Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-05
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comment. and opInIon. Oh the state Pre...

Comments and opinions of the state Press.
The news from Tarrant county is ANYTHING
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iiy and permit local option to be voted upon n
people that have often befricndcd him In
DAYS gone BY. But few days more and the
contest will be over, and then most any public
man can show his hand. The fence act Is get.
ting old--the emergency demands Immediate
action Dallas Democrat
Yes, Olin, come to the front. You've
got your speech all cut and dried, for you
were caught practicing it. Decide which
sentence you are going TO interpolate in
the blank paragraph and fire II off. An
anxious constituency awaits the cXplo-
sion.
The Tribune would like to see THE GAZETTE
flourish, but not at the expense of the city.
II THE GAZETTE has been converted
into cat %. nine. tails TO larrnp the personal
enemies of It's manager, II IL high time change
were had.--lParls Tribune.
THE GAzETrE dches the Tribune to
point out single paragraph or express
sion in its columns that can be tortured
into an excuse for such comment as the
above.
The San Antonio Times criticisee sharply and
forclbly the idea of congressman Nclborn that
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors is
not an infringement upon the personal liberty
of citizens,-l Houston Age.
The people in this vicinity have as yet
failed to hear any expression from Con-
gresham Wellbon upon the subject He
appears to be waiting to hear the result
of the election before he declares himself.
The press of the state viii please pardon the
Stars seeming Indifference IN regard to local
option and other issues now being generally
discussed. We have an elephant of altogether
another color on our hands at presents Ter.
rel star.
The attention of the Star is fixed Just
now upon new county towns and court
plucky little Kaufman is making spirit
ed fight.
The adoption Of prohibition In any county
in the state viii not decrease the court eN-
penscs of the county. The adoption of local
option may lessen the cases on the court
record In one respect, but this difference will
be made up OF the violation of the local option
! law Itself The county attorneys IN Ellis and
/ Limestone counties have their hands full of
/ local .optiop violations As fnr as this view of
{ the question Is concerned the adoption of local
option is only jumping from the frying pan into
/ inc nIe-l Marlin Dan.
| Ellis and Limestone are not the only
counties in that category. In fact, from
every county III the state that has tried
the experiment comes the same stale,
monotonous report, ''prohibitlon does
not prohibit" loss of business, dcprc-
ciated scrip, etc.
The unjust attacks, liable to be made upon
Roger Mills for the stand he has taken ON the
prohibition question by the hot heads and IA
natlcs on the opposite side Will do more against
the cause of temperance than all the good these
same fellows can do within the next ten years.
Move slow, boys. Mills Is n statesman, and so .
Der. thinking, intelligent people who know him
VIII never, as long rs the sun shines, put him
down as either fool or hypocritc.-LN aya-
sofa Tablet
The Tablet is eminently correct. The
denunciations Of Mr.. Mills and Senator
Coke for the bold and manly stand they
have taken in this contest will be found
to have much of the boomerang principle
about them. Courses, like chickens, gen
orally come home to roost."
The city public schools will soon open and
unless radical change takes place for the bet
ter IL will be Il poor Investment of the peoplc' :
money Dallas Democrat.
/ That is another marked difference be-
tween village and "A city. Dallas has no
public schools worthy of the name while
Fort Worth points to hers with pleasure
and pride. They are not excelled by any
/ in the state.