San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08

revolver. Out In the country ~ 10 WI
ferent and necessary. We are untort-
innate in being a border state. The
Mexicans, COWBOYS and renegades are
our criminals. Texas is not only a
new but avery large state, and seems 70
be the hiding place Of evil doors. II
a boy in the East or North gets wild
and commits q crime, he skips to the
West or Southwest, and Texas being
thinly settled, affords a good hiding
place. Our criminal class is largely
composed Of persons who were not
born in the state. There are rowing
desperadoes, whites, negroes, and Mex
leans, who prey upon the farmers and
herdsmen. They will not work, but go
about from place to place, stealing
whatever they can lay hands upon.
When they get hungry, they go to a
herd, shoot fat bullock, skin it, bury
the hide in the sand, and carry off the
meat. Is it to be wondered at that
when the owners of the cattle catch
them at it they take the law into their
own hands? II the thief thus shot is
a white man or a Mexican, nothing is
said about it but if he happens to be a
negro, it is telegraphed North as
Southern outrage"
"How are the colored people treated
by the whites, as ruler"
"There is but little race distinction
much less in the South than in the
North, if ON rightly informed. Texas,
as you are well aware, is solid Demo-
cratic state, but we have colored men
in offices of trust and responsibility.
They are in both branches OF Cur state
legislature, and are members of import
ant committees, just the same as the
white members. In fact, colored
member, as black as the ace of spades,
of the senate is one of the most in
fuential members of that body. One
thing not generally understood at the
North is certain. The white ct the
South do not regret the results Of the
war, so far as the negroes are concerned.
The emancipation of the whites is as
complete as the emancipation of the
blacks. The more enlightened
colored men already realize that
their interests and ours are identical,
DuC bll0 lSuOIduU BULL uelluualh I'LL dhpaS
onistic attitude"
"What are you doing in the way of
education?"
ave are advancing rapidly. We
have devoted 100000 acres of land
to educational purposes. About one
quarter of that was sold at from fifty
cents to 81 per acre, but the last legis-
lature raised the price to $3.50, so that
we shall realize $50,0O0,00O from its
sale. This is to be permanent school
fund. of which only the interest can be
used. We lack for teachers, but we
now have free normal school at Hunt
svelle-free tuition and free board-in
which to educate educators. It has
now 100 pupils"
GLOW about your agricultural resour-
ces?"
"Cotton is the staple crop. In the
western and northern portions of the
state excellent wheat is grown. AS a
grazing state, Texas has no superior.
Our seasons appear to be changing.
Our winters are colder, and we have
more rain than formerly. Our treeless
plains are growing up to the mesquite
tree, and where that grows other trees
will grow. We have recently discov-
cred beds of cement, and quarries of
granite and marble"
"How advanced is your season at the
present timer"
SIN the southern part of the state
they are harvesting. We had been
eating new potatoes, green peas and
snap beans, grown in my garden, for
some time before I came away. Our
are very hot, but the hottest
three days I ever experienced was in
the North"
"Where was that?"
cat Gettysburg"