The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-04

too ignoran. to detect the fslsehood,
too guilty TO permit exposure, or sus-
piciously eager to purchase favor for
some advantage that might not or would not
come in the regular and open handed manner,
though right and on principle. Each ard
everyone in such cases is truly pickpocket,
the nature Of the offense is the same, the
variance is only in kind and degree, and i,
all proceeds out Of the poisonous proclivisy
to surpsss our compeen. II crops out in
Mrs. Smiths finer mansion, though less com.
Portable one; in Mrs. Browns four-horse
landau, with the useless foot man, instead of
the two or the one horse phe!on; or Miss
Jones one thousand dollar seal.skin coat OF
five hundred dollar bonnet wherewith, not
to secure comfort or even taste, but
TO excel neighbor 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 ard 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 tho
solid!y valuable. Thus we come to adop
and adore the symbol rather than the thin.
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, It we
may 90 express ourselves, an Animated
Moderation; q "lsying.in.the-su passive.
ness" the faculty Of waiting" that ".piri.
ted silence" SO to speak, like the grand Won
Molske'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 "rspid.
running and wearing the = machinery out
process that fumes and frets, that Eliminates
End fuses avaiing all so little in the long
run As greedy voracity disorders the
stomach, so does excessive vivscity to be
getting to DO somebody" or to "be doing
something" disarrange the personal mind
and the social stability. This intense dsposi.
ton to do more business that one has com.
pe.encv, facility CT capital to warrant, this
devlIish desire to oustrip BY
vicious measures our neighbor through
ability to exceed his bank account or hi
luxurious equipments, bege.s all this per,
meating hypocrcy in the social fabric, dis
ease-breeding excitement in the soci Il flbres
and frequent final footing Of a dividend tn,
court awards to the spent brain and ruined
reputation, in the form of sentence of i'm
prisonment to society's pest-house. Tn,
course IS all wrong Nature does not so act
The solar spheres are not carried on h,
double'dealing. The earth itself with IL
mountain ranges and mud deposits its frui,
snd It's ilowers,iss animal kingdom with maj
in the lead, proceeds regularly, quietly, or
DERBY, frankly; so frankly that we NAV do
cipher Its past, read its present and forecss
lis future Ia conjunction with its neighbo
planets and the stars by that same quiet, req
u'ar order. How then can man hope 10 b.
an exceptionf When he does, and 60 hone
to win by 1t, no labors under the same hsllu
c'nstion with the buyer of lottery ticket
and his chances in the "Aux of falsehood" i
on par with the spectators in the ultimst
distribution. As for the remedy, it lies /,
the force of purified, public opinion, a,
opinion that will not only sternly CRITICS
but will visit its rebuke upon all methods O
social corruption, mercantile indirectne.,
professional and other malpractices, wi.hou
regard to the station of any one, high or low
And this opinion must crystalize into actio,
with all the power of uniformity of opera
tion. In tho social evolution we are hsppil,
drifting daily toward that condition; let hi
generation contribute its full quota ,owsr,
the cOnsummstion.