The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-24
STATE PRESS REVIEW.


public domain Of the state and OF the efforts
that may be expected in the future to rob
the school fund Of its land endowment in a
judicious way and gives timely warning.
The next legislature ought to take this mat
ter vigorously in hand and squelch these
sharks promptly. The News says
Some of the buyer, have been trying to
have locations made. The better class OF
land agents in Texas refuse absolutely to To-
cate them, or they take care to Stlpulate NAT
they do not guarantee the land selected 10
be good either for farming or grazing purpo-
sea- Ia short time the buyer finds that he
has beon unscrupuously imposed upon, or
has been eagerly and bliadly credulous
Thousands have been deceived, and Texas
will suffer in reputation as they come to
know the extent to which they have been
duped. Texas land script 10 q fsw years will
have about the value OF confederate ponds,
and will doubtless be kept as these bends
are, to remember a dazzling dream, a shat
tered hope. One of the latest strokes Of
enterprise 10 the operations of the
land sharks Ia 10 buy up the crippled
confederates pension land certificates
and the scrip issued 10 Texas veterans, al
luded TO in letter from the Austin corress
pondent of the News with the expectation
Of using the sentimental influence which
procured them from the last legislature 10
open certain reservations Of the public doc
main, devoted 10 public schools and the
payment of the public debt, for the location
of this class of land scrip. Another scheme
apparently is to procure the location Of this
scrip 10 Greer county, even ut tie cost or
maintaining state troops there TO hold the
county against tho claimants recognized by
the United States government. Altogether
the closing scenes in the long and varied
history of the Texas landed domain promise
to interest and more or less edify, If they do
not delight, very large and highly respects
able audience.
We think the suggestion Of the Houston
Post In the following excerpt from ils co.'s
umns that Il ought TO be one of the first
duties of the next congress to settle the
question of presidential disability and fix the
point thereof Of at which the vice-pro'ident
shall assume his duties as acting president a
very wise one, but VIC don't sec the necessity
ot erecting man Of straw and firing great
guns at him as the Post has done. The
reference to Aaron Burr we think uncalled
for, and the reflection upon that illustfoua
American, unwarranted by fact, as the
light of latter day history attests Mr..
Burr we esteem not as a traitor us in hi'
day he was branded, but just the opposite,
and we don't but know that we have quite
as much respect for Oataline as VIC
have for Cicero, who hurled such
phillipics at him as TO cause his
Punishment from Rome. II is very popular
now to heap anathemss upon the head of Mr..
Jefferson Davis, and to accuse him of all
manner of treasonB, but in a generation or
two when time has duled the keen edge Of
enmity and hatred and the true light OF bis.
tory shines. we doubt not Mr.. Davis and
the cause ..he aud his compatrots espoused
and championed so stou.ly, will be acknowl'
edged as tho essence oftruth and right. The
Post says:
The death OF President Garfield and The
constitutional succession Of General Arthur
have arrested the debate over the question Of
the presidential disability as an immediate
issue, but they have in no way settled The
question. Once having been raised, with q
concrete illustration, this question will re-
main plain source Of difficulty until il Il
permanently disposed of by congressional
action. Perhaps there Is no other disputed
point 10 the circle of constitutional provision
that is so armed with revolutionary menace
In the time of peace than this question OF
disability. We have been warned by the
late case, that however improbable, iunc-
ture may again arise with the same paradox
10 plague the government and tho people,
But what Is much worse, a juncture
might just as naturally occur il
which the president and the vice president
might be implacably hostile TO each other
and wnen the spirit Of party might be dan
gerously excited. II might DO that the vice
president, instead of Illustrating tho con
seryatism and prlnciple of General Arthur
might be inhamed with tho ambition OF
Aaron Burr, or even the baleful lust o
Cstsline. According TO tho face of the con
stitutiop, the vice president seems 10. DO III,
power authorized TO move In tho case
disability, and unless that term b. clearly
limited and defined by constitutions
amendment, there would DO no securiI,
against the act of an ambitious politician o
a conspirator to decide II for himself, and y
call upon the people to indorse him in tb,
assertion of his official right. This being 80
II seems TO us that one OF tho ilrst and graves
duties Of congress upon It's next assembly
ahould he IN aettle thia point
We like the following sentiments from II
Jefferson Democrat We endorse ever
word uttered. and we have only tho su
premest contemp. and loathing for those as
persers of character alluded to by the Dem
ocra,. The Democrat says;
If thove is anything that especially ougb
10 disgust every respectable, honest RICH
thinking man In Texas, II Is tho indiscrimi
nate, unjust abuse Of our public mon by
norton of the press OF tho state. A life o
devotion to the public service, signalized b.
acts of unse fish patriotism, and unsullhd b.
anything that could tarni,h a record con
spicuous for ability and fidelity, seems Il
have no weight with such journalists. The,
are constantly seeking matters of complaint
recklessly preierring charges OF derelic,ioi
of duty, or aspersing their character
First II was Governor Throckmorton. then
was Governor Roberts; again Il was Senate
Mnxey. latterly II is the Hon John ii Reagan
We do not say that these men are periec,
That IA not to DO expected. There Ia no on
whether In public or private life that Is no
liable 10 errors of judgment But what W
affirm IA that all these men have been hon.