The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-06

dure for one season on those terrific
roads," An unkept highway is
worse than the plague to deter in.
vestors in rural homes.
PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE.
1t is good deal easier to prevent a
colt or horse from forming a bad
habit than to break him after it has
been formed. And, as far as our OBJ
servation goes, it is much better for
the animal and q. great deal more
satisfactory for the owner. This ap-
plies to large class of habits which
are liable to be formed, and which
cause large amount of mischief.
Among these habits is that drumming
away-one of the worst habits horse
can have, for it imperils not only the
persons using him, but is liable to
endanger the lives of many others
who may chance to be in his path.
With proper care and handling from
it's earliest days the horse may be so
trained that he will stay where he is
left till his master is ready to take
him elsewhere. He can also be so ac-
customed to noise, and to unusual
sights and occurances that he will not
be likely to frighten at anything that
may happen. Some horses are much
more quiet and tractable than others,
but the exceptions to the rule we
have stated are few.
But a little carelessness, a little
neglect, may cause colt to
run away, to kick, or do some
other act which will be the
beginning of habit which will rem
der him unsafe to use and will great
ly diminish his value either to keep
or sell, consequently the utmost care
should be given to the handling and
the education of the colt and it should
be continued until his good habits are
so fully formed as to become second
nature. Even then there should be
skill and care on the part of the man
or woman who has charge of him.
A safe and skillful driver will always
be cautious and watchful.
THE ALIEN LAND LAW.
While the self-constituted leaders of
the farmers Alliance are rushing,
perspiring and Grating around the
state setting up the subtreasury idol
as the only plan of salvation there is a
subject which is a thousand times
more important to them left unnoticed.
The last legislature, which was sup
posed to be entirely composed of farm
ers and Farmers friendso did many
things of questionable wisdom, but
when they passed the alien land law
they did the most ill-advised, dunder-
headed damphoolish thing thing ever
perpetrated by Legislature. If this
precious piece of lawmaking is a fair
sample of what farmers can do when
they become "honorables" the horny
handed tiller of the soil may well eX-
claim: "Save me from my friends.n
Section 10 provides "that no alien
or person not citizen of the United
States Of America shall acquire title
to or own any interest in the lands
within the state of Texas, and any
deed or other conveyance purporting
to convey such title or interest to any
alien or unnaturalized foreigner or to
any firm, company or corporation
composed of such, in whole or in part,
shall be void.n
Think for o moment of the far
reaching and disastrous effect of this
equalled by any other three states;
but she has been heavily handicapped
in the race for development by the
unwisdom of her successive law-mak-
ers, whose main, if not only, claim to
remembrance is to be found in laws
detrimental to the states best inter-
ests. They ordained, amongst other
things, that no state encouragement
should be given to immigration. Thus,
while every poverty-stricken state in
the union was drawing to it-by force
of push and the publication Of their
neutrality-suspicious. and wealth,
Texas had to rely upon her natural
advantages. Emigrants, in the alb
sence of reliable data about our grand
state, drifted hither and thither, and
many have been wrecked in health
and fortune that should have found
happy and prosperous homes here.
Capitalists were for a long time
timid about our secureties, but of late
years have learned that our collateral
was "gilt edged,n and millions of dol
lars have found investment in the
state from the ''uttermost parts of the
earth" The money owned by citi-
zens of the state is as "but a drop in
the bucketn to what is needed to de-
velop the country. If there was any
scarcity of profitable investments in
other states eastern capital might be
sufficient to supply our de-
mands; but such is not the
case, and if Texas has to rely upon
home capital, then goodbye to our
cherished dreams of "a good time
coming" The foreign capitalist has
received notice that he is not wanted
here, and that he had better realize
on his securities, OF be content to lend
without security.
Now, what does this mean? what
honest object could the endorsers of
this bill have in view when they |
passed it?
When man needs to borrow money
he does not pause to enquire into the
of the lender. That is no
concern of his. If he can get the
ON suitable terms, he cares not
whether it came from Jew or Gentle;
an English Rothschild, or Yankee
Jay Gould. The advent of foreign
capital brought with it a lower rate