Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-16

ssWhite Cross" home OF the Women
Christian Temperance Union of Tex.
as. for fallen women. 1t is to be locat
ed at Garrett, at the junction of the
Hat. G. with the Waxahachie TAI
road. Any one desiring to know
more of the work before contributing
can correspond with her at Ennis.
The Waco Examiner was sold at
suction on Wednesday and was
bought in by the mortgage in
charge, Capt. J. E. Elgin. If Mr..
Edmonds is retained in charge as
editor he will do more to elevate the
tone of journalism than any writer
in Texas. His "kind words" column
will be far less nauseating and more
interesting and spicy, we weet, than
some of the papers.
The local immigration meeting
will be held at Eldridge hall this af-
ternoon at 8 o'clock, and will be an
important one, inasmuch as the size
of attendance and interest manifes-
ted at this meeting will effectually
determine whether or not Brennan
and Washington county are to be
identified with the state in the
movement or to receive their
fair share of the benefits.
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The dispatches state that there is
great excitement in Kentucky in an
ticipation of the abolition of internal
revenue on tobacco, and that as high
as 800 per acre rent is being offered
for lands to grow tobacco. There
was at one time great excitement
north in anticipation of the whiskey
tax, on which occasion John Sher-
man is alleged to have sent out en-
issaries to buy up all the whiskey.
To THE BAsTRoP BEE: Your advice
to 'fscoot our flute" is not necessary,
whatever it may mean. The BANNER
has no desire,,to make war on the Bee
or to do it injustice. And IN proof
of this admits that it was led to its
inference as to your position on the
homestead law by extracts of your
editorial from. the Advertiser, and
not the whole of it. We are agreed
that the law needs amendment, and
that badly.
CONGRESSMAN MILLS has recovered
from his slight indisposition and
has buckled down to hard work
again in the tariff committee. His
friends claim for him that his recent
display of temper in the House was
the natural result of being irritated
at the time from illness and indispo-
sition, This is probably the just
and correct as well as the charitable
view to take of it. mo one feels in
the most heavenly frame of mind
when sick.
The Gazette says that every wage
worker in Fort Worth ought to be-
long to building association. That
is sound wisdom and will apply to
the entire country. If working men
would avoid saloons and drop their
pennies occasionally into such en-
terprises they would soon become
interested property holders, and
there would be few strikes and labor
disturbances, as they would be con-
fined to the dissipated, improvident
and shifting class of agitators who
are not bound by any such interest.
TIE BANNER is in receipt of the
prospectus of the Brentwood APP
peal, which is to be an eight-page,
six-column weekly journal, and will
be issued the first OF March by
Major S. G. Spann, of this city. The
major is capable of making sue
cess of it if anybody can, for he is a
polished, vigorous writer, possesses
experienced ability, and by natural
requirements and habit knows how
to conduct the business in manner
to elevate the tone of journalism and
to enlarge its usefulness in society
as well as business circles.
ORDINARILY no honest man will
plead the statute of limitations. It
seems, however, to be the favorite
resort of the republicans. When
Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
showed up old Bill Chambers civil
service reform record as a black
mailer and collector of forced contri-
buttons from department clerks for
campaign purposes, he pleaded. that
that was in 1878; and when Senator
Kenna, of West Virginia, showed up
John Sherman the other day as the
champita of the law authorizing the
importation of pauper labor under
contract, he pleaded that that was
many years ago.
ATLANTA tipplers are signing for
the good old days of prohibition.
Not only has the license been placed
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