The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-05


While the people of Texas ire praise
worthily engaged in making Big crops,
building ep slense commercial in
ierests anl closely watching European
complications. they must not forget
/ that although our next general state
I electian j. still sometime oil. yet the
magnitude Of the interests t. be affect
Ell by many apparently predetermined
constitutional changes and reforms,
| demands that even now goodly share
of public attention should b. given to
their careful consideration.
The entire Judiciary articls will have
to be amended, altered. expunged or
superseded just what Is necessary
and what viii meet the views of the
greatest number of people in the state.
can only be determined by fun, frank
and fair discussion of the subject. on the
stump and in the columns OF the papers
Gentlemen who aspire to be represen-
tativcs and senators. governors, or to
have any other official connection with
the state government, will be required
to 60 on the record early, on all the
vital points of change upon which the
( people have determined to act The
elective judiciary, two courts of last
resort, with equal and conflicting pow
| ers, the county courts, modes of busi>
ness in the courts. taxation and assess
nent official responsibility, public
! school matters, homestead laws, and on
this and similar lines ed iefnit,na.
Those who aspir, to position in the
next legislature need not hope to evade
these and similar questions. They viii
be compelled to take positive positions
on each, or more properly all, OF them,
on either one side or the other.
The tax levied upon thc granaries
and smoke-houses of the farmers of
| Texas, and that upon the laborers and
! professional men. the odious occupation
tax. must be removed or modified in
some satisfactory way. The indebted
ness Of the state must be looked after,
and its early tina! and thorough liquid
dstion provided for, Indeed, there are
a thousand and one matters of present
and pressing interest which require at
tention. If five dollars per day is an
| insufficient sum 90 induce frst-rate
talent to embark in the public service
of the state, increase the sum Let us
offer such pay as that a prudent man
who is succeeding ON his farm, in his
law practice, or whatever he may be
engaged at, can afford to drop it for a
time and give to the public that single
effort which has succeeded so well III
his individual case After the people
have discharged their obligations in this
way, then they will be N position to
demand the service OF such men as we
have indicated, Beggars can not be
choosers, and if we offer only a beg
carly indueement, we purchase only
beggarly service True and wise econ-
ony is forever opposed to any such
policy.
Texas has plenty of first.rate talent.
which is available, but the wonder to
outsiders is, that so little of it, as rule,
finds its way into the public service,
but more especially into the legislative
branch of it. The explanation is made
above, and it is not complimentary to
either our good sense or our patriotism.
The twelfth, thirteenth and fifteenth
Legislatures of Texas viii go down to
history with but few immortelles in
their civic crowns. Axe>grinding ignor-
ance must be excluded in the future
from the work of law-makiug. We will
not be understood as charging this
stupid righteousness upon all the mem
bers Unfortunately but simply upon
the working majority, because all three
of them had ssBsc of the best men in the
state, while the mass of representatives
had nothing else on earth, save their
own crude, Illogical and grasping self-in-
| terests in view.