The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-04


the comet than IL does These Ioafi co
Texss papers explored the Genet and told
more about il than any oncy clopedia ever
did know. The Constitution says:
The comet 10 retiring in disgust-backipg
out toward the north tail first, sure s'gn
that il considers thAt its reception was OF
precisely what should have been gwen 10
dazzling stranger. II will have to excuse us
this time, and charge our delinquencies 10
Guiteau. About the time newspaperoom
flushed exploring its ency clopedias and was
fully prepared to launch editorials by the
ward abornding in astronomical terms, Gar
field received that unlucky shot In the liver,
and the comets light ceased to be of inter-
eat or consequence. If the fashion of shoot
ing half breed presidents shall have gone ou,
by that time. we promise the next celestial
visitor reception that will more than make
amends for the snubbing given this one.
The Shreveport Standard, in abiding to
the senatorial timber just chosen in New
York. says:
Every state must have lis period Of small
men. 1t is we'll enough that she take back
seat in the councils of the country Ioi
q while. Providence seems to be in favor o.
giving her little time to discover the mag
nitude Of the country and her inability 10
govern it.
The Mobile Register sees good in every
thing - sermons in stones and hymns OF
praise in murmuring brooks, and exceeding
good in Guitesu's bullet. 1t says:
Gall the bsyonet rule, all tho reconstruc-
ton acts, all tho foul means used by the
eatrsps and hrelipgs of Grantism to force
or coax the south Into reconstruction such
as would SUIT the venal purposes OF their
party, have done less to ooliterate the AMI
mostly of the past and create new era oil
good feeling than the bullet that was sent
VIII III ng from Guiteaus bulldog"
The Arkansas Gazette very forcibly puts
the case as 10 accusations and denials, and it
strikes great many newspapers in Texas
between wind and water with solid shot.
II says:
The law does not require an accused per-
son 10 establish his innocence. 1t very
properly holds him gu ltless until con
victed, and puts the blu den OF proof on his
accusers. Otherwise every individuals per-
sonal character would be at the mercy OF the
ignorant. prejudiced ano malicious elements
OF c. immunity, who could invent and cir
culate SANDER more rapidly than human ct
fort could trace and expose it. Some OF the
ignoramuses of the press have worked into
their feeble intellects the view that when
calumny is leveled at man he must be es-
teemed guilty but all intelligent school
children of twelve years old know better,
and the ;gnorsmuses only advertise their ig-
norance to the people they assume to be able
to enlighten.
1t is little singular "what fools these
mortals be-" and remarkably strange how
dull of comprehension the American people
are when they cannot see that piece of
paper called money is just as good
as chunk of gold. There is moths
ing in name. Bose answers
as we'll for dog. as Nero, and child must
surely be as happy with the euphonious sp-
pellation OF Titus, Atticus Pomponius or
Marcus Julius Cicero as with plain Jim
or Bill and SO it must be in the matter of
money. An oblopg piece of paper bSaring
the stamp of the government and the sim
ple words "This is ten dollars" of course
would be just as valuable, just as eagerly
sought after, just as soul gladdening as $40
gold piece. At any rate the American Sen
try greenba,k paper says SO and being a
Sentry it ought to know. The Sentry
says:
The slow progress made by the public
mind in acquiring realization OF widely
demonstrated truihs, is conspicuously shown
by the doubts that hang like Egyptian dark
do mtfh
power of our nations fat, stamped upon
paper, and backed by the wealth and indus
try of our entire country, TO impart to the
paper, Ms money, ali the efficacy and value
possessed by n piece of gold bearing sim
liar (f ~ stamp. Perhaps no other simple
question 10 our nations very recent history
has been 80 befogged and clouded over by
mere sophistry, right on the heels of its COM
plete solut on aud settlement, by very
general observation and business txperi,
epce. as this. The fact that the south
had no share la Ouf earlier greeDOsck cur
rency experience, very fairly accounts for the
lack Of clear comprehension OF the Truth OF
the case in that part of our country. At the
north and west, however, il seems impossible
TO explsin the mystery, since almost every
man aud woman living ia the country at the
time Of tue issue and use of the first sky
milllOns Cl our RtcebUaCh CutrcnSy' o"uou
and used more or less of u. Dam, the
time that elapsed from ~ ,s. - Of the first
ten millions of that SIXTY MI ioas of full
legal tender greenbsck currency until the
further issue Of Is was ct pped, and that
already issued vas tcooped up and got out
of the way by Toe money changers. IL stood
at par with gold. But tor the stop put TO
the issue Of the full legal tender greenbsck
currency the occupation Of the money chang
or would have been at 90 end, and millions
upon millions of dollars and hundreds ofIhou.
sands of vAlusole lives saved TO the nation.
The New Orleans Democrat has the fol-
loving notice Of the late Justice Clifford Of
the United States court:
Judge Nathan Clifford, associate justice Of
The United States supreme court, died At
Cornish, Ne, yesterday. Judge Clifford
was The oloest member OF the supreme court,
b wing ben sppoi.ted from Maine 10 posi-
ton on tie bench 10 1858, by President b.
chsnan. As might be eIpected from this
appointment Judge Off rd vs deter.
mined and consistent dem Graf. and remained
90 throughout his whole career, never sverv-
ing. for a second, from democratic prini-
ples. For twenty -tb rec year. Judge Clifford