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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
CUT OFF INDIAN RATIONS.

1t is a mere sentiment, and nothing
else, that the Indians should be treated
better than any other human beings in
the United States. The Indians we're here
when English French and Spanish col
onies came over to possess the land, and
make it yield to the necessities of man:
and so were the wild beasts. The wild
beasts that we have been able to tame we
have used for domestic purposes, and have
no ga of leaving those we are unable to
tame, vast forests in which to roam and
feed. The untamed Indian is wild beast
that has no right to stand in the way
of civilization and block the car
of progress and the highest de-
velOpment of the land to the uses of
civilized man. The Indians that we have
been unable to tame have been allowed to
hold large sections of our most fertile soil,
and also to draw their rations from the
government, or, in point of fact, are fed
by the honest working and business men
of the country.
An economist has arrived at the conclu-
sion, from most ingenious calculation,
that the earnings of the able-bodied peo-
pie of the United States amounts to an
average of forty-five cents a day in the
three hundred and sixty-tve days of
the year. Out of this forty five
cents day, and after paying all
other taxes, federal, state and municipal,
each man in the United States has to pay
his proportion to feed and clothe 265OOO
Indians, because they were here when we
came, not that they owned the soil, for
ownership in soil must be acquired by the
cultivation Of it. The very first princi-
pie of presumption is fixedness, residence
a certain time and cultivation. Under
this rule the Indians that were here when
we came did not own an acre. After pay
ing for the support of the Indians now
here, and finding it, with other burdens.
hard to do, man desires to emigrate
with his family from a WORKOUT soil of
an old state to fresh soil. He is informed
that all the arabic land belonging to the
government has been taken up, except
that occupied by the Indians. In pros
pecting for land he is astonished to find
that very little of the arabic land occupied !
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
FLOW Err SHOW.


1t is pleasure even to read of the
magnificent and beautiful flower show
lately held in the Metropolitan opera
house in New York. 1t is said that So
100000 worth of flowers are sold annually
in America, showing the refined taste of
our female amateur and practical florists.
In the recent show in New York there
was beautiful display of primroses from
the country seat of the late Lord Bea-
consield, among them the famous hybrid
rose, exhibited for the first time last year
in London, called Her Majesty" In all
there were about $4,000 roses, $4,000 bull
bous plants and 10000 shrubs on exhibi-
ton. This must have been one of the
most delightful exhibitions, that, even by
comparing the great variety of enter
tainment in that metropolitan city, has
been enjoyed for years.
All of this pleasure is within the easy
reach of the citizens of Austin. There is
no place in the world where the rose is
more magnificent and beautiful in variety
than in Texas. This state is a natural
flower garden. Her vast plains stretch out
before the vision, like splendid carpet,
with every variety of color diversifying
the view, and while the eye is delighted
the senses are ravished with the most
InlI tn nIn In NrAh ,l.,
such soil all variety of flowers will attain
the highest perfection of beauty and fra
GRANGE. We might have right here in
Austin an annual flower exhibition that
will rival in variety and afford us as much
pleasure as that in New York did her citi-
zens. 1t is only necessary for the ladies
in the town and country who love flowers,
and we believe they all love flowers, to orga-
nize floral society and appoint day for
exhibition, in order that sach an e1hi-
bition may become annual.
The pleasure derived from such an ex-
hibition is not the only inducement.
The most delightful and pleasant
adornments of home consist in the
trailing vines, roses and honeysurkles
about the latticed work around the veran.
dahs, and shrubs and flowers in the yards.
Wherever house and yard thus adorned
catches the eye of the traveller, it re-
freshes him and reminds him that this is
home of taste and refinement. where the
graees of life are cultivated just as highly
as the flowers.
Such society would animate rivalry
that would make our homes SO beautiful
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
POLITICAL FANCIES.

THE BANJO AND THE POSSUM.
Go way, fiddle! folks is tired o hearin you
squawkin.
Keep silence fur 70 betters; don't 20 heah de ban
About de possum' tail: She's gwine to lecture,
ladies' listen,
About de ha'r what isn't dar, and why de ha Is
missin.
'Dars gwine to be a oberfOw," said Noah, Look
in solemn, ~,
For Noah TUX de Herald, and he read de ribber
column. .
And so he sot his hands to work a cIarin' timber
patches,
And lowed he gwine to build boat TO Deaf 'he
steamer Nachez
OF Noah KEEP nailin', chopin an sawin
And all de wicked neighbors KEEP laughin and a
But Noah didn't min EN-, KNOWN what was
gwine to happen,
An forty days and forty nights the rain it KEEP
drapin'.
Now Noah had done cotch lot Of every sort OF
beas es,
oh all de shows trabiln it beat EN- all to pieces
He had Morgan colt an seoral head o Jarsey
cattle,
An drove EN- all aboard the ark when he heard de
thunder rattle.
Den sech anoder fail OBJ rain. it come so awful
hebby
De rbber riz immejetly and busted troo de Lobby:
De people all WIS drOwnded out 'cept Noah an
de critters,
An men he hired to work de boat an one to mix
de bitters.
De ark she KEEP sailin an sailin an sailin'
De lion got his dander up an like to bust de palm
De sarpents Missed, de painters yelled, till what
wild all de fussin',
You c'u'dnt hardly heah de mate bossn' roun
an cussin'.
Now, Ham, de only Niger what was sailn' on de
packet,
Got lonesome in de barber shop an cudnt stan
de racket;
An SO fur to amuse hesef he steamed come wood
and bent 1t,
An so he had de banjo made, de first dat was in
vented.
lie wet de ledder, stretched it on, made screws, an
bridge, an apron,
An fitted In de proper neck; twas berry long an
taperin
lie took some tin an twisted him thlnbe for to
ring ii,
An den de mighty question riz how was he g~ine
to string it.
De possum had as fine tail as dis dat Is a
singin,
De hair 81 long 80 thi an strong, des fit for
banjo stringn';
Dat Niger showed EN- OF as short as washday din
ner graces,
An sorted of em by de size from little e's to bases
He strung her, tuned her, struck jig-'twas "Neb-
her mind de wedder,"
She sound like forty -lebben bands playin all to-
gedder.
Some went to pattin, some to dancin', Noah called
de fggers,
An Ham, be sot an knocked de tune, de happiest
OBJ niggers.
Now, since dat time, it's mighty strange, dars not
de slightest shown
Of any hair upon de poseutn's tail CROWN;
An cilrup, too, de nggers ways, his People nebber
lost 'em,
For where you find de niger dars de banjo an de
pOssum.
Exchange.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01

A LARGE number of paupers have been
shipped back to Hamburg, and Ireland,
from Castle Garden, by the superintend-
ent of the outside poor of New York, the
cost of their transportation falling upon
the steamship companies that brought
them in. The authorities at Castle Gar
den have received information of further
consignments of paupers of men. women,
and children, now en- route, all of whom
will be sent back. Our cousins across the
water seem to think this country is a good
dumping ground, relieving their poor
houses of the old and worthless. The
system of pauper relief is quite different
in England, and in this country. Our
working classes accumulate sufficient dur
ing health and youth to support them in
their old age, and it is only the particu-
larry unfortunate that seek home in the
poor-house in broken health, or old age.
their children a higher place in occupa.
ton and social position than they have
had, and they generally succeed but the
English laborer never thinks of laying up
anything, or of elevating his children in
the social scale. He expects them to live
like he does on bare pittance- and
claim the right as he does in old age to be
supported by his parish. This is quite
marked difference between the English
and American laborer, and as they do not,
in England, pay laborers enough to lay up
for old age, it is their public duty TO sup
port them in their unions" and not dump
them out on us.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01

that they would refine the inmates. A
lover of flowers must have analogous
mental and moral traits, even more beau
tiful than the roses aud honeysuckles that
trail along expensive lattice-work or
upon the logs and rough boards of the
most primitive log cabin of the farmer.
We have the advantage of season, eli
mate and soil over the horticulturists and
the florists of New York and England, and,
with comparatively no expense or labor,
we can successfully rival either of these
localities in the cultivation of flowers.
We suggest to the ladies of Austin, and
also to the ladies of Travis county, to
organize society to this end, and we
venture to predict that in less than five
years the Austin rose" and Travis county
orchid" will rival the famous hybrid raised
by Lord Beaconsfeld and called Her
Majesty"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01

GEN. ROGER A. Pryor, so famous in
Virginia in ANTE bellum" times, as a
newspaper editor, orator and duellist, and
who, since the war, has succeeded in build
ing up a large practice at law in New
York, has been employed to defend Alder
man Jaehne, charged with bribery in ac-
cepting money as an alderman to vote
for the franchises granted by that body
TO the elevated railway on Broadway.
Gen. Pryor and Mr.. Newcombe, of counsel
for Jaehne, denounced the conduct of
Jaehne's former bondsman, O'Donnel in
giving him up. Jaehne, as will be re
membered, gave another bond for $685.
600.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
TARIFF TINKERING.

We have too much tinkeging with the
tariff in congress. What we need is thor
ough reform of the whole tariff. We
print this morning a very interesting arti-
Gle from an eastern exchange upon the un-
selfish position taken by the Texas dele
CATION on the tariff on wool. The Ken
lucky democrats are not as liberal on
| hemp as Texas is on wool. This is an IL
lustration of the difficulty to reconcile all
the conflicting interests of tariff reform
ers IN different sections of the country,
and the results are that the great body of
the agricultural and commercial interest
of the country oft lin no re
lief, and an Intellectual tinkering
in the place of radical reform. They are
perfectly aware that the democratic party
in and out of congress are not agreed
upon the subject of the tariff. Many
democrats in manufacturing sections of
the country are high tariff men, notably,
Mr.. Randall, from district in Philadel
phia, where he is mainly supported and
elected by combination of high demo
Gratis and republicans, with perhaps ma
jority of the latter. Mr.. Randall is a
shrewd partisan manager. He knows his
advantages derived from differences in
the rarty, and he works his material for
oil - 10 Thn 30
duce the tariff at least fifty millions
of dollars, when it is impossible, on &C
count of the opposition within the party,
to reduce it to more than five or six mil
lions Of dollars.
We are still working on an oppressive
and burdensome war tariff, and until it is
made distinctive issue, and the princi
pal plank in the national democratic
platform, We never can accomplish its
radical reform. We may lose by it, but
we had better lose and go to the country
again and again, than to injure its I'M
portance, or compromise in order to hold
power. The question of the tariff was
sprung late in the Hancock
Garfield canvass, and by reason
OF the democratic party not hav-
ing time to refute the fallacies OF
republican orators, and the republican
press, we lost the race. This ought to
have been warning to us, ana the leaders
Of the democratic party ought to have
taken advantage of the warming, and con
centrsted all its efforts into educating the
people up to the necessity of tariff for
revenue only, but while that plank was in
the platform, Mr.. A. p. German, United
States senator from Maryland, who man
aged Mr.. Clevelands canvass utterly ig-
nored the tariff for what he considered
policy, and would not permit eminent
democrats to speak whom he had
reason to believe would make the tariff
an issue. The result was, that Mr..
Germans policy came very near defeat
ing Mr.. Cleveland. But for the Rev. DIR. |
Burchard's ALTERATION of rum, Roman
ism and rebellion" Mr.. Germans policy
would have been fatal to the democratic
party. 1t is utterly impossible for this
congress to frame tariff that will fully
relieve the country, but the democratic
of congress and the party lead
,rs ought to concentrate all their efforts
o make the country familiar with the
wills of high tariff, in order that the
rational platform in 1883 may plant its
lestinies upon this issue in that presi-
lential campaign.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
THE SONG HE SUNG.

BY ADA IDDINGs GAZE.
Will sing a song, cried the singer
lie OF the matchless name:
Not for those on the earth named 'the haDpy.
Nor yet for the children of fame.
VIII sing, and who dares interceptme-
For love, not for honor, to-day
song for the worlds vanquished heroes
should sing for the winner AWAY?
FOR the winner, and never the loser?
To-Day Will sing for the oppressed,
For those who have failed in life's battle,
l lie weary, cast down and depressed.
will sing for the broken hearted,
FOR those who are filled with distrust
VINO, grasping bright apples of Eden.
round them bitter with ashes and dust
For those who saw in the distance
The reckoning halo of fame
WHO struggled on bravely-then ia tered.
>, oercome by the weight of their aim,
For those who are stopping meath crosses.
nv, whose sad eyes are trimming with tears.
mat though they fall fast in the NIGHT time
Enrich not the harvest of wears.
For those who come up empty handed
And manned from life's eager essay.
VINO are watching with sad, wistful faces
when the victOrs come girded with bay.
VIII sing and my song shall re-echo
>, And thrill with pity divine
For all of the worlds unhappy
no suner and make no sign.
For these are the bravest heloes
Earth backgrounds ere trod.
Though they die forgot, unhonored,
Ihey shall wear crowns with God.
And the singer lifted the music
VI his marvellous voice on the air,
ana those who were listening, whispered,
1T Is not song-but PRAYER
Not song, but prayer uplifted
From strong heart seeking to prove
TO the vanquished, despised and forsaken--
The might of pnissant love.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
WHAT HAD SHE LOST:


BYK.M.
What had she lost: this dainty, dark-eyed girl.
On whom the freight fell so lovingly,
Kissing each waving ripple and each curl
VI her bowed head What treasure had she
lOstt
y scrap of wedding cake that, duly past
Through the charmed circle of the marriage
ring,
Bril- gs to the dreamer's longing eyes at last,
The face of him, her future lord and king.
think if you had asked what faith she laid
On this same CHARM she would have answered:
"Nay,
1t is all nonsense None the less, the maid
Seemed loath to lose her dreams that night.
And there came one to aid her in her quest
A fair haired man with laughter-loving ewes.
Ana then, perhaps, because she needed rest
just for space, her head lay on his breast.
Was the search fruitless: No, she must have
found
Something to flush her face with this new iov.
An; can this be the happy hunting ground
That gemmed her finger with the ring she
wears?
what useless queries! Only this know:
when sleep at last had closed her happy eyes
And led Its strange, W. ird pageant to and fro
She saw his face in dreamland's paradise.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01

Astronomers are constantly studying
the movements of the stars. Red Star
Cough Cure movements are prompt. 1t
removes the worst cough at once. Twenty
6va cents
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
PAIN TINCTURES OUR DELIGHT.

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Not till we meet with Love, in all his beauty,
In all his solemn majesty and worth,
Can we translate the meaning of life's duty,
Which God oft writes in cipher at our birth.
Not till Love comes in all his strength and terror
Can we read each Other hearts not till then
know
vice compassion for all human error,
Or sound the quivering depths of mortal woe.
Not till we sail with him DER stormy oceans
Have we seen tempests. Hidden in his hand
lie holds the keys to all the greatest emotions
Till he unlocks them-none can understand.
Not till we walk with kim on lofty mountains
Can we quite measure heights And, ah, sad
truth!
When once we drink from his immortal fountains,
We bid farewell to the light heart of youth.
Thereafter our most perfect day will borrow
a dimming shadow from some dreaded night
SO grea grows joy; it merges into sorrow
And evermore pain tinctures our delight.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
sCOTT's EMULSION OF pTrRE

Cod liver oil with hyposphosphites
IN consumption and wasting
diseases. DR.. G. W. Barringer
Plttsburg, Pa, says: 81 think your
emulsion of cod liver oil is verv fine
preparation, and fills long felt want It
is very useful in consumption and wasting
diseases" 3
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01
TEXAS WOOL GROWERS AND THE TARIFF

| lEAAS " OOL b1ON Ems AND HE lANlT E
The Philadelphia Record pays Texas
and its representatives in congress such a
just and high compliment, that we give
space to the entire article in our editorial
columns. The Record says: "The great
state of Texas produces nearly twice as
much wool as Pennsylvania, and by the
next census the wool product of Texas
will exceed that of Ohio. While the sheep
in Texas increased nearly $50 per cent.
between 1870 and 1880, the sheep growing
of Ohio slightly declined In the same pc
Rod. Here are the figures from the cen
sus of 1880: Number of sheep in Texas
in 1870, 714,351; number in 1880, PAIL
1856; increase 23S per cent. Number of
sheep in Ohio in 1870, 4,928,635; number
in 1880, 4,9O2,4S6; decline, / per cent.
While the culture of sheep is rapidly in
creasing on the great plains of Texas, it is
decreasing ON the dear'l lands of OHIO, by
law which no tariff act can repeal.
But the representatives in congress
from Texas are not in full cry with the
representatives from Pennsylvania and
Ohio against repeal of the duties on wool
Though sheep farming is large Texas in
terest, there is no lobby from that great
state bleating before the committee on
ways and means in behalf of barbarous
system of taxation that makes the poor
mans blanket short at both ends and
causes the poor woman to SILVER under
her thin shawl. No such spectacle is ex-
hibited by Texas. ...
So far from 1t, the rep resentatives and
people are willing to give up such doubt
full advantages as the duties on wool may
afford them for the sake of the benefits
which a genuine tariff reform will yield
to themselves and the whole country.
They are ready to promote the great
wooden industries of Philadelphia by aid
ing to put the raw material of these in
dustries on the free list. In this they
prove themselves to be better friends of
Pennsylvania's manufacturing interests
than are Pennsylvania representatives
in congress. While sacrificing the weol
duty on the altar of the common good,
the representatives and people of Texas
justly demand at the same time that other
sacrifices shall be made in the repeal of
burdensome duties on necessaries of liv-
ing. They ask that salt, coal, iron-ore
and lumber shall also be made free of tax
alton, and in demanding this for them
selves they are seeking what would be adj
vantageous to the interests of the whole
people. The people of Texas will derive
no more benefit from a genuine reform of
the tariff than the rest of the country,
but they are liberal enough to make some
surrender to obtain it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-01

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county, Swain will have an easy walk
over"
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