The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-21

| the president ~ says
It's interesting 10 observe how tho anxlOtl
about the president has overshadow,d every
thing during the week past, and how over }
subject of human interest has been In som {
way affected by ". We notice this In the edi
torials 10 the newspapers, whore oil the cur
rent discussion seems to hang upon the news
| from Washington. We feel II In our daily
conversation, when the one absorbing theme
| comes ever uppermost, and We find ourselves
tsyng, "if the president lives" or 'if the
president should die" Personal sympathy OF
personal lib ing for Mr. CART Id will not &C
count for this, nor is il commonly of 30 great
importance that such or such man
should fill tho pre- residential office that the
whole country sh cid pause in its daily
avocatians to await the hazard OF one mans
life or death. Not many months ago one
half of the people of this country were
persuaded that Mr.. Garfield ought not TO be
president and IL is hard to believe that In
| the few months of his administration he has
| so won upon the esteem of friends aud Toes
| alike that the whole nation should now I'm
in the prayer that he may be president sill
| Nor is the mere de'eststion OF the crime OF
Guiteau sufficient 10 itself to account for
| this intense anxiety, for murders as cruel and
| the world takes scarcely passing notice. The
true explanation is doubtless 10 he found in
the fact of which we all of us are conscious,
| that this williams shot aroused us oil from
mere carelessness on the one hand and
| from ssnseless pickering on the. other, to a
recognition of the essential digaity OF our
governmental system and the baseness of the
passionate and selfish Influences that have
degraded it and of which this worthless aseas
in was the extreme opponent. We have felt
| that the presidents death would mean not
simply personal loss, but the triumph OF
crime and passion over public order and vir-
tue, and it is this thought that has united the
whole people as they have not been united
for years and years before. They have for,
gotteo tha differences of the past. They
have wiped out all memory of Mr.. Gar fields
gatherings and failures. they louk upon him
simply as their chosen executive, to whom
thsy look, if his life is spared, to carry out
with faithfulness and honesty the work with
which be is entrusted.
The Chicago Times most sensibly favors
frequent bathing by people and thinks cities
GU ght to furnish facilities. Itsays:
It is stated in the New York papers that
| 26 $50 persoas, of whom IL 1854 we're 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
Chicago newspaper. There is one thing the
press or people of Chicago never brag about,
and that is the accommodation for bathing.
There are large number of ordinances
| which 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 bathing tub in his house he is COM
! PEELED to pay So for 1t. If he has second
tub the tax is So. while the tax on each
| additional tab is ST.. Persons are discour>
| a.ed from opening public bathing establish
| ments by tax OF So on every tub.
In all Mohsmmedan countries it is
necessary to erect public bath-house every
| time mosque is erected. Cleanliness is put
on an equality with goodness. People com.
| ing to Chicago from Europe or the eastern
states complain Of the want of facili-
ties for bathing. Il may not be the duty OF
| a city to provide free baths fer the people,
| but there Is surely no reason for Encouraging
| eli attempts Of individuals 10 this dlrec ion,
| The city supplies the city with novels to II III
| and furnishes free instruction in Greek
| L atm and me-, ~ hH fac arts 1t he's
spent several millions DO lals on parks that
not one person in hundred ever enters. A
tenth part of the money spent in support OF
| these parks in single year would provide
suitable bathing accommodations IN ever
ward in the city. Its impossible for msin'ty
of persons in a city like this to have b. y
tubs in the houses they own or occupy. lac
expense of providing tub and showering
| wi
water pipes aud sewer, not to mention any
arrangement for heating wa er, is not
less than 500. When all is completed
the owner must pay for the right to use 1t.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean tenders some
very.wholesome advice to The socialists of
that city and of the entire country, and it
might be we'll for them to peruse and ponder.
1t says:
No nation on the globe o ffers the emigrant
so warm a welcome as America, so speedily
| clothes him with the ri hts Of citizenship, or
permits him TO share so fully all the bene-
| fits of its institutions. 1t is the misfortune
! Of tho honest masses Of immigrants that they
should be misrepresented by such noisy, pes
/ tiferous a .vocates of wild and visionary
schemes as assemble from time to time IN
| Chicsgo and other cities. We doubt not the
sincerity with which the socialists repudiste
any connection with the assassina-
ton. No man has had any res-
son TO charge them with such
crime. But any one reading the closing SEN
Ter ce of the second resolution, will be likely
to believe that the president of the Uni'ed
| States has little honor from this class of peo.
pie. The resolution eDumerates the powers
of the president, and declares that they
make him the irresponsible dispenser. of a
hundred III ussnd gifts; make him demi.
god. surrounded by q million sycophsn,s
who smile, fs~n and hate by turns; mons
strous social and political "old man Of tie
sea-" whose existence is an ioeunbrsnce and
constant danger TO the progress and liberty
of the peopl-, and whose accidental or ille>
gi,imsie individual destruction imperils the
nations life by the efforts of unscrupulous
men 10 secure the vacant seat of power. The
third resolution calls for 'the speedy
abolition of the Office, and ALEC Of the
United States senate, which IL but little less
perricious and dangerous, and equally un-
democratic and absurd" 1t would be Just
ss well for these gentlemen 10 remember
thss the American people do not bold them
responsible for any mistakes Of our form OF
government ftbey do not like it, and feel