The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-07
TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS.
SHOULD BE PROTECTED

; Skeletons are now sold at the ridiculous
DIV price of S25. At that rate almost every
family can afford to have one IN the closet
-LJonesboro Journal.
- PROFESSIONAL BoYCorTING.
The doctors of Dublin, Texas, have en-
| tered into an agreement to walt ON no Que
who has not made satisfactory settlement
for services rendered by any of the frater'
nity.-ILongview Democrat,
SUFFICIENT EXPLAHAIIoE.
A young politician explained the tattered
condition Of Lis trousers to his mther by
stating that he was sitting under an apple
tree enjoying himself when the farmers
dog came along and contested his seat
Hamilton Herald.
EsCHEws THE I'VE"
On my exchange list | now nave the
Clarksyl.le Standard, edited by that vet
eran Texas journalist, Charles Demorse, IL
is indeed IA treat to peruse his able editor
iais and see how correct he stands on all
matters of mportan,e.-IA Athens Narrow
Gauge.
THE PENITENTlARY 9uE8TloN.
There seems to be growing desire owe"
the state that COnvlcts be kepts inside the
penitentaries. Statistics show that Texas
has made as good disposition OF her con-
victS az any Of her sister states, IA far az
ttuHbulN 10 tbllNtliiNAit bNb biANAN ~ NA''ADe
that ii Sufficient machinery were erected
since this 10 q cotton, hide and wool state,
convict labor could he used more ad-
vantagcously inside OF the walls OF the
penit0ntiaries than to be scattered around
on farms Henderson Times.
EVIDENTLY NOT A DIVINE.
We do not know Senator Jones-that is,
porsonally--we only knew that he is one OF
our state senators. lie may be lawyer, a
farmer, merchant OF st0Ck-raiser but not a
preacher, ur il preacher, he is not near so
well versed in the Bible as preacher ought
to be--Ben Parker, for an instance. In Mr..
Jones speech in the senate last Friday on
the new proposed Sunday law, he got
things kinder mixed he caHed II Sab
bath, " and said there were thousands OF
men aud women in Texas who "love and
cherish the Sabbath and who keep it holy.
1t isn't only their education, but is the
very groundwork OF their religion having
come down to them from Sinai, through n
long line OF martyrs and fathers of the
Christian church" We oppose the sesa-
tor had reference TO the Jews, who are the
only people who have any reverence for the
Sabbath, only the Jews are not the de-
scend0nts of any Christim martyrs and
| fathers, nor did their Sabbath come down
to them from SINAI; and if he meant the
Christians he was just al badly mistaken in
his assertiOn-thelr Sunday was not handed
down from Sinai either, else We have never
read our titles clear on that subject
Hil!oboro Mirror.
WILL PROHIBITION PROHIBIT?
without doubt the present Legislature
will give the people Of this state au opp0r
| tunity to vote on this prohibition question
| When this is done it will be- defeated o
large majority; not because the majority
are in favor of the liquor trafG, but hecaus,
! the majority choose to be their own Judge
of%hat they shat eat and drink. Their
are thousands in the state who would like Il
see all the saloons closed, who will not vot
for prohibition, simply Tor the reason abov
given. There are others, and they are il
the majority, who do not balve that pro
| hibitiOn will prohibit. You cannot COntru
the oppo,itcs ofmen by legislation, aud al
attempts 10 do so in those states that hay
voted Tor prohibition have utterly failed. Ii
those ,gtates prohibition has not decrease,
the number OF applicants for divorce .,
reason of drunkenness. 1t created de
mand for demiiohns and sly corners but
has not lcsssned drunkenness w. muCl
extent, only in obscure localities. Their
are some things that legislation can do am
many things l. cannot 90, and controlling
the appetites and natural inCliuatiOns q
men may be classed among the things i
cannot do.
AS there il very respectable minorit
that wish to see tins prohibition question
tested IN this state, the people will have a
opportunity to vote on IL, and the result
will be rs We predict, or we will Acknowledge
that we have yet much to learn concerHin
the views and feelings of the people ,
Texas East Texas News,