The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-20
STATE PRESS REVIEW.


: communication signed America and I'D
vocs!in; a portal telegraph, says:
10 advocacy of the postal telegraph
"Ams.ics" shows that the entire property OF
the Western Union Telegraph company
cost less than twenty millions Of dollars,
and ID It this sun has been increased by the
process of stock watering TO upwards Of
eighty millions. And yet upon such enor'
mOusly inflated vslustiop, Western Union
stock pays an annusl dividend of eight per
cent. In other words, the I,oeipls Of this
monster monopoly pay net profit of thirty
two per cent per annum upon the amount
actually invested, This certainly i' palps-
bic and figrsnt extortion which would moi
be tolerated by any other civilized govern
meat 10 the known world.
We bave heard it intmated that /, WAS th'
object of the Western Union Telegrs,.t
company TO sell out i,s franchise to She gov.
eminent, aud that possibly is one reason why
itgives auch poor service.
Tho Waco Telephone, aluiirg TO the al
lege1 book of Governor Roberts, which it is
said sill be i,fued certainly aext month,
ssys:
We feel sure that it will not be volums
OF poems Fancy the governor Initiating,
Soy. Coleridsge in the Ancient Mariner
aud giving va 'Ye Legenda Of Ye Cash
Balance or even descending to the charm
ingly simple ballad style of Whittier or
SAKE, and weSVing into ripping verse the
Instructive story Of The Little Old Trunk,
the Rope lund Trunk etc. 1t might be
as touching as The Old 0Aken Bucket but
the governor will leave poesy to the other
fellows who confess to the divine Ati aus
which he does not. But whatever its sub
iect, we feel sure that 1t will be an instruc-
tive, entertaining work. A man who has
reached Governor Roberts venerable age
does not venture on such an experiment
without sound reflection, snd hence we OK.
pect tho book to be well worth reading, a
legacy to posterity fl to take rank with the
other blessings of the Roberts administers
ton. We shall await the appearance with
real interest.
The Houston Post contends that Governor
Roberts is = shrewd and sdroit politician;
that be is in reality, now aspiring 20 succeed
Senator Coke, and laying pipes to that end.
1t also makes parallel between him AID
General Grant. 1t says;
But to the credit of his friends no less than
an endorsement of his public value, the Post
contends that Governor Roberts is apoliti-
clan keen, active and adroit. The photo
graph of the fox WAS not stamped upon his
counte- ance by nature to conceal q goose,
but rather to show his ability to display the
gooso that he might conceal the fox. The
very name of a politician 10 odious TO the
Texas bsckwoodsman, whose power Of analy-
sis is rather too limited. Nobody knows
this better than that supreme Judge Of hu-
man nature who commands the Texas ship
Of state, and, knowing it, like true politi-
cisn, he caters to the popular impulse. The
great difference between General Grant and
Governor Roberts 10 shat while the formers
friends selected him and used him, the latter
selects his friends and uses them. This the
record of the sixteenth legislature shows, il
itshows anything, and this has been shown
In 30 many different ways that We regard the
present course of the government organ AZ
Austin in making the financial success of his
administration Is harpt of a thousand strings
ss criticism on Governor Coke's failures, at
the suggestion of the fox, who has his eye on
the United States senate.
The Waco Examiner has the following TO
say of Judaism and the Jews:
A law of nature destroys nations, religions
and races with as certain an operation as
that with which It destroys life, and under
this law every nation, every religion and
every race of antiquity has been destroyed,
and new races, new religions and new ma
lions have grown over their ruins to be them-
selves egsin destroyed, until at present there
is not single vestige of the Assyrian. the
Phoenician, the Greek, the Roman, the
Egyptian or any other ancient nation, nor 8
single individual descendant of those na-
tions,nor single religion of those races. A
thousand nations, thousand religs
ions and thousand races have,
since remote ages, been over,
thrown. demolished, merged, annihilated and
forgotten and in this general and over
whelming cataclysm Of the ages only one
single, solitary race has escaped extinction,
only one single, solitary religion has sur
vived, only one solitary race has detied the
lightning of fate. In this view the exercise
at the synagogue yesterday was IS veritsble
miracle rs ii man had been raised from
the dead, for the religion which they eele-
brated should by every law of nature have
been dead three thousand years ago. Iffour
thousand years ago million drops Of
red water had fallen into the sea by every
law of nature those drops should long ego
have lost their identity. Blu! if the million
drops of water had for four thousand years
remsined separate and isolated from the
vast waters about them-if through those
four thousand years waves and storm and
constant attriiion and motion had acted up
on them in vain, so that to-day in the surg
ing masses about them they were separate,
distinct and individual, who could deny that
their separate identity was miraculous, since
it would have been maintained in opposition
to every law OF natures And yet just what
those drops of red water would be, the mil
lions of Hebrews Of the present age, and the
existence of the Jewish religion are. The
one would BIO miracle and the other 10 nc
leis SO,
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