Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-04
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comment. and oplnIons Of the stnte pre...

Comments and Opinions of the state Press
Austin is sadly In need OF a city government.
The present government l. simply an abortion
and does not even excite the contempt of the
people All that II has done has been to eN-
pend the peoples money without giving them
any return for It'll Austin Dispatch.
Some men are never satisfied. Don't
you have daily murder, rape, or both
combined? DO you want them twice a
day? Go to!
"Cholory" is raging in China and the Pesca.
dorcs lslands.-lGalveston Tribune.
Yes, poor fellows, they are having a
terrible bad spell of it.
Let the Gulf, Colorado Il santa Fe intcrsect
the Texas 4 Pacific at this point and then let
Fort Worth never close her eyes. IL she does
1t will be n fatal nap Abilene Quill.
Fort Worth never sleeps. She has rele-
gated the Rip Van Wrinkle business to the
cross roads village about thirty-two miles
east of here
We know nothing about the Internal
dissensions In THE GAZETTE Office, but we do
know that IL was n splendid newspaper, a bet.
ter one, perhaps, than Fort Worth Will have for
several years TO GOMEZ Brennan Banner.
The Banner is respectfully informed
that the "internal dissensions" are n thing
OF the past in THE G,zETTE Office Purgcd
OF all drawbacks, THE GAZETTE is now
Offering its readers better paper than
ever before, and promises that improve
ments win keep pace with its upward and
onward course.
Local option Is creating very small stir in the
city OF Fort Worth, though an election is to be
held there to decide whether the whisky traffic
shall cease. The Fort seems to think the cleo
ton Will be one sided afair--all against 10.
cal option. II would be funny If the hare and
tortoise story should be repeated on election
day Clcburne Telegram
THE GAZETTE has upon more than one
occasion warned those opposed to the
surrender of personal rights that they
must not be found sleeping upon guard.
If its advice is not needed the fable may
be repeated, and it wont be so funny
either
The pool rates recently agreed upon by the
Texas roads discriminate very decidedly
against Waco, the charges per bale of cotton
being 20 cents more to either Houston, Calves
ton or New orleans than from Dallas, Fort
Worth, Corslcana, Temple, Bolton or McGregor.
~ Waco Once "a Week.
Waco did good deal of blowing last
season when she enjoyed cut rate that
enabled her to pay more for cotton than
her less fortunate ncighbors Now that
she has lost that advantage perhaps her
advantages rs n shipping point may not
loom up as largely as then. Give us all
an equal chance That is all that the
Fort demands, and she will accept no
less Her New Orleans railroad is proof
of that.
What grand sight that must have been to
see that posse comitatus, composed of Calves.
tons wcalthiest citizens, filing through the
streets of that city on the sabbath on their way
to the Santa Fe yards to shoot down Its un.
armed and poverty. stricken employees, The
brush OF Raphael could not have done the
scene Justice Belleyillc Standard.
But they didn't shoot, and The GA
zErrE will do them the justice to think
they never intended to shoot. The law
compels them to obey the sheriff's sum
mons, but no law would have prevented
them from shooting high.