The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

FRUITS, grapes and vegetables, al
round Dallas, promise II bountliu
yield
For the past six months scarcely
week has passed without record o
some act of sell-destruction in New
Orleans, the last being Captain j. }
ComeauX, worthy citizen of Iberia.
OUR land is now flowing with mill
and butter, as it always does at Thu
season; but the day is duwning whei
the flow will continue the year round
The good work goes brayely on.
THE numerical representation OF
both parties in the Louisiana legisla
ture, including the four conservative
members seated a few days ago, is as
follows: In the house, siXty-fOur CON
servatives to forty-siX republicans, and
in the senate, twenty-seven republicans
to nine conservatives-being tie on
joint ballot.
A COMMUNICATION will be found in
to.day's HERALD, signed Nc, TO which
we invite the earnest aud favorable at
tention ofthe readers of THE HERALD.
The subject on which it treats-educa-
tion-and the particular object which
it presents, is deserving of the highest
encouragement from the citizens of
Dallas.
AN occasional contributor to THE
HERALD desires to return thanks to his
friend, Mrs. Juliet Fowler, for Il very
superior sample of her skill in an arti-
Gle of table use which is imported, like
too many other domestic necessities,
from distant parts. A hundred such
ladies, acting in concert in Dallas
county, could effect n material and
much desired revolution in trade.
AT all times and under all circum-
stances it is q pleasure to us to rectify
an error wherein we may have done
injustice to another person. In an ar
ticle on the subject of conventions, etc,
few days since, we referred to the
Hon. John Ireland as one of the hold
ing over senators and, 10y implication,
attributed n selfish motive to his late ad-
dress. We are glad to find we were in
error. Mr.. Ireland drew two years
term, which expires in December.
The New Orleans Times is authority
for the statement that the moment adj
justment of political troubles in Louis
lana became fixed fact, Il foreign
company with capital of twenty mil
lions of dollars concluded to invest in
land in that state and pursue agricul-
.ure as u science. The point selected
as the location lies north of the thirty
second parallel, and consists of four
hundred thousand acres of tillable
land, with three million six hundred
thousand of marsh.
MISSOURI has recently elected new
constitutional convention, which is
soon to assemble. The Columbia
Statesman, one of the oldest and ablest
papers in the state, edited by Hon.
William +. Switzler, an old legislator
and congressman, of very conservative
views, takes strong ground in favor of
taking the original constitution of 1890
as the frame work of the new and
adapting it to the altered condition
of the state. He says the convention
of 1920 was perhaps the ablest tody
ever assembled in the state. Many of
its members established national rep
utations, as Barton, Bates, Geyer, Pet
tus, Wells and Others. He shows how
the various amendments added in
1885, 1915 and afterwards, failed TO
meet the wants of the state, and by an
able exposition of the whole subject
shows the wisdom of the instrument
of 1920.
While there is anoat in the land,
and especially in the west, an unde-
fined idea that we in this day Of rail
roads and telegraphs have outgrown
all the wisdom of the former days, the
solid fact remains to the thoughtful
that principles Of truth and justice and
liberty never change. They were as
well understood in 1876 and by the /
men who founded the goverpments of
the states, as by the go-ahead men of
TODAY.