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AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN. THURSDAY. JUNE 16 1887.
'DEATH TCH HE DEVIL"
Dr. Carroll's Deal Against Dram-Drinking.
The Dallas Piatt orm in Prohibition
Paraphrase.
The simple fact that so distinguished a
speaker as Rev. Dr. Carrol) who is ac-
credited with the paternity of prohibition
in Texas was billed to speak at Millett's
opera house was in itself enough to till
the house Saturday morning aud it was
full there or thereabouts as a guessing
clerk would say. It was a strong audienoe;
the ladies were in the majority to be sure
but there were men. -'at roll call" as well
and plenty of them. On the stage with
Dr. Carroll were the following named
prominent citizens: Col. T. V. Folts
Gen. W. R. Hanby Judge E. B. Turner
Thad. Thompson esq. Rev. Junius
Wilkins Dr. A.N. Denton Judge John C.
Townes of Georgetown; Judge J. B.
Rector John B. Gaff esq. Dr. 0. E.
Fisher Judge J. E. Thomas Rev. W.' A.
Shaphard General Hawthorne Rev. A.
Grant Mr. Scarborough of Waco and
others.
Dr. Morris introduced the speaker in a
few well chosen words and Dr. Carroll
appeared before his audience with ap
plause.
Tn his introductory remarks he thus
stated the obieot of his visit to Austin:
"Ladies and Gentlemen Allow me to
refer to the ocoasion of my presence la
your city to-morrow. Something more
than three months ago late in February
or nnite earlv in March as I recall the
time I received from Dr. Waggener
chairman of the faculty of the State uni
versity a notification that I had been
selected to preaoh the baccalaureate ser-
mon in connection with the commence-
ment exercises of that institution.
This high honor I did not feel at lib
ertv to decline. To iny interest in the
State university at once the pride of Aus-
tin and of Texas may be attributed the
fact of mv presence here at this time.
come to fulfill this engagement of several
month' standing.
One who has noted the prescience of
the founders of our republio in making
nrovlsion for this institution and who has
nhnnrved the developments by whioh that
prescience has become htstory and who
from that history as an outlook fore
casts with reasonable hope a grand
fruition of future good to accrue from
this institution will nnderstnnd why as a
Tann. I raav reioioe to visit our state
capital on such a mission.
Since however this appointment was
made and accepted there has arisen an
issue of great magnitude which now
lnrrrfilv absorbs Dublio attention ia this
o .r -
state.
My own connection with this issue is
known to all men.
Having been invited by your county
committee to deliver an address
on prohibition my only opportunity to
comply with that request is the present
time and this is why I am here to day.
Henoe while this address to-day is an
incident of my visit here and not the
oocasion of it I have not felt at liberty to
deoline your courteous invitation.
Dr. Carroll then entered upon Lis ar-
gument by disclaiming the necessity of
an amplified discussion of the question of
prohibition in Austin when it was so well
attended to at home. He laid his first
proposition on the bed rock of assertion
that "the origin of the idea of the sup-
pression of the liquor traflio is ex-
clusively American." Ha said that among
the jews thousands .of years ago ideas
were prevalent on the subject of temper-
ance. The doctrine of the Koran also
taught a vague and indefinable lesson
upon the same topio and in other conn-
tries there were some laws to the same ef-
feot but prohibition as the idea of re-
ssrioting a trafftj in liquor was purely
Amerioan. It was not only American but
it was southern. It was Cavalier and not
Puritan. One hunred years before Jef-
ferson sLrned the Declaration of Inde
pendence the colony of Virginia put into
their organio law a simon pure prohibi-
tion olanse. Dr. Carroll then entered
into what was the chief part of the arga
ment of his speech a proof by reading
from Jefferson's work that '"Jef-
ferson had been taken body and
soul from the anti-prohibitioriists." Dr.
Carroll boasted that sinoe he was four or
ten years old (the reporter did not oatch
his words exaotly and does not desire to
misrepresent him) he had been a student
of Jefferson but he had laid him aside at
fifteen and had not had oocasion to refer
to him again in a critical way until this
question had coma up. He then set in to
read from the letters of the distinguished
Jefferson and he fired squid after squid
from his printed slips all to show that
Jefferson like every other sensible man
was a good prohibitionist!
The good dootor read from letters of
Jefferson just as much as suited his pur-
pose and talked handsomely on the
selections which he made. He brought
the sage's letters to the poor Indians and
the deal of point tnat was maae
. upon Thomas Jefferson's In-
dian prohibition policy was
simply magnifique. Between elaboration
of the idea that prohibition was American;
that it was southern; that it had its
birth in Virginia; that it was Cavalier and
not Puritan between these points and
the establishment by excerpts from Jeffer-
son that that good old gentleman was
a red-hot and rampant prohibitionist
the doctor consumed the greater part of
his time. He however took time enough
to pay his respects to a few of the side
issues and in the course of his argument
to declare himself aliberalist. He charged
Judge Gus Cook with having said at
Waoo in his speech there that no
man could be a prohibitionist and b Chris-
tian gentleman at the same time. He did
not think so and he would not say su of
the anti-prohibitionists because it would
not be true. He believed there were num-
bars of anti-prohibitionists who were good
Christians.
Concluding his speech the doctor read
the following clever pariphrase on the
platform of the Dallas convention:
"We shall never see its like again !"
Yes fellow citiaens when in after ages
the antiquarian shall brush the
moldering dust from its crumbling tomb-
stone in order to decipher on the' inscrip-
tion the name of its author he may well
strike a funeral attitude and thus apos-
trophize this immortal document:
It is fallen ! We may now pause before
that splendid prodigy which towered
among us like some ancient roin whose
power crucified the politicians its mag-
- niflcence attracted.
Grand gloomy and peculiar it sat upon
the throne of platforms a sceptered non-
deecript wrapped in the solitude of its
own originality. A platform democratic
republican and independent; a platform
blue as the skies and black as Africa; a
platform thnt distances competition in
uniqueness and pliable to every touch of
interest marked the outlines of this ex-
traordinary document the most extraor-
dinary perhaps that in the annals of this
world ever rose or reigned or foil.
Flung into the arena in the midst of an
agitation that Quickened every energy of
convention which acknowledged no
party obligations it commenced its course
a stranger by suggestion an orphan by
birth and may be styled a scholar oy
charity.
With no authority but its word ana no
fortune but Anheuser's it rushed into the
lists where truth honor and patriotism
had arrayed themselves but the people
fled from its embrace as from theglauoeof
a pestilence.
It knew no motive but interest; ac
knowledged no criterion but success; it
worshipped no God but Mammon ana
Bacchus and with an eastern uevunuu jv
knelt at the shrine of its adolatry.
Subsidiary to this there was no oreea
that did it not profess; there was no
opinion that it aia not pruiumgow
In the name 01 mustang grapes i uyumu
thn distillery: for the sake of sour mash
it bowed before a DiacKDerry ousuj me
orDhan of St. Louis it claimed to be the
niinnted child of Texas; and with a par
U ... - i i a I iL
ricidal ingratitude on tne sname ui uum
HnmnnmU and reDublicans it reared the
throne of alcholio despotism.
A professed democrat it pilloried C-oke;
a pretended republican it repelled Cuney
and in the name or uenerson it grtispvu
without remorse and shook without shame-
the Hamiltonian hand of Aroh Cochran.
The whole state shook with laugh
ter at the mendaoity of its designs
and
tion
LIQUOR LEGISLATION.
Views of a Presbyterian News-
paper of Michigan.
From the Chicago Interior.
The following is a history of prohibi-
tory legislation in Michigan bince 1875
tor which we are indebted t. a corres-
pondent of the Chioago Tribune:
Michigan since 1850 has had what was
intended to be a prohibitory constitution
article 4 section 47 reading:
The legislature shall not pass auy act
authorizing the grant of license for the
sale of ardent spirit or other intoxi-
cating liquors.
The legislature pass laws prohibiting
such sale and imposing a fine from $25
to $ 100 on all violators of the law. Up to
1875 when this law was repealed it was
about as dead as the law against profanity
now is. Everybody who wished to sell
liauor provided himself with a United
States license and sold all he could for
twenty-four hours a day and seven days in
a week. Only onoe in a great while wa a
man arretted for selling liquor.
In 1875 the legislature passed a law tm
posing a tax on liquor sellers:
Tmvullnir nalnamen (drummers'. Der vear S3IM
Ketail Belle a i-
bailers at wholesale 8U0
Malt brewed and fermented liquors:
TravilinssaleBmeo. ner vear SIM
Ketail sellers
Sellers at wholesale 1W
Persons who paid a tax on spirituous
liauor were not required to pay an addi
tional tax for selling malt brewed and
fermented liquore. The drummer paid
his tax to the state treasurer and obtained
reoeiDt. whioh. on demand he had to
olerk agent and servant are equally
liable with the principal.
Financially th law has been a success.
The money collected has generally been
expended for police streets ana other
corporation expenses. This has some
times been enough to pay all the running
expenses of a village. This year the vil
lage of St. Joseph has levied no property
tax the liconse money paying for all the
xpenses. The population aud the prop-
:ty of the btate have largely increased;
but the number of saloons has actually
decreased as will be shown by the follow
ing table:
Year. No. saloons
!r4 6.444
1ST3 4HKI
lSVti 4(ir
isrr a.wni
ltTN 4-.1
1ST!! 42!Hi
1SS0 8700
1KS1 8M
show to any police officer.
Thinking there would be some aouht as
to the constitutionality of this act the
the miraole of their execu- legislature provided for submitting to the
Skepticism oowea to tae pruuigies people a repeal or tne constitutional pro
of its declarations; romance assumed the vision which prohibited lioensing the sale
air of history in its allegations nor was 0f intoxicating liquors; ana in JNOvemDer
tWb nncrHit too incredible for belief or
too fanciful for expectation when the
world 6aw a subaltern of Corsicana waving
the democratic flag at the head of the
shouting columns of its ancient enemies.
1876 by the popular vote that section was
repealed. The law of 1875 also provided
that the whisky-seller snouia give a uouu
in the sum of not less than $1000 that he
would not sell to a minor a drunken per
All the platforms of antiquity become Ann. a. nerson who was in the habit of get-
commonplace beside this. It matters ting drunk or to any person to whom he
little whether they were written in the Da(l been forbidden to sell. The bond re-
field or in the drawing room at the head quired payment of actual and txemplary
of a mob or in a levee amra an com- damages arising irom sucn saie uiu ui
parisons this platform stands unique
and unapproachable whether you
consider it as wearing a demooratio bon
net or a republican crown ostracising
Coke Reagan Maxey and Culberson or
espousing Melvin Wade. In this wonder-
ful combination its affectations of liberty
and temperance must not be omitted
The jailor and subsidizer of the press the
prosoriber of opinions the persecutor of
free speech ana theboycotter of trade the
incubator of rotten eggs it talks of "per
sonal liberty." The same watchword
is in the mouth of the anarchist
and a similar platform sheltered
the assassins of Haddock and
in the name of temperance seeks to fasten
the saloons forever upon a free people.
Such a medley of contradictions and at
the same time such a lack of consistency
were never before united in the same
platform. A democrat a republican and
an independent; a know-nothing a Cath
olic and a natron of the synagogue; a
Christian and an infidel and through all
its checkered contrarieties the same mys
terious incomprehensible document a
platform without a model and without a
shadow.
LEGAL TYROS.
The University Law Students Un
der Fire of Veteran
Practitioners.
The supreme oourt room was a scene of
animation and bustle .Friday morning
quite novel to that dignified place. The
cause of the unusual stir was the proposed
examination of over a score of University
students for admission to the bar
actual and exemplary damages arising
from any act whioh a person to whom he
sold liquor did while under tne innuonce
of the liquor.
In 1877 after the change in tne cuiisu
tntion. the law was re-enaoted and a pro
vision was made requiring tne wnisny
Beller to display in his place of business
receipts for his special tax. The law pro
viHn.l that the tax collected snouia oe
nlnnpfl to the credit of the township vil
lage or city ia whioh the saloon
situated.
The rosnlt of this law was the weeding
out of 1.844 saloons m one year. When
the law went into effect the United fctates
inf flrn nl revenue statistics showed there
were 6444 saloonists in the state. At the
rlnan nf 1875 there were but 4600; and
t.hnr was an addition to the revenue ot
the various villages and cities of $4cs-
Tns.r.a for that one vear 187
The legislature of 1879 the Mich'gan
Wialstnre meets biennially tninmng
fVi"of. if i 903 saloons could pay a tax of
Sir0 each fewer saloons could pay a big
aei tax. changed the law so that 'he fol
lowing amounts were required;
Spirituous liquors;
Retail $2"
Wholesale
Malt brewed and fermented liquors:
Retail
Wholesale I
The liauor dealer could also sell the
malt brewed and fermented liquors with-
out additional tax.
This legislature also made other addi
tions to the law. They required the bonds
to be not less than $2000. The bonds
man must be a freeholder a resident of
the village or city and must under oath
Arm nut tax.
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Long before the august members of the jU8tify for the amount of his hond over
Texas supreme law tribunal donned their
ermine the court room was pretty well
filled with the expectant applicants for
admission and their friends.
There was a feeling of unquiet
and a tremor of apprehension visi
ble on the faces of about four-fourths
of the applicants and when the judges
had taken their seats and the ordinary
court work had been disposed of aud the
examining committee had figuratively
rolled up their sleeves and announced
themselves as ready then the intense look
of seriousness on the faces of the tyros
showed a part of their inner feelings.
They were placed in a semi circle
facing the inquisitors and the judges and
when Judge Hancock of the committee
turned his piercing eye on the first man
in the line as though he were a criminal
at the bar and asked him when he
"studied law" after a pause of hesitancy
the ' chanoes were about even
whether he would throw up the sponge or
go in on his musole but he soon came np
to the scratch and got first blood on the
answer ' University of Texas" given on a
venture
As soon as it was seen that this answer
was satisfactory a sigh of relief went
aloncr the line terminating in a broad
grin which broadened when the next man
in answer to the question "where is the
University f" said "Austin Texas" in a
tone of confidence.
This opened the ball and it was kept up
for about two hour? when Dotn iorces
held off for repairs.
Thev were examined in the morning
bv the following committee: Judge Han
cock. Messrs. Doom. Sam Fisher F. G.
Morris and Fizet.
The graduates were:
T. And-ews W. W. Ballew S. B. Dabney
L. M. Dabney C. C. Ferrell J. W. George
J. M. Goggin J. A. Graham S. Hough J
W. Jack M. C. McKamy I. R. Oeland W
G. Rucker T. Shearon W. J.J. Smith H
W. Thompson jr. T. J. Vaughan C
Weaver J. A. W illiams N. M. Williams and
F. E. Wilcox.
The juniors and those who failed to
graduate were examined in the afternoon
by Judges Rector and Fulmore and
Messrs. Hill West and A. S. Walker jr
They were: Benj. F. Bean R. K. Deel L
A. Carlton F. C. Proctor Geo. W. Boswell
U. Collins. Milton White C. V. Myers and
Rogers Whaley.
Of whom Messrs. Deal Carlton Proctor
and Collins after a most rigid examina
tion were certified as possessing sufficient
knowledge to be turned out as full-fledged
attorneys
The supreme oourt meet this morning
at 10 o'clock to hear the report of the com
mittees.
Prickly Ash Bitters is an nnfailing cure
for all diseases originating in binary de
rangements caused by the malaria of mias
matic countries. No other medicine now
nn sale will so effectually remove the dis
turbiDg elements and at the same time
the whole system. It is sure and
safe in its action.
nil other liabilities and similar bonds.
The saloon must be closed on Sundays
election days and legal holidays. The
saloonist must not allow a pool billiard
or card table in the same room as his bar.
The receipt for the tax must be the full size
of a printer's cardboard; and the tax
money was paid over by the county treas-
urer to the village or oity treasurer. As a
result there were but 3700 saloons in
Michigan in 1880.
The saloon keepers then in their own
defense banded together to make such re-
sistance to the law as they oould. The
first result was a thin board partition
across every saloon separating the bar
from the billard table. The executive
committee of the Saloon Keepers' associa
tion sent a copy of the law and a check
for SS500 to the Hon. Matt Carpenter of
Wisconsin and asked his opinion of the
law. His answer was as heartrending as it
was laconic:
The law is good and can't be broken.
Matt H. Cabpenteb
When the legislature met in 1881 there
were petitions from thousands of citizens
asking the legislature to submit to tne
people an amendment to the constitution
which would destroy the property right in
liquors. In response to these petitions
Senator George A. Farr of Grand Haven
presented the following amendment to the
state constitution to stand as section 49
of article 4:
Section 49 The manufacture gift or
sale of spirituous malt or vinous liquors
in this state except for mechanical medi
cinal and sacramental purposes under
state supervision by persons theieto li
censed by the state is prohibited; and no
property-right in such spirituous malt or
vinous liquors.Jbxoept the right of manu-
facture and sale for mechanical medici
nal and sacramental purposes understate
supervision by persons thereto licensed
Rhall exist.
This amendment was passed by both
houses but Governor Jerome vetoed it.
When the governor vetoed the resolu
tion submitting the amendment Senator
Farr introduced what was known as
"Farr's Ironclad Liquor law" which was
nassed. It provided that the tax should
be as follows:
' Spirituous liqours
Retail
Wholesale W
Malt brewers and fermented liquors 9AI
If a person failed to pay the tax he
was fined from $50 to $100 and go to
iail for from ten to ninety days. Pool
billiards cards and dice oould not be
played in the same or adjoining rooms to
the bar. ijicense couiu nut do given iur
Belling liquor in a building in which was a
theater or concert hall. The saloons
must be kept closed Sunday election
days and legal holidays and till 7 o'clock
the succeeding morning.' If the condi-
tions of the bond were broken the seller
must give a new bond the marshal or
chief of police shall have an officer visit
each saloon once a week to see if there
are any violations of the law; and the
Total 8-V53.S1H
The saloon keepers have tried a good
many ways to avoid the law. Last year in
Grand Rapids and Muskegon they kept
open on the Fourth of July. A large num
ber of arrests were made. The defense
offered was that the Fourth of July was
not a legal holiday and strange as it may
seem they were acquitted. As a natural
result this year the saloons of the state
were generally open on the ourth. una
saloon keeper in Grand Haven tried itand
in less than an hour he was in jail iwo
days later he was tried defended by the
same lawyer who cleared the Muskegon
and Grand Rapids saloonists the year pre
vious. He was convicted fined 75 and
costs and imprisoned ten days.
In May last the citizens of Grand Haven
formed a citizens' league under the gum
once of Mr. Paxton the agent of the
Chicago league and sinoe then there have
been fourteen convictions and about $400
In fines paid.
Churchill's Arraignment of the Sal
isbury Ministry.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
In publicly charging that the revenues
of the British government are recklessly
and wastefnlly expended while the British
empire is left without adequate prepara
tion for either an offensive or defensive
war. Lord Randolph Churchill has com
mitted himself to an arraignment of the
Salisbury ministry whioh if true ought at
once to bring about a change of adminis
tration. The matter will of course be
forced immediately upon the attention o
parliament and the noble lord will nave
an opportunity to prove in the house of
commons what he has charged upon the
stump. If he were not afreelanoe and i
sensationalist we could not be
lieve that he would make accusa
tions of so grave a nature if he
were not trepared to substantiate them
when challenged to do so as no doubt he
will be at a very early date. Having been
at one time himself a member of the sans
bury cabinet he has had some opportunity
in nnnnnint. himself with the real con
dition of the departments whioh he criti-
cises. But if he hnd knowltdge of the
damaging facts of whioh he now gives
notice to the whole world why did he not
make them public when he withdrew from
office f Certainly there has been no time
to lose. Europe has been on the brink of a
war whioh would in all probability have in-
volved great Britain during all these
months in which Lord Randolph Churchill
has mnlntftinod Pilonoe If his country
was not ready for war it was his duty to
declare the fact ar.d to prove it.
Under the oiroumstances we are in
clined to suspect that Lord Randolph
Churchill has greatly exaggerated the
weakness of thfi British army and navy.
When he declares that he has a plan by
which the country could at onoe shorten
its expenses and increase its strength he
has very much the appearance of a man
bidding for office. H-j cannot return to
the Salisbury government after this at-
tack nor oould he as a defender Of the
policy of coercion be admitted to any
cabinet controlled by the liberals; but it is
possible that he is seeking to wreck the
present ministry and to foroe a new elec
tion. His dream may be a combination
of progressive tories and conservative
liberals with himself in the premier's
position. It seems to ns that his lord-
ship's ambition has always been
in advance of service and beyond his
capacity. It is sometimes intimated that
in alloging a difference with the
premier in regard to the naval estimates
as the cause of his retirement from office
he was merely attempting to cover with
some show of dignity bis retreat irom a
position which his oolleagnrs had design
edly made untenable by him. He was
rude capricious and domineering and
worst of all he would occasionally commit
himself upon important questions of
policy without consultation with bis ohief
or any other member of the ministry. It
was small wonder then if his room was
considered better than his company and
if he was virtually foroed to take the
oourse whioh he would have appear the
result of his patriotic convictions. How
ever these things may be Lord Churchill
must now make his charges good or sub
side into shamef al silenoe. If he succeeds
in proving his charges the logical result
would be a vote of want of confidence In
the present administration; if be fails he
will sutler a fatal loss of prestige and pub
Ho confidence.
APPALLING FACTS AND FIG
URES.
What Prohibition Has Done in
Maine and Kansas.
From tiie Louisville Bulletin.
Prohibition orators decltim eloquently
upon the evils of intemperance but they
do not meet the arguments that are made
by those who maintain that legal enact-
ments do not prohibit or materially re-
duoo the sale of liquor at retail but in-creai-e
the wholesale traffic Eloquence
and sophistry and platitudes are pleasing
as figures of speech and delight the ear
but they do not carry tne weignt oi con
viction that solid faots and figures con
vey. Hon. J. C. Wood is a practical
temperance man and one who
will not be ohargod with falsifying
misrepresenting matters of any
kind. He has given this question of
prohibition much attention and In his
speech at the anti-prohibition meeting
few nights ago he presentea nn army vi
star stios that must show to tne nnpreiu
diced mind how fallacious is the theory
that legal enactments will make temper
anoe advocates of tipplers and intemper
ate men. In Maine where our pronibi
tion friend- argue that prohibition has
done so much Mr. Wood produoed these
figures taken from the United States cen
sus report:
The increase of paupers in tne nrst ten
years of prohibition from 5603 to 8646;
and the cost of supporting tne paupers
increased from 151664 to 326945. The
assessed valuation of property from 1866
to 1880 fell Tff from 67662672 to 63-
122474 and that the value of manufac
tures and the price ot labor decreased
and that illiteracy inoreased having 13000
persons over 10 years of age unable to
read in 1H7U against iouuu in ioou; bqq
19000 unable to write in 1870 and 22000
in 1880.
Mr. Wood then proceeded with this
statement:
Maine has had a prohibitory law for
thirty-five years and has had thirty-five
amendments to the law and is now ask-
ing for the thirty-sixth amerdment; and
why this if the law has been a suooess in
Maine and made the state so pros-
perous? How is it in the state of Kansas f Here
again official facts stand out and Bhjw
that prohibition does not prohibit in that
state. The internal revenue commissioner
reports that while Kansas contributed in
1884 $841 to every
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The Status To-day.
From the Waco Examiner.
When the present oampaign was opened
some three months sinoe the prohibi-
tionists trot a p-reat advantage in the start.
kanea- oonirirj uieu i u u m orKanized. Every
mnuou oi KuurUUicuv - vorvannda
ohnrch organization every Sunday sohool
every temperance sooii'ty the Woman's
Christian Teraperanoe union an were no
many poiuts gained in organization. They
were starters anu iney were unou mt an
they were worth as atouiical political In-
fluences. As soon as the prohibition
state convention met those lesser bodies
hastened to the side of the chairman ana
at once the campaign was in full cry. The
whole state was resonant with the
mubio of fanaticism; tender lovely womtn
aud innocent prattling children wer
used to swell the chorus and are atiii
being used to keep np the noise. Lovely
Una nnder flashing eyes would say with
A Protest Against Lawless Outrage WOrds of suppressed indignation in their
I . nl nn tia nrifalr " ait YoH
During the Campaign. tones; -wn ii.ii..;i ---
B I t .. IL. onlnnna UI1 InlKinPtlt little
To the Editor of the Statesman : are i. r --- -----
I will introduce my communication b " ;.
saying that I am an uncompromising; to ' We ore forever against
anti-prohibitionist ana wouia support tne --. j M barmiess in
T? I U Sw S noes onoonsoioo.
sorely shocked at the reoital n youF pm ioveline.9 and innocence are
ninnsor trio OU'mfc-B ?WHi wvm i r . . . mask the most
Methodist preacher al San Antonio last ' J."let made on
night. What do the people of San An- "j f tb country. It Is oon-
toniomeanf Have they lost their reason! tn' . i.Vuv.i 4M. move
receipts from the tax on spirits it con-
tributed $938 in 1885 and $1375 iu 188(5.
Retail liauor dealers paying speoial tax
and doing business therefore openly were
R.S18. In Kentucky where there is scarcly
any restraint on the liquor traflio either
nt wholesale or retail. Kansas whith a
nonulation acoording to the last census
of UGG.OOO has under a prohibitory law
2318 retail doalers or one for every
2'JO inhabitants: Kentucky with a pop
ulation of 1048000 aooording to the same
census has 3(i'Jl retail doalers or one for
every 443 inhabitants
If p.fflicted with sore eves use Dr. Isaao
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists.
DISCHARGED.
E nd of the Train Bobbery Cases
It was almost a foregone conclusion
that Commissioner Haggles wonld dis-
charge the Ussery'e Craft and Barbour
on the charge of train robbery for there
were but few who having heard the evi
dence doubted that the matter of where -
abouts had been clearly established under
the testimony adduced by the defense.
The commissioner in deciding the legal
point presented the previous day ad
mitted the reoord of the conviction ot
Buckley in Bosque county and struck out
his testimony in its entirety. 1 his done
of course the whole oase went to the
ground. The parties were discharged
and loBt no time in (retting money and
starting on the homeward march.
Are they bent on foroing the people to
adopt this prohibiton amendment? This
is the second time a wrong of this character
has been charged on San Antonio. Why is
such barbarism permitted in that cityf
Where are thoir local authorities 1 They
say it is the hoodlum. Well arrest the
hoodlum and make him know that this is
a land of free speech. I have no respect
for the preacher who deserts his hoiy
calling to wallow in the slums of poli
tics but I do resDect his rights as a man
and as a citizen and a wrong perpetrated
nnon him is an assault oil personal lib
erty and free government. I oppose this
amendment beoanse I believe it
dangerous innovation on our
theory of government. I believe the
effect of its enforcement wonld be to de
prive the citizen of social rights and priv
ileges over which the government has no
jUBt power of control. I fear us eireoi on
the great cardinal principles of personal
liberty which forms the very foundation
stone of our society. I fear the dangers
it portends to the freedom of speech aud
freedom of opinion that has Doen our
boast for a oentnry. I fear that its effect
will be to weaken and prostitute the in
dependent manhood that has given the
Amerioan his oeiebnty throughout me
world. But I am not defending
the saloon. Personally I am prejudiced
against the saloon. I cannot deny that it
has an evil Influence i neither Duy nor
sell whisky; nor do I use it. But what
is the evil of the saloon which can oe
controlled nnder license and police regula
tion
under its white ohuroh and tempotflnoa
banners marches a despotism whioh
spects not women and children in its
stride toward unlimited and unrestrained
power a depolism Which drags
ladies from their eick beds
others from their homes and pon them
up with thieves and prostitutes simpiy
that one political combination may f ise
above another. All this has made a great
deal of noise and it has deciived pro
hibitionists and anlt-prohiDiuonisis
alike. The prohibitionists imagined their
strength greater than it really was while
the poor antis dazed by the gong were
disposed to oonoede their claim. After
awhile when cool reflection came it was
seen that this clamor represented more
noiBe than votes. While the fair women
olap their hands and cheer and the little
fellows march in processions and All np
excursion oars yet they laok the essential
quality of voters. It was and is but a
dumb show. Bince this reneotion nas
entered the oampaign some apparent laots
are strongly brought out.
It was claimed and conceded mat norm
Texas was entirely prohibition mow
Rockwall county their banner territory
has gone against prohibition after ten
years' experience. Grayson county was
thought to be almost soua tor tue omtuu-
ment but later development iuuiobics
that it too will give a stin majority
against the amendment. Lamar county
was thought to be tied to Maxey'a apron
thing but it seems tnat
strlncra in this
ilea unaer license and poiioe regola- " mxea
to the lasting fundamental evils ' 0nlbenwrt
wwtt a '
to result from the adoption or a
s'.stem of snmDtuarv legislation? The
evils of the saloon even as claimed by the
most fanatical prohibitionist are as
nothing compared with the great wrongs
it will briug upon our society and govern-
ment. I depreoate any rash and lawless
act. not only . because it
rnmr. but because its effect
la to s-iva strength to the advo
cates of a measure that ought to be de
feated at the polls by the free expression
of the people of Texas. If the opposition
home farm and that in consequence of
his attitude would be found voting for the
amendment. Now it is plain that Bowie is
safe for a good healthy majority against
the amendment. Even annin and w ise
conntiea will vote against it and McKin-
ta ney is no longer doubtful; while Ellis is
close yet the oount oi noaee um un
completed and there is a small majority
against the ecclesiastical amendment
Kaufman oounty van zanai county
Denton county ana x arrant win
xne
county
. .. . ' 1.1. i.i
.. . . l i q ii irittR unu.TirnnuHbiuu uidiviiviv"
to prohibition is to De carried on oy sucn - " ;." u ' h8r weight
m;n...thU.thBn von mav close head- fact is North Texas will throw her weight
The clamor of the
.1 iit a
. i fit rtuvann n n iitiri v.
quarters and retire from the canvass a . w 0 xUft
few more such acts as this in tne cities " u ..nn
where prohibition is practically
support will disarm our friends in the lo
calities where its influence is strong.
act in Sau Antonio cannot be excused
and a continuance of such proceedings
will bring defeat. Ami.
A SCIENTIFIC ACCOUNT AN 1
Is always well paid for his services.
An Accomplished Shorthand Writer and
operator on the Typewriter is well paid and in de-
mand. TOX7SO LADIES and iji-ntlemen are now train-
ing fur these services at tlie
ITALBUSINESSC0!1EGE
Several b-ahers are taking s 'COURSE
Ml:
at this
Write for circular.
practical and thorough school
J. 1. iNDERSON
Austin Texas;
Good Besults in Every Case.
D. A. Bradford wholesale paper dealer
of Chattanooga Tenn. writes that he was
seriously afflicted with a severe cold that
settled on his lungs; had tried maay rem
edies without benefit. Being induoed to
try Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption did so and was entirely oured
by use of a few bottles. Sinoe whioh time
he has nsed it in his family for all Coughs
and Colds with best results. This is the
experience of thousands whose lives have
been saved bv this Wonderful Discovery
Trial bottles free at Morley Bros' drug
tore.
Duke Ratisbon's youngest daughter a
... . ...I -nAnfvU 4n Jirinflll
without wi not prove P"u ti:"ath
. io- sane common sense pouii k----The
way of political recitude simply that a
beantiim aosiracuun .
unreal dream of impossible bliss mBy ta
the place of sound political philosophy In
the policy of the state and nation.
From all over tne state comes mo uuoci-
ing information that the soDer second
thought of the voting citizenship of the
state stands resolved to prevent the ernel
surrender of personal rights and the prao
tioal ereotion of a government of the
state nnder the guardianship of the
churoh the schools and the non-voting
and Irresponsible women and children.
This Isman's work and by men it shall be
done in this great state.
"Golden at morning silver at noon and
lead at night" is the old saying anout
eating oranges. But there is something
that Is rightly named uoiaen anu wn
taken with benefit at any nour oi mo
This in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
unite uatisoon s youngest aaugmor iuu w - .
prineess of Hohenlohe is about to marry covery literally worth its weight in gold
Baron Reishaoh. Emperor William s
chamberlain: and the duke of U jests'
youngest daughter also a prince-s of Hos-
henlohe will marry Count Ashenhan.
to any one suffering witn acromions ai-
feotions impurities of the blood or dis-
eases of the livir and lungs. It is unfail-
ing. By druggists.
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