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Galveston, Tel., Auguat 1, lo'JL
Texan will Boon tiro of tho "running out"
policy. Nothing will ninko this state nNsurodly
auri progressively prosperous ns louff us iuvost>
mouts aro throatennd and oapitnl clinacd out.
Tho people will not find thoniaelves ablo to pay
two or throopor oeutpor month intoreattlio way
things *rs now; yet Uio will hare to pv this vb
BTerythinar they borrow or bay or stop this
shriveling and parulyzing know-nothing foolish-
nOSS,
lunatics in thk jails.
Roccnt publications of facts regarding tho
detention of lunatics in county jails have
probably induced a number of citizens
to question the adequacy of tho present Htatu-
tory provisions for tho care and treatment of
those unfortunato persons. Of courso it is
universally admitted that tho state institutions
are not of sufficient capacity, otherwise tho
spectacle would not be presented of lunaties
lying in county jails for months before they
can be received in the state institution. It is
not, therefore, on this aspect of the general
question that it might seem dosirablo to elicit
any now suggestions. Tho increase of accom-
modation in tho state institutions simply needs
urging. There is nothing in tho principle of
thnt part of tho possiblo betterment which is
not already understood and agreed upon.
With adequate state accommodation the luna-
tics would be removed from tho county jails,
and tho present observed inconvenience,
perilous circumstances and humiliat-
ing exhibitions of cruel and incongruous
malarrangcments witnessed in many of tho
]>opulous counties would bo removed. But
thero will always be need of provision for tem-
porary detention and care in these cases; and,
moreover, it has long been clear to observa-
tion that the state accommodations were short
of the requirements of tho general case, and
would so Bcmain for a time. Under tho actual
conditions, then, can not tho counties do some-
thing better? There are good people, no
doubt, who will at tlrst think that jails should
not bo rendered very safe and comfortable
iusido. These worthy people perhaps forget
that jails not only contain the criminals but
many persons who aro not oven suspected of
crimoand many others who aro held for trial
and afterward proved innocent. It is wrong,
therefore, to be indifferent to any incidental
hardship or horror presented within their pre-
cincts. Tho argument or consideration al-
luded to would bo more relevant to sustain a
proposition for sending the overplus of luna-
tics to the penitentiary than for crowdiug
them in npon the houses of detention. Lot it
bo understood that the state must be urged
to tako care of all tho lunatics;
meanwhile Tub News would liko
if i>ossible to see some advance in provision
by the countics best ablo and most needing sep-
arate accommodation for lunatics, who, as is
well known, must for an indefinite time bo
cared for in their respective counties. It will
bo borne in mind that county government is
not an arbitrary matter, but taxes aro limited
by the state constitution, and tho objects for
which tho commissioners can appropriate
money aro circumscribed by the same au-
thority. Some time ago, while visiting Tiib
Kbws editorial rooms, Mr, Gillaspie, district
attorney of the Galveston and Harris county
criminal district court, mode a verbal sugges-
tion which may be of value. Ho thought that
under some authority which probably exists
to establish hospitals two or three counties
might join together and erect a building at tho
county line, where their lunatics might bo
cared for at an expense which would not bo
embarrassing, and that such a plan would
abate tho crying evil of confining dangerous
lunatics in the jails. If the latter and present
plan is to continue there ought to bo other
jail accommodations constructed and set apart
for the harmless ami for tho dangerous luna-
tics respectively with proper attendance.
Wk have in Texas a stalking, rampaging
cyclops with only oue eye. The people waut to
get totfetlior and punch his eye out with a log
that has a red-hot end to it. Our Cyclops is au
embodiment of discontent and prejudice. Helms
run out tho cattlo ineu, stopped tho railroads
and is uow after tho mou who havo cheap money
to invest.
cotton and de11t.
Mr. Iiungo is not the only business man and
expert in cotton dealings who takes a less
pessimistic view of tho situation as regards
that staple than has been generally remarked.
It is true thnt no prudently forecasting ol»-
server will go so far as to assure farmers that
prices will bo remunerative this year. They
can only judge that the result of some other
conditions than those relating immediately to
tho crop will perhaps prevent a im-
manent and disastrous decliuo. The
fact that lower prices tend to
introduce new uses is ono thing to bo taken
into account. Another is tho favorable out-
look as regards an increase in Amoricau gold
holdings by marketing a largo wheat crop, of
which Europe needs near 300,000,000 bushels.
This is ealculatod to revive business generally,
and with such revival manufactures will ro-
ceivo an impetus. But ufter all the farmers
who have raised more cotton than they should
and less of other things than they needed, will
not get off without a real lesson. Indi-
vidual judgmont must always decide,
according to particular situations, how
much of a given crop to plaut. General
advico can safely be restricted to pointing out
the folly of neglecting to raise enough pro-
visions. On this point there eau be no hesita-
tion about drawing a conclusion. With rela-
tion to debt payment it is certain that neither
a largo nor a small crop of cotton at a high or
at a low price will enable tho farmer to pay
off at onco any considerable loan which an un-
just law forces his creditor to collect instanter.
With regard to the condition of many fanners
something has been overlooked by those
who seem to rely upon tho homestead low
as an indication that after oil the debtors will
bo comfort ablo if they do loso their mortgaged
land. It is true that when a Texan has two
hundred acros of improved land secured by
the homestead law ho is not going to bo made
a pauper if ho loses any overplus. But it is
also to be remembered that if the debt is for
purchaso money diio on tho homestead it is
subject to foreclosure for such purchaso
money. It is also subject to foreclosure for
cost of improvements proporly contracted
for; and many Tcxans, realizing thnt if
onco they fully paid for their home-
stead they could not eneuml>er it., have
I>aid other claims whilo they needed borrowed
capital, and havo loft somo debt on tho home-
stead in the manner in which it is i>ossiblo
for thom to givo security, namely, as pun-hose
money owing. This consideration renders tho
optimistic view as to tho future of somo home-
steaders far from being tho truo view, but tho
price of cotton is only a drop in tho bucket os
compared with tho flood of trouble awaiting
some debtors from tho source which every ono
of thom rcalizos to bo their fateful misfor-
tune.
Ana tho Wall street money lenders better
than English and Scotch hmdorsT Do wo wish to
douhlotho power©! American capitalists by turn-
ing ovor to thom a monopoly of monetary affairs!
Aro wo ready for any »ufllciont reason to turu out
tho only men who havo ever brought auy cheop
money to TexasT If we answer thoso questions m
tho alHrmativo, then wo aro iu favor of tho ulion
laud law. ______
Rpbcl'I.atioh in financial affairs is produtv
tivo of many brasoo attacks upon publio credit,
bat perhaps it has rarely taken the liear side
With such startling earnestness as that dlsulaved
In Spain and reported this morning, whore a
band of men were hirod to make an assault on
tho Bareoloua barracks. Had they not been
capturod tho Offair would have beon magnifiod
into tho lirst engagement in a revolution and
Spanish government seouritiee would havo boon
expected to tumble. If the aooount be not
strictly truo it is ingenious as a moans of bracing
the said socuritios.
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SNAP SHOTS.
The midsummer night's dream is a steamer,
DrKiNQ the dog days no collar will stand
alone except the brass collar.
You can get a little blood out of a turnip by
feeding it to stock.
Iv tho people of Texas desire to avoid the
tangle-*taggers lot thom quit sending pretty
young lawyors to tho legislature.
While you aro sowing sow a few grains of
allowauco. You will need bushels of it boforo
long.
In Knoxvillo and other rocky towns a snido
circus is but a Hooting show.
When tho devil gets into a printing office ho
begins to make pie.
AuMoru and other groat packors probably
got thoir scheme for utilizing and selling tho
bones of boovos from tho ToxaB butcher, who
sells a broad pioco of bono with evory mouthful
of steak.
STATE PHEBS.
What tho Newspapers Throughout Texas
Aro Talking About.
Tho Menordville Record is tired of writing
for glory and priutiug on trust, and asks its
subscribers to pay for their papers.
The Aransas Pass Now Era drops these nug-
gets:
Manners must bo equal to tho good looks to
bo of any consequence. You must always
keep up with tho procession if you want to
witness tho performance. Less talk and more
enterprise is an effective stimulant and reme-
dy for any progressive city.
The Trinity Watchman says:
The com and cotton crops were never bet
ter in this county from the bost information
ws oan gathsr.
The Austin Capitolian imputes an error of
the tyi>es to the pencil in calling that paper
the Chicftaiu. The Capitolian says:
Evorv man who was engaged in tho disrepu-
table job of throwing rotten eggs at Sam
Jones in Houston should be dealt with to the
full extent of the law.
Tho Wharton Spectator says:
No county in tho world can boast of a more
fertile l>clt of land than Wharton county soil.
The crops here at present are beautiful and
tho harvest abundant. Cotton is reported
throughout the county as rapidly opening and
picking will begin in earnest in a very few
days. Worlds of cotton will be shipped from
Wnarton county this fall, the crops boiug
something above tho ordinary.
Tho Hempstead (Waller County) Courier
says:
The sanctity of our little city has been in-
vaded by that vile sheet, the Kansas City Sun,
which MOiifed such a great advortissment
throughout tho state by tho "tar and feather'"
process to which their agents were exposed in
some of tho North Texas cities. In the last
issue of tho Sun some of our young men were
severely handled by some unknown corres-
pondent ; even married men wore attacked,
and tho affair may become quite interesting
after a short while.
Every ono fouud in possession of a copy of
that vilo sheet places himself in tho category
of ono found with contraband or stolen goods.
The El Paso International Times saysi
Tho rumor that tho Catholics in Mexico aro
taking any united interost iu the politics of
that government is, of course, without founda-
tion. No class of Mexican citizens are more
anxious for oonce and prosperity than the
Catholics of Mexico.
.The Victoria Advocate asks:
Why is it that Sam Jones con don his long
mantle, enter the pulpit and insult every lady
and gentleman witnin his hearing with the re-
sult that his insuits have a tendency only to
augment tho attendance at subsequent meet-
ings? Why is it? Sam Jones will (>oint his
Hnger at a lady and say: "Oh, yes, sister, you
are one of those women who wondered 'if Sam
Jones would take iu Corpus Christil' You
blear-eyed fool, you! You lop-eared, lop-
sided, bow-legged, knock-kneed, run-dowu-at-
tho-heel old sinner you I Why, I could put
you in my pockct nnd wouldn't know you
were there but for riding my tooth-pick! Go
nnd sonkyour head in butter milk, you louse!
If yoU say ><»u didn't say it you're a liar!"
The El Paso Tribune prints % this alleged
remedy for musquito bites:
A German writer says that ordinary soap is
is as g(»od as any of them iu case of a bite.
Ho makes a lather over the affected part and
allows it to dry on. Tho burning is at once
relieved, and all pain soon disappears.
The Hondo Herald saysi
Prof. J. A. Taff and his assistant, S.
Lovett, of tho state geological survey, were in
towu Saturday aud called on tho Herald.
They havo been been truveling ovor the coun-
try south of here and went up tho Hondo.
Prof. Tail's object is to find out how this
country Is put together and what is in it. He
says it remains for futuro investigation to de-
termine whether bituminous coal exists in
this county. Tho lignite may bo valuable
some day, but it is not an article of commerce
nt present. Experiments will bo conducted
by tho bureau to determine whether or not
it can bo prepared for fuel at a reasonable
cost.
The Herald soys:
It has been satisfactorily demonstrated that
southwest Texas is tho best portion of tho
state for general purposes. Hero in Medina
county tho farming and grazing lands aro
about equally divided. Corn, cotton, oats
and vegetables can be produced here with
less labor than north or east, and tho yield is
good. Stock keeps fat all winter without
feed. This summer's drought would havo
been disastrous in any other portion ofthe
state, but the oatcrop was good, tho corn crop
will amply supply the home consumption, and
the cotton crop promises a good average.
This is not all. When the drought strikes this
country tho mosquito bush comes to tho rescue
with a big crop of mesquite beans, a splendid
food for cattle.
Tho Bastrop Advertiser says:
It may not be generally known that the last
legislature passed a low increasing the penalty
for traveling over apublic bridge at a faster
gait than a walk. The tine is $25.
A luxuriant crop. Tho papers say tho hair
of Miss Ascuath Phil pott of Gainesville is ten
feet seven inches long.
Tho present growth is of tho past seven
years, as in 1H84 her hoad was shaved during a
spell of brain fever. It is necessary to her
health to cut out large quantities of hair every
few months, and this she has a regular sale for
In some large wig manufactory in the east.,
which pays her well for it, as its fineness and
silky gloss is excoptionnl, besides being of a
much admirod red gold tint.
Tho Brcnham Banner says;
Tho roccnt attack of American citizens in
Durongo, Mox., by Roman Catholics while
the former were laying tho oornor stone for a
Methodist church, was not only on insult to
tho Protestant churohes of the world, but an
insult to evory Amoricau citizen who bolievos
iu tho justice of the constitution which guar-
antees to every citizen tho inalienable right to
worship as ho pleases. Wo havo no doubt but
what tho Americans will go right on with tho
church nnd if they aro again set upon by theso
minions of tho Vatican, the Atnencah govern-
ment should demand somo better excuse for
it than was apparent on tho occasion of tho
former attack. When Undo Sam's children
leave his hearthstone (the United States) and
nro playing around in tho neighbor's yard, its
nil right for them to be governed by tno regu-
lations of the noighbor s household, but lio
tdiould not allow them to bo imposed upon or
brutally beaten up without they havo trans-
gresssd those rules.
Tho mob alluded to was as much a violation
of the laws of Mexico us it would havo been
of those of tlie United States if committed ia
this country. The Mexican authorities sup-
pressed it by force. Tho policy of tho United
States in such cases here was pretty fully ex-
plained to Italy in tho case of tho Now Orleans
riot and lynching.
B0MAN0E IN A MONASTERY.
A Russian Governor Dios a Monk—His
Identity Discovered on His Death,
Pakis, July 81.—-A startling romance, as
strange as any relatod in fiction, has beon dis-
closed at Grenoble, capital of tho department
of Isoro. In fact it is so sensational and full
of romantic interost that a successful novel
will bo written on the outline of this story,
which is as follows: At the fall of tho
monastery of La Grande Chartreuse a pious
monk known by tho name of Don Jean Louis
died a few days ago, after suffering teriblo
agony, the result of au accident. The good
monk was found ono day last week bruised
and bleeding on the bank of a stream at tho
foot of a precipice near La Grande Char-
treuse.
There tho monk had laid bleeding and
groaning, incapable of moving hand or foot,
his body resting half in and half out of tho
waters of tho torrent, for two whole days. At
tho expiration of that timo a shepherd, w ho
had driven his flock down to water, heard
tho dying monk's groans, and, hastening to
the spot, he tenderly dragged tho sufferer out
ot tho water and ran for assistance as fast as
his legs would carry him. Help was soon
brought to tho si>ot, but it needed but slight
examination of the suffering monk to show
that thoro was no chance of saving his life,
and his body may be said to have beeu but
one huge gaping wound.
When the physicians announced that tho
monk could not live his relatives were com-
municated with by telegraph, and thus tho
real naino of Dom Jean Louis became known.
The dying man was at ono timo a most promi-
nent Russian general, a man all-powerful in
Russia; he was Goncral Nicolai, who at ono
time had been governor of tho Caucasus. Ho
died before any of his relatives could reach his
bedside, and with him, to all npj>earances, has
died the secret which caused tho famous sol-
dier to enter tho monastery of La Grande
Chartreuse inJ1800, and to remain there, a model
truly good man, until the fatal fall over »he
precipice caused the secret of his identity to
bo revealed to the world. It is concluded that
the monk fell over the precipice wh.l > wander-
ing too near its edge: but naturally tho most
sensational accounts of the affair hint at mur-
der aud the vengeance of the onco powerful
Russian governor's enemies as being likely to
have caused his death. But then this does not
end the romance.
Strange to say the c ell occupied by the dead
monk, whose history i* outlined above, has
beon given to Father Dom Charles, tho dead
man's nephew, another well known man ofthe
world, who has renounced its temptations for-
ever. Dom Charles bears in reality tho histo-
rical name of Do Broglie, and the jockey club
members who knew him, not so very long ago,
as one of the leuders of fashion, wore astound-
ed when the circumstances of General Nico-
lai's death also revealed that young Do Brog-
lie was an inmate of the monastry. Every-
body thought that he was traveling in Africa.
LAND IN PALL MALL
Is Worth Half a Million Sterling Per
Acre.
London Exchango.
A site belonging to tho crown, situate op-
posite tho Athemeum, Reform and Travellers'
clubs, having a fronta-je to Pall Mall of fifty-
nine feet, by a depth of sixty fectthrco inches,
and comprising, including the area in front,
8770 square feet, has, nt tho Mart, been offered
for letting by auction on a building leaso for
eighty years, and after considerable competi-
tion was let at tho yearly rent of i,lo25, which
is at the rato of 8s. Gd. per square foot of
building area. This, if brought into fee-
simple value, at twenty-five years' purchaso,
would represent nearly ±'500,000 an aoro.
How Protection Works in Russia.
Dr. F. H. Goffckon in the August Fortun.
The profits of tho prohibitivo policy go to
tho Russian manufacturers, who realize enor-
mous gains, but who, protected ns they aro
against foreign competition, neglect all pro-
gress in production. Moreover, it is curious
to observe that the greater part of those man-
ufacturers ore foreigners. Tho cost of this
system is entirely borne by tho domestic con-
sumers. When, for instance, somo years ago
foreign coal was heavily taxed, the Russian
producers raised thoir prices enormously
without making provision for a sufficient
supply of coal. Coal w as thus sold nt faBcy
prices, so that many factories had to bo shut
up, notwithstanding the protection afforded
to thoir manufactures. Tho premium ac-
corded for exported *ugar increased tho prod-
uco 08 fold, but by fur the larger Dart went to
foreign markets, which are flooded with cheap
sugar. England nnd Persia pay for Russian
sugar 850 por cont less than the Russian con-
sumer; so thnt RusMan sugar, which has been
growing inaccessible to tho poorer cIojfos, is
now smuggled from Penis luto Russia.
But it is agriculture which fares worst with
this system. With tho onortnous duties on
agricultural implements and machines, the
few Russian manufacturers were unable to
meet tho demand; they could, for instanco,
only furnish forty threshing machines of tho
400 which were wanted, the rest had to be im-
ported from Germany and England and 8,000,-
U00 roubles in custom duties had to be puid for
them.
Liquor and Grain.
Oath in the Enquirer.
From Tovee's Brcwon* Journal I find some
fresh figures upon liquor ami the grain which
makes it. The total barley production of the
world is 826,000,(iu0 bushels, of which near
650,000,000 bushels is produced by European
countries. The rage for beer among the Teu-
tonic pooplo has cauned tho increase of barley
to bo constantly increased, except in Franco,
whore wine is a check upon fermented grain.
Before Franco lost Alsaoe and Lorraine she
raised in those provinces about 250,000 acres
of barley. Tho French breweries required
but little more, for they aro neither numerous
in>r large, but Qermany» which eioesds nil
other countries in malt liouon. has
to import a great deal of barley. Great Brit-
ain imports about as much as the Germans,
but adaed to what the French uso of barley
the United States, which has become, through
emigration, considerable of a beer country,
raises about 20,000,000 hectolitres of barley,
Canada about one-third as much, Russia two
and a half times as much ns we, Germany
mora than one-half more than we, Spain one-
fourta moro than we, Englaud about tho same
us Germany or a littlo loss, Austro-llungary
the same as England, Algion more than tho
United States, Egypt half as much as the
Uuited Statos, Sweden and Norway one-third
ns much as we, Denmark ono-third as much,
Roumania ono-third as much, Bulgaria nearly
tho sumo.
Asserting His Bights.
Chicago Tribune.
"That's exactly what I oaine here for this
evening, Miss Mildred."
The young man laid aside his hat, cane and
gloves.
"That's exactly what I came for," ho ro-
peatod, possessing I tin self of her hand. "I
waut you for my wife,"
"You might have Paved yourself tho trouble,
Mr. ITnirboll," exclaimed tho girl, taking her
hand away. "I shall never marry you."
"Another word of bock-talk liko that," said
the young baseball umpire, quietly but firmly
passing his arm about her waist and pulling
isr hoad down on his shoulder, "will cost you
$26."
A Suggestion to Inventors.
Kato Field's Washington.
"Dear, tho baby's crying. Get up and worm
the milk."
"I wish tho baby were liko tho stove."
"Dow do you mean'/"
"A self feeder"
TEXAS ALIEN LAND LAW.
WHAT IS THOUGHT OF IT ON THE
0THEB SIDE.
The Secretary of tlio Alliance Trust Com-
pany Says that No More Money
Will Bo Lent to Texans.
Dundoo Courier.
The following are tho clauses of tho new act
which came into operation in Texas on Mon-
day, and to which reference was mode in the
Dundco Courier's London letter yesterday:
Chapter 62: An act to amend title 3. articles 9
and 10, and to add articles lUa.dOh, 10c, lOd, lOe,
ldf, ldg uud 10b, aud to repeal all laws in con-
liict therewith.
Section 1. Ho it enacted by tho legislature of
tho state of Texas: That titlo 3 and articlos9
and 10 be amended, end .by tho addition of arti-
cles 10a, 10b, 10c, lOd, lOe, lOf, 10g and lOh, so as
to hereafter read as follows:
Article 9. An alien aiiall have and onjoy In tho
state of Texas such rights pertaining to personal
property as aro or shall bo accorded to citlseus of
the United Status by tho laws of tho uation to
which such alien shall belong, or by tho treaties
of such uation with tho Untied States.
▼Article 10, No alien or a person who is not a cit-
izen of tho United States of America shall ac-
quire title to or own any interest iu the lands
within the states of Texas, and any deed or other
conveyance purptrtiug to convey such title or in-
terest to any aliuu or unnaturalised foreigner or
to any firm, company, or corporation conqMjsod of
such in whole or in part, shall he void.
Articlue 10a. This chapter shall not apply to
any alien who shall, at the tune of acquiring title
to lauds in Texas, have declared his intention of
becoming a eitizvn of the United States of Amer-
ica. and who shall in obedience to such laws be-
coin" a cltlcon within six yean from the timo such
intention was declared.
Article 10b. All aliens who shall hereafter take
lands by devise or doscent may hold tho sumo for
tho space of six yean and no longer—provided
that any alien minor or person of unsound mind
inheriting land- in Tsxas may havo six years after
such minor reaches 21 yoars of age, or person of
unsound mind shall iiave hud a legal guardian.
Article 10c. Auy alien may, for a valuable con-
sideration, take, hold, ussigu, forechnc, sell or
buy. under any mortgago or deed of trust, any
lands within tho state of Texas in which he has
an iutorcat by virtue of havlnu heretofore matin a
loan of money, subject to tho provisions of this
chapter in reference to alienating said lands
within six years, as hcreiu required.
Article 10*1. If any alien shall undertake to hold
lands for a longer time, or In any way contrary
to tho provisions of this chapter, such lands
shall escheat to and vest in tho state of Texas in
like manner as is provided for tho escheat of es-
tates of persons dying without any deviso thereof
and having no heirs.
Article lOe. It shall bo tho duty of the attorney
general and district or county attorney, when
they shall bo informed or havo reason to believe
that any lauds in this state are being hold con-
trary to tho provisions «»f this chiipter, to in-
stitute suit in behalf of tho state of Texas in the
district court of tho county where such lands aro
situated, praying for a writ of possossiou for tho
same in behalf «»r tho state.
Article inf. Tho escheat proceedings provided for
in the next procoding article shall, in the matter
scire facias, appearance and default, judgment,
execution and sale be governed by theprovisions
of title :#) of the Revised Statutes of Texas in so
far as tho same is applicable, except that tho only
question on tho trial shall bo whether or not tho
provisions of this act have beon violated.
Articlo in*. All laws and parts of lawa in conflict
with this titlo aro horoby repealed.
OPINION Iff TEXAS.
Referring to the abovo a Texas paper writes:
This is one of the laws passed by the Twenty-
second Texas legislature, which ap|>cunto
have gone through thnt body while the mom-
ben wore asleep. That is the charitable view
to take of it, for it is impossible that the legis-
lators could havo mauo the law with full
knowledge of the train of evils to follow it.
A DAD LOOKOUT TOM DKDTOBS.
Texas needs cheap money. We hove just
begun to get it. Within the lost few yean we
have seen tho rate of interest go down from 10
and 12 per cent to 7 and 8 per cent. This was
brought about by foreign money coming to
the state. Tho effect of the law is to oxpol
this money, because no man will loan
money on land that ho can not tako if the
loan is not paid. Kcithcr will domestic loan
companies take tho place of tho foreign com-
panies, because it is impossible for them to
know that all of thoir stockholden are citizens
of tho United Stntes, and nrticlo 10 prohibits
ony firm, company or corporation from ac-
quiring title to real estate if a single member
of it is an alien. No corporation can be cer-
tain that its stockholden ore all citizens of
tho Uuited States. If a single one ninong a
hundred is a foreigner, oven though living in
this country but unnaturalized, that company
can not acquire valid title to land. It con not
be known how much money is now loaned on
Texas real estate. The sum probably is not
less than $50,000.0f*>. This money will be
called in as fast as the loons are due, for tho
mortgage companies will protect themselves.
Where will tho debtors find money to imy
these debts? If they can't got tho money they
will lobe their land.
TUB EFVBOT ON HEAL ESTATE.
And this, while bad euough for the debtor
classes, is not the worst. Tho Inw is more far-
reaching. It strikes nt nnd unsettles all real
estate titles. Any deed or other conveyance
purj>ort ing to convey title to any ulien or un-
naturalized foreigner, or to any linn, com*
pony or corporation composed of su*;h in
wholo or in part, shall bo void. Such is tho
law. A defect iu a deed affects all who hold
under tho deed. Twenty yean hence, if it can
be provod that u deed was made at
any time after the taking effect
of this law, by a person who
was not a citizen of tho United States, or by a
company any member of w hich was au alien,
tlie land escheats to tho state and the owner
loses it. A purchaser hsiks to his abstract for
purity of title. An abstract can not show that
ail persons through whose hands the deed has
passed were citizens. With that unccrtninty
to face, and w ith tho cortaiuty that if auy one
of the inoinben was not a citizen tho holder
of the land is likely to ioso it, together with all
tho improvements that may have been put on
it, transfen of real estate iu Texas will be rare
occurrences. Thero will be no buyen. With-
out buyers there will be no vaiuo to land, ex-
cept for what can bo raised on it.
1MUEDIATB ItEPEAX. DEMANDED.
A special session of the legislature might
afford relief against this vicious law by repeal-
ing or modifying it. Unless something of the
kind is done, and at onco, tho people of Texas
will bo tho main sufferers, aud they will suffer
grievously.
I.OCAL OPINIONS ON TIIB ACT.
Mr. Wm. Mackenize, tho secretary of tho
AUianco Trust company, a oor|»oration which
has fully XI,000,000 invested in Amorica, was
interviewed yesterday by a member of tho
Courior staff on tho subjoet of tho alien act
with a view to ascertain tho offoct which it
would have on his company nnd its invest*
incuts iu Texas, Mr. Mackenzie, who has a
good know lodge of United States law ob-
tained from his long experience in loaning
money and his numerous visits to the country,
was found sitting smiling at his dosk as if
everything connected with tho company, of
which ho is virtually tho mnlnspring, were
going smoothly, and without tho slightest risk
of accident or Ganger. Seeing that no diviuod
the object of tho visit, our representative nt
onco introduced the subject by saying:
I sunpose you havo read tho Texas alien net.
Mr. Mnekonzie? Tho reply at onco came—I
have it here, and tho office is full of newspa-
pers with cotnmonts upon it. The act camo
into operation yesterday, but it must havo
beeu passed ninety days ago.
Q.—A great many persons are very anxious
to know if it is retrospoctive in its operation,
because of tho very largo amount of Duudeo
money sunk in land in Texas? A,—It is not
retrospective; there can be no act retros|»ecU
ivo in the United Statos. You might ns well
try to make water run uphill as to make an
net retrospective in tho United States; it Is
contrary to tho constitution.
O. How did such an net, do you think, cotno
to l>o passed so quietly? A. It is quiet true
that the act was secretly passed, and it was a
very great surprise to everybody j in fact, a
number of people engaged in the loaning of
money did not know anything about it until
we cabled out.
Q. Did you hoar of tho act through ony of
your agents? A. I heard of it through ouo of
our agents. I am sure, however, that another
of our agents knew nothing about it until I
cabled him, although he does not admit that.
Q* I undentand tnat the Alliance company
has been investing money in Texas for some
time back, and that there is a good deal of
Dundee money in the state apart from what
has boen sunk in it by the different cattle
companies? A. That is so.
Q. Havo you any objection to stoto the in-
terest which the Alliance company has in
Texas? A. We havo 400 or 600 loans in the
state at presont, but I am perfectly safe to soy
that there are uot ten casos where we have hod
to foreclose and take over tho property. We
hold some real estate in Texas at present, but
the act does not apply to it. It applies only to
any real estate which may fall into our hands
in tho future, uud we have six yean iu which
to sell it.
Q. Then what will bo tho effect of the act
on your future operations, so for as Toxas is
concerned? A. We will lend no more money
in Texas under present circumstances, but
there is nothing to hinder the present mort-
gages from running to doomsday so long as
the mortgagers contiuuo to pay the interest.
Q. But if tho mortgagers should become
bankrupt, what will you do? A. We put the
property up to public auction, and if nobody
purohaaaa it, as is sometimes the cose, we will
have to buy it in.
Q. Then if you do that, you hovo to sell it in
six yean? A. Quite so, but wo can oasily dis-
pose of it in that time,
Q. But tho act will restrict your sphere of
operations and tend to lower tho rate of inter-
est elsewhere, will it not? A. That would
apparently, be tho effect of it, but we can
easily find outlets for all our money elsewhere
at as remunerative rates of interest as those
which havo been ruling iu Texas. The fact is,
we can lend any amount of money elsewhere.
It is a most absurd act, and has undoubtedly
been passed in the interests of some local
usurers, as it will affect not only the Scotch
nnd English mortgage companies, but also
somo of tho large American companies, such
as the Equitable, the Jarvis and Conkliti, aud
tho Lombard. Those companies have English
shareholders, and, if there is one single for-
eigner in any company, it is precluded from
holding real estate in Texas.
Q. Will tho act, do you think, lower tho
valuo of the land to tho owner? A. They say
it will.
Q. I suppose that a certain time must elapse
before the act can bo rejieoled, even should
publie feeling be roused against it. A. Tho
Icgislatun meets only once in two yean unless
there is a special session. Judging from tho
Texos papers, thoro is u great cry for a special
session to repeal the act, but that depends
upon the will of tho government.
Q. Some of the other states in tho union
have already passed alien acts, I undentand?
A. Yes; somo of tho other states—Nebraska,
for instance—passed such acts, but tho most
of theso states, if not all of them, rei>ealod
them within two yean. Wo aro not at ail
concerned about tho new act, which will cer-
tainly punish tho Texas people more than any
other body. We havo no doubt tho act will bo
very quickly roj>ealed. The ouly harm it does
us nt present is to keep us from making new
loans, and it does not practically inconveni-
ence us, bocause, as I have already said, wo
havo plenty of other places ready to
toke money. In fact, I may tell
you — but this is not for pul>-
lication—wo havo no money in hand. At
this moment wo aro actively engagod in loan-
ing money in six states, ail of n hi. h am abao*
lutely free of any restriction, and any ono of
which could swallow up tho whole of our cai>-
itol ony day at remuuerntive rotes of interest.
One of theso states has an alien act, but they
put in a sweeping exception in favor of mort-
gage compnuies. It won't, howevor, allow
speculation in real ostote.
Q. I think you said that your percentage of
foreclosures was very small? A. Yes. We havo
about $1,000,000 invostod on mortgage, and the
foreclosures don't represent more than 4 or 5
per cont of that. Theu our rule is not to leud
more than 50 per cent on the appraised value
of a property. I may mention that the In-
vestors'Mortgage Security company, w hich is
being floated, will get the whole of its i.'500.000
of capital to be raised meantime absorbed
within a very short period. Of that there is
not tho least doubt.
G. Ono more question. Tho act, I suppose,
will uot affect tho cattle companies? A. On
tho contrary, it will strengthen thoir i>oeition,
and if thero was any doubt about their posi-
tion before the act will removo it.
Mr. Andrew Whitton of Couston, a director
of tho Alliance Trait oompany,ana ateoof the
Scottish American Mortgogo company—on
Edinburgh corporation with £1,200,000 in-
vested in America, and with a large number of
Dundee shareholden—-ontered the room during
the interview. Mr. Whitton, who is alnnit to
leave this countrv for tho United States in the
interest of the Scottish Ajiioricau Mortgage
company, took \ cry much the same view of
tho matter as Mr. Mackouzie. On being asked
specially with nforeuce to the compnny last
mentioned, he said: Wo hove some monev
invested in Texas, but we won't bo so foolish
as to go on leuding money whoro there will bo
a risk in recovering it. Rest assurod, how-
over, that act will bo repealed iu two yoars.
They tried an ulien act of the sumo kind in
Nebraska, and had to repeal it. Although
Texas were closed to us, we can lend all our
money elsewhere* Tbey art all eryinf out,
"Givo us money." Tho act may put a stop to
the reclamation of laud, uud it will therefore
increase tho value of land already reclaimed.
The land of mortgagew who bocoino bank-
rupts may bo depreciated, but 1 think tho
people of Texos will soon see the error of their
ways.
Mr. «T. C. Robertson, secretary of tho Texas
Land and Cattle oompany. whioh has a large
holding of real estato iu Texas,was next called
U|>on. He was also found to be quite uncon-
cenn>d on the subject of the act, and mado
the following statement i I do not think that
the now alien net will hove any effect ou the
cattlo companies owning lnud in Texas, inas-
much as it is not retrospoctive.We do not w ant
to buy laud, and havo no intention of buying
moro land; ou the contrary our desire I* to
sell our land as opportunity offers, and wo
hate already disposed of 24,000 acres; so that
we havo been giving offect to tho purnoso of
the act. Asked as to the probable effect of
the act on the price of land, Mr. Robertson
Bald I "That is a question which it in VWI
diltlcuK to answer. Our idea is that the act
will bo repealed in a very short time --that the
Texas people, liko those in tho other stntes
when1 similar acts wore passed, will find that
it will be so injurious to their owu intcreeti
that they will speedily repeal it."
Strongly Indorsed.
Colmesnkil,Tex., Aug. 1.—-To Tna News:
I havo boon on an oxtonsivo trip through
northoast and east Texas. 1 have talked to
scores of men whilo on my trip and nearly
all aro in favor of tho alieu land law, some
wishing minor changes made. I also And a
strong undercurrent of tho old "knownothing-
istn" cropping out. Publio eontimont gener-
ally seems to be in tho throes of agrootchonge.
^ C. B. GMIKKIN.
Greatest Compliment to Colonel lugorsoll.
Indianapolis Nows.
Colonel Ingorsoll's momorsblo visit was
during tho soldlon' reunion, September 21,
1875, whon ho inado the great offort of his lifo
in tho circle where tho soldion' monument is
now being erectod. It was in this speech that
ho gavo "the viaion of war," commencing
•♦The post rises before me liko a dream," etc.,
which bos ever sinco beon regarded as tho
grandest piece of eloquence In tho English
language, and ns a fit companion for Lincoln's
Gettysburg speech and Buchanan Reed's great
war poein of Sheridan's Rule.
Apropos of this speeoh reminds tho writer
that he once asked Colonel lugersoll what was
the greotost compliment ho ever received.
He thought a moment and soldi "I will toll
you. I was strolling about tho lobby of tho
Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago ono evening
after supper, smoking a cigar and waiting for
somo friends with whom 1 was going out to
spend tho ovening. I saw a vaoant ohair and
sot down in it. Presently I was accosted by a
man who wiih sitting noar trying to smoke, but
was pretty drunk. * noticed that lio was cry-
lug. He said i 'Stronger, did you over ruad
that?' pointing to a poster six foot long uud
three and one-naif wide hanging against the
wall of tho Grand Pacific olllco giving the
'dream' ox 'vision' portion of my speeoh at
tho soldiers' reunion nt Indianapolis only a
short time before.
'* 'Yes.' I replied, 4I havo read it.'
"Tho fellow sobbed away for a few moments
longer and continued:
" 'Stronger, do you know what I think?'
" 'No: what do you think?'
" 'Well, sir, I havo a copy of that bill hang-
ing in my store at Tuscola, 111., and I watch
every man that comes in read it and I tell you
any man that con read that through and not
cry is blankety, blank, blank, and I would not
trust him any further than I could throw a
male bovine by the tail. I tell you his heart is
not in the right place.'
"Now." said Colonel IngersoU. "if that man
did not know who I was, and I nave no idea
that he did, that is tho greatest compliment I
ever had paid inc."
BUSINESS IN POLITICS.
Tho Now York Herald editorially calls at-
tention to the fact that tho lost legislature of
that state passed an act making it a penal of-
fense for lifo insuranco companies to discrim-
inate against colored persons. Tho new law
prohibits ony company from having one set of
premiums or rates for the whites and another
set for the blocks. It forbids a company to
do this directly or indirectly. Any such con-
tract is void and a violation of tho act is a
misdemeanor* it must admitted that this
is hard on the lifo insurance men. Their ta-
bles of statistics make it plain that they toko
a greater risk in insuring the life of a black
man than they do when they insure the life of
u white man, und it would seem to be fair
that they should charge in proportion to tho
risk they carry. But the law steps iu and or-
den them to take an unsafe class of policies
at tho saino rates charged for a less hazardous
class. Thoro is moro politics than business iu
such a law. [Atlanta Constitution.
* # *
It is not surprising that the ownen of estab-
lished lines are uot satisfied with Mr. Wana-
maker's interpretation of the postal subsidy
law. It was part of the plan that these lines
should have some of the pork, and that tho
conditions of its distribution should bo mode
as easy as convenient stretching of the law
would permit; but tho postmaster genoral has
so worded his circulars as to givo tho prefer-
ence to new ships nnd now lines, and hence tho
lamentations of the ownen of the R**d D lino
and othor persistent advocates of subsidies. It
seems, too, that tho would-be builden of new
ships do not liko Mr. Wannmakor's conditions
any better, and aro not coming forward vory
rapidly with contracts for carrying tho mails.
Tho complaint is that tho requirements ask
the ships to do too much for the money, anil
uutil the law is amended so as to uioko it eas-
ier for them, not many new lines are likely to
bo established under its provisions. [Spring-
field Republican.
• • •
It was a groat surprise to many people that
Mr. Fassett should hove accepted the ]>oHition
of collector of the port of Now York, but tho
mystery begins to clear up a little. Oue of
the republican politicians observe* that his
only objoction to the api>ointmcnt is that Mr.
Fassett cannot bo their caudidnto for gov-
ernor, and it is auito credible that Mr. Fassett
sought tho shelter of the custom house in or-
der to escape this most undesirablo distinc-
tion. Like the editor mentioned by Artemus
Ward, who was asked if he would volunteer.
Mr. Fassett cau say: "Ordiuarily I should
like to wade in goro, but now my country de-
mands that I should devote all my euergies to
the collection of her revenues and tho unforc-
iug of the McKiuley tariff." [Now York
Evening Post.
• • •
So thero is to bo a two-milliou-and-a-half
line of stoauien which are to carry gruiu from
Lake Erio ports direct to Liverpool, Well,
under the foolish shipping lows of tho repub-
lican barons, they will ail float the English
ting. Under the silly couno of the republican
managers toward Cauada they will all pay
terrible tolls to tho Welland canal. Under tho
mischievous worldnfi ofthe MoKlnleybill
fbe grain must i»ay a heavy tariff when it gets
to the preat mnrkets of Germany and Franco,
Thero is uot much in it for the Americun
farmer. [Cincinnati Enquirer.
# • •
The legislature of Tennossoo will be callod
to meet in special session, and for tho pur]>oso
of nl>olishing the lease system. Tho question
will cotno up, What will the state do with tho
convicts? If the good i>eople of Tennessoo
wiil permit us to suggest one tiling only, wo
should soy. Build a system of turnpikes for tho
fount is of Tenneesse (tonthe monntaineox
east Tennessee to the Mississippi river. [Cin-
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
# • •
The Hon. Benjamin Butterworth rather
overdid tho mntter in Englaud when he re-
ferred to "tho high toriff woll raised in tho
United Statos against foreign trade." Sir
Henry Wood, the otlicial representative of
Kngli.-h exhibitors, took all tno wind out of
the orator by roplying that "tho tariff will
make no difference oue way or tliu other to
English exhibitors." [Inter Occau.
• • •
Tho increased duty on tin plate has already
increasod tho prico $G 50 a box, or over 61) per
cont. It hns given work to no Atuoricons. and
Mr. Nicdringhnus is asking to have Welsh tin
makers imported to do the work at less than
those now hers will do it for. This 1s "pro-
tection" with a vengeance! [Now York
World.
• • •
Will Brer Harrison stop picking up dele-
gates long onough to soy to tho American pig-
lead i if en that they oughtn't to chargo Aniori-
ans $4 40 for pig lead whilo they let tho Cana-
dians have it for £176, [Louisville Courier-
Jourual.
e e s
South Dakota has been seized with a spasm
of divorco virtuotisnoes, but it will eoon pass
away, for in that land of the cold wave it is
auythiuij to secure population even tempora-
rily. [Kansas City Times.
THE SPOONY MARRIED MAN.
'Tis mostly trifles iu this world that make out
sum of woo.
A sort of moral iusoct tribe that sting where'er
we so;
But of all plaques devised to mar tho great ter-
rostrial plan,
I think the biggest nuisance is the spoony mar-
riod man,
With Ids
"I'otsie, ltslo darling, place oo hand In mine,
Round oo littlu dainty waist, unu uin twiuum
twine;
Tiss oo huggen hutzcus, while uin emoove um
turls,
Don't bit troes and fretful, now, or baddost ittls
dirls I"
A Jew onco hod an enemy who kept a big hotel,
Down whoro the waters green and oool iu creeted
billows swell,
lio sought revenge, bnt much despised all oom-
inon modes of ► t nfo,
lio simply sent as hoarders there a spoony man
aud wife.
It war
"ltsie bitaie wild bird, pining for its mate,
Dad tunductor stop um tralu make um hus*
bund Into,
Brought urn's doss and bou boas, Cinderella's
e'ooa,
Birdie neat on dear ono's breast, while uin tell
toll uin uows."
Full soou tho boarders left the stoop, and some
oamu home with lags.
Each morn revealed a jostling line of town-bound
traveling bags;
They pleaded buainesM, flood aud fire, shipwreck
and loss of lifo,
But no one breathed a word about ths spoony
man and wife.
Tho landlord wildly paoed tho booch, and gasod
upon the surf,
He thought of money rashly ipont, or dropped
upon the turf;
"Rut what has ovor brought me thlsf' he erled in
wild despair,
Whon suddenly bo cauio upon this apoony married
pair.
It whs
"Tootslo-wootslo dum drop, 'ittle hnzzons turn,
Don t oo pout so naughty, don't oo bite oo
thumb.
Qwneet tried to got horo sooner than him am,
Muster's bird of birdies aud dosr one's pottest
lamb."
The landlord raged aud stamped and swore; hie
pasaiou knew no bounds i
He bade tho man, with one wild rosr, to qalt his
honae ami grounds:
lis fired hi" hmriotgo in the sand end ehaaod him
with a knife,
And now contosts s Iswsnlt with the spoony mmm
and wile. lUeorse h. l>evy« is FbsL
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