The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-27
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.


we're not legally married, but lived together
as man and wife, they violated one Of the
most sacred principles of religion and moral
ily, and it is an insult to common intelligence
and decency to talk about the purity Of their
motives. The Republican says:
Rev. DR.. f. Il. Newell says in Zion's Her
aid that George Eliot "trampled on the New
Testament, on Christian civilization, on
every Christian home" Rev. DIR. Newell
allows his zeal to outrun his love of truth,
and for the sake of making what is called "a
strong point tells deliberate fslsehood.
The only shadow of Justification for his
sweeping charge is that Miss Evans lived
with Mr.. Lewes without the form of mar
riage. The circumstances which led TO that
connection, and in the opinion of the par
ties themselves fully justified it, have been so
frequently stated in the Republican that
repetition is needless. Enough to say that
they were sufficiently peculiar to ex~
cuse in great measure the breach
of the laws of society that neither
Miss Evans nor Mr.. Lewis ever re.
GREETED the step which mutual respect snd
affection compelled them TO take, and that it
never cost either Of them a single friend
Those who knew them best never doubted
the purity Of their motives, and while re-
GREETING the necessity (created by Mr.. Lewis
forgiveness of an erring wife) OF III INSANE
toned marriage, never criticised, much less
condemned, what was, 10 everything but
this, an exceptionally happy union. George
Eliot 'trampled" on no "christisn home" by
building her own on an illegal foundation.
That she did willingly so build in the first
= h,rl ~ Ill
with Mr.. Gross, which was legali2ed by the
customary christian ceremonial, Nor did
she 'trample on the new testament or on
"christan civilization" Nowhere are the
fundamental principles of both set forth with
more power than in those books that are now
, precious part of English literature. There
is not line in them that dying she could
have wished to blot; not line that can
bring blush to the cheek of modesty; not a
line calculated to weaken human faith in
truth and goodness; not a line the world
would willingly lose.
The New York Herald takes strorg
grounds on the charges of Professor Hind
OF Canadian frauds, in the matter Of the
fishery frauds, and says:
Professor Hind is determined to put his
charges III such shape that they cannot be-
ignored He has repeatedly brought to the
attention OF the governOr-geEera of Canada,
. OF the Canadian representatives in England
I and of tho British foreign Office an apparent
cookery Of the figures in tho statistics of the
Canadian fisheries. Nobody has undertaken
to retute his charges; not one of tho official
persons to whom he appealed has taken any
official notice Of his charges. The conclusion
IN ba Hrux WI Fro, 60 :
but there seems no way of avoiding it,
Professor Hind behaved like loyal subject
as we'll as an honest man in submitting his
evidence frs. to British officials, although il
n had come into his possession in his capacity
of the common agent of both governments.
BE now intimates that he has abs )lvad
< himself of his responsibility Us a
British subject by Offering the British
y aud Canadian governments chance, which
they have ref'uaed to accept, of voluntarily
making amendment; aud that it is now bic
duty to bring his evidence to the notice Of
+ our government. Notice to Professor Baird
is no. notice to our government it is true {;
but ii is notice 10 Mr.. Ford, which hlr. Ford q,
rs an honorable maD can hardly ignore. For
"a Professor Kind distinctly charges upon Mr.
Ford the use of forged statistics, Knowing
them 10 be forged, with the intoutiou of per-
su0dnC the arbllrators to give Canada n
more favorable award than Canada would
y otherwise have received. 1t seems absolute
h ly Imperative that Mr.. Ford shall either
defend elfagainst this serious charge, or
else adduce some evidence to show that Pro.
fessor Hind is either libeller or lunstie.
Professor Hind is commonly referred to in
Canada, and particularly in the Canadian
parliament, as if he were either libeller or
q lunatic, but no evidence tending to convict
him either Of tbs crime or of The misfortune
has thus far been brought forward.
The prohibition question is live one now
oil over tho country, therefore we take the
following from the New York Herald:
The temperance question, in whatever
light regarded, is one of the most interesting
and important Of the many problems of the
day. During the last eight or ten DAYS our
columns have TENED with interviews, nd e.
dresses and correspondence on the subi,c
but Notwithstanding all that has been said and
written the solution seems az far Off as ever
On the one hand we have heard from tho
moderate mel like DR.. Crosby and from the
total abstinence advocates like DR.. Cuyer.
Tho gulf that separates tho two parties is
wide, deep and Wo fear almost impsssable
In controversy OF this kind mere assertion,
however eloquent and lorcible, counts for
very little except in Il sentimental way. But
the temperance question is not ono that cau
be dealt with upon purely senti
mental grounds. IF it were possible to
treat It in this manner We should have had
an end of It long ago. In his s"hpr and
reasoning moments the most atuiltmsd
\ drunkard in the couotry wi admit That
Z intempersnce is one Of tho most daplorable
oil evils, ono Of tho greatest of crimes The
total abstinence advocates Insist that it is the
Source oS nearly all tho crimU and tast 70
close the rumshop would DO to close the
penitentiary. Since 1851 this class has had
its own way in Maine. The manufacture Of
liquor has been absolutely prohibited there
and the saloons have been driven into the
dark corners Of the cities where it ia almost
Impossible for the law TO reach them. But
hes crime diminished? On the contrary. it
has increased in most appalling degree.
While in twenty-nne years population in
X Maine has advanced fourteen per cent. MUIR
derers havo increased four hundred and
8 twenty-five per cent. and all other grades of
crime hold relatively the same ratio. The
prison figures Of this prohibition state sug-
gest the question, "Does prohibition pro-.
hibit?n
The st. Louis Pos!-Dispstch warns sour
best society" that the music teacher must be