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Galveston, Tex., April 10,1891.
It is claimed that ail the fatal^atemonts
roifanlinn Mr. Maine's health wnro concocted by
^tlio .upporters of President Harrison, led by
Colonel Kiliott F. Shopard, the anion corner man
the administration. It is quite clear
either this is sv, or th» storiss wsrs manalao-
tnred by Mr. Maine's shrewd nupporUrs to order
to throw the lie. oil on hi» opponents and then
pretend thut he i» an object of cruel poreecation
and that he should bo supported and his oppo-
nents condemned.
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THE COMMON CAUSE OF I'ROPEHTY
AND LIBERTY.
The alien land law, us it affects stability of
titles aud soi-urity of property, is one in
lineauu with rho persistent assaults of the law
department of Texas upon muniment* of land
tenure formulated and solemnly attested by
the hand of the state. Tho alien land law re-
pudiates tho good faith of Texas in for a half
century inviting investments of foreign money
in various enterprises within the jurisdiction
of the state. While doing bo it sets afloat a
general Impaaohuient of land titles passed by
private conveyance. The burden is upon the
holder to prove that the title he has acquired
is free from any taint of prohibited and out-
lawed alien interest. Otherwise he can not
be sure of the safety of his tenure or of
an opportunity to sell if he desires no
longer to bold. This is cumulative and
complementary to the systematic vehe-
mence with which attorney generals have
nttackod tho sanctity of titlos emanating di-
rectly from tho state and bearing its seal and
the signaturo of its chief magistrate. It is
also cumulative and complementary to a
seeming alacrity in recent judicial decisions
to discountenance faith in tho conclusiveness
of state land patents and to encourage aliunde
methods of trying issue whore title to land is
in question. It was once considered safe to
take the patent as tho starting point in tracing
a chain of title. But it apiwars now that no
examination or verification in this regard can
be considered complete and undutiablo that
does not oxtond indottnitely back of tho
patent. Indeed, it has become almost
tho despair of the best lawyers to make
up au unqualified opinion when asked for
advice about a land title, to know where
tho chain of iu genealogy has a beginning
or to say that there may not bo somewhere
a link of tho chain with a hiddon flaw or
exposed to some lurking and mortal dan-
ger. So tho very sky overhead is vexed
with a roving thunder cloud of doubt as to
muniments of land title. Nobody knows
what course it will tako or where its bolt will
slrike. A calm review of the case is woll cal-
culated to suggest a conspiracy among poli-
ticians and in public places to bring discredit
upou private land titles out of subserviency to
a morbid and industriously cultivated jeal-
ousy of private land ownership. Why, other-
wise, should the attorney general's office have
become a detective bureau for hunting down
titles which are sound but for the fault of
some other state officer? Apparently this
work—which has been going on for four
years—of disseminating distrust of land titles
has been favoraolo to political advancement,
while it has been gratifying to a spirit which
delights in such legislation as the alien land
law because such legislation is in touch with
a sentiment and agitation reaching for the
communistic confiscation of all private prop-
erty in land. Even the homestead would not
be spared if this spirit were once fully as-
cendant iu politics and in legislation. Mr.
Jerry Simpson and other alliance leaders
should bear this in mind when they speak
of defending the farmer in his hold-
ing of land and of vindicating his right
to use his real estate freely and to
the best advantago for procuring money facil-
ities. "The atliance," Mr. Simpson recently
said, "mean* that every man shall liavo a
home." This is well, provided that no man
shall part with his liberty for a home and that
for all men tho true senso and tho supreme
value of home shall bo a free status sustained
and guaranteed by every essential security of
natural rights of person, of industry, of trado
and of property. In the state of civilization
all these rights pivot upon the ownership of
property, and all forms of property havo at
last an indispcnsablo physical basis in reality.
A man can not truly own his labor and its
fruits unless ho is free to dispose of them by
sale and investment. Ho cannot truly own
his homo in connection with a parcel of real
estate unless sure of the title thereto and freo
to stay or go, to hold or to sell, as considera-
tions of interest in the light of exigency or op-
portunity may suggest. Under laws that
would make his relation to home and to lund
the reverse of these conditions ho must bo
either a serf bound to tho glebe or a precari-
ous tenant holding at the arbitrary will of an
official or quasi official landlord.
Thh only way to prevent or to put down
mob violence Is for the court, to enforce tho laws
fairly. There has novor been in this country as
little confidence iu tho olHcicncy and justice of
the courts as there is to-day. This statement
does not apply more forcibly to Tnxas than It doo»
to Louisiana, Tonuosoee, Alabama and various
other .tatos. Mobs are not afraid of tho courts
aud do not believe they will enforce tho laws,
llenco they take the law in their own hands.
ALIEN WOMEN AND THE OWNERSHIP
OF LAND.
It was said in Tub Nbws yestorday that one
result of tho alien land law would bo to put a
number of $f> fees into tho pockets of tho offi-
cials charged with administering naturaliza-
tion. As a general rulo sympathy need not be
lavished upon tho malo bimanes who has
taken out his first papers and fails for a term
of years to find the foe to become a full
fledged citizen. If he is still young he
can work for it. If he is old tho
probabilities are that ho has already
ooen enjoying most of the privileges of
citizenship on credit long enough or too long.
No citizens are wanted who intend so feebly
as not to conipleto their naturalization. The
fee of $5 may be rather high. That is an-
other question. What is wanted of the foreign
man is that he shall bo one thing or tho other,
a foreigner or nn American, and let him bo
thankful that the door to citizenship stands
ajar; but let him not dally a lifetime after de-
claring an intention which Bcomingly does not
intend. There is anothor feature of the anti-
alien law looming up at this point
touching naturalization. Whatevor may be
the indifference of women regarding
citizenship because they can not vote, such in-
difference can not be permitted to continue as
regards property holders from tho time that
tho law makes citizonship a condition prece-
dent to the possession of a sound titlo to real
estate. Any woman born outsido the United
States and of foreign parentago is an alien
precisely tho same as any man so born, conse-
quently all alien women must become natural-
ized if they want to hold land in Texas. Con-
sidering how little women havo to do
with politica in this state it is credible
that the legislature might have exempted
women residing in the state if it had thought
of the mattor. It could not have made a gen-
eral exception applying to women without
destroying tho effect of tho law as regards
owners residing abroad. This is no moro
speculative esBay. It is a simple application
of tho law to facts. Tho word alien inoludos
women, and women can and now must bo
naturalized if they want to own land or if they
own it and do not want to forfeit it whan the
statutory tiuiu runs out. It the law stands
unchanged It will become an important part
of tho work in future investigation of Texas
titles to ascertain and establish tho citizenship
of every woman who hus at any timo had a
proprietary interest in any land or a sharo
in any business or corporation which has
owned land.
Texas is raising fine crops, but you will ot>-
■ervo that the money .trliucenoy coutlnuo. in
spite of them. What if this year's erops iu Toi.a
iinii been very poor! Then ws should have had a
fair tost of the pre»ont policy of tho »tato to drivo
out capital and oxclado eutorprtso. During noma
seasons of failure Texas contiuuod to prosper, be-
causo at that time capital, enterprise and devol-
opmout woro the watchwords of the whole Btatc.
QUAY TO RESIGN.
Mr. Quay boa confirmed tho announcement
that ho would resign from tho chairmanship
of the republican national committee. Thus
ho will gratify the wishes of members of his
party who, while admiring his great ability
and not regretting tho means which ho took
to insure victory, imagine that a rehabilita-
tion of their party can bo obtaiued by discard-
ing tho leader whoso name ia synonymous
with corrupt methods. How is this possible?
They want or expoct Clarksou to tako
tho place of Quay. Those who havo
good memories for such things will not need
moro than a brief reminder that Clarkson was
associated with Quay in tho last campaign#
Where is tho evidence that he is not as full of
evil as tho PennsyIranian? Clarkson was
nhown to havo made party capital out of l ho
mail list of a prohibition newspaper secretly
delivered to hiin by a faithless employe,
wherouj>on fraudulont circulars reached the
subscribers. Tempting and bribing people to
breach of confidence, and manufacturing
bogus literature and mail labels to impose on
subscribers, are souio evidence of master work-
manship in the black art of political
jobbery. Co-operation with Quay, however,
covers the ground more comprehensively,
That Clarkson in office was a headsman
working with lightning speed is a fact which
will be remembered with pleasure by demo-
cratic spoilsmen, and it will remind republi-
cans that their party is not going to fail for
want of inducements held out to the workers,
Clark son's elevation will be a pledge that civil
service reform shall mean turning the other
rascals out and "putting our rascals in," and
nothing else. The republicans who part with
Quay will have only ono misgiving—lest his
successor should not be quite so subtle.
Tho democrats will have only one
regret if he bo as clover—that in
effecting tho change they have lost a point of
accusation. Both parties know that iu point
of party morals Quay might as well have been
retained. The republicans vainly hope to
whitewash their party; but there aro people,
and many of them, so curiously constituted
that they accept an insincere change of per-
sonnel as a passable ai>ology, even while they
have no doubt thut the intention is to repeat
the old scandals. The democrats faintly hoi>e
that the leading rascal next time will not be
so smart as Quay, otherwise they would regret
Quay's resiguation.
■1! iu
A RKCSNT census bulletin from Superintend-
ent Porter shows that "since tho census year 18N0
the United States has risen to tho rank of the
largost copper producer in the world, outstrip-
ping by far eny other country. During the de-
cade Arizona and later Montana have become im-
portant producing states, tho latter now acquir-
ing and maintaining its rank as tho loader." The
copper product of the United Statos for tho year
1was 23H.0W.962 pounds, or 113,0*28 short tons.
The total expenditures involved iu thi* produc-
tion wore $ia.0C2,lSa, of which there was paid in
wagos SB,(KM,025; in salarios, $l*),8W6; to contract-
ors, $SU,1 for materials and supplios, $1,087,970,
and for taxes, rout, etc., H.U2.S46, and tho total
capital invested being *12,623,22a, and the total
employe*, exclusive of ofllco force, 8721. The five
leading states in tho production of cop|»er are:
Pounds.
Montana
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Mew Mexico i rajn-a
Colorado 1,1(0,Uj6
Tub Cincinnati hoodlum with lard in his
eyes seems to have the balanco of power iu Ohio.
Or course the extravagant itension policy of
the republicans in a dishoneat party method by
which the ofllce. sod spoil, are bon«bt; but, after
all. it 1. not a worse kind of th.ft than that of the
official who sells out his kindness and fails to en-
force tho laws or ordinances against hi. friends.
'I'hb Nbws acknowledges tho receipt of a
tasteful souvenir from the lisyes County Tinios
of tho recent Chautauqua held at San Marcos. It
consists of a number of photographio views of
tho picturesque landscapes with which tho boau-
tiful little city is bo generously dowered.
Tub United States taught Canada protection
aud therefore can not oomplaln that tho Cana-
dian parliament draws the line at its homo man-
ufactures, determining to allow thorn some pro-
tection whilo it is ia favor of general reciprocity
in trade in natural productions. Our protected
barons do not like to have uuly the homo market
after all.
Qvay is chairman both of tho national re-
publican committee and of the executive com-
mitteo which Is subordinate thereto. There
is a positively worded report current that ho will
resign only tho oxecutlvo chairmanship and will
keep tho principal chairmanship.
Balmacbda's successor has been chosen by
Balaiacoda's subservient elootoral collogo. This
may moan that llal. is going to skip.
Kveuy little helps so you can excuse tho
manner of stating our triumphs in "treaty" mak-
ing with Banto linniingo. Au sgroemeut is prac-
tically a treaty. Every editor and most readers
should know that when tho assent of the senate is
not required the affair is not a treaty under the
constitution. It may bo qmlto as good, however.
How will lllaino get the credit for this? Of
course tho ogg was laid long ago and tbo hens re-
maining iu Washington simply sat on it,
Boeing the Wheels Oo Bound.
Denver Nows.
It is just ns well for humun nature, at any
rate, that ull its workings should not bo ex-
posed to the public gaze; that family life
should be so incased that it usually presents a
pleasing appcuranee to observers, no mattor
how roughly tho wheels may go round in pri-
vate ; as it is, thoro aro always those who are
ready to catch tho least jar of tho cogs and to
report thorn as dislocations of the whole
mechanism, not only Ratifying In this way
their own curiosity, but exciting in others a
similar desire to know things that in nowise
concern them. Newspaper reporters and cor-
respondents are conspicuous offenders in this
matter. To some of thom no home is sacred,
no grief respected; they appear to think that
thelove of tlio public for seeing tho wheels go
round must bo gratified ut no matter what
cost to tho feelings of those whoso merits or
whose misfortunes havo in any way dis-
tinguised them from tho crowd. That every-
one is not willing to submit to exposure of
their private lives is regarded in tho light of a
crime against tho readers of whatevor jourual
tho writer may reprosout, and is resented ac-
cordingly.
There is nothing moro difficult to discover
or moro impoasiblo to explain than tho com-
plex mechanism of motives mid impulses that
moves tho individual human beiug. Although
the workings of societies and combinations
may puzelo us if looked ut from the outsido,
wo may so identify oursolvos with them ns to
learn tholr socret springs of action, but who
uiui reveal U> us the movement of it human
heart? Tho dearest friends that over were do
not thoroughly comprehend each other; oven
when tho mutual confidence is such that they
have no socrets from one another, yet they are
far from understanding each other's motives.
But how could this fail to bo so when wo tiro
so often at a loss to discover what has im-
js'lled us to do this or that, frequently In di-
rect opposit ion to our judgment or instincts
of prudence. If, then, it Is so difficult to un-
derhand ourselves, how can we hope to com-
prehend rightly the reasons for what others do?
BNAP SHOTB.
There are some hard timos in store for every
extravagant person.
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A good wifo has novor handicapped any
good man.
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Morals aro better than manners, but you
will uevor convince tomu good poople of this faet.
•
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Man is prono to put his ab damnum clauso
too high.
# •
When tho lean and lank grasshoppers see
Mr. Ingulls they try to go about with him.
• #
Kids l>egin to play hooky when their horns
come ont.
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The man in the moon smiles upon usas if ho
had played upon us a practical Joke of some kind.
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An alderman always has largo fists to pound
his desk with.
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Tho christian should not imagine that all
blossmgs como from above. He should cling to
his plow und got some of thom out of tho ground,
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There is a groat deal of history being manu-
factured just now, but most of it is of tho yollow
cover variety.
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If fcho fast young man wants to get rich now
is the time. Let him catch all the jack rabbit* he
can and sell their soalp*-
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There is one thing a fat man is good for and
that i* to hold dowu hi* seat.
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The youug plunger is about hopeloss when
he concludes that ho i* bound to win.
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When things aro very badly mixed they are
alway* woll mixed.
# *
The reason why tho circulating medium is
estimated at so much "por capita" is probably
thut the shares of so many men leavs their
pockets and rush to their heads us soon as they
got to town.
Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
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Money not only makes the mare go, but it
will make her stop in the middle of the race
track.
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"Mako hay while the sun shines" docs not
imply that you can not make some at any other
timo. #
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Tho long-mcter dotology has awakened more
people tliau any other fingle verse of music that
has ever been sung. It has aroused a sinful
world. ,
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Delshazzar is not tho only man at a great
banquet who has seen a wonderfully bad hand-
writing on the wall. Tho s'* sometimes look like
rising snakes, and the impending wall leans orer
one until ho thinks it i» tho coiling coming down
to visit the tloor. #
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The larger you make a bundle of weak-
nesses the less strength it has iu it.
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No boy knows what happiness is unless he
has gone barefooted in bummer time.
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Tho drunken man follows his own head and
stands upon his own Judginont.
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Women havo their wealuiosses and some of
them are very strong onos, but men have stronger
weaknesses than women.
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The population of tho world consists of
fowlers and geese. ^
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Holy coins usually find their way into the
missionary box. ^
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Do not let your kith cause you to neglect
your kin. ^ ^ „
STATE PRESS.
vehicles which were run for a profit and hauled
laioplo for pay would bo charged 26 cents for
each such hack or vehicle at the Hyde park
What the Nowspapers Throughout Texas
Aro Talking About.
The Aransas Pass New Era says:
Sam Jones is the topic of conversation just
now along tho seaside. May he impress upon
the sinners and evil doers, the vast contrast
between heaven, southwest Texas and Hades.
This puts southwost Texas in the middle
ground.
El Paso is wrestling with tho question
whether the city advertising should be given to
tho paper which will do it for the least money
or tho one having the largest circulation.
Tho Austin Statesman aays:
A brawny young Fort Worthito has allowed
his old mother to go to the poor house. An
efficient white caporganir.at ion is sadly needed
in Pantherville. The Gazette should mention
tho matter to the governor.
How about a man who does nothing while
his wifo supports him and half a dozen chil-
dren by working? There are such cases every-
where.
Tyler gets the lion's share, but the Fort
Worth Gazette says:
West Texas will never suffer from drouth
and hard tunes as long as jack rabbits aro
plentiful and the county treasuries hold out.
A rabbit warren now comes next to a re-
ceivership.
Tho San Antonio Express Ib now a third
party pajior. That paper claims credit for one
good work:
Tho efforts of the Express have resulted in
an order issued by tho street railway company
requiring that cars shall stop at all crossings.
Let us hope that its further efforts will result
in tho motormen and conductors attending
strictly to business, leaving discussion of tho
ball game and the postponement of the Hall-
Fitzsiinmons fight to the men who pay 6
cents each for the privilege of spitting on the
floor and showing what they do not know
about sporting.
This may serve a* a hint.
Tho Star-Vindicator, in speaking of the de-
bate between Harry Traoy and Congressman
Mooro at that point, says of tho latter:
Ho made an able speech on the tariff and
free coinage and de, hired that ho was opposed
to President Cleveland for rer.omination for
the prosidoncy. He said tho republican mis-
rule for twenty-flvo yoarsand the legislation in
favor of Wall st reet had put the country in the
present condition, and ft only remained for
tho people by the power of the ballot to restore
tho roins of government whore ihoy belong.
The Montague Democrat asks:
When will the democracy of these United
States free itsolf from tho domineering few on
Wall stroet,... .Midland county claims that it
will bankrupt that -ounty to pay tho bounty
oil jack rabbit scalps, so numerous aro tlio
rabbits in that county. Parties who claim to
do the killing aim to make from $5 to $10 per
day, whilo the sport lasts.
Tho Austin Statesman says of tho statement
that an entrance foo was chargod ut the gates
of Hyde park for every vehicle which entered
thoro for the purpose of witnessing tho drills,
etc,, during the emcumpment:
Tho facts in the < ise aro as follows: The
management of Hyde park inserted a notice
in the papers that ail hackmun aud owners of
gates. The Hyde park management did put
gate keepers at the gates and did attempt to
collect an admission feo from owners and
drivers of such vehicles, but General Roberts,
commander of Camp Stanley, promptly inter-
fered and stopped it.
The Son Angolo, Tom Green oounty, Stand-
ard reports a dull wool market.
The Colorado Call says:
San Angelo has tho material on tho ground
for a largo wool scouring plant, and wo un-
derstand that a stock company has been or-
ganized at Hig Springs to put in a plant there,
and that they are soliciting subscriptions from
Colorado sheepmen.
Tho Austin Chieftain says with apparent
approbation:
The sub-treasury neople in Texas aro bold
enough to say that tney will be at and capture
the democratic primaries next year. Is it
considered undemocratic to even discuss the
hub-treaaury question? Is it not democratic
to discuss any issue that may come before tho
public? Because the last demoe'ratic con-
vention proclaimed against tho sub-treasury
idea, was it meant that it would be
cratic or sacriligiotis to mention the subject?
Parties often undo at the next convention
what they did at the last. Let all this l»o as it
may, there is fun in tho political future and
don't you forget to remember it. If no tost
was required for admission iuto tho demo-
cratic primaries last year, with what consis-
tency can a test bo required next year ? I lie
Hogg contingent have gotten the democratic
party into a beautiful pickle, to be sure.
The Laredo'Times remarks:
Tho commissions of Captain Joseph Notzer,
First Lieutenant Max Sulnon and Second Lieu-
tenant W. B. Taylor have been revoked by tho
governor on account of their non-attendanco
at the encampment without a sufficient excuse.
Tho Tiiuos fools a regret for thi commissioned
officers whose commissions were revoked, 06-
necially for Captain Netzer, who has labored
nard to mako the company a succees, and m
justice to him it is proper to state that ho had
intended to go to the encampment, although
it required the closing of his business during
the time, but changed his mind upon finding
that so few of the company were going.
The Smithville Optic says:
Convict labor, when put in competition with
the honoat toilers of the country, and where it
is let by the state at a lower rate than regu-
larly organized laborers can afford to work
for, entails an unpardonable hardship upon
that class who aro seeking to gain an honost
living by fair work.
The San Antonio Express says:
A motorinau can not properly attend to his
duties and crack jokes or discuss politics with
passengers at tho same time. If the manage-
ment can not correct this dangerous practice,
the council should step in nn J make it a mis-
demeanor, the ixjualty being alike on the mo-
tormau and the passenger accessory to the of-
fense.
The San Marcos Free Press says:
The Galveston News is beyond question
the leading daily of Texas.
The Hempstead Courier says:
Cotton is doing finely, but the farmers aro
blue in thinking over the fact that the present
prices are nearly $20 j»er bale less than on the
same date last year, which will not realize
enough to pay the actual cost of production,
taking everything into consideration—The
watermelon crop did not prove the success it
was anticipated it would. Vioe President
Crew of the Waller County Melon association
is now in Chicago acting as agent for the sale
of melons. Ten carloads were shipi>ed to
him Wednesday. The northern and western
markets have been overstocked and low
prices liave rulod over since the shipment of
tho first twenty-five cars. In many cases tho
cash returns have not been enough to pay
freight, which has to be dono by the associa-
tion. About 1U5 carloads have been shipi>cd.
Tho Houston and Texas Central railway has
from the first given low rates, but the road*
handling cars after leaving Texas do not. Two
thousand acros in melons were planted this
season—twenty times greater than three years
ago. Hence the supply was much greater
than the demand. Seven county couvicta, un-
able to pay fines assessed at the last term of
tho county court, aro now workiug on the pub-
lic roads. About ten others paid rather than
do public service. Tlio laws aro now strictly
enforced, thanks to tho efficient officers of the
county.
The Del Rio Record remarks:
To a man up a tree the sham siego and the
capture of the city of Austin, tho suppression
of the imaginary riot and similar actions
seem very much like child's play, but no
doubt it is especially necessary to train our
citizen soldiery to the exigencies of war.
Tlio Austin Evening News says discipline
must be maintained:
The revocation of the commissions of sun-
dry officers and the disbandment of those com-
panies refusing to attend tho encampment
was very properly done. Those officers and
companies deserved the punishment they have
received. That is the only way to keep up
discipline. ^
A NEW BILL OF RIGHTS.
American liberty, founded upon English
liberty, reposes its confidence in a series of
time-honored documents. Beginning with
Magna Charts we may come down through
tho long chain—bill of rights, Mayflower com-
pact, declaration of independence, constitu-
tion, emancipation proclamation—and at each
point the truo American stops and feels proud.
But none of those documents, remarkable as
each has been in its effect upon history, can
exceed in originality the agreement entered
into at Bricevillo, Tenn. This contract, which
wo presume to have boon sigucd with all the
l&mality of a new declaration of indepence or s
McKinlcy tariff bill is a plain and unmistak-
able declaration that tho great bulwarks of
liberty that preceded it were insufficient in
that they none of them prohibited tho com-
petition of convict with free labor. And it
carries with it much of tho warlike tone of its
predecessors. It is, indeed, a warning on tho
part of 2000 workmen that unless the laws of
the state of Tennessee aro altered tosuitjthem,
reboLliou, treason and bloodshed will follow.
Two months aro granted to tho tyrants who
mado these laws. If they do not amend them
in that time there will be war.
It is not easy to seo tho merits of a case
presented in this way. Wo do not imagine
that John ever saw much morit in thodocu-
THAT ALIEN LAND LAW.
HOW THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS RE-
GARD IT.
There Ia by No Means a Unity of Opinion.
Some Indorse While Others
Oppose It.
mcnt presented to him by tho barons. George
probably thought the declaration of independ-
ence impertinent. Jefferson Davis is known
to havo disliked the emancipation proclama-
tion. And Governor Buchanan, no doubt,
does not relish tho dictation ho is getting from
tho miners.
But tho spirit of the future may bo seen in
his treatment of tho insurgents. This country
has won liberty—now it is preparing to face aj
great a problem. The laboring inan, when
not misled by demagogues, commands the in-
stinctive sympathy of all classes. He has
rights; he has wrongs; ho has boon injured by
past legislation; he is generally, as many be-
lieve, being driven toward starvation. Cer-
tainly in tho protected mining industries he
already has to struggle from earliest child-
hood against hunger and want.
Ho may at times mako ridiculous demands,
and mako them in ridiculous ways; but ho can
always expoct tho sympathy and often tho sup-
port of the great body of American citizens.
[New York Commercial Advertiser.
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The Tonnossce coal mining troubles aro set-
tled for tho present, and until tho legislature
meets in tho extra session called by the gover-
nor, Executive firmness, tempered by good
sense and good judgment, has prevailed and a
bloodloss victory has been won for law aud
order. Legally tho miners were in tho wrong;
morally they were right. No law is right or
just which permits a band of convicts to tako
tho bread out of the mouths of citizon miners
whoso homes aro about tho mines and whose
existence depends ou employment, in them.
But such a law did exist, and whilo tho gov-
ernot upheld it by all tho power nt his com-
mand, ho promised to call an extra sosslon of
the legislature to socuro its immediate repeal*
It should be repealed. The entire system of
convict labor which it permit! is all wrong. It
should bo promptly abolished. [Denver Nows.
Cambbon, Toi., July 27.—To Th* Nsws:
Much has been written of late concerning tho
supposed workings of the aiion land act and
its consequent effect upon the capital at pres-
ent invested In Texas lands. Wo ob-
serve, however, that what has been
written and said concerns tho foreign
loan companies in the main, with no
parcnt care or thought as to its effect on privato
capital. We represent no loan companies, but
havo found during the past few years for our
friends in New England on farms and rauehes
in Milam county, say, $250,uu0, ali of which
sum has gone to purchase and improve these
lands. Those loans are in farms
of from $500 to $10,000, and
are maturing, eome of them
within the next few months. The holders of
those securities are writing us daily inquiring
about the recent act of tho legislature and its
effect on privato capital closing their letters
as follows: "When Mr. Smith's loan matures
please colloct and remit us proceeds.
The only reason assigned for tho
calling in of those moneys is that they
do not care to have their hands invested
in securities that are likely to becoino vitiated
or annulled by hostile stato legislature. The
withdrawal of such a vast amount of money
from Texas just at a critical period in its de-
velopment will be viewod with dismay by tho
mass of conservative, thinking men. It can
have but one effect, viu., the serious crippling
of our farming interests and the creation
of a set of most distressing circumstances.
A large per oent of Milam county farmers
havo just finished making a crop of H-cont cot-
ton on $l-a-bushei com, and the additional
strain of huving to raise land notes will
work a great hardship. Capital
is turned. Eastern capitalists were
just getting over their mistrust of Texas secur-
ities, in fact, were seeking them, and to have
tho work of years undoue by a single act of
tho legislature is indeed cause for grave fears
for tlio future of tho Lone Star state.
The recent cowboy legislature in its
attempt to cut out the few "short horns"
(English) from the herd of money lenders,
has also succeeded iu stamp<Hliug the entire
bunch of lung-horns and natives, so that ero
long they will have quite deserted the Texas
range for )>astures perhaps loss prolific but
at least more secure und placid. Should not
the recent hostile legislating in Kansas
and her consequent present deplorable and
bankrupt condition serve as a warning to our
law makent and admonish them to hiuiten to
undo a bad niece of work before it is ever-
lastingly too late? CaAwroBD A Chaweobd.
A Law to Protect l-ocal Capitalists.
The Alabama law is:
An alien resident or pon-resldeii*, may take and
hold property, real and personal, in this state,
either by ptirchV*©, dewont or devise, and may
dibpoeo of end transmit the sam« by salo, descent
or doviso, as a native citizon. (Code, section
1914.)
The constitution of Kansas provides!
No distinction shall sver be mado betwoen eiti-
■ens and alien* in roferouco to tho purchase, en-
joyment or descent of property. (90.)
Similar affirmative legislative or constitu-
tional provisions have been made in Arkansas,
California, Florida, Georgia,Kansas, Missouri,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Mary-
land, Novada, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Virginia, and tho provinces of Ontario and
Quebec in Canada.
The revised statute of Texas provided:
An alien enjoys in the stato of Toxas sucli
rights us are or shull bo accorded to citizens of
tho United States by the laws of tho nation to
which such alien shall belong, or by tho treaties
of such nation with the United 8tnte».
Any alien who shall become a resident of Toxsa,
and shall, in conformity with tlio u&turalizntion
laws of tho United States, have declared his in-
tontion to becoino a citizen of tlio United States,
shall havo the right to aoqulro and hold real on-
tato in this state, in tho Maine manner us if he
were a citizon of the United States. (Articles 0
and 10.)
This was the law from 1h79 up to the alien
law passed at tho last session of our legisla-
ture.
The reasons actuating the change arc said
to be:
1. To guard against perrdtuities in land by
entailment or by corporations.
2. The legislature in its paternal wisdom
and kindness took away the temptation of
cheap money for fear the citizens of Texas
might abuse the blessing the world has boon
striving after for eighteen centuries.
Article 1, section 2G, of tho constitution of
Texas is:
Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to
tho genius of s freo government aud shall never
be allowed; nor shall tho law of primogeniture
or entail over be in force in this stato.
Tho rights of aliens to take lands in Toxas
by purchase, descent or will havo always been
Bubjoct to these constitutional provisions.
A foreign corporation could only do busi-
ness or hold land in Texas by taking out a cer-
tificate which is limited to ten years, and all
corporations [chartered] made by tho stato of
Texas since 1h74 have boon expressly subject
to alteration and reform, at any timo, by tho
legislature.
It is evident that there is no force in the ar-
gument that the law was needed to guard
against perpetuities, as the state had full pro-
tection should a perpetuity bo attempted. As
a fact it is not claimed there is at present any
attempt to hold Texas lands in perpetuity by
any one—alien or citizen.
Tho truo inwardness of tho law as enacted
is intention to keep out capital, bocauso many
of tho western states havo abused cheap
money privileges. What has become of tho
rcdhot,. dyed-in-tho-wool democracy of Texas
that was so aghast at the paternalism of pro-
hibition? . .
If Texas is to play guardian ovor her citi.
zens as to how much and when a man shall bo
allowed to borrow, is it not equally important
and just as much a govorinontal function to
say how much a man can be allowed to spend
without damage to himself, his family and tho
stato?
There has been and Is no present evil to bo
remedied, and tho result of preventing tho
nihility of money becoming cheap by m-
of foreign capital, while it will mako our
home loan companies rich and happy, is
rather hard on tho poor man whose nocessities
forco him to bo a borrower.
George E. MANN
right to acquire title*, and limit the titlss of
foreign syndicates to a specific term of years,
after the existing crisis is past, but is opposed
to any change in tho old law at thia time.
He decidedly favors a special session of the
legislature to cover thisquestion, redistnet tho
state and elect a United States senator to till
tho unexpired term of J. H. Keagaii.
W. H. Tracy, attorney: "Am in favor of the
alien land law as jiassod by the Twenty-second
legislature. I bolive America has facilities
to furnish all the money necessary for her cit-
izens. I believe that Americans should own
America. 1 am strictly in favor of homo rulo
for our people. 1 am opposed to any special
session of the Twenty-second legislature. 1 ho
governor may make thom repeal tho alien
and law—the only good law they passed as
he did when ho forced them to pass the com-
mission bill allowing him to appoint tho com-
in insiouers.'9
Women Imagine It Not Affsct Them.
Lbon Si'Hikgs, Tex., July To Th»N*wb :
A widow from Canada, a maiden lady from
England and a married woman from Germany
happened to meet mi tho parlor of tho widow
ouo day last week end the subject of their
discussion was tho alien land law. Tho widow
spoke first:
When I read that law in tho paper I became
very much alarmed, for I had never taken out
any naturalization papers and you know tho
entire income of myself and little children
is from tho rents of improved property both
in town and in tho country. Tho proporty
was bought with money from Canada, so I
came to the troubled conclusion that my
property must be sacrificed if I did not take
out citizen's papers. Next day I wont to tho
was told that tho laws of Texas did not rccog-
nize tho right of woman to citizenship, and
that men only wero permitted to take out
papers. I demurred at this statement and ex-
claimed: "What a singular uoverninent, that
denies ino tho right of citizenship and thou
pusses a law conllscatiutf my property if I do
not becoino a citizen. What am I to do.
gentlemen?" Some one then told me to
Ko to tho United Suites olork of court and
make my application there. I did as X was
told, and was thoro referred to my attorney
for authority. Vexod with being sent around
from pillar to post in this manner, I arrived
al tho pleasant rooms of tho aforesaid attor-
ney, stated my case aud requested his opinion.
After a moment's thought he answered that
the alien law was not, and in fact could not,
be intended to alfeet women, inasmuch as
women were classed among the disfran-
chised, thus: Idiots, criminals, paupurs, in-
sane uml women are not admitted to be citi-
zens. Ha added, however, that I need not
fear, ns my Into husband was a native born
oitmou my marriage with him hail made me a
citizen ui>on the principle that husband and
wife are one. I came away from his
office very much puzzled and thinking
how superior to mine was tho brain of the law-
maker tliat lie could understand how it is that
my husband aud I aro oue when my husband
is dead and buried and I am alive. And hero
is where tho law is a discriminating one in
that it forbids men who are aliens from hold-
ing mortgages, but I can got all tho money I
choose from Canada and loan it out and buy
up millions of acres iu the name of Canadian
women and tho law can uot touch the money,
the lund or the mortgages. This is driving
men out of business aud putting it into tho
hands of women, iu my opinion.
Then the German wife spoke und told how
she was managing her separate property
which she had iuhorited in Germany. She
had sold out ovor there and was doing well
here. She also stated that her friends fre-
quently sent money to her to loan out as the
income from it was so much greater here than
in Germany. I am going to start an agency
now, but I shall tako out all the mortgages in
the names of German women and then I am
snfe. 1 mean to buy up millions of dollars'
worth of those Scottish mortgages because
they can bo got cheap after a while and I
think I can make a little out of it myself.
•lust hold there, oxclaimed the maiden lady
from England, I uitond to manage that Scot-
tish loan company myself. Taking the opinion
of various attorneys and of Governor Hogg
luu.seif that tlio law is inoperative against
women because they aro denied citizenship, I
have already writton to the president of tho
company explaining matter, and ottering my
services as agent. Not one dollar of Scottish
money will need to leave this state. All
papers will bo made out in tho names of
women. I hold $50,000 worth of mortgages
myself and if I do not get that agency I am
going homo to England to live in the full as-
surance that my interests liore will not bo dis-
turbed.
This is tho first instanco I ever heard of in
which men mado a law discriminating agaiuiit
themselves and in favor of women.
Minko Sonnhm.
Expression* From Rockdale.
Rockoai.b, Tex., July 29.—Dr. A. C. Isaacs,
ono of tho largost and most conservative farm-
era In Milam county and a former representa-
tive in tho legislaturo says:
"In regard to tho alien land law he had uot
given it that careful investigation which ha
would prefer to, before fully expressing his
views. However, ho felt, that whilo tho state
ahould guard itaolf against land corporation
monopolies, Texas is now undergoing a criti-
cal period in development, and he bellovod
that tho law, as he understands it, Is ontirely
inoxpediont and ill-timed. Thoro is a groat
hue and ory all ovor tho lund, thut tho volume
of monoy in circulation is far short of tho le-
gitimate requirements of tho pooplo, and this
being true, ho fails to soe tho consistency in
the enactment of a law so certain to furthor
contract money circulation. He does not un-
derstand tlio purpose or desir. of the foreign
loan companies to bo tho ownership of lund,
has heard of instances where thoy granted ex-
tensions of timo on loans to savo foreclosure,
mid thinks they havo been tho means of mak-
ing tho ruto of intorost on timo loans reasona-
ble. The same law which prevents an alien
from purchasing his lund. distinctly says thnt
he shall not soil his land to whom no pleases,
which is patornal and arbitury. Ho won It
favor a law granting alien, us individuals the
FEEE COINAGE OF SILVEE
Popular in the South- Will It He Slighted
to Please the EastP
Bkady, Tex., July 27.—To Ths News:
There recently appeared in Th® N sws a cor-
respondence article stating that the next na-
tional douiQoratic convention would not de-
clare in favor of freo silver for fear of offend-
ing tho east. The writer of said article stated
that the eastern douiocruts would shy from
such a declaration "like a glass-cyod bronoho
from a bright sardine box in tho road."
Nothing is plainer than thut tin- great body
of democrats in t he south want such a declara-
tion anil w ill not bo satisfied without it. if
tho next national convention is a fair repre-
sentation of tho people such a declaration is #
a certainty, but if by intrigue tho different
state conventions aro bossed by men who fear
to offend the east then such delegates will bo
sent ns will do tho bidding of the east, and tho
free silver question will bu left out, or, at tho
east, sparingly handled.
To uiy mind, such policy will bo suicidal. Such
non-coniplianco will result in democratic dis-
integration in many sections where democracy
is now supremo. In the niitim of justice, why
should people bo asked to hold to a party that
fears to offend a few eastern capitalists?
Thk News knows that the people of the en-
tire south are in favor of free coinage of sil-
ver. It is also an andeniablo fact that tho
southern democrats are the main support of
tho national party, and that they have over
been true to their party no man can deny.
Without saying more I will venture the asser-
tion that with tho declaration for froo coinage
of silver and tariff reform tlio party will oloct
the next president j without it, thoy will suffer
defeat. »• H. Ohouom.
THE ALIEN LAMP LAW.
The El Paso Times says: Tlio alien law, aa
passed by the last legislature and which wa*
published in tho last issue of this paper, will
in the opinion of the Times lie disastrous to
the iuto rests of tho stato unless repealed or
amended nt an oarly day. However, thero
should bo a law to prevent foreign corpora-
tions, if not foreign In general, from acquir-
ing and holding lurge tracts of land within
tho confines of the stato, but that referred to
nbove nppcars to bo ontirely too sweeping in
its character, and therefore calculated to
work moro injury than benetlt. And it is safo
to say that nine-tenths of tho peoplo of Texas
will object to it in it. present sliapo.
Tho Karnos County Nows: Tho alion land
lnw may cause temporary inconvenience, bu*
will result in permanent good. Tho alien land
law situation seems to bo about this: Wo
don't want any alien land owners, though wo
would llko to borrow their cash if they have
any to lonn. If thoy won't lend us thoir cash
without our permission to own land they will
just have to koep their cash.
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Tho North Texas Farmer: Where has harm
come to tho poople of Texas by tho alion own-
ership of land? With all tho ^lowspaper dis-
cussion, communications and interviews, wo
have failed to hour of a case. WhatdilToronco
iloos it mako with a^nnaut whether his lantl-
lord lives in Enropor^ow England or Texas,
if he must havo a landlord, and some soom
destined to have? What dilleranoe where a
man borrows money providod ho is permitted
to go where ho can got the best rate of intes>
est aud time that best suits luiu?
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 128, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1891, newspaper, July 30, 1891; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth467087/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.