The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-16
TIE MEXICAN QUESTION.

The Now York Times sneers at the
excitement on our Rio drande frontier
and sees no hostile intent and purpose
when four hundred armed MeXicans
invade Texas, imprisou and otherwise
mallreat Texan county officials and
private citizens, II sees no cNuse for
bad feeling that these and similar out'
RACES have been perpetwted ever since
the close Of the war, We are unlortu,
nately situated geographically TO win
the sympathy Of the Times aud the
class II represents, Now, were The four
hundred invaders Canadians, and were
the captured Officials New Workers not
al ! the acknowledged talking talent of
the Times, could express 1.-THE of its
own proper indignation much less that
Of the mass Of people who wait for its
permission TO call black black, or white
white The invasion OF New York
would be n national allront, but the ms
yasion OF Texas is only Il border Difficult.
ty and has no significance other than u
mere local irritation or worse STILL has
is origin only in the rocosscs of some
OBSCURE ignorant or bcligcrant news,
paper Office on the scmi.barbarous TO
the TGmcs) frontier of Texas To the
peaceful and complacont Times, Cortina,
as we know him. is II myth, or nm hor-
est quiet trustworthy gentleman OF
large fortune, which does not consist OF
horses and cattle stolen from Texan
citizens and whose throatcutting fame
was not won by his practice upon the
ugars of citizens of the United States
One is inclined to distrust the mere
ignorance of great Journal like the
Times, when il takes such position
and TO Nscribe its utterances to u hostile
Indifference to our border troubles. Per
haps it considers that every Texan muir
dered or reduced to poverty as one more
active and dangerous enemy reduced
to harmlessness, and instead of invok>
ing the protection of the strong arm o.
the national government in his defense
ii would turn it against him,
Because the press Of Texas exhibits
n unanimity in calling for national in
reference, rarely ever seen, tho TmG
must insult them by it's coarse ibci
and senselcss rebukes. The Galveston
NG,cS takes up the cudgcls and mos
temporarily answers its metropolitan
traducer pointing to the temperate anC
pacific course of the press of TeXa
through all the long years these ter
rible outrages have been going on, anC
to the fact that it always favored &
peaceful solution of the troubles. In
deed but for this anti-war attitude o
the Texas papers, the matter had beer
referred to the decision of war lon.
since, and peace would nov
reign unbroken on all on
borders. The News must bear it
own proper share of this blamable for
boarance, because from II Texas stand
point it ceitainly is blamable
War must come sooner or later, be
fore the border problem can be solved
and this is the opinion Of the intelli
gent people of Texas, 70 our judg
ment tho only question to be deter
mined in this connection is, if the pres
ent is the proper time to commence it
We have fcebly tried to answer the in
quiry in the affirmative in previous
numbers Of THE HERALD, and do no
feel that it is necessary to restate on
positions. Nothing can now settle TIN
trouble but war, or sufficient guaran
tees on the part of Mexico that she vii
in future rigidly adhere to treaty stipu
lations