The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-01
GAMBLING AMI GAMBLl>G.

Is three times the man he was before he be-
gan using Wells Health Remover. ST..
Druggists.
GAMBLING AMI GAMBLi>G.
As long as there are black eyes and blue,
as long as there are long men and short
men, long heads and short heads, there
will be variance of opinion and diversity oil
sentiment in all matters, whether religious,
political, commercial, social or otherwise.
For this reason we have tyrants and seris,
arrant despotism with slavery, and pure
democracy with freedom. And this
is why men differ on the several
issues of the day. This is why one
man prefers the Connecticut blue laas
which prohibit man from eating two
meals on Sunday, or kissing his wife once,
and incarcerete or arrest, as the authori
ties did last week, gentlemen and ladies
for gathering nuts as they lay in supera-
bundance Oh the line of the road. This is
why he believes in the paternity and om-
impotence of government and dogmatically
demands that 1t place its protection egis
over everything that favors his views or
Is hostile to his peculiar feelings. On the
other hand, the other class look upon gov
eminent as an evil. necessary evil,
and therefore logically conclude that the
| less we have of it the better off we are. The
| HERALD is in the latter class. Therefore il
| is that we have consistently opposed the
protective tariff legislation, the monopoly
of man over womanhood, the imposition of
tl,o &c ~
as to interference and interruption with
any PERSONS licensed vocations, the dicta-
ton by legal enactments as to the profits
~ shal make on his properties or IN er
chandise, whether this be dry goods, grocer
les real estate, money or what else, or say
what he shall read or shall not read, be-
cause an assembly may think some gaz tie
immoral or what we shall drink or how
much. The sole province OF genuine free
democratic government ia the ma n
tainance of peace and the administering OF
Justice, and the moment il steps in to play
the part of father to weak, foolish over
grown boy of citizen, that NONE Mt it
violates its tr1at This, again, is why we
have antagonized the proposition for il 10
own and run the railroads of the country,
or to operate general telegraph system, or
TO own and control a national bank, or to
dictate to the states compulsory educa-
ton. The keynote to our whole
course on all these questions
and others of similar import
is to be found in desire for liberty and
rights where these do not infringe upon
the liberty and rights of others. This
again, is why we array ourselves against
the law that denies to us the right to spend
our time and monies as we choose when
such expenditure can hurt no one than our
self. Ii government should not say how
much profit or how much loss one should
realize on business transaction, where is
the consistency that depriyes him
of mourning it on what are
termed games of chance, private
or public? And on directly the same line,
this is why we have deemed unjust the law
that prescribes one from expanding his dol
lars, few or many, in lottery tickets, or for
chips on a faro bank. or certificate for puts
and calls on futures, or the little round
turning table OF the street corner. vender OF
candies and toys for children. The prjne:-
pie involved is identical in all
these things, and he who would abolish one !
must seek ~ eAieTHliHate tAe other 10 be /,
consistent. The HERALD has never had
and has not any interest with the gam bling /
fraternity in any manner, shaTe,
or form, but has upon tie
recent occasion as on all previous on6s
frankly and independently expressed it,
self. 1t is not beholden In any manner,
shape, or form 10 any of that fraternity,
any more than TO any lottery company,
railroad corporation, telegraph eys'em,
futures operator, free-trader. candy and toy
vendor or others, but it has in its discuss
ions OF the gaming law, only rad ated from
a brand basis of liberty and right on which
real democracy rests and upon the preser-
walton OF whose integrity it is dependent for
its pure and honored perpetuation. So
much for the principle that aciusted us.
As for the policy Of the rare
aud rigid enforcement Of the rick
ETY. law. we have 10 recall atten
ton to numberless other evils that exit
and are prescribed against in the commu-
uity. Are they being as relentlessly pro-
cesdei against And II not, why not7 II
there some occult cause that inspires a Wig
orous blow here and a velvet paw there7
Why does not 81 exclusively country grand
jury investigate ell ills and assign harsh
penalties to the residents Of this city for
other privately pronounced immoral delin
quencies and dictate 10 rs our course o
conduct We are told that the highest
should be given 10 those Who
enforce the statutes and ordinances. The
u-ory Law IL daily. hourly violated. Wy
are not the numberless cases duly pun
Ished7 The ether day In C5nnecticut
rich carriage trimming msDufsctursr
vas arrested while out driving with he
vile near the civ Of New Haven, and
.ceused Of breaking the Sabbath. The
.bssee was brought under the old blue lsss
1asssd In the early part Of the last century.
IA. BspoOcK. When arrested, vas taken 10
ne farmhouse Of HEsEF PAN, one oftbs
.onstsoles making the arrest. There be
ound nearly . score Of other prisoners. eli
q cusfody for the same o1snse- TIE IN
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