The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-21
stArn pRsss REVIEW.

y atsomps ok 0uivohu upon the lie Of the
resident 70 disgrace to the American peo-
Il" and says:
A republican paper savs the attempt to
seassinate President Garfield is disgrsce to
be American people. We tail to see why
he act OF On insane partizsn, who fails to
.st what he regards as reward for bis SER
Iices. 10 Disgrace to our people. Whatever
iiagFace may fall upon the people will be for
Iha upholding of men and parties, who, for
Ii the dtsposal OF Federal patronage. When
men are placed In Office as reward for hon.
esty, intelligence and competency, and not
can walk the streets without the fear of
assassination.
We do not agree with our neighbor in this
thing. It was the spoils system predomi-
mating In American politics which led to this
oowardly assault upon the life Of the chief
magistrate of the country. The American
people have permitted and made possible
the lust for power and the greed for place
that 10 the leading principles with political
leaders, and that results in strife and conten-
tion and humillatng scenes between these
leaders, and this ia a disgrace to the iotelli-
gence, to the decency of the American PEG.
pie.
The Waco Examiner arguing in favor of
public schools, dors 80 from the false
premises shat tho state owes duty 10 all
the people to educate them as far as its
means will permit" This is not the ca,e
The state owes no such duty, is under no
such obligation, was never created for such
purpose. The constitution of the United
States defines very clearly and explicitly
what tho duties and obligations of the fed,
eral government are and for congress TO 70
further than this IL simply matter of policy.
80 1t is with the state governments. TIE
only duty Texas owes to its citizens is 10
give them protection of life ard property
and immunity in the pursuit of happiness.
The citizen has no right to demand more
than this. An enlightened policy dictates
that tho children of the land DO given the
means of free education and that policy
has become general throughout this
entire country. If it were the
duty Of the state 10 provide
education for all the children
1t would be its duty to compel all children to
attend school, its duty to name who should
DO the teachers Of those children, whs. text
books they should use ard what course of
studies they should pursue. This would DO
an infringement upon the dearest and most
sacred right Of the parent or guardian and
transgressive Of the very Fundamental prin-
ciples OF our form of government. Ali the
arguments that can possibly be advanced in
favor of tree education, that is of tho policy
and ndvisability of it, We will heartily en-,
dorse, but when the asso rtion is made that il
is a duty Of the state, we emphaticalIy saw
ncy and defy any ono to show wherein il /,
the duty. There arc but two reasons WHY
il Is good policy to afford free education for
the children and they are. that i, costs tho
people less and enables many children to
have educational advantages who otherwise
could not. The Examiner says:
The Houston Post reviews tho question
latsly touched upon by the Austin s. ,tes-
man and the Examiner In reference 10 tho
cause ofgsneral education in the state. The
Examin.l's position is not precisely defined
BY the Post when il says that ''the Examiner
secs no outcome of state education, EXCEPT
nl.Qh NJ mir nj hal |
pains taken with and patronage besto wed up-
on the university will bs Of lutte avail unless
the state will attend to the main cnance AZ d
ms Nute ana carry on proper aud successful
system of free schools" The Examiner did
not intend to convey tho idea that tho public
free schools were to be "tseders" to the uni
versity. l. maintains that the alto
owes duly to all the people TO
educate them as far as lis means will
permit The FREQ schools are perhaps no.
Of as high grade as they should b., bu, ,to5
furnish the means Of education to thu gr.a
ms's OF tho people who csunot by stress Of
poverty or other adver,e circumstances ps-
lake of the benefit of tho higher schools
But these schools are u, necessary nav.
m ,re important to the general welfare of the
state than the great un,versity can ever b.
Tho ono edu ,stes and ,rains tor the duties of
citizenship tho body Of tho people; tho Other
bestows higher gifts upon a favored few
Both should DO the glory and pride of tho
wealth, and VIII ,ever would strike
down either, virtually attempts to destroy
the value of both. The "faeders" to the
university will DO the pay schools of hi ,hor
grade, such as the two institutions of which
Waco has always been proud and such as OK,
lot 10 other towns Of the state.
The Tyler Courier does not 60 far enough |,
In the following paragraph:
Public executions are disgracerul and there
ought TO be q law placed on tho statute
books and afterwards rigidly enforced pre-
venting public executions.
Why not say tina. any kind of executions
arc disgusting and barbarou.f There is a
law against public executions when they can
DO done In private, and sheritfs comply with
that law when they are situst d to do 90, bu.
ifh 10 wrong to shock humanity aRd outrage
the civilization Of tho ago With public exc
cusIona why 10 u not equally so to kill o
man BY Law Malls
The following from the Waco Telephone
10 abou. - mild and harmless % skim milk
or Cruel:
Gov. Roberta refusal 70 act with tho
governors Of other states In Issuing proclsms
ATOMS settling apart q day Of thanksgiving
for the recovery of Prosident 0ArHeld will