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Tuesday, October <>, 1885.
TWO GRAND AND SUCCESSFUL AD
MINISTRATIONS.
The Hon. A. Underwood, of the Nine-
teenth legislature, recently called upon The
News to substantiate its charge of prodi-
gality in the financial affairs or the State,
and thereupon the figures from the records
were given, showing that in less than throe
years the expenditures exceeded revenue
over §700,Q00, that the $500,000 cash bal-
ance left by the old alcalde had been ex-
hausted and some $285,000 borrowed. Mr.
Underwood now seeks to avoid the force of
the showing by recalling the fact that The
News opposed the policy of Governor Rob-
erts in heaping up a useless cash balance
by over taxation. Either course, that of
taxing the people unnecessarily, or that of
living beyond the annual revenue, must be
condemned. It will be remembered that
the old alcalde expended over a million dol-
lars of revenue collected by an onerous tax
in taking up state bonds at 40 cents on the
dollar, and left half a million surplus cash
on hand when he retired from office. Such
a policy is unpardonable. But his successor
expends lip to October 1, 1885, from Janu-
ary 1, 1883, about §775,000 in excess of his
income, thereby creating debt, and this
policy some succeeding old alcalde will make
the pretext of again overtaxing the people
to pay off bonds at 40 per cent, premium.
As a mattter of course the personal ad-
mirers of the governors can see nothingrep-
rehensible in this record. Mr. Underwood,
with regard to this matter, doubtless with-
out intending it, misstates the position of
The News and the Democratic press wi'.h
reference to the cash surplus. No news
paper advocated the proposition that, be-
cause of this surplus, taxes should bo re-
duced below the rate required to produce
sufficient revenue for the current expenses.
The News warned the Eighteenth legisla-
ture at the time the heavy appropriations
and reduced rate of taxes were being made
that it was swinging to the other extreme,
that there would shortly ensue an increase
of debt, and that taxes would have to be
increased. The result is as predicted. It
was hastened by extravagant appropriations
which have time and again becu mentioned
in this paper. Mr. Underwood asserts that
" the expenditure of $701,311 17 over the
amount of revenue collected is entirely in
accordance with the declared policy of Gov-
ernor Ireland when first nominated," which
is to say that as $285,000 of this amount
w as 1 orrowed, it was the declared policy of
Governor Ireland to increase the public
debt. But Governor Roberts's policy was, at
any cost, to reduce the public debt. So, ac-
cording to Mr. Underwood, there isa direct
conflict between the notions Jof the two
mm. And yet 3lr. Underwood regards the
administration of the old alcalde as grand
o.Yul successful and that of Governor Ire-
land as grand and successful. There is
something confusing in these estimates of
grandeur and success. The old alcalde's
course was grand and successful; his suc-
cessor gained office on the promise to
reverse the old alcalde's policy, and openly
condemned that policy, a ad now his course
is grand and successful. One was success-
ful in reducing the debt and the other was
successful in increasing it. One of these
governors opened up with an empty trea-
sury and a floating debt of about $75,000,
paid a million dollars of bonded debt, and
left a big lot of cash on hand; and the
other began with half a million cash and
increased the pnhlltf debt a quarter of a
million dollars. It would appear that the
political circus-rider who attempts the bare-
back fiat of riding these two party hacks at
the same time must suffer a serious strain if
not a fatal rupture of an important
part of his anatomy when the horses
diverge upon the two tracks leading
in tl e opposite directions indicated.
The land policy of Governor Ireland is also
it complete variance with that of his pre-
decessor. Every measure of the past two
and a half years has been a radical depart-
ure f;om the policy of Governor Roberts.
Upon every subject of any importance the
present administration reverses the posi-
tion of its predecessor. It commenced with
condemning the land and financial manage-
ment of the old alcalde, with censuring his
secret councils and grand jury boards, with
1 ostility to his university, with opposing
his wholesale use of the pardoning power,
and threw down the gauntlet for coin-
bat upon any part of the political field.
IIow these two governors can both be
grand and successful administrators must
surprise any one but a blind and credulous
partisan, and The News, when it finds one
of these determined to reject the evidence
of the records and to maintain pleasing de-
lusions, can only extend its sympathy with-
out hoping to dispel the infatuation which
an admirable faith in party creates for lead-
ers great or small, wise or simple, true or
unfaithful
ANOTHER PARTISAN FUNERAL. .
The indications are promising that before
many more moons bud and wane the
average Texas Democrat will, without any
unnecessary importunity, arrive at the con-
clusion that Cleveland is a civil-service
reformer from away back. The bouncing
of De Gress and Newcomb will strike the
Democratic heart of Texas right where it
lives. Texas has had many official partisans
exasperating in their zeal and detestable in
their methods, but, taking them all in all,
Newcomb and De Gress were about the
Hirst offensive in the list. While
we are all willing to admit—in fact, lose no
opportunity to assert—that Texas is a great
State, great in distances, resources, people,
natural curiosities, wickednesses and vir-
tues, and consequently must be expected,
in order to keep up with its other features,
to produce partisans above the ordinary;
still, under existing circumstances, the tol-
eration of Newcomb and Do Gress in
office with equanimity was a bit too much
to expect. I!#th are pretty bright men,
and in ordinary life pretty good fellows.
But partisanship has been their profession,
their recreation, their delight, the subject of
their thoughts and acts in and out of season
for all the years of their official existence;
and with the defeat of their party it was
reasonably in order that they should be re-
moved by a reform administration
elected by the party which it had
been their chief business to fight.
Newcomb and De Gress are historic char
acters in the Kepublican politics of Texas.
Both rose and flourished in the reconstruc-
tion era, both rockeel the Texas Republican
baby in its cradle, and both were conspicu-
ous characters at the last state convention
of the party, as they were at every like
convention since the conclusion of the war.
Their decapitation may be said to have
struck at the very soul of the Republican
party of Texas, for without officialism and
patronage Republicanism in Texas is pretty
much a thing of wind, gas, imagination, or
inconsequential reminiscence. True, A. J.
Evans remains, and Calvin Brewster
still draws a salary from the federal
government, but the most energetic and
resourceful of the workers and organizers
of the party are ushered into the unofficial
majority. Newcomb and De Gress have
lasted longer than perhaps either themselves
or anybody else in Texas expected, when
the news of Blaine's defeat was received
last fall, and it might be said in passing that
their continuance in office under a Demo-
cratic administration for seven months is a
living monument to Democratic forbear-
ance. If asked to choose between a horse-
thief and a Democrat for office or for po-
litical fellowship, De Gress and Newcomb
would hardly hesitate for a minute to
award the preference to the horse-
thief. But they are gone and the
Democrats of the State should let old and
unpleasant memories slide with them. The
new postmasters—Henry B. Howard at
San Antonio and John O. Johnson at Austin
—are in every way excellent appointments.
Mr. Howard is one of the best-known men
in San Antonio, and his excellent business
record gives sufficient proof that he will
make a good official. It is not generally
known how Mr. Howard's appointment
was brought about. Ex Mayor French was
indorsed, upon the recommendation of
prominent citizens and leading Demo-
crats of San Antonio, by Congressman Say-
ers, and it was understood that he had
the indorsement of the congressional pool.
There was a good deal of opposi-
tion to his appointment, however, and
it is possible that some kind of a compro-
mise was effected. The appointment of
.John O. Joiwson to be postmaster at Aus-
tin will be likely to meet with the approval
of every person in that city who was not a
candidate for the place himself. He was
indorsed by all the leading men of the
Democratic party in that vicinity. Mr.
Johnson is now paymaster of the state
troops anil has been collector and assessor
of Travis county. There is no reason to
doubt that he will make an excel-
lent official. United States Attorney Evans
of the western district, is now the most con-
spicuous of the "rascals" remaining. It
is altogether probable that the eyes of the
Washington ax man arc on him, and that the
head of the brilliant and able, though some-
what erratic, Andrew Jackson will, before
the swallows come again, land in the basket.
The News publishes this morning
another lengthy communication from Law-
yer Brooks, of Austin, on the school laud
question. Mr. Brooks makes a pretty lucid
argument on the right to recover school
lands illegally or wrongfully disposd of,
but it is doubtful if the scheme of in.ititu-
ting icfjal proceedings to recover lands sold
when the State has received, and used, or
invested the proceeds, will over be Sine-
tioned by the people. Too many home*
steads would be lost, and too many sec-
tions of the State are interested. Innocent
purchasers and honest settlers have right3
which should not be jeopardized, even
though perfidy and fraud taint the original
foundation. The publication of Mr.
Brooks's letter, however, can not fail to
show up a part of the land management of
the State in its proper light, and attract
the general attention of the people to a mat-
ter that has been too much neglected.
The opposition to civil-service reform in
practice must be considerable while there
are so many working politicians who could
not pass a fair examination.
The most extreme Prohibitionists will be-
come the leaders—if they live long enough.
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, insists
on an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States forever forbidding the manu-
facture and sale of liquor. In some such
way a standing army of federal police spies
and armed constabulary might finally bo in-
troduced.
Theise is not the slightest doubt in the
mind of James P. Newcomb that Cleve
land's administration is thoroughly Demo-
cratic and offensively partisan.
Whit,e the Knights of Labor, at Seattle
were holding a meeting in one hall on Sun-
day night, to take action looking to the ex-
pulsion of the Chinese, the citizens of the
town were holding a meeting in another
hall to take action looking to the preserva-
tion of the peace and the defeat of the mobs.
One hundred citizens, we are iuformed,
were enrolled and sworn in as deputy
sheriffs, and the town was divided into dis-
tricts and placed under their general peace
control. This is a vigorous and effective
way of meeting a distempered and danger-
ous sentiment, and speaks well for the spirit
of that particular section of the Pacific
coast. There is no reason why the good
citizens of every community should not be
able to preserve the peace.
As all the states near Turkey want
compensation, and Turkey wants compen-
sation, a swap, a backdown or a fight is in
prospect. It does not look as if the Iloume-
lian trouble were going to be settled as it
is. The English elections will have consid-
erable bearing upon the Eastern question.
If Gladstone is returned to power Russia
will feel free to try for a slice of Turkey,
and Germany and Austria may decide
whether to oppose Russia. If the Conserva-
tives gain a working majority in the British
Parliament it is inferred that British and
German policy will be substantially united
to sustain Turkey and do it easily.
Vice president Hendricks and the groat
American interviewer,no matter in what part
of the land he may be temporarily located,
arc after a fashion chums. The interviewer
never fails to tackle Hendricks, and Hen-
dricks never fails to respond to the inter-
viewer. Yesterday tlio vice-presideut ex-
pressed himself to an Ohio imp of the in-
terviewing fraternity. He thinks that Con-
gress will tackle the tariff question at the
next session, and that the president will
send Civil service Commissioner Thoman
adrift with his brothers of the present com-
mission. There is nothing halting or in-
definite about the vice-president's talks. He
always talks, and from the shoulder, as it
were, and generally says what he means.
But coming down from the vice-president
to the civil-service commission, wonder how"
the " boys " would like to have Hendricks
have the appointment of the new commis-
sioners?
Massachusetts has educational and pro-
perty qualifications for voting, yet Senator
Iloar pretends tiiat southern whites have
two votes to northern men's one vote by
supposing the negro practically disfran-
chised. The negro is not disfranchised, but
thousands of New England men who are
probably better fitted for a vote than the
average negro, are disfranchised by the
laws of New England. Whose doing is
this?
Harpers' Weekly prints counterfeit
presentments of Republican Weigher Bacon,
cf Brooklyn, and Democratic Weigher
Sterling, appointed in his place, but since
suspended, side by side. It is the most
brutal and vindictive method cf springing
the " deadly parallel columns" yet invented
by the American press. Bacon looks like a
gentleman, but Sterling—ugh! he would be
pieked up in Texas by any sheriff :n the
State as an escaped convict on the strength
of his appearance, and should he escape
the sheriff the populace would probably
lynch him on general principles. If Col-
lector Heddcn can't get any better looking
Democrats than Sterling around Now York
he had better keep the "rascals" in.
The Moon is the name of a new literary
and sporting paper published at Nashville,
by Irvine Mather, formerly connected with
the press of Texas. The Moon makes a
very creditable appearance and starts off
well, and if it retains its present high char
acter there is no doubt that an enterprising
community like Nashville will give it ade
(juate support.
It is reported from Constantinople this
morning that the sultan is in mortal fear of
being jjoisoned. It is difficult to see why
the people should desire to poison him. He
is a feeble creature, and if the people de-
sire to drive him off the throne, there is
nothing to prevent them. This thing of the
people being coweel down by a few men is
all poppycock, when you come to look at
it in a common-sense way. The sultan by
common confession has no army to com
niencc with, and if he had, it would b3
composed of Turks who would likely be in-
spired by the same feelings as the rest of
their countrymen. It is cheering, however,
to learn that the sultan is not feeling com-
fortable. He has no right to be comfort-
able, nor has any of his kind. In the
meantime, it is to be hoped that the Hon.
S. S. Cox will find it convenient to be
seriously indisposed when the sultan in-
vites him to dine at the royal table, until
the present difficulty is ended one way or
another.
General Grant was only one of the
innocents duped by Ward. There is Mayor
Grace. Though he bought Grant & Ward's
paper bo "did not know what their busi-
ness was."
The editor of the American Protectionist
was appointed as special treasury agent.
The Million, free trader, contends that he
is an offensive partisan, and blames Mr.
Manning for shining up to the protection-
ists. Nonsense; Mr. Manning is setting a
protectionist to watch protectionist import-
ers. The government also advertises in the
American Protectionist—a good enough
way to elicit what they know about the
tariff from the " business interests."
ALTnoi'Gii Evarts has a national reputa-
tion for using long sentences, he can say no
in cnc word.
Trip, new French system of voting by de-
partments instead of small separate districts,
imposes upon parties of small numerical
strength a great t> sk to be represented at
all. In Paris there are 000 polling places.
The more radical groups of workingmen
are numerous and distinct. These have per-
force coalesced to support here the one and
there the other candidate representing their
various peculiar tenets of political right, as
it would be impossible for each small party
to run a ticket. The scrulin de liste is the
big party overwhelming the small ones by
organization and money for expenses;
hence, it is highly favorable to machine
politics.
TnE Marquis of Lome, the queen's son-
in-law, is running for Parliament as a Lib-
eral in one of the London districts. As the
queen is said to be one of the staunchest
Tories in Britain, it is easy to see why the
heir of McCallom More is not popular with
his royal mother-in-law.
Is it that partisans do not want the
truth, and therefore stump speakers may be
utterly reckless so long as they enunciate
party sentiments? Senator Hoar, in his
speech to the Springfield (Mass.) conven-
tion, said that in the "great department of
justice, every old and faithful servant, from
the law clerk down to the charwoman, is
turned out to make places for political ad-
herents, and the president neither interferes
nor remonstrates." Yet it is stated by the
New York Times that aboat forty seven of
the employes, including the chief clerk, the
law clerk, the pardon clerk and three ex-
aminers are the same who served under Mr.
Brewster.
Talk about journalistic license 1 Is not
this a specimen, which is found in a leading
paper near the headwaters of the Mississippi
river? It refers to an event which has since
been consummated—a wedding:
Mrs. Mark Pattison Is advancing fr om Iadiaupon
Sir ClmrleB Dlike, who doubtless anxiously awaits
her, more from the political and social advantages
resultant than from anything else.
Just as if a politician could not be ex-
pected to marry without a political motive,
if there was an engagement subsisting for
some time past between the couple!
The introduction of American methods
in Irish politics becomes more apparent
daily. The conventions for the selection of
parliamentary candidates, the first of which
was held at Wicklow, yesterday, is a broad
departure in the direction of the American
idea of popular party choice. Heretofore,
in Ireland as well as in England, candidates
offered themselves to constituencies and
published an address to the electors, but it
seems the Parnellites have struck the
American plan of calling conventions.
KTATE PllKhf.
What the Interior Payers gay.
The Dallas Democrat says:
The long looked-for event is now a reality
and Thk Galveston News has taken its place
among the leading journals of northern Texas
as Tub Dallas Morning News. It comes
net to gain a reputation, but to maintain one;
It springs into the field fully armed and equip-
ped, and with lance in rest it begins the charge
with theeje3 of Texas upon it. The News
has unquestionably won the public favor by
unexceled enterprise as a news-gatherer, and
it is equally as certain that, having planted its
better-half in the center of population with
machinery and resources capable of supplying
any demand of the reading public, it will
enlarge its borders of usefulness in this re
spect and reap bountifully of the first and last
object of Its regard—the people's money aud
cot their opinion. " Cuss U3 but taka us," has
been its policy, and we presume thosame motto
will be found inscribed on the folds of its
Dallas bunting.
Very well. " Strike, but hear me," is not
regarded as a bad or unmanly sentiment.
Pome of the papers complaiu that people who
do not take them curse them most.
The Sabine Pass Times is not a free-pass pa-
per. Every number pitches into the use the
railroads make of free passes. The Times says
the State pays for all free'passee.
The Times follows the Gatesvilie Advance at
a respectful distance in the following sen-
tences:
Stay within the law, Mr, Whisky, or we will
"scourge you back "...Votes mixed with whisky
make an awful stink The saloon man's
place is behind his bar, not at the polls... .The
free-pass man's place is at home, not in the legis-
lature. ... A proacher's place is to attack an evil
wherever he finds it, not to apologize to
whisky....A congressman's place is to repre-
sent bis whole people in trying to make good
jaws, not in acting as the partisan bully of a
bleated whisky traffic A. United Ssates
senator's place is In the Senate and to psss
laws for the good of the whole nation, nv, to
appear as the advocate of whisky in a local
option contest A congressman is a national
law maker, not a whisky bummer in a little
cr.unty election.
The Laredo Times says:
The first lucid act of Cran. was to advertise
bis Advance in Thk News.
Cran. knows a hawk from a hand-i-aw in his
wildest moods.
The Willis Index takes this view of t'a? sit
ver question:
The main feature of that question whiVi is
just now worsying the Index is the un-i l-elal
jog to the proposition as to how many siivnr
dollars our delinquent patrons are going t
po.y us between now and the btgluninj of nex
mouth.
The dollar of the daddies is good enough for
newspapermen, They only wish they cjuld
get it.
The new editor of the Austin Statesman is
apt. He catches on to the old racket at the
outset, aud says:
Poor old Galveston. She is contemplating
beirg ordered to the rfar. How sad it is to ho
hurleel down by one fell blow from the zenith
of her glory to the nadir of despair.
When did she get that high fall? Nothing ia
known of it here. The Statesman says:
Of course we krow nothing of the intau-
tion of the owners of the Galveston-Dallas en-
terprise, but it looks very much like they in-
tended to abandon Galveston for pastures new.
Galveston, however, can be assured thit iu the
event of o j emovol of The Nkw» from that
city the Statesman will till the vac^nry, but
edited and published at the state capital.
Galveston is satisfied with tho gulf broezs
and does net need any wind from the Hill city
at present. What is required of the Statesman
is to make a better home paper.
The Orange Tribune asks:
Why not give the prohibition question a
brief rtsting sptll, aud ulao let up on our next
goveruoi'
Prohibition dees need a res', between heati,
but there are so many candidates in training
for governor that it will require from now
until the rnc« to try their paces More horses
aro entered fcr rases a year ahead than ever
make the contest. It is cheaper to try and
withdraw a horse than to persist in running
with no chunce of succjbs.
The Orange Tribune says of the cry of some
of the papers over the decadence of Galveston,
«hen the wish is father to the thought:
Noretnte, brethren! Galveston will continue
to do business at the old Btand. She has the
capital, and should anythioe turn up serious-
ly threatening her future, Galveston will open
her money-bags in time to avert disaster.
An exchange drops this hint to law-makers:
Ir. Denmark a drunken man ia taken home
in a hack by the police, and the saloon-keeper
who sold him the last drink hag to pay for the
hsck.
The Ccrsicana Courier bids The Dallas
Morning News " welcome," and says:
That is is ably edited and perfectly gotten
up goes without saying, for the men wh > hive
charge of the new enterprise are men of true
journalistic metal, and they make a paper
glitter all ever with thoir excellent work The
place cf general Associated Press dispatches ia
most excellently supplied with full S'.ato
specials, and the new paper teems with news.
It glitters like a new constellation in the
journalistic heaveos, and we hope that its ra-
diance may never waver nor decrease. It is a
welcome enterprise; it marks another stage in
the growing prosperity of the interior of
Texas.
The Denison Herald News says:
The principle cf protection ia more largely
practiced and demanded than we are ordinari
ly accustomed to cousider. Many condemn
protection in one claas, while they aro at the
some time demanding It themselves. In such
cates it is merely a matter of meum and tuum.
We do not wish to give what we expect. Here
iu Texas we do not see the propriety of eastern
manufacturers asking protection on the goods
they sell ns. * * The mechanic asks protec-
t on for bis work in preference to all other
kinds of labor, and the Prohibition!^ demand
that the half dozen habitual drunkards in a
conmurity of 10,COO shall be protected
by excluding strong drink entirely and
prohibiting its sate altogether. The Creator
gave to each of us a free will and understand-
ing and sent us into this world each one to
work out his own salvation. The ordinary
state cf society is a struggle for existence, a
suivivai of the fittest. Some rise above the
surface and acquire a good share of this world's
gecds, while others toil along through life and
live and die hewers of wood and drawers of
water. This is our natural etate. The coun-
try owes it to no man to support him in idle-
cesB ai.d indolence. If we look into the ma-
jority of coses, where men complain of their
lot, we will fiiid tho fault is in themselves and
not as others made it. The freest state Is that
in which each one is left tho greatest liberty
of action, untrammeled and unprotected by
Isw, and dependent on his good right arm alone
for existence.
The Rockdale Messenger gays:
The Brick Fotrcroy of the temp-ranc^ came
in Texas publishes a paper in Gatesvilie. and
Hs name is Crnnkfill. [It ought to be Tauk-
full.] His freDzied assertions are doing the
cause cf temperance as much harm as old
Brick's La Crosse Democrat did the S mtb just
after the war. Both were and are ths worst
enemies of thofe who patronize them.
Old Joe Kirgan again 1 lotus up through the
mist like the Flying Dutchman, thia time at
Walnut Spring", Bosque county. Joe should
beep a loug stick and cut a notch for every
new paper he starts, otherwise it may be hard
for Judge Norton, when he compiles the statis-
tics of the Texas press, to tell who has started
most papers. Joe does not tell the citizens of
Walnut Springs that he has come to stay, but
says he comes for the purpose of making a
livirg by honest hard labor in the printing
business. He makes a good start and a very
respectable paper. State Press hopes he is an-
chored for life thia time. He haa changed
base as often as the once famous Arkanaaw
Traveler, who finally ended hii many migra-
tions in the Galveston cemetery.
The Greetbeeek New Era says:
We suggest to The News the policy of
drawing party lines closely and t--ltiog all the
northern Democrats to get out of tho party.
Ihis is the course it pursued towards local op-
tion men, and we are too obtUBe to sea why it
won't work as well on the silver issue.
Brother Foster is haunted by the Idea that
he is to be read out of the Democratic party
or required to stand squarely on the platform.
He is like a rebellious young8ter that was or-
dered out of the room and went, saying: "I
won't go; I tell you I won't go," but went
nevertheless. Brother Foster can vote the
Democratic ticket, but he will have to be
mighty good to get to be speaker again. He
must not be as turbulent ab Brother CranSll.
The Palla8 Demociat opposes calling the
legislature together in special session, and be-
lieves such extravagance on the part of Gov-
ernor Ii eland would not be approved by the
people of the State, The Democrat says:
•The present members of the legislature,
taken aa a body, are about as weak a set of
men as ever assembled together in the form of
a law-making power. We have only to refer
to the last session to demonstrate the absolute
folly of expecting much from them, either at
a general or special session. If Governor Ire-
land will act in Conformity with the wishes of
the great mass of people, he will not call a
special session, as some few desire he should do,
but simply wait until the people select a new
set of law makers and let them remedy tho
blunders, omissions and commissions of the
present legislature. With one unbroken voice
the people say let them stay at home.
The East Texaa News says:
Onr colored fellow-citizens would do well to
consider seriously the distinct threat which
comes now and then from Kepublican author-
ities that the political strength of the solid
South is to be diminished by the disfranchise-
ment, of the blacks. The Republican leaders
have come reluctantly to the conclusion that
(he enfranchisement of the neRW was a mis-
take, aid what is more to the purpaw,, they
are bi ginning to affirm that it is a mistake
which must be remedied.
The Aransas Transcript sayB:
We do not consider our railroad prospacts
the least in jeopardy, as the natural advan-
tages of our geographical position fully war-
rant the assertion that ultimately the terminus
cf the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad
will be located at Rockport.
Natural advantages bo Cranfilled. Haven't
the papers told you often enough that those
who rely on natural advantages always get
left? Even the El Paso Times, printed at a
place that has lived hundreds of years on the
advantages of its position, now says:
Oi.e of our exchanges discusses "natural ad-
vantages," and after due Investigation cornea
to il.is conclusion: "The names of the towns
that have been killed by natural odvautages
is legion." Our citj Is, above all others in
Texas, one of " natural advantages." Don't
let us be killed by them.
Mexican editors do not always settle their
difficulties by an appeal to the code or tha
rules of the Marquis of Queenaberry. Mata-
moros editors, or at least one of them, has
fcur.d a better way. The Brownsville Cosmo-
politan says:
Sencr Cervantes, editor of the Kevista, hav-
ing bten attacked by the Cronistn, proposes
a competitive examination between himself
end Mr. Obregon to decide who is the wisest.
The puclic is the proper tribunal iu all su-iU
cases. A resort to violence does not change
tho merits of a newspaper war, except tl
damege the cause of tt.e man who makes it.
'1 he Wasp says:
There is hardly room in Lullng for the cot-
ton that accumulates each duy. The yards
are full, the railroad platform Is fall, and still
tiomes.
KfATK KlNlAl'KS.
An Uld Legislator Mibmlts a IVn Additional
Remark!!.
[To The News I
Columiua, October 3, 1NS5 —The extended,
courteous and very inte-esting editorial pub-
lished in The Daily News, of the 321 instant,
in reply to a communication of the under-
signed published in the same issue, gives the
facts and figures showing the financial history
and progressive diminution of the cash bal-
ance in the treasury of the state of Texas dur-
ing the administration of Governor Ireland,
from the commencement of his first term of
office to August 31, 1885, showing by your
figures that commencing hia administration
with a cash balance, January 18, 1883, of
1510,120 !I2, there is now a shrinkage, on Au-
gust 31, 1885, of $415,279 22, leaving in the
treasury at this latter date a cash balance of
only |S4,841 70; notwithstanding the fact that
the Nineteenth legislature had authorized the
issuance of 1200,000 state bonds, and the trans-
fer (borrowing, you pronounce it) of various
dead balauces to the general revenue fund.
And you make it appear that the disburse-
ments during Governor Ireland's administra-
tion has exceeded the revenue derived from
ordinary and extraordinary sources to the
extent of 8701,311 17, which ia nearly correct.
Truly the great cash balance so
leudly denounced and condemned by the
press of Texas, and most forcibly of all
by Tiik Galveston News, has gone glimmer-
ing, and now, lo! and behold! a change has
come o'er the spirit of your dream, and
Blat che. Tray and Sweetheart join in the hue
and cry against the governor and the legisla-
ture for pursuing the identical policy advo-
cated by The News and the Democratic press
of Texas generally during the last term of the
o. a , who, with the aid of the legisture had ac-
cumulated a vast cash balance, and had done
what was far more important and honorable-
had elevated the standing of Texas from finan-
cial dhgrace to a standing second only to that
of the United States in the demand for, and
premium on, her bonds. The News will not
forget that Governor Ireland was especially
elected with a view cf using the cash balance
for the support of the state government and
for the purpose of reducing the taxation of
the people to the very lowest point, required
In their judgment, and obsolutely necessary
for the economtcal support of the state gov-
ernment.
Well, in pursuance of this policy so ably ad-
vocated by The News, the Seventeenth
legislature did reduce taxation one ft!th at
the regular session—from }4 to 4 10 pjr
cent —approved April 14, 1883; and, again, the
Seventeenth legislature reduced the ad valorem
lax in extra afssion from 4-10 of one per cent,
to 3 10 of one per cent., approved May 4, 1883.
It must be borne in mind that 25 percent, of
these amounts was for the public school fund
by a provision cf the constitution and laws of
Texas.
Then, again, the tax law for general revenue
was reduced by the extra session of the
Eighteenth legislature, approved February 7,
3884, to 17)^ cents on tho $100. Now, there-
fore, in view of the clamor and diasatl8tac!ion
(n account of the cash balance and in view of
the policy advocated by the press, the people,
and state convention of 1SS2, and of the policy
at neucced by John Ireland before his noml-
ration, surely no other condition of the trea-
sury could be expected than that it has now
reached, the condition advocated by Thb
Nrws and the Democratic press of Texas gen-
erally. This financial hi3tory of Texas, how-
ever, is perfectly understood by the intelligent
people of Texas and the readers of The News
generally. The points 1 desire to present are
these: That iu all the appropriation bills
pasfed by any legislature of the state of Texas
since that most iniquitous subsidy act passed by
the Twelfth legislature to tax the people
and to donate to a railroad $ 10,000
to the mile for hundreds of miles,
no appropriation bill has ever since passed
any legislature of the state of Texas of any
important amount; or. so far as I recollect, of
any amount of an iniquitous character, or of
which any reasonable or justifiable complaint
has ever been - made. And most assuredly
there is not an instance in which any com-
plaint or chaige has ever been made against
any governor or accounting executive, or oth-
er officer of this State, since the Twelfth legis-
lature, of a single doilar, more or leas, ever
having been drawn from the treasury of the
State except in accordance with appropriations
Ly the legislature, and strictly In accordance
wilb law.
Now, In the name of justice, if the foregoing
statement be incontrovertible, where comes in
the " prodigality of the 1- gislature? " " Spend-
thrifts," indeed! How aud in what way has
the " money-spending itch broken out on the
governor? " How is It that the State ia mov-
ing jauntily along to bankruptcy? As emi-
nent and distinguished orators hold control of
end carry with them by the magnetism of
their God-inspired genius and eloqueuce vast
audiences, causing them for the time to forget
themselves and all the world beside, so The
Nrws addresBes itself to the eye instead of the
ear, of audiences vastly greater, not
for a few days in the year,
but for every day in the whole year,
and for year after year; yea, from generation
to generation, and is so continuously present-
ing matters and events not merely to be heard
and admired to day and to be forgotten and
pass into oblivion to-morrow, but to remain a
record, visible and available to all the world
for all coming time.
Probably there is no great daily paper pub-
lishtd in the United States that gives a general
record and history of events, that should be
regarded as more reliable for the truthful au-
tenticity and verity of its statements thau The
Galveston News.
In the matters, however, under considera-
tion, surely it must be admitted, as I think I
have most plainly shown in thia communica-
tion, ttat the depletion of the caah balance
and the expenditure during the administration
of Governor Ireland of $701,311 17 over the
amount- of revenue collected, ia entirely in ac-
cordance with the declared policy of Governor
Ireland when first nominated, and which policy
was sustained then and adopted by the Demo-
cratic party of the state of Texas. The question
then resolves itself into this: That no such
thir g as prodigality of any legislature; no such
thing as itching extravagance of any ollieer of
the state government has over transpired since
the memorable session of the Twelfth legisla-
ture, but the result of the excess of disburse-
ments over the revenue was caused hy too
great and Inconsiderate reductions of taxation
from 40 cents on the $100 in 1882 to 17>.j cents
in 1884 for the general revenue, which fell far
short of the necessary and economical expend-
itures and appropriations, aud so ahsorbol and
dissipated the cash balance, iu accordance
with the programme of the Democratic party
at the close of the grand and successful admin-
istration of the o. a., who must aud over will
occupy a place in the remarkable history of
Texas'as one of her patiiot fathers, one of her
distinguished and great men.
Texas is prcud cf the extensive influence,
high character and general Integrity of The
Galveston News. Let it be careful to sus-
tain its high appreciation by avoiding the evi- j
dent stamp of partiality or prejudice.
In view of the deficiency of reveaue result-
It g from too great reduction of taxation by j
the Seventeenth end Eighteenth legislatures, j
the Nineteenth legislature, bv an act approved!
March 31, 1885, increased the tax for general^
state revenue from 17)., cents to 25 centa on
the if 1CU, which, according to estimates, will
produce a revenue adequate to meet all thaf
Bpprrppiationa for the support of the stata
government and to provide any deficiency* :i j
W ith all due respect, the foregoiug to ThB^ ;
News and to the public if deemed worthy ot;. j
a place in its columns. Very respectfully, i/F
A. UsDKltWOOD, fir
I. ..
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