The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-17
STATE PRESS REVIEW.

lection of family relations. The Ohiei Says
The exact meaning ofthe above is some
what mythical. If Mr.. StrlngielloW means
to provide that man can protect hiLnseu
against he incursious Of his wiie's numerous
sisters, cousins and euots, or to allow
daughter TO collect light and fuel Dill
from the young men who use these essentials
three times week, at her fathers expense,
no bill will meet the united approval oil the
much imposed upon fathers OF the country.
But, if Mr.. Stringfeows intention is to have
sons in.law TO shoulder shotguns to protect
their motheI-in.law's bedroom SgAinst the
depredations of burglars, we protes and the
bill will no doubt be consigned to orivlon'
We thought every paper in the sts.s knew
that the object of this bill was to protect the
right Of the husband to lay in bed Of morn
ings whilc his wife made fire and TO restrict
the number of new bonnets per annum in all
well regulated families to three, while juleps
and cigars and visits 10 lodges on the hus-
bands part arc to be nd ibitum.
The Waco Telephone is badly mixed as to
Hon. Ben. Baker. 1t says;
Hon. Ben. ker, member Of the house
Of Representatives, seventeenth legislature,
from Anderson county, was member OF
the legislature twenty years ago, and ocou-
pies the same seat now that he had then.
Hon. Ben. Baker is representative from
Pamela county, and twenty years ago was a
small-sized eleyen-year-old boy in Alabama,
perfectly innocent of that mysterious lore
partsining to poker-dice, dominoes and
"them's mine" the possession of which, as
Legislator, has enabled him to oectrify the
house and astound the country
The Denison News does not pointedly
condemn Chief-Justice Comegys, of Dels-
ware, for bis suggestion to the grand jury
that Col, Rober. Ingersoll should be indicted
for blasphemy, because of certain language
used by him in lecture at Wilmington, but
we infer that it does from the following
paragraph:
In Simon.pure old-fashioned puritsnical
orthodox religion, Delaware is solid. A few
weeks ago Col Robt, G. lng6rso delivered
one of his eloquent lectures in Wilmington,
that stare, and now we see by the dispatches
that At the opening of the criminal court
last week, Chiof-Justice Comegys called the
grand iury's attention to tho recent address
of Col. Ingersoll IN that city, saying it WAS
blasphomous aud worthy of the attention Of
the jury rs coming undor the law of bias
pnemy. lnfdel Bob better give Wilmington
vide berth aa no doubt there ia An indict-
ment awaiting him. If be should go there
no might be ~ roughly treated as was poor
Abner Kneeland in Boston fifty years ego
for saying no didn't believe in the God OF
the Unilarlans.
Now, while every man ought of right to
be protected in any religious belief his con-
science may approve, or the rejection of all
religious creeds, still there is such thing as
the prostitution of license, and to blsspheme
God, to malign religion and to ridicule
Christianity in public places to the wounding
of the senstbilities OF Christians and religious
people, ia wrong and should not be :permit-
ted. So "a it sn excess to the other extreme
for the Salvation army and kindred move
ments 20 blockade street corners sad invade
the business houses in towns and cities for
the singing of hymns, for prayers and ex.
hortations. Colonel lngersoll has the logsl
right to disbeliaye the bible, to deny God and
10 mock at the idea of hell ifhe so chooses,
but as long as other people have the same
legal right to think otherwise he has no right
to obtrude his views upon them and to shock
their feelings with his blasphemies. This is
Christian country, and while God and the
bible may not be in the constitution, yet 9
reverence for the Creator and faith in HE
holy word Is in the hearts of msiority o
the people, and while msioritios rule in thi
country let their opinions b, respected and
protected By the law
Tho Fort Griffin Echo endorses dancln,
enthusiastically, Il says:
0he Of our neighboring towns rel licei in
pastor who has turned his two sous from
home for attending . dance We would
whip any son We nad, If we had any, if hi
would not dance every chance he had.
Ifany father did do this thing, why h
did a very great wrong, very uuohrisliar
thing. Many purilanios father has driver
his son straight to the devil by his straight
laced u1Charitable, ulforgiSing spirit, an
has done ii, too, ia the name of religion.
TIL, Castroviile Quill sententiously RI
marks that:
County courts havs been tried and foun
wanting. They are burdensome, involvin
thousands of dollars extra taxes, and no goo
resulting therefrom. Let them 20.
0fcourse the legislature will act at one
now No man could imagine that it woul
longer doubt as to the course to pursue. TIL
county courts must go "for no himself bat
said it." even he, the Gosling of the Quill.
l'hc Houston Post, discussing the localic
OF tho state university, advocates Austin
the mos, central and available point,
says:
We cannot think of q better place thu
Austin, which, so far, seems 10 commar
tie show of hands. There is something
be gained practically as well as aentimentsll
by having the university established at Il
state capital. The centre of legislative an
of the executive departments will exert
goot influence upon the centre of education
besides the fact of local unity affordiug Co
slant and numberless instances of practc,
convenience and benefit. Austin, In itself
we'll placed for the university, its health
fair, It's scenery fine, It's capacity to furni,
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