The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-31
Houston Post.


Your partisan paper is blind in ore eye.
The result is that it makes poor guide a d
a worse informant. By practice, those who
ego one eye on it, can keep tolerably
straight line, but they are utterly unreliable
from their habit an imfrmity to give any
accurate information as to the comparative
distance, dimension or color of objects. 1t
is known fact in physics that it requires
both eyes converging upon an object to make
it "stand out" naturally, and by the light
and shade falling on the different sides to
estimate correctly the size, shape and natural
tint Shut one eye and make a pass with
your finger at small object as a nail head,
or the flame Of candle, and you will miss it
nearly every time; open both, and the finger
is guided to the mark infallibly. Such
'!one.eyed Callenders" are genuine party
Journals. By looking only on one sido they
have lost the faculty OF seeing objects in
natural relief, and all the world is reduced
before their eye to the tlatness of a Chinese
painting. OF course this is unnatural, and
argues a weakness somewhere, but it is iusti
fed on the score of necessity. In Vermont
OF lOWu, lot llebhllOot SOuOIhlll
suffer from Republican strabsmus; they can
not SEQ any beauty in Democracy that they
should desire it, And so, in obedience TO the
law, "like master, like man." nearly all the
Journalists cock their eye at the same Repub.
lican angle and write up their papers from
one.sided observation fatering to the Repub-
llcan majority, and wilfully ignorant of the
rights and status of the Democratic minority.
InTexas the boot is on the other foot. Dem
ocracy has been the fashion for some time.
And as the government has slipped into the
hands of this party and seems, in their own
opinion, to belong there, the people
have acquired largely the habit Of
looking through Democratic goggles, with
one black eye-glass, and the journalists, as a
general thing, follow suit and look out
dutifully on the state and world with one
eye. These prudent caterers to public opin-
ion in preparing the daily mental report for
the people have one eye strictly on the pot
and the other on their pocket. They abso-
lutely refuse to look sQuarely in the face
the issues of the day. They take Demo-
cratic squint at them, and their utterance is
therefore caricature. Their reason
ing being the result of partial
observation, is one.sided, crude and sell h.
There is no desire to open both
eyes, because the symmetrical truth would
convict them of hslf-work and defamation Of
the formerly unseen, and therefore unknown.
They therefore 20 about their work with
their one eye cooked ready to shoot, on the
word, at the dim foe whose coun,enance and
figure they but imperfectly see Under
these circumstances politics becomes bust
ness, fashion, hereditary creed. Ignor
snce and prejudice bar all fair discus.
sion and every road TO progress
and imposes on the people dreary state o.
monotonous acquiescence in existing affairs
that unless broken, will land them in ire,
sponsbili,y and stagnation. Independen,
papers claim to have both eyes open and
heir chief creed is TO keep them open
They clnp the right and ability to scrutinizs
and examine, by their individual powers
every object that presents itself to theil
observation. They look on both sides-th'
light and the dark, the upper and the lower