The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-02
STATE PRESS.
CHANCE ALL ARonNn.

tAo roib W oEIH OdEeIte says some
tnlng IN It's issue on the 22nd about
looking at the books at Austin, and
expresses a desire to find the officials
out some time that it might get 9 peep
at their books. We feel that the Ga
zette puts It entirely too mildly. We
would IKE to see change all around,
with an order Tor general investiga-
tlon. any momentary peeps would
only be maddening without gratifica.
! San.-lBig Springs Paragraph.
tLENE AND COLORADO TO BIZ LEFT,
he Paragraph is beginning to
I'M the Santa Fe. Every day
engthens the prevailing opinion
at the Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe will
owe westward into the rich plains
iShnd tap the Texas & Pacific at Big
Springs. 1t has given no signal for
ttpany point east yet, and it is generally
Y onceded that Abilene and Colorado
III re both left in this matter Colorado
iraphic.
~ TARIFF REFORM.
Inc tarin laws are wrong and OPP
pressive because they take money
continually from the pockets of the
people for the benefit of the manufac-
turers. They Cypress the masses for
the sake OF Substituting the chosen
Few. This is wrong, and all editors
should oppose wrong without waiting
Tor the Presidents opinion. However,
the Banner hopes that Cleveland will
favor tarlh REFORM Greenville Ban
ner.
THE STATE CAPITOL.
Mr.. Taylor, contractor for building
y 7 State capitol, left Austin in a bad
4 dumor, declaring that Texas had no
stone, suitable for any such work.
somebody must have played q mean
trlcK on the capitol board when the
4ettlng OF the contract was first ad-
yert1sed, as it was then stated that
Texas had the finest building stone in
the world. 1t is little surprising that
the Old Alcalde consented to make a
contract that will not bind the contrac-
Tor 70 complete his job. Ii we can't
get nne State capitol, we are in the
right path to find magnificent suit at
law: 1t is beloved by many of our
leading dailies that the contractor has
already made clear profit OF 100000,
and as the balance Of the work don't
promise much profit he can afford to
quit. Perhaps the present State house
Will be ample until an Improvement is
MADE IN some Of our State officials,
Wlthln tine past eight years Texas has
made history in contracts and sales
OF land that should not be repeated
Graham Leader.
LOCAL OPTION.
force the question of local option
on the people of Tarrant County ia
simply a proposition to permit Tar
rant County TO vote on the question of
local option Tor the city of Fort Worth,
for local option now prevails in every
precinct In the county, except the one
In which Fort Worth is situated. The
f11aY 4
position that would extend to the
issue in the State VIII supresented and
the adoption of every 'Sttzisa,ce possible
to elect men to the Legislature who
would vote against the sub
mission OF an amendment to
the constitution prohiling the sale
OF alchoholic liquors in the State.
There 10 nothing optional about the
present movement, so far as this CITY
ls concerned, and rather than see such
a movement end in success there are
MEMBERS of men who would destroy
the prohibition now enforced in those
precincts which we're permitted to de-
eide FOR themselves whether they
wanted local option or not. If the is
sue is forced and tho measure de-
feated and silent, undemonstrativ
men led into the ranks of tho opposl-
uon, the needless, unreasoning advo-
Gates OF prohibition viii have them-
selves alone 10 blame. A little practi-
cal common sense would serve the Pro-
hibitionists OF Tarrant County a good
turn just at this jucture.-[ Fort Worth
Gazette.
FOR THE PRoHIBITIoNIsT.
The time may be near at hand when
society Will refuse TO receive a man
who drinks to beastiality, but it will
be long time before sober, rejecting
people will take the money out Of their
own pockets and the bread out of the
mouths OF their own wives and babes
in the vain effort to make sober and
decent people out Of few so.s. The
Prohibitionists can make note OF
b this prediction right now, and file IL
away forfuture reference Paris Free
Tongue.
THE COMING PARIS.
Work on the iron bridge of the
frisco Railroad across the Arkansas
River at Fort Smith Is progressing
day and night. 1t will be completed |
early in the fall, when q grand for |
ward movement on Paris is expected. |
We do not think we are "blowing" |
when We assert that Paris has brighter |
railroad prospects than any other town |
in the Lone Star State. IL is bound to |
ecome the commercial entrepot of
Northeast Texas Paris News.
STATE ENCARfPMENTs.
Whilo we are having tho commerce |
OF the country regulated by inter-
state legislation, 1t would be well TO |
regulate tho militia OF the States, so |
that they might have some sort OF a |
federal organization. IL we heve |
State encampments, why cannot we
have q general encampment of repre-
sentatiyes of all the States, and a COM
petition aroused that would lead TO ex-
cellenoe in drill and an emulation be-
tween the States? The expenses |
would DO triiling and the interest |
b would more than repay the trouble. |
AS an investment IL would be profit |
able.-[Denison Herald-News.
ayes; shall break the engage.
ment," she said, folding her arms and |
looking defiant; sit is really too much |
trouble TO CONVERSE with him. heis as \