The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-17
rHE ..YARn-rkA" TREATMENT.

THE sYARR-TEAn TREATMENT.
After sill, the labored article OF the
Galveston Ne,es, upon which we have
already commented, and which was
intended 20 be particularly offensive to
Governor Roberts and his supporters,
offers similie, which may be readily
adopted by those to whom it was ex-
pected it would be especially distaste-
ful. 1t would have people believe that
the body polite, during the last eighteen
months, has been physicked with '.ysrb-
tea" until it has been brought to the
verge of dissolution. To let the Netcs
decide the matter now, forgetting its
former record on some of the living
questions, as by sort ofcoroner's YER
oict, we would hsYe to conclude that
nothing has been done which is at all
right; that under the "yarb-tes" treat
ment the states health has de-
clined. 1t might be labor spent
at this time to look a little in.
TO the former state of the patient
before this administration Of "Ysrb
tes" Then it was dragging along, ss
it had been from the earliest days of
tue government, no one and nothing
being held particularly responsible, with
surely recurring annual deficiencies.
The obligations due for wages and all
manner of services rendered were be-
ing hawked about by brokers and bank
e-s and curbstone spectators in Austin
aud elsewhere, q sort of recognized
article of reckless traffic, discounted
like the paper of bankrupt. Poorly
paid and hsrd-worked judges and
other officers of the state received for
their services less than the nominal
amount of their salaries. No one had
the fsintest hope of collecting his
wages directly from the state himself,
for when it would pay was an obstruse
problem. No money to speak of was
to be found in the treasury, and its
name was almost a misnomer. Cover
nor Roberts found it dragging 8 def
cheney of about $40O, 600. He found
it like borrower OF doubtful credit,
paying ten per cent. interest on large
amount of its Indebtedness, held
mainly by the money lenders of the
North, money collected from the
people as revenue was often held
back from the treasury, to be used in
speculation, and the defalcation Of
revenue officers by precedent,
had become almost right, and at the
worst but little more than mere irreg-
ularity. The public domain, too, was
in effect held alone for donation to
railroads. These are some, but not all
the ailments that made very sick pa
tient of the state before the ''yarb tea
treatment" began, under which the
health of the patient has been so much
improved. The above mentioned de-
ficiency has been paid off without SELL
ing bonds with which to do it. The
ten per cent. bonds haYe been funded
into five per cent. bonds, and any man
with whom the state contracts debt
gets his claim. There IS no hawking
or peddllng or speculsting In state Pa
per to the disgrace of the government.
The asylums and other institutions and
branches of the service requiring sup
plies can procure them at comparative
saving of twenty-five per cent. because
the seller of provisions knows that be
will be paid the cash. The revenue
comes to the treasury as fast as it is COL
lected. Defslcstions. ON account of"yarb
tea" treatment, are almost unheard of,
and for any considerable amount, they
are utterly impossible. The states
credit Is so good that its securities are
not in. the market. The public schools
on less money are maintained for ss
long time as during the preceding ad-
mlnistrations, and more children are be-
ing taught In them than ever before.
Normal sch ools haYe been founded and
organized and put into most successful
operation, thus making possible lit
eral fulfillment of the commands of the
constitution, the maintenance of an
efficient system of public schools.
The judiciary has been increased, in
obedience to the necessities of the
growing state, so that there may be res-
sonably entertained the hope that, be-
fore long. in the language of Magma
Charts, just'cs will be administered
promptly, and without delay; freely,
and without sale completely, and with
out denial" Eleven million acres of
the pubic domain hsYe been set
apart for the payment of the pub
lie debt and the support of free
schools. This, and more, has been
done under the 'yarb-tes" treatment,
without any increase of the burden of
taxation, leaving in the treasury cash
balance of about 500, 900. The "syarb-
tea" doctor, however, has failed to sub
scribe largely to the eclectic edition of
the NeacS in the interest of immigration,
because he is too poor TO furnish the
money himself from his own pockets; !;
and the constitutional convention and
the Legislature absolutely forgot to
make appropriation for the important
distribution. It is also true that he
did not recommend to the legislature
to donate county or two under long
ago abandoned System of immigration,
for the very sufficient, if not good,
reason that the constitution forbids it.
The state should take little more of
DR.. Roberts ''yarb-tes. It promises
to restore it to most perfect health.
The Telegram says the assertion Of