The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-03-12


ensier OF acuttisuion the lie $ will he :
purchasing y wer Ii the CIRCULATE"
should lie raised from $2l t" SIS re
.apira HE purchasing power OF the
dollar will be less than AT present. II
even the value OF money t. greal
eXter deppudS on its enTltuInt IS ~
scarcity. THIS change would prob
alb V. but no certainl,. operate to the
advantage of h. farmer
The value of The dpllar being de
creased he would get Inur- Of h"m t'l
his produce. but on the other hand hr
would have TO pay more of them tur
anything he might purchase, so that
wien the balance was struck lie might
have lutl- advan a-e beyond tue
ri, a>ure of handling the cash Blu
| when it came to paying oil debts COLI
tracted during the period of scarce,
dear money, he would gain the ;Ldvan
tage, and this is Why the capitalists OF
tile east are kicking so vigorously
| against an increased circulation.
They have lent their dear money
and naturally object to be repaid III
cheap money. They ale raising II
howl about the injustice of such an
II rangement aud &c must he owned
that some hardship might at END tn
reformation, but these same howlerS
forget the reversed condition of things
twenty five years ago. Then the
ruined farmers of the south who ha }
borrowed money Oh a depreci tted
paper currency had to repay their
debts aud in crest on a gold basis, los
ing Ivy the tran, action 40 to 70 cent
on The do lar.
If the interests of the people demand
An increased currency the p, ople mus
have it, even if the bloated bOnd.ho.d
ers has to forge small fractions OF all
ticipated profit
FARMER VS. LANDOWNER,
In some parts of Texas says the Live
Stork Journal. only negro labor Cali
be secured aud landowners are com
PEELED TO farm out their lands to them
'on the share" In fact. it is get til z
to be ,re thing for owners to reserve
any part of their farms for their own
use. The effect of This, it is feared.
will be to eliminate all interest of the
owners in the crops further than the
collection OF the rent, and to depreci
ate the value OF the laud. The Agri
cultural Jou nal, C nuInpntng on thus
tclueuCy, Says NutIeNeI anu WIFI
ever this SYSTEM prevails you will find
low price lands, poor crops, high rate
of interest. low wages aud gradual de-
cline of rents, and these conditions
never have and never will contribute
to the prosperity of a country. The
lands will become poorer, the owners |
poorer and the laborers poorer. 1t de |
strOyS energy, en- ourages idleness. |
contributes TO ignorance aud loss OF
me nhood and will end sooner or later
in the loss of the land.
In the newer farming sections of the |
state there are, so far, but few negroes,
and it is 10 be hoped that whether
lucy move in or not, the old lime Gus
tom of farmers experimenting their
own farms will obtain there. Next To
every farmer owning his own land W.
class in iInpnr ance the work king of
very farm by or under the imInedl-
ate supervision Of its owner
OF TREES ON ANIMAL LIFE
The relation between plant and
animal life is closer than generally
under stood 1t is n tact all Nh wor d
over that leaves are grern IN color.
except IL some plants that assume a |
i'O l'tIoo ihhlhi'y
The greenness is due to the pre- senre |
IF substances called chlorophyl. The |
import ance of leaf structure to flle |
health of large communities is too
much overlooked, and ii there were
more general appreciation OF this fact
there would uudoub eddy be more
tees found in cities than ut present.
Leaves of plants daily remove from
the lover strata of the atmosphere al
that the breath of animals throw into
it, "A full grown tree in crowded tin, r
oughfare bel in fact an atmospheric
litter This important work however
can only be car led on under the
stiuu us of sunlight. for without the
sun the power of absorption ceases.
What IS called growth in plant j.
merely the power of the plant to avail
itself OF and convert to its own use IN.
energy of the sun.
In II trees and plants every leaf j.
so placed that 1t gets lis maximum of
sunlight. and in this consists the secrtt
of the ditferc nee in the shapes of lrave>
and plants. The veget tble kingdom
as known TO uSiS bur the result vas
ages of contention between plant and
plant III which the race has been to
the swift aud the battle to the strong