The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-03
TEXAS TIDINGS.

News sneers at the papers that refuse to
abuse Governor Ireland without reason,
and calls them ''meek and lowly." To be
meek and lowly is the quality of a Chris
tan, To be proud and arrogant is the
quality of the devil. It was pride and ar
rogance that hurled Lucifer from the bat
Elements of Heaven, headlong, down into
burning hell.
The sneers of the News have less effect
in this portion of the great moral vine
yard than those of any other leading daily
in the state.
Sam Jones may not have much religion,
but he manages to tell good many sto-
ries that are new to most people. Here is
one of his latest, as served up by the Hous
ton Herald:
In speaking of prohibition in Atlanta,
Sam Jones said "There was a married
couple with half dozen children and only
one bed. The whole family slept on that
bed and were so thick that one couldn't
turn over unless all did. So when one got
tired of sleeping on one side, he'd say
turn and over the whole family went.
They got so used to it that even if they
heard the word turn in their sleep they
would hustle over. One day the old man
was fishing on log bridge over the river.
The sun was hot and the fish wasn't bit
ing, and he fell asleep balanced on log.
One of the boys saw him and thought he
would try joke, and hallooed out, 'turnn
Over the old man went kerfop into the
water.
The Fort Worth Mail says:
An inexplicable condition of things has
existed in the South since the war; farmers
have been dependent on merchants for
everything. Common sense knows such
condition is unnatural, and if the farmers
half way comply with the principles of the
alliance the condition will be completely
reversed.
The STATESMAN knows nothing about
the principles of the alliance, but it does
know that SO long as the farmers of Texas
depend so much on the merchant for what
they want to consume they will always be
in debt. Instead of relying so much on
cotton, they have got to diversity their
that their ground will yield and put only
their surplus labor and capital into cotton
raising before they will become independ-
emit.
From the San Antonio Light:
AS sure indication of returning pros
perity it may be remarked that the farm
ers are pretty generally meeting the
mortgages on their property, and thus no
inconsiderable capital will soon be seeking
employment in extending either the agri-
cultural or manufacturing industries.
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paying large interests to Eastern capital
lists.
This meeting mortgages is pretty general
throughout the state. Now if, after hav-
ing lifted the mortgages, they will pros
per more than they have done, by raising
what they want to consume, their mort
cages will stay lifted. If not, then other
wise.
In speaking Of the News-Herald consol-
idation, the San Antonio Times says:
Consolidation lis the order of the day,
and ought to Re practiced mnch more
than it is, and W ould be, if all the men
were as sensibleIas the News and Herald
amnagers. The addition of the three gen
tlemen named, to the News staff, makes it
state.
The Times labors under a mistake.
Neither of the owners of the Herald go
on the News staff; neither are "the three
colonels'' in any way connected with the
News.
The San Antonio Express makes the
following significant remark:
The Galveston News failed to come out
Sunday last-that is, State Press failed to
appear.
That reminds the STATESMAN of a
remark made by one of the most
prominent men in the state, a citizen of
Austin, that for years he had taken the
Galveston Daily News inst to hear what
Estate Press" had to say.
The S. A. Express says:
On the heels of the great strike and the
great fire at Galveston, follow the insur
ance companies to take what is left. Even
the tax gatherer there will be left out in
the cold if he does not hump himself.
Galveston is certainly deserving of the
heartfelt sympathy of everybody.
Yes, the insurance companies say that
Galveston has got to make up their losses
there by paying additional insurance on
what is left. That is these companies can
stand all the insurance monies they can
receive, but they cannot stand the losses!
Then every insurance company which
raises its rates there had better be let
severely alone. There are plenty of other
insurance companies in the world
The Balance Wheel thus discriminates:
Uuncle Dan1 is game cock of the old
school. The Knights of Labor boycotted
but failed to intimidate the Age. Tho the
heavens fall the Age will go marching on,
says Uncle Dan1.
The Knights got the wrong SOW by the
ear when they pitched into the Age. For
years the citizens of Houston and the sur
rounding country took the Age, not be-
cause they wanted it, but for the love they
bore its editor, Uncle Daniel, and this
same love still continues, and there are not