The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

English papers are arguing the Wis
dom of refunding the British national
debt at 21S per cent. They cite the
success of the United States in re-
funding at 3 per cent as an argument
in favor of the proposition. As the
government can only pay off $4,000
600 year at the best, it is thought
that the refunding proposition will
be accepted.
The salvation army in Australia
goes in for sensational announcements
with the widest abandon AID utterly
unconscious of turning worship into
a farce. The phrases include ''Glory
| shop" Monster hoSannah meeting
addressed by Happy George, Zulu Jim
and the boy with hair like heaven"
"A struggle with pies, tarts," ETC., is
one of the popular attractions. "a
merry-go-round in the glory shop" is
| a feature, after which "a host of hal
lelujah laSSes in the Timbuctco bon
nets" appear and go through religious
exercises. The programme is headed
Hello! hello! Jack! What's up !
Look herep' One of these glory shops
is run by Capt. Tom Gibbs, the
| VI hohAAO 1NC1loAs
According to their own accounts
the French have succeeded in killing
not less than 1000 of the Annamites
with the insignificant loss of seven
men. "To lie like a bulletin" has been
an adage since the days of Napoleon
and the Tonquin expedition has
adopted this tradition of the great
emperor, if no other. 1t is not at all
likely that in the short interval since
the death of Capt. Riviere the French
have improved in military skill an6
their enemies have deteriorated sc
much that the latter are now moved
down like weeds by the conqueror;
whom they repulsed. There is little
glory to be had at best out of this
Tonquin business, but it is injudiciou:
for the bulletin-mongers to spoil wha
little glory there is to be got out of i
by representing the enemy as de
fenseless horde who are slaughtered
by French troops on a scale of 15(
to one.
The commissioners of emigration o
New York are carrying out the Law
rigidly in respect to assisted immi
; grants. Some of the assisted" hav
been passed through Castle Gardel
? with very little money in thei
pockets, when their relatives cam
and promised to see them through an
take care OF them until they cOul'
take care of themselves. One famil
"a man and his wife and four chi
= dren-who were assisted 10y the Poo
J Guardians at home and lately al
rived were passed through CAST
Garden on the promise of the man
, Weil-to-do cousin to shelter and fee
3 his relatives. The cousin kept hi
+ promise just one day and night, an
the next morning turned the famil
out in the street without breakfast
The man wandered around trying t
> get work all day and the family slel
g on the wharves at night. The famil
4 was picked up out of the streets an
: will be sent back to their Poor Guar
y dians by the next ship of the line tina
) brought them.
: We expect high sense of persona
b honor in a member of the diplomat
corps, but it was an unreasonable an
exaggerated sense of honor Whic
d gave the world a regretahle TRACED
in the suicide of Senior Barca, til
Spanish minister. 1t seems that thel
: was no serious difficulty trOublin
J. him besides financial difficulties, an
f. out of the worst of these brave an
honorable man can always work b
y way with courage and a good vii
d The sad event will naturally reca
/, the suicide thirteen years ago of Pr
y vost Paradol, the Frinch ministe
who killed himself almost immediat
ly after his arrival in Washingto
,s But Provost Paradol was the victil
y of an imperial treachery which hi
u disgraced him in his own eyes, and
d saw no honorable way out of the 81
is uation into which he had been b
a trayed except by death. Yet neith'
y his suicide nor that of Senior Bare
g settles anything or helps anythin
i, Suicide is always remedy wor'
4 | than the evil il would cure