The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-07
The Radical Press ON the Census,
Clarksyllle Times.


On the outside of this issue we publish
several interesting comments on the census,
chiefly taken from Republican papers. The
drift of these articles clearly indicate the
tendency of the Radical mind and evinco that
Inherent hate and jealousy Of southern
prosperity and wealth, ever uppermost in
their hearts. They ,nnot witness with any
degree of composure the rapid strides which
the south has made since tho era OF reconstruc-
ton 10 regain her former wealth and power.
After the war closed, with sadness around
every heartbstone, desolation in every field,
and despair in almost every heart, then the
south presented an aspect which brought Joy
TO the Radical heart, and they then swore in
their souls that never again should the south.
ern land be prosperous and happy, but thai.
the people should DO kept under the yoke,
that tax-gatherers and official cormorants
hould be placed over them, so that
they should remain in financial
as we'll as in political iubjection.
But when the bubble of reconstruction had
burst, and the people once more returned to
power, taxes were lessened, labor received
its proper. reward, the waste fields again
bloomed with luxuriant crops, the cities in
creased in population, the country was re-
habilitated, and immigration, learning of the
b0untiful returns of idustrious labor, ilocked
to the south and took up the vacant lands
Uongenial climate and fertile soil wooed the
hardy laborers, and the result has been that
since 1872 the south has steadily increased in
population, prosperity and wealth. Slavery
no longer opposed its competition to free la
Dor, and with all on the same footing, the
nj ard md al L. o.
with fraudulent devices from constant prao-
lice of them in their endeavors to thwart the
popular will, they would insinuate that 9th
ers are equally corrupt, and these papers
charge that the census enumerators of the
south combined in body to make forged
and fraudulent census reports in order to
show fictitious increase of population and
thereby increase the represe'
hon Of the south in coner, =
La the south there we're perhaps 10 900 of
these enumerators, and that such Il combina-
ton or even such a thought of ono existing is
utterly and wildly chimerical. Thesupervis.
ors, even in the south, were, perhaps, Re-
lblican, without exception, and why they
should have selected, in every instance, men
capable of entering into such combination,
We are at a loss to see
But this charge is too puerto and foolish
for even Its originators TO believe, and is
only the offspring Of a chagrin too deeply
felt to remain concealed. The day OF the
sondholder and manufacturer aud capital
st to hold the ro. over the back, Of the
masses, and dictate legislation in their inter.
sst, is fast drawing to close. The south
and west, the great agricultural sections of
the union, are advancing with such gigantic
strides in population, that even under the
next superintendent, they will be enabled,
practically, to shape national legislation, and
can then effectively protest honest labor in
It's heroic efforts against monopolies and high
ariffs--the bano Of an industrious people.