The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-10-20
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over eleven million dollars. We
were for the uonee, Invested Of The
sentimental humanitarianism comulon
10 the humblest border, as well as The
proudest metropolitan paper. in the
land. We eudeayored to take com
mon sense business view Of the case
much as England and other great Euro
pean powers are now taking OF the
Turco-Russiau war. II we arc TO fight.
we are favor Of casting the probable
profits, - VOL as tho certain losses
THIS is what TINS HgH,uD was humblv
saged at when il aroused the ire Of
its colossal critic.
We give the article from the San en-
tire and our readers viii pisr-
don US IL we reply to the
the Sane propositions in the order ia
which we find them The business
views Of an actual or probable war were
never discussed before, or. Of course.
the >.m would not feel the degree Of
astonishmeut which il does when we
here in Texas cast that into the scale
and give it due weight, among other
things in determining our policy.
The No' should remember that there
is a slight difference so far as effects are
concerned. between an interneoine war.
whore, 50 far as the restored nationality
Is concerned, the losses and evils are "A
common heritage 10 both victor and
vauquished and foreign war, where
the encmys defeat ia certain, and the
acquisition Of valuable territory. and
the procurement of quie; and order are
among the objects sought, IS well as the
I plainly obvious early effects. These are
some of the distinctive features between
the late war between the states and
the proposed war with Mexico. The
ephemeral prosperity only failed TO be
I permanent, even then because of the
wreiched business AMI financial
policy OF u pRrtizan administra,
ton which required eleven years n
grasp the idea that slavery wa,
dead, and by It's own hand too The
SsA, We presume. does not mean TO sag.
that the wal, per Sc made the rich richer
and tho poor poorer yet that isexactly
what It does say, in reality, or rather
that is reasonably logical construc-
ton Because riches produce luxury
and extravaganza, it is wrong, nay, n
/ great crime. for either nations, commu
mites or individuals to strive to acquire
them. The San is equally unfortunate
/ in the other instance it cites. Now. edi
tors in the west know that it is the uni
versal practice Of the faculty, TO give a
little more stimulant to help the pa.
tent out Of a debauch. The San wSulo
do violence to that great and commonl,
accepted remedial truth, that the hail
of the dog is good for the bite" How
irreverent as well as illogical, is Gun
great adversary. II it is the interest.
OF Mexico which the San regards, whel
( il cites Germany and France, then W,
| should 90 to war on her account, be
cause the war has been great
benefit to France, but perhap,
the sans desire to serve the Mexieans
is not strong enough to eause it tc
make so great sacrifice. The great
national debts OF Europe. especially thai
of England, have not proven 50 very
disastrous. Indeed when honestly aud
periodically handled they have evei
been counted as among the least dis
gtiised blessings of government.
We rather shocked our Baltimore
contemporary when we proceeded on th,
theory that Mexico had no right
which we were bound to respect, in thi'
affair nor has she. She has violated
every treaty stipulation made with her
She has winked at, nay. positively en-
couraged, the numbering, thieyiue
bands on her Rio Grande frontier, b,
furnishing secure asyltuns behind tia,
bsyoneis Of her armies for her thieves
of both high and low degree. She has
even given the most illustrious anon;
them high military commands in hei
armies She has no strength TO re
strain these frontier bandits, il even hei
central government had the disposition
and the most enthusiastic and enamoret
among the lovers Of the greasers, canno
point TO a single effort she has eve
made TO do this
| Here is nation OF ten millions o
people most OF them honest and isi,ds
tri0vs rILLERs oF rHE SOIL which i
about to be invaded by the Goths ant
Vandals of the north. Why. the Who'll,
Mexican population viii blush witt
pleasure At the unwonted and unusual
as well as unexpected compliment
while on this side of the Rio Grand
the very idiots in the asylum will shou
in derision. Tillers of the soil !" tina
is rich indeed. A nation OF robbers
torn and divided into more maraudiny
hands, united in nothing except
deathless hatred of the Americans
without a single virtue or redeeminl
trait of any kind. exalted by the Baiti
more Ssn into virtuous industriou
nation Of peaceful agricnlturists. an,
invested with all the rights attending
such condition. IL were waste of tim,
and space 10 further notice ignoranc,
or Misrepresentation of this kind.