The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-05-04


dollars, yet the total appropriations
with this reduction is not in keeping
with the spirit of economy and reform
so much talked of by the Hubbard or
gans.
---------------
THE DEMOCRACY AND THE FARMERS.
The journal which exhausts it vital
energies in the fruitless task of making
political distinctions between urban and
rural democracy is hardly entitled to
notice; yet We have the idea that many
honest people are being deceived by the
rant of the Examiner, and hence we
deem it bounden duty to show up its
inconsistencies. The original PROPOSE
tiou of that paper, in its issue of March
20, was, that the farmers of Texas
should have fair representation in the
government of the state" There are
few cities in Texas no very large ones
like New York. Nine out of every ten
votes cast in the state are cast by farm
ers. How comes il then that the "agri.
cultural classes" are pining and dying
for official recognition? Such an idea
could have had its birth in no other
brain thar that of demagoguc who
meant to ride the idea INTO Office if
possible. The Eraminer misrepresents
the agricultural classes. wofully when
1t assumes that they cannot see through
the thin covering which envelops the
whole scheme
All attempts to array class against
class, or to make political distinction.
among classes, is communistic in its
tendencies, and is as odious to the
American mind as is agrarianism
socialism or radicalism, because it
inevitably leads to the same levelipp
plane of license and lawiesspess
Texas Is an agricultural state. and its
governors and policy are all. with one
exception, and ever have been, the
work of the farmers. and they have but
little TO blush for. But to come at this
late day and urge that because a man
has been soldier, q sailor, a LAWYER. a
carpenter, or because he il a depizen
OF a city or town, he is therefore unfit
to fill an office of trust or honor. as the
governorship for instance, or is unfit to
legislate, make laws or execute them i.
as untenable and as illogical as it would
be to say that simply because man is
farmer therefore he only is fitted for
such tasks as these The EraDaaer does
not believe anything of the kind, and
therefore its attempt to excite such sen.
timents in the breasts of the farmers is
odious, purely and simply odious, be.
cause 1t Is dangerous, selfish and unjust.
The position of the EramineT is that
heretofore the farmers of Texas have
not had fair representation in the Leg
islature and the executive offices, when
the exact reverse is true. 1t isa fact
and one not at all singular either or
differing from any other canvass of the
-tste, that nearly every aspirant for
state office next fall is farmer or Is
more or less interested directly in aeri,
cultural operations What would be
said, what ought to be said, of the laws
yer, physician or carpenter, il he OBJ
jected to either or all upon this score
aloneY Think you the people, farmers
and all. would not call it odious?
1t does not dignity the farmers of the
state, or serve any good purpose con-
nected with agriculture. to suppose them
IN accord with any such position as
that assumed by the Examinsr. They
are not, and can not SO become as long
as truth, virtue and patriotism, as we'll
as common sense and reason, distin,
guish them in the future as in the
past. A man is either a GOOD
man or bad one, a patriot or
or a traitor. intelligent or an ignorant
man, and what he happens TO do for . liy>
ing. what his hand is engaged at, 20 his
pursuit is honest, cuts no sort of fig
ure in the case. Washington was =
farmer. Eligha Burritt shoemaker.
Putnam was farmer, John Hancock a
merchant, Arnold was druggist, and
SO it goes. the good and the bad the
wise and the simple. the patriot and the
traitor comes from no particular class
but are found in all. Class legisl ation,
class preference or class ostracism Il
odious. and better fitted for the times
when the people burnt witches. than
it is for the evening of the ninteeuth
century. and the age of telsxraphs.
steamships and almost universal INTEL
| ligenee.
The .tsramsaer's tears flow because
the farnasr Is looked down uoon, -
not recognized, is apoor orphan, and
legitimate game FOR the sharp de-
signing carpenter, the ruthless shoe.
maker. and the bloody lawyer. Fit Il
true the grange and the farmers
rho are not grangers should imbrue
their organ with little Of their own
common sense. or put the non,politicsl
rule OF the order in force - TO thei,
worthy master and be rid Of the odium
OF fostering such an unholy combina-
ton as this. by which the Eramsns,
seeks to make Lang governor, and
Downs lieutenant governor, not b.
csnsef Of their merits = men, but Be.
cAdss forsooth. they are farmers WIZ
have never pioushed . furrow in Il
their lives.
i CoLLrx will have : convsntiou. i
/ will meet in McKinny, Nay, isth.
j sHszsAs = ,pidly devslopins confl
dence in hAf nasrsw eanes raIlsoad.
Born JED Davisfs ~ II Msxioa, No
ist shs slackssis psssesd.
q s a.