Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-09

Entored as second class matter at Post Office
THE banner is in receipt of tn
annual report of the board of visit
ors to the United States Militar.,
Academy, with compliments of Geo
w. Childs, president of the board
TgE New York Sun attacks thu
trusts, and defends protection
system solely responsible for thu
greed and rapacity of the combines,
as they are its legitimate outgrowth
The manufacturers want free wool
and nobody blames them No othel
country taxes its raw materials. The
people want the woolmen and manu-
facturers both to look out for them
selves.
The cratic and eccentric earth
quake seems to have come to stay.
1t is now working up the New Eng
Ianders Giving them foretaste of
what they viii experience next No
vember, as it were
A CENSUS of all the carrier pigeons
In France has been ordered. and a
fine Of $500 is imposed for the fail
ure to report by persons owning
them Of such Importance are they
deemed in case of war.
The Gazette asserts that no town
In the state has yet claimed popu
lation up as high as fifty thousand
which.is an intimation to the boss
liars that this is a splendid opportu
nifty to get in their work.
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TowNsHEND, of Illinois, has intro
duced abill to place salt on the free
list. The rankest protectionistscan-
not deny the justice and right of
this proposition. Salt is absolutely
necessary to support human life,
TIE sober and dignifed Waco Day
has caught the infection and gone
into the booming business. Its edi-
torial paragraphs of late are much
shorter and ivelier and have con-
siderable of the "onto" flavor about
them.
The BANNER is in receipt of PAM
phlet on jute culture in Texas, and
is requested to announce that it
will be mailed free of charge to ey-
cry farmer, by addressing the
Neatherford Native Jute Company,
Weatherford, Texas.
THE executive committee of the
grand council of the Friends of
Temperance displayed excellent wis
dom in adopting a resolution re-
fusipg to commit the organization
to the third party prohibition move
ment. Politics has no business in
the order.
!. CRANFI1L has issued call for a
prohibition convention to nominate
a state ticket. Let those who attend
and participate in the proceedings
distinctly understand that by that
action they forswear their allegiance
to the democratic party and will have
no future claims on it.
UNCLE DAN'L shows the incon-
sistency of an exchange wLich de
votes over half column editorial to
a New York lawyer who attacked the
press, and which winds up by saying
that the papers ought not to pay any !
to him. "Sich" is life and !
''sichg is the difference twixt precept ,
and example. !
TIE House has passed resolu- l
hon to investigate the Reading rail !,
way strike. The BANNER is on gen !
eraI principles opposed to strikes, $
but believes that in this case where t
there is SO much dissatisfaction and C
agitation in labor circles, there must n
be some cause for it, and wants to
see the true inwardness exposed. :
ANTHONY CoMrsocK, agent of the h
society for the suppression of the n
andindecent in art andlitera :
ture, is making himself ridiculous, in
holding up prudery as virtue. Fail !,
ing to see anything beautiful or re- Il
fined in the Venus of Milo, he is en- L
gagged in attacking and trying to tt
have it suppressed in New York as =;
indecent and suggestive. n
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