The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-05

hh batteries egain't and blackmens
Nm individuals or corporation either
too Ignorant 10 detect tho ialsehood,
too guilty TO permit exposure, or sus'
plciously o,gtr 10 purchase favor for
som advantage that might not or would not
come in the regular aud open handed manner,
though tight and on principle. Each and
every ono in such cases Is truly a pickpocket
tho nature of the oifouse is the same, the
variance Is only in kind and degree, and II
all proceeds out Of the poisonous proclivity
to surpass our compeer. il crops out In
Mrs. Smiths finer mansion, though less COM
Portable one; 10 Mrs. Browns four-horse
landau, with the useless foot man, instead OF
the two or the one horse pheton; or Miss
Jones one thousand dollar sesl-skin coat or
five hundred dollar bonnet wherewith, not
to secure comfort or even taste, but
to excel nei ghbor Robertson
And yet all this brings not the coveted, the
anticipated happiness, but only too often the
reverse. In our modern haste and hurry to
grasp the social position, there is too much
of the spur and too little of the bride, too
much of the sail and too little Of the ballast,
too much of the glamour and too little of the
solidly valuable. Thus we come to adop
and adore the symbol rather than the thing
symbolized, the shadow rather than the sub
stance. And in this transition state we lose
the finer thought by submergence in the
baser through its constant use. just as we
lose the finer sense of taste by over indul-
gence in bad cigars and worse liquors. The
truth is genuine success in life depends
not on such things, nor the objects on
such process of pursuit, for we need ex-
pect no golden fruit from leaden limbs,
What is rather required in this day, is, if we
may SO express ourselves, an Animated
Moderation; observation-disclosures passive.
ness" the "hculty of waiting;" that "spiri.
ted silence" so to speak, like the grand Won
MolLke's who is silent in seven languages;
that "poise," that even 'balance Of mind"
hard to attain, harder still to retain, and
which distinguishes genuine ability and self
asserting reliance in opposition to that "fspid-
running and wearing the machinery out
process that fumes and frets, that fulmipates
and fuses availing all SO little in the long
run. As greedy voracity disorders the
stomach, SO does excessive vivacity TO be
getting to be somebody" or to ''be doing
something" di.arrange the personal mind
and the social stability. This intense DISPOSE.
ton to do more business that one has COM
petencv, facility or capital to warrant, THIS
devish desire to oustrip by
vicious measures our neighbor through
ability to exceed his bank account or his
luxurious equipments, begets all this per-
meating hypocricy in the social fabric, dis
ease breeding excitement in the socl'l fibres,
and frequent final footing of dividend the
court awards to the spent brain and ruined
in the form of sentence OF inns
prisonment to society's pest-bouse. The
course is all wrong. Nature does not so act.
The solar spheres are not carried on by
The earth itself with its
ranges and mud deposits, its fruits
snd its flowers, its animal kingdom with man
in the lead, proceeds regularly, quietly, or
DERBY, frankly; go frankly that we may de-
cipher its past, read its present and forecast
its future in conjunction with its neighbor
planets and the stars by that same quiet, reg
uar order. How then can man hope 10 be
an exception! When he does, and SO hopes
to win by it, he labors under the same hallu-
cinaton with the buyer of lottery ticket,
and his chances in the "fux of falsehood" is
on par with the spectators in the ultimate
distribution. AS for the remedy, 1t lies in
the force of purified, public opinion, an
opinion that will not only sternly criticise
but will visit its rebuke upon all methods of
social corruption, mercantile indirectness,
professional and other malpractices, without
regard to the station of sny one, high or low.
And this opinion must crystslize into action
with all the power of uniformity of opera
ton. In the social evolution we are happily
drifting daily towari that condition; let, this
gen sralon contribute its full quota toward
thu contamination.