The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-16
THE roLL1Es OF THE TINS.

1t is true, too, that intelligence is widely
noticeable every where, intelligence of aclss.
that is especially noticeable. we mean, and
that merits for our day and time, the claim
of a superior enlightenment, sdvan cemen,
and civilization. But despite all our learn,
ing. despite all our schools and academies,
aud colleges and magnificent temples devoted
to education in the fullest sense of that word;
despite our enlightenment, our morality, cur
knowledge of truth, and respect for It; DIES.
pise the mighty monuments of our civiizs.
tion'to beteen on all hands; despite our
boast of IN exalted superiority in all things
that tend to make man, in reality, but a little
less than the angels, despite all these things,
and despite too, our practical ways of think
Ing and acting, our devotion 10
the useful and beneficial, the world is full of
folhes, is given TO all manner of idle, un-
profitable, vain and senseesa undertakings,
and light, frivolous and puerile demonstra-
tlons. 1t seems thst craze takes possession
OF the minds ofthe people every now and
then, assuming dtfinite shape in wild fur.
ore over pedestrianism, or boat. racing, or
baseball, or polo, or yachting, or lacrosse
or tho accumulation of old and mutila,ed
ch'naware' or the painting of impossible
landscapes, or improbable flowers on anti.
qusted jar', or the gathering of picture
cards or some other equally ridiculous and
nonsensicsl something that takes up time
costs money and encourages idleness and
numerous other vices. We SEQ that Tricke,,
the Australian champion aculler and Kelly
the exking Of the Thames as an osrsman
have arrived at New York. They come to
this country for what? To look at II and
study Its institutions? To inform themselves
ct It's advantages and superiorites over the
older countries of Europe! To seek invest.
ment for any surplus means they msy have,
10 engage in some kind of honorable
and honest business? BY no means. They
have come for none of these things
They are incapable of approaching any such
motives in Others who may visit America.
They care nothing for our climate, for tho
fertility OF our soil, for tho immensitv of our
products, for our manufs, turing interests
and prosperity, for railroads and commercial
'acill'les and Importance. They are ind,tler.
ent alike to the grandeur of our mountains
and the beauty of our valleys, our plains and
our woodland heights. They arc Needless of
our great cities, of our schools and colleges
and churches and ofthe benedcence of our
laws and the freedom of our people. Aside
from plentiful supply Of ale and roast beef
they think or care for nothing but boat race
and they want to try their muscle with the
hanlana, the Roses, tho Courtpeys of
America to see If they can make a few dol.
lars by fair means or foul, while great
congregation of idiots. male and female, look
on and applaud and wave handkercbiefs and
say It's royal sport. tits disgusting, such
folly as this, and it 10 next to criminal
TO encourage big, stout, ablebodied men
like those we have mentioned, to spend
theiff'ves in vagabondage, to say nothing of
the vice, of corruption, of bribery and fraud
'ney encourage, for these boating contests
are but things of barter, in the main, mere
traps with which to catch the simple and I'm
wary''he mediums through which tho unscru
pulou', tho sharpers, pluck the unsuspecting
human pigeons with more money than brains
or experience. And this is true not onlv of
ooat-racing but of all SO called athletic
ports, such as bsse ball, etc. We exempt
the boating of college crews from the suspi-
cion OF fraud and unfairness, for we believe
these are honest honorable, bonaflie trials
OF strength and ekill. but we do not exemnt
'hom from the charge of puerility and fool
ishne's. Young men 60 to college 10 cult.
vste their minds, TO horde away in the 70.
cessos Of their brains stores of valuable
knowledge, information that will be- useful
TO them in lifss struggles, when thew have
lain aside the habliments of youth for the
togas OF manhood and the responsibilities
and cares thereof. Instead of that. in
these later days the Graz, of ply steal devsI-
opmcnt, OF expertness in the handling of An
Oar, has usurped tho throne that common
sense was wont to occupy, and we SEQ col.
lego graduates leaving the threshold, of
their Alma Maters Boosting, not of their
ats, or OF the sciences, or of tho clsssics
but of their muscular strength, of their
ability as amateur prize fighters, of their
skill as.watermen, Of their agility a. leapinps'
OF their rapidity and endurance as pede,-
TRANS. And speaking of pedestrians, re-
minds us that this craze of pedes,rianism is
another one of tho popular iollies of the
day The Rowells, and Enuises, and Harris.
and oLcsrys, and Wes,ons, and all the
other ,ramps Of tho day, have had periec,
feast, an ovation as 1t we're, and they have
coined money of the idiocy of tho age whom
every ono Of the vagran,s ough. to have
been lsshed by public scorn to tho earning
Of their livelihood by saving wood or carry
ing mortar hods as thousands of better,
truer and hones.cr men do every day. Blu,
people will flock to sec them, will waste their
money and waste their time upon them, and
what does Il profit them or the world? 1,