The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-12
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
FOURTH OF JULY.

/ oLG W udNO OCCA1 IA OO
off in grandiloquent discharges of
echoing and reverberating thunders OF
patriotism from the hospitable board
of the governors mansion. Hence
this report of what could have been
said:
Gov. Ireland - Let me assure you,
upon the authority of Lord Bacon,
my distinguished citizens and subor-
dinates of the government in this I'M
common commonwealth of the great
OF one age are but the barbarians of
another. Time changes anomaly into
system and injury into right, exam
pie begets custom, custom ripens into
law, and the doubtful precedents of
one generation become the funda-
mental maxim of another. Let lis
then exercise good habits that we
may have good laws.
Applause and cries 1--WE will we
will P'1
Attorney General Templeton = AL
low me, as the law officer of the state,
to assure your eXcellency, as you are
doubtless well aware by experience,
that this thing of government, and
especially Democratic government, is
very difficult thing. You can't
down the fact that the people are
sovereign. Vox populi, voX del is
the legal expression of all sovereignty
in republic. Let us have good laws,
then, properly interpreted and duly
enforced, in order to bring the people
back to the exercise of good habits.
Cries, Certainly, certainly. That's
the idea"
Capt. Baines-I have not much to
say, gentlemen, but | am confident L
indulge in no dithyramb of mistaken
conceptions when assure you that as
officials we must guard well our con-
duct and not undertake to bend the
straight rules of law to our own
crooked wills. He who imagineS that
the pathway of political preferment
is Strewn only with flowers will soon
er or later find that he has but lived
in the frigidity of the coolest abstrac-
ton. We must get back to the prim-
tive piety of the fathers of the re
public. [Cries of Bravo! bravo!
Well saidp'
Treasurer Lubbock-AlloW, me my
coadjutors, to call your attention to
something which am sure none of
you will have the hardihood to deny
that idle money, is of all the idle
things in this world, the idleSt, be-
cause, utilized, it is the most powerful
of all material agencies. So when
idle, | repeat, it is the idlest. Even
Cr9sus would not have locked up
thrC millions of dollars in his Golfers
us we have done in the treasury
vaults of Texas. But what shall be
done with it is question which can
not be answered, unfortunately, with
out an extra session of the legisla-
ture; and even the legislature might
play havoc with it. Better let it
alone, perhaps. till a regular session,
and let the legislature"
Cries from outside the mansion,
Loan it to the counties and remit
taxation of the peopleT
Capt. Walsh-In my opinion, gen.
tlemen, we are to be congratulate
ed upon the fact that we have not
only an overlooking treasury, but an
eminent q had almost said pre-emi-
nent) public domain, including 2,009,-
600 of acres as play ground for one of
the grandest universities, in the
course OF time, that the world e.
saw. Just think of all this, an leep
thinking about it. till we geT the
whole country to thinking about it,
and millions of hardy. honest eM-
grants from every quarter of the
landL shall flock here to tickle the
Soif0f Texas all over it's wide praiTies
into glorious fruition. Applause,
and cries of "Hurrah for TeXaspl
Col. Swain, the comptroller, who
was the last to speak, said The state
had further need, perhaps, to profit
by the uses OF adversely. Prosperity
might, if it had not already given
such spring to our actions as a peo-
pie, as to enervate our energies as a
government and. on the other hand,
misfortunes in the management OF
the political machinery might con-
tract so severely as to break our en-
ergies. Taxation should be graded
to the measure of our necessities, and
unnecessary burdens upon the tOiling
millions of the country should be
studiously avoided. He rejoiced that
there were no TalleyrandS in Ameri-
Gu to pound the people by thousands
in the mortar of oppression, or Jeng
his Khans to thrust the plowshare
redistribution into the soil of Texas.
In conclusion, he called upon the
boys outside
''To celebrate this great event,
Bring all the guns of government,
Ram down each charge, fill up the vent,
Touch 'em off, and let 'em went!'
OF course there was tremendous APP
plause all round, followed by a lively
stampede of the Toys for the afore-
said guns.
Sic transit gloria of the Fourth of
July.
Col. Brewster, it is proper to add,
listened in wonder admiration, and
Gen. King had nothing to say, being
far away in the Sacramento noun
tains.