The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
A LESSON FOR TEXAS.


in its issue of July z, quotes two edito
rails, and then makes some very pertinent
comments on its own account. The edi
torial is surely in such vein as to con
vince the people of Texas of the necess
ity of acting at once, establishing tn,
Home, amply endowing it and having the
whole subject withdrawn from public dis
cussion, which certainly cannot be in our
favor. The editorial is as follows:
"This is the way the news comes to us:'
GLAD HIS MISSION FAILED.
Maj. Joe II. Stewart, having failed tC
raise sufficient sum of money in the
north to support home for disabled
Confederate veterans at Austin, has
returned to Texas, and gives ex'
preston to his disappointment in q
two column interview in the Dallas News.
he went on his humiiatiug mission with
out the authority of the exOonfederates
and persevered 10 begging in the face OF
earnest protests from every part OF the
south. His failure is the subject OF gen
eral and sincere congrstulstion through
out the south, and it is to be hoped that
he will confne his appeals hereafter to the
people among whom the old soldiers live.
Charleston News and Courier.
The Mail and Express earnestly pro-
tested against Col. Stewards appeal as un-
patriotic, IN wise and unnecr ssary-and
the protest seems not to have been in vain.
We hope he will not prosecute his appeal in
the southeastern states, for the sooner
the word and the idea and the memory Of
Confederate" die out in these states
the sooner they will become loyal and
place themselves in position TO answer
the appeal of the north, east and west
anarchy and the tyranny of foreign
hordes.-New York Mail and Express.
The American then continues:
"We told Major Stewart when he started
out on his mission of whine and beg that
Just such insults as these would be all he
would get for his pains. To go begging
through the streets of northern cities and
to have the piteous appeal answered by
little pharisaical republican editors with
a command TO 'clear out" and an un-
disguised exhibition of hatred toward
the poor fellows in whose behalf the
charity is asked, is humiliating in
deed. The Mail and Express, whose editor
is noted for having more contracted
forehead and more expansive vanity than
any man in America, is surprised that even
the Southern people should think of pro-
viding homes for disabled exC onfederates.
The opinion of this editor Is of no conse-
quence 80 long as the southern people
contribute of their own money to support
the disabled Confederate; but he is a fair
representative of large element in the
north in this matter, whose sneers and
taunts would embitter any charity for the
veterans of the lost cause which might
come in response to begging appeals from
that section"
AN exchange furnishes this interesting
information of a French practice that our
American government might do well to
look into if not adopt:
Criminals in France are subjected to
system of measurement called anthropo-
Metric mensuration, by which their iden-
tity is forever ascertained. Men differ in
the relative proportions of their bodies as
widely as in their facial features; but
while the latter may be changed either ar
tificially or in the course OF nature, the
former are permanent. A man may scar
his face or change the form of his nose,
but he cannot alter the proportions of
his fingers nor the length of his tibia or
fbuls. Once measured by the French po-
lice no criminal can ever escape identifi-
cation, as has been proved in innumerable
instances, some of which have occurred
within very recent time. Attention has
been called to the subject by the feet that
the government of the Argentine Republic
has just sent gentleman to examine and
study the system.
What pity the tape line was not ap-
piled to the murderers of Smell and DR..
Cronin before the deeds. What a world
of sensation the Associated Press would
have been deprived Of!
SS
NORTHERN journals that have taken such
satisfaction in the idea that the principals