The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-13

farce Hut We can hardly hlam"
The committee uniess they has" re
fused To H.. other attorneys appear
The committee did bar Coz Bsil
Crawford aud Judge Etheridse Of
Dallas. without legitimate reason.
but there muse DC other lawyers who
could bc secured
The Pass nm.
The ire. pass bill IL being discuss
ed In both houses. and each sill
doubtless pass a bill but the TWO
houses will have a hard time agree
ing on one.
The undeselop.d condition Of
Texas makes free transportation pos
titiveiy necessary in immigration
work. u is also necessary "a an aid
to the hundreds OF small newspapers
that are. more than anything else.
missionaries in popping a new coun-
try
To cut off The free transportation
used IN emigration work in Texas, 20
stop development OF our enormous
natural resources. because some poi
iticians get free passes and use them
for political purposes would b. IKE
cutting off the head of man TO
stop his cough. The trouble is in
dividing line or making constitu-
tional law with dividing line.
Prohibiting G. q. ID. Shipments OF
Liquor.
The bill providing $4,000 license
for each express office has been pass
ed and presented to the governor FOR
MS signature. This will certainly
stop C. o. D. shipments OF intoxlcat-
ing liquors into local option districts
and the money win ere long be re-
uuired in advance when booze is
wanted in the prohibited districts.
These c. O. d. shipments have
made conditions IN local option
| towns worse than when open saloons
I were permitted as the large profit
in the rectified and adulterated
whisky has enabled solicitors to
| make good salaries, on the other
hand, the beer men not being able
to adulterate their goods, and make
ten gallons out OF one, could no
send out solicitors, because OF tbs
small profits and people in the loca
option districts who ordinarily drink
beer containing very small amounts
of alcohol, have been forced TO drink
"rot-gut' This condition has caused
the drinking of more alcohol than
when open saloons flourished and as
the alcohol is the ingredient that
makes drunkenness and inflames the
mind, damage to the body and in
centive to crime have been on the
increase.
If we look at the liquor question
from a rational standpoint, we can
see at glance that liquors contain
less dangerous and more conducive
TO health than those containing large
amounts.
Fully ninety per cent of our habit
of drinking arises from the social IN
stinct and men always drink too
much when socially drinking. The
size of the stomach is the only limit
TO the libations of some men. and II
it is filled with whisky. half OF which
is alcohol. much more detrimental
results will follow than If filled with
beer. only one twenty-fifth OF which
is alcohol. In order TO encourage the
sale of liquors with small amounts
of alcohol. scientific legislation
graduates the taX according 20 the
proportion of alcohol. We do this IN
Texas. charging 4 less TAX for the sale
of beer with { per cent alcohol than
for whisky with 50 pr cent and IN
south and west Texas among the
German settlements. whisky ~ rare
Is sold in the small towns. The whis-
Ks dealers who Will be knocked out
of a large amount OF lucrative trade
b, the enactment OF IN. &. o. ID. law