Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-21
PROHIBITION.
Vital Questions to Come Before the
Present Legislature.
The Friends Of Temperance Ask a
0hanoa to Vote on Prohibition.
10 The EDITOR ftho aalotto.

10 the Editor ofthe Gatotte.
ARLENE. TEX., Jan 20, Now that
the r, representatives. Of our state are All
assembled at the capitol, It Ia fitting
time to press homo DON their atten-
tion the peouniary, moral and social
needs OF their constituency. The legis-
lature has It In lie power to place the
state ia the front rank OF any other
state in the Union. The question with
the best element In the state IL, Have
we that high order Of representative
men In our legislative halls that will
fearesslv voice the viii Of the major
itS7 Have the people seen 20 Il,
that they have proud, indie
pendent, progressive men, men
WIN would scorn To be handled as one
iieaed, aud would nurl bank the insin-
nation that they Were hirelings, the
tools of faoilons, cabals aud rings, We
! look for grand achievements, for we
believe we have best representa-
tive men Of the state at Austin. They
certainly will be called nn /, grspple
with questions that perhaps, not being
new, are nevertheless vital ID the best
1 q
The school question, Of 30 much inn
pnrtance In every state ut the present
time, will demand az their hands their
hes Efforts 80 that In coming years
they can look hack with pride. aud
point history 10 n monument that has
achieved for Texas pre-eninenCe
that viii Invite the good and the great
OF every cline.
Tue land qaestion, the most vital
one TO unity every section, 40 as 10
mike all one people, and yet work
haydships 10 none. " III be AN achieve
ment mnst desirable for future pros
perity. Upon this one act will depend
the continued growth Oi Texas
Another, aud OF more vital impor.
tauce than the two above.c. ted, i
that the state aud people must be as
untrammeled as 1t Il possible by
causes that will detract from health
and thrift A people free from an
noyances have nothing To do but &c
exercise the energies Of a higher man
hood, and that people and that state
are on the road to prosperity. DIS
quiet does not arise alone from hat
laws II mote often develops
! itself from laws that fail to cover til,
lects for which they wer,
designed. They prove "A source o
vexation and Ii igatlon, and thus be
, come the sore spot that may spreRt
, and grow 10 an uncomfortable evil
This Is Just the condition that tn,
whisky tmfii has brought upon th,
Peep of rexas, and this entire nation
II would be far better for all con
c"rned were there no laws upon tn
subject, aud II would INN lrtali2s THU
. legislature itthey were TO repeal all th
laws now controlling the traffic lie
The trafiic be dismissed from stat
! protection; let It be left to the penpl
: TO say whether whisky ahRll or shRl
= not be made an article of merchandise
: as it h now carried on, and our wori
i for IL, (for we well know the temper o
II seventeen hs OF he communities OF th
I state), II would, In less than NJ
:, months, cease In many rommuni' }
where W law and whisky oyerrid
y public sentiment
!" All the friends of temperance de
- mand Of their representatives. Is L
% award them the right 70 vote upon Tia
n question rhi4 Is "A lust right, that IA
= tribunal should hesitate To grant, ur
, 50 we have herd OF sycophants an
= hirelings To petition. But we are sR
. ish that a more respectful defferenC
will be shown petitioners than wa
! melted out 10 them at the last seasio
. of our legislature. IL II with prld
% that we now can count upon a scOI
- who suffered the defeat OF this que'
|, ton, who have returned, doubly IL
!, tent upon the people being heard q
a this present sitting Whisky bul
~ dozed and brlbed defeat then, bI
whisky, bribery and threats will me-
their Just rebuke at this term