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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
American Trade With Mexico.

Mexican Financier.
This journal has already called the
attention of the American manufac-
turers and merchants to the necessity
of their adopting some energetic meas
ures for placing American goods and
manufactures prominently before
Mexican consumers, Unless this be
done promptly the tide will be turned
in favor OF others, who are now MAX
ing such efforts. An important step
in this direction has just been taken
by French gentleman in this city,
who, not long ago, was instrumental
in securing the very liberal conces-
sion granted by the government for
establishing the Mexican national
bank of this city. This enterprising
Frenchlnan has just purchased cen
trally-located building on the street
called Cinco de Mayo, where he will
open bazaar for the exhibition of
all kinds of French goods. One
might suppose from the extent
of patronage already enjoyed by
French importations into Mexico,
that these goods needed no further in
PRODUCTION to the public; but the gen.
tlemen in charge of this new move
ment are evidently under the impress
sion that the field has not yet been
covered, and hence this new enter
prise.
Another indication in the same di-
rection is in the measure lately adopt
ed by number of large cotton manu-
facturers in Mexico, who finding the
demand for such goods growing be-
yond all precedent, have determined to
establish their own line of steamers to
carry raw material from New Orleans
to Vera Cruz. If the Mexican owners
Of cotton mills find it to their advan-
tage to become their own carriers,
why should not American coasters
have fond it well to compete for such
carrying trade, since the conditions
were certainly more favorable for
them than for local merchants and
manufacturers? If French goods are
thought to need larger urging here in
spite of the enormous consumption
they have long enjoyed, why should
American merchants and manufac-
turers remain Indifferent to the only
means by which their goods can be-
come favorably known under a COM
petition growing stronger every day?
Their preconceived conviction that
the bulk of Mexican trade must neces-
sarily drift to the markets of the
United States may prove to be very
erroneous in view of the energetic
efforts of European competitors in
Mexico, the more so as, from combi-
nation Of various circumstances,
American goods by no means enjoy in
Mexico the confidence and advantages
to which their excellence and their
market conveniences entitle them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
Mrs. Langtry In BROOKLYN.

NEW YoRK.-Shortly before noon
Mrs. Langtry arrived at HubbePs no.
tel, in Haverly's Theater building,
Brooklyn, and took possession of the
suite of rooms which had been en-
gagged for her. Her maid was there
before her and had assisted in arrang-
ing the apartment, which looked pref
ty with new furniture and several
bouquets sent by her admirers to add
to the appearance of the suite. This
is charming" said Mrs. Langtry, as
she entered after luncheon. She re-
paired to the stage of the theater,
reaching it at the northeast corner of
the building. Her arrival caused lit
tie sensation in Brooklyn. and the at
tendance at the matinee was small,
while other theaters were compelled
to turn people away, Freddie Geb-
hardt was in the audience. After the
matinee Mrs. Langtry left by the front
entrance, where she joined Gebhardt.
and the couple entering the latter's
carriage, drove quickly away. 1t is
believed they took a ride through
Prospect park. At the evening per-
Torrance the theatre was by no means
filed. Gebhardt was again present,
and the Lily and Freddie had tete-a-
tete in HubbePs at the close of the
performance. The people at the hotel
state positively that Gebhardt is not a
guest there, though they admit he was
circulating around the establishment
all day to-day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
No Values Added,
kansas City Times.1


The best commentary on the nom
sense talked by Mr.. Keene and other
stock spectators, that the business of
the country could not be carried on
without specializing in futures, is the
fact that in one week, recently, 1907
100000 barrels of oil were sold for fu-
ture delivery, when in point of fact
there were but little more than one
fourth of that number of barrels of oil
in the United States. Such business
is almost all fictitious, as probably not
100000 barrels of oil changed hands.
BY the clearing house methods it ap-
pears as actual business, and so the de-
ception goes on and speculation is
king. BY all this amount of specula-
ton, or by any amount of it, no value
is added to anything, as a manufac-
turer adds value to the raw material;
nothing is produced, nothing added to
the wealth of the country, but real
values are unsettled and. fortunes are
lost which others get without chang
ing in the least the wealth of the coun-
fru
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
Personal.

Miss Lillian Pike, the only daughter
of Gen. Albert Pike, who has been so
much of an invalid for two years, is
able to appear once more among her
friends in Washington.
Count Fitz James, direct descend
ant of Charles II. and Mrs. Churchill,
is now one of the social lions of
Washington. A prominent figure in
the city every winter is Judge Ord,
who is descended from the same mon
arch and Nell Gwynne.
About the presidency Gen. w. T.
Sherman talks to Gath as follows:
"Now, about that, you see cannot be
fool enough to decline what is not
offered to me; but what do want to
turn from the prospect of rest and
peace, at least for period of years, to
the delusion of four years in an office
that is Just hell? That's what it is
it is hell. What did Gen. Harrison
get out of it? Nothing but a month
of misery. What did Gen. Taylor
get out of it? Twelve months of
misery. What did Grant get out of
it? Do want to resign this compe-
tence congress has bestowed on me
for four years of hell? What did
Hayes get out of the presidency?
What did Garfield get? Take them
all within your memory. Nothing
but worry, trouble, misunderstood
ing" If the General will not take
the place himself he has a brother,
John, who would take it if he could
get it; but the General, by the way, is
Bob Ingersoll's candidate, and iken-
ing the Office unto Hades does not
count
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
A Night In q Chinese City.

At set of sun life in Pekin as far as
the streets are concerned, ceases to
exist; doors are closed, shops shut, and
the inhabitants retire within their
houses. Not even the most important
thoroughfareS are Illuminated; at GER
tain corners, where the police have
their stations, miserable, dirty paper
lanterns are lit up, which shed no light
whatever. Every one who goes
abroad, whether on foot, sedanchair,
or by cart, must carry lantern. The
streets of the Imperial or Tartar cities
may be said to be entirely deserted; it
is in the Chinese city only that there
is anything going on at night. Each
city is shut off from the others at sun
down, and the gates are not again
opened under any circumstances until
daybreak. ] resided in the Tartar
city, and it was in the Chinese city
that wished to make my nocturnal
ramble, so that there was no remedy
but to make night of it. My COM
panions declined to accompany me, SO
l had reluctantly to undertake the ex-
cursion alone.
My guide hired cart for the whole
night, and we started from our hotel
at about half past six in the afternoon.
1t was necessary to set out thus early
fore it was locked. l had not yet
dined, so directed my interpreter to
conduct me to the best hotel in the
place, and gave him carte blanche to
order for me and himself the best din
ner procurable. l need scarcely add
that an inn of European character
woo onfirolv ont of tho nnacfi0n. tho
only European hotel in the whole of
Pekin is that kept by NJ. Ward, in the
Tartar city, where was staying. l
knew this perfectly well, and made
up my mind for a Chinese repast,
served in Chinese fashion. lit was in
the narrow courtyard, then, of thor
oughly native rest house that the cart
stopped. My conductor, most ex-
cellent and thoughtful fellow, had
taken the precaution of bringing my
travelling rugs, which, if useful to
alleviate the bruises caused by the
jolting of the cart, were now equally
so to obviate the hardness of the brick
couch in the rest house. He spread
them on the kang, and was
not very sorry to lay me down
and take short repose after a
long ride. With a book and CT
gar whiled away the time until my
dinner should be ready. In about
an hour it was served, and copious
enough it was in its way: fish, chicken,
beeche de mer "a species
of edible sea weed, brought, / believe, |
from Japan, of which the Chinese are
exceedingly fondl all in separate |
dishes, or rather small basins, with
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A law suit between two express
companies will test, in Boston, the
constitutionality of the Massachusetts
statute prohibiting freight discrimina-
ton among common carriers. The
American company refused to deliver
for the Erie and New England a par
eel addressed to man in Vermont.
The question to be decided is whether
the former is liable to fine of $500.
The defense will be that the state has
no right to dictate the terms on which
express parcels shall be delivered in
other territory than its own.
Widely separate religions have
touched each other in Philadelphia. A
Baptist clergyman preached in a
synagogue. The rabbi, in introducing
him to the congregation, said that by
the christians acceptance of the invi-
tation to address Jews there was no
surrendering of opinion and no COM
promise of belief on either side. ave
agree to disagree on certain points,"
he said, "but there are many more on
which we agree to agree for all time to
come, and chief among these is our
love of country and humanity"
The Australasian public debt is
81 100000, the white population
about 100000, and these colonies are
continuing to borrow on the score of
making reproductive works and de
veloping the country. The London
Economist believes that these col
onies are, "taken as a whole, not only
solvent, but increasingly prosperous !"
but, assuming a succession of bad
seasons, such as England has had of
late years, this enormous debt must
surely be felt as a frightful burden,
even if the interest could be paid
which many doubt.
1t is believed that the enormous
sale of lager has considerably crippled
the sale of Bass ale in this country,
while the latter has also most potent
antagonist in what has been one of
its prime places of demand-British
India-not merely because light wines
have come so much into vogue there,
but from the rise of native breweries
and the growing taste for German
lager. The Calcutta collector of Gus
toms says that the importation of
Pilsner, which is the most popular,
has grown from 1850 gallons in 1879
80, to 81, 795 last year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
IMPERIAL BLIGHT.


Austrians have lately enjoyed a fete
in honorof the foundation of the house
of Hapsburg. The Hapsburgs were
long ago rather obscure counts of
switzerland, who in opposing the
Slavs acquired j foothold on the Dan
ube, and thus began the growth of
the Austrian empire. this foothold
being known as the dukedom of Aus
tria. BY judicious marriages the en-
pire was created. The empire reached
its grandest position among the
nations of Europe under Maria
Therese, and Napoleon gave
it the first shock that started it down
the descending hill of fame Francis
1. was ruined by the French invasion
and Austria paid for peace by parting
with large part of its territory, and
over three millions of inhabitants
The Hepsburgs narrowly escaped
loosing the empire in 1s4s. and in 1859
Napoleon and Victor Emanuel hum,
bled Austria at Magenta. In 1866
Prussia, in the Schleswig- Holstein af-
fair. gained advantages over Austria
that robbed it still more of its once
wariike resutatj >apd now it is
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
PROF. BALDwIN's PAGEANT.

The Houston Post-bless its dear
non-pedagogical soul-tumbles to
Prof. Baldwin's brilliant proposition
to establish a school system, whose
official army would lay in the
shade all memory of the radical
thing, created here under Gov. Davis.
If Prof. Baldwin's glittering scheme
could only be inaugurated, hundreds
of pedagogues all over the state
would lay aside the ferrule and go on a
wild and desperate canvass after soft
places with big salaries taken from
the children's fund. How the hustings
would ring with oratory, asking the
the people to lift these teachers up out
of the drudgery of school-rooms into
school satrapies, where one-man die
tum would be as supreme as the GER
tainty of Texas paying the satraps'
checks upon its treasury. Since there
is nobody on the Post who would be
ambitious to marshal this grand edu-
cational pageant, it might be pre-
sumed that Professor Baldwin would
have to ride at the head of the col
umn. directing the sub,marshals of the
endless and dazzling train. The people
would have nothing to do but to
pay and admire. We might name,
besides the grand marshal, some of the
subordinates, second only in size
OF epaulets and spurs, but will leave
it to the Post to make out the
dazzling list. One grand state super
intendent, with offices and parapher-
MALTA and clerksl Think of him in all
his grandeur, as he would look des-
cendingly upon thirty-one district
deputies and hundreds of county and
municipal chieftainsl Would it
not be a show worth look
ing at. The people would gaze
on all this grandeur in admiration,
and would run their hands deep down
into the very bottom of their pockets,
eager to drop more and more into the
public treasury. to make the pageant
more grand, more beautiful. No
doubt Professor Baldwin will
come over to Austin and direct
Legislators how they should do
it. The inspiration for something so
grand is above the caliber of ordinary
mortals, such as Texas lawgivers, and
the professors presence will be abso
lutely necessary as teacher. The
STATESMAN commends him to their
respectful consideration.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
Coming Home to Roost.

Waco Examiner.
We believe the university regents
have agreed to pay the prospective
law prof essor $1,000 per annum. 1t is
not large sum, as some salaries go,
but it may suggest a serious train of
thought to DR.. Roberts, if he is dis
posed to be consistent. The judges of
the high courts of Texas receive
only $500 per annum; a district
judge is glad to get $500 year;
the state treasurer, with millions
of dollars in his keeping, wor-
ries along on $1,000 per annum;
while prosecuting attorney 1--WE
quote Gov. Roberts seriatim) is only
too happy if he clears $500 a year.
Doctor Roberts is right; state officials,
judges, ETC., are not sufficiently remu-
nerated. But will Doctor Roberts
suggest to the university regents that
the salaries of the Texas university
professors be diminished? He has
stated that schools of medicine, di-
vinity and law are turning out an
nually hundreds of useless members
of society,"" Why pay them high
salaries for thus plaguing society? 1t
is a poser that DIR. Roberts will not
explain The Examiner is in favor of
the state paying the law professor
every dollar of his $4,000 salary-if he
is worth anything at all he is worth
that much-but next time DR.. Roberts
speaks on salaries, he will, perhaps, be
more discreet. He is not yet too old
to learn that there are times when
silence is golden.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
The World MOves.-Skill and Sci
ence triumphant.

Our reporter relates the following remarka-
BILE experience OF one OF our most reliable and
substantial merchants, Deacon Stephen G.
Mason. Mr.. Mason says that from 1869 to
1880 he suffered terribly from frequent very
severe attacks Of Infammatory rheumatism.
The last attack In the winter OF 70 and 80 was
so severe as to render him unable to take a
step in four months. His physicians thought
that one side of him was paralyzed, and both
knees became so stiff that he could not bend
them. The doctors pronounced his case incur
able, leaving him In a terrible condition. He
was then induced to try Hunts Remedy, by o
medical friend who told him that his whole
sickness and trouble arose from kidney dis
ease, and convinced Mr.. Mason that such was
the case, and after taking il six weeks was en-
tirely cured, and is now In such excellent phys
ical condition that neither damp weather nor
wet feet affect him disagreeably. Mr.. Mason
says that his cure is complete, as 1t is more
than two years since he has had the disease.
81 attribute my most remarkable cure solely to
Hunts Remedy. the infallible Kidney and
Liver Medicine" says Mr.. Mason.-Proyi-
dence Evening Press.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11


THOSE who want to enjoy a witty
criticism on the governments man
ner OF treating Poor Lo, should not
fail to read Bill Nye's "a Sioux Bill
of Fare" 1t reminds us that Senator
Logan has one time, at least, devoted
himself to correcting an evil. 1t is
said that he travelled around last sum-
mer and found Indian schCol-houses
located twelve miles from any lndi-
ans; government farms for Indians
where the cultivation is fiction; bar
rels of sugar for the Indians with
great stones in the center to make
weight; hosts of lazy Indians fed by
the government and kept in idleness.
These people, 261, 600 in number, ex-
elusive of the Alaska Indians, have
600 acres of land head for every
man, woman and child among them.
Logan proposes that the Indians
should all be required to work; that
their firearms should be taken from
them; their lands divided and
cattle given them with which
to start stock farms. Those who
wish, he thinks, should be placed
in the army. The first step, in our
opinion, should be the transfer of the
Indian bureau to the war department.
This would place the Indians, now
under agents, under wholesome disci-
pline, and would insure the honest de-
livery of supplies. The Indians who
prefer farming or stock raising should
be gathered on two reservations, and
those who prefer the army should be
enlisted, as the British Indian govern
ment enlistS and drills the natives of
India
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11

THE Atlanta Constitution says:
ave have no doubt in our own minds
that this will be the ultimate solution
of the transportation problem, for
when the people OF other states realize
how beneficiary the Georgia law has
worked-relieving the people without
injuring the railroads, and its opera
lions being accompanied by the most
remarkable period of railway develop
ment ever known in this state
they will not hesitate to profit
by the example. However di-
V erse the commercial interests of the
states may be, they all have an equal
interest in the question Of state regu-
lation of railroad rates, and this equal
interest is vital one. The ratio of
reduction that has relieved the people
of Georgia from unnecessary taxation
and unjust determinations, would
prove equally effectual in California,
in Illinois or New York; so that the
natural-we will not say the inevita-
ble-result of the establishment of
boards of commission in all the states
would be the solution of the problem
of Interstate transportation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11

THERE appears TO be no doubt of
the determination of the French gov
eminent to take full advantage of De
Brazza's claims in its behalf in the
Congo region. A mission is to be sent
out under the auspices of the minis
tries Of foreign affairs and public in
struction. The latter department is
connected with the project to give
It a ciyilizing character. A num-
Der of trading stations will proba-
bly, be instituted with regular
lines Of communication. The adj
ministration asks the chamber for a
credit of $4,000 francs in behalf of
the enterprise. Meanwhile Stanley,
to whom in poetic justice the leader
ship in opening up the country to the
civilized world belongs, is compelled
to see his Belgian company virtually
squelched. Belgium viii scarcely care
to enter into serious trouble with so
powerful a nation as France, about
African matters.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11

A STORY is told that Gambetta Ie-
ceived the wound from which he died
from a woman. Anxious to get up a
political salon, NJ. Gambetta, by advice
Of his friends, bethought him Of mar
rage. A proper person was found
the daughter of senator. a widow,
titled, and with fortune of 100000
francs. All was arranged and the
union was about to be officially an
nounced, when it got to the ears of
his sons mother, who Immediately
drove out, and, after a stormy inter
view, in which he refused to break off
with his betrothed, sheshot him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11

THE Radical papers are abusing
Judge Bond for his recent decision
concerning United States deputy mar
shals. He held that they must stay
outside the polling room occupied by
judges of election or supervisors of
registration until the supervisors call
them in. The judges decision set
forth the meaning of the statute as he
found it. 1t was his duty to expound,
not to make law. The stalwarts of
the party in power for the time being
may hope to perpetuate its tenure of
the offices by corrupting the fountain
of justice and securing, under penalty
of INSCRIPTIONS vituperation, code
of bench-made law in its own interest
but the judiciary does not altogether
belong to the stalwarts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11


The most notable result of the OBJ
servation of the transit of Venus so
far recorded is the spectroscopic de
monstration of Prof. Young, of
Princeton, that there is water on the
planet. This was detected by the rays
Of the sun which shone through its
atmosphere. The inference from this
+ that Venus is possibly or even prob
ably Inhabited by living beings, an
idea which opens vast field
<4 speculation. one, however,
Ii She line of most rea-
sonable> philosophy-that which
holds that all these numberless
spheres in all this unlimited universe
were created for living beings. There
/, can be no doubt that all these lights
bat bedeck the heavens are but re-
'ections of orbs peopled b. myriads
'{ beings, far more numberless than
he sands Of earth. A philosophy.
surprising that these unnumberable
orbits are unanimated. is as narrow
's the world is Insignificant in the
rand total OF an incomprehensible
Universe
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
Gle Said Damn It.o

A Cincinnati dispatch says: In the
district court to-day the suit of A. II.
Pugh against the telephone company
for damages for cutting off his COM
municatiOn was decided. The court
below had decided that the defendant
was justified, because Pugh used pro-
fame language through the telephone.
The district court affirmed the judy
ment by majority opinion, two
judges holding the proof showed Pugh
had used the word damn" and that
such language was profane and vul-
gar, against which the inventor and
the public had right to be protected.
The third judge dissented mainly on
the ground that proper notice had not
been given to Pugh, but said the word
damn was a violent adjective, not
profane by any law.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11

Gov. BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, it
Is claimed, has pardoned fifteen hun
dred criminals and remitted fines
amounting to 100000. The charge
is also made that he evaded investiga-
tion by the last legislature, and finally
caused the record of an investigation
to be destroyed or hid away. We do
not know much about Gov. Black
burn, but there is a man of the same
nameup about Washington who it be
WELT watch.