The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-02
EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN.

II is mistake to suppose that either
the making or drinking of beer is stopped
in the prohibition state of Iowa. Brewers
are to be found conducting their business
openly, and for some reason not explained
the authorities do not even attempt to
break them up. The breweries do not sell
as much beer to saloons as they once ana,
but they do thriving business and dis
pose of their product, nevertheless. LII
goes into private houses. Every citizen
who wants to drink has his own individual
bar. and these have multiplied in the pro-
portion that public saloons have decreased
Supplying beer IN kegs and bottles to
families is one of the results of prohibl-
ton in Iowa, and the consumption is said
to be greater than it was before the law
was enacted.
The republicans of Maine have good
reason to be alarmed. Their offspring,
the prohibitionists, are after them with
bloody intent. Prohibitionists and re-
publicans are the same persons; but the
prohibitionists, who have heretofore been
content to belong to the republican party,
have grown tired of this, and now demand
that The republicans shall belong to the
prohibition party. Neal Dow, father of
the Maine law, and the historical tee
totaler Of this country, now says: II
shall never again vote the republican
ticket, no matter who is nominated. We
are going to kill the republican party and
form new one, We prOhibitionists have
resolved to leave the republican party,
Just as we left the whig party on account
ola Tho WhICr
party was always promising to keep up
with us, but never performing. The re-
publican party in this state is closely al
lied with the rum power"
The republican leaders of Maine are so
alarmed at the schlsm they have thought
it necessary to bring out Mr.. Blaine and
stand him in the breach. But the prohib
itionists have Neal Dow and st. John in
the field, and these two are more than
match for the Plumed Knight. The break
in the republican ranks begins to resemble
a crevasse in lower Mississippi levee.
BALTIMORE SUN.
The manner in which the friends of the
condemned Chicago anarchists take the
verdict of the jury is curious psycholo-
gical study. They object altogether to
the trial of spies and his accomplices for
muir Ter. They regard the Judge, and jury,
the prosecuting attorney, the press which
approves and the authorities which arrest
as collectively tyrants and miscreants, and
the prisoners as innocent, spotless and
prosecuted martyrs. 1t is curious state
of mind, and one with which it is difficult
nationally to deal. 1t is obvious, in the
first place, that the arguments usually ad-
dressed to sane and reasonable people
would be out of place to men in such an
abnormal mental condition. Until moral
suasion is effectual in our insane asylums
it will be useless to attempt it with these
headstrong, fanatical anarchists. There
SIS no other way than by the strong hand
of the law to deal with men who claim
the right to murder with impunity, who
reverse the decalogue and preach indis'
criminate slaughter as duty. When
no Tever, it becomes an equally imperative
duty on the part of the majority not to
submit to be massacred, nor to tolerate in,
citing to murder, and to protect them,
selves against the sanguinary creed of the
anarchists, they are denounced as tyrants
by the latter, and the law is declared to be
an instrument of oppression and in
justice. With such degradation of the
reasoning powers, and such an avowed de
termination to reduce organized society
to its primary disorderly elements, the
anarchists place themselves beyond the
pale of ordinary sympathies, and when,
from preaching dynamite, they proceed
to the use of dynamite, the only power
that will bring them to clear apprecia'
ton of the enormity of their crime is a
vigorous prosecution and fitting punish
ment. They can thus at least be made to
feel that fanaticism of so destructive a
kind has its limits, and that the effect OF
any overt act of which it is the cause is to
bring down the iron hand of the law upon
the perpetrators of it. The Chicago YER
dict, if carried out, will teach a salutary
lesson to those headstrong anarchists who
would treat alike with contempt the strong
est warnings of the press and the mos
powerful expostulations from the pulpit
PHILADELPHIA RECORD.
The prohibitionists are giving Mr.. Blaine
no rest. The Dow circular has been re
piled to, it is true, but in a way that thu
prohibitionist leaders believe will give
them many votes. A prominent prohibi
Zionist on Thursday said to New Yorl
Evening Post correspondent in Portland
st. John, the man who defeated Blaine
will soon be here. He will keep ahead ant
Dow will keep close behind Blaine. w
are getting ready to give Blaine anothe
defeat this time and a Waterloo in 1888.
X y 4 & x
Various reports have been circulated re
garding the Whereabouts and the inten
lions of Alexander, the deposed Bulgaria,
prince. The plain fact remains, however
that Ike conspiracy by which he was de
posed was hatched by Russia, and that
| although the instruction has collapsed
the car will make strenuous efforts t
drive back the reactionary tide which ha
set in in favor of the prince. The an
nonncement that the Black sea fleet Ina
been ordered to be in readiness for cruis
and that several Russian steamship com
panies has received instructions to equi
troop passports lends color to this belle
But there are many difficulties in the wa
of Russian interference in Bulgarian al
fairs. The attempt of a body of Russia
troops to pass through Roumania woul
be likely to meet with sturdy oppositio
from the inhabitants of that territory, an
Austria, as we have already said, has to
many interests at stake on her side of tn
% IN n ula to stand by passively and perm