The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-28

1ao AO-h-bspoiCu ~ eoTSuostC oui entiAi-
cal or II is dull and prosy. 1t is never the
latter. 1t says:
Mr.. Thomas j. Brady, late assistant post
master general, has written q ststesmsnlike
card to the Washington Republican, in which
he mentions the startling fact that be Is rs
honest as the day is long, and Ms innocent as
q white dove. Brady being q stockholder Ia
the Republican. his card is published with
out prejudice, and 1t seems 70 US that there
should be general suspension of public
opinion. We usually feel like dealing gently
with an Indiana statesman. There are al
ways extenuating circumstances. Early as.
ISOLATION must DO taken into account.
The st. Louis Republican, commenting
on the filth of the New York streets and the
newspaper comments thereon, and cartoons
thereof says:
The New york papers are still hsmmerinp
away al the subject of filthy streets and
threatened pestilence, One of them reminds
the public that Philadelphia was once q
greater city than New York, snd the streets
became so horribly filthy that when the
seeds OF yellow fever were brought 10 from
the West Indies pestilence was bred, trade
driven away, and many thousands of people
were carried off in the several years Of the
malady. Philadelphia eventually cleaned
the streets and has still kept them clean, but
New York shot ahead and has KEEP! tho lead +.
That was ninety years ago, but periods are
never too long for repetl,ions Of history The
paper-Evening Post-protests that this is
not an alarmists cry, but a genuine peril,
and that New York may be robbed of her
supremacy as Philadelphia was. A late nun
Der of Puck pictures fur skeletons on the
steps of princely brownstone fronts. They
are: severally labeled "Fever," malaria"
Smallpox" "Diptheria." They are ugly
looking figures in their setting on the avenue,
but they staked up from the slums, shadow
ing the advance of death by dirt, and the
police csunot drive them away.
The Louisville Courier-J Journal discussing
the action ofthe sanitary council of tho Mis-
sissippi Valley and local sanitation, saya:
There is a phase of this subject, however,
which deserves attention of more than Or
binary robustness. We refer to local santa.
tion. The city of Louisville is in an extraor.
binary filthy condition. Many of the streets
are reeking with filth. Filthy ponds give
forth their fetid exhalations. Privy vaults,
IN Dsck promises, faint the air We breathe
with horrible odors. The sewer system of
the city Is grossly imperfect. The care.
lessness of householders and the csrelessness
OF plumbers have introduced the poison of
the sewer.gss into households. Defective
drainage has brought disease, and many
lives have been sacrificed through this cause
during the past season. We confess that the
outlook Is far from encouraging. We hope
the new board of health will DO impressed
with the Importance of immediate and of.
fective efforts to remedy the evils we have
spoken of. Tho condition of the streets,
cutters and sewers is pre.eminently n subject
which comes within the province of the
board of health. Domestic sanitation ought
TO receive the sssiduous attention of that
body. We know of no period of the year
when action Ia more necessary than at pres
ent. We must put the city ia order for the
summer months. We must not invite dis
ease nv leaving the filth mass to undergo
fermentation beneath the action of hot
sur
General b. +. Butler has just returned
north from visit to Florida, and of course
he was fresh mutton for an interviewer. He
never talks without being interesting, and
his words are always worthy of oonsidera.
ton, therefore we take from the Philadelphia
Times the following, as to what no says:
He believes that Mahonesm stands a
chance of breaking up the solid democratic
following in the south, simply because no
southerner, born with the preuuices and
schooled in tho adherence of the repub,i.
can party name can ever DO brought 10 vote
for men calling themselves republicans.
The young learn with their first lispings that
II was the republican party which pillaged
and bankrupted the southern ,tstes during
and after reconstruction that the same
hated party put the negro above them to
ruin their cities and depopuls,e their fields
that the same party persist in misrepresent.
ing. and maligning them now and turning
their most generous and patriotic i'm
pulses into treason and disloyalty, but that
the stalwart spirit of tho south will take
kindly to any helping party t1at shall bear a
new name, and that as the most of tho Youth
OF the north are taught that the democratic
party tried 10 ruin the government, and
therefore refuse to identify themselves witt
u, mo young men ct the south refuse to
Identity themselves with the republicans,
out Will join an organization bear
ing any other name Asked
about intimidation in tho south, But.
ler rejoined with vigor that there was none
that, as a matter of fact, the most vicious
intimidation that no knew was that practiced
in Massachusetts, where Thousands of work.
men were made to understand by republican