The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-19
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW,
The Times and Texas.

r,o .tS"oting of young Thompson by
olg 1y Buck, of Dallas, Texas, has been
Do Generally commented upon by the
Vul The counsel retained for the defense
PEE ,ho rornp Texan SAYS 1.-The affair was the
a'n OIL outrrowth of the internal hazing
i ar," His language presents the pTeva!-
iI!1'tview of the case. 80 far as we know II
s an' been reserved for a Southern Journal,
M aa' Nav Orleans Times, 10 explain the I'M
s WV occurrence as the natura! result OF
% VToros education. Having been brought up
:. stbSt section of the country where society
Ii,ts at crimes of violence, where public
, '" does not frowr upon the practice
ss"ar,vinr concealed weapons, and where a
S.r,e theft looked upon as a greater crml-
.si than murderer" it was not Astonishing,
% ga Tim tells us. that he should imbrue his
hands in blood. About the question OF MS
srilt, the Times has no doubt at all II
makes sure in advance of his trial that he de-
. sr, a punishment that will deprive him at
S Ma of his liberty and his good name. His
LAWYER, who probably knows as much ABOUT
,be case as the Times does, says, ii shall be
,ati.6ed 10 leave the result to an unbiased
i"ry" But the Times, which claims to
Baa''s southern journal and which, how
w. unwarranted that claim, is
sertsinly published in the South, refuses to
sntertsin the idea that this Southern boy,
nav stranger far from home, may by.pos-
gbility be innocent. 1t sees nm already IN
Imagination condemned by a virtuously m
iirnant Jury of Northern men to the as
graceful servitude Of a convicts lie. mat
6urnsl saws: HE will find very few sympa-
thizers in the community in which he Will be
tred, The crime of which he is guilty has
No snologists at the North. In Texas, per-
hans there are many who appland hi; Let,
and had the deed Of violence occurred there
he would have little to fear from the law, In
few weeks or months it would be forgot
ten and by many he would be received as II
hero Such will not be the case in New
YORK; And now this missionary Times,
which represents the higher civil eaton Oh
the North in this benighted and sem-oar-
barrie South, turns the terrible glance OF It's
Ieprobation towards Texas and tells It's PEG
pie that they are training up their children
for lives of shame and crime. In the name
of this unfortunate Texan youth, whom the
law will hold innocent until he has been pro-
nounced guilty by jury of his peers, ana IN
behalf If our neighbor state, whose society
is attacked in so ruthless and wholesale
fashion, we protest against this last conirlou-
lion of the Times to the bloody-shirt litera'
ture of the Republican party, For ourselves Veg
we will go where our sympathles leao US, niIu
take the position which law and lasucee aIlke
assign to every organ Of opinion in all cases
involving the life or liberty OF any human
being, ,...,..,
Ills true that the public has been educated
to dstru:t the peaceful and law-a0idlng tenn
per of the Southern people, and particular,
" off the people of Texas. The Associated
Press dispatches from that state make spe,,
cialty OF its police news and Its criminal NINA
docket. The wonderful growth ana deVeI-
opmenl of Texas, It's vast industrial enter
prises, is educational establishments every
where founded. and filed with eager stu
dents it, hospitable reception OF t9e many any
thousand immigrants who ahhu NY HHo
homes within its borders, are praetlcaly y
uored, although they are Of genuine interest
10 the outside world. But If Texas were III
reality dark and bloody ground PEG,
ple I'd by reckless assa;sins whose nahGs "!e
more familiar with the hilt OF inc o1wIo
knife than with the handle Of tae pillow, now
happens it that in so few years her p9pumt,
ton has increased to two millions, ana Una" Una.
the great cities of the country are eompe'ins
with each other in almost angry FivaIrS toi
her custom and the transportation OF heT m nai
vests On the whole, we think that 4eAaS
viii survive the attack of the Times, al
though that journal has assisted the Assoc SOC!
ated Press in disseminating the minute his.
tory Of crimes not more common in Texas
than elsewhere. We asser: with confidence confidence,
that deeds of violence are not more &li or
in Texas than they are in New YORK or
Ohio. We wish for once also TO renl it w.. .bo
Times and every journal OF that III tnSs !H q
hip-pocke. was not the Invention o. % q
Southern tailor, and that garments pIo o';1'
with that receptacle are not lntehaeO eAl'"
svely for the Southern market