The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-05-26
TuE People Ann THE EEwsPA.
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most sensible and ably written article,
The fact Is generally becoming known
lhat the time has passed when tho
press and people can be dictated 10 by
any individual, clique or ring, A
Newspaper has u great and important
mission 10 fulill, and II isH duty the
publishers owe 10 themselves aud The
public 10 hold up error expose fraud
aud corruption, aud strengthen the
hands and endorse tho action Of OIL
eials la an honest aud conscientious
discharge Of duty, The Statesman
trulhmlly remarks that II h men who
ARE uncertain Of their own social aud
personal worth or conscious Of moral
or mental deficiency, who are ever
most sensitive ~ Jest or criticism, and
the same conduct distinguishes office
holders who owe honOrs to plumbers
made In nominating conventions or 10
the corrupt action Of party leaders,
The following extract from the States
man, h 30 full Of truth, aud wllhal 10
ably expresses tho Views aud feelings Of
TuE HERALD on the subject, that II N
transferred 10 our columns without FUR
thcr comment;
We have seen stupid follows led
about by tho nose aud made very ab-
surd In the eyes of the public by their
anger excited by u criticism, which, II
unjust, was harmless II Just, should
lend TO reform. But the silliost con-
duet Of ignorance Is discovered when
II takes Olltnse and h enrnged because
IL N rldiculed or condemned, Justly or
unluslly, aud 10 Nyonge the Outrage,
wlthdrnwa patronage What slgll-
lles 10? Who cares? II an article he
llerce aud Just enough 10 "Atrlk0 Ollp
Ia the direction Of folly, II also strikes
II At the same Instant In the direction
Of wisdom aud virtue and intelligence.
Moreover, the educated and intelligent
will always rend and pay for II news
paper and the press owes nothing of
money 10 Ignorance and Vice. Fools
threats affecting what they call "pat-
ronagon are only amusing 10 modern
journalist, II IL IL only the feeble news
paper, as feeble In expression and In
telligence w In supplies Of public con-
lidoncc, that listens when "paironage"
IL mcnacod. We have lived beyond
the point no which we needed "pat-
rOnugo.n We now and then "pNtr0n-
ilen others, but suffer mono TO "patron-
kon ourselves 10 our patrOnl2lng
care and influence Hon. John Ireland
owes his prominence before the people
Of Texas, and II he ever blow and bios
som beautifully In vernal tenderness
anu sweetness IN the senate of the
United States, the fact will be due
solely to the patronage" extended
him by the Statesman. The Statesman
has grown steadily and surely In pub
lie confidence, and for the reason that
II Is distinguished by distinguished
"dOn't-care-a.d -n-atlveness.n II can
neither be cajoled by power and office
nor diverted from its chosen course by
legislative condemnation. 1t never
bent the pregnant hinges Of the knee
that thrift might follow lawning when
ii cost u.s. loss of one hundred and
fifty dollars per diem to stand by the
right and defy error, ms illustrated in
the tergversations of the faclle party
leader, aud fcicilous orator, Mr..
Barliza. Neither the success nor
failure to secure the public print
ing has affected in fact or In words,
the policy of the Statesman. 1t is
not for sale. And If the patronage"
OF the state worth many thousands,
with all the prestige IL may give, could
not make the Statesman veer, either to
the right or TO the left, and this is as
serted of us by every officer of the state
how absurd becomes the
conduct of the police force and of the
mayor, who withdrew their "patron-
age" to avenge just and certainly
legitimate criticism upon their public
and official acts. If the Statesman
wronged them in Office, the Statesman
would never hesitate to right the
wrong. But the idiots do two stupid
things Instead of correcting any en-
ror into which we may have possibly
fallen, they confess either outlines by
anger, or sublime folly by threatening
to withdraw patronage The legls-
lature failed in this, and shall a
wretched little local government, with
its stipendiaries, as impotent as inca
pable of affecting public opin-
ion, undertake the task of con-
trolling the newspaper by with
patronage ?' We don't ask
patronage We give a Quid
pro q,to for all the money we get, and
have all we need to make the States
man worthy of Austin, in its intelli-
gence, taste, in the instincts and pre-
JUDGES of the people. AS Austin grows
the Statesman will grow with it, and
the city and its newspaper will live
and die together. But the Statesman
will never live by patronage" 1t
would surely die, and would not de-
serve to live if il accepted patronage
1t owes its existence to the intelligent
people of the city and state, and asks
nothing at the hands of stupidity and
ignorance. 1t conceals none of its
opinions and deiies the rabble and any
party leader who falls into error, and
If the Statesman pursued a less fear
less and honorable and Independent
course it would not have the conf
dence or approval of that intelligent
class for which it exists, whose opin-
ions and proclivties and tastes and in
ltincta IL accurately reprasants