The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-30
GENERAL PRESS.
THE rooR INEBRIATEs.

not and still have 10 inebr1ate asylum.
The same trouble exists in Mass achu-
sets, but the lawmakers Of that State
have flanked it by authorizing the
commitment of habitual drunkards to
the lunatic asylum hospital. If the
Judge before whom the drunkard is
examined is satisfied that he is of good
character but is dipsomaniac, he
commits him to the lunatic hospital,
where he is kept until it is considered
safe for him to be discharged. The
theory of the law is that inebriety is
disease. But while there is no inebri-
ate asylum in Massachusetts,, there is
a penal reformatory for ordinary
drunkards. Under the State law a
t'simple drunk" as it is called, ia fined
not exceeding S. and costs, or impris-
onment in the reformstory for 30 days.
For the third offense person Insy be
sent up for two years, subject to re-
lease on a ticket of leave, when he 10
thought to be reformed. II he fails to
keep sober he may be returned 10 the
reformatoEy. The Massachusetts, eX-
pertinent viii be watched with inter
est Georgia Constitutionalist.
THE GAME OF FOOTBALL.
College dudes are not the persons to
raise very just objections to football
as il has been recently played; the
real directors are persons not whit
more feminine than those who play
the ''manly game" themselves. Th2t
il is brutal can not be denied by any
one who watches il or who reads the
list OF accidents which arc credited to
it every season. If game be not bru-
tai in which the participants break
legs, arms, ribs and heads; and in
which throttling and collisions are
FREQUENT, then what is it? The fact it,,
Professor Richards has not brought
forward single argument in justih
cation of football which might not,
with equal fitness, be applied TO prize
fighting, which requires, whether with
or without brass snuckles, in pugil-
list the 'fearlessness, GOODNESS and
quick thinking which makes 1t be-
You'd all others a manly game" Even
in England, where football Is rarely
or never played with the ferocity
which marks the New Haven variety
of the game, leading newspapers have
recently been advising change.
MARRIAGE LAW BLUNDERs.
The Philadelphia newspapers ridi-
Guile the Marriage License bill re-
Gently enacted in that State, and it ia
evident that the measure Is ono Of the
worst specimens Of legislative blum
dering in matters affecting marriage.
The enactment declares that "no per-
son shall be joined in marriage until a
license shall have been obtained for
that purpose from the CLERK Of the Or
phans' Court addressed "to any min
lister Of the gospel, Justice Of the peace
or other officers or persons authorized
by law to sOlemnize marriages" but
proceeds TO provide that q marriage
may be accomplished without q Ii
cense, minister or magistrate by the
contractors procuring "declarationN
from The clerk Of the Orphans Court
and then marrying themselves. A
marriage il valid even without the
declaration" but there is fine Of $50
for marrying without g license, and
ministers and magistrates who OH
ciata at q marriage without enguiring
for the License for the union suffice.
themsel yes to a fine Of 800. The Led
ger says: "Tho bill is a WretChed piece
of workmanship, Characteristic OF the
Legislature, y New York Mail,
THE INDIAN QUESTION,
Humanity naturally revolts at the
barbarous practices OF the red men IL
war, and the patriotism and intellt
gence OF tho country bitterly condemn
all outbreaks Of Violence and Insured
ton against peace and civil order. But
In dealing with the Indian tribes O
the West, common philanthropy il
bound 10 recognize as also deserving
of redress and punishment the wrongs
which late administrations have per
mitted to DO perpetrated upon Indian
rights. Indian outlaws and murder
ers should be punished with swift auC
unsparing Justice, but the outrage!
prac tiCed upon the Indians by govern
menC agents, land-grabbers aud post
traders, which incite the saYages U
violence, ought also TO bring upou thel
perpetrators the lash Of Justice. Boil
Glasses of wrongs should DO visited will
approprlat oseyerity, as both are out
RACES upon the people and the govern
ment. Tho Cheyenne outbreaks sale
TO have been provoked by eecroach
ments OF the cattle ranchmen upoi
their land reservations. The Cheyenn
lands comprise about i,279,000 acres
and 100000 acres are already covere,
by the claims of cattlemen, larg
part OF which has been secured b,
fraud and intimidation. II Is a result
of these land qusrrels that 1000 /
1900 Cheyenne warriors are on tn
warpath, ana that q force OF 5000 cav
alrymen has been demanded 10 sup
press the revolt. The progress of set
element and civilization in that quar-
ter has been thus brought 10 pause
and the security Of small settlers hs
been compromised on account of diI
.trbfak lutn 10
probably have prevented by removin
the causes OF provocation,-[L ouisvill
Courier Journal.
SELLING oLEoMARGARGNE.
The Court of Appeals OF New Yor
mas declared the law prohibiting tn
manufacture or sale OF oieomargarir
unconstitutional, reversing the judl
ments OF the lower courts. The rel
dering Judge holds: A citizen has
right to make any pure and Who'll
some article of food and sell it {,
what It actually is, and it is immateri
what lawful use shall be made of
afterward, If amRn Is too poor to bu
good butter, ! see no objection to h
using oil, cheese or honey, or al
other substitute for butter. q law pr
hibiting tho making of an iron RAJ
to be used es substitute for ono ma
entirely OF wood could be passed wi
Just the same legal effect as law pl
vidiug that oleomargarine should n
be made TO no used as a substitute /
butter.
The point of the decision is that
man has a right TO manufacture an 1
itation of anything, provided he SO
IL for what IL is, and that tho l4egis
ture exceeds its powers In denyi
him that right. The decision is pr
ably sound enough, but in declari
the law unconstitutional the PEG
are left without any protection, a
bogus butter and other edulterat
food viii flood the markets again. |
In effect the State now has no law
regulate the subject.-Iomahs Hera
THE CROPS,
The present crops of the south hi
been cultivated az the smallest c
ever known. The average cost Of =
ductiou of pound of q
ton or sugar during lSSl.S5 has c
tainly been less than during any OF
year since the war. Tho prices of
articles Of food, of all the supplies,
PIGMENTS, ETC., needed on the farm
phenomenally low at present. Ora
pork, mules, plows, etc., even LAT