The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-08-26
EDITORIAL COMMENTS
NEW YORK HERALp.

tnat Wnlle russia was. yesterday celeDrat-
ing the hundredth anniversary of the death
of Frederick the great, the Emperor Will
liam, of GERMANY drove to Sans Souci,
and there spent some minutes of solitary
devotion in the room in which Frederick
died.
Here is one of those touches of nature
that not only widen human kinships, but
bring together, if only for moment,
events and person alities which the flight
of years seems to have separated inexor-
ably and for all time. Ten decades divide
modern Germany from the closing days
of the hero and historian of the Seven
Years War, yet the career of King Fred
erick and the life work of Emperor Will
liam have with each other many and strik-
ing points of resemblance.
1t is easy to realize what were the en-
peror's Surroundings at Sans Souci, but to
describe the old mans thoughts is task
which few would undertake.
x x x
The dispatches from Chicago to-day
will be read on both sides of the Atlantic
with profound interest and enthusiasm.
Never before has there been seen IN the
new world so splendid representation of
Irish intelligence and patriotism. 1t is
no exaggegation to say that what is now
done in Chicago will be big with fate for
the future of the Emerald Isle. For the
prudence and sagacity of the convention
may shape influences and conquer pre-
iudices of vital moment at this turning
point in the history of the Irish people.
The acts of the Chicago convention are
watched with deeper solicitude in London
even than in New York. For those acts
will have potent bearing upon the Eng
fish political situation; and the anxious
comments of the London press clearly
show that the fact is thoroughly appre-
ciated. In view of all this every true
friend of Ireland must earnestly hope that
the proceedings of the memorable body
that sits to-day by Lake Michigan will be
marked by the wisdom and patriotic fore
: sight that cannot hereafter justly be i'm
pugned.
TIMES DEMOCRAT.
Yesterday there was great rejoicing in
free America, throughout the length and
breadth of all our broad land. Anarch-
ism, socialism, nihilism, the hydra heads
of that great, groveling dragon-body,
communism, were Topped Off by Justice
| as by the stong arm of a Hercules; and
the first American anarchists who have
ever here endeavOred to put in practice
the hideous doctrines that they preach,
have been brought to face, at last, the
murderer's fate and the felons doom.
r 1t was long trial, protracted sleuth-
) hound pursuit of hiding, skulklng, red
handed assassins; two months of slow and
!. tedious trial, watched by fifty millions of
people, who chafed at the hating foot
) steps of justice, wondered at the laws
q slow delay, and wearied themselves wait
ing for the end of it all.
It has come at last, and come with
;, force which betokens the fact, that there
! will be no more maddened mobs marching
: under the red flag through the streets of
~ our great cities, ready to riot, plumber,
= burn or murder, as it pleased their fero-
: cious fancy; and armed with that most
= formidable, dreadful and deadly of all
modern weapons, dynamite bombs, against
}, which men are less defensible than they
p are against the Kissing thunder-bolt
y hurled from the storm-cloud.
# The Haymarket tragedy in the city OF
II Chicago has now passed into American
n history, history that will never repeal
is itself in this country again. The murder
l. ed policeman are at rest under the ground
the MANNED officers have been cared TO
by an appreciative community; the vacant
q beats have been manned by new patrol
" the swarming strongholds, once filled with
y the fierce hum of low muttered threats
- against prosperity, life and law, or that
= :. trembled with the savage roar of COM
? munistic oratory, are vacant and silent
:" . All the chapters in that dramatic and hor-
Il rible tragedy have been written save one
D all the acts finished but the last. 1t was a
drama attended by saturnalian lights and
It scenes. Act represented the consplra
tors gathered in the ill-lighted gloom OF
n their secret halls, under the folds of blood
e red banners and among heaps OF deadly
(. bombs. Act II showed wild mob turned
b loose on the streets, with murder In thell
!, flaming eyes and the terrible weapons o.
Q assassins in their hands, or dead ant
d wounded men lying amid the smoke o.
ia exploded bombs. Act III represented
Justice standing as Nemesis before
group of covering criminals. Now Their
is a short entr'a cte. When the curtain
: rolls up again, with nation as spectators
A to show the final tableau in act ~, it will
disclose row of gibbeted felons, witt
ct battered throats and fettered hands AM
ct feet, swinging slowly to and fro in the air
ct then it will be rung down again, and tn
:. people will breathe freer, feeling that an
C ca archism, nihilism, socialism, communism
8. are forever dead in America!
e ST. LOUIS GLoBE-DEMocRAT.
ID - -
= The Chicago News thinks that becaus
a Mr.. John. G.. Carlisle was born In Ke1
"a lucky he cannot be president. Mr. Cal
Isle and Mr.. Lincoln agreed IN thei
p views on many subjects, and we thin
: they would have agreed in holding Dirt
or on Kentucky soil no disqualification fo
any office, however high. We believe M
OF Carlisle is not only tit for the presidenc.
but that if the democracy nominate hiI
the country will acknowledge his fitness b
electing him. We do not believe, how
ever, that he is likely to be nominate
lust yet if President Cleveland makes h
administration democratic by making
an administration of democrats.
WASHINGTON EVENING STAR.
- We are nearing the close of what hf
IN been probably the most remarkable sun
=, mer ever known in Washington. NJ
more than half dozen days in the who
season have been uncomfortably war;
and the thermometer has exceeded nine
degrees only once or twice. The weathe
TOO has heen not only DELIGHTFULLY."- coo