The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

uoEs VI tuo oAoOuhNo culnlhistoo Va tho PAN-
posed Mississippi river Improvement con-
ventioD, so as to include in the call for con.
yention for the revival of the American mer.
chant marine and the construction of the
Florida canal, reiOices a. the failure of the
proposition and we think with good reason
This Mississippi river improvement conven-
zion is for aspsciic purpose--the improve
ment of the great water highway of the
country and the introduction and considers
ton of any extraneous matter would be TO
imperil the bsnefcisl effects to be hoped
for from this convention. New York and
other eastern ports are interested in defeating
ali appropriations to help the Daviga>
tion of the Mississippi river, and
they know that the best way TO defeat any
measure looking 10 that end, is to load il
down with jus! such riders as those pro-
posed, and they are at the bottom Of sll
movements of that kind The Democrat
says;
After lengthy discussion, motion 70
adopt the new canal WAS put and lost; 80
that the original idea Of making the conven-
ton one purely devoted to the improvement
of the great river, and its navigsble tribu-
taries will be CARED out. The decision WAS
In every way wise one, and the incorpors
ton of tue proposed features would unaues,
tionably have given rise to fierce sntagonlsns
which would probably have imperiled the
main object of the convention. There ere
divers, views entertained rs to the advantage
OF canal through Florida, and the
mere mention OF free ships or q change ia the
tarlh Immediately engenders feelings of hos.
tllity smong the representatives of the vari-
GUS sections OF country. The representatives
OF the people of the valley, ii we include
Texas, number exactly one half of the mem
bers OF congress, and can afford to stand
boldly GA the broad platform that the gov>
eminent must in the interest of the twenty
Tour millions of people who dwell in the val
Icy, make liberal appropriations for the i'm.
provemest of the great national highway,
IL they will present united front and labor
earnestly with singleness of purpose they will
inevitably meet with success. Let there be
2 long and strong pull altogether at the ST.
Louis convention.
Texas has been the victim of more ISLANDERS
and malicious falsehoods as to crime within
her borders, as to murders and outlawry in
general, than any other ststo in the union
and there is no paper from one limit Of all
the land TO another thst has been more men.
dacious and mslevolent, more un.
scrupulous and unprincipled on
this point, or in this respect than tho ST.
Louis Globe'D Democrat, one of the few Jour
nals in the entire country wholly lost to
honor and common decency, and yet we
learn from a reputable st. Louis paper that
there is more crime in that city, and crime in
Its most diabolical aspects, than in any other
city cast or west, north or south. The St.
Louis Pos,-Dlspatch, referring to the lament
able fact says:
Another brutal, cowardly murderer has
heard the doors of our city Jail clang close
behind him with the blessed assurance that
in a year or two they will open again and
loose him once more upon society. John
Hayes will te we'll fed, we'll clothed, petted.
cared for and protected, while his victim,
Mueller, is slowly dissipating into the elo-
ments. The lawyers of the desperate are
already at work on his defense, while the
circuit attorney is away summering in the
mountains, aud the judge of tho criminal
court sin vacation in the country. In other
words, the slate is idle while the criminal is
at work. In the old times the criminal
court sat without intermission or vacation
throughout the year, and ~ at was the golden
age OF st. Louis. Now, with crime rampant
in this town, with the jail full of caught des~
peradoos aud the city at the mercy OF the
desperate at large, our legal Off,
GERS take their leisure at summer
resorts and wonder what Is the
matter with st. Louis. II will take two years
TO bring yesterdays murderer, Hayes, to trsl
two years Of hard judicial work. And
this must be done. Judge Lsughln is an
excellent magistrate and has made an excel
lent record, but he must come back to st!
Louis and 60 TO work il he expects 10 be 70,
elected If no expects TO do his plain duty
in tbe premises. With twenty murderera in
the jai! Mr. Harris has no business in Penn.
sylvania His work is cut out for tim here
Ii the stream OF steady work is too much tor
these officers their proper course is to resign
auh loN uo kct ulou VI butH plhCt' WHO VIII
clean out tho Jail. The people of St. Luis
cannot bs expected to submit to tho rougbs
much longer. A brutal murder was com.
mitled yesterday because a bsrkeeper re-
fused to credit drunken losfer; to-day Henry
Mcdonald died OF wounds inflicted by
Anton Eichholz in a fight some days ago; to-
morrow il may be the reader of this article,
for no Idan Can say who will be tho next
victim. II 10 idle TO believe that We will
stand this solt Of thing. Patience ceases 10
be virtue with twenty-six cases Of murder
In the first degree on the docket. This
month Of August alone has seen elk bloody
murders and cutting sffrays innumerable.
The time is rapidly coming when the people
who are not on vacation will take some of
the roughs, Who also seem 10 DO plying their
work OF violence in spite Of the lassitude
consequent upor the hot weather, and incon-
tineptly hang them. "a Ia lsnterne~ is q
fearful cry, but by the time the custodisns
Of tho city's peace get rested enough 10
come home they may hear IL resounding in
our streets.
Texas in tho blacklist days Of criminal
recklessness ever known In her borders rev.
or equaled st. Louis, to say nothing of the
other portions Of Missouri with their train
robberies, highwsymen and froebooser'. But
with governor who hangs men who ought
not 70 be hung, who refuses 10 extrsdise a
man indicted for murder in another state be.
cauaa he b.a little poltical influence whore