Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 113, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 17, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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The Democrat.
SUNDAY, APRIL 17. 1881.
In Russia the government authorities
place a gag- on the press. In Port Worth
the press is muzzled by the menace ol
liquor dealers.—Breckenridge Texan.
How you found that out %
The negro exodus is reviving.
Nearly five hundred negroes left
the county where the Republican
governor of Tennessee lives, last
week.
If railroads were always just
in all their transactions with the
public, such vigorous legislation
as was proposed iu the legislature
would never be dreamed of.
Some ot the city papers have not yet
taken the trouble to acquaint the public
with their views on prohibition.—Brecken-
ridge Texan.
Most “city papers” find some-
thing to occupy their minds with-
out discussing imaginary issues.
It is passing strange how polite,
affable and courteous a man may
be as an individual, and how ut-
terly unconscionable the same
man can be in his capacity as a
railroad official.
Two roads to Galveston, two to
New Orleans, two to St. Louis and
the East. Why should not Fort
Worth be the best market in North
Texas? No other town can show
such railroad connections.
While the press of the North
is busily engaged in defaming
Souihern society, we respectfully
call its attention to a circumstance
occurring at Indianapolis recently
where two gentlemen traded
wives.
The law iu Rhode Island against
intermarriage between blacks and
whites has been repealed. There
is now no such statute in New
England, but several of the North-
ern states still prohibit such mar-
riages.
The grain elevators of New
Orleans are competent to handle
live million bushels of grain per
month. As soon as the New Or-
leans Pacific is completed Texas
will supply a large amount of .the
cereal.
The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
and Erie railways have each sub-
scribed $125,000 to the New York
World’s Fair, on condition that
payments shall only be made in
case a gross sum of $4,000,000 is
subscribed.
The prohibition wave has struck
Chicago. The Woman’s Temper-
ance Association hold all day ses-
sions of prayer, and petition the
Throne of Grace that drunkenness
and other vices may be rooted
out of Chicago.
We wish Mr. Bull would make
up his mind what he is going to
do and go ahead and do it. No
sooner is it announced that he is
about to surrender than the re-
port is contradicted. These con-
flicting rumors are harassing.
Galveston has one daily pa-
per, Houston has but one, Daflas
has but one, Sherman has but one,
Austin and San Antonio have
each but one. Fort Worth is the
only city that can enjoy the luxury
of two dailies. But such dailies !
Readers of the Democrat will
remember that during the legis
lature its Austin correspondent
predicted that some useful and
needed railroad legislation would
be lost, by incorporating all leg-
islation in the enormity known as
the commission bill. This turned
out to be true, but we did not
think then that we would so soon
have a “benefit.” The Democrat
has recently been “set back” quite
a handsome sum by the T. & P.
and has no redress save in the
conscience of the officials, and ev-
ery one knows what a slender
chance that is.
The noble army of peelers
throughout the country are wont
to festoon the posts of the corner
saloon. They are seldom if ever
seen lounging around a hardware
store or blacksmith shop. This
may account for the fact that so
many of them cultivate blossoms
on their noses.
The Breckenridge Texan makes
a mistake in assuming that the
question of prohibition is an issue
before the public. It may become
so, and when it does it will be
ample time to discuss it. In the
meantime we advise our neighbor
to withhold its fire until the fight
begins, when it will be more ef-
fective.
The Texan is in favor of the people be-
ing- allowed to vote on a prohibitory liq-
uor law. We hold that no good Demo-
crat can deny the right uf the people to
pass upon the matter.—Breckenridge
Texan.
We qrite agree with the Texan.
Cut those Democrats who voted
against the prohibition resolution
will console themselves with the
thought that the Texan is not
their censor.
The Age of Progress gives what
it is pleased to term “Paddock’s
Views” on some of the recent leg-
islation, in which it crowds more
gross inaccuracies into the same
space thau we deemed possible.
The Progress, like some other
journals we wot of, imagines that
the mission of the press is to mis-
represent.
Garfield is not the first pres-
ident that has fulminated against
the Mormons, but the last Demo-
cratic president was the last one,
and we believe the only one, to
send an army with banners to de-
bate the question with them. The
war cut the advance movement
short, before the argument had
fairly commenced.
Above all things else Texas needs leg-
islates whom the lobby cannot control.
We hope to Jive to see the day when a
represeniathe who has betrayed the in-
terest ot his constituents will be held per-
sonally responsible therefor to an extent
that will render it not altogether safe for
him to return to them. Some men have
richly earned a coat of tar and feathers on
the railroad bill.—Bonham News.
We can’t understand why the
News fcants “a coat of tar and
feathers on the railroad bill.” In
our judgment a shroud would be
more appropriate.
There is danger of another out-
break among the Utes, in the Un-
compahgre country. The settlers
have their cabins loopholed and
sleep on their arms in anticipation
of an outbreak. There are about
seventy families in the Uncom-
pahgre country, and only 100
soldiers at the cantonment, while
the Utes can muster 700 warriors.
The settlers have petitioned the
governor for protection.
As an illustration of the rapid
progress of the telephone, we
may state that from April 1, 1879,
to April 1, 1880, the number of
connections made by the opera-
tion of the Telephonic Exchange
in New Orleans was 205.937; from
April 1, 1880, to April 1, 1881, the
number was 988,923. At this rate
of increase the number of connec-
tions made from Aprd 1, 1881, to
April 1,1882, ought to be about
3,000,000.
The Milwaukee Sun knows nothing
about cards, lor it says that a certain per-
son turned as “pale a> the ace'of spades.”
Everybody that ever saw a card knows
that the ace of spades is red .'—City Item.
This is simply ridiculous. An editor
ought to know all about everything, and
when he attempts to give information
about cards, or anything else, lie should
be careful to do it correctly. 'The ace pf
spades is not red. It is peifaetly white,
being a blank card called the joker, used
in the game of bluff. It is always trumps
and beats anything except a royal flush.
—Galveston Journal.
We are right glad to receive
this information from such high
authority. We have been labor-
ing under the impression that the
ace of spades was connected in
some way with poker dice.
VVe do believe that the people of Deca-
tur and Henrietta honestly think that a
railroad called the Fort Worth and Den-
ver railroad is to pass through their sec-
tion ot the country. Fie, gentlemen, are
you not better acquainted with buncomb
corporations than that? Men without
money, and nothing to recommend them
but false pretenses and cheek. Remem-
ber that these men, for ways that are dark
and tricks that are vain, are certainly
very peculiar. Don’t you subscribe a
cent until you know exactly what you are
doing. Before another year rolls around,
the iron horse ot the Dallas and Wichita
will be puffing and snorting through your
towns. The D. & W. will rush in u on
you while you are dreaming about this re-
mote circumstance calling itself the Fort
Worth and Denver. Away with such an
absurdity. You must look this way for
light.—Denton Press.
If our memory serves us cor-
rectly—and we think she do—De-
catur had a taste of that same
Dallas and Wichita road some
two or three years ago, and had
it not listened to the promises of
the D. & W. then would have had
a railroad long ago. But the cheek
of this thing is the asser tion that
this is a buncomb corporation.
“Men without money and nothing
to recommend them but false pre-
tense and cheek.” If this gets in-
to Wall street, and the bankers
and brokers learn that Jay Gould
and his associates are out of
money—are a “buncomb corpora-
tion,” with nothing but “false pre-
tense and cheek” we fear it will
sadly derange some well consider
plans for railroad building in the
Southwest. But the Press is not
as wise as it is wily. In another
place we find the following :
This road, we fear, will work to the iu
jury of our rapidly growing city, and in
order to prev-. nt its future prosperity be-
ing dimmed the Dallas and Wichita must
rise Irom its inertness and push on to its
destined terminus. Then all will be as it
ought to be, peace and prosperity to this
part ot the land.
Ah ! That settles it.
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Tiie San Antonio Express prints
a dispatch from Fort Davis telling
of the discovery of extensive coal
fields northwest from Fort Davis
is of great importance to Western
Texas. That coal of good quality
is to be found in Western Texas
has been the belief of many ex-
plorers of our own western wilds,
but this is the first authentic in-
formation we have received of the
discovery of such coal fields with-
in reaching distance. The loca-
tion of these coal deposits is near
the proposed line of the Southern
Pacific railroad and the western
extension of the Sunset road.
Coal of good quality iu such a lo
cation will be available in north-
ern Mexico as well as in the min
ing regions of the Chiuate moun-
tains and of New Mexico. These
new coal fields are on the line of
the Texas and Pacific.
though court and jury may de-
clare him guiltleas. Whatever
may have been public sentiment
iu Texas in the past it is now
quite certain that man-killers are
not liouized, and are coming, as is
right, to be regarded as social and
moral outcasts.
As proof of this, there was over
the whole state a feeling of grat-
lfication, which found expression,
on heariug of the death of James
Currie—which, unfortunately, was
not true. And it may be satisiac-
tory to other persons, of like rec-
ord, to hear how pleased the pub-
lic will be at their taking off.
—“Money does everything for
a man,” said an old gentleman,
pompously. “Yes,” replied the
other man, “but money, won’t do
as much for a man as some men
will do for money.”
Public Sentiment in Texas.
Stephenville Empire.
By those who know little of the
manners, customs and habits of
the people of our state, much has
been said and written in regard to
the lawlessness of Texas, and the
sympathy extended to enroiqqls.
It is unfortunately true, as it must
necessarily be iu all newly settled
countries, and more especially on
the frontier, that a large number
of persons seek immunity from the
laws of their countries in Texas;
aud it is by them that most the
deeds of violence are dope. That
Texas should become the home of
refugees from justice is much to
be regretted, but it is a fortune
common to all countries where the
population is not sufficiently dense
to make it an agricultural country.
But there is an improvement
clearly noticeable in public senti-
ment in this state, which must
goo?) bp productive of good results;
which is now producing good re-
sults. During the past four years
there have been a great many ex-
ecutions, aud the people seem to
be determined to eniorce the law.
While it is true that some very
hideous offenses have gone unpun-
ished, and some very disgraceful
acquittals have been recorded, yet
the law is being enforced more
effectively in Texas than in almost
any other state. It often happens
that the courts, lawyers and juries
are blamed for failures of the law,
or rather failure in the adminis
tration of the law, when in truth
the public is alone to blame in
giving countenance to crime.
When murder comes to be more
condemned thau theft it will mark
a now era in this state. However
public sentiment may lend counter
nance to crime it cannot make it
less a crime; and wilful homicide,
save in self-defense, is murder and
the perpetrator is a murderer,
An Incident of the Blockade.
A correspondent of the Boston
Advertiser, discussing the subject
of color-blindness, relates the fol-
lowing as coming under his own
experience when employed in the
blockade of the port of Wilming-
ton, N. C. during the war of the
rebellion: “The ships on block-
ade duty got under way at. senset,
and at dark moved to their regu-
lar stations, some going well fn to-
ward Port Caswell, and others
further off, keeping under low
steam and in a specified beat. To
prevent as far as possible, our
own ships from mistaking and fir-
ing into each other, each suppos-
iug the other a blockade runner, as
did happen more than once, my
own ship getting three 24-pound
shells from one of our own vessels,
a system of challenging and an-
swering signals by showing or
flashing a red or white light was
established. As we all knew the
station or beat of each ship, we
could usually-tell with tolerable
certainty what vessel was sighted.
But, to prevent accidents, it was
the rule lor any ship doubting to
challenge by showing the challeng-
ing signal for that particular night.
If no answering light was shown,
or an incorrect one, the challenger
had a right to fire. One. night my
own ship was challenged. We
wdre so near that all hands on
my own vessel knew well what
ship made the challenge. We
answered by showing the red
light for three or four seconds.
Again we were challenged, and
again we answered as before. All
bands were at quarters. Almost
immediately after our second an-
swer the lock-string of the 100
pounder rifle on board the chal-
lenger was pulled, the gun pointed
directly at my ship, happily miss-
ing fire. Before the gun could be
repripied we were made out, and
no harm done. The next day an in-
terview was haq with the com-
mander of the challenging ship,
and he was informed by me that
his challenges were correctly an-
swered, I myself seeing it done.
Why our answers were not
seen by his ship could not be made
out. He informed ipe, however,
that lie had been many months in
command of his ship, and never
before had that gun missed fire.”
Itutherford Keeps the Swag.
New York Sun.
The secretary of the treasury
received another remittance of
conscience money on Thursday.
The postmark on the envelope was
not Fremont, O., however.
Evidently Overlooked.
New York Sun.
The fact that thp Republicans
carried The pocket borough state
of Rhode Island on Wednesday
does not seem to have convulsed
the world of politics.
—Professor Proctor is about to
Start a newspaper. He won’t run
it tfir p weefis before he will think
a hissing whirfiug comet has
skimmed through his purse, leav-
ing nothing but the most ethereal
vapor of its lad.—New Haven
Register.
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—We notice that a number of
Canadian aldermen and members
of the Parliament were arrested
at Toronto Saturday night while
attending a cock fight. The life a
statesman in Canada seems to be
a varied and attractive one.
—Little Lottie to her friend : “I
have so many cares. Yesterday a
little baby sister armed, and papa
is on a journey. It was but a
piece of luck (Apt mama was at
home to take care of it.”—Inter-
Ocean.
Simonton, the associated press
man, ig lecturing on “How we get
the news,” but considering that he
has just been married he strange-
ly omits one very important
source of information. — Lowell
Courier.
—A terrible tornado visited
Mississippi, destroying property
and killing people.
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