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TCfE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1886
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Saturday, October 17. 188o.
LAND BOARD LEGISLATION.
Tlic state land boaid has reached and
passed resolution No. 18, which again
changes the law of the Eighteenth legisla-
ture creating the board. A careful inspec-
tion of all the orders and resolutions of the
board will show that there is no authority
in the legislature, in connection with the
public lands, that has not been exercised at
one time or another by the board. When
the law creating the board was passed the
governor and other members of it declared
this law to be absurd f.nd inoperative. If
resolution No. 18 is authorized by law the
law is not absurd, or, at least, is operative.
How can a law be inoperative when it con-
fers authority upon five chief state officers
to alter and amend it so as to render it
operative? Ordinarily a law is unchange-
able save by tht legislature, and must be
tested by its unchangeable provisions;
but here is a statute containing no provi-
sion, apparently, that can not be changed
for the better any day by the five political
chiefs. If in the execution of any of its
provisions defects are discovered, an extra
session of the land board may immediately
be called and the dcfects be cured. Now,
it is a little singular that the board should,
under the circumstances, exhibit so much
anxiety for another land law. Even the
governor refuses to take part in the delib-
erations and actions of the board in execut-
ing this law. The legislature has been im-
portuned to make a better law. IIow can
the legislature be expected to improve upon
the action of the land board? This board
first assumes all the power of the legisla-
ture, then it is able to have monthly, week-
ly, or even daily, sessions. The moment
experience shows a defect in the law
the board can meet and apply
the remedy by resolution. But the
legislature can not have frequent sessions.
If a little defect appears in its enactments,
an extra session can not be immediately or
dered to repeal or amend, as may be neces-
sary. The only argument to be adduced for
asking the legislature to make a better law
than that now in operation must plead the
presumption that the land board is incapable
of making the better law needed—that with
ample authority, with experience and with
fidelity to duly, the members of the
board yet contend they are not able to de-
vise an operative land system. When the
board, under the circumstances, asks legis-
lation it concedes legislative superiority in
the constitutionally ordaiced legislature. It
lluroby acknowledges its failures and would
discard its experiments as valueless. Let
this be fully admitted, Wlun the board
first began operations uncer the law as it
camc from the legislature, there were at
once very extensive leases and sales iuau
guratcd. The fact that the law exhibited-so
much value induced the board to interpise
its authority and to set out upon
BEGGARLY CONSOLATION.
The communication of Lycurgus, in his
appeal to the Knights of Labor, makes some
timely and pertinent suggestions, and also
some that seem too fanciful and far fetched
to have any practical relevancy to the reali-
ties and exigencies of the trouble under con-
sideration. There can be no more question
of the right of laborers and employes to
combine and organize for the promotion of
their common and their individual interests
than there can be of the right of capitalists
and employers to combine and organize for
the promotion of their common and their
individual interests. An organization of
either class docs not in itself imply a spirit
of lawless aggression upon the personal or
property rights of others; add it is just that
such an organization should be judged by
its acts as an organization, anel not by the
acts of individuals who are not known to
hear to it the relation of authorized and in-
structed representatives and agents. Lycur-
gus holds out to workmen that a brakeman
or wiper may"riseto the dignity of director,
chief mauagcr or president of a greitf.
railroad company. Very iruo, but this
does not touch the heart of a profound and
pervading evil after class legislation, abuse
of authority, undemocratic methods and
inequitable arrangements have hedged
round the average laborer, the average
die road of legislation itself, since which
time it has gained a vast amount of
experience, but the school tax has been in-
creased. In July Comptroller Svvaiu made
an effort to get back as near as possible to
the law as adopted by the legislature,or to the
legislative provisions under which there
had been every evidence of a successful
lease policy. He was supported by the
treasurer, and the governor offered a corn-
premise between the legislature and the
board, which was adopted. When the
treasurer and the governor, at a late session
of the board, were absent, resolution No. 18
was adopted, repealing au important pro-
vision of this compromise. This indicates
a want of faith iu the legislature's provision'.
and in the judgment of the treasurer, t
governor and the comptroller. Two me
bPrs of the board practically controlled tl.
majority of the bo rd, and succeeded i
maintaining the repeal of the legislature'
provisions, which Comptroller Swain lia
endeavored to re enact in modified shape
From all these facls it is inferred that what
is wanted is that the legislature shall reduc j
the board to two members, with unlimited i
power, who can not be -hampered with the
ignorance of legislatures, governors, trea- |
surers and comptrollers, but who shall at all
times be a law unto themselves.
JUSTICE AND REFORM UNDER NEW
CONDITIONS.
The correspondent over the signature of
Jefferson has taken the trouble to state in a
lucid manner a view of struggling and con
dieting class interests in relation to poll
tics. Jefferson also has a few measures to
propose, which he thinks will accomplish a
reform. Will it be possible for the coun-
try to get back to former rules and condi-
tions, and, if not to the conditions, will it
be possible to get back to the rules without
the conditions? The reservation of the
land to actual settlers may be decreed after
the land is gone. That rule at least would
not be a restoration of the old way, for
from the first land was granted under the
United States government in fee to others
than actual settlers. But to get back
to such ideas of the general pur-
poses of government as prevailed in
earlier daj s of economy and simplicity may
be conceived as possible. By what power
is this to be accomplished? Are busy men
expected to yield their actual interests
involved in a variety of schemes appealing
to government for aid? Will they do this
on a pure and benevolent view of what is
abstractly right? What is the mode and
what the motive power for reform? It ap-
pears urion a general view of industrial
and social changes that all men are striving
for their well-being; that old conditions,
once passed away, never return; that in-
ventions and combinations bring new
powers into play and things have to read just
themselves. Jefferson—our present modern
Jefferson of Houston—blames legisla-
tion or the disposition to use
legislation in selfish ways. Granting
the justice of the complaint, does not every
observer know that it is human nature to
use whatever tools and levers are found
handy—the legislative power, as well as the
rest? Until men possess more intelligence,
or a better conception of the points to which
to direct their intelligent efforts, the use of
legislation as complained of will be con-
tinued, because it will be profitable to some,
at the expense of others. The correspond-
ent, who as-erts tbo,t all men'are not born
equal, does not define equality. Perhaps the
accidcnts of fortune should be disregarded,
and it may be urged that greater or less
endowment of special faculties has nothing
to do with equality. The singer excels the
cook in singing, but the cook excels the
singer in cooking. That the singer is able
to command more money is purely owing
to an artificial society. Equality of natural
right is conceived as a principle of justice.
Our Houston Jefferson shows that he would
go back, ffut the world goes forward. The
private corporations he would put under a
prohibitory law as to some objects. Yet
the organization of industry by corporate
and co-opcrativc methods is one of the
facts of proper sequence to the growth of
population and increase of scientific know-
ledge, both of which favor division of labor
and economy in production and exchange.
Private capital in a corporation for private
business is private capital still, and it is ar-
bitrary legislation to prohibit its use in that
form; consequently, to argue for prohibit-
ing it is not to wor« for the simplification
of government, but the extension of gov-
ernment, and at the same time for confirm-
ation of existing companies as monopolies
for a time, or violence to equity by abolish-
ing them. The most arbitrary and vicious
interference with business would be in-
volved in decreeing that companies on the
corporate and co-operative system should
not compete with individuals, for it would
be tantamount to decreeing that all the
large enterprises should be given over
separately and exclusively to a few wealthy
producer, the average consumer, the aver-
age citizen, with a grievous system of re-
strictions, exactions and hardships. In
abstract possibility every laborer may be-
come the head of the largest body of cor-
porate property nnd industry in the coun-
try. In abstract possibility every citizen
may become president of the United States.
Hut if the talents anl good behavior of
laboring men in general, or of citizens in
general, were increased a hundred fold, the
number of superior or supreme places in
the industrial world or the political world
would not be increased, and the chances of
elevation to such places would remain the
same. Evidently, there is in the glimmer-
ing prospect of such elevation for a few
only beggarly consolation for the " for-
gotten man"—the great industrious, bur.
den-bearing, tax-paying mass—under evil
conditions wrought by a rapacious and op-
pressive sys'.em of class and spccial legisla-
tion.
AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT.
No doubt Judge F. 0. Dell, of Eagle
Pass, whose grievances are recited by our
correspondent at that point, deserves a good
deal of popular sympathy. It is likely to
occur to a good mrny people, however, that
Secretary Bayard comes pretty near striking
the nail on the head in his reply to Judge
Bell's complaint. Admitting that Mr.
Bayard's letter is very freely interpreted,
still, as reported, it touches the soul of a
sound general policy. Secretary Bayard is
reported to have written, in effect, "that if
an American so far forgets him-
self as to leave a good country
like the United States and go either
to live or trade in one like Mexico, he must
abide by their laws and suffer the conse-
quence." When Mexicans come to this
country they must abide by our laws or
take the chances of going to the penitentia-
ry or getting lynched. When Americans
go to Mexico there is no reason why they
should not be placed on exactly the sa ne
level on which Mexicans are placed in this
country. As a general rule au American is
a superior being, but he is not a elivine crea-
ture, and enjoys no immunities be-
yond the boundaries of his own
country not enjoyed by other people.
Americans temporarily residing in Mexico
too often, like the big boy at school, are in-
clined to boss and bully everybody and
carry everything their own way. This pro-
pensity sometimes leads them into trouble,
and not unfrequently the sufferer in such a
case wants to plead the baby act and fall
back on his country for assistance. The
laws of Mexico apply to Americans residing
in Mexico not less than they apply to native-
born citizens of that country. Extortion
may be practiced by customs officers in
Mexico, but this is merely an evidence of
civilization; a well regulated customs-officer
of any country will not hesitate to extort if
he gets a good opportunity. Of course
Judge Dell is entitled to sympathy, as any
one is whose natural rights are invaded by
obnoxious laws. Yet withal there is hardly
a doubt that Mr. Bayard viewed his case
from a corrict standpoint in tlfc light of in-
ternational law. The beauties of high tariff
and protection should be given a chance to
exhaust themselves, no matter who suffers.
At Glasgow, before the local chamber of
commerce, Mr. Grenfell, ex governor of
the Bank of England, spoke at length re-
garding the monetary situation. Aiuoug
other remarks Mr. Greufell said: "The
Indian budget is said to lose by the depre-
ciation of silver, which is expressed in the
fall in exchange. As long as the Indian
budgets are returned in pounds sterling at
the rate of 3s. the rupee the loss must ap-
pear very serious. But the persons who
have to pay the Indian revenues are Indian
produce: s, and as Indian producers pay iu
silver, and as far as regards their exports
receive in gold, they are actually making
a profit on their private revenues' by that
fall in exchange, which makes so perni-
cious an item in the government budget. I
am strongly of the opinion that India, as a
whole, is reaping a golden harvest by the
present state of affairs; the people who are
losing are English producers, English
manufacturerers and Anglo-Indian bankers.
It was at first taken for granted by every-
body that because officials and those inter-
ested in the Indian trade were losing, India
itself was losing; but it is now almost uni-
versally acknowledged by those who have
studied the question in India that it is in
England that the loss takes place,
and not in India." Referriug to a
proposal to force the gold standard
upon India, he said if that were done
"the price of commodities all over the
world would fall, and India would partake
of that depression in trade from which by
the maintenance of her silver standard she
is not oniy protected, but by which lior
trade is actually stimulated." Mr. Grenfell
further expressed his belief that British
supremacy in commerce is due to banking
economies and abundance of stored capital,
and not to her gold standard. Banking
facilities are so good there that little money
passes in proportion to the revenues of
British subjects. He said:
Our maritime position gives us the power to re-
ef ive goods in pledge from all parts of the habit-
able globe. Tliese are the true reasons of our
banking supremacy, and nrt our monometallic
gold Marciard. The belief that our monomatallic
eold standard nas something to do with it lies at
the bottom of the determinutiou of the States and
Germany to refuse to make a bimetallic standard
nnleps England will join. And it also has *mnli to
cio with the deie>mhiation of our banking friends
to refuse to discuss the question fairly. No one
likes attention called to his own busia -ss. Still 1 ^ss
d( €8 anv monopolist desire to have his monopoly
oiscufsed. While bankers in London are apyeal-
irg to Ricardo, McCulloch, Peel nnd Overstono,
v hat tliev really niea-j is: " I have {rot a monopoly,
and I am not goin^ to have it exposed if I caa
help it.,? My desire is to disabuse them of auy suoh
notion
New Hampshire's experience under the
valued policy law, short as it is, shows the
law not to be a'valuable policy law, and
has induced the Georgia Legislature to turn
a similar bill out of doors. It is better to
prevent history from having to bo written
in some case<;.
Tiieiie is some Republican opinion al-
ready awakened against .John Sherman a?
a presidential candidate on the strength of
the Ohio election. The Texas German
Post declares he waved the bloody shirt
too zealously—that the, old declamation
against the South will no longer draw; that
it is an absurd idea to pretend to see signs
of a rebellion in the South, and, as for the
negro, his right to vote is one thing, and
some natural differences of race are quite
a different matter. Tho section of the
party that labors for general education a9 a
means of enabling citizens to guard their
rights will be approved rather than that
scction that wants to make every small
trespass upon a negro voter an excuse for
federal interference. Logan, it thinks, will
gain by his preference for the educational
method.
If the capitol lands have been sold in
London it may bo called cash business
versus cash balance.
Too much prosperity might have spoiled
the Ohio Democrats. " Whom tho Lord
1< veth," etc. Ohio Democracy is not up to
the standard. It is a sort of a 70-cent De-
mocracy, nnyhow, as represented in Con-
gress.
John Sherman and his fat boy Foraker
can now afford to present John I!. McLean
with a handsome testimonial.
There was a dramatic scene in the Dub-
lin Nationalist convention when Sir T. II.
G. Esmondo apologized for being a land
lord, and denounced tho landlord class as
the greatest curse of Ireland. Michael Da-
vitt.who had just opposed Esmonde'snomi-
nation, then expressed his entire approval,
and Sir Thomas, who is only 23 years of
age, w as nominated by acclamation.
London Truth says:
Lord Woliner, a son in-law of Lord Rallsbury, i-1
standing as a Liberal in tho PetersfleUl division of
Hants. Heisoppos d hy tto Conservatives—Mr.
Nicholson, a gin distiller, who goes about saying
that beer Is the curso of the country; and Mr.
Unity, a brewer, who contends that eln is the
eutso of the country.
It looks as if Osman Digna might be
dead for good this time.
The Hon. Richard Nelson, of blessed
memory, was a good Democratic worker
last fall—at least he got in some heavy
licks for the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress. In view of this fact, it would be
interesting to know what position the Hon.
Richard will occupy in the Galveston cus-
tom-house under the new administration.
The men who blew up Hellgate should
be invited to take a look at Galveston har-
bor.
The Rev. Du Bose, of Houston, might
have spared himself a needless parade in
controversy by not setting up a man of
straw—an arbitrary fiction of speech—for
an adversary. The News did not assert
that all the young preachers have had their
heads turned hy political ambition. It
merely, in a casual way, warned Methodist
veterans, such as Baird and Scott, not to
" underrate either the ability or the en
thusiasm of the ambitious young men of
the church, who have taken the lines in
their hands now and propose to drive the
wagon."
French deputies wiil stand about 230
Republicans not radical, 210 monarchists,
124 radicals. It is considered probable that
M. Clemeuceau, leading the latter,will hold
the balance of power.
Vice-President Hendricks was recent-
ly interviewed by a G. I). man. Mr. II. was
made to say he wanted to have Democrats
put into all offices. Mr. Hendricks corrects
this to the Indianapolis Sentinel. He de-
sires a modification of the civil service law
and of the rules under it, but does not think
that an indiscriminate removal would follow,
and ho is not personally in favor of such a
removal; but he believes that such changes
should be made as justice and fair play de-.
mand consistently with an efficient public
service. The Sentiuel says: " These views
are consistent with those expressed in his
letter of acceptance." Well, yes, but what
did the Sentinel think when it copied the
other view from the G. D. ?
Mr. Tilden seems to be again relapsing
into a violent at'ack of good health.
Why should Chenoweth expunge the
" gin and ale " account of the civil service
commissioners and give " ice tea" a free
pass? During Chenoweth's residence in
Texas he was not known as a special advo-
cate of tea.
Partisan is partisan to tho backbone
and is for spoils to his marrow. It is a pity
that he hides himself behind a nom de
plume, no matter how suggestive may be
his temporary appellation. Partisan, how-
ever, in this instance is in a measure a rara
avis. He is a thorough business man in
private life wedded to unbusiness methods
in public affairs. This gives him a distinc-
tion riot usually the lot of spoilsmen. He
asks The News how large an amount of
civil virtue is to be awarded to the Demo-
crats who supported Blaine? Well, not
much, Blaine was pretty well known to all
Democrats. His published letters were ac
knowledged to be genuine and they were
sufficient to put all Democrat! on their
guard. Partisan, however, wants Cleveland
to make a clean sweep, while attempting to
covertly excuse the Democrats who voted
for Blaine. Wonder if all the spoilsmen are
as tender to Blaine and Butler as our corre-
spondent?
Mary Anderson hasn't called anybody a
cad since her arrival home, nor has she said
don't chewno once. Mary seems to be a
thoroughbred.
The New York Herald on the alleged
slaughter of Chinese in Wyoming:
We unhesitatingly assert that the reports from
the Northwest are all the malicious inventions of
fcc.uthern fanatics, gotten up with the malevolent
purpose of showing that the North has faults equal-
ing these of the South. It is a well-known fact that
the miners beyond the Mississippi are all gentle
men, who go to their honest labor every morning
in drees suits; that they all belong to the anti-pro-
fanity association, and that they collect the stray
Chinamen of the neighborhood every evening a id
teach them to slow and solemn music how to be
ecodcitizins.
As the British parties charge each other
with seeking a compact with the Parnellites,
both affect to deuy any compact.
The firiDg of the fourth-class " rascals"
caufcs Mahone more genuine grief than any
other statesman in this great and glorious
country.
The Coleman Voice designates as a slan-
der a letter to the Home and Farm—proba-
bly the one recently reproduced iu Tiia
News. It had reference to litigation about
land and improvements thereon, in conse-
quence of loose or nominal surveys and re-
sultant errors and uncertainty as to bound-
aries. The Voice must have a degree of
hardihood if it denies that the evil in ques-
tion has been and still is a source of trouble
to many purchasers of land in this State.
Captain B. T. Walbhk, special commis-
sioner of the New Orleans exposition, is at
present visiting Galveston in the interest of
the exposition. He is anxious that Galves-
ton shall bo represented at the exposition,
and it is presumed that Galveston will take
the hint. The exposition is to bo no com-
mon affair. Tho space allotted to Galves-
ton should not be left blank.
Cleveland bus heard from Ohio, and
his backbono remains in exactly the same
position and condition.
toTATK PUKH-.
What the Interior Papers H*y.
Natural advantages are bound to tell, not-
withstanding all that has been said to the con-
trary. The El Paso Herald says:
The decrees of fate can not be changed,
hence El Paso 1b destined to rise to the emi-
nence of a great and Important city. The
Hon. S. W. T. Lanhatn. r,f Weathorf ltd, Tex.,
congressman for this district (the Sixth), was
fcund at the PlerBon. He proposes to Intro-
duce a bill for an appropriation of 1500,000 to
be used in erecting a building suitable for the
accommodation of custom house, postoffloe and
federal court business of El Paso. Our con-
gressman appreciates the growing importance
of this international gateway and terminal
point cf five trunk railroads, an 1 does not con-
template improvements by the government on
the narrow gauge plan, but commensurate
•with the present and future growth of this
city.
The Fort Worth llail says:
The immigrants that Horace Baker could In-
fluence would't likely be very numerous, or
considered as very valuable acquisitions. Tex-
as wants immlgranls, provided they are thrifty
people. We already have an abundant supply
of tramps. Texas should, and does, encourage
immigration of successful laboring and busi-
ness men from ail parts of the country. But
she does not, and should not, use any induce-
ment to bring those who have failed to mike a
living in the older States, or who have not
been sufficiently successful to enable them to
pay their own way, should they want to itnmi
grate to this State
Can the papers find no answer to Temple
Houston's letters except the fact that he is the
attorney of a great cattle company!
The McKlnney Mercury says:
Sixty thousand aereB of land in a solid tract
in Wichita county was sold last week to a
Galveston party to be occupied by German
families. The man with the plow and hoe is
graoually gaining the victory.
The Mercury stands at 100 in the shade and
rivals the other towns that make a specialty
of boasting of their cotton receipts. The Mer-
cury exclaims:
Cotton from Dallas county. Cotton from
Denton county. Cotton from every point of
the compass. And still tho cotton rolls into
this market. It is coming, coming
The Bellville Standard does not lower itself
before the bureau of the land board; neither
docs it mako war on the board itself. The
Standard rather excuses than defends the
hoard by such remarks as tho following:
Though there is mnr-h fault, found with the
administration of the state lirid board, there
are few persons fouuc! to question the integ-
rity or grrd Intent an* of heads of depart-
ments constituting tho board. Bat there" Is a
limit to their physical end mental endurance,
and the amount of work pat upon thern by
the legislature is eutirelv disproportionate to
thfir ability to labor. It requires all
the time and ur divided attention of the respect-
ive heads of departments for the efficient and
cartful management of lb" publicinteres's in-
tiusted to their cate, jet, in addition to those
dutifs, tho hgi-lataro nas constituted the
beads of departments a" educational board,
an auditing board, a capitol board, a county
Echeol land board,and last and most important
of all, a state land board, while the heads of
departments are still further taxed by requir-
ing them to give attention to tiha management
of the penitentiaries ond state asylums. Any
one of the interests involved is of euftloient
magnitude to require the entire attention of
a competent business man nnd able assistants,
jet the management of the different stat j in-
stitution! is conferred upon men whose time
should be entirely devoted to the minags iienO
of their respective department?, and it is un-
reasonably expected that every interest sbill
receive from them that careful attention es-
sential to their proper management. The
legislature has employed excellent ruitdrial
in the construction of a iand board that must
necessarily be inefficient from inadequate
land legislation, from want of sys-
tem, insufficient clerical force, from ignoranca
of the location and quality of the land they
arc called upon to award, and of circumstances
daily arising to hinder and embarrass thom in
the management of the trust imposed on tliem,
the magnitude of which is probably bettor
known to them than to persons whose attention
baa not been especially called to the subject.
The short sighted economy and incompetency
of the legislature hag already involved the
State in greater loss than the a nouat necesia-
ly to secure a thorough and efficient organiza-
tion and administration of the landed interests
of the State.
The Bellville Standard says:
It begins to lock like "the symmetrical de-
velopment ef the State" is an accomplished
fact. The Galveston News and its offspring
are making a much neater job of it than some
oftbebojs expected. Tiik Dallas Morn-
ing News is nowa regular and welcome visitor
at this office. It bears a very striking resem-
blance to its " dear mamma," The Galveston'
Daily News, and is equally as good a paper.
THils is sayiDg e great deal for it, and is, In
fact, a compliment that no other words coul 1
express.
The Standard is right as regards compari-
sons. They are generally invidious. If, as re-
gards The News, none but Itaelf can be Its
parallel, the Standard is, as three legged Wil-
lie used to say, a column of It* own height, if
its title is taken from the standard of measure;
if it signifies an ensign of war, it displays it-
self well in front and deserves a large follow-
ing.
What is the land board up to now? The
Houston Post says:
First thing any or.e knows tho facts about
several literary bureaus at Austin may leak
out. Tho organs of Disinherited Knight will
do well to keep their eyes peeled; there Is a
etcrm trewitg.
The Ban Augustine Saxon says:
A huge panther attacked Stephen Chance
and wife, last week, while they wern driving
through the woods. It jumped into their
wagon, and Mi. ch nee fougfttit with an ax.
The Fort Wciih Gazette, under the caption
of Official Intolerance (not iusuUnce of office),
says with eqnal pertinencs and force:
The resort to denunciation in reply to legiti-
mate argument Is generally accepted by fair-
minded persons as confession of a poor case.
Whtn R1r. Temple Houston gava to tho public
a criticism of the administration of ths iand
department at Austin, he exercised the pre-
rogative accorded to every citizen of the
government. Whatever views may be a ate r-
lained in regard to the correctness of Mr.
Houston's opinions, no one will deny thaS they
were presented in a frank, open Ml i honest
spirit Jn his arraignment of the maladminis-
tration of laud matters, the record alone
fcurd place, and personalities were strictly
(iV.juted. Such u criticism deserved at
least tbet sincere nnd liberal consideration
that was so conspicuous in its owu make-up.
That it fans never received it must be deeply
regretted by nil who favor an honest discus
eicn of pnbltc i«ne? The violent and abusive
course of the administration orgaus toward
Mr. Houston is conclusive proof of one lament-
rble fpet—that th > flfiht for liberty of speech
is yet *o be fought and • cm in I'exas. While
u 1 , /:t . constirntion (beneficent at least, in
Ifcif. respeci) restrains the powers th it be from
sun ir.en'y stopoini,- criticism by forcj, yat it
is proposed toestabli-h a more dang r» istv-
rar.nv in the form of an official mill slinging
nidi hir e, against whose assaults none are to
1 e exempt except those who choose to act and
feel and think with that machine. When tha
organization is already so perfect that the
drip o( • ptp lnt an executive office at Austi^
roni the entire coor«e of the establlshed dr-
gaos, it b high time fgrali who cherish Ameri-
can institutions and American ideas to prepara
to proteit, and when that pen moves against;
the reputations and characters of men whoso
only ofl'ense is that they act and think for
themselves, that protest should be as emphatic?
as the occasion demands. Petty henohmsn
are not slow to take their cue from the bosses.
One W. P. Zuber, of G.-lmeB county, has writ-
ten a letter addressed to "iny fellow-citizens
of theBtate of Texas," in defenseof the admin-
istration, which naturally enough appeared
simultaneously iu the organs. This de-
fense, following the line of its pre-
decessors, consists in a column of rant,
which it would dignify to call abuse,
dev oted to Mr. Houston, and a half column of
meaningless praise of the administration.
Such a defense may please official vanity an<t
official malice, but it will never satisfy au
honest thinking people. We do not remember
to have seen anything so disreputable In j >ur-
nallsm as the methods by which it is sought to
t ut a duality to all discussion of official action.
Such a course can not fail to briug forth its
legitimate fruit. If it should inspire an ex-
posure of all tho rottenness and corruption
which underlies the history of land matters in
Texas, which has wasted a people's patrimony
and luxuriated in a sacred trust, it will noG
have been in vain.
The Junction City Clipper says:
The Galveston News heads an editorial In
Turkey Doomed 1" To which (if it, means
Christmas turkey) we feel constrained to say,
jea, verily I
The editor of the Clipper, like one of the
men in the parable who was bidden to the
feast, has married a wife and prays to be ex-
cused, thus:
Our readers will please attribute the inferi-
ority of matter contulned in this week's Clip-
per to the fact that the editor is " oft "—mar-
ried—and the paper has had to run itself.
The Dallas Democrat seems to have some-
thing like sober second thought or sense of
Bharne, after all. An undignified and spiteful,
paragraph from it was copied in this column
with the simple remark that it was character-
istic of the Democrat, and for that it says
The News " got on its ear " and said "hard
things" about the Democrat. It Is a great of-
fense to a Equalling child to bring it before a
looking-glass and let it seo itself.
The Dallas Herald discusses the sliver ques-
tion in its usual discursive way, but hits the
point as follows:
We observe with a great deal of satisfaction
that the journals of Texas are aligning them-
srlves with our congressional delegation in the
matter of the silver colnoge Our people all
through the South are beginning to under-
stand that the policy of the golditeB of Wall
street is not only not in the interest of this
section of the country, but is directly antago-
nistic to it. We can not have tyo much hard
cash as a basis on which to do business. Che
government certificates, nominated iu dollars,
exchangeable at will tor deposits of such coin,
are the most convenient, the best and the safest
currency imaginable. As for the quantity of
actual Bilver coin required for the people's ex-
change, that will i emulate itself under tae
above proposition.
The Herald, in the end, gets back to the sec-
tional issue and declaims:
Let the country and the South beware.
When that "corner" trap shall be sprung, if
the debtor have not the wherewithal aud can
not borrow it in the general scarcity of the
monometallic legal tender, with the bank*
closed down, alas for his lands, bis stores, his
merchandise, his machinery, his homestead.
Concert of action is preparing. Look out for
that t( rrihle engine that crushes all in its way.
cold ar. ice, remorseless as deuth, the grip of
the Belflsb money power that holds its seat and
frames i's machinations and Issues its decrees
from a climate that corresponds in tempera
tuie to the calculation Ibac, freezes everv pul-
sation of the bet'.er portion of the hurnin
heart.
The HoUBlon Herald asks:
What difference does ic mike whetherthi
next Democratic gubernatorial nomiuce comes
from northern, southern, eastern or western
Texas, co long as he is a a honest and efficient
man!
The San Antonio Express grows funnier
every day. The following is ono of its lass
side-splitters:
If the treasury vaults at Washington should
be tunneled and several casks of gold disap-
pear, suspicion would point to Galveston, and
si me explanation as to their deep-water plan
le demanded.
Tbe. Express does not attach the tag " this is
a joke," but it is evidently meant for one.
[Laugh ]
The Dallas Times says:
The Fort Worth Gazette is delighted with
the publication of Governor Ireland's letter, in
which he doeB not favor hiring people to move
to Texas. It seems to think ireland has beea
guilty of a great crime, aud chuckles over it:
in every column. Governor Ireland is not
alone In his opinion. He Is backed in it by
two-thirds of the Texas loving people. If a
man io so trifling that he has never been able
to accumulate sufficient money to pay his pas-
sage to Texas, he is just the kind of citizsn
that, we want to stay away from tbe State.
Our lands are such as to induce good emi-
grants to come among us. If they are not, tha
class who want their passage paid and a house
given them will never be of any benefit to the
State.
The San Antonio Times quotes tho remarks
of the Houston Age:
Tbe Nxws is subject to violent attacks of
independence, conservatism, and fault finding,
but it supports Democratic candidates after
they are nominated, and does good service
when a campaign is on.
This causes the Times to cease firing, and
bbjs:
Any one who carries a certificate of sounti
Democracy from'Uncle Dan'i will pass muster.
The News will paste Uncle Daniel's Indorse-
ment In its cap, and make him postmaster at
Houston when it gets to be president.
Tbe old question of disturbing ancient land
boundaries baa been revived of late. Tha
Brownsville Cosmopolitan aays:
Judge Kussell, in his charge, called the at-
tention of the grand jury to surveyors running
lines upon land already locatad, thereby CM
Ing litigation. He charged that where that
bas keen the case, to lr dict the parties,
1 OLD > OMKORf.
.fudge Hell Hid Trouble wlib Mexican OllicfaU
and Hear* from Secretary Bayard.
fBraciii. toTbb Nawaa
Eagle Pass, October 16.—Some time ago,
Judge F. C. Dell, of this place, attempted to
biii g some horses from Mexico to this side
without paying the export duty, a duty which
has lcng ago been abolished by an act of Con-
gress, but nevertheless he wa3 brought up be-
foie his augmt highuo-s the federal judge, and
ir.ulfcted cut of f55, which he paid, and his
half-starved and ridcen ro»n horses were da-
1 vered to hi ... Ho nppealod to Secretary
Bajardto compel the authorities to dijgorge.
W<di!«tday last he revived a letter from him,
saiirp in elTeot that ir au Americm S3 fir for-
lie'ts bin se:f as to leave i: good country, like the
United Siates, ai d go either to live or tnae in
cne like Mexico, he must abide by their laws
and suffer the consequences. This beautiful
theory i» very nicoin dealicig with enlightened
aid christian nations, hue in dealing with,
son e rations in this manner, there would bs
ralher ui sMisftcteirv results to the interested
I &rtics >ri some coses,
Ponal >101 tern.
ISMSClA'. -rrj i l-K NEWB.I
Waeiiinoton, October 10 — The following
changes have been made in the postal service
in Texas:
PcsUDice Established—Vaoghan, Hill coun-
ty: Special from Abbott, eight miles east;
Aquilla, s;x miles west
blar Service Change—Graham to Throck-
n crt.n: Modify ore"er of August 10, 1S35, si
es tci .stale decrea*. of ois-.ance* as being fifteen
lodes, instead of eighteen miles.
N. Oiiice—K< tv. ■ G. Attwell, Wintree,
Chain!,fre county.
000 acres of American
A Litis out) 25,000,0
soil. J
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