The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-16
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.


II 10 interesting TO observe how the anxiety
about the president has overshsdo wed every
thing during the week past, and how every
subject Of human interest has boon in some
way affected by II. We notice this In the edi-
toriAls 10 the newspapers, where all the cur
rent discussion seems to hang upon the news
from Washington. We feel it in our daily
conversation, when the one absorbing theme
comes ever uppermost, and we ind ourselves
eAyipg, "if the president lives" or 'if the
president should die" Personal sympathy or
personal lib ing for Mr. Garfield will not &C.
count for this, nor is it commonly Of SO great
importance that such or such man
should fill the pres DENTAL office that the
whole country should pause in It's daily
avocatisns to await the hazard of ono mans
life or death. Not many months ago one
half of the people Of this country we're
persuaded that Mr., Garfield ought not TO DO
president, and il is hard to believe that in
the few months Of bis administration he has
30 won upon tho esteem Of friends and foes
alike that the whole nation should nov j,in
in the prayer that he may be president sIill
Nor Is the mere de'estation of the crime of
Guitesu sufficient 10 itself to accoun. for
this intense anxiety, for murders rs cruel and
causeless are committed every day of which
the world takes scarcely psssiog notice. The
true explanation is doubtless 10 DO found in
the fact of which we all of US are conscious,
that this williams shot aroused US all from
mere carelessDess on the one hand and
from useless pickering on the other, to a
recognition of the essential dignlty Of our
governmental system and tho baseness Of the
passionate and selfish Influences that have
degraded it aud of which this worthless assas
in was the extreme opponent. We have felt
that the presidents death would mean not
simply personal loss, but the triumph OF
crime and p ,ssion over public order and vir.
tue, and il Is this thought that has united the
whole people as they have not been united
for years and years before. They have for,
gottei thu differences Of the past. They
have wiped out all memory of Mr.. Gar field s
gatherings and failures. They look upon him
simply a. their chosen executive, to whom
thsv look, II his life is spared. to carry out
With fathfuneas and honesty the work with
winch no is entrusted.
The Chicago Times most sensibly favors
frequent bathing by people and thinks cities
GU hit to furnish facilities. Itssys:
It is stated in tho Now York papers that
26 800 persons, Of whom II 854 were fe-
males, made use of the free floating baths
In that city during last week. There is
something clean and refreshing about this
little item Of news, the like of which is
never presented in the local columns of a
Chicago newspaper. There is one thing the
press or people Of Chicago never brag about,
and that is the accommodation for bathing.
There are q large number of ordinances
wht,h forbid or restrict bathing, but none
that encourage bathing under any circum.
stances. The city levies tax on cleanliness
even In ones private house. T. person
has q bathing tub In bis house he is co m.
PEELED 10 pay So for 1t. II he has a second
tub the tax 10 S. while the tax on each
additional tub is 81. Persons are discour,
aged from opening public bathing establish
ments BY q tax oil So on every tub.
In all Mohammedan countries II il
necessary TO erect q public bAtll-house every
time mosque 10 erected. Cleanliness 10 pu,
on an equality with godliness. People com.
ing to Chicago from Europe or the eastern
states complain Of the want of facili-
ties for bathing. II may not be tho duty of
. city to provide free baths fer the people
but there 10 surely no reason for dscouraeinp
oil attempts Of individuals 10 this direction.
The city supplies the city with novels to read
and furnishes tree instruction in Creek,
Latin and music, and the foe arts. Il hal
spent several millions dollars on parks tina,
not one person In hundred ever enters. A
tenth part Of the money spent in support OF
these parks in q single year would provide
suitable bathing accommodations in ever
ward In the city. Itisimpossible for msjoity
OF persons 10 city like this to have bath
tubs In the houses they own or occupy. The
expense Of providing Q tub aud showerinp
apparatus, and making connections with the
water pipes aud sewer, not to mention any
arrangement for heating wa or, Is not
lees than 500. When all il completed
the owner must pay for the right to use II.
The Chicago Inter. Ocean teniers some
advice to the socialist, Of
that city and Of the entire country. ana II
might be we'll for them 10 peru,e and ponder.
II says:
No nation on the globe ifers the emigran,
30 warm welcome rs America, 80 speedily
clothes him with the lights Of citizenship, OF
permits him to share so fully all tho bene-
fits of Its institutions. 1t Is tho misfortune
Of tho honest masses Of immigrants that they
should be misrepresented by such noisy, pes~
Nferous advocates Of Wild and visionary
schemes as assemble from time 10 time in
(htns md nNhau att,aa u
sincerity with which the socialists repudiS,e
any connection with the ssssssins.
tion. No man has had any rea.
son to charge them with such
crime. But any ono reading the closing sen.
tence Of the second resolution, will be likely
10 believe that the president Of the Uai'ed
States has little honor from this clAss Of peo.
pie. The resolution enumerates the power
OF the president, and declares that they
mako him the irresponsible dispenser of i
hundred thousand gif.s make him q demi.
god, surrounded by q million sycophsnti
who SMILE fawn and hate by turns; q mon.
strous social and political told man OF The
sea-" whose existence 10 An ineu nbrsnce and
constant danger 70 tho progress and liberty
oftha peoplS. and whose accidental or lille,
climate individual destrcctiap imperils the
nation's life BY the efforts Of unsciupuloul
men TO secure the vacant seat Of power, The
third resolution calls for ''tho speedy
abolition Of the Office, and also OF tbs
United States senate, which 10 but little les,
pernicious aud dangerous, and equally un.
democratic and absurd" II would be- ,us,
% we'll for these gentlemen 70 remember
that the American people do not hold then
responsible for any mistakes Of our form o.
government. Ifthey do not like Il, and fee
that our president 10 ian old man Of III,
ssa" pressing out their life and hope, aut
The United States senate "pernicious ant
dangerous and absurd." VA would whisoey