The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-09

ut is hard to speak in terms of modera-
ton of this monstrous proposition in
this Christian land and age. Men
sometimes speak of Christian statesmen
having nothing better than free whisky
and tobacco to offer tho people in response
to their cry for relief. The worst manu-
featuring interests this country can pos
sibly have are those who advise the peo-
pie not to accept and submit cheerfully
and gladly TO the extremely moderate
and entirely harmless reductions made by
the Mills bill, The shareholders of the south
once belonged to class which composed
the money power. They once were monop-
olistS of cheap underpaid labor. Their
rights, under the fugitive slave law
and in the territories we're arrogantly
pressed to point where the sword was
drawn and millions OF men took the field.
Then the section which had everything in
possession, and consequently everything
to lose and nothing to gain, lost its entire
substance in the struggle for a shadow, a
theory. The most bitter and impacable
supporters of slavery aud of it's retention
thirty years ago we're, in fact, the most
successful abolitionists of the Nineteenth
century. They struck too far and their
blows come back TO destroy them, and so
it will be with the purse proud, insolent,
blind and misled tax eaters of the present
day, by making no concession to the
overtaxed condition of the people; to the
overwhelming surplus in the treasury,
and by refusing to permit the reelection
OF a single dollar on the necess ties of life
but, on the contrary insisting that whisky
and tobacco should go free to the manu-
facturers, have done more to promote
ideas of free trade in this couutry in the
last few months than eloquent ADD gifted
tongues and the pens Of Frank Hurd,
Henry Watterson, David A. Wells and all
their confreres during as m any year,
Senator Voorhees, then paid his respects
to the republican ticket, declaring "Never
were candidates in their natures, education,
habits, avocations and associations more
absolutely representatives of their party's
declared policy than Benjamin Harrison
and Lev p. Morton"
He dwelt upon the part Harrison took
in supporting the labor troubles of 1897,
aud inquired: ain what respect does the
career OF General Harrison appeal so
strongly to thesprlde of Indianansp !
would not disparage the Just
claims to the respect of his
oountrymen, but whose duty is it TO vote
for him on the grounds OF state prides
The republican presidential candidate in
the last campaign brought an action of
SANDER against democratic newspaper
of indianapolis. 1t was most delicate
matter of domestic life, concerning which
l have never spoken and never will.
General Harrison was Mr.. Baine's leading
lawyer, and, when he moved to dismlss the
case without bril- cling it to trial, he as
signed as reason for doing so such g
libel on TIE state and the court that Judge
Woods refused the paper containing it to
be placed in his tilos
"In that paper it was, in substance, al
eyed that the court was presided over by
an interse republican Judge, with a re.
publican marshal and republican jury;
that the jury commissioners had become
SO debauched by the influences of
political agitators and by the recent
democratic victory tina citizen of Maine
could not secure fair trial, nor obtain
Justice in it, nor indeed in any of the
courts of Indiana. do not know whether
the paper was written by Sawyer or his
client, nor does it matter. The presenta-
tion of it for permanent record was the
crime against the honor of the state"