The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01

when they will be developed.
Waxahachie Mirror.
The editor of the Waco Examiner de-
mics that he expects to be secretary of
state if Gen. Ross is made governor.
IT SEEMS THEY ALL THINK ALIKE.
If the men who are leading these labor
instructions were at work earning an
honest living we would hear less of this
hue and cry about labor and capital.
These kid-gloved organizers of the labor
lodges are curse to the country at large;
and to no class are they greater draw
back than to the really Woodworking men
they are dipping and deceiving with their
oily tongues.
The Dallas Times gives the following
amusing account of the voracity of goats
A gentleman near Dallas says last June a
year ago he stocked 500-acre field with
60 goats. His stock has increased to 700,
and they have eaten all the grass, bushes,
trash, fence rails, including even the bois
dare fence posts, and there is nothing but
the naked ground in the field, and the wire
from which the posts have been eaten, lying
on the ground around it. Potato bugs, army
worms and 17-year locusts and all the
plaques of Egypt combined, he says, could
not have made cleaner sweep. He wants
to sell his flock cheap for cash.
Brennan Banner
A farmers alliance was in course of
organization at Crockett, but since the
action of the North Texas alliance in en-
dorsing boycotts, strikes and general CO.
operation with the knights, the farmers
will operate under some other course.
The Galveston News makes the follow
ing pertinent query: Why are not freight
trains moved in TexasY Have the railroad
managers applied to the state authorities
for protection! Law can hardly be sus-
pended, because the people are still paying
taxes.
The following is clipped from Mon
terey, Mexico, letter to the Corpus Christi
Caller, and tells of the beauty of that
county: Tourists could have seen a
beautiful sight in our lovely city of flow
ers to-day, with roses in bloom and or
ange blossoms on the trees pertaining the
air with delicious odors, and the thermom-
eter at GO. The mountains outside the
city all along the chain of the Sierra Ma
Dire we're covered one-sixth of the way
J down from the top with the beautiful
snow, looking so white and pure that we
J longed to reach forth our hands and gath
J err ball to throw at our neighbors. To
, the eye one would think ii mile, or less,
J but we would in reality have to travel half
} day on good horse to reach the sum-
nit. SO pure is the air that you can
J scarcely form any idea of distance. Stand
ing on Randles hill, at the Hot Springs,
you can see across the valley to the Corral
| ko;, I;aka - cd to- x,,slaa
and you would think it an exaggeration II
you were told they were ten miles away
, Waco Day.
7 The knights of Labor have broken Out
. in a fresh place since Mr.. Hoxie refused
, to officially recognize Master Workman
Powderly. In the language of Brother
Sam Jones, it looks as if there was going
: to be hi to pay and no pitch hot
i There are clearly but two courses open tC
9 them One is to wage bitter and unrelent
: ing war to the death, and, like Sampson
A tear down the temple of social order t.
e overwhelm their enemies; the other is, t.
s confess defeat and return to their dut,
I on such honorable terms as will no dOub
s be offered to them. In connection will
Il the latter suggestion, it may be we'll to re
d mark that great many worse defeat
|, have been recorded in history. For ex
J. ample, twenty-five years ago the slave
@ holders of the south went to war on wha
It they called high principle, and spen
four years Fighting for the property W,
gained by honest toll" But at the Close
: of that time they laid down their arms
Q surrendered at discretion, and saw theil
|. property not only vanish but TRANSFORMED
s into men and brethren and invested will
s citizenship. Defeat is sometimes bless
: ing in disguise, too, as we of the soutl
know; and when any section or class ride
: a high horse too vigorously it is the ex
r perience of mankind that sober secont
S thought never comes until the rider il
t forced to get down and jog along the foo
] path way.
!. SWIFT JUSTICE.
Y Fort Worth Gazette
+ As Pennsylvania man was walking il
g shower with a raised umbrella, Lightning
!, struck the tip of the umbrella, and pass
s ing down the handle shocked him !,
death. The umbrella had probably beer
D taken from where another man left il
: Jove knows where to hit
LESSON IN POLITICAL. ECONOMY.
Houston Herald.
The higher the prices for labor tn
greater the consumption of all kinds o
I goods, and the better times generally
Every cent of advance in the wages o
. workingmen increases their ability II
= purchase and thereby add to the con
sumption, and, judging from the reports
: there is more of disposition now thai
formerly to advance wages to operative
!. in the east.
n THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.
Fort Worth Gazette.
h queer strike is going on in Missouri
r The farm hands of Pettis and Salin
g counties, who were getting $15 a mont
d and board, struck for $40. The deman
" was granted in some cases, and in other
g the strikers are still out. II the move
7. ment extends to Texas, how will tn
: Farmers Alliance act upon it? The men
IS bers of that order are mostly employing
y farmers; will they join in the support o
a strike to add 1873 per cent, to the es
o pense of raising their crops?
II WE ALL THINK ALIKE.
Dallas Times.
If the knights of Labor know of an
n one who is using their order for the bene
{, AZ of himself thew should get him ava