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

goes eating with the avowed determina-
ton to kill four cats that are on different
sheds, he does not shoot at all four at
once. One cat at time, if you please,
lest by trying to kill whole bevy of fe-
lines you get no cat at all.
PROTECTION THE FIRST LAW, AND YET SELL
DOM oBEYED.
The city council seems to have econom-
ical spasms. The mounted police furnish
their own horses and have heretofore
been allowed $3.50 per month for equine
maintenance, but the city fathers have
cut this down to $1,000 per month. The
patrolmen should buy mules and feed
them on oyster shells.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.
Galveston News.
The Chinese minister at Washington
has entered formal complaint with our
government against the treatment the
Chinese are subjected to on the Pacific
coast. There is no doubt that Cinnamon
have been killed, driven from their homes,
robbed and generally outraged. Our
government is bound to protect them by
solemn treaty obligations. When Ameri-
cans are ill treated in China our govern
ment promptly demands indemnity
What is sauce for the goose is generally
sauce for the gander, and it need not be
surprising if the taxpayers of the
country at large would have to pay big
indemnify one of these days for the dew
iltry of the Pacific slope hoodlums.
There are two sides to the Chinese ques-
ton, and while the Pacific coast folks
may make the music, the rest of the
country may have to dance to it at a
pretty costly rate.
BRENNAN Banner.
Among the 100000 shareholders of the
Panama Canal company are 10000
women.
Making driblet appropriations for the
harbors all along the Texas coast is
equivalent to throwing so much money
away.
Prohibition and total abstinence are
two very different things. In one day re-
Gently there we're 800 jugs shipped from
Paducah, KY, to precincts without saloons
in adjacent counties.
San Antonio Express.
For county named after the great pre-
sidential candidate apostle of prohibit
ton, and in the great prohibition state
of Kansas, st. John county furnishes a
very sensational murder, committed by a
man made crazy by drink, furnishing
clear proof that prohibition does not
prohibit, but leads to secret and excessive
liquor drinking.
With the Greer's boundary commission
and the female smuggling match, hypo-
thetical boycott and cooking main,
water agitation in Houston, Galveston
opens the spring still doing business at
the old stand with varied list of attrac-
tons.
Fort Worth Gazette.
The Corsicana darby who travelled over
Texas giving exhibitions of his ability to
eat glass, is now in Philadelphia mu
cum, amusing the citizens up there de-
vouring lamp chimneys beer bottles, win
dow panes, and other like articles. Slowly
but surely the superiority of Texas in
states sadly in the shade, is beginning to
dawn upon the mental vision of the effete
easterner.
THE TRUE INwARDNEss OF THINGS.
AS the result of recent lawsuit it has
come out that at a recent drawing of the
louisiana lottery the capital prize OF
$15O,000 was not drawn, though the com
pany advertised in the press the number
of the tickets that they pretended drew
the prize. OF course there was nothing
positively dishonest about this. 1t was
only lie the effect and intention OF
which was to excite people to buy tickets
and try to draw other prizes. No one
knows just how many of the prizes a
legged to have been drawn were really
BLANKS" as the $15O,Oo0 prize was in this
case.
Evening Tribune
Texas need not fear of having its ac-
counts for frontier protection adjusted.
States have to take their turn, and it only
took two years to authenticate the
vouchers of Kansas.
THE CLONE STAR" OF MANS EXISTENCE.
A New York preacher says it is the
waltz that drags women down to ruin; Sam
Jones says it is the arm clutch; but the
truth of the matter is that It is innate
cussedness. The waltz, the arm clutch,
poverty nor hades can make true woman
forget that she is the link that binds
heaven and earth together.
NAVY, AND AT ONCE.
Secretary Whitney thinks this country
should have navy. The secretarys head
is eminently level. A few first-class war
vessels are necessity. Should a foreign
nation step on the narrative of Uncle
Sans coat, such vessels would be able to
give the enemy a stand off until fortifca-
tions could be erected and pure patriots
could find substitutes.
CHINESE AGAIN.
"The only respectable reason for pro-
hibiting Chinese immigration" does not
lie in the assumption that the Chinese
are nation of slavish habits" but in the
fact that the Chinese are an inferior race,
and in choosing immigrants the govern
ment should choose the best that are to be
had. Will the News say that throwing our
ports open to the crowded millions of
China would not turn European white i'm
migration into other channels? What En-
glish or Irish laborer or mechanic wants
to work at the same bench and live in the
same neighborhood with crowd of glib
bering celestials?
Dallas News.
Mr.. CleYeland's backbone still continues
to be as stiff as it was said to be before
his nomination. If Mr.. Bragg, of Wis