The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-07-21

WEDNESDAY MoRsISo JULY H.
rnE oorros STATES CONGRESS

hearts by threatening their polltl'
cal, social or financial we'll being,
may, and ollon do, accomplish much
good, In such oasoa II IN the strong
aud earnest mon that are aonl for
ward 10 represent the prevailing
sentiment and when thcy rlao In
their places and address tho chair
tho audience iool that thcy are liz
tonlng 10 tho voice Of the uncountcd
multitude, back NJ tho Speakers
homoj aud oven though bls speech
may DO hating, and his voice not
that oflho trained orator, hla homo
~ rhetoric has u moral power which
IN folt,
But II IL worry different with tho
"Commorcial Conventions" and
meetings Of tho "National Board of
Trade "Cheap Transportation
Conventions and the like which
annually vox tho common sense Of
practical mon, by assembling and
resolving, Tho delegates to those
gatherings are composed chiefly Of
three classes, The first are half
crazy theorists-men with hobbies
which they hope TO ride successfully
through tho Convention" to which
thcy manage TO have themselves nc
credited as delegates The second
are men with no particular tho
Dries, on any subject, but
who crave notoriety, and dotc
upon seeing themselves chronicled
in the daily prcss M Colonel Angus.
tus Caesar Smith, Of Texas, or Gen
oral GusIavus Adolphus lIobson, Of
Florida, or tho Hon. l'lorian
McStiggins, of Tennessee, and have
their distinguished names sent upon
the wings OF tho telegraph all
over tho land. With what com.
placcncy they read their names
in tho morning papers And
how proud Mesdamos Smith, Hob
son and McStiggins are whom they
read Of the greatness Of their liege
lords in the associated press dis
patches.
The third class, and II large one,
who help to swell the list of dele.
gates to these conventions, whom
held in the summer time, ut some
cooler place than thoir homes, con.
sists of well-to.do business men,
who, having but little work at that
season of the year, at homo, attend
these conversations solely for re,
creation, to meet some old friends
and TO have good time generally |
Thus constituted, it is easy to see
that these assemblages naturally
fall under the domination and con-
troll Of the theorist and riders of
hobbies, who are the only mon in
earnest. 1t is this class who draw
up the resolutions, and shape the
business The consequence is chat
In nine cases in ten the labor of the
mountain ID u mouse, and instead of
practical suggestions, we have
u string of vapid and absurd rosolu.
tons and recommendation To Con.
gross, Of all manner of absurd
schemes, which nobody ever reads
except in the press dispatches,
while waiting tor breakfast, and
never recalls afterwards.
These remarks are called out by
the proceedings of tho Cotton
States Congress held AZ Raleigh,
North Carolina, few days ago,
and which for n day occupied
public attention. How this con-
vention was appointed, or who were
their continents, we are entirely
ignorant. That they represented
any large class Of the people of the
cotton States, Wa do not believe.
AS TAR as We can Judge from their
resolutions they represented mere
ly the local interests Of the North
west and Southcast--in other words
the grain and meat and the cotton
interests Of those localities. Tho
interests of Alabama, Mississippi
Louisiana, Arkansas and T6xas-in
other words, the States producing
moro than ono-half of the entire
cotton crop Of the country, appear
10 have been entirely ingored. When
he present and prospective impor.
ance Of Texas alone, ~ u cotton
tate, is taken into consideration,
his ignoring of her interests, and
voiding the least reference to her
in q Congress of the
lotion States as they lolily call !
themselves, is decidedly cool.
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