The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-12-21
The FL PAS0 IRluRLE.


The effort TO connect the present
trouble at III Paso with the general diff
llculty which Is now pendlngwith Mex
loo, will fail simply becauseit ought to
fail, The original quarrel between
Louis Cards and Judge Howard, was
a Misunderstanding about business
mattertho San Eleaario salt ticks They !
we're both citizens of The state Of Texas
Cards At one time was the repreaen-
tatiyo of III Paso county In tho legisaN
ture The emeute Is thus stripped Of
any thing like difference on national
grounds, Cards, however, was of MexN
lean origin, and Of course the sympa'
thies of that class Of citizens were with
him, rs that OF Americans were with
Judge Howard, The trouble has no
more political significance than If II had
occurred between Il New Yorker and a
Jcrsian. The rangers involvedin the mat
ter were officers in the line Of duty, and
who have risked life TO preserve the
peace. The rioters should, one and
all, meet the fate of those who
violate law and shed blood, Nor
should there be the least distinction
made between the adherents Of the
two chiefs but the guilty Of either parN
w should be made to feel the full
weight of m outraged law,
II we are to have war with Mexico,
It that contamination is Mt all desir0~
bic, or is necessary to restore order on
the Rio Grande frontier for heavens
sake let it rest upon n better basis than
a quarrel between the rival claimants
of few valuable salt ticks In our
humble opinion there has been enough
provocation to warrant the United
States in administering severe punishr
ment TO Mexico, or of even taking u
considerable slice Of her fairly forfeited
domain. We should not war upon a
mere preteXt. We should 80 about it
in frank and manly way, A decla-
ration of grievances should be made
with firm demand for atonement, and
if the latter was not promptly made,
let war follow and few months of
earnest and vigorous effort by our
army, and peace and security for all
time on the Rio Grande would be the
result.
Such a pretext as the I'll Paso emeute
would be unworthy of great people,
confronting weaker foe. 1t would
be n stain upon the national honor and
n tacit Difference to mob power,exceed,
ingly detrimental to all the interests
served by vigorous and virtuCus adj,
minstration Of law Let the ministers
of law pursue its yiolators and admins,
ter condign punishment first then let
the government look into the gravel
international questions involved in the
chronic visitations along the disturbed
border and if war is necessary to correct
them and give peace to the country
then let it be declared at once and
peace only made when the power tC
disturb has been destroyed
The rumored removal of Ord and the
substitution Of Augur does not presag,
such result, and would argue quite an,
other than war policy We trust
the rumor may not be con-
lirmed, for so confident are we that
it is necessary to final settlement
However this opinion, largely shared
as it is in Texas, cuts no figure in tn,
case. The whole matter should be i'm
partially considered and the truth i
possible. gotten at, and action predica
ted only on that,
Senator MaXey's bill, if it is prompt,
passed and the posts built and manned
at once, will 90 FAR toward allaying TIN
fears Of the people, and also 60 far to
ward rendering it impossible for thes,
lawless people to inrract, But whil
congress is wrangling over it the borde
interests Of the country are rapid,
going to the dogs. Before the adven
OF Mr. Hayes such an affair as that a
FL Paso, occurring in any of the south
ern states, between whites and negroes
would have called out congressional
and senatorial investigating committees
not that they ever got at the truth, bu
then it exhibited interest Let us hay,
some intcrest manifested now, to tn,
end that peace be restored