The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-07-01
Timely Topics.

Do you know that corn right here. In
Austin will be selling at 20 and perhaps
IL cents bushel before the end OF
August? Well, it's the truth. Now. my
friend, the argument of the free silver
man is that low prices of corn, wheat:
cotton, etc, are due to the appreciation OF
gold and because silver is not coined IN i.
unlimited quantities. Corn, I've said, is
going to drop 80 per cent within the next
. sixty days. 1t is now retailing at ~
cents a bushel and in August it is GER
tain to sell at 20 and perhaps 10 cents.
Will the dollar appreciate 80 per cent
in that time? You know it wont. The
price of corn is going to drop because OF
its bundance. The value of the corn Is
going to change mot the value OF the dol-
lar. If a change in the value of the dol
lar ia to make corn decline, then every
thing else bought with dollar Will de-
cline in the same proportion.
The little town of jamestown, In
Cloud county, Kansas, is run by women:
At the last election an entire ticket Oh
women, from the mayor downward, was
elected. These good ladies PROMISED 10
rid the town of saloons and gampnng.
On Friday night last a band of these
resolutc female citizens entered saloon
with axes, hatchets and hammers, ana
smashed the building and furniture into
FRAGMENTS. The beer and whisky were
smiled in the street and the thirsty null
titude Endorsed woman's rule as they par
took of free libations of whisky and beer.
Say, all over this state there has been
a howl about the non-enforcement OF the
criminal law, and judges have been de-
nounced numerically, and the blame laid
at their DOORS Now, my friend, what
about the juries? What about the able
men who return the verdicts turning
red-handed murderers loose upon the pub
lie? Have you ever thought of that!
Charles H. Lamson of Portland, Me-.
writes that he has solved the alrshlp
problem. He assembled to height Ut
nearly 100 feet in one of his airships
few days since. In the meantime Pro-
fessor Langley, who is greatly Interested
in airship work, has received an appro-
priation from the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington to enable him TO prose
cute his studies in this direction.
Say, do you know there is a whole heap
of trouble brewing for the political dema-
gogues? Well. there is, and no mistake.
You didn't hear much about that meet.
league at Nashville last month, but L can
tell you it was big thing. Say what
you will, the Christian voters of this
land are in the saddle, and they are,
there to stay. In some of the states
they have been in the saddle for some
time, and in those states it is said to be
absolutely impossible to elect man gov
ernor who is not Christian. In those
states the party that puts up, a man for
governor who is not Christian IS
doomed to defeat. 1t is well known
fact that the two great political parties
of the country dare not nominate man
for president who is not Christian.
The National Good Citizens league is
rapidly spreading all over this country,
and circular just issued says: =,
| ITO our countrymen we would say:
| cts turn out all the bad and incompee-
tent public officials of all parties, for such
are not only the cause of bad laws and
the non-enforcement of good laws, and
in great measure of the prolonged hard
times whereby millions suffer for bread
and beg for work, but are mainly. the,
cause of so much infdelity and wicked
ness in the land. ,.
THE four moral agencies for uplifting
humanity-the individual, the family. the
church and the state-should work along
in harmony, each in its own sphere. lift
ing mankind from want and suffering,
from wickedness and wretchedness to
bappiness and righteousness, Godward
and heavenward. But if the state re-,
mains goddess, manned by ungodly, sell
fish, self-seeking, corrupt and incompe-
tent demagogues, drunkards and liber.
tines, standing out against reform, and
with its unlimited power protecting and
encouraging evil men and evil things,
how can the individual, the family and
the church make desired progress in
cvangelizing the world? A goddess state,
with wicked and incompetent men at the
helm. is not only incapable of success
itself, but is the one great obstacle in the
way of evangelistic success, May an
good citizens, preachers and layman, all
over this God-favored country. speedily
recognize these facts and unite as one
man for clean government for decency
and for "a noon-tide prosperity that Will
be enduring
The purposes of the league are set out
as follows in the constitution:
First-To unite for efficient and con-
certed action and for mutual encourage
mement all friends of good government.
Second-To promote the study and