Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-15
TEXAS TOPICS.
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Opinions aud Comments of the state Press.
OF All classcs u laborcrs the world has yet
| produced Il has not matched the Mexican
either In lazlness. nlthlncss or ircachery. we
| .pcak understnndingy of them, both IN Texas
! ,nd in their own country We worked thou.
sands OF them In building the Mexican central
railroad, and we worked them In the southern
part 0f this state, and On the borders OF IcNas
where they have been employed ns shepherds
and sheep shcarcrs. Their tran has bech
marked by raplnc, arson ana murder even
women have not escaped their bloOuy hhnus
when In search 81 plumbers and II wcrelbetter
to invoke the curse of the hsialic cholera 20
unr midst than 10 Import these hall Civilized
Latlns.--l sherman News.
without white or cOlored labor enough
TO secure the crop, the proceeds Of every
pound OF which Is absolutely necessary
to pluck Texas from her present financial
slough OF despond, the question naturally
arises, what are we going to do about its
let the crop or the grcasers goY
something's up. The Western Union and
Baltimore Il ohio Telegraph companies are
abusing each other. II all appears In the Asso'
ciatcd press dispatches which pass over the
Western Union wires. Don't you know there
l. something rotten In Denmark There IL
some lniqutylafoOt, and this seeming quarrel
l. intended a. a blind, Is Intended to cover NJ,
- Dallas journal.
The journal seems to take about the
same view OF the controversy that Tue
GAZErTE does-somc stock jobbery at
the bottom OF II. However, let them
quarrel, "whcn thieves fall out honest
men get their dues"
II the location of private poker rooms In Dnl
las were marked with red ink map of the city
would look like n sheet Of paper sprinklcd with
poscberry juice Houston Post
Has the Post man been up to Dallas
lately? From the assertions of the truly
plous papers of the Xroads The GAzErrE
had been led TO believe there had been no
gambling there since "the woods burned
over"
There In u great principle at stake In this pro.
hibtiun matter. We acknowledge that drunk.
cnncss Is n great evil, but there are other evils
just a. bad and some far worse. II Il Infinitely
more dangerous TO give the government 50
much power over the citizen that IL may pre-
scribe his diet, his drink and his apparel. II Is
time To call a halt In these matters We are go.
Ing too fur and too fast In this thing Waco
Examiner.
with but few exceptions the leading pa
pcrs of the state are declaring against To-
cal option as the question is being sprung
in the different localities.
Fort Worth Is pcgging away ON the Rio
Grandc railway, and IL asking the towns along
the line to come 10 time with the right way
and depot grounds. II takes a Little Giant
like the Fort tn handle two big railroad pro
jccts at the same time. III Fort worth wishes
20 assume the character and habilmcnts OF
GOliHh, Cleburnc will do It's best In the part OF
David. First, the Clcburnc Il COrsiCann rail
way; secondly, an oil mill, lee factory and
WOODEN milli ncNtly, Q railway to the great
southwest. These nrc the stones for Clcburnc's
sling Clcburnc Chronicle
Does the Chronicle mean to insinuate
that 1t proposes to help clay out" Fort
Worth, as David did Goliah' If so 1t had
better provide itself with different kind
of Il "slng." Throwing pebbles won't
do It.
Abilene Is dlstrcssmgly healthy Our physi-
clans have felt blue and threatened to appeal
for the repeal of the health ordinance. An un-
dertak cr's establishment has closed It's doors
and departed for some moro inviting Held, and
now the marble. yard and tombstone establish.
mcnt has broken up and made ready for de
parturc, The city Is too healthy for such an
establishment to hOurish-l Abilene Reporter.
Send them over to Dallas. With her
daily murders and suicides every under
taker in the city is getting rich and there
is plenty of room for more.
Nero fddlcd while Rome was burning, and
now Mr.. Cleveland Is lQallng while Democrats
arc starving, Mt. Pleasant News.
Democratic otlicc-Seckcrs are not all
paupcrs, neither are they starving. A
man who is not sclf-supporting is not
worthy OF an office.
The Texas land board is liable TO protest too
much Galveston News.
They have protested that they won't hit
back. Now turn over the chip and let
the bug out.