The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-05
md the margins for stealing.

and the margins for stealing. If
the credit side goes far enough
beyond the debtor to create
sufficient margin they go in for place.
If, on the other hand, expenditure is
likely to overlap income, the ambi-
tious aspirant DEVELOPS most unac-
countable self-abnegaiton, or has bus
mess of such Importance that it is i'm
possible for him to serve his constieu-
ency or oblige ''his friends" 1t is too
bad, but we did not create the condi-
lions. We only speak Of them as they
exist, not as we would have them. 1t
reveals state of affairs which, be-
sides being extremely uncomplimen-
tary, is very sinister and
threatening. No government with
republican forms can long sus-
tain itself when the people, themselves
the source Of all power, become cor
rupt, luxurious and enervated.
We are having campaign here in
Texas now coming rapidly on, and
the broad indications are that cor
rupting influences are deity at work
in forming and crystalizing political
sentiment. The most popular way to
: do that in this state is in asking for
: place for friends. The instances are
rare where the money goes direct to
the voters, so much a head, as it does
in Colorado and other western states
: Here it takes the form OF
l friendly recognition and petty places
in the public service. Very
l soon with this sort of active
retrogression we will be going into
the public places to buy and sell vote
:. as they do cattle and horses in Ken
:, lucky town on the first Monday il
each month. What can we promis
e ourselves for the purity of govern
ment which is controlled by men VIII
). act upon no higher motive, who NOV
g upon plane as low as this2 In tn
u days of Hayne, Calhoun, Troupe
u Crawford and the race of statesme
70 and patriots they typifiy, such col
10 ruption was unknown, undreamed O.
y Is it not, then, fair inference tina
y were our our leaders and public me
: clean in this respect our votin
y masses would not have the marke
= they do, for the franchise and the III
=, seemingly vote traffic would cease s
. once. Another suggestion grows OF
NJ of this, and that is, that corrective
# must be applied to the leaders frs
ar and the people themselves will 500
IS come out of the Alre.
10 Turn loose a half-dozen politics
or Majors Penn. Let them run amuC
De at corruption and its votaries, as Pen
~ does at SIN and its ministers. 1t migl
at take some time to effect much {
1t make much Roadway in reform T
or vival in this way, but it can be don
O. and the imminency of the necessit
is such that it ought to be unde
as taken at once, without even the delf
lg of moment. We need the refor1
It. we need the purity in our public Ii
ne which will come from the banishmel
be of money and its consequent unclea
of illness, from the politics of the natio
ed Any man In Texas who leads off
lie such move as this, will be grand
er sustained by the people, and he CT
RI win, and wear to his latest moment
by life their enthusiastic confidence ar
IS favor. Money rules in camp, in t
is forum, in the bowers of love; but
pc us have one inner arcana from whic
a it is ANONYMOUSLY excluded, and
Oh that be the public service of the Peep