The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-15

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they, or at least majority Of them,
have ever been in unison when meas
ure was up proposing 10 grant money 10
their constituents in the way OF inter-
nal improvements. This is the true
reason they have, since tho formation OF
the Republic, got nearly all and us next
to nothing OF the fabulous sums that
have been held by the general Govern
ment. The time Ia at hand when this
suicidal policy, or rather practice-ior II
has not even tho poor excuse of princi-
ple-should be changed. The people
Of Texas, of the great southwest, and
orevery other division Of the Southern
States care not n button whether the
plan of Gen. Barnes or that of Major
Hayes 10 adopted, for TO them each
means the same thing practically. The
people themselves are somewhat TO
blame for the failure of the long catn-
logue Of schemes heretofore suggested
10 Congress. They certainly are aware
by this time how difficult IL ia to get q
political body to do anything of genuine
utility, and never unless they almost
unanimously demand IT, backing that
demand with threat TO relegate tn cir
members back to private life unless
their wishes are complied with. En-
crossed in agricultural pursuits, taking
little heed Of public events, and seldom
looking into he future of even their
Immediate section. they pay little heed
u the proceedings Of Congress, are no,
personally interested in public enter
prses, and indulge in few dreams of the
ultimate destiny of the United State as
whole, or any integral portion of it,
Aud hence they elect AID re-elect their
old members of Congress without in
s,ructions, verbal, written, or virtual :
without examining their records, or pre-
tending to hold them to direct respon-
sibility for it. This is to the last degree
and to say the least of it, unfortunate.
There is bound to be change, and that
at no distant day. Slavery as the cohe-
sive magnate which so firmly united the
Southern people in other days is gone,
and forever. With the necessity OF
union still lingering but growing faint
er every day, because the North yet
keeps up the war upon the South,
passed away--a new generation with
more advanced and certainly more use
full ideas, will spring up to take the place
ofthe existing one, dispel its Utopian
IDEAS, and grapple with the living prob
lens, the proper solution of which will
make their country enter upon career
of prosperity it never knew before. Is
il not enough to see our States fifty
years behind tho North in every ele-
ment which makes u people rich and
great. IL is a humiliating confession,
yet true, thSt the contrast is as great,
though not so extreme, as exists be-
tween England and Ireland. And the
causes 10 either case are equally as OPP
posite; for while the Englishman spends
his hours and expends his energies in
building ships and working his mines,
factories and foundries, the Irish employ
theirs in political and religious wrangles,
and ever appearing to the world as
picture of sad victims of an Implying
fate. Our soil is as rich, our crops
more lucrative, our climate far more
genial and our blood as blue as those of
the Northern States. and yet they lead
us--lead US in wealth, lead us in educa-
ton, in population, and in almost every
form of civilization. The remedy can
only be found in revolution of ideas,
for we are not wanting in the mould of
natural brain or in energy, in
honor, in love of liberty, in courage, or
in the truest appreciation of the highest
types ofrefnement.