The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-25

manhood will be those ofthe mind and in.
teilect, and not such as are furnished by
the Colt aud Bowie, Give me that states
nanShip which encourages taxation for the
elevation OF the intelligence Of the race.
aud not such rs would waste the people $
hard-esrned money On criminals aud con-
Nlcts. The senator from Cooke, as well as
the gentlemen from Travis, has said that IL
/ IS shame that a stranger from Tennessee
should be allowed to come here and take
charge Of our conyictS-a shame that a
man nom distant state should have the
| temerlty TO bid for this lease, saving in one
I breath they object 10 the lease because il
WAS not advertised, and when gentleman
comes here Ia response TO that adyertis-
ment and bids for the lease, they cry
shame understand that It has always
been the policy of Texas to encour-
age ana invite capital. She
emigrant, come and make YOUR our
home here; TO the man of capi.
| tai, come and bring your money aud help
10 develop our resources, aud build UP our
industries. And while she has said ali this
and II is known that her bosom is broad
| and generous enough TO support and hold
them all, what will men of capital In other
states say when they read such ut,erances
as these, in the senate Of Texas? If this is
to be the policy, let us inscribe on the front
OF this capitol, and blszen it to the world
NO more capital from abroad No more
citizens in this broad ststel" Suppose this
had been said and made the policy few
years back, who would have constructed,
who would or could have constructed the
long line OF railroads, that gridirou this
state and bind all its parts together with
bonds OF steelY Who would or could have
quit our congresses, and factories, and
many other such enterprises, and who
would have reared upon yonder hill the
stately ediiice in which tho senator takes
no much pride' The people of this state
Will never tolerate such short.sighted and
| suicidal policy as this. aay to the gen
tlemen who have attempted to ridcule and
scon at the gentleman from Tennessee
that General Handy is in peace or war, in
honesty and integrity, the peer of any SEN
ator on this floor, II ismen like him, that
Texas wants, and invites, with capital and
enterprise, 10 develop our resources, and
to build up her manufacturing interests
| Under the guise of denouncing the system
and the law under which these penitentia.
ries were leased, senators have made
violent attacks on the lessees and
their management, But not name
a, time or place, when
given or attempted to be given. 1t is a bare
naked statement without any proof what
ever The people who read il might inn
agine that Cunningham Il Ellis were fiends
lncarnatc, and that the inspectors of con
vlcts were set OF hired and paid liars. If
gentlemen want TO deal with the matter
fairly, why make these wholesale state.
ments without giving such data as will en-.
able the gentlemen to defend themselves
against them, No man in this state who
knows Ed II. Cunningham and L. A. Ellis
will ever believe them capable of cruelty 10
| conylcts or to anything else. And for four
years during which they have had the
pententiary, no voice has ever been raised
against them, and none could be, and for
the first time IL Is uttered on this floor, and
no senator has ever tried to locate the place
or give the time of treatment or the name of
the party cruelty treated. The nearest
they have come to IL is to find the place In
north Texas which they call the BLACK
Calcutta Hole,' and they do not agree OK.
actly IN the species OF cruelty, tor one of
them says that one convict iroze to death In
that hole in December, and the other says
he sweated himself to death in the same
month Strange contrast Let us discard
these side issues and frivolous amendments
and come 10 the issue Us il is made, and
that is the ratification OF this lease as modi.
fed or resumption, this is the question be.
fore the senate. | take il for granted that
senators are honest ia thoir,,views, on what
ever side they stand. Let us emphasize onr
convictions on this measure by the recorded
ballot, for by that act, more than by what
we say, are we to stand or fall before the
country.
Give me the man that's always true,
Regardless Of reuown;
Who scorns TO flee the night
NO matter II tho world goes down.
have said that from 1919, the date when
the state prison was established that il
was run on state account up TO 1870, and
that the system was always Il failure Great.
ing large deficiencies which had to be coy.
cred by appropriations from the treasury.
That under the operation Of the state nc.
count system since that time, whenever it
has been tried a like result has followed
except about nine months under Governor
Hubnard's administration But notyith.
standing the good results that are claimed
TO have followed this management under
Governor Hubbard, he was anxious to ret
rid OF the pententiary and so leased IL Tor
Tour years toCunuingham Il Ellis, who have
made money, both tor themselves and for
the state. No senator has controyerted
these statements.
| think the experience of more than
twenty years is worth something, and Tor
one am opposed to entering on q new trial
ola once disastrous experience. ] do not
wait to make money out of the misfortune
OF crime for the state. | would not pour
money into an already plothoric treasury
II II is TO come out of the sweat and blood
OF oonvicts. 1--we can come out even on
this account, think We are doingwell, but
under this lease the state makes a clear
proht OF 1900 per annum.