The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-22
STATE PRESS REVIEW.


The Csstroville Quill, always giving lis
readers good quantity of nonsense, yclspt
wit or humor, has, too. column in which it
essays to be sensible. In that column 1t has
the following on prohibition:
liquor law, aud no democratic legislature
ever enacted one. Sumptuary laws have
ever found the mos. rampant opponent in
the democratic party from tho days of Jetfer-
son down to the meeting Of the democratic
convention last year at Cincinnati, when the
same doctrine was reiterated. Prohibition is
founded on the idea that tho state should
prescribe and enforce by penal enactment
what the personal habits of the indi,idu
shall be, or rather what they should not be in
order that society, as it CLAIMS, may thereby
be improved. Such doctrine is
destructive If every principle of individual
liberty, and would, If followed 10 It's logical
results, lead 10 tyranny unparalleled in
wrong and oppression. Thus it is thst John
Stuart MIL, the great political economist
speaks of il: $50 monsLrous u principle is
far moro dangerous Than any single inlerfer-
ence with liberty; there is no violation of
liberty which it would not justify; il
acknowledges no right 10 any freedom
whatever, except, perhaps, to that Of holding
opinions in secret without disclosing them.
There are, in our days, gross usurpstions
upon the liberty Of private life actually
practiced, with some expectation of success !;
and opinions proposed which assert an un-
limited right in the public not only TO pro.
hibit by law everything which it thinks
wrong, but, in order TO get at what ii thinks
wrong, to prohibit any number of things
which it admits to be innocent"
In the following extract from the Calves.
ton News, relative to an interview with Gen.
eral Eckert, Mr.. Jay Gould's able telegraph
lieutenant, in the New York World, the
News says:
The interview covers quite a number of
topics, but those in which Galveston is the
more directly interested refer to the estab,
lishment of u steamship line between this
port and Vera Cruz, and tho construction of
branch of the main line OF the Missouri
Pacific from Denton to Galveston. General
Eckort, while in Galveston, casually referred
to the putting on OF steamship line TO ply
between Galveston and ports in Mexico, and
MIR. Gould himself, in recent interview
with reporter'of the Chicago Times, spoke
iavorably on the same proposition. 1t is
surmlsed that certain interest in such line
o. steamships will be offered to persons resi-.
dent OF and Interested in Galveston, but that
direct propositions 10 this effect have been
made In any direction is not known
There Is ample time for the arrangement
OF all such details, however, in the event
OF MIR. Gould deciding TO carry the pro-
lect into execution. OF tho branch of the
main line of the Missouri Pacific from Dem
ton to Galveston, no additional information
can DO gwen moro tnan that conveyed in
the interview with General Eckert. T. News
special from Palestine, published Sunday
morning last, spoke of a survey having been
ordered from Waco to Galveston, digerring
line OF the same to go to the mouth of the
Brazos. General Eckert's statement may be
assumed to be the correct one, and, if he is
properly reported, Denton will be the start
ing point of the Galveston branch of the
Laredo extension Of the Missouri Pacific
From what appears in the interview referred
TO, MIR. Gould must have been favorably im-
pressed with what he saw of Galveston.
Should he carry out tho plans outlined, Gal
weston will have reason 10 congratulate itself
over tho recent visit.
The News says Denton whor IL means
Bolton, according to General Ecbiert's inter-
view 1t would be nonsense to build u road
from Denton, and we doubt aaany is really
contemplated from Belton Mr.. Gould
evidently wants to got cont Filing interest
in the Gull, Colorado &Ssnta 9, and because
he cannot do it, no builds road alongside
oft from Fort Worth to Bolton and now
ssyshe will build y road alongside Of il 70
Galveston from Bolton. lie ignores the Gulf
Colorado 81 Santa Fec entirely because he
can not control it. fhe could get control Of
this road there would be but ono line from
Denton 10 Bolton and but ore from Bolton
to Galveston.
The Austin Statesman has the following Il
say of tho narrow gauge system of railways
in progress in Mexico and ia Texas:
The Mexican National railway company,
tho charter for which has just been issued
absorbs the Corpus Chrisiiy San Diego &
Rio Grande railway. This road is to be
part of the narrow gauge system, which hal
been inaugurated in Mexico by the Palme
IL Sullivan party. FroIp the Nuece
river it will go east ward to Vic
toria and to Wbartoa, to Rich.
mond and thence 10 Houston
connecting there with the narrow gaug
system toward st. Louise The line Is alsc
70 have branch into Brkzoris county, ant
1t is probable that the syslom NAV draw it
supplies, received by ofosn, through tn,
BRACES river. This syaI I'm will embrae,
also what is known rs the lexss & st. Loui
railway, which will form Jdivision line from
northeastern Texas third ,gh central Texa
and toward the. Rio H. trAyer;ing an
almost uuexploTel count Ia western Texa
between the Colorado n { and tho love-
Pecos Thence this Id mus. procea,
toward junction with Il j lines in Mexico
Truly il ia not tho time hi now to Interior
with the grand railway prbjects, destined 4
develop Texas in the mex ton years, into
state with 100000 people,.
-s~N-t--