The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-30
.,.rs rxess REVIEW.

n.,;sou Herald News boldly an'
:. i' distinctly opposes pr0hibi ion and I'D
W. va, the following reasons TOR the ia''i
M. .c.u.'es il; :.
w IVA admit that the use of elcohol is al
y" ws admit that a state has right I
e'I, ;h;t lis manufacture OF sale; but whil'
prGnU.,'d 40 this, we do not belleve they Car
lun'so,ced. nor do we believe that maj
M hs benefited if they were. And W.
WIZ ~ ",n,end that the temperance movement
~, sS,,olled by the wrong parties. How
sN mi, thing will regulate itself after
sw' VIZ The novelty of advocating such
isn ,m,es will wear OF af er awhile and
mr.. now engaged in the work will try
u Osv else. Men will get tired after
sO al,,s ns,ipg. temperance lecturers 10 rant
s y. ~ much night. Calm, sensible, judi
s ~ legislation Will take place of crude
,sorrb,s and half digested ideas. Restricted
m .DS will be adopted, for they can be
lmus,ced. and all that a wise and sensible
saOnla can do to modify this evil will
5SovSiIess be done. But until human
u.n,e is changed, until tho
s s"viro of the weak for strength
!. dsstroyed, until the craving of
,Ss dull of mind for quickness of perception
I'd viyscity of thought is satisfied, until the
n,svsr of the wretched for peace, of the
licked for oblivion, 10 answered, men will
s,ink, or if they are deprived Of drink, will
sdOpt the worse habit of opium or bash
hsh
Il often the result Of physical or mental in.
trinity and not of depravity, and until God
makes us all perfect, and not until then, will
stimulspts be dispensed with. Without
rrohibition we have drunksrds. Pass pro-
bibto1y laws and we still have drunkards,
and in addition we will have law-breakers,
priurers opium smokers, moonshine distll.
lars whisky peddlers, hash hish eaters,
cborsl takers, etc. If this be reform you
will have it, but we propose to oppose all
such reform.
The Canton, Van Zsudt county, Chronicle
offers the following advice as to show to
make town thrive" good deal Of which
isspplcable to cities also: =
Each and every citizen ola town should
take special interest ia building up his town
and trying to make it attractive 10 others.
Unimproyed property should be sold to
persons who wish to build as cheap as posi-
BE, and all should he encouraged to build
and improve their property. The local
citizen should patronize his local merchant
ard bis local mechanic, if possible. The
merchant and mechanic should always do as
we'll by his neigpbor as those from other
towns can do. There should bs one har-
monous effort on the part OF all to advance
The common interest of the town. In the
matter of schools in small town there
should be no division, but united effort to
make schools prosper. Would you see
your town prosper you should all 60 out to
preaching and hear all denominations when
there is preaching. To see a lot of men
losfing about the shsdy places in town
on Sundays when preaching is
going on is bad recommendation for the
town, and shows that the citizens prefer
losfng and telling smutty yarns to going to
preaching. Another reason why 30 many
towns drag along at dying rate lis because
few men try to monopolize the business of
the town; they want everything their own
way; they would like to see business opened
up in every line except the one they are en-
gsged in; they conclude they have exclusive
rights to run in that lint; none dare GENE in
competition with them. Such conduct on the
part of the business men leads the country
people TO believe they want TO practice extor-
lion on them, snd they will 60 TO some other
town to do their trading where they fad men
Of more liberal minds. Some times it so
happens that local merchant or business
man W II send off 10 other towns to buy goods
for their own use when they can buy the
goods next door to them at the same price,
and this encourages the balance of the town
10 send off and buy instead of buying from
their neighbor.
Tho Coleman Telegram sagely advises
those papers and people who are trying to
run C,vernor Roberts to attend to their own
business. Some of the journalistic quid
nuncs of the stale will do we'll to read, re-
fect and profit by the advice:
A good deal of fuss is being made about
The governor 70. A boarding ST., 700 600 in
The state treasury, and paying interest on
hat amount Of debt; however, Governor
Roberts knows his business better than any
one knows it for him, and it would be well
'or all to keep their noses out of it.
I'VE think our cotemporary the Courier
Chronicle is making "much.ado about noths
ng" when it opposes the hiring out Of va
grants 10 the highest bidder, callirg it
lsvery in another form. All imprisonment
md labor for punishment might just as well
20 called slavery. The drones of society
no idle and vicious must be made selt,sup.
PORTING in some way. The CourierS
Jhronicle says:
That was curious spectacle presented in
lexington, Kentucky, the 9th lay. The
ircuit court had c'r3 mned two colored
men, Henry Dud'oy aud Henry Tucker, to
welve months of slavery, and the sheriff
to carry GU! tho sentence BY selling
he services of the two men for one year to
he highest bidder. The novel incident, il is
aively said by local paper, attracted quite
crowd of people, Henry Dudley sold for
'85. Henry Tucker was run up" 10
,ll2 TO- The Lexington Press thus con.
ludes its account of the affair: ut
necessary to the well-being, health
nd comfort of the city that
more Of the loafers that blockade
ur streets DO put upon the block" OF
curse these proceedings, though carried out
lnder::,he color of some law, arc irregular
nd contrary to the constitutional::g guarantees
4 life. liberty aud the pursuit Of happiness.
I the negroes who were sold had friends
.ho were sufficiently informed, they might