The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-04-23

States government is coming abou
+, $1,000, 900 month. The profit OF
this goes into the treasury and il
shared by all tn, people alike. 1t i,
contended by the advocates OF free
coinage that such a measure woulC
add to the money circulation in this
country, and that it would advance
the price of silver and put it upon an
equality with gold"
This is the subject on which there
may be wide divergence of opinion.
Thai such law would increase the
money circulation there can be little
doubt, but that it would much benefit
any one outside the silver bullionist is
open to question. To blind man on the
top of mountain, it looks vsry like a
scheme to enrich the silver man, by
giving him dollar in exchange for six
bits worth of silver, while the treas
ury Otherwise the people, would be
robbed OF 70 cents on every 81, which,
at the present rate of coinage, would
amount to 100000 a month, or
$l2,0O0,000 year.
Is such scheme in the interest OF
the farmer, aud worthy of the indorse-
ment of the Alliance?
The country needs more of the cir
culating medium, but it is possible to
pay too much for it. We may yet
find that Grover Cleveland is on the
right side of the fence on this popular
question. Farmers, think it out for
yourselves, and don't be led by the
nose by any demogogue or stump
politician.
INSECT DEPREDATIONs.
Complaint is made that plum trees
are being attacked by hordes of in
sects, which threaten the ruin of the
present crop, if not permanent in
jury to the tree, and Cry has gone
forth for some remedy.
The common and most approved
method OF fighting bugs is to spray
the trees with solution of Paris
green or London purple. This, if done
effectually, will be found Il perfect
cure. The solution is made by adding
one pound of Paris green to forty gal
Ions OF water. The best plan to apply
the mixture is with force pump fitted
with a rubber tube and ros4 nozzle,
but as that instrument is not within |
the reach of every afflicted fruit
grower, the work may be done with the
aid OF an ordinary watering-can, so
closed on the top as to allow of its be-
ing swung up and down without spill |
ing the content'.
Two or three applications at inter
walls will rid the trees of the pests
without injuring the trees or damaging
the fruit.
AS Paris green is a strong poison,
care must be used in hanoling it,
TEXAS STATE CAPITOL.
We Texans are proud of our state
house and think we have good value
for the $3000,000 it cost us-at least
that we believe was the value OF the
land we gave in exchange for it. 1t
will come as a su prise to some that
our capitol building really cost us $780,
100000. Such is at least the state
men. of one of the contractors, ex-
Senator Farwell of Chicago, who is
booming his property with a view
doubtless to realizing.
1t would be interesting to know on
what valuation Farwell & Co. pay
taxes.
This is a matter that Panhandle
assessors should look into.
GOV. HoGG AND THE SUGAR BOUNTY.
The bounty on sugar has received
the first serious blow in the great |
sugar production state of Texas, where
Gov. Hogg has vetoed bill allowing |
the state to accept the bounty OF 2
cents per pound on sugar raised by
convict labor on the extensive state
farm. Briefly condensed, his veto
is based, first on the proposition that
the law granting it is a violation of
estate rights" inasmuch as it presup-
poses Federal investigation into mat
tiers within state jurisdiction and sec
ond, on the ground that the trriff is
an iniquity.
Estates rights men" and "free trad
ers" declare that a Hogg with such
sentiments would fill the presidential
chair just as fttingly as his namesake
would grace Prince Bismarck's table,
Rural New Yorker.
KEEP THE SOIL FERTILE.
If you're selling lots of water,
In the crops that leave your SOIL
You are doing as you orter,
You'll have recompense for toll.
If its lots OF ash you're selling,
You are running down your farm,
In a few years you'll be dwelling,
On the future with alarm.
This is maxim that can't be too
often or too strongly expressed. A
continual removal of plant food from
the soil without replacing any can
only result in one thing-bankruptcy
IF Tho coil low Gn,,lI'J hank