The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-03
men, the democracy one of its truest and
ablest leaders.
| The San Antonio Express saws.

Inc San Antonio Express says:
The Galveston grand jury ask for ad-
ditiOnal laws for the suppression of gam
bling. If the sentiment of a majority of
the people of a community is against
gambling, the existing laws are all suffi-
clent; if such sentiment is not against it,
no law can suppress it. 1t is public senti-
ment, not the law, that is at fault at
Galveston if gambling cannot be sup
pressed there. No state has any more
severe laws against the vice than Texas
has.
That's about SO. You may legislate
gambling from daylight into darkness,
but it cannot be suppressed without lifting
the roof from every house in town.
The San Antonio Light, although not
recognized as a democratic paper, has the
manliness to come to the aid of the Hous-
ton Age, that was lately boycotted by the
Knights of Labor in that city, which is
much more than can be said of many dem
ocratic papers in the state. The Light
closes lengthy editorial by saying:
The Knights of Labor. organization is
calculated to do much good for the labor
ing people, but 1T needs among other re-
forms, sensible, safe and practical leaders.
In order to navigate it successfully. The
Light is lead to mention this boycott of
the Age, because Uncle Daniel is in some
respects the Nestor of Texas democracy.
and he has labored long and faithfully IN
his efforts to benefit the common people,
as against the republican party, and now
in the first year of his partys triumph to
be made the subject of a wasting and I'M
profitable boycott, looks greatly like in
gratitude, coupled with the fact that the
more than 800 Democratic papers in the
state, with but few exceptions, are evil
IDENTIFY slow to offer the sympathy they feel
for him.
The Houston Age seems to grow brighter
under its boycotting. The last issue re-
ceived was as neat as pin. It also con-
tanned the following:
Hon. Gustave Cook, of the Galveston
criminal district court, on writ of habeas
corpus Saturday decided that the ordi-
nance of Galveston making it penal to
sell liquor between 9 a. m. and %. m. on
Sunday is in conflict with the state law
prohibiting such sales at any time on Sun
day, and is null and void.
The Age has also this to say:
The Austin STATESMAN hardly needs to
make an argument to convince the people
of Texas that Gov. Ireland has no right to
abolish civil law f; to make the military the
supreme authority; to constitute himself
judge, jury and executioner; to violate the
constitution he has sworn to support.
The governor, of course, loves the Gal
weston News, and would do anything, in
reason to accommodate it. But he can
M tO 10 4Io
rifce his honor, his manhood, his we'll
earned fame, his popularity with the peo-
pie, by laying perjury to his soul and act
ing the part of military dictator-an
arbitrary tyrant. Gov. Ireland has sworn
to see that the laws are faithfully executed
and he will do SO in all cases, according to
the constitution and according to the
forms of the law in such cases made and
provided.
The Galveston News thus speaks of the
dead statesman:
Hendricks returns to earth to-day. We
have had greater men, ripper and broader
statesmen, more consummate politicians,
but an bOnester man never occupied a
prominent position in the public life of
the United States.
Well, THE good book says an honest man
the nePlest work of God. If this be
true, the statesman who has just left us
must havd been equal to the ''riper and
broader Statesmen and consummate poll
ticians' in the eyes of his Maker.
According to the Bonham Banner pro-
hibition does not prohibit in Milan
county, for it says:
Prohibition prevails in Milan county,
but it appears that it does not prohibit.
The Rockdale Messenger and Cameron
Herald both report plenty of drunken men
in their towns.
Prohibition will not prohibit anywhere
unless there is universal sentiment in it's
favor. The minority will not be controlled
by bare majority.
Fort Worth can do more growing in a
single day than any other town in Texas
can be in a week. Here is a specimen
crow from the Gazette:
The tremendous blows made by Dallas
about the establishment of railroad head
quarters in that city doesn't seem to ma
terialize worth a cent. The miles of track
and train facilities do not fail to impress
the casual observer that Fort Worth gets
away with the traffic.
The Trunk road has struck out for
Athens from Kaufman. When it reaches
Athens it will strike for the eastern
pineries, but whether via Palestine or via
some other place, no one seems to know. If
Palestine gets the road it will be enhanced
in value thirty per cent. But here is what
led to that remark. It is found in the
Dallas Times of the Both inst
A force of men with twenty-five teams,
plows, scrapers and other implements,
passed through to-day, en- route from
Brentwood to Kemp, where they will go
to work grading for the extension of the
Trunk railroad.
The Dallas Times is very much worried
about the "Austin hash-house keepers"
This has been its theme for week, and
still it says:
The hash-house keepers of Austin wear
much larger smile than the lump of
butter they are wont to put before their
guests. There is talk of an extra ses-
sion.
That depends upon whom they are feed