn over the prairie soil, which, in
Illinois always requires three yoke
of oxen; and one man, with a single
pillow. can easily break up two and a
half to three acres of Texas ground
day. The crops are planted at a
season when no detriment can occur
to the health of the farmer, and owing
to the fact that they mature earlier
than in the North, our wheat crops
always command a greater price in
the markets than do those of other
sections. Texas wheat in st. Louis
market has for years been worth
ten cents per bushel more than
Minnesota wheat. This is prob
ably due in a large measure TO
the extraordinary dryness of the
ground. The average yield of wheat
i'll Texas is from twenty to forty
bushels per acre, and the average
yield of corn is from twenty to eigh-
ty bushels per acre. Upon the bot
tom lands on the BraZos river haye
seen 100 bushels of corn gathered
| from one mere of ground. ------
The 81 stems of cultivation prac-
ticed by Northern farmers will, with
half of the labor expended in Indi-
ana or Ohio, produce double the re-
suits in Texas. We have what North
ern people call scarcity of timber
but we have no need of timber.
New railroads, which are reaching
west and northwest of Texas, are
developing large coal mines, and
others are already developed upon
the northern boundary of the state
in the Indian Territory. Near my
own home at Marshall there is a
mountain of ore which, if brought
by railroads in connection with coal,
would yield sufficient amount of
ore to supply the demands of the
United States for the next hundred
years. An iron furnace was estab-
lished there some years ago, and in
connection with it a foundry for
making plowshares, agricultural i'm
plements and stoves, and expert
enced iron men say that the ore,
when reduced to a working condi-
ton, is superior to either that of the
Iron Mountain or Lake Superior re-
gion."
"How are taxes in Texasp
estate taxes are fifty cents on the
hundred dollars, with a prospect of
their being decreased"
as the state in dept?"
-" Yes, little. 1t is nominal, COM
pared with her ability to pay"
What is the value of your school
lands ?"
Cover S100.0O0OO0. If the school
fund we have was utilized in the aid
of compulsory system of educa-
ton, we could give every man, wo-
man and child in Texas college edu-
cation"
"Our people throughout the North
are apprehensive as to their person
al security if they should live in
Texas. Do you think, after the de-
cided expression, as you regard it,
of the people of the North upon that
subject, that in the future there will
be any greater guarantee given, by
the enforcement of the laws, that the
personal safety of men will be re-
spected and regardedE
personal safety is one thing, po-
litical safety is another. We have
the former, in the main, very secure
" established. You can enjoy the
latIar- one of the results or This
last victory"
"Where are 10 be found the class
of desperadoes and murderers OF
which we see SO many paragraphs in
the newspapers
"That has been largely exagger-
ated. We hang more men in Texas
than in all the other states in the
Union"