The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-10
STATE PRESS REVIEW
The Waco Telephone, speaking ofnewspa-

lINkSf.Y Eut D6NlSpil SNtTSiu llhs ubuSut NNs
the benson News, and now the Sherman
Chronicle has made q conGit onale purchase
of the Sherman Courier purposing the pub
lication OF u morning paper. The Courier,
however, announces th8t it will keep night
ahead until tbs toims of the sale are actually
compiled with.
There is strength in union. especially IN
q young city like DLllss, Denisou, Sherman,
OF Waco, whore there is really local support
for but oao morniog paper, BY the uaion OF
their separate strength papers are thua made
stronger and ere able 70 branch out and seek
patronage oth3r than local patronage, BY In
crossing It's facilities, as news vehicle. In
this city, with its fifteen thousand inhabitants,
growiny and developing and waxing strong
though it BE-, there is really not more local
patronage than one morning paper needs TO
make i. anything like such paper as it
should be- Why, in New York, with its
100000 inhabitants there are hut six morn
ing daily papers, ono to every 100000.
The Sherman Courier, commenting upon
the railroad bill providing triumvirs,e with
more power than Nero over enjoyed, says:
The people Of Texas are not hostile to
railroads er other Internal improvements -
they want to do them ample justice, and noi
wrong them. Nor do the people Of Texas
wish to ilcur expenses on them elves or tho
stale, by the creation Of sinacure officers to
draw salaries. Make Just law regulating
railroads, and have the law with tue stale
govcrnmgnt--w with the goYornOr--whUse
business il is 10 eufoFG the laws. The state
should not propose to take ina running Of
these roads out of the hands of the comps.
mics 70 whom they belong, but j. should pro
pose to protect the people from unjust Gxac-
ticns-nothing more.
OF course the people Of Texas are not
hostile to railroads, and all this fuss being
made over them by legislators is the quintes-
cence OF bslderdssh. Let the railroads alone
uutil wa get perfected system. Then if it
appears that any legislation is necessary lot it
bs done, but done fairly ana impsrtislly and
in II way that will DO just TO the roads and
the people alike.
The Waco Examiner is epigrsma.ic and
therefore rorci6lo in the following words:
/! is desirable that all men should be sober:
it is desirable that all men should be morally
Just and honest; but no law c4n enforce tue
one or the other. The reformation OF the
individual is the reformation OF society and
its freedom from the evils Of drunkenness
and dishonesty. Law can do no more than
punish for the crimes sprnging from those
sources.
The Houston Post is clearly opposed to
experimenting with prohibition law, not
because such laws are not righteous but be-
cause the experience Of the past proves that
they are imperative becSuse of TIE lalioihty
productive of more harm sban good. Tho
Post says:
IL seems very likely that tito legislature
will follow the example Of Maine and Kansas
and pass law subject to the approval of thu
people, prohibiting tho use aud ssle of intoys
icatiug liquors except for medical purposes
The legislature has the right 10 make tho
experiment, for IN experiment, as regards
Texas, it undoubtedly IL, though it mas been
tried numberless times by humanity at large.
But, as we strongly suspect that Texas is ins
habi,ei by race of beings very decidedly
human in their constitution, we are forced 10
believe that the Texan experiment will not
produce any contrary result to tho in1umer-
able ones tried before in other states and at
other times. The states competency to
pass such nm act has been pronounced con-
stitulional by the highest suthorily, but we
ore unaware whether this includes the point
of importation" and there seems to be u
prima facie collision In such legislation on
this point and the supreme power vested in
congress alone TO regulate commerce. But
apart from this, ia it competent for the state
TO pass this prohibi DRY law? How will it
enforce il? Has it laws against gambling
and fornication? Are they enforced We
do not intend to convey the idea that such
laws are not righteous, but only TO point GU,
the fact that IL well-meaning laws against
crime and vice that can command no open
advocate, cannot by any means be fully ex-
ecuLo' how Is the law passed md ratified by
say n bare majority, on question Of dis
puted morality and private right, to. be enforce
cd? THESE sentimental waves sweep over y
community with arosistless power ut umo', but
they are onl1 wSves--they recede ard leave
the bare rocks OF tho human constitution as
they found them, washed clearly in some
places, but generally covered with sea'sime
and weeds.
The Fort Worth Advance /, disposed to
be severe on tho present legislature Of the
state, and especially because Of tho railroad
bill. 1! says;
The state of Texas would have been far
better off had tho present legislature never
met. No legislature ever assembled in the
state that has wrought such injuries TO her
best Interests. As " proof of this, we men
ton the introduction of the railroad bill,
that has caused such conimotion among
the railroad men OF tho country. This bill
may eventually become law, or II may not
If no, we can outlive the damage. But, if
II does, then woe TO the presen, bright pros
poets Of Texas. lts more introduction into
the legislature will tend 10 drive capital from
our borders. and work an injury that time
can only with great difficulty repair. BY
being voted down by largo odds, and tho in
PRODUCTION Of such measures prevented hore-
after, much of the injury may he allsyed.
Blu, Us passage would inevitably work harm
OF which scarcely anyone can conceive. Look
at the millions upon top of millions of dollars
tia, are being brought into The state for in
ves,ment In railroad enterprises! Cast about
you and consider tho thousands Of honest,
industrial people the railroads ARE bringing
and will bring 1t completed. Sec tho wealth