The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04
TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS.
LOSING A SUBSCRIBER.

Sherman Courier: Some time
ago this Office lost the patronage of
a very desirable subscriber because
we would not devote a column of
our paper to the memory of a lie
ceased friend of the gentleman AT
the time we figured little on the
cost of the publication, and found
that il measured exactly 5000 ems.
the printers fee for setting which
amounted to exactly $3.50. The
paper covered by the column cost
us about sixty cents; the ink say
five centss aud allowing something
for press work, we estimated that
the outlay for the publication of an
obituary, which interested perhaps a
dozen neighbOrs, was to the office
about 1925. We have never felt
wholly independent over the loss of
the said subscriber until Boyd, of
the Paris North Team, came to us
with the following, which gives us
entire relief: "Some people think it
strange that the editor should
charge for printing obituary notices.
They evidently fail to consider that
it costs money to PRINT a paper. The
merchant charges for the shrouding,
the undertaken for the coffin, tae
doctor tor medicine, and the livery
man for the hearse, and all their
bills are paid without a murmur,
yet they expect an editor to buy
paper and type and presses and hire
printers and print obituaries, plac-
ing halo OF glory around the dead,
free of charge"
NAMING ITS PARENTAGE.
Dallas Times: The railroad man
in Texas deserves great credit for
his self-control in these times. To
suppress the laugh that has gathered
in his soul, and substitute for it a
moan of distress, requires an extra
ordinary command of ones self.
Yet the railroad man is equal 10 it.
He and his newspaper friends are
filling the land with their lamenta-
tions over the rudeness and cruelty
of the legislature in passing the
three cent per mile rail-
road bill. They declare the
burden imposed by it is more than
they can bear, and they call heaven
to witness that another ounce of it
will break the back of railroad
building i'll the state. Yet all this
time, under the cries of agnoy, there
is the hollOwness OF deception, and
the tears flowing from apparent mis-
cry, have in them just sparkle of
humor. The railroad man, after he
has been sorrowful before the world
during the day, retires to his room
at night and rolls and shrieks i'll the
ecstacy of laughter. He was the IA
ther of the three-ceuts-per mile bill.
THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE.
Houston Post: The committee
bill, a grandmOtherly sort of an ar
rangement, will probably pass, and
the state will have the pleasure of
paying $4,000 per annum to three
excellent gentlemen who will be de-
puted TO present at regular inter-
walls the assurances Ofthe states high
regard and consideration TO the
railroad kings. But after all, it may
be worth so much money 10 keep
the state from doing something
of a downright mischievous char
acter. No dOpbt the railroads
would be willing to double the sal
aries of the honorable commission
ers if they could be retained as a
permanency.
BETWEEN EARTH AND HEAVEN.
Houston Post: The Prairie View
school hangs yet like MahOmet's
coffin between earth and heaven.
Some would have it branch of the
Agricultural and Mechanical college,
and some separate and distinct
branch of the university itself If
the latter plan prevails popular