The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-03

why Shouid any business maa, unless ne
has a political contract. support The Iexis
crration taxes on political favoriles, who
renGsr no service, Are you not under q
solemn obligation to see the school fund
properly admin stored. or 10 you repualate
this obligatcng Is 1t not your oussaess TO
stuiy this question of high freight rates
and boycott OF ships from your coast and
a practical remedy for III
DO YOU believe in MIR. Saycrs' proposition
TO loan that school fund TO other states, and
thus contract the circulating medium In
Texas DO YOU know that when it Is all In,
the permanent school fuad VIII amount 10
100000, 900? DO you know that the sover-
eign States MIR Sayers wants 20 loan II l.,
can't be made TO pay Il btcks DO you know
that his plan would contract more than free
silver wouV expand IN rexass You say
you leave taat to the politicians. Some OF
tn I'm never run io0-acre farm, u peanut
stand. or shipped car load OF freight. or
swapled horses three times in their lives
You are Sinking.
Under Savers new system of taxat. on,
as set out In his Tyler speech, OF which
you should have a copy. II you start u
factory you Will pay tax on the factory and
then on the stock and bonds OF the factory.
30 Il Will be taxing the same thing three
times. This is not equal and uniform tax
alton. or good business or good democracy
1t is taxing the horse and also the picture
of the horse,
The cheapest detective systom aud the
/ best detective sytem, the people could
have would be a libel law that would let
newspaper suffer IL 1t hei. but would pay
4 reasonable attorneys Zee for 1t IN sui,
against II for libel II It proved charges o.
mateasance or nlsfeaSsnce on public Off
cials, An Independent people end fearless
press 40 long way toward preserving
good government
Nm MIR Sayers say he Is In favor IL a
libel law that viii give tho newspapers 81
Texas q chance to tell the truth on PUBLIC
otticialg Readers OF newspapers have
right to know what public servants are
| doing ana how they are doing Il; with pri
yate citizens they have no concern--it Is
| with their hired mon Eastern papers are
making the Sl0i 900 haul a National Issue
and claiming that Texas slipped up on the
United States.
We will have better government ana
greater prosperity IN this State when the
vote is so close that poitcaes will be
| afraid 10 make had breaks or bad debts
based on public funds. Cleveland vetoed
$4,000 appropriation for seed for Texas
drouth sufferers on constitutional grounds
and soon after signed a $4,000 appropria-
! tion for flood sufferers In Indiana. lndi-
ana was a close State; Texas did MT matter
| You have 500 little country papers that
| you advertise in, Some of them never give
| bui one side 81 even political correspond
enco with their governor Why advertise
| In them?
You have county officers who put up
money to perpctuato high freight rates ana
| corrupt or loose government az Austin, yet
! you don't call them down. Your daily pa
! pcrs, like the News, crlticlse Eastern poll
/ tlcans hut because OF political libel law
| are afraid to expose the same malfcas1uce
! in office In Texas. You say this 10 none
/ Of your business, and doesn't appear on
| your odgeS,
Texas Is five times as large as New York
and yet is commercially in leading strings
! and yassalage, ~,lJ her dsc7 water port had
: as well be q duck pond. You are worse
| afraid Of the party lash than our Yagoo
negroes were of the overseers' lash before
the war. You are even afraid TO think out
loud for fear somebody VIII Yell popui 81 !
! or republican, Some day your own chill
drcn viii r.. over the sm0uldcrlng ruins OF
good government and curse you Tor having
permitted the encroachmcnt OF official pow
er aud greco. The Bible says, rebuke sin
! right AT the start. Why don't you bring
out or support populst or Independent cam
didAte for the leglslature2 See how Sena-
tor Coke, a sure enough democrat, ad-
dressed direct the entire Texas delegation In
congress on the question OF that Gppropra-
ton; with thS old tribune OF the people
there were no expensive go-betweens; no
telling the attorney general that here was
TO be great big law suit In . great big
court that required great big fee 10 an
outside lawyer tSee Cranes letter. | was
at that time an indorsng democrat let
Sayers do the indotslnB now He did not
ndorse Governor Roberts for second
term.
Read Colonel Dardens letter, and he is
another OF the old fashioned democrats that
! ndorsed. In those days man did not
havo to take an anesthetc or have a rich
political pull 10 indorsc democrats. IN
dorsements then did not lodge against my
Adams apple. Culberson, Carlisle nor
Sayers can show where the school .und
was In those days raidcd by false Vouchers
and political hcelers, or where county ofii-
GERS were assessed 10 maintain ii political
dynasty with an army OF political tayoritcs.
The humblest citizen. without regard TO
politics or religion In those days could gel
a certified copy OF any public document ny
paying the fee, and this have not Jei beSn
able to do under this mysterious democracy,
And Sayers, in hts Tyler speech, indorses
this imperial trea ment OF the citizens IL
Is a shame before high Heaven that such a
government should masquerade as democ-
racy. Sayers at Tyler falls down before
this brazen idol and calls 1t genuine but /
know when It was run IN on US. Inc Tekas
democrat who Rwears he ls keeping the
faith by worshiplng this new idol has not
lifted the veil. The Chinese feed their JOSS
dainnles lust as Joe did this political Joss
at Tyler. The high priest behind the fhrone
eats the danties and makes the Joss hoiler
for more. Judge o. NJ. Roberts resigned MS
scat on the bench by retura mail wheh
notified OF his nomination for governor
What democrats are keeping Sayers from
reslgning his congressional seat?
am not as much stuck on being your
servant at Austin as 1 am In seeing you
get rid OF your bosses. Did you read Colo
mel Stephen Darden's letter? He was a
democrat OF the old school. Your governor
/ rPDli,1 IN him in "A hurry
II tho Lord Is Bryan democrat, as wa'
cbalmed by Sayers in his famous Tyler
: speech. then the Lord have mercy on th'
soul OF our great governor, o. N, Roberts
for he died out OF the faith! For Tort!
, years he served the people well and dice
poor, for he held up neither corporations
, or the school fund. In his lasi days NJ
r wrote me letter. saying I was right In my
! mr5siller letters. and some OF the country
editors abused that grand old man; anc
: yet. with him dead, ! would rather have nj
appreciation than that OF many living men
' We will get back TO honest, eeonoTnici
government IN Texas, and stag there, 0
! our children. our graDdshiidren, WI ~is'
| TO God they had never been born In M
. flesh. Mine can stand 4 IL yours can
: ] NIL Tar refuHe