The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-28
STATE PRESS REVIEW.


wishes we had more of them in Texas, and
there is no doubt if the people of that state
had better idea f what Texas Is. and the
advantages it offers, that thousands of them
would leave their worn out clay hills and
shallow sandy soils behind them and seek
new homes on our rich and generous soils;
but it seems that home papers, some of
them at least, do what they can to keep the
knowledge from them. They prefer for
them to remain there and toll in vain from
years end to years end for hard living
from their barren fields. We are led TO that
opinion by the following from the Mineola
Monitor:
Here is the way the papers in old Georgia
suppress facts abou Texas, to keep the PEG
pie in tho dark. The editor Of q Calhoun
paper writes IS follows to friend OF ours,
who permits up to copy: "No doubt you
have thought 1t strange that your commu-
pication has not been published after our
soliciting your correspondence. You wrote
sgood letter; and allow US to compliment
YOU on your composition. The only re son
L was not published was that 1t would induce
great many to leave the country, and we
srs suffering now for want of hands. The
country needs mere people instead ofsparipg
any"
The Brenda Banner very sensibly ami.
msdverts the pernicious practice, so COM
mon, of carrying pistols. There is q law
sgsinst pistol carrying in the state. not half
stringent enough it is true, still if it was
rigidly enforced it would be- productive Of
much good. Every sheriff and his deputies,
and constable and city officer in this state is
wofully derelct in duty in the enforcement
Of this law. There ia not town, city or
community in the state where there are not
scores of men who carry pistols or knives
with impunity, and it could in great meas
ure be stopped if these officers we have
named would try to stop it. The Banner
says:
|. will require very stringent law to
break up the habit Of carrying pistols. and
the sooner such law is passed the better IL
will be for the state at large. At present
boys Of from ten to fifteen years 20 about
like roos,ers with gsffs on, or to use the ordi-
nary expression, the boys are heeled, 90 IL
The rooster when he has gaffs on. ANY
reasonable man can but ray that such
practice is an exceedingly bad one, and one
that should be stopped. At present all deal
ers 10 firearms keep pistols tor sale, and
vuhon q ms ohaoap To- ,rsktn h.
to buy, they sell without making any Inquiry
as 10 what business the purchaser has with q
pistol; it is matter that does not concern
them in the least. That public sentiment is
opposed to the carry ing Of pistols is sbund-
autly proved by the amended pistol law
passed by our last Legislature, and printed in
the Bnner last week. The new law confs-
cafes The weapon and also makes the penalty
dolol', in the way Of fine, for taking pistol
10 = church, public meeting of Any kind, or
70 sball, public or private. If this part of
the law is strictly carried out much good will
be accomplished,
The Fort Worth Advance argues in favor
OF capital punishment, but we fail TO see
any good reason advanced by it for taking
scriminals life. The Advance says, "when
men violate the natural and civil laws of the
land they must be punished in accord ance
with the evil they do" Most assuredly
ViOlators of the law should be punished.
No one denies that, Tho mode of punish
hhment Is tho question. Does the Advance
mean when 1t says shat the lawless must
bepunished In accordance with the evil they
do," to advocate the old law of Moses. an
eye for an eye tooth for q tooth? If q
min commits mayhem by gouging out the
eye OF an adversary, ought the law TO pun
ish him by taking out one of his eyes? Yet
hseems to us that such a law would be as
reasonable as the law of capital punishment,
Wa'eh takes q mans life who has slain his
fellow man. The Advance seems to have
i'fgo'ten that the world has emerged from
'ne darkness of the primitive and medieval
ages and now stands in the
iull efhlgenco of an exalted and enlightened |
civilization. While 1t is fact that capital |
Punishment still incumbers the statute books |
o. European countries, yeti is virtually a |
dead letter in most Of those countries. In |
Austria out Of 800 death sentences during the |
pas! ten years only sixteen we're executed, the
Others being commuted. Out Of one hun.
dred and twenty.eght death sentences in |
Bavaria only seven were carried into effect. |
10 Belgium no death penalties alo carried
into effect. Ia Dennm. L no criminal can be |
executed without the unanimous consent of
The king, the supreme court and the council
VI ministers, and only two men have been
executed In that country since 1868. In
FRANCO the average Of executions Is one in
every VI 4 death sentences, and in Prussia
Wv OF 4S4 death sentences from 1869 TO 1873 |
my one was carried into effect and that was
,ne ianasio Hodel who fred at the emperor
1919 Even 10 Russia, rank desponsm
600 'he least civilized Of all tho European
VVul'f'es, capital punishment wss virtually
'00'ahed from lsll until the nihilistic out
"sss brought II into force sgain. God in
~. Ven commandments prohibits murder,
900 Vhri,s His son abolished the old lex tall
: V.'' Of Moses, II NO may 10 designate Il, on
..aOs forgiveness even unto seventy times
!, ~'ea Times and how can any state legislature
ym enaO'meuts make the taking Of a
1'as life no matter what bic offsuso may
w anything but murder' mprisonment