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THE BATTALION.
for the shattered remains of the once victorious Jeffer
sonian democracy.
I will acknowledge it is not justice for us to think
even for a minute to compare the United States, whose
resources is $65,000,000,000, with Mexico, whose resources
is only about $6,000,000,000. But how much worse is it
for us think for a moment to reduce our money system to
the basis of Mexico’s money.
From the Bible, Deuteronomy, 25:13-15:—“Thou shalt
not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and small;
thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great
and a small; but thou shalt have a perfect and just weight,
a perfect and just measure shalt thou have, that thy days
may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee.”
‘ ‘Congress may talk, and talk, and talk,
And talk the livelong day;
But it cannot make a dollar out of 50c.,
For a dollar isn’t built that way.”
WHAT THE TWENTY=SIXTH LEGISLATURE DID FOR
THE A. & fl. COLLEGE.
W. C. MARTIN.
The Legislature just adjourned made a very liberal
appropriation for the A. & M. College. It is not, of
course, large enough to meet all the needs of the Institu
tion; but, when we consider the fact that many interests of
a great and growing State are to be considered in framing