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Galveston, Tex., May 27,1887.
NECESSARILY A PARTY QUESTION.
The New Orleans Picayune perceives
that whether or not prohibition is properly
a political question, it has been made a
political question. The Picayune pleads
that it be not made a party question. That
paper's motive may be to save some party
or parties from t£e danger resulting from
handling political questions, bat really are
not parties already subjects for suspicion
when they shrink from questions which
have become political questions in fact?
What are parties for if they are to evade
political questions? Are they for the cap-
ture of the offices by union and silence or
equivocation? That plan may suit soma
party leaders, but a party can live upon it
only for a certain time. There is a strong
reason why a political question mast be-
come a party question. One side or the
otter has an interest in making
it so. The other side can not per-
manently resist. If this ware not
so the weaker side would always
decline to have a political question made a
party quesiion. In the present case the
Picayune suggests to the prohibitionists
that they will do well to creep along quiet-
ly for the present and get men to approach
the question unhindered by party a'.lagi-
EECe. Anti-prohibitionists are told that
the local option plan affords a fair solu-
tion. They were told that in Taxis. Njw
they know it was not accepted as a solu-
tion. If the prohibitionists are craepinj
fiZoxg end getting the benefit of the non-
partisan dodge on a question hereafter to
be made a party question, will the anti-
prohibitionists of Louisiana be content to
wait till the water Is up to their necks be
fore thev make a move to treat this politi-
cal question as other political questions
are tieated?
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Correspondents of The News at all points
will please wire election returns immedi-
ately on the count being made on Thursday
night, 4th instant. Let reports be brief but
clear and distinct, and rush them in at the
earliest possible moment.
TIIE TEXAS HAP VIST HERALD TO
THE RESCUE.
Borne references made by the Texas Bap-
tist Herald to the matter of ltev. G. W.
Brlggs and The News are so mistakon that
it might he difficult to account for them.
The Herald was in the vein of criticising
The News with regard to some other topics
and thus was perhaps not in a frame of
mind to perceive what was the question.
The question was not whether Mr. Briggs
surreptitiously obtained possession of a let-
ter. No such issue was ever raised. The
question was not whether Mr. Briggs meant
free thought or free love or what he meant
by the words which The News printed.
The question was whether Thk News
report was a true report of what Mr. Briggs
said. The fact that Kev. Briggs thanked The
News for its report was mentioned as evi-
dence that he liked it. He afterwards called
and took back his letter, and still later he has
denied having used the language attributed
to him. Now let us see whether the editor^f
the Baptist Herald does not by his own tas
timcny establish the very same fact which
The News establishes—viz., that Rav.
Briggs spoke as reported. The News
stenographer recorded Rev. Briggs as fol-
lows:
I believe In moral quarantine. You may cry
persecution, but there are some doctrines now-
adays tl,nt should be perseinted with the
dungeon and halter. 1 have no patience with
this sickly sentimentality which countenances
every criminality, which weeps and which
ciies persecution and slitds tears over what
we call the godless persecution ot inlldellty.
The editor o! the Baptist Herald makes
his racord as follows:
And l)r. ISiiggs, In a speech on agnostirism,
in the Opera house in Galveston six or seven
ycais ago, and we happened to hear that
speech, declared (we quote from memory) that
"there were some tlilDgs that re juired the
dungeon and the halter."
Now this is the essential fact. The testl
mony of the editor of the Baptist Herald
goes far to corroborate The News steno-
grapher. But ihe Baptist Herald, evident-
ly mistaking the question, goes on to soma^
"thing with which the accuracy of the report
has nothing to do:
Which being construed to refer to the useof
force in religion, Dr. Briggs explained to
apply only to "freelovlsm aud kindred vices."
which he was discussing in connection with
agnosticism.
Construed by correspondents. Assuming
that Rev. Briggs explained the matter,
would only tend to show that the matter
was a matter of fact to be explained. The
News neither anticipated nor denied Rev.
BriggE' explanations. It made no commaut
whatever on the subject until some weeks
afterward, when Rev. Briggs had had pub-
lished a different report in pamphlet form
The Baptist Herald continues:
And Tins News says that Mr. Brings is guilty
oi having coniesscd in a letter that I'm. News
lepoited him coirectly, and then, when an up-
rcai was raised about Mr. Briggs' position in
the use of the "dungeon ana halter" in le-
llglon he surieptltlously obtained possession
ol that fatal letter.
No. The News said that Mr. Briggs
came and took back his letter. But tha
Rev. Briggs had sent The News that ap-
proving letter three days after the appear-
ance of The News' short report, and one
day after the appearance of the longer re-
port by himself, and had not objected to
Tbe News' report during that time. What
better evidence could be had that he was
satisfied with it? But if an uproar wis
raised, as the Baptist Herald says, and
Rev. Briggs felt it necessary to explain
those words, why should the Rev. Briggs
take back bis letter which referred to the
simple correctness of the report? Why,
indeed, but to clear the coast for
denying that correctness which in
that letter he had affirmed?
The Kev. Briggs has attempted another ex-
planation why he took back the letter. He
has asserted that he took it back because
The News had editorially criticised him.
The News refers to its flies for proof that
it had not commented upon him or his lec-
ture. Moreover, there was no paper Issued
between the hour of tbe delivery of the let-
ter and its being taken back. Two criticisms
which correspondents had written had ap-
peared on the Sunday morning, and
these did not prevent Rev. Briggs
from thanking The News on Mon-
day morning for its accuracy, but
on Monday evening he prepared—to do
what? Was it simply to explain what he
meant? The News would have afforded
him the same facility to do that as it
had afforded him to print the report
which he had prepared and which it
had already printed and in which he had
not hinted at any incorrectness in The
News' own shorter report preceding it. By
taking back that letter of thanks he pre-
pared a clear field for another and untrue
report of his leolure. And how did he
make it, considering that the leoture was
extemporaneous? The Baptist Herald con-
tinues :
Considering these eases Inversely, does not
The Nkws see that it convicts Itself and es-
tablishes Dr. Briggs' innocence on the very
face of Its efforts to impeach him? For, ac-
cording to Ihk News, Mr. Briggs was at first
pleased with The News' report of his speech,
mid when he saw the public condemnation of
his "dungeon and halter" theory he sub-
sequently stole the letter in question. Does
The Nkws expect that Jlr.Brlg^s would ba
surprised at public condemnation of such a
position:' And yet this absurdity Is what Is
required to make the statement of The News
ciedible. We remembe»»weU to have heard
Mr. Brings'address. We afterwards road his
declaration that what he had said about the
"dungeon a i. (1 the halter" was appli-
cable only to "freelovelsm and kindred
Immoralities," and we heard him distinctly
disclaim what Tiie News charged upon him.
We wrote a shoit statement, which The Sews
published, In which we set forth the principle
enunciated by l ord M&caulay, that every man
must be judged hy his meaning, and even the
logical results of his position must not he
ascilbedto an Immoral Intention, since he
might not perceive the logical consequences
ol his views, and would abandon sacli views
if he should perceive the results.
The News is surprised to see in the Btp-
tist Herald such carelessness as the infer
f nee that the Rev. Briggs "stole the letter."
tne News says that it had and has no dis-
position to deny that the dungeon and h ti-
ter theory might only have been intended
as Rev. Briggs explained. But he said dun-
geon and halter. The News convicts the
editor of the Baptist Herald of a short
memory if by the words "what The News
charged upon him" it refers to anything in
the editorial columns of The News daring
the time of this episode; It can believe
that the Rev. Briggs disclaimed aud pro-
tested as the editor of the Baptist Hera'd
says, but against some other than editorial
comments. But that has nothing to do with
the truth of the report and the
falsity the Rev. Briggs' allega-
tion of circums ance to explain
bis singular act in taking back his letter,
which, as the Baptist Herald indirectly
shows, he need not have taken hick, for as
he could explain his utterance in a rational
manner he need not have denied it. But
men who have not the armor of conscious
truth upon them often run away from
things that will not hurt them If they would
stand to the fac's. That letter taken back
should be the significant fact In this cise
to all honest and candid men. The
News has shown that it could
not have been taken back for the
reason alleged by Rev. Briggs, and
has thus left him in the position of giving a
false and impossible reason for an act
which to the apprehension of any sane per-
son was the logical preliminary to an un-
sciupulous course. A testimonial to the
accuracy of reports is given on Monday
morning, and on Monday evening the Rev.
Briggs gets it back. He then goes off and
makes his own different publication. Why
did he take back the letter? His first ex-
planation being false, and the natural ex-
planation being so obviously calculated to
make an amateur politician blush, The
News has small hope of ever getting any-
thing more explicit.
'JHE VOTE ON THE AMENDMENTS.
The vote on the constitutional amend-
ments is likely to be much in excess of the
vote of the state at the last general elec
tion. In August a greater number of par
sons are absent from the state than is usual
in November, but these absentees consti-
tute a class indifferent to voting. In No-
vember cotton picking prevents thousands
from voting, while in August this work his
scarcely begun, except in southern Texas.
Now an interest in the contest exists which
exceeds anticipations and which is more
general than the interest in a scramble for
the offices. The people of Texas entitled
to vote, however, never have turned out in
any general election in full force. The
census of I860 gave Texas 380,376 males of
voting age, but at the election in November,
It80, when the greenbaokers and fusionists
made a campaign against the old alcalde,
only 204,204 votes were caet. The cansus
of 1880, which reported 3S0.376 voters
in Texas, also reported 311,667 children
within the scholastic age in Texas. The
scholastic census of 1887 in Texas shows
DOS,Cuo children within the scholastic age,
and so if tho same ratio governs there are
are now some f>91,000 voters in Texas, al-
though at the last election only some 32-i,'000
votes were cast for governor. The dem-
ocratic ticket, however, had no opposition,
and the voters oppose! to that ticket
scratched largely. Possibly over 400,030
votes may be cast in tho pending election.
According to the census of 1880 there were
in round numbers 78,000 colored voters, 53,-
C(0 foreign boin voters, 30,000 native-born
white voters of foreign-born parents, and
210,0C0 white native voters of native parent-
age. It is very palpable that the colored
vote lias never been solidly cast for
the opposition in Texas, and will in
the pending election be badly cut up,
while the foreign vote, which has
teen nearly equally divided heretofore,
will le almost solidly cast with the true
democratic vote. If tbe white native vote
could be accurately stated it would be easy
to give a close approximation to the major-
ity against the prohibition amendment.
From the warnings oE ex-Lieutenant-gover-
nor Martin, who is a prohibitionist end
swamp fox, it may be expected that tha rural
vote will be secured for the antis. Tae
prospect of doubling taxes on their farms
both for state and county purposes, and the
prospect of sitting on juries to try prohibi-
tion prosecutions in the towns and cities
six months out of twelve Is not very likely
to make prohibitionists ont of the farming
classes. This and other indications point
to defeat of prohibition, leaving entirely
out of count the foreign and colored vote.
Chairman Clark's estimate of 75,000 ra ipr-
ity against prohibition may after all be not
far out of the way.
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Correspondents of The News at all points
will please wire election returns immedi-
ately on the count being made on Thursday
night, 4th instant. Let reports be brief but
clear and dlstinot, and rush them in at the
earliest possible moment.
OBJECTIONS TO PROHIBITION.
A summary of the objections to prohibi-
tion, in order now upon the eve of the elec-
tion, contains many single reasons which,
separately considered, should create doubt3
on the part of the most zealous, and taken
all together should insure the overwhelming
rejection of prohibition. First, the revenues
under prohibition would be derived solely
from taxation of property which, in Texas
generally, on account of the bad crops, is
non productive. Occupation taxes, except
from the liquor traffic, produce no revenue
of any consequence. The assessment rolls
for 1887 received at the comptroller's office
up to this time show a decrease of $3,000,000
in valuation of taxable property. If, oa
account of drouth and losses in live stock,
this furnishes a reliable ratio of re-
duction for the whole state, the rev-
enues from property will be reduced
$125,CC0 for general purposes and $62,500 for
school purposes. Then county revenues
Will also in like ratio be decreased. Adopt
prohibition, taking off the liquor tax which
yields $500,000 per annum for state purposes
and nearly $500,000 for county and city rev-
enues, and it follows that the state and its
municipalities must impose a tax upon
proteity sufficient to Bupply the million
dollars lost from the repeal of the oacapa-
ticn liqnor tax and the $187,500 lost from
reduction in taxable values. Next, prohibi-
tion would cripple the schools. The neces-
sity for raising increased revenue from
property for general purposes wouli pre-
vent increasing the school tax to supply tha
loss of revenue from the liquor tax. The
scholastic population increasing and the
available school fund decreasing would
leave the schools without adequate sup
port. Again, while tho expenses of tha
state government except as to schools
mishtnotbe increased, and while eveti, as
in Ksinsas, the state tax might not be in-
creased—though be it remembered Kansas
gave up no such amount as half a mil-
lien dollars per annum derived from high
license—yet, as in Kansas, county aud
municipal expenses would increase four-
fold and tho counties in Texas be deviled
with interminable litigation in attempts to
enforce prohibition and would be taxed 3 to 5
percent upon property as in Kansas, in-
stead of 30 to 60 cents on the $100 worth of
propeitj—the average county tax in Texas
now. Next, the people in "texishaving re-
sisted all the former attempts to break up
the democratic party and honest state
go vernnc ent, should not now be deceived by
this prohibition movement, which is a dead-
ly foe to that party, engineered as prohi-
bition is by defeated and revengeful aspi-
rants in the state, and fanatical republicans
i>nd enemies of the solid democratic south
from other states'. Again, prohibition fails
to prohibit in older and more thickly pop
ulatcd states, and in republican state3
where the cential government is intrusted
with the grsater power, and can therefore
not be expected to prohibit in Texas, where
the population is scattered, requiring a vast
expense to detect ajid punish violation of
the law over a territory so extensive, and
where Ihe idea prevails that local sentiment
rules in the locality even to theextent of ig
noting general law. I£ it will not prohibit it
will be a worse curse than nniveral drunken-
ness. Again, religion is defiled by its chosen
priests who have gone upon the hustings
and,drunken with partisan excitement, have
not hesitated to resort to intemperate
abuse, misrepresentation, vituperation,
angry and provoking language and the lov
arts of.the demagogue. Again, prohibition
is a concession to paternalism in govern-
ment, which invites other concessions of
like nature. Paternalism is Inconsistent
with the theory of personal liberty and in-
dividual responsibility. It assumes the
people to have found themselves incapable
of self restraint and accordingly of self-
government. It is the doctrine of political
fatalism which logically leads to individual
irresponsibility and the concentration of
all authority and responsibility in an auto-
crat or a central despotism exercising un-
limited power under the fiction of a repub-
lic. Again, prohibition would be unjust
and dishonest in the destruction of prop-
erty acquired honestly and laboriously by
thousands of thelworking people of Taxis.
Again, prohibition places a premium upon
hypocrisy and deceit. It transfers the
profits of the liquor traffic from
Texas merchants to St. Louis, New Orleans
and! Louisville merchants without any ad
vantage in preventing the sale and con-
sumption of liquor; it substitutes chaap
whisky for beer and wine as a pop
ular beverage; It breeds a claas of
contraband dealers in whisky; ii in-
creases the consumption of opiuai; it
opens blind tigers and underground rum
joints in every community, and it invites
fanaticism, crankism and bigotry to take
charge of the liberties and consciences of
the people. Finally, prohibition is the ene
my of;universal suffrage, of personal liber-
ty and religious toleration. It would re
stiict suffrtge to women and priest, dictate
the food, diink and raiment of the people,
and presciibe their religion. The south has
a vivid recollection of tha pernicious
growth of a kindred ism emanating from
the same land of political preachers and
strong-minded women, which co3t the peo-
ple millions and opened the way for radi-
cal misrule and tue insidious advaaca of
paternalism.
ON EARTH AND IN PARADISE.
Mohammed, the original prohibitionist,
was able to prohibit. His Koran was the
law and the gospel. In that bible a great
distinction is made, however, between pro-
hibition on earth and prohibition in para-
dise. On earth prohibition was a war mea-
sure. Total abstinence was required to
insure absolute obedience to Mohammed's
commands and perfect discipline iu his
armies. It was necessary to his scheme of
converting the world by the sword. Bat
his Koran promised his priests and chiefs
in paradise exemption from prohibition.
The exemption is not set forth, as in the
pendirg constitutional amendment, for
medical, sacramental and other named pur-
poses, but[pi cruises tha faithful an overflow-
leg fountain of sparkling wine and charm-
ing"' black-eyed bouris to serve it
to the clergy in crystal goblet on
golden salver. What the prohibitory
measure commended to the people of
Texas by the clergy requires is to establish
on earth;the delightful discrimination iu
favor, of the wealthy chiefs and ruling
priests that the Koran provides for the
faithful in paradise. The rich man and
the high priest may import and quaff the
flowing wine in dinirg hall, club room and
gilded sanctuary under the Texas Koran.
If Mohammed's chiefs and priests had
framed the prohibition amendment to the
Koran they would never have remitted the
pleasures of the flowing bowl to the uncer-
tainties of a future state, Mohammed,
though, knew the priests. He had the
clergy! down fine and accordingly kept
them down. When they would fain linger
at the wine bowl and look upon the black
eyes, Mohammed would scourge them back
to their places and point to the golden
shore. It makes a great difference who
proposes a prohibitory amendment,
whether it be Mohammed's prohibi-
tion which priests and chiefs mu3t
obey, or the chiefs' and priests'
prohibition which governs all men save
the said chiefs and priests. There was a
toprep of justness and;|fairness in Moham-
u.eu'» i prohibitior. Wealth and pailition
could claim no immunity. It applied to ail
men. Wine was binished. There was no
importation peimitted the rich, no blind
tigers for the retail of "pine top" to the
poor, and no fiction of "biled wine" for the
clergy sanctioned by the Koran. Here in
Texas, where the clergy and the wealthy
and ambitious have proposed the prohibi-
tion securing the favor of the "black eyed"
for the cause, it of course discriminates
against the laity and the poor people. Tex-
as prohibition allows the favored classes
named to have their fun here below, while
thfe Koran would require these classes to
show during life, by self denial and absti-
nence, their right to free drinks in para-
dise. In a government of the people dis-
criminations against the people at large
and in favor of the wealthy and the pttari-
pee are essentially unjust and ucdamo
cratie. ________
Some days ago the New York Times re-
ferred to some figures about investments
in new enterprises, which were offered by
R. G. Dun & Co., as explaining in part the
apparent unwillingness of "the public" to
raise the price of stocks by purchases in
Wall street. The Boston Commercial Bul-
letin now shows how great a sum of money
ho« rerently;been invested by eastern capi-
in' weBtern enterprises that have
originated in that city. The Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad company hts
called for nearly $40,000,000 to be expended
in extending it3 system, and about one-haif
of this sum has been paid in. The Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy has obtained about
$7,500,000, half of which has been
furnished in this country. To .the
Chicago, Burlington and Northern
$12,200,600 . has been paid in the last year
and a half. The Wisconsin Gentral and the
"Meriam" group of roads have received
large sums, and $0,000,000 has been put in-
to the Memphis and Birmingham roa^.
These enterprises, which are especialy
f avorect in Boston, have called for $75,000,-
000, all of which has been subscribed and
$45,000,000 of it has been actually invested.
Eoston capitalists have also supported cer-
tain California land companies by pay-
ments amounting to $2,500,000, and tne west-
ern mortgage companies are said to ba
doing a good business. Boston capital has
gone into new national banks in the north-
west, and one resident of the city is a di-
rector in no lesB than fifty-seven of these
institutions.
Correspondents of The News at all points
will please wire election returns immedi-
ately on the count being made on Thursday
night, 4th instant. Let reports be brief but
clear and distinct, and rush them in at the
earliest possible moment
Jefferson Davis reasoned against pro-
hibition. John H. Reagan rants for pro-
hibition in attempting to reply. The fol-
lowing is a specimen from this response:
We Lelleve wo could cerry the state against
tie combined Influence and efforts of the
manufacturers of whisky and beer, the liquor-
dealers' associations of St. Louis, Chicago,
Louisville. Cincinnati, New York, Fhlladil-
pr.ia and elsewhere, and against the u"e ot the
vast sums of money they have sent to Texas
to employisiid paj1 speakers, suborn the news-
papers and corrupt the ballot aud debauch
our people. We believed we could carry It
against the saloon-keepers, professional poli-
ticians and a number of good men like our
friend Governor Lubbock; but the power of
your great name Is now being paraded agalint
the prohibitionists, not only by some good
men who like yourself think prohibition more
dangerous than the liquor tratllcand drunken-
ness, with all the evils, poverty, wretched-
ness, shame, sorrow and crime which follow
In their train.
Senator Reagan Insults the press and peo-
ple of Texas by intimating that they can be
suborned and debauched. The good rea-
sons stated by Jefferson Davis will have
more influence than his name, and it would
be no more and no less unjust and ridica-
lous for Senator Reagan to intimate that
Jeffe?Eon Davis is suborned by brewers
than to make such a charge against the
Texas press and people.
To judge from the account given about
McGarigle in Canada, that boodle hero pre-
tended indifference when he was recognized,
bat he had concealed his identity by with-
holding his name. The affectation of going
unconcernedly to London, Ont., but his
non appearance there, indicate? that his
wits ware never missing. If McGarigle
does not try to get as far as Montreal his
name probably isn't McGarigle.
Dr. Burleson—ond wo happen to knov about
this too-a year or two ago wrote a letter al-
luding to the Buivhard speech, which li said
to have elected Mr. Cleveland presiuent, and
in that litter animadverted unon tho lillacy
ol preechors dabbling In politics. An effort
was made to use this letter against ministers
who have become prominent Iu the^prohibi-
tion Is sue, which brings Ur. Burleson to say
that it does not apply, because prohibition is
r.ot a party question, but merely of good gov-
ernment, in which democrats and republicans
without party distinction on either side are
found, this Tun News holds up initscolit uia
ss apiece of clerical duplicity. [Texas Bxp-
tlstllerald.
In discussing Dr. Burleson's utterances
The News has dealt with the logio of that
writer as a writer, as a prohibitionist and
as a politician, if its position is allowed
that prohibition is a political question; bat
a gross injustice is done by ths Texas-Bap-
tist Herald in the assertion that The Nkws
has held the matter up a3 "a piece of cler-
ical duplicity." The statement bears the
implication that The Nhws has attaoke.l
the clerical profession as sueh. Bach im-
plication is untrue.
We confess to unaffected humiliation at the
suggestion of The Iuli.as News that judges
of flection be selected by the managers from
Cemociats and republican!-, Instead of from
prohibitionists and unti.prohibitionists.
[Texas Baptist Herald.
Is not the above a confession that the pro-
hibition question is a party question?
National prohibition will probably ba
favored by the protectionists as their last
hope. To cut off the whisky tax directly
would be unpopnlar. To cut it off by pro-
hibition would cut down the revenue in a
manner which would suit the whole of the
protected interests, now perplexed by the
interest which the surplus gives to the ques-
tion of tariff reduction even among men
who can not see deeper into the merits of a
general free trade policy.
The 'lone highwayman is again In the
field robbing stages in the vicinity of Aus-
tin. At different times In the last few years
stages have been robbed in Bastrop and
Travis counties and west of Travis by a
single robber. A lone highwayman even
entered the city of Austin and made vari-
ous prominent citizens in the dusk of even-
ing stand and deliver cash and jewels. He
was a mete youth, and was shortly arrested
and convicted. The law allows tho robber
to carry arms, but places all others at his
mercy. A brave man is stupidly given over
to be robbed by a cowardly ruffian. Sauh
is the law. The lone highwayman ia the
product of a law that disarms the honest
men of the country, and that does not di3-
arm the lawless. Tho law-abiding and
money-gettirg are set apart as the treas-
urers of ihe lone highwayman class.
Correspondents of The News at all points
will please wire election returns immedi-
ately on the count being made on Thursday
night, 4th instant. Let reports be brief but
clear and distinct, and rush them in at the
earliest possible moment.
J. V. Farwell's Speech.
To The News.
Chicago, 111., July 20.—In your Chip3
from the Capital of July 21 you do ma great
injustice in that you make me say what
never entered my mind, and in direct con-
tradiction of what I really did say as to the
political aspect of the question of prohibi-
tion and the result of it if attained.
I said it would not split the south; and
now I will give you my reasons for so ba-
lieving: The democratic p*rty of the south
is composed of an overwhelming majority
of her white citizens, who will remain one
politically.
Another reason is that it is generally ex-
pected by ail the worst element of the dem-
ocratic party at least that the negro vote
Will go with them for free liq ior. Does
any one believe that'this eiemant in poli-
tics at the south will ever split the solid
south politically when the question comas
up?
From conversation with many Texans
while there, I was impressed with their
honest zeal on bothsideaof the qiestioa,
and am sorry to be obliged to think that
any one would misrepresent a stranger,
w ho hat honestly expressed his opinion oa
the urgent solicitation of honorable mea.
The arguments against prohibition, a-; I
heard and read them, were two oalv. viz ,
decresse in revenue of about $500,000
and infringement of personal liberty-
liberty for your citizens to buy and sell
at wholesale and retail probably $100,000,-
000 at least of liquors and baer, worse than
wasted all of it, leaving the state poorer
each year by the amount paid for it, whio'a
quite offsets the $500,000 lost in revenue.
This is nay honest business nniuion.
J. V. Farwell.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout Texai Are
Talking About.
The prohibition contest has developed a
substitute for the old phrase, "It i3 a cam-
paign lie," which used to serve for aa an-
swer to publications which admitted no
other. Now it is a forgery. Tha address
of John B. Finch, chairman of tha national
committee of the prohibition party, is pro-
nounced a forgery because the heading
placed over it by George Clark is not a
part of the document itself. Bam Hous-
ton's reply to the preachers who asked his
co-operation to secure the passage of a pro-
hibitory law is pronounced another forgery,
although without a shadow of reason, and
Jefferson Davis' letter to ex Governor Lub-
bock ie pnt under the same ban. Finah's
letter is pronounced a forgery because it
"is a reproduction of a communication to
the editor of the Voice, of New York, dated
Evanston, 111,, March 1, 1887, and printed in
the Voice of March 10,1887. That commu-
nication was not addressed to the people of
Texas, or, indeed, of any state." That is a
new way to prove a letter a forgery. The
Keriville Eye, however, says:
It Is a forgery out of the whole cloth and
every prohibitionist in tha state should
give it a denial every time ha gets a,
chance.
The Belton News says:
The only original Jefferson Davis cannot
be heard from before the 4th of August, but
we propose to question the genuineness o£
all "letters and interviews" of non resi-
dents. Besides, this is our fight.
The Denison News says:
The Tyler Tiibune warns the public to
beware of the latest anti fraud—the alleged,
letter from Jefferson Davis. There is no
question as to the authenticity of the letter.
State Treasurer Lubbock has the original
in bis possession and vouches for its au
thenticity. When any one impugns the in-
tegrity of Frank Lubbock he has a task:
upon his hands the News would not like to
assume.
The Vernon Guard says:
Notwithstanding the almost universal
cry of depression in money matters through-
out the entire country, the people of Wil-
barger county are better off financially and
otherwise to-day than at any former period
in the history of this section. This fact is
easily accounted for when we remember
that onr farmers have made sufficient pro-
duce the present season to at once lift them
above penury, and that instead of thousands
of dollars being taken out of the county, as
has been tbe case heretofore, to pay for
grain, the tables are turned aud we not
only have enongh for home consumption,
but will supply the up country demand.
Ben F. Gooch knows it all. He publishes
a long article, beginning as follows:
Those opposed to the prohibition amend-
ment, the actis, claim to have the Bibla oa
their side of the question to ba voted on by
the people of Texas the 4th day of August
next, and there can be no dou'ot bri' what
tbe Bible does recommend aud approva
of wine as a blessing as it doa.3 corn, oil and.
honey.
He says:
The wine Christ made and that w'uich tha
word of truth commends was not intoxicat-
ing. Upon this wine God's blessings rest,
and not His curse. The fermented or in-
toxicating wine is that forbiddun and upon
which the curse rests.
The law makes no such distinction. Tha
wine that will not ferment and will not in-
toxicate is not known in Texas. Tha pro-
posed amendment says: "The manufactur-
ing, sale and exchange of intoxicating
liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical,
sacramental and scientific parposas, is
hereby prohibited in the state of Texas."
The new law in regard to the sale or use ot
intcxic.iting liquors on election days says
' vinous, malt, spirituous or intoxicating
liquors." Noah Webster defines "vinous,
having the quality of wine." The law and
proposed amendment make no exceptions
in favor of wines that do not intoxicate.
The Coleman Voice says :
The assessment roll of Coleman county
for 18*7 foots up $3,386,411, an increase of
$251,000 over last year, notwithstanding the-
depressing effects of the drouth. If the
country can get any lower or the people-
moie depressed than when thl-) assessment
was made we can not imagine how it could
be worked up.
The Voice remarks:
The prohibitionist, with the utmost com-
placency in the holiness of his side, a3serts
that no good christian preacher ia on the
anti side. But let an anti make tha remark
that he doubts if there are many good
preachers on the prohibition side and he is
at once denounced as a scoffer of religion.
We must have a different sort of Christian-
ity now from what they had in the days of
the Master and His apostles on earth. When
tjiey were reviled they reviled not again.
The Voice Bays:
Fort Worth and Dallas have their picnics
and conventions, and occasionally aa old-
fashioned ten-strike turns each of them a
handsome Eend-off, but it is left for Galves-
ton to tako the cake in tne grandest enter-
prise in Texas—the baggage and cordage
factory. It is now a settled faot that b v the
1st of January next the largest establish-
ment of this kind on the American conti-
nent will be ready for operation at Gal-
veston. Fifty by two hundred and sixty
feet, three story main factory, with ware-
houses to suit, costing 3-300,000, soon to be
supplemented with a million capital cotton
factory. Mr. Adoue leads off in this matter,
and savs it takes 10,000,000 yards of bagging
annually to cover the cotton crop of Texas.
Tbe capital to operate the enterprise is es-
timated at $1,000,000.
The Houston Post, commenting on the ut-
terances of the Texas Christian Advocate,
says:
Does it evidence a desire to have the
question at issue settled upon Its merits,
free from prejudice or passion? Does itnot
rather go to show that the prohibition lead-
ers are attemptiner to carry their point by
exciting the prejudices of the people, by the
aid of the church bigotry, and by stirring
up religious fanaticism?
A correspondent of the Current tries to
reawaken interest in the town oE Cold
Springs, once noted as a most desirable
place of residence. He says:
The town of Cold Springs, while cumbar-
ing about 100 families, is certainty one of
the most desirable health resorts to be
found in southeast Texas. Tiie cUtzous are
moral, hightoned. and refined. L'nere are
seven mercantile houses, t^o hotels, oao
salooD, one steam gin aud mill, aa elegant
court-house and jail aud quiUi a number of
well built dwelling houses, t wo commodious
academies and one hundred or mora of
the finest springs of freestone water that
ever flowed out of the ground. San Jacinto
county presents more advantages than aa?
other county to seekers for rioli land, good
health, good society, good water, good
timber and good range for horses, cattle
and hogs, more anon, thin any o;aer county
in tbe state.
Some of tie Victoria belles who have
been listening to the wild waves at Galves-
ton wrote to the Advocate:
We sit on the hotel lawn and listen to
sweet s'rains of musicrfurnished by a fine
band. Here at the hotel is the place to see
old people, young people, tha gay and
festive dude sucking his cane and hauging
on to the arm of a dudine, both too utterly
sweet to live; but the babies, oh, my, with
their f quailing,and mothers and nurses try-
ing to stay their proceedings, you canimag-
ina what a din. The bathing facilities
are simply immense, and one can sit on the
hotel plaza and watch large crowds sport-
ing in the gulf. We take a dip almost daily,
and feel much refreshed. The weather is
delightful at 88 and 89 in the shade, and
when we read of people dyina in tha northt
on account of the heat it makes our hearts
ache.
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