The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-20
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.

the 4th of March and does not give very
cogent reasons for its opposition. 1t does
however, throw some light upon the capsbil-
tiles of General Grant: 1t says;
Preparations are making for u grand milf
tary display in Washington on inaugural
day. Several companies of United States
soldiers, with five batteries, will be present.
-Four companies of artillery from our hsrbor
have been ordered TO report there for the oc.
cason, and several other companies from
Fortress Monroe are also expected. The
National Guard of Pennsylvania, numbering
twenty thousand men, will be there, and eff
forts are making 10 secure the at enhance of
large bodies of soldiers from other states
This ia not wise nor well 1t is n departure
from time honorod usages which should be
opposed and discouraged. The inauguration
of MIR, Garfield, whom everybody considers
10 entitled to the office and has been declared
elected by congress in the constitutional way,
needs no military backing whatever. There
Is no possible danger of an outbreak. Not a
ripple of dissent will disturb the pacific pro-
ceedings. Soldiers are not needed there and
TO invite their presence now simply psves
the way to their possible use on some subse-
quent occasion, when their prese ace might
overswe congress and inaugurate DICTATOR.
IL Is notorious that in the winter OF 1867
Grant filled Washington with federhi troops
and negotiated with Governor Har!ranft, of
Pennsylvania, to call out the militia of that
state to inaugurate Hayes by force even had
congress failed to declare him the president
elect, and the house of representatives had
chosen Mr.. Tilden in the manner provided
by the constitution. Nothing should be- done
| TO place the means of such An exercise of
| power to overthrow the government within
theteach Of tho-e 10 authority.
Men who violate election laws in Penn
aylyania are prosecuted in the state, no. the
federal courts, IS the following extract from
a letter from District Attorney Graham TO
thoctizeus committee OF Philadelphia and
published in the Philadelphia Times will
show:
In answer to your inquiry 80 TO Whether or
not would try, and that speedily, the csses
0fauy porsona arrested aud charged with
election frauds, repeating, etc, reply that
rs the sworn officer to prosecute tha pleas Of
tho commonwealth will place on trial snd
! treat all accused persons alike, making no
distinction between individuals. In every
css9 where tho evidence warrants my so do
ing shall pre3s for conviction, without re-
gard 70 the social standing or political filth
of the accused. As every fraud perpetrated
IN thn management of our elections is n blow
struck at our popular government aud sub
versive of tho rights and liberties of overy
citizen, the punishment of such oiYouses be-
comes of great Importance to the communi--
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speedily AS the other business of my office
and justice will permit.
Why should federal courts in Texas inter.
fero in state election matters in Texas and
not in Pennsylvania ? Texas is sovereign
state the same as Pennsylvania and has Just
rs effective and as stringent election laws.
Is it for the sake of political claptrap and
"to Dire the northern honrt," that tho federal
courts in the south assume. thi, sutho rlty and
make engines of oppression of themselves?
Tho New York World shows the ruinous
folly of the protective tariff restrictions and
at the same time strikes blow straight from
the shoulder at Mr.. Blaine that is planted
square between his optics. 1t says:
Mr. Wells to-day deals directly with the
navigation laws, and his summary of them,
and his account Of what is possible 10 DO
done aud what has actually been done under
their authority, is actually enough to make
US ashamed of our country. There ia no
other civilized country in the world in which
euch code would DO permitted to remain
upon the statute book for u month. The
navigation laws arc relic of the middle
ages. When they were passed they were
already an anachronism, although we not
only had the excuse ut that time of doing
what other people did, but the excuse,
peculiar to ourselves, that We
needed TO develOpe merchant marine.
and that the navigation laws did aetu-
ally answer our purpose until cheap timber
becSme AN unimpOrtant consideration in
ship-building compared with cheap iron and
cheap coal Now we have neither OF these |
excuses. Our laws are u generation behind |
tito age wo live in, and, as they were At FIRST |
the lite have now become the death of our |
merchant marine. We have no ships, and |
we hsvo the satisfaction of knowing that no |
change IN the laws can possibly make our |
condition worse. With these results staring |
him IN tho face it Is wonderful that even Mr. |
Blame can advocate not merely refusing to |
repeal tho law which forbids us to buy cheap |
sblps, but actually advocating the offer of re. |
wards In money to tho mon who will build !
the dearest ships in the world. What is mora |
wonderful ye. is the likelihood that tha next |
speech Mr. Blaine makes a(ter his advocacy
of the navigation lava, will DO speech |
against Chinese immigration, in which he
will cite, not with admiration, but with alb
florence, the marrow" and exclusive" policy
OF the Chinese empire
The Leadville Democrat says:
A shrewd agent OF eastern money.lenders
has been Xamioiog the Value of Kansas farm
mortgages II, finds thousands of them
Upon tarms that are not worth tho loan, and
figures cut that Kansas Ia too far from the
sea board 10 make the lands very desirable
for wheat raising. But still he advises the
holders to cling to their mortgages because
no Is satisfied that the nine. OF Colorado will
support an enormous population and will
eventually make better market for Kansas
products than the moro eastern states can
ever lind In Europe for them.
Yet By juiicious advertising and system
attic effort despite its worthless lands and
bleak inhospitable climate, Kansas has been
able 10 pour u tide of people into her limits,
while Texas with thousand advantages
over her, because of the backwoods element
that obtrudes itself into the legislature, sits
still, does nothing and remains compOra-