The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22
oians on what Coke said is regard t,

cisms on what Coke said is regard tn
Senator B4ysrd. We 90 not know
wha, be mean guess he could ar
sTer the question II L Was referred 10
nlm, sad mske il as = suggestion that
be have the privilege Uf Iisius aa@ ex-
planning what he dad mean. Psrhap,
he would Ike 10 have second place
and don't think ne coulG ct it with
q Bsyard. A fatal mistake, il ne ID 'nks
s..
Touching the troubles in the Bipsisi
Church at Dallas the EramiaeT says:
Il The Buckner faction of the D Il as
Baptist Church had been fou7-ii.ths ot
the congregation, instead OF oDe-ffth.
that faction would have turned the
her out, and the Bucknclights, which
are now heterodox, would have been
orthodox, and the Link;tes, which are
now the church, would have been heri-
tics. Orthodoxy and heterodoxy,
in ecclesiastical matters, a-e inatters Of
msjarities.
The Examiner, once in while, has
rssson to reioiee over the news received
from the seat of government. Il says,
with supreme satisfacticnE
The State Treasurer Is advertising
for pension bonds Nos. Gi7 to 72S, in
cluslvel What does he want with
them9 To paw them off and put them
IN the fire. Tais is the year Of saliva
tion, and Texas, instead Of making new
bonds, is buying up the old on,s to
burn. That villsinous Sixteenth Leg
isiature!
Coke and Hubbard, as well as D :
Wis, have had much TO 90 in securing
respectable bonded indebtedness for
Texas, and yet the Examiner is guilty
of the following;
Texas started out with $40, 600, 900
cash with which to start IN the world.
She has run through al that vast sum
and is nearly $6, 600, 900 in debt. How
is that for financierirg2 II she DON'T
run behind this year il will be the first
time in her history, and-shs won't.
The STATESMAN has often commented
upon the repeal of the law requiring
the aale of lands for taxes TO be adver-
tised IN newspapers. The Wdtchman
gives the result of the working of the
present law, made in the interest of
lard sharks, in P4nula County. In
1877, when the Watchman published
the tax list, the amount OF delii quen-
cies was only S3l4.02. l. 1879 under
the rew law, the sm0unt was swclled
to 81, 949 90. In discussing this very
case tne Telephone lakes this view ::
''These figures seem s;aItliug, and
their sign ficance can only be account
ed for on one of two theories: first,
either the taxpayers of Pau1ls county
are getting wofully ''under the wealth
er," that they are delirquents in the
sum of nearly five thousand dollars,
as compared with only three hundred
dollars 1--WE use round sum } in 1877,
or this increase is due to the defective
methods and features of the new law,
which allows collector to "pos5 up"
q few notices, many times so badly
written or so easily def4ced that it
"'eN'Ne ~ O ACehJ IASA ~ lCoi luciI
warning, even if they are not torn
down by malicious hands, or hurled
away by wind or rain. The system
docs not appear as practical and
economlcsl as its Legislative trainers
claimed, and before another lesls-
lature meets, press and people
alike should powder we'll whether
the best interests of the State,
and especially the citiz n, do not
warrant either a return to the ad-
vertising system, or certainly mate
rial revision of the present rather lu-
dicrous and b1ngling plan of writing
out few notices and sticking them up
on trees at cross roads. The Watch
f R t itaTi Val that hEatrifktdReaa ftR a aty 1T b bs qRPs
delegation of land sharks; numbers of
good citizens never saw the ''posters"
and were in positive ignorance when
the sale took place. It was over and
their lands sold before they knew any
thing about it. AS a conso quence,
there is some lively indignation among
the people in Panola county over the
workings of the tax sal, s."