The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-09-03
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"aoD HELP TIIg DEMocRAoY.'


Mills and Coke say, In substance,
thtt citizen cannot bo q good Demo
| ORBIT and loo temperance man. IL we
nIhst accept these so'callod statesmen
AZ party oracles. lot us eXolslm, in our
Anguish OF spirit. "GOd held tho De-
niQerseyw-lCalvert Courier. -
4 PROHIBITION AND BARBED WIRE.
The prohibition question la Texas Is
like DaIbsd wire fence. No matter
which side a fellow strikes 10 on ne
will get stuck. Barney Gibbs and
Judge Reagan are trying To straddle
y and ara stuck, but Coke, Mills and
Ross keep pushing their political
heads against tho barbs.-l PItlsburg
| Gazette,
COKE AND MILLS STILL HERE.
Some OF tho prohibition papers arc
Cussing Coke ana Mills black and blue,
and have about exhausted their stock
OF profanity. They will have to lay in
| new supply OF cuss-words. AT last
accounts Coke and Mills were still in
this State, and have not yet shaken tho
| dust OF tho Lono Star from their feet.
l-[MaIlin Ball.
"oNLY BLUFFISo."
1.-THE Galveston News don't soon eX-
pose the crookednoss of the land
board, now IL has been promised i'm
| munity from n damage suit for so
| doing, We shall have TO Join the
| mighty throng who think the News
doesn't know anything 10 toll, and
WAS only bluiliug 10 got q horse on tho
libel law Alvarado Bulletin.
SAN ANTONIO AND THE ARKANSAS PASS
RAILROAD.
San Antonio does not cut much fig.
ure in the Texas pooling arrangement,
| 30 far US cotton 10 concerned, but as
oh N IN
ION for her trade supremacy, she can
appreciate what little benefit she did
get In the deal. The Arkansas Pass. road
10 OF these days Will give her the key
aud the advantage OF the whole South
western situation.-lSan Antonio
Light.
"CoKE's DEMOCRACY"
Coke's Democracy has never been
questioned. He has tho reputation OF
being ono of the most liberal, Deep
thinking and brainest men in the
United States senate. Everyone with
| AN unbiased mind knows that Richard
Coke is no demogogue. Yet there arc
some crossroad politicians and country
papers hurting this epithet at him.
Such bosn!-[Bryan Enterprise.
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs AND TOBACCO.
The Kansas prohibitionists have be-
gun war on tobacco. They demand
that it be proceeded against as whisky
WAS. What will DO the next thing
they will prescribe as curse? They
propose to go on with the war until ali
useless and destructive agents are
prohibited. The next crusade will be
on tea, coffee and other luXuries and
necessities of life.-[Greenville APP
peal,
THE NEWS AND THE LAND BOARD.
The Galveston News persists in be-
sDirching Governor Ireland and the
land board, and writes sophistry for
logic, inuendo for accusation and nom
committal generalities for defense and
conclusion. The course of the News
IN assailing the land board, and re-
fusing to take up the gauntlet cast at
its feet by the resolution of the board,
can hardly be appiauded or even OK,
cused, by even The Meridian Blade.
-[Glen Rose Citizen.
PROHIBITION AND DEMOCRATS.
The Age is opposed to prohibition by
law of the sale of Intoxicating liquors
OUT it does not regard the question rs
constituting at present a parry issue ia
Texas, and opposition TO prohibition a
Democratic me assure. IL is of the opin-
ion that man may favor prohibition
and still be good Democrat. For in
stauo-, Judge Siias Hare tayors pre-
hihiLIou in GaaYson county. But
nobody thinks Of driving Judgs Hare
,ous of the Democratic party Hous-
ton Age.
GIBBS AND LOCAL OPTION.
THE DALLAS HERALD tninks Gibbs
may have spoken out too boldly on the
local option and prohibition question,
tor politician. Not bit of it. Peo
pie admire men Of pronounced views
and somehow Gibbs is good deal
a nd a oil al
says Just the right thing when he dis
cusses public matters. In the heat Of
a local option contest Gibbs position
may not altogether please either eX.
treme, but they will be endorsed by
the Democratic party.-ICleburne
Chronicle.
THE LIQUOR TAX.
Suppose prohibition should be adopt
ed all over the State, and the amount
of the present liquor taxes should
have TO De made up by other taxation,
that will not bring in at least 10 times
as much as it pays In occupation
taxes, and the people of the State could
better afford to annually pay $626,9O0,
the amount of the last annual con-
puted liquor tax, than they can afford
to pay annually at least ten times that
much, or 5000, 900 for whisky. More
could be written on tuis subject, but
this article is already long enough.
Williamson County Sun.
THE FIRSTs BALE OF COTTON.
That it ia better to have one good |
town in county than half dozen |
small ores is proved by the facts con-
nected with Keufman's first bale. la |
Kaufman it brought IL cents psr
pound, the same bale was shipped to |
Dallas and sold for 81 cents per pound. !
This shows what one good town will |
do tor the farmers. 1t Is not the smell |
town, but the large cities that give
him d market for his grain and pro-
duce. II is the city of Dallas that |
makes Dallas county one of the
wealthiest in the State. And 1t is the |
city of Dallas that enables the Dallas \
county farmers to realize the highest |
price for all their farm products. 1t is
much better to have one city in a |
county than dozen villages Terrell |
Times.
FENCE CUTTING.
The Gazette expects fence-cutting to
DO stopped In the county ,and. that sum-
If it Is not, we wouldn't give |