The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-02
srAsr PRESS REVIEW.

= reason why the pope should lot come TO
America aud make his home here in this
free land of ours if no deems that he ought
10 quit the Vatican and Rome. We cannot
see any reason either. Church and state ac-
cording 10 the constitution and Governor
Roberts are separate in this country AID they
will by the will Of the people ever .emsin
SO. The Express say:
Referring 10 tue probability or rather pos.
sibility, for it Is sc.rcsly probable event OF
the pope seeking y bonn elsewhere .E-a at
Rome, where he says he is = prisoner, the
Indianapolis Sentinel says there Is plenty of
room 10 America for be holiness l. seems
pretty certain that 10 the noar future there
will be number of second ba.d thrones for
sale 10 Europe and that they will 20 cheap.
France has demolished the thing. England's
ihrones 90 object Of dtrslon. tne PrGs-
sian throne wouldn't row bring halt tie cost
In any market The rckety affairs Of Spain
and ltely are bong undermined by the steady
progress OF liberal IDEAS, while in Russia the
throne is on wheels moving about that crime
cursed land for tho accommodation OF des-
pot whose head aud legs are forever IN dan
ger. 1.-THE p }pe concludes to throw aside
his throne We see No ressoh why no may not
oous to America and rest in peace,
A good. many old tins notions
about Texas are being exploded aRd
that ono of west Texas beog ubd. for
agricultural purposes is one of them. Popu.
laiion aud railroads bring rains with them,
even iato the dryest districts, as has sctuslly
bsen demonstrated, and western Texas with
as fine land as crow ever flew over, is every
year improving ss n farming country. The
Canton Cnrolicle remarklng upon this sub
iect says:
The Fort Worth Live Stock Journal
thinks farming in western Texas is attended
with slures, loss and disappointment, and
claims that country rs being a stock and
grazing country, We remember when the
rich belt Of black land lying between the
Trinity and the BrszJs rivers WAS regarded
as worthless for agricultural purposes, by
many, and many believed eastern Texas to
be too drouthy for agriculture, but these
ideas have long since exploded. The black
lands between the Trinity and Brazos rivers
are the finest farming lands in the south,
and we predict in the near future the PAN
handle will be settled up with live and
thrifty set of farmers, and much ofthat country
will be considered the choice portion OF
TexaN. 1t is to the interest of those cattle
kings to keep the settlers out of that country
and to retain it as range country, but the
hardy yeomanry OF the country will go up
and possess the land.
The Brenhsm Banner comparing the dsiiy
papers of the day with the flash and impure
publications says:
As society il now constituted the daily
papers are a complete record of current
events Everything that occurs is faithfully
chronced. If u murder be committed the
public demands that the very fullest Dartic
ulars be given; the public demands it aud
is willing to pay for it. Newspapers are not
to be blamed tor recording current events
4. they do not make them. How the public
ls NsSte in this respect is to be reformed is
s ,Ston that moralists will have to settle.
M llong rs murders are committed and news
)ers arc printed the particulars will be
M, wen If readers demand il. Daily papers
Ware read for news, but flash papers are read
to crafty a morbid curiosity.
The question of prohibition being now On
Issue in Palo Pinto county to be voted on by
the people next Tuesday, the Pslo Pinto
Star comes out in favor of it, giving the fol-
lowing reasons for the faith that is in II:
As this question ID now an issue before
the people of Palo Pinto county, it devolves
upon u. as tho mOuth-pioce for the people,
10 speak out, and while We favor the Edop-
ton Of prohibitOry law we do not fall out
with those who differ with us upon this
question. We simply propose TO exercise
tne privilege guaranteed to every American
ciil2,n aud the press, that of free speech.
We fsvor prohibition because christian civ
ilizstion has no stronger enemy than the
"liquor treac" Its garriions are to be
found everywhere, aud yet many of our
moral and religious teachers ere firing
long range guns at Payne, Darwin, Huxley
and Ingersoll, when the retailing
Of ardent spirits with its seductive
influence, can do more harm in county
than all the ind1els that ever perverted sciN
ence or sneered at religion. We hear it
urged that local option ia an infringement
upon the rights Of nien, yet we see the law
does interfere with the traffic on special oc-
ossons, as on election days and Sundays, al.
though the dealers have paid the state and
county stipulated price for the privilege OF
running their business. 1t occurs to us that
If government has no right TO shut up the
saloons 365 days in year, then 1t has no
right 10 ehut them up one day in tho year
as on election dav, the day Of all days best
for the liquor business, The people have the
same right to close the saloons in Palo
Pinto county as did tho mayor of Pittsburgh
during the great riot in that city a few years
ago, and If the government has the right 10
hinder tho liquor business in one instan 60, II
has the right in another, and has the same
right to stop the traffic altogether.