The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-15

1t is pity that William j. was not
Straw. Berry, for the season is over End he
would long since have been smothered in
cream and devoured by some "utterly utter"
girl, and could not possibly have become
more fatuont than his poem.
Yhe St. Louis Post.Dispa,ch reads some
OF the preachers, who made the attempt
upon the presidents life subject for their
pulpit orstory, va.her severe lesson. The
fact is, very few preachers have any common
sense idea of politics and when they attempt
to mix it with religion they make themselves
very ridiculous. The Post Dispatch Gays:
With all due Difference to the pulpit at
large, we must be permitted TO say that in
our humble OPT ion the preachers of this
country have very generally shown their in
cspscily for wrestling with great Lstional
calamity. Very naturally, the majority of
them svailed themselves last Sunday of the
opportunity to draw great lesson from the
attempted assassination of the President. We
have read reports Of sermons as they have
been coming to US during the week and we
are shocked at thetone of m )rity of hem,
OF course it is the duty Of the clergy to zee
the hand Of providence in this thing. DR.
Sunderland, a prominent pastor of one of
the Washington City churches, takes the
ground that God especially raised up the
tramp Guiteau to shoot Garfield as means
Of furnishing the nation on account Of its
skeptcism, immortality. nihiism aud gener
al looseness. De. Newman, the former
pastor of Grants church conceded in
this view All went 90 far IS to advocate a
reduction of suffrage to native Amer
leans because the idiot who fired upon
the president happened to have trace of
foreign blood in his veins. Just what the
doctor would call native American seeing
that all of US who are not directly related to
the aboriginal Indians have SUSPECT of
foreign antecedents about us-we are not
prepared to say, but we presume he would
be willing to draw the line at those whose
parents had the honor to come over in the
Msyaower We do not believs.in h. tie ~
that God caused the president TO be shot
down as a punishment and warning to our
people, because we are no worse now than
we have been for years and we arc no worse
ss a nation than some of our neighbors
whose rulers are never interrfsred vito.
The Inter.Ocean refers to the money
congress, recently in session in Paris, but
now adjourned until next spring, and save:
Although tho tangible results of the inter.
national monetary conference amount to
nothing, all the dispatches from Paris indi-
cote that the gathering attained as great q
measure of success as we expected, and that
the resolution of adjournment until spring
contains sentiments that are sufficiently
strong 10 favor of bimetallism 10 encourage
the hope that the practical object aimed at
will ultimately be reached. The intervening
months can be dew oted to diplomatic nepo.
Nations and in the development Of sentiments
favorable to the adoption of the interna ion
OIL double standard, and when the conference
resumes lis sessions the delegates will be bet.
terprepared for action than they would be
10 case the discussion were continued now.
nnconsldered that the willingness expressed
iby the bank of England to hold one fifth of
Us metallic reserve in silver, provided other
NATIONS open their minis to free coinage of
tnst metal, Is a tacit I'D mission that a great
olmesalc union would r.store silver 70 i,s
former place and value as internat onsl
money.
One Of the pet calumnistions of the re-
publican press sgAiust the south has been
.ne charge Of population. While It Is true
.n@ the people OF no southern state have
favored population, this cannot be said of
'ne northern states. as the following facts
from the New Orleans Democrat will attest:
=, The debt Of Minnesota is as far from set>
S Ms rs ever, and Is likely to remain 90.
Inc people having, at three successive cleo
a;ons, voted in favor of repudia,ing the debt,
u was resolved to take the matter out OF the
hands of the people by legal trick and
give the question over to tribunal of five
Judges, VINO should investigate and report
whether the debt wa, legal or not. Here
came the difficulty. All the judges are
elective in Minnesota and are conseo uently
s,rald 10 offend the people, who arc repudi.
s'ors al heart, and so every ono Of them
uouged this debt tribunal and refused to sit
oe " on some preteAt or other. The Judges
VI tue supreme court could not do 40 be.
cause most OF them hsve.been ATTORNEYS in the
ease a! one time or another; and Il was the
~ same ct throu ,shout the Judiciary. The court
y. I'VE judges which was 10 pass on the
mater ma, cannot DO obtained and tho question
WIN have to be submitted to The popular
so'e again. II Is said that majority of
'ne people will agree TO compromise,
The Little Rock (Arksnsas) Gazette has
'ae following to say Of Minneso.a's repudi.
alon scheme:
!, AArepublican convention will soon be held
;.,h minnesota As Is we'll known, Minnesota
. - sne only state whose people have doliber.
s;e'y repudiated q public debt whose valid.
NY NY unquestloned. Debts have been thrown
vuS because Of Illegally 10 the method of
s s"n creation, Is 10 Mississippi many years
nv. But the people Of Minnesota Ia repud.
b sSg 'neir railway debt were Inspired by no
Nss . .s. motive than appears 10 the fact that
s,o, sss'e 10 matters Of debt payment, 10 SOW.
i. iiSa and beyond the reach Of the courts,
~. ~" 'ne fashion Of our republican cri,ica in
Ne e . NORM TO frequently deplore tho course Of
mo-. soutnern states 10 the settlement of debu.
isu. o. which represent little else than
s, .uu. Few Of them. however ere able 10
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