The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
- iyvea1tI,y Americans. It Is not strange,

therefore, that Americans are earning
most unenviable regulations abroad and
that Americans travelling in Europe anu
on the continent are conducting them
selves i'm such manner as TO rehect
uuon the moral rectitude OF our whole
people.
There is a recent story that UNITED
States senator and a wealthy American
comrade were captured in raid by the
police upon one of these most UNANIMOUSLY
noted places, and our ambassador had
creat trouble in preventing an exposure
that would have been followed by serious
combinations at home.
IT is the strangest thing in the world
that there is a disposition upon the part
of such a majority Of men to indulge
in destinations away from home that
they would not think of doing at home
ar Mt their pace of residence. Even
near by city or town offers refuge 70
its neighbors for the indulgence OF VICIOUS
anpetjtes. A man who never drinks az
home. when he gets away from nome
is certain to attribute facilitating Ell
fleets upon him of the water, although lt
NAV be the same kind of water he drinks
ot home. and he thinks he is compelled
to remedy that with stick of 9our-
hon. Their are other forbidden pleasures
in which men indulge away from home
consoling themselves, probably, that they
are mot known, and their influence away
from home will not be for the bad as 1t
would be at home.
AN men of this kind are unreliable and
unstable, the moment that RESTRAINT Is
removed they follow the impulse of their
denrayed natures. Their morality at
home is not even skin deep, and
they wear the thinest veneer oil
home environments and influence 10 pre-
serve n showing of moral responsibility.
Such men are without fixed principles and
stable character based upon 1ight ana
truth, and white the evils in Wmcn they
away from home are calcu-
lated ito reflect upon the character or all
their home people, they are by no means
A good citizen NJ home car
ries his good citizenship with him wherever
he goes. A man of solid moral character
and responsibility ait home is fortified by
t'hat character when he is away from
home, and is sustained by that respecUl-
bility wherever he maybe, visiting or
traye,ing. He does not yield 10 the Cur
remit influences about him when abroad
and excuse himself that while at Rome
he must do as the Romans, or While abroad
he must outher0d Herod. The influences
that govern his conduct are from WITHIN;
his conscious recitude knows no latitude
nor longitude that grants jlim license
TO disobey the monitor of his conscience,
and we must assert that not understanding
The bad reputation Of Americans abroad,
that the man of moral rectbtude is the
American.
We have as week and as bad mon In
this country as there are in any other
country, but they are no worse than the
same class or character of men Of other
and we deny THAT they are rep
rescntative. While ten such licentious
characters may be found in Europe, there
are a hundred moral, high7toned, self-re-
speeding American travellers in Europe to
offset this one-tenth; but, unfortunately
for American reputation, one scandal of
this kind will create a greater and more
noise and reputation than THE
quiet and gentlcmanly conduct of u
hundred others would gain us. The evil
not only lives after men, but it Us lOudest
and better known in their hives than the
acts of good men.
We therefore protest against The effort
of foreign papers to give all Americans
the reputation of "high rollers" iicentiOus
and corrupt in their practices. The very
fact THAT such men have to 20 to foreign
to indulge the full play If their
bad passions is an evidence THAT there is
more corruption i'm 1.-The countries which
offers these men superior facilities for evil
than there is in America, for
if such places existed in America this
kind of men would only have 20 go Ito a
strange city at home to obtain the same
depth of moral rottencss that is obtained
with so much facility abroad.