The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-03
STATE PRESS.
coxH AND TIE PsrAcurRs.

COKE AND THE PeEScHtRs.
We may not be compe,ent iuice.
yet IL 10 our opinion that Senator Coke
hiss shown himself TO be dcmogogicsl
In some OF his utterances recently on
prohibition. For instance, in his
speech at Waco just before the cleo
ton there, IN reply TO Rev. Dr.. Car
roll, he said: "If your preachers go
into politics scourgs them back" In
other words Senator Coke would have
preachers deprived OF the right to take
part in politics jus, because thew ara
preachers. Just as we'll mipht Won do.
privs u preacher OF his risht 10 vote.
Whether prohibition Is right or wrong
preachers have as many political and
civil rights as Senator Coke has.
Coke's attack on the rights OF preach
ers Is his greatest mistake. We are not
going to argue the prohibition CUES.
ton in this article further Than
to try TO show that the preach
ers have a right to discuss the
question. They have the same
right as a citizen that any man or
class of men in the United States
have, IL politics are too filthy ana
unclean for preschers, then Senator
Coke ought TO 20 ashamed OF the com
pany he keeps. Prohibition NAV he
und6mocratic, but that does not maka
1t wrong altogether. Whisky is an
acknowledged evil, and ara not tee
preachers and the churches the proper
ones 20 fight evil? 1t is not sxpeoted
of them? We think so. Suppose than.
DIR. Carroll had made a whisky speech
and canvsssed McL,nnan county
against prohibition? What would the
world have said about him? Why the
drunkest man in Texas would have
pronounced him hypocrite. The
churches would have denounced and
the whisky men would have Kissed
him. Carroll did right to "tsckle" The
question. He did right to "tackle''
Coke. 1t became his calling and in
worthy Of him. Preachers are ex-
pectsd to attack evils and vices of al
Kinds ana because they do it does not
make the evil right, Democratic nor
constiSutional.-l Pittsburg Gazette.
CAPITAL AND POPULATION WANTED,
We want population and capital.
There is no bstter timber in the world
than in Texas to graft upon 1t fresh
blood OF oil the first-class races, The
present stock OF Texas comes from the
cavaliers OF England, the very flower
OF ehlvalry, and its exposure to west
ern pioneer life has not impaired it's
splendid attributes, but any race, by
1ntermarriage, may lore the perfection
OF woman and manhood, and degen-
crate Ia time 1t IT is not crossed by
some other blood. Texas has been
gettlng more emigrAnts and better
class from the Old Wsrld than ali the
other States combined, and a. these
manila frnnr
come int the State and raise fsn1iliea.
into the native - old n SsvSiiess
stock. We are thus minuling IN the
veins OF the growing youths of the
land the beat blood Of the old world,
and have thus the PROMISE of the finest
manhood in existence. We need even
more than We got OF these people, and
Dy concerted effort there are means
that could be availed OF to obtain Scan
olnav1an colonies with wealth, or COM
paratlvely wealthy, heads of families,
10 bntld up and develop all the splen-
0ld resources, agricultural and manu-
featuring, ia this State, that equal5, in
area and capacity, IAN empire. We need,
700, the large capital thSt is locked up
IN our Northern banks. II could be
invested hsre at much larger per
cent',and iuat as saoure as in the East.
Ihsss are 0ur needs, ard we ought to
acopt inaans by which they could be-
come known ali over the wCrld.-TAus.
lin Statesman.
PROHIBITION.
The Ball is not struck with the idea
OF nigh licanse ~ @ substitute for pro-
hlbltlon. We are in favor OF throwing
Al the necessary restrictions around
the sale OF liquor, but high license, as
That term is usually understood, is, in
our opinion, not tho best. High
license, perhaps, works well In large
cities, where 1t has the effect of wiping
out the low doggeries, but In small
towns 1t would throw the retail LIQUOR
sale into the hands of one or two men,
causing tendency toward monopoly,
rne present license on saloons
In this State is high
enough, amounting to 5000 Der
annum, county, State and municipal.
We are In favor of 50 regulating the
sa!e OF whisky that the saloon where
1t is sold shall be deprived of its many
attractions and allurements. The
great cry of the prohibitionists IL
against tho saloon and its evil in
nuences, aud when that Is removed we
think the people will bs satisfied. The
passage Of q law forbdding the play
ing OF games, music, etc., in saloons
would prove a good Jaw. All geady
furniture, fixtures, and everything
tnat goes to make up q gilded palace
SHOULD not be allowed, and when that
1sdone the saloon 10 robbed OF all It's
attractions TO the public. They can
amply go there and get drink of
whisky, with no other inducemsnt TO
Keep them there Marlin Ball.
SAM RANDALL,
There can be no objection to Mr..
handsii as chsirman or the appropri-
atlons committee, although he might
DC a rank protectionist. - DALLAS
HERALD.
There are but two other positions In
which Mr.. Randall could be more OBJ
jectionable, one IN in the speakers
chair, and the other the Craftsmanship
efthe ways and means committee. As
head OF the appropriation committee
ne controls the AIcbimedean lever
that moves the House At will. There
10 no bill that comes before that body
which may not be crushed by tho lit
tie finger Of the man who holds the
nations purse strings. He has al
ready once too often foiled the party in
the line OF Its distinctive policy, and
toplace In his hands the identical
weapon with which he wrought his
FORMER treason, IL to court discomilt-
ure and failure. When will our DEM
ocratio leaders learn wisdom?-[Cam-
eron Herald.
COUNTY ROADS.
10 work roaus by taxation soema TO
US TO be- the most feasible plan. In
this section Of Texas, especially, 1t sp
pears to DO the only plan. The effect
Q! the present road law Is to give some
oithe largest property owners the ben.
emit OF the labor of tha workingmap for
nothing. The land OF the nonresident
owner Is enhsnced Ia value by every
days work done on the roads, and
still 1t costs him nothing. And
another preposterous exemption IL
tnat OF mon over 10 years of age. This
silly provision of the law In enough to
condemn 1t, II there were any good
features in 1t. There should BIO no ex.
omptions from road duty. The man
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