The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-29

The Oourier,J Journal wants to see Canada
annexed to the United States 1t seems to
be The policy of the United States ito get pos
session of ali terri tory lying next to her own.
The Courier Journal says:
Prof. Goodwin Smith, of Toronto, who
has made the political destiny Of Canada q
study for many years, is in favor of the an.
nexation of the Dominion to the United
States, and believes it will be accomplished
by commercial union He thinks Ontario
will take tho lead 10 the movement, and
overcome the prejudices of the msrstime
provinces. Prot. Smith is right 1t is only
ACQUISITION of time. Canada would to-day
be nearer annexation had not the old recip-
roci.y treaty beel rep, aled by our congress
several years ago. Bismarck brough, North
and South Germany togetner first by com.
mercisl union Of course the enthusiasm for
fatherland," engendered by the war with
France, increased the desire for unity, but
the commercial union was the first step to
the consol daiivn. Canada will become q
portion Of the American union in the same
way. She has only 100000 of people, and
they are emigratiug to escape the burdens
imposed by the construction of the Inter-
national railway and the Troy protective
tariff Annexed to the United States, these
people will largely arrange themselvs on the
tariff for revenue side, and prove helpful 10
the coming tariff reform movement.
The New Orleans Picayune claims that
there ia no nobility about labor and comes
very near proving it in the following;
We must respect labor where it is neces>
sary, and we must honor it wherever it is IN
answer to the call Of duty; but in and of
itself 1t is nothing more nor less than "a
WEAKNESS of the Aesh," and We deny its
claims TO nobility. But work Is wholesome
No man Is 50 rich that no can afford to be
always ut rest, and 10 man is so poor that
he will not become still more unfortunate
by being al 'sys at work. Either ex.
ireme leads to certain worlds
WEAKNESS and barrenness of existence. Thus
in the rush OF an over busy age, as somebody
puts it, we behold "mechsnics whose life is
one steady, unceasing grind in the tresdmill
OF daily routine; merchants who have be-
come mere attaches of their counters, and
clerks who are living sppendages of their
pens; clergy men whose brains have been cons
verted into a gland to secrete and discharge
two sermons week; editors who have
turned their wits into paragraphs until they
are little else than walking items and talking
squibs; women who have sewed themselves
into their garmeus.. until their Ii o is but
thread There is disease which the French
call "mslsdle du qusranle ans 1t is the
sickness which attacks a successful man. Ii
has two phases. Sometimes when a man
has reached middle life he wakes up to the
discovery thsl no needs something more than
buslaes TO make him happy. Outside of his
own line no is rot Il thinker; he cares nothing
for books, and he knows nothing of art, SO
he goes to the bottle and the card in
search OF sensa ion 1t takes, generally,
about forty years, us its name implies, 10
contract this disease; but the deliberate dis.
sipation OF u disilusoned man is more terri
BILE than the recklessness of an inexperienced
youth. The other phase Of the 'maladie du
quaraute ans IL that which attacks. the rich
man who has been persuaded to retire from
business and who is bored to death by the
world of amusement He Is rs much out of
place At Saratoga or Long Branch as Mr..
SSqueers, OF Dotheboys Hall. would be in u
kindergarten. He has money enough to
pay tho fiddler, but he cannot dance, and
the chances are that he has no turn at all for
croquet He used to think in his stinted
boyhood that he would enjoy all that sor, Of
thing immensely; but now he feels that
there Is nothing left for HIM but to make
some more money, and then some more
again.
TIL like a clock worn out with beating time.
The wheels OF weary life at last stand still. :"
The fact is that at forty years of age one
Is to old to begin enjoying himself. 1t is
true that "sll work and no play makes Jack
dull boy" but it makes him still duller
man. The world is full of beauty and in,
terest; but the habit of appreciation must
DO acquired by A certain culture beyond the
reach Of life spent entirely behind the
counter
The st. Louis Poit-Dispa,ch doas mol
seem 80 tackle kindly"to the appointment
OF ex-senator, so to speak, Spencer, ostensi-
bly, from Alabama, at one time, 10 The posi-
ton OF frat assistant postmaster general. and
assigns the following reasons therefor:
tits uuques,ionably true that the position
OF hrst assistant postmaster general has been
rendered to cx-S nator Spencer, with the
iull approval of Mr.. James. This detrscts
very much from the Ietormatory work that
the postmaster general is supposed to be do.
ing IN his badly corrupted department
spencer is a thorough adveuturer. He was
Tho most rapacious and un wholesome carpet.
Dagger tina. ever Invaded tho south-",he
most ra cally knave of all the crew that fols
lowed the Drum for Warsaw" He bui up
ane2ro republican party in Alabama, anu
then broke !! dnwn by his own hog si.hness.
During the time that he represented the
state in the senate no could hardly DO said to
havea residence anywhere. HE rooms in
Washington were headquarters for profes-
sional jobbers, and his recognized agents
struck" everything before congress that had
money In 1t. He claims now 10 be resident
OF Dacota, or some other mining territory,
put ne IL as much a bird Of passage ss when
no first invaded Alabama in quest of polite. al
spoils. There wouldn't DO much reform in
turning such men as Brady and Tyner out of
the postal department to put in such 'trim-
mers" as Spencer. He would inspire about
as much confidence in the department now
asa VIOLIN sheep.fold.
AS We now have three comets visible In
the United States, any ,hing concerning them
is interesting. The following is what the
New York Herald says of one of them:
Although new comet Il no cause for
marvel among astronomers, the sudden 40.
perance of tho celestial visitan, now ro.
ported has had startling elec. upon them
on beth sides of tho Atlantic. LIS arrival
has been as unexpected rs that of l7G0.
which, tho old records say, suddenly be-,
cana vieihle IN Wasiorn Enrn,a ,,L.. 4, .