The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-19

votes.
In view Of what has been so sxienslvci,
preached from that source on the sublec
Iof "repudiatioa.' "anarehism," war on
capital" etc. in rcprobAtion Of other sec
tions. 1t mus, be a matter for won.
der that there should exist In the State o
New York conspiracy against capital.
To some Of US this information, from so
/. DISTINGUISHED source as Mr.. Danss news.
. paper. will prove q kind Of relief, so TO
speak II shows that the alleged war on
!, capital is not. as may have been supposed
: from reading republican and goidhug news
: papers. confined 10 the South and West.
II must make Us all in Texas feel .rifie
better to be informed tina, we are not
the only sinners. 10 find out that We are no
.. worse than some other people. For long
time past we have been severely admon-
ished from New York that We are piunsing
, headlong to commercial destruction.
through the discovery by our critics OF
sentiment unfriendly In nature and purpose
} toward capital We have been informed
tba, our legislature is playing the deuce
with things generally because its members
are stubborn enough TO have IDEAS OF heir
own in the matter OF local iavs-in a word.
that they are not sufficiently seryiie 10 the
EASTERN IDEAS Of the Inherent and sacred
rignt OF capital TO do business In is own
Way. II has bsen Numbered at US that xe
Ire seriously, even dangerously, infected
ALLEGED war on aggregated weAlth--other-
wise the s,ndioatts. trusts and other illegal
combines-else the t.raid East will lock up
Its CAPITAL and deny 10 Us anything in the
shape OF general prosperity We are told
that It IS simple presumption Tor our leg
isistuTe TO insist that big corporations do
/ i1g a profitable business in the State snail
government in the matter Of equal taxation
with the citizen. ana also be made to CON.
ply with the laws on the statute books
like other people
! All Of this. and more VA have had dinned
into cur ears. necessarily. increasingly. and
published to the world by such papers a.
the Sun. until one unsciuaintcd with the
Z Aitua'ioa might possibly be led to suppose
that Texas is a particular SPOT aggregated
, from the balance Of the Union, alone in it.
crimes against social order. whose people
are notorious commercial outlaws on the
search for timid capitalists 10 cheat. to rob
and even actually deyour. The Sun has
been Kind in the spreading Of the labt
We have slnned. II AZ all. not by ourselves
II NC be guilty OF what has been charged
20 us. then We have some fellow "consplra.
tors against capiial IN the republican leg
Stature Of The great state Of New York
Hut SERIOUSLY. this vail Of the Sun ar.ins,
ne investigation az the sugar tr,is, is on |
parity with land entftled to about the |
ssn'e confederation the many howls raised
lsSirs' the laws and conduc, q the gov
e7n'aent IN Texas and other Southern
and Western States.
Senators Am ami We, are o,,osed %
we secret sessions Of congress Thnre ts
really no ground Tor opposition. however
a- ore O.; the noodle points of the secrs,
ss4ons - The lack Of secrecy.
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max war IN Crete Was a kind OF Zone
nishf s'and SO 20 speak
u is 20 be hoped that II Ex-Governor
',o"E accepts che naval portfolio he viii |
s17eesn in preventing the vessels or tho
..aEy from attempting to break in on
General Ayers preserves.
Houston H s9.ns 10 have building
loom. q hiils later on In the spring.
queen Ill win De one OF the people who
"ill feel thrill OF exquisite delight ms
t'e sees ;he poruy figure Of aIr. Cleveland
stalking down Pennsylvania avenue on
the fourth Of March.
The editors are having nice tire In
''~lVesion' but they must not leave Texas
without seeing Houston
4A'4 as ne big day Ia Galveston. The
silver service VIII be presented to the
paiilesA.2 Texas IN due form. and the
ceremonies promise to be quite interest
IN few days all that Will rsm,in or
c@nion's eifeTyescent dream of glory viii
be- badly 'rampled front yard.
Asa bushnell and Asa Jones are at the
l"aa OF Political affairs In Ohio. and
eoaotiess Mark Hanna considers them
'ae hisseg pair Of Aus in che State
+'f-- "s- 'A-fNat 70 10 ss~Es The htUEest
'ole0iloD Of fossils ia the United States.
Va hi1- IS The matter with Kansas?
snnpH Mr.. Cleveland decide 10 mako
toAi Of the world. az has oeen susges.e,l.
H~ "onla eonbueas he received wlth great
honor IN boih England and spain.
ono pleasing feature connected with the
hR New York bail IS thai Mrs. Bradley
A'ar'in has not proposed to 80 on The
t2ase.
ne Texas statesmen had good time
ye~'"riay ard express themselves as de-
lighted with Their trip to the historic bat
tien'ad OF san Jacsnto
No" would be good time 10 push A
spoi roads blu through congress. A good
d@al OF walking VII be done abou,
March l.
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