Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 6, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 16, 1888 Page: 4 of 8
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V
The Weekly Banner
G. KAJJKIN Proprietor.
H. P. OABEETT. Editor.
Thursday February 16 1888
C!iTAm.-flT M. Depew savs that
i Blaine will get the republican nomi-
nation if he wants it and that if he
doesn't Sheridan will. This is be-
coming quite apparent and Sheridan
is already being groomed for the
contingency. The other day he was
sent to Boston where he received
an oration that scented of pontes.
nnd his nomination would bring into
prominence thebloodyshirt issue son
plainly foreshadowed. The Baxter
predicted more than two months ago
that Sheridan would be among the
probabilities.
As its last state election three of
ihe five congressmen elected in Min-
csota were democrats and the
democratic candidate for governor
was beaten by only a few hundred
Totes. It is claimed that it will be
impossible for the republican party
to carry that state this fall on a
high tariff platform. The action of
the Chicago Tribune and Iowa
State Eegister both strong republi
can papers in advocating revenue
Teform has rendered the prospects
of the republicans still less'hopeful
aiot only in that state but in "Wis
consin.
I
Is speaking several days ago of
the action of the United States sen-
ate in granting Mrs. Logan a pen-
" fiion of $2000 a year for life the
Banner took the position that it was
no more right to confer patents of
nobility nor to make a privileged
class of the widows' of military
chiefs than to confer bounties on
the widows of men who once ren
dered distinguished service to the
government in a civil capacity. The
same thought seems to have occur-
red to the widow of Vice-President
Hendricks; since Mrs. Logan and
Mrs. Hancock were granted a pen-
eion she 'is now demanding one.
People who rise rapidly generally
descend the same way. Mrs. James
Brown Potter who won notoriety at
a society gathering in "Washington
- by reciting an indecent poem and
immediately took to the stage is an
-example. She became so inflated
with her own importance and so im-
perious and haughty from the vul
K gar and silly ostentation with which
ieriname was paraded in fashiona-
ble society .that the other day when
"MrsEndicott wife of the secretary
-of war called on Tier she sent word
Jjy'her servant that she was taking
her usual siesta and didn't care to
get up. Tho result is that the so
ciety ladies of the capital have boy
cotted Mrs. Potter.
In a republican district convention
lield at Terre Haute Tnd. a few days
"ago a Mr. Herz from Brazil bitterly
denounced the bloody shirt as an ap-
- jpeal to the passions of war which
an enlightened and magnanimous
party should spurn. His speech was
jeered and at its conclusion brought
several members to their feet. One
speaker asserted that it was the only
issue there was and that the presi-
dent's message was an attempt to
divert attention from it. Another
speaker declared that it was the
abandonment of the bloody-shirt is-
sue for the tariff question that
brought republican defeat in 1884
Thus is the Banner's prediction be-
"ing fulfilled that the republicans will
not dare meet the democrats on the
tariff issue this fall.
It is reported from "Washington
that the national democratic conven
tion will probably be held June 5
and that the necessity or at least
policy and advantage that there
would be in it dictates that it
be held before tho republicans meet
and adopt their platform. The
Banner is of the same opinion. The
democrats should meet and promul
gate a platform heartily in accord
with the president's message. - The
'republicans would like to ignore the
tariff issue or to insert a milk-and-Avater
sort of plank and if they
" uiioulS meet first and no't take de-
cided grounds the weak-kneed and
protection democrats would use
their action as an argument in favor
' of inducing the democrats to strad-
dle as they did in "the last conven
er.
A SNIDE BO AD LAW.
The condition in which the streets
of Brenham have been for the past
several weeks is a disgrace to the
city. Never before have they pre-
sented a more wretched spectacle.
Many of them have been simply im-
passable and travel on others includ
ing the main thoroughfares has been
kept up under great difficulty and
maintained only through that sheer
necessity which cdnipels men to
wade through mud and water to
their daily places of business. It is
needless to say that coming here and
finding its streets in such condition
is calculated to create an unfavor-
able impression among visitors and
strangers. Some allowances per
haps ought to be made on account
of the unusually disagreeable sloppy
and prolonged siege of wet weather
with which we have been visited
this winter but even lrjder the
worst and most unfavorable condi-
tion of the elements the strfeets
ought not to be suffered to get in
such a sorry plight as they are at pres
ent. The cause of our bad streets)
is not difficult of ascertainment. It
is owing to the operations of the
road law and the manner in which
the work is carried on. And in making
this assertion the Banner does not
insinuate nor desires to create the
impression that the fault lies with
our mayor. He has been honest
industrious and faithful in discharg-
ing his office but is handicapped
by a snide road law which exists in
only a few towns of the size of Bren
ham. By its operation the city is
created into a separate road district
the same as rural precincts. Peo
ple of every class are summoned in-
discriminately to work the roads and
for the most part hire green inex-
perienced ignorant and lazy substi-
tutes who spend the principal part
J of the time "soldiering:" a little
scratch-work and patching is done
here and there. Signs of where they
have been along are occasionally
visible but no lasting improvements
are left behind. Holes are filled
wit black dirt cut down from the
nearest bank and fathomless seas
of mud are left for people to floun-
der around in after the first rain
comes to soften the dirt. A few
years ago the streets of Brenham
were in better condition for travel
ing after rains came and beat down
the sand in compact form than be
fore. Now every "street is covered
with filthy black dirt and clay from
excavations and the result is that in
wet weather they are impassable. In
levying taxes the council should pro-
vide for an improvement fund; all
work should be done by contract in
a workman-like manner and no job
should be accepted unless done ac-
legal ethics nor to stop to defend
the bar. It needs no defense as a
profession nor against such charges
as the Courier Journal makes al
though there are individual in
stances of shystering and unprofes-
sional acts that may justly rest un
der the obloquy cast upon them by
that paper. A lawyer has 5no more
right however to prejudge a case
than the jury selected to try it. The
Banner would not befoul its own
nest nor cast odium upon its own
profession but is constrained to say
that there is too much of Phariseeism
in the Courier-Journal's remarks
and that newspapers are responsible
for the perpetration of more vile
schemes for public plunder and
highway robbery by reason of their
wider influence and more extended
circulation than any individual or
combination of individuals. It is
notorious that the press from time
immemorial has been bought up to
advocate schemes to be lobbied
through legislatures and city coun
cils; that for a consideration such
schemes as the DeGolyer pavement
contract the extravagant appropria
tion of the people's money and raids
on the public treasury have been ad-
vocated; that thousands of vile
schemes have been promoted with
the assistance of the press to such
an extent that it has become accus-
tomed to being paid a valuable con-
sideration for every measure it advo- j
cates and many papers have ceased
to be influenced or actuated by dis
interested patriotism or by pure mo
tives of simply doing good. Some
boodle editors have been known to
accept private bribes for advocating
obscure men for office and to do acts
for which many more deserving per-
sons have worn stripes in the penitentiary.
with such rigor as have the republi
cans since 1884." This argument
ought to allay the fears of the most
doubting Thomas in the party that
Blaine would not be a stronger can-
didate this time. And having dispos
ed of this objection he proceeds to
convince his party that the recent
bold outspoken and advanced posi-
tion Cleveland took on the tariff has
rendered conservative or non-action
on that issue by the republicans
nmintaining it as it is safe. No
doubt Blaine would bo willing to
favor even a reform of the tariff but
his Paris message has cut him off
and he will either have to stand by
it or withdraw from tho race.
Hence his labored argument. The
workings of the republican wires are
falling in the position that tho Ban-
ker predicted months ago. If
Blaine's letter doesn't convince the
party either Sheridan will bo nom
inated on his war record or sonio
such man as Allison from the north
west will be nominated.
cording to specifications.
THE PEOPLES BULWARK.
The printers' art has been styled
the art preservative of all arts and
the men whose business it is to pub
lish papers "are wont to be character
ized as the moulders of public opin
ion. The power of the press and
especially in the twilight of this en
lightened nineteenth century is not
to be underrated. Its influence for
good is practically uncircumscribed
and the journalist of tho present day
with a true conception of his duties
and with a proper appreciation of
the opportunities within his grasp
has it in his power to do much to-
wards oduc iting and elevating man-
kind and towards ameliorating the
conditions of life around him. But
if so disposed his opportunities for
evil are just as great and in some
cases are as powerfully exercised.
These remarks have been called forth
by an editorial in tho Louisville
Courier-Journal on the "Press and
Bar" in which the former is exalted
and the latter very much aspersed.
It charges that organized crime has
never faded to find its most readyJ
instruments at the bar and ou the
bench ; that tho ablest lawyers for
enormous fees aid in perpetrating
and perfecting tho vilest schemes
for public plunder and that there is
no crinio so dark that leading mem-
bers of the bar will not accept a fee
to defend those who conspiie against
the welfare of the people. The arti-
cle concludes with the declaration
that "tho only protection to the peo
ple is the press. The overthrow of
every ring the exposure of every
crime has been the work of the
press. The Banner does not pro-
poso to enter into a disquisition on I
NOT A CANDIDATE (J)
The chairman of the national re
publican executive committee Hon
Bull Frog Jones of Pennsylvania i3
in receipt of a lettter all the way
from Florence Italy and signed by
the plumed knight of Maine in which
that gentleman declines(?) to be con
sidered a presidential candidate be
fore the convention which is to meet
at Chicago on the 19th of next June.
It will be observed by even a casual
perusal of tho declination that there
is nothing express or positive
about it at all and that by reading
it between the line3 it is plain to be
seen that Blaine would still like to
be a candidate. His action ever
since the last election including that
indelicate uncalled for and foolish
cable message from Paris in reply to
President Cleveland's message on
the tariff can not be explained on
any other hypothesis. There is no
doubt that some of the minority who
fear his weakness and who fear to
make a straight issue of the tariff to
which he committed his side in the
Paris cablegram have been working
on him with all the powers of per
suasion and force of argument that
could be brought to bear to
get him to withdraw. "What is the
result? "With the flippant assertion
"my name will not be presented"
he devotes the body of his letter to
calming the fears of the minority
and proving that he could make a
better race this year than he did
four years ago. He congratulates
'the republican party on the cheer-
ing prospects which distinguish the
opening of the national contest
of 1888 as compared with that of
1884." After reciting tho disas-
trous result of 1882 in which "ten
states that had supported Garfield
and Arthur in the election of 18S0
were carried by the democrats eith
er by majorities or pluralities" aud
in which "the republican loss in the
northern elections exceeded 500000
votes'' he shows that "against the
discouragement naturally following
the adverse elections of these two
years (1882-3) tho spirit of the re-
publican party in the national con-
test of 1884 rose high and the re-
publicans went into the campaign
with such energy that the final re-
sult depended on the vote of a sin
gle state" and that "that state was
carried by the democratic party by a
plurality so small that it was less
than one-eleventh of 1 per cent of
the entire vote' and that the change
of a single rots in every 2000 of the
total vote polled would havo given
the state to the republicans." "Sel-
dom" says he "in our political his-
tory has & party defeated in a na-
tional election rallied unniei-uately
A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
The inventive genius of man has
wrought so many changes in the con-
ditions of life during the past half
century by evolving scientific princi
ples and applying them to every day
business affairs as to have proved
that there is no limit to his powers.
By means of railroad locomotion
electricity and other inventions dis
coveries and applied sciences the
various peoples and nations of the
earth so widely scattered apart geo-
graphically and so distinct by man
ners customs and laws are atlength
practically one nation and one peo-
ple and their interests promise to be
come still more allied and mutual so
soon as other great scientific dis
coveries and other great inventions
shall bring them nearer together in
manners customs and business pur
suits. It is this growing inter-de
pendence mutuality of intere&ts and
reciprocity of trade that has given
origin to the attempt to build up
and establish a universal language.
It remains to be seen what success
it will meet with. Tho Banner is of
the opinion that it will prove a fail
ure. A few persons may possibly
by dint of hard study for years suc-
ceed in mastering it sufficiently to
enable them to carry on business
correspondence in some sort but to
the world at large they will appear
as jabbering idiots. A language
built up on no fixed principle of
Steady growth which has no his
tory and no derivative origin can
not become a success. And be-
sides as everybody knows language
is affected by climatic influences to
such an extent that people of one na-
tion practically speak many tongues.
In that small boot-shaped country
Italy there used to exist diversified
with dialects almost unintelligible one
another in conversation. In Great
Britain to this day exist the Glas
gow twang the London cockney the
Highland brogue the' Irish brogue
and a number of others peculiar
and distinct to themselves. Imagine
a Frenchman and a German
or to draw a more vivid picture an
American and an Asiatic or two per-
sons of any other nations or people
widely separated geographically and
by custom surroundings and
climatic condition? faying to con-
verse together in a tongue foreign
to both. It makes no difference
how strict the rules of construction
pronunciation and syntax may be it
will be almost impossible for them
to give the language the same ac-
centuation or to speak so as to un-
derstand each other. But if a uni-
versal lungungo is practicable why
do the learned men who have taken
the lead in inventing one take the
English language merely as a basis.
and mutilate and butcher it up in
an unrecognizable shape f "Why
not adopt it outngut ! it is now
spoken in Grit Britain the greai
Island of Australia tho United
States which is destined to be the
greatest power on the face of the
earth New Zealand British Ameri
ca the vast empire of India and
many other quarters of the globe
and is destined to be the language
of the conmicrci.il world. "With so
many people speaking it already
with'itrt hi-teiy philology luxuriant
and diversified growth built from
Latin Gieek aud Anglo-Saxon con-
taining many '.voids with a common
origin and familiar to other nations
it would bo much easier and more
practicable to adopt it as u universal
language than to establish one by
arbitrary rules. And it is strange
that this .patent and common-sense
view did riot appear to tho learned
men whojiave undertaken the task.
NEW YORK BUGABOO.
Because it has grown to be re-
cognized as a trite and accepted say-
ing that as New York goes so goes
the Union it looks as if the country
must eternally and everlastingly be
treated to successive startling poli-
tical rumors calculated to stir up
much speculation and certain enter-
prising newspapers which in a meas
ure depend on sensationalism for
their existence are in the habit of
giving color to CTery rumor thus set
afloat and are kept busy erecting
mountains out of mole hills. A
startling repoit is sent out one day
and before any stable opinion can
be formed another is issued contra
dicting the first. Scarcely had Cleve-
land been seated in the executive
chair at "Washington and Hill suc
ceeded him in the gubernatorial
choir ere it began to be hinted that
the latter was likely to prove a dis
turbing element in the democratic
party by reason of an ambitious de-
sire to supplant the president. These
rumors have been all along occas-
ionally revived only to be denied by
the friends of Hill. Finally it was
thought that a mutual and satisfac
tory understanding hadbeen brought
about between the president and the
governor after the famous private in-
terview on the occasion of secretary
Manning's funeral at Albany and
after their private meeting last year
in Philadelphia. It was understood
that the hope was held out to Hill
that in 1802 New York would give
him its solid support for president
and that this satisfied him. The
Banner does not pretend to say that
any such an agreement was discuss
ed but gives it as what was reported
by the political gossips. At any rate
it is safe to say that with hispracti-
cal experience in politics it is not
reasonable to suppose that Hill
would suffer himself to become a
party obstructionist when he has so
much to lose and absolutely nothing
to gain .unless he were an open and
avowed enemy of tha president bent
on his defeat for the mere gratifica
tion of personal revenge. Therefore
that repoit based on Hill's speech at
the Brooklyn Tilden celebration and
the talk of a sudden change of senti
ment in his favor involving every
congressman from New York except
Sunset Cox and Perry Belmont will
only do to tell to tho marines. Since
the president's message on the tariff
the party is bound to choose him as
its leader again or else go along way
EDITORIAL NOTES.
"" .
T
the
towards inviting defeat
Like the great Lafayetto in revo
lutionary times at the outbreak of
the civil war Prince Polignac a
young Frenchman of noble birth
came to this country and linked hi3
fortunes with tho South. He was
given a command composed princi-
pally of Texans. This brava man is
now living in seclusion in an Aus-
trian valley and at tha late confeder
ate reunion at Dallas he sent from
his retirement a cablegram of greet-
ing to his former comrades in arms
showing that he still cherishes loving
memories of them. The "Waco Ex-
aminer appropriately suggests that
tho next 'legislature honor his name
by applying it to soma new county
to be organized and suggests it
would bo a graceful and acceptable
tribute to this man now in middle
life and com? arative obsi urity.
Senator Cdllom of Illinois has
an article in the current number of
the Foruni in advocacy of a govern-
ment postal telegraph. The princi-
pal argument used in favor of it is
that congress voted S 30003 to ena
ble the inventor to make an experi
mental test between "Washington
and Baltimore. The government
has frequently made appropriations
to encourage scientific discoveries
but that is no reason why they
should be forever under governmen
tal control or why the government
should interfere with the affairs oi
commerce by setting up in businesf
for itself. If the business is monop-
olized and people are plundered let
it bi regulated by law similar to the
interstate commerco regulations.
A statistics fiend has figured out
and publishes tho startling informa-
tion that each inhabitant of the
United States consumes ono pin per
day making necessary the daily
manufacture of sixty millions o
pins. If this bo truo the great won-
der is that there are not moro fatal
casualties reported.
The Atlanta Constitution' has
about kicked itself out of the demo-
cratic party and into the republican
camp.
Bismarck's name translated is
"Mark Twain" but that doesn't s.g-
nify that he and America's great
humorist are in nny way related v
Crain. has introduced a bill too
riding for a civil service retired list.
He must have read the Banner's re
marks on the bill to pension Mrs.
Logan.
The greatest slam yet on Fort
Worth is that tht Salvation Army
should have singled out that place
to make a descent on the bulwarks
of satan and sin.
The Louisiana courts have decid-
ed that dealing in faro banks is not
gambling. In a state where lotter
ies are run as chartered institutionsk-
this is not astonishing; '
TnEhumorous Fort Worth Colonel
is no more but those who are fond
of reading Ike Philkins' "chained
Lightning" can transfer their sub-
scriptions to the Paris News.
The labor war in the Lehigh val
ley has been carried into the ball-
room. At a dance in the vallev re
cently "scabs" were boycotted and
couldn't procure "pards" in the sets.
Several counties of Southwest
Texas did not hold any "conventions
or take notice of the call issuedfrom.
San Antonio yet they were reported.
as bemg represented by properly ac-
credited delegates.
Jusjtin D. Fulton the sensations
Baptist preacher is trying to rent ap
hall in .Baltimore to deliver'his lec
ture on ""Why Priests should Marry."
At last accounts he had not succeed-
ed in procuring one.
At last accounts Platt.of Nebras
ka was still speaking in the United
States senate on the president's mes-J
sage. He realizes at least that the
subject can't receive justice in aA
small compass. That much is to-l
his credit.
Uncle; Dan'l now belongs to
tariff pirate gong but judging from
the fidelity with which he ate crow-
when Smith was nominated foK
mayor of Houston it can't be pro-
bable that he will oppose Cleveland"-'
after his re-nomination. t
There is a paragraph going the
rounds that the only so-called rel.-
gious doily in the world is published
at Montreal. "What's tho matter-
withEabbi Harris's and Gov. Bill
Sterett's paper? Also might be
mentioned the Houston Age.
One of the glorious privileges of
every citizen of this glorious country-
is that he may run for an office as
well as vote. This remark is apropos
of the coming city election which is
not far aff. And yet the announce-
ment column of the Banner doesn't
show it. v
The Bocrne Paper a republican
protective tariff sheet published at a.
small place only forty miles north?
tho Alamo City says that the So
western immigration meeting vj
deep water protective tiyiff ana
litical consultation conventions
ought to know.
After all the bright dreams
hopeful expectancy that lighlnirj
would strike them when the tl
nouncement of the Louisiana Iol
tery drawing was published the otj
er day many a young man's heart il
Brenham sank down in his bootl
with a dull thud.
The Boston Traveler a republican
paper is waging war on foreign i
migration. It asrts that foreigners!
are not assimilating with the growths
of the country and that they are re i
sponsible for neaily all of the strike
and labor disturbances that are oc- j
curring.
The Houston Age is mistaken in
saying that the Basnab calls attention
to the fact that when Coke was-last
elected to the senate every represen-
tative fromthis county voted for him.
The Banner simply contradicted the1
assertion to the contrary made care-
lessly by the Age.
U. S. Grant is to publish a paper
in New York the main feature of
which will bo devoted to reminis-
cences of his father's life and in his-
work will depend on the help of ld
mother. The Grant boys with sin-
gular unamfcr appear to bo entire
ly conteKst then fortunes on
tho help Hk father's name.
good E!fcioblest inheritance'
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