The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-08
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW,

the night of his election, the st. Louis Re-
publican says;
GAS long as President Garfield shows
disposition TO do right, 10 be the president OF
the people ana not party, he should re-
ceive urited democratic support. If in the
fierce faction fight which awaits him be sides
with the conservative republicans, that sup.
port should, and we believe will, BIO assured
TO him. To Join with the stalwsrts in break
ing down his administration would be inn
polite Ms well as unpatriotc on the part OF
democrats If he is disposed 10 serve the
country, the whole country, north and south,
democrats must and will sustain him; and
from present appearances, if he endeayors to
be national rather than sectional, patriotic
rather than partisan, he will neod nll tho
democratic support he can get
This sort of talk ia all very well and we
heartily.cndorse the sentiment, but those who
seem TO know General Garfield best, say that
while he is man with the best ofntentions,
possessed of splendid abilities and almost sure
to be just and correct 10 his conclusions and
to start out right on all questions, yet he
lacks backbone and moral courage. If this
be true, the stalwarta will bulldoEo him
worse than they ever did Hayes.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch does talk so
plain. But then it is right up to the mark of
truthfulness, and the truth should never be
hidden as a light under bushel II says:
Tho union of the great telegraph linee of
the country is un fait necompli. The knaves
who want the government TO go into the
telegraph business will be heard from now.
Better fight the monopoly of Gould " Co.
than the absoluLiim Of a partisan govern
ment.
The Courier-JournRl is sound on the tariff
question and never let's an opportunity os-
cape TO hit the odious protection law. II
also favors manufactures in the south;
From various points in the south como re-
ports of the establishment Of all kinds OF
manufacturing enterprises. The census re-
turns. which have been published from time
to time, show that in spite o: the
burdens Of protective tariff and of
carpet bag government the south during the
past ten years has made commend0ble pro-
gress in these matters. The drift in this eli
rection will year by year become stronger
and capital will be more eager TO seek such
investments in this section. New England
mill stocks have been very profitable for two
years; their dividends have been large and
they command high prices. The following
are the quotations OF some OF the Fall river
stocks: Barnard 1876, dividend twelve per
cent; Chace 40, dividend ten per cent;
King Philip 1873, dividend ten per cent;
Merchants It's, dividend twenty per cent;
Osborn 40, dividend twelve per cent; Saga
moro 1873, dividend sixteen per cent; Stafford
145, dividend sixteen per cent; Troy 200,
dividend Lwenty-four per cent; Union 100,
dividend twenty per cent
These figures ought 10 inspire our south.
ern people with renewed determination to
have manufactures. These dividends
are very interesting,
The Philadelphia Times, slways conserv-
alive, always wise, says:
II would be we'll for the leaders to call q
halt in tho madness that rules the extreme
men of both sides in regard to the electoral
count. No one in his senses questions the
election of Garfield and Arthur, and none
can doubt that they will be formally declared
elected by the two houses, without dispute;
but the crsnks and revolutionists of both
sides are struggling for some imaginary
advantage for 1884. The cranky republicans
want the vice-president TO count tho vote
and declare the result, solely because they
want Vice-PresdenL Arthur to have u
precedent for 1885, and tho democratic
cranks who rejected the Morgan Joint rule
when it was offered by Senator Morton and
supported by the republicans. who
once supported il, now resort to
revolutionary tactics to defeat It,
II should no remembered that it is quite
uncertain which party will control either the
senate or tho house in February, 1885, and il
would DO wise for the mad-oap partissns
who are struggling for distant shadows to
come down TO u Just law TO restrain fraud in
any contingency. If the vice-presilent
could now be authorized to count the vote
and declare the result in the presence of g
dumb and powerless senate and house, il |:
far from certain who the acting vice.pres
ident may bo four years hence. The death
of either Carried or Arthur between tuis
and February, 1885, would make q presi
dent pro TEN. Of tho senate, WHO would bC
empowered TO count and declare the vote oil
1884, and il is not within the scope of human
calculation TO decide whether the sctinf
vice president will be republican ora demo
crst II isalways safe to make honest law
and honestly obey them, and it is never SAT-
to open the way for partisan tricks, as non,
can tell who may profit by them in the end
The Memphis Appeal, tired of and indig
nant at the continual charges of brutality
inhumanity and bsrbarism preferred by
certain class of northern papers and northern
politicians, retaliates with the following:
The stories Of brutality that have reachet
us within the past two weeks through tn,
northern papers arc calculated TO curdle th,
blood. First, We have the case of that pseu.
do-philanthropist, the she-devii, Mrs. Allen
who was systematically starving Mary Ham.
mel, then there was the burning OF Mrs
Curtis 10 death by friend of her own sex
who poured coal.oil over tho poor creature
set fire TO II, and deliberately waited for ,
result that was reached in nameless agonie
and contorhons, not one Of which had any
elect to stay the murderer's hand or wrench
moments sympathy, and the third case wal
the burning Of swoman TO death in simila
manner in New York by a brute who is nov
in the Tombs awaiting rial; and still two
other cases were furnished by that city, tina
Of Margaret Splitter kicked TO death bv he
husband, and an unfortunate woman who, il
fit of Jealous anger was thrown out of In
fifth story of tenement house, by her para
mour, and now comes a revolving story o
inhumsnity in tho Cleveland Leader, TO tn
effect that John Cummins, farmer Of well