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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
FORT BEND PEOPLE SHOULD UPHOLD
THE DIGNITY OF LAW.

Our special kilograms from Richmond
indicate a wretched condition of affairs in
Fort Bend county, which must be depre-
Gated by every good citizen in the state,
whether white or black. That an
attempt was made to sssassinate Mr..
Frost, a worthy citizen, none will
deny, nor will any one fail to
denounce the crime in the strongest man
ner. Every effort should be made to ap-
prehend and measure out to the would-be
assassin or assassins the utmost rigor of
the law, but too much caution cannot be
exercised in keeping down and preventing
any spirit of intolerance or race preju-
dice. Those men who have already
been arrested, charged with the
crime, are entitled to fair and
impartial trial, and, until their guilt is thor
oughly established by court of justice,
they should receive the protection of the
laws, and if need be, the strong arm of the
state should interpose between them and
mob violence.
But the chief trouble now brewing in
that quarter of the state seems to be not
from any fear that the men at present
arrested will not be punished if found
guilty, but because certain alleged dis
orderly and malicious parties, though
ordered to leave the county, have not, and
refuse to do so. This may precipitate a
race war as armed white and negro forces
are said to be marshalling for action. 1t
is earnestly to be hoped nothing serious
will result. Tie state has acted
promptly in sending to the scene of
impending trouble all the state militia of
that neigh5orhood. There may be deep
seated cause of provocation; there may be
well-grounded fears and anxieties, but no
good purpose can be served by rash
action, no abiding advantage gained by
preclpitating mob rule. The strong, better
and conservative second thought of the
people of Fort Bend county is now in
voked to tide that county and the state
over the sea of trouble.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

high rate. All the arguments
as to protecting manufacturers, incidental
protection, free trade, and taxation for
revenue only were used in the earliest
DAYS of our nations history, and have
been continued even down to the present.
The democratic party and that to which
it naturally succeeded have always con-
tended for the least taxation necessary to
successfully run the government, while
the republican party and its progenitors
have advocated prohibitory taxation and
subsidies for manufacturers. The era
from 1916 to 1857, the years of lowest
tariff, yet the most prosperous in
the history of our nation till
the fearful war came on, demon
strated the correctness of the democratic
theory of taxation. Incident to the war,
and the disorder and debt it brought
on, high tax was necessary, and the oc-
casion for it was readily admitted by dem
ocrats. But again the nation has out
grown the necessity for such high taxes.
History is repeating itself, and the pres
ent move of the democratic party to
place the tariff rate where the needs of
the government direct, is in line with
precedent and the fundamental teachings,
and doctrine of that party. The Mills
bill, the presidents message and the &C
ton of the democratic house are all in
this direction. The people feel the logic
of the situation. They recognize great
movement has taken on shape and is
being pressed to successful accomplish
ment. They are en- rapport with that
movement, and the result this fall will en-
dorse the position the democratic party
las taken.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
Labor and Protection.

From the Ind annapolis Signal, Labor
Below we append table showing the
price of labor in several of the more
prominent trades in low tariff England
and high tariff Germany, as compiled
from the consular reports. For conven-
fence of comparison we have reduced
wages to the price per hour in the respect
i've countries. This was necessary.
Neither wages per day nor per week
would give any data for comparison, as in
Germany all classes of wageworkers are
employed from sixty hours to seventy
eight hours a week, while in England from
fifty hours to fifty-four hours constitute a
weeks work. 1t is not necessary for us
to add any argument to these figures, for
they tell their story with sufficient force
and clearness to satisfy the most skeptical.
The wegeworkers of America can here see
what would be their condition if popula-
ton was as dense here as in Germany and
if the great plains of the west did not
annually absorb the surplus population
from the older states:
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
THE CAPITOL BUILDING.

The board created by the last legisla-
ture for the sole purpose of receiving the
new capitol building, in examining that
building in its entirety, has decided that
certain defects exist in it's construction,
and not having the power under the law,
to order correction of such defects, it
has refused to receive the building for the
state. 1t would in the light of existing
circumstances seem there was no other
course open to that particular board, and
it promptly acted when all the evidence
WAS in, and has made wise decision.
The contract for the erection of that
structure provides that it shall be a
building first-class in all of it's details.
That the roof leaks is not denied by the
contractor or anyone else, and should
there be any other defects, the board, as
as officials of the state, would have been
dereliot in its duty had it accepted the
building before p was wholly completed
and made perfect in each and
every part, both in regard 10
materials and workmanship. This
special PERCEPTION board now having
performed its duty, the matter reverts
back to the old capitol board, that has the
power to receive any proposition from
the contractor looking to correction of
all dafects fOund To exist in the rOOf and
that make it other than the water tight
roof contemplated in the original contract.
This old board can adopt any measure
that may seem to it best to secure good
roof for the building. 1t is understood a
meeting of the board will soon be held to
consider that question.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
NEVER LYNCH LAW.

Some more trouble and bloodshed in
Fort Bend county, and the dispatches hint
at a lynching. There is at least enc
thing higher than impulse, resentment and
sense of outrage-it is the law. couu
try, state, county without law is in
anarchy. A people cursed with lawless
state of affairs are the most to be pitied
upon earth. A law-abldihg people
are as rule contented and
happy. In condition of mys-
ferrous bloodshed and unwarrsnted
attack and murder, as that now existing in
Fort Bend county, it may be natural that
hot blood and bitter resentment is created.
But, suppose they have their course, what
good results? A guilty one may at an
early date pay the penalty for his crime,
but is respect for the law sanctioned? Is
u firm and abiding confidence in the
stability of the conditions of society and
the unerringness of the laws DEGREES in
creased? What is accomplished other
than the death of murderous wretch
On the other hand, if the law we're
allowed to take its course; it, upon
a full and fair investigation of all the facts
and circums tances in the case, the guilty
culprit by the hands of the regularly con
stituted officers of the law was made to
pay the penalty for his crime, would not
the publ be rembued with confidence in
the law and respect for Its certainty and
the unerring fall of its justifying stroke?
Mob law cannot possibly accomplish any
good purpose. 1t is an insult to gov
eminent, a reflection upon the jurors
honesty, stab at the government. The
Fort Bend people may in this instance
have great provocation; the greater will
be their credit if they resist it and lei the
law have its course. Such would be the
part of wisdom, and such a course for the
fair fame of Texas is expected of our
neighbors II Fort Bend county.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

james G. fBlaine in his
book "Twenty Years
in Congress:
The tariff of 1916 was
yielding abundant reve-
nue., and the business of
the country was in a
tlOurishing condition.
Money became abund
ant after the year 1919;
large enterprises were
undertaken, speculation
was prevalent, and for
a considerable period
the prosperity of the
country was general and
apparently anu in e.
After 1852 the democrats
had almost undis-
puted control of the
government, and had
gradually become a free
trade party. The prin-
ciple involved in the
tariff of 1916 seemed for
the time to be 30 entire
ly INDICATED ana ap-
proved that resistance
TO it ceased, not only
among the people buf
among the protective
economists anf even
among the maAufact.
urers to a large extent.
SO general was this
acquiescence that in
1856 a protective tariff
was not suggested
or even limited at
by any of the three
parties viii, h pre-
scented presidential can
didAtes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

Such dark deeds are sometimes committed
along the lonely highways and in semi
civilized border communities, but seldom
where people have been brought up to
respect the law, to discountenance crime
and to enjoy the blessings of civiliza-
ton such as ours. Whoever is response
BILE for the deep damnation of the deed
and whatever the motive, which is matter
of speculation about which opinions
differ, there is but one expression as to
the act itself and as to the fate which
should be melted out to the
perpetrator of it-and that is that
hanging would be too good for him.
If people can be shot down upon the
streets of the city under such circum-
stances as surrounded the case on Thurs
day evening, when there were scores of
people still up and stirring about, and
when great risk had to be taken in order
to accomplish the deed, everybody who
has known enemy, whom he has ever
given offense by word or act at any time,
may well entertain the fear of meeting a
similar fate. There is no guarantee that
he Will not, If the perpetrators OF such
deeds can secure their escape from punish
ment. 1t Is an unfortunate circumstance
about the affair that one of the parties
who received the deadly charge of bull
lets was candidate for office, and
the other had been taking an ac-
tive part in politics, and for this
reason there are few-a very few, how
ever-who are disposed to connect the &C.
currence with politics. We can not pos.
sibly believe that such could have been the
motive, but rather private spite which
prompted the murderous act. Certain it
is that the affair will give the city hard
name abroad that will injure it for some
time to come. 1t was appropriate for the
citizens in mass meeting to deDounce the
crime and the criminal, and the county
commissioners court should offer a re-
ward for the arrest and conviction of the
assassin. Every effort should be put
forth to have thorough investigation
and to bring the guilty party to judy
ment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

ANOTHER trust has been formed by
northern capitalists, this time to control
the rice market of the nation. Mills will
be erected in New Orleans, Char and
Savannah, and the work will be pushed.
1t is claimed by the combine that, through
their active and extensive workings, rice
will be cheapened, but, as such men rarely
thus speculate in philanthropic ventures,
it may be safely relied upon that rice will
go up in cost. AS congress investigates
the question trusts continue to grow.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
A Blot Upon the CITY.
Ere m the Brenham Banner.

Fro IN the brennan Banner.
When it is considered that Washington
is one OF the Oldest settled counties in the
state, and in time past has enjoyed the
distinction of being the garden spot of
Texas; within its DO ders was situated the
seat of government when Texas was vet
republic; that it has been the home OF
some of the greatest heroes, statesmen
and soldiers of its early days, including
sam houston, the leader; that it was for a
long time the seat of learning and boosted
of civilization equal to that of the older
settled countries and oder states, and to-
day has within its borders as good, quiet,
Peaceable and as lsw-abiding oi iz-ns as
any community-the dastardly and cold
FLOODED assassination which occurred on
the court house square in the
city on Thursday night is will
calculated to shock the sensibilities
and nerves of our people to think
that such scene could have been enacted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

The supreme court of Tennessee, in the
Mallory VS.. Hanoneir case, holds that
trust is partnership, plain and simple,
and corporations have not the power to
join such partnerships unless it is ex-
pressly delegated to them in their char
ters. No such power can be implied; aid
the acts of such corporations, in joining
these trust partnerships, are beyond the
end and purposes of their creation, ultra
vires," and, therefore, void. This would
But the United States supreme court must
yet pass upon it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
Travis County Democratic Ticket.
For Representatives:

tOr representatives
FELIX E. SMITH, W. X. HANDY.
For County Judge-James II. Burts.
For County Attorney-George S. Walton.
For County Collaboration W. Kelly.
For County Assessor-H. NJ. Metz.
For Sheriff-Emmett White.
For Clerk of the District Court-Jas. p. Hart.
For County Clerks. c. Cranberry.
For County Treasurer-Mat johnson.
For County Superintendent of Public Instruc.
lon-J. W. Maxwell.
For Hide and Animal Inspector-R. E. Ca
perton.
For County Suryeyor-John E. Wallace.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. /
Ed. H. Rogers.
Fo- County Commissioner, recinct No. -
p. Schneider.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. 3
Hugh Mcclure.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No 4
John W. Cloud.
For Justices of the Peace, Precinct No. 3-Georgc
Calhoun and j A. Stewart.
For Constable, Precinct No. 3-Walter Nj. Rob
ertsoL.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

Information from Boerne says that on
Monday night last Capt. s. Buchanan, a
ranchman of Karnes county, and resi-
dent of San Antonio. who had been laid
up with bilious attack, arose and started
to the barber shop to get shave. Some
workmen had been excavating for build
ing near the sidewalk and had left no
guard rail. Captain Buchanan fell in.
He was not thought to be much hurt, but
died Friday of internal injuries. Deceased
was conn ected with some of the leading
English families, and was for a long time
captain in the British army.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

Or COURSE the republicans couldn't let
the incident of Humans illness pass
without attempting to make capital out
of it. That Thurman was too drunk to
make the.speech at the demonstration in
Madison square, is as mean "prevarica-
ton as.the Harrison journals have ever
gotten up. The lie was very properly
nailed by Judge Thurman himself yester-
day. Thurman really had cholera NOR
bus, which is great deal worse than be-
ing drunk. Don't sore of the republican
chieftains get "bow-come-you-son occa-
sionally?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

Col. j. I. BRADY, one of the republican
nominees from the First district for con-
gress, has, in the interest of harmony in
his party, withdrawn from the race, leav-
ing only one republican candidate in the
field. The situation on the part of the
democracy of that district should now be
simplifed so that the contest between re-
publicsns and democrats may be clean
cut and significant. a move among
democrats to that effect is now on foot,
and when perfected, democratic success in
the First district will be assured.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
GEN. W. P. HARDEMAN.

An erroneous impression seems to have
obtained in some quarters in regard to
the attitude of The STATESMAN towards
General Hardeman, superintendent of
public buildings and grounds. The
STATESMAN could not if it would, and
it would not if it could, take
one single chaplet from the
brow of this gallant veteran, who
occupies high place in the conf
dence and affection CT the people of this
state. The best years of his life have
been devoted to Texas, and in every field
of labor or sphere of action he has always
been found true and faithful to every
trust confded to him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
Which is Right?
Inc 1OllOWlng NEEDS no CONNIE

Maj. McKinley's speech
before the Pied GonC
Chautauqua:
The revenue tariff pc
RODS of our history
have BEEN periods of
greatest financial revul
sions and industrial de-
cadence, want and pOv.
erty among the people,
private en- terprise 8
checked, and public
works retarded. From
1888 to 1912, and from
1916 to 1861, business
was at a standstill, and
our merchante ami trad
ers were bankrupted;
our labor remained idle,
and our capital was I'M.
employed. Forei g n
products crowded our
markets, destroyed do
m g site competition,
and, as invariably fol.
lows, thu prices of com
modities to consumers
we're appreciably raised.
IL is an instructive fact
that every panic this
country has ever expert.
ented has been preceded
by enormous impOrta.
tons.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

A terrible accident occurred in Navarro
county a few evenings ago, by which a
young countryman named Ed Larrow lost
his life. He was returning to his home
near ChatfielI, when his horses ran away
and threw him out, bresking his neck and
skull and causing instant death.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

II is believed by cotton men that farm
ers will make more by submitting to the
eAorbitant bagging prices than to use
cheap domestic material, on account of
getting back in the weight some of the
money spent in high prices. But the
planters don't like the odor of the trust,
and begging at the present price must 20.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

SOME journals are predicting fifty or
seventy-fve thousand majority for Cleve-
land and Thurman in New York. The
figures are large, and we will be satisfied
with thirty thousand. It's dollars to pea
nuts, though, it will not be below twenty
thousand.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

this table to those who have based their
argument for high tariff in the United
States on the difference between wages in
this country and Europe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
In Aid of the Snffarers

CINCINNATI, September Involuntary
contributions amounting to over $1,000
we're made at meeting of the chamber
of commerce to-day in aid of Jackson
vile, Fla. Another meeting to receive
subscriptions will be held tomorrow.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

As EXPECTED Mr.. Mills and other demo
Gratis refuse to entertain the idea of
adiourning on the Goth of this month, or
indeed, until the republicans in the senate
have shown their hand on the tariff ques-
ton. The republicans will be forced to
toe the mark. :. Mills and the party have
the goad sharpened and will stick it in
deem.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

Our of every five dollars tax paid by
the people through the tariff only one
dollar goes to the support of the govern
ment, the balance toward "protecting''-
not yourself, but your neighbyrs.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

The country may not need it, but the
city is sadly in want of another dust dis
sipating rain. The hot suns and mu,h
travelling get in their WORK INDUSTRIOUS
quickly on our streets, and the sprinsling
carts do not make a full circuit of the
city.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's letter of accept
auce will he sem out fro Washingt,n
t)-night. But as The STATESMAN does NOT
appear on Monday, We shall give the
document in Tuesdays Issue.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

F1Ts-All fits stopped free by DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No tits after first
days use. Marvellous cures. Treatise
and 81 trial bottle free to fit cases. Send
t. DR.. Kline, 931 Arch street, Phiadel-
phia, Pa.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

The San Antonio aud Arkansas Pass r. il.
road, which has been SO badly out of re-
pair on account of the recent heavy rains
along its lines, is nov in fine state of
repair, and through trains are running on
time.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

THERE will, it is learned, be another con-
gressional convention called in the First
district, and an effort will be made to
settle democratic differences there
existing. This certainly is the part of
wisdom. Texas must have her eleven
democratic congressman in the next house
of representatives She is a decisively
democratic state, and her delegation in
congress must present always an IN
broken democratic front. The republic
cans in the First district should be
afforded no possible chance to succeed.
The democratic party must be undivided
in conflict.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
THE BRENNAN ASSASSINATION.

The Allchin murder at Hampstead was a
fearful, bloody aud cowardly crime. But
it was committed in broad open daylight,
on the streets of the town, in full view of
the public. There was no attempt at con-
cealment. 1t, therefore, lacked some degree
of the horror and all of the bloody mys-
terry which, like the darkness of the night
on which it was perpetrated, still sur
rounds the BRENNAN assassination. Nc
Dade and Springfield, at Hampstead, at
least showed themselves to their intended
victim. The Brennan assassin, like a
prowling hyena, stealthily crept upon
Hoffman aud Holt. Neither had any
suspicion of danger. The fatal buckshot,
delivered with an intensity of malignity
equal to the profound secrecy with which
the murder was planned, were sped by a
hand as terribly mysterious as that of the
unknown midnight fiend who has slain
four women in the same neighborhood in
London within short time past. Is there
no way to stop these dreadful crimes
which are blackening the name of the
civilized world?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

In this election the people are to decide
whether they are willing to continue to
submit to system of absolute legalized
robbery.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

EVERY worklngman and farmer who
buys 81 worth of wooden dress
goods pays at the rate of a SIP
for the same, because of "protec
tive" tariff. This is not all. Four tifths
of the ~ centa, or 81 cents, goes not to
the government, but to protecting" en-
terprises in which you arSnot interested.
Suppose you had to pay ~ cents tax, in
cash, on every 81 worth of goods you
bought in the stores on Congress avenue,
what would you think of it? But this is
what we are all doing every day under the
present Ubiquitous tariff. 1t is this sys-
tenn of absolute stealage the democrats
want to do away with. This is the issue
in the campaign.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

The residents of Houston, Galveston
and other Texas towns, who went through
the great yellow fever epidemic of 1867,
can sympathze with the woes of the
people of Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla.
To realize the terrors of such an cpl
demic one must be in it. And it appears
to be spreading in Florida-just getting
under good Roadway in Tampa. In
stances like the one mentioned in the dis
patches this morning the woman and
her little children left to die alone in an
urtenanted house in Bayard-were not
unknown in this state during the saffron
plague of twenty years ago.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
JUDICIAL TICKET.

For District Judge-W. NJ. KEY.
For District Attorney Il. ROBERTSON
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

For State Senator-Twenty-F Fourth District:
b. c. GILES.