The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-25

says Montesquleu IN MS "Esprlt DC LoA,
"was because her kings and emperors were
great" Can one who has reached three'score
and ten, the allotted span of life, do this
And is it the time for us to select such a
leader, when all nature and all artificial in
terests around us call for the utmost vigor OF
an experienced legislator? This is one OBJ
lection to Governor Roberts, and although
perhaps with same sufficient in itself-is not
all. If not actually opposed to free'schools,
he has during his administration so hsmpered
aud crippled them they, not overly efficient
before, are less so now
Were it not that there is
a specific clause in the constitution taking
ample care of our public free schools, this
governor would make more desperate fight
to break them up than he did at the last ses-
sion of the legislature. Never did state
need education as much as Texas That is
the road to take to suppress crime. There
are no scores of Latin and Greek scholars in
the Texas penitentiary, and these are rarely
known to ascend the gallows. AS ignorance
begets crime, so is education the nursing
mother of virtue. L. is said by the enemies OF
popular education that it is wrong to tax the
rich to educate the poor. But throwing state
and conventional pride aside and that natu'
raj preference Of every one to reside among
an intelligent rather than an iliterate people,
We would ask whether it costs more to send
boy to school for seven years than to pros
ecute him for stealing horse or numbering
fellow? 1t costs the state of Texas not
less than 81, 900 to prosecute and condemn a
murderer and from 500 to $500 horse
thief. But aside from this miserable dollars
and cents view of this matter, if we
owe duty on earth to the
boys and girls growing up
around us, it Is to give
them decent educations. Every man who
loves his child has desire to fit his brain for
the battle of life in other than the plain garb
of street.cleaner and wood-chopper
And We hold that if he be unable to do so il
is the duty ofthe people at large to perform
that service. Another objection to Gov
ernor Roberts is that he has done absolutely
nothing to bring immigrants to Texas. lie
has suggested no legislation to that end, and
although he denies that he is opposed tc
their coming, he, as governor, has held ou
no inducement to them to come
We want man in that office t
revive the inhowing tide as it was seen befor
he took possession of it, Why are they al
going to bleak and sterile regions of tn
northwest to Kansas, TO dried up New Mexic,
and Colorado, and avoiding Texas, the fines
country under the sun of heaven unsettle
to-day? 1t is because they are not invited her
as they are there. The governors and legisla
lures of those states are alive to this matter
and as energetic as railway official
in getting travel over their lines
The result is, we get nothing
and they got all. There is no lack of mate.
rial from which to choose a governor Of tn
right stamp. The present occupant was no
called there in the first place by the voice o
the people. And in this connection we ma,
say that it was we'll understood thing tina
when it became evident that the real ehoic,
of the people, Throckmorton or Hubbard
could not be selected by tn,
warning factions in the nominating con
vention of 1876, that Roberts, as the darl
horse, should 60 in for but one term. Thi
did his friends so understand and agree to
along with the Observation-Disclosures men
Under this aspect Of that compac
it is scarcely the delicate thing 70
Governor Roberts or his friends who ar
now the participants OF his official favors, t,
be travelling through the state soliciting al
and support to break into the explicit under
standing and agreement 1t has alread
been charged that the governor has asked q
the legislature too much power, and it look
now as if he was, in the same aggressiv
spirit, soliciting restoration to power at tn
hands of the people with a view to use it q
stepping stone perhaps to that ultima thul
of the gubernatorial politicians vision:
whose focal point centres in that "city o
magnificent distances" 1t has also bee
said that he was transferred fror
the judicial bench to the executiv
chair 10 make happy some of the legs
fraternity, and it is now intimatcd that h
can be. transferred from the Capitoline hill
at Austin to the "Potomac's quiet stream,
to Join that innumerable caravan known q
"great men of duty" thus leaving a desirs
Bile lieutenant to fill the aching void. Blu
this sort ofluxury, on the principle of tn
young lady who married the old man "to &c
rid of him" is too expensive for the ''pay-as
you.go" or any other policy. Let US star
the business right at the outset and put int
Office some citizen whose record or who's
avowed and known positions are in harmon
with the demands of the hour
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