The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-06
STATE PRESS REVIEW.

know what q snossbsck" 10. and proceeds
suppose numerous things, which if "mos
bsc kism," makes it one. The progressiv
democrats of Texas propose none Of tn
thir 60 the Mirror supposes. They favo
economy in the administration of the govern
ment, state and federal, just as heartily anc
as earnestly as the veriest "mossbsck." They
want the state to do something in the caus'
of immigration, but nothing in the way OF
costly and expensive bureau or of provid'
ing passage TO Texas for immigrants. They
only want the state to 60 TO the extent Ct nd
yertisir g her advantages and facilities
say from 5000 to $4,000 worth annu
ally in the shape of descriptive pamphlets
etc. lust like the prudent and successful
merchant adver,ises bis busipess. They want
railroads and other internal Improvements
encouraged, all that's possible without the
state paying the income, and they want laws
for their control and restriction, but no more
binding upon and exacting of them than
binding upon ard exactiDg of the citizens OF
the state. Both have their rights and the
rights of both should be equitably regarded
and respected, Neither the citizen nor the
railroad company can reasonably or justly
ask for more or lees. The progressive dem.
ocrat does not believe in protection of any
kind, neither by the federal or state govern
ment for manufactures, and demands that
every tub shall stand on its own bottom.
Progressive democracy is anti-monopoly and
anti-protection of any kind, but not to the
extent of prohibition of all industrial and
developing enterprises, as "mossbackism" is.
In the matter of education, tho progressive
democracy wants free schools mossback-
ism" opposes them. The Mirror can under
stand the difference now, and we are glad 10
know, from what it says in the following,
that it is a progressive democratic paper:
lit is the plan of progressive msn to pile
up IN enormous state debt in order that our
resources may be the sooner developed, then
We are "a .'mossback If they would again
open the door for an immigration bureau,
by which hundreds of thousands of
dollars would be expended annually
for the purpose of bringing TO our
state a class of men that Texas
does no! stand in need of, then we are a
"moss-back If they would make it posi-
bic for every tan yard, grist mill and soap
factory In the state to do business without
paying their share of the taxes and bearing
their SHARE of the burdens Of government,
then We are "moss-bsck" II, in ord 10
have railroads, they would subsidize every
company of men that ask for charter and
grant them privilege of running through the
state, charging what they please for freight
and passengers, discriminating, when it suits
them, against persons and places. taking
their own time to move freight and put their
roadbeds in condition, then we are "moss.
back" If moss-back" is one who bs
lievts that it is just as necessary for gov.
eminent 10 keep out of debt as an individual
then set us down as one. If ouch a charsc-
ter believes that the right kind of immi-
grants will come fast enough without being
hired. then we'll take "moss bsckism" in ours.
Ii he believes that the wealth of the stat',
whether Invested in farms or manufactor e.,
should pay for is protection, We think his
head IL level and extend him our hand. If
he has an idea that railroads are built for the
convenience of the people, and that we have
a rightto regulate their charges and to
pass laws which will compel them TO move
freight as it is presented, to keep their roads
In good condition, and to prevent unjust
Determinations between persons and places
then We strike hands with him again. As
far Us We are concerned, give us state
which is out of debt and the rights of the
peop'e are protected in preference TO
government which levies such heavy tributes
upon the industrial interests of the country
in order that corporations and monopolies
may flourish.
The Waco Telephone makes center shot
in the following, knocking the black right
out. 1t always makes difference whose
bull is gored. The Telephone says:
Persons WHO read the St. Louis IepuS-
lican yest,id,y, had no small amount of
conversation over the different spectacles
lhroueh which crime is seen when looking 1T
II In Onio and in Texas. Ga the 25.h of this |
month young man walked into one of the |
fashionable restaurants of Cleveland and |
called for something in the way of eatables.
Having been served, the waiter placed be-
side his plate The customary red
check marked "pay 80 cents at the
cashiers desk.' When no arose he
found he was without funds, but memory
did not find him long in calling up a speedy
III ans Of settling. He walked up to tho |
cshier's desk, behind which the proprietor
himself was sitting, and drawing six shoot.
er, sped a bullet through his heart. and the
man fell dead upon the n',-. M a word |
pused between the tW o, for they were
strangers TO each 9th #, Sue. AN affair mirht !
occur ahy where, as we'll rs In Ohio, for when
Q man Is innstely mean, cowardly and
bloodtnirsty no mt er in what SEQ
tor he may be. it will crop out. The man.
nerin which the papers up there and the
pres reporters treat tho affair is what set
WUoites TO commenting. They do not
cha'scterze 1t as a cold-blooded, uncsll,d
f1r murder, and cry hang him al once, or
poiIt to Cleveland as a city dyed in blood.
and the resort of lswless characters, etc.
They treat It lightly, and say tho young
man has made an improvement on the old
way for settling q bill for drinks or meal, in
the nbsence OF. cash, which was 10 placo
nimslf convenient to the proprietor, face
tho eoor and announce thai he was ready
70 10 kicked out. This impecunious
character, they thought, got In an inyep.
ton IN bill settling, ard the old plsn of
me proprietor risking bis boot and The
DEAD beat his person, would play out.
hereSter. The st. Louis Republican. in
On sditsrisl paragraph deyotes n we'll
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