The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-01
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
GOVERNOR HoGG ADVOCATES JET-
FERsoNIAN SIMPLICITY.
Opposed 90 saddiing Future Genera
Items win bonded IndeDted-
ness 20 Build Ornate Court
houseA--spIcy Campaign.


Houstoh Post Bureau, Drisisin Hotel
Austin, Texas, November 81. Governor
Hogg ls dead set IN his opposition to The
Issuance OF bonds for the construction Of
costly new court houses. There rs nothing
new in this Information because he has
talked u great deal about It. He even
recommended to the last legislature the
enactment OF some law TO prevent what
he calls useless extrayagance. The Post
correspondents called upon the governor
yesterday and got MIN started Oft by tell
Ing him something about the $50 900 court
house bonds that Tarrant county has re-
Gently Issued and which are under investl-
gauon in the attorney generals depart
ment.
"rhis ia all wrong. tell you" said ne
| IT is a serious mistake. ! am not being
| interviewed and don't want TO make those
! Iarrant county fellows mad, but l am
! against this business anywhere You find IL.
/ Il remember nome lew years ago when
i the court house in Fort Worth was the
| pride not only OF the city ana county,
i but was pointed 10 as one of the model
| court houses OF the State That hasn't
! been but ~ few years; Il WAS Just after
/ the railroad got there--I believe II was in
/ 1851 Now, those people have become dis
| satisfied with this court house and start
] IN TO tax Themselves, their children, their
/ ehlidrens children for centuries yet to
! come IN order 10 crafty vain SENSE
| win which they are afflicted at the pres
'Do you see that beautiful building
/ down thera-the county court house2 That
/ mas been the pride OF Austin for years
/ lhera Vas Time when visitors attention
| was called to II MS O thing Of heauty-the
! pride Of this town. You see. III bet you
| they VIII tear 1t down before ten years
Yea. in live
Look at san Antonio She had a line
court house. People talked abbut Il every
where, but this was not line enough and
4 am told they are building oAe that VIII
cost a,00oQ0O. The same Kind OF thing has
| been happening ali over the state,
ut vs. wrong. i tell you u iS wrong
ThiB thing Of saddling an everlasting debt
upon posterity Just 10 please our love OF
| the-heaEtiful and grand is wrong Thomas
Jefferson was against this whole business
ana expressed himself very emphducaly
IN the subject. He said that he was not
willing To have one generation taxed tor
the benent OF former generation, and
when bonds were made TO mature at
Years. he was Spposed to It.
THE trouble about these things is that
pay DAY comes some Of these Gays and
you or your children are going to see dis
content broadcast nn1 terrible. Things do
not look so serious rs long rs there Is
only interest to pay, but when the creditor
there Will be O Hquall
YOU lust said Mr Post man, that these
buildings are being put up 60 endure for
generations and aes 20 come No. You
afe wrong, I don't care how fine the
court house Is now Il won't be good
enough IN few years TO come. Don't you
remember what lust said about those
Tarrant county people No, Y these build
iugs were to serve for hundreds OF years
AZ the do in tho old country-for, instance
that cathedral IN Germany, believe, that
has been IN course az construction for SIX
or seven hundred years--l would not com.
plain, but people do not seem TO under
stand that as town grows into size Of u
CITY the necessity for large court rooms
disappears. Look at the large cities. You
don't see q great big court room. That Is
only found III the country and country
towns,
III you want to know from me who Is
responsibla for this Wild extravagance,
viii toll ynu. II isn't the entire people. II
is q few. 1t is these town boomers THESE
boomers are the chaps who 10 AL this
dsvilment II Is all wrong and | shall
continue to say so"
THE HAMILTON oBsEQuIBs.
Morgan c. Homntons remains were In
TERED yesterday morning and the funeral
cortege was such a one as is usual when
distinguished talent and lnerltorious cit
i2ensbip is forever hushed in the lifeless
bosom Of the lamented dead and must be
borne to last abiding place.
Rev. T. . Lee. insisted by select
choir. conducted the funeral services, and
Messrss ny NJ. Walton, bqsene Brenpnd.
Walter TIPS, ~. NJ Castletou John ID.
Mccall and Rhodes Fisher were paIbeag-
6rs
Mr.. Hamilton was a distinguished son
OF Texas by adoption and like "a great
many men who achieved fame and fortune
ln this state. subsequently removed 10
another State there 10 be known as here.
for Ills sterling ability and usefulness as
g member of society, such men had
breathed the eahileratlng air OF Texas
assimilated tho abundant ambition that Is
suspended thetein and when they made
their abode even In distant lands, their
lives were exemplary and full OF useful
ness In TINS conhection II Is proper to