The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-24

iscoverieS the only way TO ward off
his terrible pestilence is to keep off
he Microbe, which travels in various
Indeed the world moves
nd medical science with it. The old
lotions about diSlnfection and fumi-
ration, which, in yellow fever, so ad-
nlrdbIy 1,uit5 importers of goods from
Infected ports, must go by the board,
,eing proven by the revelations Of DR..
Koch TO be mischieYous humbugs i'll
me way OF illusory hygiene and inn
lginary prophy lactics.
FOrt1fying.
The action of his eXcellency in re-
gard to the employment of counsel in |
the land-forging cases is, we think, !
open to criticism. 1t is well known |
that there are present in the city, the
attorney-generaI, his assistant, both
competent lawyers and devoted Off
"ers, the district attorney and the
county attorney. Yet the governor,
in order to make fair weather with
the friends of Mr.. Taylor Moore-who
were little sore over the latter's fail
ure to get the appointment of district
attorney-appointed him as private
counsel at an expense to the state of
from five hundred to thousand dol
lars, and there was not the slightest
necessity for it, or even excuse, other
than the one we have named. This is
using the patronage of the state gov
eminent in way that is very pecu-
liar, we think. We say this without
the least intention of rejecting on Mr.
Moore. He is utterly blameless, and
there is not fair man in Christendom
who could blame him. But how will
the thick and thins explain his excel
lent excellency out of the affair. The
transparency of the thing is very
touching and convinces US that the
governor is charming fellow and
that he may be governor for as long
as he likes.
1T is the fashion for southern DEM
ocratie papers in speaking of Mr..
Carter Harrison to follow after north
ern republican papers, calling the
brainy mayor of Chicago demago-
que. Nothing could be farther
from the truth. Carter Harrison is
a man every inch of him, and
would be a man of mark in any
age or in any nation. He is a south.
ern man, an ex-confederate, and went
to Chicago after the war poor an6
unknown. He has raised himself
from the sheer force of his unassisteG
genius to the highest consideration
and possesses the fullest confidence
of the whole people of that great
trade mart, high, low, rich and poor
The convention business interests
confide in the iron fidelity as they de
in the wise and forbearing policie;
inaugurated and carried out by The
mayor, Mr.. Carter Harrison. We
sincerely hope he'll be elected cover
nor.
THE Gazette wants to know what
Dick Hubbard proposes to do witt
his boom, and wants to know badly
Well, the Post says he is too goot
and too honest, to touch boom
and that he loves ireland with
a love which surpasseth that
of woman, and wouldn't interfere
with the boom enjoyed by hi;
excellency for all the world. A mar
who retuseth to interfere in the
schemes of the thick and thins devel-
ops with amazing rapidity these days
1T is an absolute outrage on nu
manity, cruelty to the insane, fol
the superintendents of the insane asy.
lums of this state to be subject to pc.
litical caprice. The superintendent OF
an asylum should be physician like
DR.. Hammond, of New York, who
has devoted his whole life to the study
of this class of disease.
WHO is running and responsible for
the financial policy of the govern
ment? The republican party. There
fore, it is responsible for the present
financial panic, scarcity of money, and
the shaky condition of things gener-
ally. 1t was responsible for the black
Friday of 1873.
IT will be seen that the Canadian
authorities deny that cholera rags
are sent into the United States
through Canada, one way or the other
Busy firms that knowingly imr orts
such infected material ought to be
held for deliberate murder.
THE country is still free from chol-
era, and from the action of the cabinet
at Washington, yesterday, the gov
eminent intends to keep out the
scourge. The suspected cases in New
York turned out to be merely summer
disease among children.
TWENTY thousand at one pull is
pretty good But in all seriousness
we think that there ought to be
good sized bond between that sum
and the state. At least bond would
not hurt and it would cost so little.
If Seguin were to produce another
such governor, statesmen would
make yearly pllgrimages to the spot as
the faithful Muslemen do to Mecca,
1t is great thing to have an illus
trious son, or rather, a series of them. |
JOHN IRELAND may be in favor of |
compulsory tattooing. who knows |
There is no drawing the line in these |
affairs. With the bars down there is
no saying where it will stop.
BY the time the thick and Trims
nave cleared up the A. and M. college |
matter we will give
hem chapter III. 1t is edifying, and
hat we promise in advance.
THAT agricultural and mechanical
college appropriation is handled with
like skill. Its ventilation