The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-29
TEXAS NEWS.


IlllltS N'Hli'y i-NiS hNoA'
The Galveston News has said the great
advance i'll the value of property i'll that
city is largely due to the liberal arpro-
priation brought in by the river and har-
Dor committee in congrcs. II will be re-
membered that Col. Stewart is member
of this committee and has labored vigor-
ously for deep water at Galveston and
other ports of Texas, yet the News is do
ing all it can to prevent Col. Stewards re-
turn to congress. consistency, thou art
jewell
CHANCE FOR AUsT1N's DEAF MUTEs.
Decatur Tribune.
A deaf-mute convention is to be held at
San Francisco in July. The deaf mute
ana dumb everywhere in the United States
are expected to have a voice in the deliber
ations.
Colorado Clipper
We would gently suggest to some of the
journalistic big guns of Texas that some
of the candidates whom they are so fresh
in abusing are very sure to be elected.
Will the papers in question then go on
showing up cur state to the world as gov
erned by set of officers whose proper
place is in the penitentiary, or ornament
ing gallows? Some of the present Cos
sips may chance to be inconveniently re-
membered.
Decatur Post.
The authorized capital stock of the sew
eral cattle syndicates in Texas at this
time amounts to sixty million dollars.
HEAvENs WILL THERE BE THOUSAND
OZARK HORSEs?"
Waco Day.
AS the campaign progresses, people
| begin to ask themselves what service
Comptroller Swain mas ever rendered the
state, that he should step forward and ask
the highest honor which they can confer
on one of its citizens, or what mark has
he made in private life that entitle him to
recognition. Every county in Texas has
from one to dozen gentlemen as much
Or more entitled to the nomination for
governor, and why Mr.. Swain should single
himself out to their exclusion is one of
those mysteries which passes popular
comprehension.
THEN is TIE OLD SAW WRONG, AND "coNs1s
TENCY NOT A JEWEL? 2"
Fort Worth Gazette
An editor of labor paper in the east is
refreshingly frank. He was was criticized
for having two editor ial articles in his
paper, of antagOnistic views, and to the
charge of gross Inconsistency he replied:
mo, there is no consistency in the two
statements that we can see. The one is
the honest thought of the editor of the
American Glass-Worker, and the other
was written for the hurrah element. The
former was written for those who think
and love right. In these columns we write
as we please, and don't claim to be con-
slstent. Progress, the utterance of the
highest thought, is never consistent. The
same man wrote both articles, and won't
lie about it either. The one was what a
certain part of the people wanted, the
other, what he himself thought and felt,
and believed it his duty to utter. He does
not apologize, and is ready for your mud
and rotten eggs" We are to infer that
the editor does not look upon the "hurrah
element as the men who 'think and love
right" He has pretty accurately got the
measure of that class in Texas.
RAIN FOLLOWS CIVILIZATION.
Runnels Weekly News.
AS regards the annual rainfall in vest
ern Texas, experienced men hold that as
agriculture progresses rains become more
regular until no complaint is heard. Sta
tistics corroborate this view in more
eastern counties which, for a few years
after their organization, were thought to
be reproductive. Those counties can
not now be surpassed for the fertility of
their soil and abundant yield of all grain
crops. There is bright future for Run
nels county. Her lands few years hence
will readily sell for from S. to $50 per
acre.
CHUNKS OF wIsDoM-BE ADVISED.
Canton Telephone.
Talk up the town. Do not sit down and
cry hard times" Every citizen should
resolve to talk up the interest of his town.
Show to strangers its advantages and en-
deavor to attract new capital and new en-
terprlse. Live men make a prosperous
place. Let US be awake and endeavor to
advertise our advantages.
is PROHIBITION SPECIES OF BOYCOTT?
Mexia Weekly Ledger.
The Freestone county alliance declares
that its members "have no right to dictate
to any man as to what he shall or shall
not buy or sell, or of whom he shall buy"
This looks like "cold comfort" to prohi-
bitien.