The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17
THE REMEDY.

the groans aud shrieks Of our murdered
borderors Ot last, and with singular
unanimity speak out for war Ia dis,
cussng tho various reasons pro and
con, TnE HERALD, in one brief article
alluded TO some lew of the pos,
slble advantages Of going TO war-O
war forced uponus in view Of the bold
and repeated violation of every treaty
stipulation, rs the only alternative for
the ellcctual stopping Of Mexican raids,
which have, IN the aggregate, robbed
the citizens of the United States of
over eleven million dollars. We
were, for the nonce, Invested OF the
sentimental humanitOrianism common
to the humbcst border Ms well as the
proudest metropolitan paper in the
land, We endeavorod to take II com.
mon sense business view of the case,
mucn as England and other great Euro.
peOn powers are now taking of the
'rurco- Russian war. II we are to fight,
we are favor of casting the probable
profits rs we'll NJ the certain losses
This is what TuG HERALD was humbly
engaged Vt when IL aroused the ire OF
its colossal critic
We give the article from the ,SUn en-
tire, and our readers will par.
don us if we reply to the
the Suns propositions in the order in
which we find them, The business
views of an actual or probable war were
never discussed before, or, OF course
the Sm would not feel the degree OF
astonishment which it does when we
here in Texas cast that into the scale
and give it due weight, among other
things, in determining our policy.
The Sun should remember that there
is slight difference, so far MS effects are
concerned, between an internccine war
where, so far ~ the restored nationality
Is concerned, the losses and evils are II
common heritage to both victor and
vanquished and n foreign war, W here
the enemys defeat is certain, and the
acquisition of valuable territory, and
the procurement OF quie. and order are
among the objects sought, ms well as the
plainly obvious early effects These arc
some OF the distinctive features between
the late war between the states and
the proposed war with Mexico, The
ephcmeral prosperity only failed to be
permanent, even then because of the
wretched business and financial
policy OF u pNrti2an administers
ton which required eleven years tC
grasp the idea that slavery was
dead and by its own hand too. The
S'm, we presume, does not mean TO say
that the war, per SC, made the rich richer
and the poor poorer, yet that is exactly
what it does say in reality or rather
that is a reasonably logical construc
ton. Because riches produce luxury
and extravaganza, it is wrong, nay,
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 il is the uni
versal practice of the faculty, to give a
little more stimulant to help the pa
tient out of n debauch The Sun would
do violence to that great and commonly
accepted remedial truth, that the "hail
Of the dog is good for the bite" How
Treyerent, as well as illogical, is oul
great adversary. If it is the interests
OF Mexico which the Sun regards, when
it cites Germany and France, then we
should 80 to war on her account be.
cause the war has been great
benefit to France, but perhaps
the SWl desire to serve the Mexicans
is not strong enough to cause it to
make so great sacrifice. The great
national debts Of Europe, especially that
OF England, have not proven so very
disastrous, Indeed when honestly and
periodically handled they have ever
been counted as among the least dis.
suised blessings of government
We rather shocked our Baltimore
contemporary when we proceeded on the
theory that Mexico had no rights
which we were bound to respect, in this
affair nor has she. She has violated
every treaty stipulation made with her.
She has winked at, nay, positively ems
Outraged, the numbering thieving
bands on her Rio Grande frontier by
furnishing secure asylums behind the
bayonets of her armies for her thieves
OF both high and low degree. She has
even given the most illustrious among
them high military commands in her
armies. She has no strength to re.
strain these frontier bandits, if even her
central government had the disposition,
and the most enthusiastic and enamored
among the lovers of the greasers, cannot
point to a single effort she has ever
made to do this
Here is q nation of ten millions of
people most of them honest and indts>
fr'ous TlLLERs or THE soil" which is
about to be invaded by the Goths and
Vandals of the north. WHY. the whole