Editorial April 11, 1903 Issue

Class Legislation Defeated

Our very full account of the recent legislative battle and well-won victory in Texas will be of interest to our readers, as showing that in the matter of ministering to the sick another state has declared in favor of individual liberty and against class legislation. One by one the states are coming into line on this subject, and it would seem that we are approaching the day when attempts to proscribe the practice of Christian Science can no longer masquerade under the title, "An act to regulate the practice of medicine."

No part of the graphic and interesting report of our correspondent will appeal more strongly to those at all familiar with the history of Texas than the reading by Senator Hanger of the letter written by Mrs. Anson Jones, President of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and wife of the last president of the Republic.

The seventy years of Mrs. Jones's residence in Texas covers the successful struggle for national independence, the brief existence of Texas as a republic, and its career as one of the United States. She says, "I knew it as a wilderness. I see it now teeming with prosperity, an empire in its magnificence." The battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, in which Anson Jones took an honorable part, won the independence of Texas, and it is not surprising that this letter from one so highly esteemed should have awakened memories dear to every Texan, or that it should have stimulated patriotic impulses which decided the fate of the pending bill.

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

Class Legislation Defeated

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access