Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Sam, the states of this union want
none of his charity; they are abund-
antly able to take care of themselves.
7 SwGNBuRNE in recent issue of a
London magazine takes the ground
that Darwin wrote Tennyson's poems,
and it is hard to see where all this
foolishness is going to end.
The entire Texas delegation in
congress are opposed to the Blair
educational bill, and it can safely
be said that in each case they rep
resent vast majority of their CON
stituency.
THE prevalence of smallpox all
along the line of the Southern Pacific
railway in California promises to
knock the further progress of that
states big immigration SCENE in
the head
The plaintiye song in regard to The
Sunny South will have to be ma
terially revised, if the frost king
makes habit of visiting this cline
and asserting his sway as he has
done of late.
| Hon. JAS. RUSSELL LowELL's
speech, in which he eulogized Cleve-
land at the banquet of the Tariff
Reform club at Boston recently, is
wormwood and gall to the republi-
cans, They cant get over It,
The Houston Post says that one
of the patients in the state insane
asylum of Indiana eats grass
and chews cud like an OK. He is
probably distant relative of King
Nebuchadnezzar, of Babylon.
JUDe1SG from John Sherman's
scheme to get rid of the surplus in
the treasury and one or two other
idiotic acts of his, there is ground
for gravely apprehending that he is
a sufferer from softening the brain.
IT IS shame that set of dem
agogues can find their way to such
an exalted place as the United States
senate, and yet that is just what
those republican senators are who
oppose the confirmation of Lamar.
WERE system of paternalism es
tablished in the affairs of this GOV /
eminent, like the cry of the leeches
the eternal cry of '.give, give" would
be heard, and bitter jealousy and
hatred between the several states '
would spring up. t
IF anybody thinks that Richard s
Coke has diminished his grip on the
people of Texas, lett be emphasized ]
hat he is an issue when the people C
90 to elect the next legislature, and e
lis opponents might as well bury l
heir diminished heads. 7
JUDGE GUsTAvE Cook, of Houston,
las addressed communication to L
he Galveston News in opposition J.
@ the state immigration scheme. !,
There are some people in Texas Il
Who are beginning to look upon the y
udge as sort of hebetudinal crank.
le
No ONE who has stirred out of
Ioors the past two or three days
nd has..felt the slight touch of win u
er can but deeply sympathize with L:
he poor devils on the blizzard-rid- u
EN- plains of Kansas, where it is too a.
old to keep warm covered up head II
nd ears in bed. -
la
The protectionists appear to be in o,
n exceedingly bad way just at pres q q
mt. For the most part they are b.
onfned to the republican party, and 10
mere isn't that sweet concord of SEN 20
ment existing in the ranks which or
mere should be in order to give
lem any show. :,
The Oldest inhabitant put in an {,
ppearance at the BANNER Office on y,
and assured the editor 9e
nat, taking this and the recent Il,
spell of weather together, for ~,
,igidity his memory runneth not to Il,
ne contrary of any other spell to 90
latch or beat it. =,
New YORK has promise of BIZ
reeches suit in high life, Campbell co
:. Arbuckle. The defendant claims dc
nat he was always ready to per- 5: "a
,rm his part of the obligation, but ~
lat she, while wanting his money
id not desire to take him in the 70
argain. besides. III