Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — Texas Liqeor Law. [ARTICLE]

Texas Liqeor Law.

' ns Live lak iy been abends redLii the Uhited'States Stiy.,ei..< ecu;t which affirm the va--I,’ity of wh'-t is known as the ‘a’’ ive-well patents." The effects: of tl.cse. decisions will doubtless I (1.&; fill persons who have wells ; :: .de on that principle will l>d a' : : grd tfe-j +*y a certain sum ta-J t* ; owners of the patents, by way | < ;.,y ' «»wau'.m»u -.iy"* : . e ticngo. Daily Inter Ocean 1 .jieasing in popularity in Kens-! La r, and the wonder to us is : ' "t the increase is not much more t.-t d. .As a.news t >aper, pure and si-v.pie, the Inter-Ocean does not a back seat with anv of them, ■ y J • n ltd the honorable exception that ; t makes a much less prominent L . tore c f sensational matters than <’> some of its competitors. It is t : o only really reliable, out-and-o;;t; s lucre toed Republican mornHg» daily ’published in Chicago ; and thesame may be said of it as amndvojnite oLa rational protective iriff system. As a general family paper t>o, t lip 1 nter-Ocean can’t be brat, either in its daily or weekly ■•ditiims.

' EVcl Gov. (Lav, who can stand almost anything, has grown sick th-? disgrace of allowing Dr. 1 iari ison and trustee G.-pen, two <■.; the chief authors of the insane asylum abuses, t> remain . ■ iiiccted wiih those institutions • ■; ’ has summarily removed them n’,. i appointed other men in their i)’.: es. We ifoticeby-the-way that th > Indiafiapolis Sentinel and its : v.crs throughout the- state, : ■i: as the Democratic Sentinel ' • Rensselaer, are maintaining an . ’ juent silence over this action <•; tiiov -Governor' r. During the last'campon these papers could d no w£nds t o strong in con- ’ 1 .auati-’m of what they termed ■ infamous republican si-halers' m th se asyrani < die; tfej shd Wdfei’ the most of th-a e tod le tn ..LI? of nubli Ling the yoluminpus and v.’ii.dy,' bat. intentionally false and misDading, white washing renorh of St e S..a'e hrregard fo"the •.s_.htm a’.uses, but now tart Idgh--st demceratic oilicial in the st.-.: . and the acknowledged leader of h : s j arty, has, in effect, publicly pronounced the charges true, these papers hav6 suddenly Tssf a! ’ in -' t -rest of the subject of deaihcratic insane asylum management.

Whether Ti-xas votes prohibition into the Consititution. next \ugust, or not—and the anti-parly appears to be really alarmed lest the amendment may carry—the State is going to have a law'whicli Will largely ‘ prohibit the sale ,of hepor after the 4th of July. On

that day an act goes intb, operation which forbids ttye use of a screen or any other device to obstruct thq view into a saloon, and prohibits )>ool tables or any other tables used for games of chance in such places. Sales ar# forbidden to minbfs, students and liabitual drunkards and to any person whose wife, mother, daughter or sister | gives notice to the dealer through [ the sheriff or other peace officer I not to sell to-sucu person. A bond lof,S.*A)' 1 ih'it I.' sail i-.i ieiiy comply with the law must bo furnished <>y every.dealer. I'hi* si ala ut as'si \. i f a law as ccisihl I" frannal and stop short of prohibition.