The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-25

AoOlCo VI lilO llOItA, WHlCu III
ways paint the bloodhound with fangs
sunk in the legs of fleeing negroes.
AND GALVESTON is NOW THE PLACE FOR IT.
Texas Balance Wheel.
A concerted effort seems to be going
on throughout Texas to induce congress
to make a large deep-water appropriation
for Sabine Pass. The governments, by
the advice of its engineers, should pro-
nounce deep water at Galveston an i'm
possibility, or it should at once appro-
pirate money enough to insure deep
water at that point, and be done with it.
If Texas can induce congress to give her
money enough to secure deep water at
one place at time it is all she ought to
expect.
TRUTH IN NUTSHELL.
Waco Day.
Rumors of dissatisfaction in the ranks
of the Knights of Labor at Galveston over
the results of the Mallory boycott indicate
that the individuality of the members be-
gins to crop out and assert the true indie
pendence which every man ought to feel
in shaping his business affairs. Organized
strikes rarely end in promoting the inter
ests of labor; there are to-day thousands
of union men out of employment simply
because they prefer to follow leaders who
thrive by agitation than their own good
Judgment, and feeling of unrest and dis
satisfaction has been cultivated where
there ought to be II cheerful acceptance of
the burdens which cannot be lifted from
the lot of toll.
Tri-Weekly Herald.
A stalwart republican journal condemns
Ex-Governor Chamberlain's advice to the
from national politics. 1t exhorts the
blacks to 'adhere to the national cause
which is so largely their own"-meaning,
of course, the republican party. What
has this party done, or tried to do, for the
negro in the past eight years that he
should stick to it's fallen fortunes? What
can it do for him in the future as a reward
for his fidelity? A little coming to the
point on these matters would be accepta-
BILE to the intelligent ex-contrabands,-
Boston Herald, ind.
REPUTATION OF A RUMoR COMMONLY COM
MENTED UPON.
Colonel Ingersoll has right to protest
against the recent attempt to saddle upon
him the remark: "The more see of men
the more like dogs" 1t was Madame de
Steel who said it. No man ever delivered
himself of a sentiment at once so sweep
ing, unjust and aggravating because of
its substratum of truth.-New York Tri-
bune.
HAS AUSTIN MADE MOVE IN THIS GOOD
WORK?
Fort Worth Gazette.
The fund for Mrs. Hancock foots up
$4,000. Nearly all of this was contri
buted from the east. The south, and
Texas, especially, has cause for grateful
remembrance of Gen. Hancock's protec.
ton, but we have not heard of any sub.
stantial manifestation of this gratitude
by an offer of assistance to his widow
At Fort Worth would be good place to
begin the movement of raising fund foI
her,
NEED OF AUSTIN.
San Antonio Express
A movement is on foot in this city to
organize a society for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals. No community II
the country stands in greater need OF
such an organization.
Brennan Banner.
1t is reported that the chief engineer
of the Fort Worth meeting in the interes
of Sabine Pass was contractor on tn,
government works at Sabine Pass. o.
course he is disinterested party.
Galveston News
The homestead law of Texas is attacked
in some of the papers because it makes
money hard to borrow. 1t ought to be
hard to borrow on real bona-fide home.
stead. The man who will speculate and
lose his homestead when he once has il
safe from debt is a man who is very likely
to leave family for the county to take
care Of
And the man, who with a $4,000 home.
stead will defraud poor and Woodworking
creditors, should be strung up to the
nearest tree.