The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-09
STATE PRESS REVIEW.

comedies with ,he governor in some of his
views st least in regard to needful changes in
the judiciary system in the state. 1t says;
Many of the views Of Gov. Roberts on the
Judiciary, AS communicated to the legislature
in bis message on the subject arc sound and
patriotic. His idea that district attorneys
should receive a salary equal to the district
Judge, thereby securing the ablest lawyers as
district attorneys, none whoare at all familiar
with the present workings of the courts will
deny it to be correct.
We agree with the Chronicle on this point
Able posecuting attorneys will save the state
much expense, and only good salaries will
secure them.
The Westherford Herald ia very vigorous
inthe opposition to the county court system
that now obtains in our state aud vents il
blotted out:
1t has been the cause of much useless OK.
pense and trouble not only to the litigauls
and their lawyers, but to witnesses and Jurors
1t has been from the very frs. ponderous
useless machine Of law that has weighed like
lead upon the time and pockets of the people.
1t has been of no baneli TO single cou nty
in the state, and has been positive Injury TO
many. Under the perverted construction
placed upon the provision Of tho constitution
relating TO eligibility Of the judges it is 3 no
torlous fac. that throughout the entire state,
es rule, the most incompetent mon have
been selected by the people to wear its
Judicial ermine, md the natural consequence
has been that its original aims and purposes
have not been carried out. II has been bur-
den, even where learned lawyers sat upon the
bench, and now that its workings have de-
monstratedits futilityand useesshess il should
be plucked cut. from our system of iudicatlre
and.the last vo3tige Of it destroyed.
The Breuham Banner, discussing silkworm
culture, says;
In this connection it may not be am'ss to
state that Mr.. Q. II. llerbst, of this city, has
for the past three years been experimenting
with silk worms, each year with increased
success. he has now growing on his home
In the city, some three hundred mulberry
trees and will this spring raise large number
of cocoons. the climate here is admirably
adapted to the culture of the morus multi
csulis, which furnishes the best food for
the wnrma. We think this is an industry
which in few years will assume u yast
Importance in, not only this immediate VI
cinity, but throughout this entire section O
tho state.
Now ifsilk worms can be raised in Wash
ingtson county, why not in other portions
OF tho state? 1t is richly paying bust
ness when it pays at all, and il Texas pos
sesses the soil and climte adequate for tn,
purpose, why by all means let tho enter
drise be encouraged, and il may DO that il
q little whilewo can produce the raw material
Tor silk factories.
The Cleburne Bulletin wants the gov.
eminent to build aud operate telegraph
line:
Now that the two great telegraph lines
the American Union and tho Western
Union, have completed their consolidation
scheme, looking to the further enslavement
OF commerce by the corrupt use of money,
congress should not hesitate to pass MIR.
Springer's bill, which proposes that the
United States government take charge of all
the telegraph lines under the title of postal
teleErsphy and operate the same. There
can be no doubt of the authority of the
government to step in and relieve Mr. Jay
Gould and his coagitors of their telegraph
stock.
Now tho government has about rs much
authority to SO into the telegraph business
as it has to establish lottery to pay off the
national debt, or faro bank, and issuechip.
instead of coming gold and silver pieces. Tn,
Bulletins position on this point, however
would show IL TO be strangely tinctured with
Kepublicansm, or desire for centralized
government, but in another article it goes &c
the other extreme. Referring to the meeting
of the bar Of Memphis, and its endorsement Of
Hon. Stanley Matthews for the suprem,
bench it sayr:
All of which goes 10 prove that there ap
pears to be very numerous class in the
south who are always ready, when occasion
offers, to put in their Shovel where they have
no particular business, and who
arc ever ready to convince the Yankee mine
of southern concurrence in all things aaC
measures put forth by it. 1t WAS only fev
days ago that Mr.. Lamar, of Mississippi
made bold TO commit congress and the PEG
ple of the south to tho election of Gar field
regardless Of the counting of tho vote b,
the president of the senate in the presence
both houses of congress. This sort Of thinl
ls becoming disgusting, and might DO re
bukod without improperly, by puolic meet.
ings in tho south, at which disapprobatiol
should DO expressed in unmlstakable terms
"All of which goes to prove that tn,
Bulletin is very foolish, very inconsistent
Mr.. Garfield was elected president ant
everybody in tho south knows and admits it
and the only question is which is tho more
disgusting of tho two extracts We hav,
made-the one stalwart ropublieanism, the
other are-eating nonsense. The Bulletin
must munich from one or the other Of those
hay rlcks; 1t can't eat from both.
The Texas and st. Louis News, published
at Mount Pleasant Titus county, wants tn,
bell punch law and tho law for hiring ou
convic,s both repealed, aud is surprised thai
the legislature has failed 10 do It:
ave expected that when the 18th logi,la.
turo convened that its first acts would DO to
repeal the bell punch law, and also tho law
authorizing the hiring out of convicts. IT.
as yet there has been anything done toward