The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 123, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 23, 1884 Page: 4 of 8
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DISPOSING
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OF THE SCHOOL AND
ASYLUM USDS.
Sir, Temple Houston denies that " free grass
If dead." He signifies that the free-range cat-
tle ii.teiest of Northwest Texas, for which he
spe nks, will appeal from the Democratic State
convection to the Nineteenth Legislature and
11 ake l contest in that body for a chmge of
tl e land laws to accommodate the claims of
fi < e press. This would involve the repeal of
Ihe law providing for the lease of the school
scd asylum lands, and would involve also le-
gislation providing for the sale of these lands
urder conditions calculated to prolong indefi-
ritely the era of free range at the expense of
tbe school and asylum funds arid the taxpayers
of the Btate. It may be creditable to tbo courage
end pertinacity of the free-range cattlemen
ana their advocates to demand such conces-
sions from the legislature, but it could hardly
speak much for their discernment if they did
so with Ihe belief that such concessions would
be made. There is as little ground for ex-
pecting specific action of the legislature in
favor of free grass as there was for expect-
ing a specific declaration in favor of free grass
from the Houston convention. Outside of a
comparatively small population who claim as
sort of vested right the usufruct
-- <jf Jands which do not belong to
tbem, the sentiment has besn steadi-
ly growing in Texas that all who
lerd and fatten their cattle on the school
lards should be made to pay a fair price for
the lands or ft r the grass which the cattle con-
tuir.e. With the exception mentioned, thissen-
timent is well-nigh universal with the people
ct Texas. This sentiment holds, as tho Demo-
cratic platform just adopted at Houston holds,
that the school and asylum lands are a sacred
tru-t to be administered for prescribed public
put poses, and that tbe legislature is expectod
to lake enre that the substance of tliis trust
i hull not be sacrificed to the greed of any
t lass. This means, of course, that the legisla-
ture is < xpected to guard lands which are
("edicated to the benefit of the school children,
tl e insane, the blind, the deaf and dumb of
the Etato from the depredations of any class,
and especially of tho class which has been
<ini| lacently arrogating as a clear gratuity
Ihe v.sufiuct of these londs. It is a class
that chronic and excessive indulgence has
made selfish, grasping and insufferably ex-
' ct ng. I he true type of this class has an
dea that land and what glows on it—the
vorid, indeed, as far as he knows or cares
■bout it—were made for him and his fellows,
nd for him and then) alone. To him and them
cows and calves and steers are more precious
thfin men, women and children and other con-
stituents of a settled society uud a progressive
civilisation. Such is the free-grass idea in its
Itubareus nakedness. The land-leasing svs-
tni now in vogue, though qualified with right
.— sale to actual settlers, is far from being
1 est system for disposing of the school and
psylt.m lunils; but it is decidedly preferable to
111 I t dotiinii ni of free grass. The Houston
platform wisely contemplates that the present
M iti lii which, as it allows great quantities of
lerd to be taken up by large cattle-owners,
. tends to retard the purchase and occupation of
(he lends by actual settlers, shall be at length
abandoned in favor of the policy of
disposing of the lands solely b" sale to actual
ntllers. The platform submits a difficult
pre bit m, however, when it proposes that the
lands stall be sold at a reasonable price fixed
ly law. As far as the school aud asylum in-
terests are concerned, a reasonable price Is the
highest price which actual settlers are willing
to pay. If the law fixes a less price, then an
injustice will be done to those interests. If It
fixes a price so high as to prevent sales to ac-
tual settlers, then also injustice will be done
to these interests, and the settlement, develop-
ment and prosperity of the frontier will lis
retarded besides. To promote these conditions
end to do justice to the school and asylum in-
terests, the laud laws must be considerably
cliai ged in a way calculated to repress and
stamp out the free-range practice of appropri
tiling the public property of the people without
returning an equivalent. To this extent'the
needful legislation, whatever title it may bear,
must operate as a herd law against heretofore
predatory herders.
HOW SOME ORGANS MAKE MUSIC.
The methods of some newspapers are pe-
culiar. No matter what political principles
they may pretend to advocate; no matter how
earnestly they may pretend to do better for
a certain cause, they are sure to turn up at
some time in some predicament at once fatal
and scandalous. A fow days ago an item ap-
peared in a Houston paper purporting to be a
special dispatch from New York. Thosi fa-
miliar with the "special dispatch" bnsinrss
of the paper referred to took no notice of the
enterprise, knowing that about one-half the
matter accused of being " special telegrams " is
stole n bodily from Northern papers or clumsily
manufactured in the home office. The Chica-
go Tribune of the 19th throws a little light on
one performance that may be of Interest to
the people of Texas. Says the Tribune:
There was published, last week, in ihe Houston
(Texas) Post a dispatch, purporting to be from New
York, consisting of an alleged interview with ttie
Widow Hatpin on the subject of her relations with
Grover Cleveland. According to the dispatch, she
admitted the intimacy and tbe child, said that
they weie both to blame, but she perhaps the
most, and that he had tried to make reparation for
wrongs done. She took to drink while brooding
over what she fancied to be her wrongs, and then
it was tint Cleveland had her removd,
for her irood, she bays, to an inebri-
ate asylum, where she got well. She
had never had relations with any one hut Cleve-
land, though he liad believed otherwise, which
led to the difficulty. The histury of this dispatch,
as learned by the Tribune from an unquestioned
authority, is curious. It was not a special to the
Houston paper from New York, hut was sent to it
by mail from St. Louis, with the request that it be
printed as a special, an t that It b • telecraphud to
the Globe-Democrat of St. Louis, which was done.
It «os evidently prepared bv the Cleveland literary
bureau for the purpose of weakening tho force of
the disclosures in relation to Cleveland's connec-
tion with the widow. It is a clumsy forgery so far
as she is iSoncerned, hut it is of value as tending to
show the extent to which the
bothered by the scandal and
show the extent to which the party leaders ar.3
bothered by the scandal and the difficulty the)
find in explolninK it away. Like all ttie other ex
plsnations that have been given to the world, It
will be seen that it is a practical confession of
guilt.
To attribute this trick to a Cleveland literary
bureau is simply preposterous. Taking the
facts as slated, it is plaiu that the Houston or-
gan became a party to a scheme to humbu- the
public, and propagate in its small way details
of scandal about tbe Democratic candidate for
president. It is difficult to tell whether the
I'obI was merely humbugged by Republican
schemers in connection with the Globe-Dem >-
crat, or whether it deliberately entered into
an alliance with Republicans to circulate a
campaign slander on Mr. Cleveland. Either
horn of the dilemma is not only unpleasant,
but disgraceful. It is certain that the Post at-
tempted to perpetrate a fraud on the public,
but whether it was the thoughtless tool or the
deliberate aeent in this matter is a problem
that every man is at liberty to work out in his
own mind. The incident, however, shows that
profesi-iunal and conscienceless organs are
dangerous as exponents of party principles.
Get,(rally they have no higher ambition than
organship to a successful politician, and can
easily become the \ ictiins of tricksters or the
agents of knaves.
BETH A YAL OF TRUST IN HIGH PLACES.
The commercial journals of the United States
are devoting just now a great ileal of attention
to the serious subject of defalcation and be-
trayal of trust by prominent officials in bank-
ing and financial circles. A great tnauy rea-
sons arc assigned for the spread of tiao evil,
conspicuous among which ate the prevalence
and opportunities for speculation, tli i fejble
administration of tbe ct iminal laws in cases of
malfeasance, and the refuge afforded across
the border in Canada to men who have disre-
garded their trusts and betrayed and defrauded
the public. In the line of checking and re-
forming the prevalent evil the public has
found no truer adV' cite than Bradstreet's.
" The public journals published during the
past week two facts of particular interest,"
says Bradstreet's, "as bearing on the demo-
ralization of the fiduciary sense and on some
of the causes which foster that demo
ralization. The business week in Wall
street was opened by the suspension of a bank
whose cashier had committed irregulari-
ties to the extent of half a million dollars. The
same issue of the journals which chronicled
the failure of this bank notified tho public that
Eno, the defaulting ex-president of the Second
National bonk, was negotiating for the pur-
chase of a fine residence in the most fashion-
able part of Quebec. These are facts that
should give rise to very serious reflections.
When a breaker of trust can secure an asylum
from justice across the border of a neighbor-
ing state, and can with his ill.gotten means
purchase immunity, ease and mayhap some
degree of consideration there, it is no wonder
that the temptation to embezzlement ani
blench of trust should number so many vic-
tims." This presentation of the matter, as
Bradstreet's observes, is cause for serious re-
flection. Extradition is not possible under ex-
isting international relations, and hi <h-(lying
criminals have pretty much the game
in their own hands. It is little
wonder that discontent is prevalent in many
quarters. Mr. Eno, the defaulting bank
president, occupying a fine residence in the
fashionable part of Quebec, unmolested and
undisturbed, is a specimen brick of American
justice that must agitate in anything but a
benign manner the cogitations of the masses
of American society. A poor devil of a clerk,
who has perhaps misapplied or defaulted with
an insignificant sum of his employer's money,
and who could not purchase a railroad ticket
on which to get out of the country, would find
the law quick enough about his ears. There
should be something done to lessen the pre-
miums now offered to rascals of the mag-
nificent stamp, otherwise comparisons will
continue to be instituted as to the quality of
American law and order; and the comparisons
will not be favorable to the preservation of
peace and ciuiet in the American social fabric.
HON. WASH JONES WRITES A LETTER.
Under date of Lampasas, August 10, Hon.
Wash Jones writes to a friend in this city on
the political situation. The News has per-
mission tei print an extract from t'ae letter.
Mr. Jones says:
I am disinclined to return to tile political arena
I could not support Cleveland without violence to
,i11(1 I'll!ent and conscience Nor can I support
Flaine. <-ii principle, and 1 am sura I can not. under
any circunistanct s. tie fool enough to trust liut.h r.
So I am wi'hout a candidate in the presidential
tace. Of the threw caixlidutes. I regard Blaine as
the best man, but the thought of making a presi-
dential canvass on personality is revolting to my
ideas of institutional government You say that
1 agree with (he Texas Democrats on the tariff.
How ctazy you must be! They are for free trade
and protection. No man can a^ree w-itti both. I
hold witn Madlgon, Jackson, Buchanan, et al, for
tariff for revenue, so adjusted fts to encourage
American Industries—I. e., I agree with Randall,
Convi rse, lloadly, at al.
Really, Mr. Jones is in a peculiar dilemma.
It is too bad that this country is not good
enough for him. He should emigrate to some
country where lie can find people good enough
to vote for. It is not astonishing that the deputy
Hi publican lender of Texas should find con
scientioiiB scruples iu tho way of voting for
Giover Cleveland; but what in the nunn ot
nil that is humorous is the matter with Blainn
end Butieri It may seem natural tha". hj
sheuld regard Blaine as " tho best mm," but
sittely Mr. Jones must be joking when he in-
sinuates unpleasant things of Ben B it'er. It
is a'ra' st incredible to think that himself attd
Ben ate not hand in glove. They are aim i t
alike, barring that 1! 11 is a little smarter, and
yet is not so good a judge of some things. It
is not to be supposed that Mr. Jones can vote
for a Prohibitionist candidate for president,
and hence noither St. John nor Pomer y can
hope to win his suffrage. Thus are all the presi-
dential candidate's disposed of because none
of them can reach the Jones idea. In this
emergency why doesn't Jones run for president
himself? There is no law in this country pro-
hibiting a man from running for president,
and in order to save his suffrage and ease his
conscience, the Bastrop statesman should
make a dash for the White house himself. He
would stand nearly as good a chance of being
elected president of the United States as
he would of being elected governor of
Texas, anil he would earn more notorioty
by grasping for tbo big thing. He, perhaps,
has an idea of doing this, as he incidental-
ly gives his tariff platform in his letter to his
Galveston friend. Tbe Bastrop statesman is
in line with the Republicans on the tariff ques-
tion, he is in line with the Texas Republicans
on the free-grass question, and consequently
he can have no legitimate kinship with the
Democratic party. If Mr. Jones should appeal
for the suffrage of tho people of Texas, he
could safely expect Republican support. He
has nothiup in common with the Democratic
party, and no Democrat can consistently con-
tribute to his political advancement. It is not
unlikely that Mr. Jones is a permanent dead
duck iu Texas politics, and it is not likely that
Texas politics will suffer in consequence.
The Galveston News was enunciating and
upholding Democratic principles, and aiding
and assisting in the establishment of Demo-
cratic authority, long before some of its mod-
ern instructors and political critics were born
or heard of. The News is likely to be doing
the same thing long after a few of them at
least have returned to the faith from which
they are but recent converts—that is, if they
have any faith except in the quantity and
hardness of their immaculate cheek. Demo-
crats for revenue only are not the kind of
cattle to instruct The News as to what it
should do in any political emergency. The
News will.generally be found right side up
with care.
The Texas coadjutor of the GIobe-Demo-
cratis a fine institution to set itself up as tho
leader of Democracy in Texas journalism.
The News is willing to see even the most
hardened Republican taken to ttio l.oiom of
he Democratic party, but there should b9 a
period of probation before such are turnei
out as full-fledged leaders. Tho suddenly
enthused convert might mi-tike tha road
some fine morning and move off in spite of
himself to the sound of the old music, it is u
sericus task to teach old dogs new tricks.
Mn. Dana will doubtless be secretary of
state when Ben Butler becomes president, but
not before.
DeakDana: llavo just heard from Texai.
Wash. Jones has no faith in me, aud if you
would just as soon I would like to go behind a
tarn and kick myself. Do you think the coun-
try-could get along if 1 died of grief ' Your3 iu
deep humiliation, [Ben Butler.
The San Francisco Alta says that the
Chinese leper colony in that city has beer,
eleaned out temporarily by shipping all the
inmates of the lazaretto off to China; but it
intimates there are white lepers in the city,
and it p.dvises that a contract be made with
tlie government of Hawaii to allow all the
lepers found in California, who cannot be
otherwise disposed of, to be sent to its leper
settlement at Molokai. " This," says the Alta,
" would avoid the establishment of a lepet
colony in California, and at tho same time rid
us of our lepers in a perfectly legal way. It
w ould not be difficult to devise means to make
the lepers consent to this transportation as a
choice of evils."
It is now time to close up the ranks and
quit monkeying.
Eastern papers publish a pitiful story
about the civil suits to recover Star-route
stealings. The attorney-general appears to
have quarreled with the lawyer selected to
prosecute the cases. Mr. Brewster neither
managi d the matter himself nor trusted it
to the other. Two years'have passed Since the
facts were in hand, and Brewster declared
that every cent must and would be recovered.
But there has not been a scent of a cent got,
and of course there has been expense.
Logan has been given the freedom of his
mouth once more, and as a natural conse-
quence the ghost of Lindley Murray again
squirms.
Woman suffrage is a part of Butler's plat-
form, yet it is feared that he can not divide
the w oman's vote with St. John.
"The Cuban crisis" has been a long tiim iu
type. ^
Blaine's campaign will want some particu-
lar thunder. W ill Elkins invent an imitation
Gnitenu and dress him as a Southern Demo-
crat? It would be so handy to have Blaine
with his arm iu a sling, especially so he could
not go to Indianapolis to attend that trial.
Has anybody any loose dimes lying around
to put up on the prediction that Barnett Gibbs
wont be the next Democratic candidate for
governor?
Every telegraph editor and proof reader in
tbe country should vote for Cleveland and
Hendricks. The brevity of their letters should
suggest the reason.
The tender drawl of Wayne MacVeagh will
not be heard on the stump this season, and
citizens of all parties unite in returning thanks.
To be made to listen to a speech of MacVeagh
is punishment enough for a lifetime.
The Widow Butler should remember fiat
there is in the neighborhood of 80,000 Demo-
cratic majority in Texas waiting to be con-
verted. Let the widow come and try and
make a mash.
John Swinton'S dream: The bigger the
knave elected to the presidency the sooner
things will culminate.
Butlek wants labor bureaus established to
decide the rate of wages and their decisions to
have the force of law. It would bo a misusj
of terms to call such arbitration bureaus. They
would be arbitrary state communistic bureaus.
Hew long would it be liefore a centralized gov-
ernment would deal out bread uud mo it and
force the workers to toil a certain fixed num-
ber of hours at something to which they would
be assigned, whether they liked It or not? In
other words, how long before tbe whole peo-
ple would be slaves? Butler should tie on to
Bismarck. Blaine is tainted with the sam i
Ideas—destruction of individual liberty.
CN the 17th of Beptemtier, 1874, only six
slort years ago, the New York Sun said:
It is many years since Geaeral Butler c' tsed t.
be a Demoorat and became one of the most reso-
lute opponents of Democratic principles and poli-
ty. An onK all the conspicuous Republicans of t,he
conntiy not one has gone further than ti« lu Hos-
tility to the Democracy or in defense and jus till' i
lion of Hepul li'an atrooltles. f)f Gruilsin ha
1 asbi on a ci utitiued defei der, and of SeL-or ito ie-
( 1 11 a thrrough-golncr Bpoint-lit. Now ho lias
I n ken oft' ftoni the Republican party, but ho ha<
not approach!d the i emocratu, except to -e-k fur
tlielr votes aim for th'-lr nomination. Witli their
prlnrlpli s and their purposes he does not profess
to sympathise. He s eks for their suffrages for
II is own benefit, not theirs If they trlve blui their
ncminailon they abandon all that is distinctive an I
Kt'm ill In their pariy existence.
Butler is in exactly the sain i condition at
the present time. He is as bad now as he was
then, and the offenses charged against hitn
then are equally valid now. Yet in the face
of this the Sun calls Ben a Jeffersonian Demo-
crat, possessed of all the virtues now, and ad-
vises Democrats to vote for him for president.
Does the Sun believe that consistency is the
virtue of fools?
New motto for the Suu: Let up on the ras-
cals.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
abandoned Blaine for Butler. That staid Re-
publican paper tried hard to stand tho Mulli-
gan letters, but could not endure many weeks.
Blaine has no organs in New York now, they
say, except the odious Tribune anil the dude
stock jobbing Mail and Express.
woifiier if Elkins ever hired anybody not
to mutilate a tombstone?
Divorce is not permitted in South Carolina,
and Judge Davis cites that as the models'ate.
Mrs Stanton replies, that " divorce is not the
foe of marriage. Adultery, licentiousness, in-
temperance are its foes. One might as well
speak of medicine as tho foe of health." The
subordination of the individual to the state
is set down as a serious mistake for a judicial
mind. It is not right that tbe individual
should be sacrificed to society for the reason
that " whatever promotes the best interests of
the individual promotes the best interests of
fociety. and vice versa." She quotes that
tbo legislature of South Carolina found] it
necessaty to regulate by statute "how large a
portion of his property a married man may
give to his concubine." One of the Southern
judges from the bench declared, " men of ex-
cellent character, unfortunate in their mar-
riages, and virtuous women abandoned or
driven away homeless by their husbands,
would here be doomed to celibacy and solitude
if they did not form connections which the law
does not allow." Mrs. Stanton argues that
where unfitness exists, it would be rather to
the interest of society for the state to step iu
(supposing aui hority in the matter an admit-
ted fact) and insist on annulling the contract,
instead of impeding a separation. But she is
cor tent to let divine influences take care of the
divine part of the institution, and thinks the
nteristof children is not to bo promoted by
holding unhappy couples together, but that
still more freedom of separation would oparat)
to put them on their good behavior. These are
somewhat novel and bold opinion? coming
Ircm u lady of high character, aud appearing
n the North Americau Review. They doubt-
ess repiescnt many thoughts often suppressed
irom a fear of doing harm, or meeting censure.
Bi ti.er makes no allusion to Blaine. This
is another evidence that Butler is running a
side-show in Blaine's interest.
It is rather suggestive, to say the least, that
Johnny Davenport, after four years of ieiay,
should make bis report concerning the Morey
letter on the eve of a presidential election.
With Johnny, partisanship is tbe highest duty.
" Dow are the departments doing ?"
The Blaine folks should instruct the Rev.
Buffalo Ball to get up a first-class slander on
Carl Scburz. Cari seems badly in need of a
slander as he keeps continually sticking sharp
pins into Mr. Blaine.
"A list of those who contribute is kept,"
says Highwayman Elkins's blackmail com-
mittee, addressing the government clerks,
w hich means those who don't contribute are
marked. The New York Herald very pro-
perly draws President Arthur's attention to
the blackmailing business. The president pro-
bably has a duty to perform:
Sir. Hayes was in many ways a small being, but
we assert, without fear of contradiction, that noth-
ing in all liis petty career so fixed him in tlie utii-
yetsal public contempt as the fact that he unbliisli-
inply ran away from Washington aud permitted
lis subordinates to he robbed of a part of their
small pay. We believe President Arthur would
like to return to private life with the respect ani
repard of bis fellow-citizens, which, so far, he has
eminently deserved. But if in this matter he follows
(lie base example of Mr. Hayes he must expect,
and he will surely receive, the same coutoaipt
which justly covirs ''that poor creature, Hayes,"
aud he will get. no thanks from the Blaine gang.
Let it now be seen whether there ia any
force in American public opinion. President
Arthur n ust do bis full duty to stop the out-
rage or be made odious.
The All any Plumed Knights, a Blaine cam-
paign club, elected Roscoe Couklina an honor-
ary member, and instructed the secretary to
notify the ex-senator. Mr, Conkling promptly
nusvered declining tho honor," aud assert-
ing that he was completely out of politics.
Thought Conkling could not swallow Blaine.
It turns out that Mulligan is still alive, his
reported death being merely a campaign lie.
No doubt the w ish was father to the thought.
It w on't be very long beforo tho talented
Elaine crutors will be ascribing tho abundant
whent crop of the Northwest to the wisdom of
Bepublican rule.
Economy of forces is practiced in all things
but politics. There, as the voter is a free
l.orse, tbe politicians would rather have 100,-
P00 majority, where 50,000 would do just as
w ell. The 1 ree horse idea is the life of that
trade.
If a New York newspaper does not call at-
tention, like a vendor's auctioneer, to the
f avorable prospects of some stocks or others,
probably it isn't a Blaine organ.
Mr, Dawes must have a terribly poor opin-
ion of men in public life. He says: " I should
be false to my duty and to the truth if I did
not declare my solemn conviction that there
is no man in public life whose public and pri-
vate character is more free from stain than
that of Mr. Blaine." What? All bad! No,
no; tbe country will not believe it.
Oxe of the nasty press reporters has found
an old man who says Maria Halpin is his
daughter, »tk1 he will certify to her miscon-
duct. Of course, for a consideration you can
get men to certify that she was born a widow,
and seduced both Blaine and Ligau.
If gaming in all forms, including bettln?,
must go. it would appear necessary to remove
the temptation invariably found in a presid sn-
tial election. All gambling is essentially bet-
ting. 8nd at present it seems as if there would
be betting as long as there are elections. But
perhaps the elections are the greater nuisanca.
8TATK PRBM.
What (he Interior Papnra 8a f.
It is announced that arrangements have
been made whereby Rev. W. G. Templeton
from this date becomes a co-editor in the con-
duct of the Texas Observer, published at Cor
sicana.
The Rusk County News makes this reflec-
tion on the face of the editor of the Houston
Age:
Uncle Dan'l Mcflary, of the Houston age. says
thai he has seen (lie face of Willi mi Daniel, tin
Prohibition candidate for vlee-pr aidant ot' the
United States, and it Is tlie ugliest t hat he has over
looked i<t. This Is proof positive that Uncle Dan'l
either never combs his lialr or, If he does, never
stai ds before a mirror.
Uncle D. finds bi t'er use far his lime than
to view himself in an amorous looking-glass,
ye! he may look the whol < world In the face
as a man who has i evei loan charged with
stealing anything or telling a falsehood. He
coes not pose as a dude. His face may be
1 ard but is fair, as some one said of tho Ilint.
Tbe canning business se ms to be at a stand-
still at Fort Davis. Th» Rockett says:
Dog and burro connlng seems to have beea su
I erseded by kite-Hying.
It is probable hat I ho dogs and donkeys
were not put up t r food, like the canine re-
ported by the San Antonio paper to have been
UBed in making tamales, but simply bad tbe
cans tied to their tails to cause them to show
their Bpeed and heels.
The Rockett says:
The Indian scare at Van Horn, mentioned In our
last issue, grew out of the fact that a party of
prospectors, who had got lost In the mountains,
had kl'led some cattle to eat, and that the llgiits
teen were their campflres.
The Bryan Enterprise threatens to discon-
tinue the announcements of a number of can-
didates unless they pay up. As a rule, an
nouncements which are not paid for when
first made are never paid.
Tbe Han Antonio Light copies from a Mexi-
can paper, La Defensa del Pueblo, of Monte-
rey. an article bitterly denouncing Americans
and accusing them w ith designs on the inde-
pendence and wealth of Mexico. No doubt
there is much jealousy toward Americans
among'.he non progressive classes in Mexico.
Tbe Light says:
San Ai.tonlo conies to the front with the largest
Blaine and Logan club In the State, having now
SCO members on the roll.
'ihe Light also says:
Nothing Ih to be pained by the Republicans in
Tons this year, or any oilier, for that matter, with-
out stialulitout nominations, and a square race.
Such a course is far more commendable than to
support men who want votes without advocating
ih, party principles.
The Fort Worth Gazette of Tuesday said:
That pot of crow is boiling. Alas, poor Sterett,
Alas, poor l'ost. Alas poor all the other esteemed
land-lease contemporaries.
W as the Gazette sorry because the papers
named w ere not destined to get any of the
crow? The Gazette got most of it.
Tbe Brownsville Times has this to say of a
man who was a citizen of Galveston at an
early day, but went west to grow up faster
than the country. He still has friends in Gal-
veston:
In another column appears the announcement of
Judge Kelsey, of Starr county, as a candidate for
tlie legislature. The judge, who is the only mil-
lionaire in the valley, has lived forty-four vears on
Ihe frontier, know- the wents of tho people and
teve n things about politics, and if lie snouldopeu
Lis har'l besides he would give some of thoin a
light tace up in that country.
The Tin.esgives a bad account of the state
of affairs on the other side of the Rio Grande:
Owing to the drouth this year the crops ia the
northern part of ihe Mexican .State of Tamaulipas
lire a total failure. As a natural result tho m st
nMiessiiir noverly reigns supreme among the
lower classes ' f licit, di: trict and business Is dull
am at h standstill. The outcome has already bo
t.un. The lawiesh classesare railinar on those who
i r< supposed fto have opp-jsed burulng, stealing
and robbing.
'Ihe limes says more United States troops
or state troops are necessary to secure Texas
Irom incursions of these marauders.
Eagle Pass Times says: " it was conceded
by all that the strength of Ireland was pho-
nomenal." That word phenomenal has a
cabalistic force for tho average newspaper. It
leminds one of the story of the illiterate man,
who said to the friend who was to write a
letter for him: "Put down 'notwithstand-
ing;' that is a good word." When a thing is
pronounced phenomenal, investigation and
arguments are closed. The only answer is
like that of the Texas editor to another who
had called him unique: "You're another."
The Brownsville Times, possibly in refer-
ence to the bands of Mexican outlaws on the
border, says:
The state troops should be held ir. readiness by
Governor Ireland, that they may bo massed along
the Bio Grande on short notice. They will, in all
probability, be needed before many weeks.
Alluding to the collapse of a great newspv
pei enterprise the San Antonio Express says,
ironically:
The fortunes which. Texas newspapers are
making, have made, and will continue to be accu-
mulated ly those who go into busiuess are simply
fabulous. They talk about Vanderbilt, Gould,
Sage, Huntington and other grand soeculators who
are laying up tons of shining gold 'and stacks of
government securities, as men who ought to bo
made to stop gathering iu so much of tie- money-
thatjotlici peopletought to have, but stOD these daily
tapers first. It Is shameful that editors and those
having interests in newspapers are permitted to go
on in the way they are doinf?, charging the poor
people who are obliged to advert.se twice as much
as the law ought to allow them, and griading the
face of the poor by wantln - them to pay their ac-
counts before they are six months old.
The Dallas Herald remarks in a similar tone:
The Texas Investment company advertised a
paid-up capital of $100,000; it was said to tie con-
ducting a very profitable business when it became
the owner of the Gazette and Live Stock Journal.
Tlie latter paper was repoi ted to be paying hand-
somely. The company is now reported to be in
debt £150.000. If all these current reports lie true,
the efl'ort to put the Gazette on a paying basis as
a first-class p.per has cost not less than
$200,000 to $250,000. And yet there are a
great many persons who want to onstage
in the newspaper business, thinking every
paper is a bonanza or a, little tub-mill for the
proprietors. Almost daily the e vidences ac mum-
late lhatii lakes something more than money to
run a newspaper. Every city can count its ne.v-i-
paper wrt cks by the soore.' How many pipers,
backed by " large capital," have tried to down Tuts
Galveston Nkws and the Dal as Herald ? Where
ate they y And yet tbe Herald cert linly, and possi-
bly Thk News, are firmer, more prosperous, better
newspapers to-day than ever before in their his-
tory. With the execution of the San Antonio Ex-
ptess, The News and Ilarald are probably the only
real newspaper enterprises to-day in Texas.
For " possibly Tub News," read " posi-
tively," and tlie Herald is about right, so far
as l his paper is concerned.
The Sun Saba News appears with its column
rules reversed as a sign of mourning on ac-
(ount of the death of its late editor, Mr. E. J.
Cady. He died suddenly of apoplexy.
Speaking of the soldiers reunion at Dallas,
the Roanoke Clipper says:
Colonel Win. Woods was the only orator who at-
tempted to portray the sufferings and inagnitVient
efforts of the Sibley expedition into New Mexico
end Arizona, and he did it well. A narrative of that
expedition would draw tears from the eyes of any
member of Napoleon's old guard. Theru-nwh )
composed that expedition were heroes, and they
graduated in the art of war during tlie licst six
months service in New Mexico and Arizona, an I
the PikesPealters and the Oaliforniaus, the men
with whom they fought, were not only bravob.it
they were gentlemen, aud white.
Norton's Intelligence savs:
An illustrated paper on A Corner of the Gulf of
Ilexico, by a New Orleans merchant, In tiie riap-
teinber Manhattan, will treat of the United States
almost wholly unknown to Northerners.
'Ihe article alluded to is a brief history and
description of the country nbout New Orleans
and Mobile. Are Northerners so very ignor-
ant cf a region known every where elso?
Ihe Brenham Banner says:
If (he present administration has herm extrava-
gant as charged by lis opponents, the blame should
be In id where it properly belongs, viz: at ttie doors
of tlie legislature. The rianner thinks (i:i* under
nil 11 e circumstances surrounding the administra-
tion of Ireland he has made a very fair und honest
governor.
Ihe Banner, howevar, thinks the salvation
of the State did not depend on the reuoirilna-
tion of the governor, and that there are scores-
of Democrats In Texas of unquestioned cap*'
bility and fitness for office who could poll the
full party strength.
'I he Waco Day has a scientist among its cor-
respondents. He writes, and gives his owo
proper name for proof of the statement:
'I hi entire rainfall of the earth Is exactly equal
to Ihe entire evaporation. If more water went up'
by eveporalion than ctt no down by rain the whole
earth would be its dry as po.vder, lo.ig ago. if
nc re water came down than went up again tho
w hole earth .w ould be covered with water, long
alo. All tltpt goes up must comedown.
This proves the soundness of the statement,
in the play of the little boys:
Whatgoes up must come down;
1'very fe low take care of his own crown.
The Paris Free Tongue says, without com-
ment:
Te-n years more will see all of the old Texas poli-
ticians either dead or shelved.
As a rule, ten years may well be regarded
as the average life of a politician, but there-
are some lively ones still in Texas who hav&
been in and around the crib four times as
long.
Tbe Free Tongue is rot the unbounded
friend of unlicensed speech that gome have in-
ferred from its name. It says:
It will in ti e future absolutely refuse to ex-
change with any paper lhat is not respectful iu its-
larguage toward an opponent in the discussion of
ull differences, or that deals in billingsgate and.
blackguardism.
The Free Tongue says:
The progressive city of Paris continues to wreath
h^r brow with one chaplet after another. To her
gas works, Ico factory, foundries, llourlnsr mills,
furniture factories and planing mills she now adds
a cotton-seed oil mill.
The Colorado Clipper clips the following-
from the San Antouio Stockman:
The State sold 8,000,000 acres of her public do-
main to a syndicate at fifty cents an acre, and took
at pay a palace wherein the politicians may be
sutroui.ded with much magnificence while they
put up jobs on the people. But it takes two dollars
an acre, good money, to buy a home in West Texas,
and if there is w ater upon it, no amount of money
w ill buy it. It is then leased at a high figure to
some lordly cattle owner, who has the use of the
ce ntiguous dry sections for nothing.
The Clipper also adopts the remark of an-
other paper, " items and money are very
scarce."
The Clipper says:
The absence of camp-meetings and barbecues;
in this county saves the candidates lots of hard
woik.
Not at all. It is easier and cheaper to round
up voters at such places than to chase them
all over the country. *
The Clipper reports a walking match at
Colorado, in which J. J. Moloney, the winner,
made the first three miles in twenty-niue min-
utes, not forced, and the four and one-quarter
miles in forty-five minutes. •
The Belton Reporter says:
Too much praise can not be awarded our brave-
fire hoys last Thursday night. Without their heroic
efforts a very large part of the city would now bo
in ruins.
The (Temple) Temperance Banner refers to
the fact that in seventy counties of Iowa there
are no saloons, as proof that prohibitory laws
can be enforced.
The Waco Examiner prints some fish stories
and heads a portion of its reading matter
"phenomenal facts." The fish stories do nob
come under that head. A man who would
confine himself to precise facts in describing
bis fishing exploits would hold a low place in a
fishing club.
The Houston Journal is liable to a suit for
slander for having said:
Hello! Is that thunder? we queried, as we walien!
down Main street last night. No, replied our
friend, it is only Colonel Booth, behind us, grum-
bling about the climate!
The civil service refor ners may be able
catch some of tbe Elkins crew of prestarno
lawyers. The law declares that "no person
shall solicit, in any manner whatever,"
contributions for election purposes " iu a
government building." The penalty is se-
vere. The Chicago Times makes this applica-
tion:
Now. the circular letter that Mr. Blaine's com-
mitteemen Lave issued is a solicitation of sticl*
contributions from public servants. It is addressed
personally to each official and employe, at hU
place of service in a government building and de-
livered to the public servants therein by the agency
of oilier public servants—namely, postmasters,
postal clerks and letter-carriers. It n eds no le/al
training to perceive that the proceeding is a clear
violation of both the provisions of law above cited.
The soliciting is done in a public building by tho
t er; ocs whose names are attached to the soliciting
It Iter. Till ugh it is not done personally by them,
it is done " in a manner " that is forbidden by tho
law, which forbids the doing of it " in any manner
whatsoever.'' 'ihe manner of doing it is by tho
agency of public officers and employes, who are
forbidden to be '-in any manner concerned " ia
doing it. either in or out of a public building.
Is tbe Blaine committee using the nnils for
an unlawful purpose?
An obscure Democratic organ in Illinois
having flopped to Blaine, the Republican
blanket sheets make the most of it. They
are 'always welcome to capture a bad smell.
The sheet in question exclaims it has long:
wanted to advocate war on the liquor traffic,
and it can not gratify that inclination. Nio»
Democracy that remained bottled up there.
Eutleu screws down the lid on the Demo-
cratic corpse. Selah! [Inter Ocean.] Whet*
Butler got into the box it did not want any
screwing. It has a spring lock. Butler is just
dropping the lid. That will be the last of
him.
On the whole, Henry Watterson is keeping
remarkably quiet during this campaign.
Hereford Cattle In England.
[London Telegraph.]
Tliere w ill be a most important sale of Here-
ford cattle next month at Stockton Bury, Leo-
minster, when a herd of over 160 in number
will be dispersed, which the late Mr. T. J.
Cowardine brought to great perfection. The'
event deserves prominent notice from the fact
that the variety of which it principally con-
sists is so highly popular in America that ther»
is almost absolute certainty of a considerable
portion of it realizing extraordinary figures,
and all of the best nuimals being bought to
cross the Atlantic. For some considerable
time past the uprise in Jie value of Uerefords,.
owing to the American demand, has been mat-
ter of notoriety, having caused tho general
averages for that breed to rise three-fold, anl
for particular strains ten fold. The latteiv
however, consist almost wholly of t vv>
kinds—the descendant? of tlia bull
Horace and those of the bull Lord Wilton.
Horace has long since passed aw.iy, bit a s ill-
of his last year, at the keen sale of Mr. IJ
Turner, realized 8u0 guineas, tho highest prtee
everpaid for a Hereford. Lord Wilton still
stands in his st ill at Stockton Bury, though
now enjoying his eleventh summer.' It is m>
feci et that the executors of the late Mr. Car
wardine have been offered 10:10 guineas for
him for exportation to America, but he wl l
remaiu to be disposed of with the rest of tli'J
herd at the auction to be h*1(1 next month be-
fore mentioned. This animal has proved one
of the most valuable ever known, and it is
fully expected that the prices they briug will
very much exceed any hitherto realized for
this breed. Lord Wilton is known to have a
magnificent form, and he has beaten in the
show-yard Archibald, tho first-prize winner
Inst week in the old bull class at Shrewsbury.
He has also taken champion prizes in compe-
tition with all other breeds, in which he ha9
distanced ihe famous shorthorn bulls Telo-
machus IX, Rover and Rosedala Oxfori.
Not n Foregone Conclusion.j
Lord Colernine was noted for imperturbable
presence of mind. Going up to his room in aa
Irish inn one night he found his bed occupied
by a stranger, who started up, exclaiming fu-
riously: "How dare you come into my bed-
room, sir! My name is Johnson; I shall de-
mand satisfaction in the morning." Just then
a wizen-faced little woman popped her head
out from under tho clothes. "Lord Colerain
Jointed at her and coolly observed: "Mrs.
ohnson, I presume."
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