New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-08
TIE Try.IS BUSINESS REDITIL


There appear, To h. business revival in
Texas Also renewal ~ prosperity. To The
extent. as the telegraph Informs Us. II Slio."".
caught on the fly 10y several cnirrprSing ci'l'
zcns who intercepted a railroad train near Fort
Worth In that young and energetic State, ana
pr.scuted sight drafts for II. The $1,000 WAS
in gold coin on the way east from san Fran
cisco There has been for a long time feeling
Of unfrcndllncss toward gold coin In Texas. II
Is thought for one thing. that 1t costs too much;
and that the people Of Texas would be- a great
deal better of II 4 law were passed permitting
them 10 demand dollars worth 81 II Tor my
cents OF anybody upon Whose person II should
be- found. There l. also prevailing feeling
that those who have gold In any quantity put
on altogether too many airs about IT, ana mat
in the interest ~ democracy they ought 10 be
taken down and made 10 understand that III
this country one man Is ~ good ~ another.
They are In the habit Of sending representatives,
To- Congress who are practically under n-irlc-
,ons TO procure legislation that VIII reform
the currency and distribute ii in such way
that the people Of Texas who have been up
holding the Constitution for little or nothing
ever since the war closed Will get hfty dollars
apiece for H. The results Of The late Congress
siona elections having been somewhat dis
cuuraging to the patriots who were desiring
that contamination. they doubtless resolved TO
take a short cut To prosperity by SELLING upon
whatever currency coin happened to be- pass
Ing through the State.
This measure of relief. to which they were
obviously driven by the inhunan neglect OF
Congress TO afford them any other, VIII no
! doubt provoke criticism on the part OF persons
| who do not appreciate the fact that there IL
no more highspirei and chiyalrous people on
! the face Of the globe than the citizens or Texas,
and that because they are high-spirt'd ana
chlvalrous they cannot bear the thought that
gold coin should be passing through the state
I'm large quantities over railroads chartered by
their own Legislature while many Of the states
most entprprising sons were actually In their
own personal cxchcquer below the fifty dollars
pcr capita TO which they are under the resol'l-
tions Of many recent conventions justly en-
titled The rank injustice Of existing financial
conditions stirred them 10 the very depths.
They had suffered for many years from Inc
cxactions Of gold bugs" and "putocrats,
whom they had permitted To build railroads
tbrough the State and who. after this privilege
had been accorded them, had the shameless
impudcncc 10 demand money from citizens of
Texas for merely riding on the cars or sending
their cotton 10 market This they had rcgl-
lated I'm some measure by legislation concern
ing transportation rates. which compelled the
Infamous capitalists 10 keep the railroads run
ming and prohibited their taking any money out
Of the State More recently they had taken
steps 10 get even" with the tyranny Of capital
by having acquisitions issued by their noble
and patriotic Governor. upon which several
malcfaciors who had tramplcd on the natural
rights Of man by selling oil in Texas ut such
n miserably low price that the oIl-producers Of
that State could not compete were to be brought
into their own jurisdiction and compelled To
disgorgc their gotten plumber among the very
people whom they had sought 10 dcmorallzc
and destroy by cncapcnIng the oil with which
they Illuminated their homes and made their
barrOOms cheerful.
But these processes were slow and not al
ways dead sure Naturally. they held up a
train What else could high-spritcd people
struggling under maturing obligations do? 1t
must he remembered that they inherited certain
| tendencies In the direction Of that sort Of en-
tcrprise The early settlers Of Texas were not
dis,incivcly early settlers anywhere else. On
the contrary, they were extremely late and
dilatory. Most Of them settled down In Texas
because they had failed to settle up In other
places. The present population Of the State no
doubt inhcrits tendency toward abruptness
in money matters. Ilcredity crops ont when,
| smarting under n sense Of wrong, they go out
and hold up a railroad train. 1t would be idle
! to deny that the somewhat hasty action Of the