The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-14
TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS,

- EMlNENTLl PROPER.
The course of the legislature in presence
Oh the DEAD ex-governor is eminently
proper.-[Statesman.
AS A NATTER OF CONVENIENCE.
we agree with the Fort Worth Democrat.
the Fort is entitled to branch lunatic
asylum, II only convenience sake.-[No-
Ian County Record.
COULDN'T BEARIT.
A huge wild bear went proving around
the residences of Leesburgh the other day.
hunting for something to eat. Such yisi.
tors are not very welcome in cold weather.
hence one OF tho citizens kill ed him,--ISul.
phpr Springs Gazette.
ENCOURAGE 1T.
Encourage newspaper reading among
your children, and you will soon discover
what fondness they will have for their
family journal, and how rapidly they will
improve. The newspaper IS The poor mans
ilDrary-eyery fa.hily should be provided
with good Wspaper.-[ Henrietta Shield.
EVIDENTLY LAND OF FEW DRESS SUITS:
III may not be exactly civil to assume be-
cause u man has dress suit on at the thea
tre That he is an usher and demand that he
snail show you to your seat, but it is
mighty amusing. He gets so mad. -Gaines.
vile Register
COMPARATIVE.
The Bible may be all that Colonel Bob
ihgersoll claims 1t to be, and yet it is the
pest code OF morals and the best book to
raise children by that has yet been pub.
iisheu., And the way it instructs us to act
peats the colonePs rule of action all hollow
and is as far ahead of him as Pauls reason
Ing IS ahead Of the blind, foolish preaching
oil a Mormon elder.-T Hubbard City News
PoboBABLY STAND IN WITH THE PLAY.
II the average iuryme on gambling cases
can De looked upon as reflection of public
sentiment, there is not much disposition
mere to suppress gambling by the imposi.
tion OF nnes At least, as the lowest fine al.
lowed by law is invariably assessed against
this class, of offenders. The few who are
arralgned regularly pay one hundred dol.
lars year.-San Antonio Express.
PURPOSES TO PRoBB.
Ine result SO far attained under the con.
tract system, Tor work upon Arkansas Pass,
proves conclusively that the fears of our
cltizens were well founded. No work has
yet been done and the best months of the
year have gone. Had that been done for
when we understand contracts had been
signed, 1t Is but reasonable to anticipate
that much good would have already re.
suited. There is something rotten, or ter.
ribly mlsmanaged, and whichever it NAV
be, the result TO the interests conferred on
Arkansas Pass, is the same. As public Jour-
nalists We propose to probe the matter to
the bottom, and find out how much Calves
ton has to do with the delay Of work upon
our BARI Rockport Transcript.
woRTHAM's BILL.
Representative Workman has introduced
a bill! in the legislature prohibiting the i'm.
portation of deadly weapons. 1t should
not be passed. If there were possibility
that the provisions of the bill could BIO en-.
forced, that the effect of its passage would
be to prevent all sales of weapons and de.
prive the festive cowboy and the city des-
perado OF means Of furnishing undertakers
with business, no sensib .c.,n would
object to II; but none will ,enture to assert
that II the bill becomes a law the hip.pock-
cts OF our border ruilians would not present
quite as bullying an appearance as OF pres
ent. should the Legislature favorably con.
s,cer Mr, ,Wortham's proposition peaceable
citizens would be prevented from obtaining
means of defending their property from
midnight marauders and their life from
assassins, while the dangerous criminal
classes would not fail to find way In
which they might secure possession OF the
knives, fevolvers and slung shots which are
tho tools IN their northumberland
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