The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-07
EwS OF THE PRESS.
! THE IMPENDING QUESTION
Prohibition and Local option-rAsir
Legality, Their Expediency and
Their Possible Fates-Demo-
crate Disagreeiag as TO
Samptusry Laws.
To SPLIT us RaTrnM

the Democratic party Is too thin, They
are only trying TO kick the heads out
OF tho whisky barrels.-ICalyert Con.
sentative.
GIBBS Is ALL RIGHT,
1t will not sorter DO to swallow ev-
erything said by Barnett Gibbs on tho
prohibition question, yet it must be-
admitted that his views on the subjset
are more conservative and statesnian-
like than those expressed by either
Mills or Coke, or both of theni.-fBos-
Que Blade.
KEEP IT OUT or POLITICS.
1t Is our candid opinion that the
Democratic party would Go well to let
the prohibition party severely alone,
1t will do theparty no good 10 antag-
Onizs the prohibition element, beca use
that element is growing, and may
some day, il it does not already, hold
the balances OF power between the two
great political parties. Keep prohibit
ton out ofpolitics and the Democratic
party is good Tor a reign of q quarter
OF century.-IGllmer Mirror.
POLITICAL KNow-NoIHINGs.n
The Waxahachie Enterprise last
week reproduced a large number OF
clippings from various sources in
w lGAAS
Democracy has to Say About Coke and
Mills" There is not Reproduction
in the whole column, however, that
did not come from mau or paper
whose principle is to stick 10 rrohibi.
ton oven though Democracy be
crushed ont Of existence By it, Still
they are called Democrats. The facts
in the case are, there arc none of them
Democrats, but are set of political
know-nOthings and do-nothipgs,
afraid to come out and take 8 stand
Ennis Recorder.
THAT'S WHAT MAKES 1T INTERESTING,
Prohibition Is on boom il anything
was eyer on boom. All our OK
changes, including THE DALLAS HER
AID and Galveston News, are full of
letters from"Vox Populi," "Freedom,' -
"Liberty," Democracy" and ali the
rest. Every editorial writer and par.
agrtpber in tho State is having his say,
Inc politicians, statesmen, preachers,
cranks and idiots ali take hand.
some are on one side and some the
other--thapa what makes it interest
1ng-and the final result will DO tina,
the smiling barkeeper will have 10 no
1t will 90 late in the afternoon when
some people quit drinking whisky and
such like, when 1t can be had any Way
under the sun, but the bar-rooIn viii
surely go-it is only o question OF time
-[Texas Mesquiter,
WHO'S, SIR; YES SIR, WINGS SIR,
Coke WIS bora and raised Wing
Came TO Texas Wing, of tho Adams
Hamilton school; and now no pirates
about his Jetfersonian Democracy
and wants to read prohibition Demo
Gratis out OF the party if they DON'T
JON the whisky ring! Bolton Re
porter.
Il ID quite unlikely tDat Senator
Coke has assumed tho role OF Demo
cratic pope. We have never heard o
any person against whom he has ig
sued bull OF accommodation Blu
we would suggest To our good friend,
the Reporter, Jnat when it has occasion
to refer 10 The Whig party it SHOULD
speak oft kindly, and say: SIT was q
grand party, in which honest men,
made an honost hight, for honest prin,
clples" Coke, MaXey, Mills and
many other OF the brightest Of our DO
lltical lights, were all Wings. We re-.
peat now what we have said before, in
the Age, If ali She old Wings wero Il
be driven from the Democratic party
in Texas good deal of the brains
would be driven from it, Houston
Age.
THAT RESOLUTION.
As for "tno platform and policy o.
the prohibition parry OF Texas IL il
en- heaced in the single resolution
nlha central executive committee o
the counties shall take such steps 81!
they d5em best TO get every candida,,
hn I.n~ tgl af ttr Il.
ing, pending tho canvass, in favor oil
submitting q constitutio nal amend
ment to vote OF the people," Inshort
they ask to DO allowed to test hi,
question at the allot.box-thst euC
nothing moro. AS for putting il into
politics, the Democratic party car
thank Coke, Mills, Reagan & Co.--they
did the work, IL 1t really is 10 DO 20
htical issue. Probibitionists have
made no war upon Democracy. Cal
Democracy say the same? IL is TO tht
Democrats OF Texas that prohibitions
lists plead, and have plead, for tina
which the constitution guarantees &c
them, and which from time immemo
rial has boon the very foundation o.
Democracy-a Tree vote. 10 10 not pro
hibition that they demand, but Tho
the people Of Texas DO allowed to cas-
th0ir vote upon "prohibition" or "nI
prohibition" We can 500 nothing alb
surd, unreasonable, or undomOcrati,
IN this Marshall Messenger.
PROHIBITION AND TAXATION,
In McLonnan county tho llquol
dealers pay tho State and county SIS,
eD per annum, occupation aud nd val
0rem tax. Cut of this revenue anC
the deficiency will have TO DO made NJ
from other sources. And WHAT'S that
The Taxpayers pockets. Reflect o.
what you are doing, Taxpayers
-IWsco Day.
or course. Look at tho matte
through financial glasseg. The Da'
would indicate by the above paragraph
that tho taxpayers can only be- ia
Huencod by money considerations
and that they can DO frightened int
voting 10 continue nuisance and
moral and social curse by holding u
the soarecrow OF heavy taxation be
fore their eyes. or course tho add
tional tax OF Sl.50 on the thousand o
taxable property should outweigh ey
cry other consideration. Should prohi
bition fail 10 check crime and lltigatio
altogether, tho tax could not exceed
that. What bugbear! Whonc
comes this money that tho LIQUOR dea
ers pay, to swell so grandly tho fund
in the treasury Out of tho pockets {
tho taxpayers, II You pleas,
Mr.. Day; and about thre
tlmes as much more come
out Of the Same pockets TO pay the eS
pense OF the endless litigation cause
by tho use OF whisky, and threo time
a. much moro TO pay for the pianos
viollns, billiard. tables, French. plat
mirrors, electric lights, silyer.pla,
and other ornaments, not omitt,ux tn
diamond breatp pin OF tho saloonis
that lure young men from paths Of vii
tue into those doad-falls OF lrfetrlovt
bic ruin. y tho pockots OF the tax
payers arc suffering now, but what 1
worse, moral degradation IL perpet,,
stod by it'll Hamilton Herald.
ALL THAT ~ NEEDED,
The prohibitiOnists disregard all "a
principles ana pnssions OF human n.
ture by attempting TO forcb total abs,
nence upon men. Tho laws again,
theft, burglary, robbery and arson d
not mako men honest, but they III
honest from tho love Of integrity an