The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17

dent, sky high, who would be president!
Stratton d. Storm, the boycotted cigar
manufacturers, have come off victorious
in the contest, and the Knights of Labor
have ordered the boycott lifted. The
firms method was heroic. They shut up
their shops, throwing all of their employees
out of work, and announced that no more
work would be done until the boycott was
lifted thus converting their wOrkmen,
who were knights of Labor, into active
opponents of the discrimination
Worth Gazette.
There are more ways than one to rake
in the persimmons when the pole is short.
Waco university has won Baylor, just as
we always said it would. 1t is a big step
ahead for Waco, and we sincerely CON
graduate the venerable President Burle-
son, DR.. Carroll and our other devoted
Waco Baptists. Now we will have a school
worthy of both the city of Waco and the
large and influential sect in this state.-
Examiner.
Waco will soon be ahead with its schools
and universities, the way it is shooting
ahead, or rather teaching the young ideas
how to shoot.
We are perfectly delighted to see the
Age has heavier list of advertisers than
ever before. The boycott of the Age
played the deuce with the boycOtters, and
it has done the Age world of good.-Ex
aminer.
That boycott was a Godsend to the Age,
financially and otherwise.
The Houston Post, after giving the
STATEsMAN's article on the university, adds
the following:
The Post can most heartily join in and
approve the foregoing remarks. The
university may have many defects, doubt
less has, but no more than should be nat
urally expected in an institution of such
magnitude begun, and conducted thus far,
under so many disadvantages. If these
carpers know anything wrong with regard
to the conduct or management of the uni
versity thry should speak out in plain
words and apprise the public. Innuendo
is despicable in any case When it is di-
rected towards breaking down or injuring
great and noble. institution of learning,
! it is criminal.
George w. Cable, the novelist, has sold
his family home in New Orleans, and the
It is interpreted as an Indication of his
purpose to abandon the south and become
a northerner in fact, as he long has been
in his inclinations and sympathies.
No doubt he will feel more at home in
the north than in the south.
This is state which boasts of civiliza-
ton, and yet there are men in it who are
disposed to prove that the boasts are I'M
founded by suggesting Gus Houston, of
San Antonio, for lieutenant governor. We
know him well, like him, and our knowl-
| edge of him is the reason that we run away
out into the woods and scream with laugh
ter whenever we hear of Gus proposed ell
ovation Dallas Times.
! You will not wear out many shoes run
ming to the woods if that is all you are go
ing to run for.
OF course Alex. Terrell has come to the
front with his little bill. He is undoubt-
edly very strong man, but there has
nothing gone wrong in this state for years
but what he is on hand to show that he,
at one time, introduced some kind of bill
that would have prevented it. If it were
I conclusiveIy shown that the world we're
created in two hours, Alex. would be on
hand with an old time speech in which he
limited strongly in that direction Dallas
| Times.
| You are bound to admit that "Alex."
has always been ahead of his state during
his public career.
| 1t really seems as if that boycott were
to make Uncle Dan1s fortune, after all.
The ads. are just piling in on him. We
would not be greatly surprised to find out
that the whole thing was shrewd trick of
our dear uncle's.-Examiner
Trick or no trick, there's millions in
it" for Uncle Daniel. It will be the making
of the Age.
THE STATESMAN is fast rising to level
with the position. We like to note the
substantial progress of our neighbors,
and we glory in it.-Examiner.
The Examiner has no envy in its breast,
and its praise is appreciated, for Barlow
knows how to conduct paper himself.
Galveston capitalists are talking about
| organizing local insurance company on
account of the unjust advance in insur-
ance rates since the late fire.-Waxahach
Mirror.
They had better stop talking and go to
work and organize an insurance company
of their own, and thus avoid imposition.
If others can afford it, they can afford to
insure themselves. They will then keep
money at home that is needed there.
The AUSTIN STATESMAN, in its new dress,
presents decidedly improved appear
ance, and its contents are in keeping with
| its present appearance. Prosperity to
THE STATESMAN. Williamson County Sun.
Fine feathers make fine birds; so the
ladies say, and so says The STATESMAN.
The contents will be left to speak for
themselves.
The president says our navy is a shame
and a disgrace to the country. It needed
no statesman to find that out.-Mail.
| When you do need, STATESMAN you
know where to find one. Price cents
copy, or SO year.
The death of Mr.. Vanderbilt has moral
which all worshippers of mammon would
do well to study.-Mail.
Great riches have become so common
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