The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-15
ss,EHAL PRESS REVIEW.

,O,,.ud that tho temporary disability of any
,sc,l yscatea his office, and We agree with
Ma Philadelphia Times in what ii says be.
low:
i SCHUYLER ColfsI reappears long enough
tOu bis enforced retirement to give the re-.
np of his studies on the contingency Of
nrs,idenlisl disability. He cannot imagine
nv other method of filling vacancy than
by,hs assignment of the diGsbled par.y--ss a
general 10 battle or cabinet officer on leave.
But under no circumstances does the tempo.
NV occupancy of place by an alternative
cncsl vacste the title of the temporarily
disabled perscnsge. He commends Arthur's
delicate perssiency in not assuming tina plsce
Senate ,IJHos, of Florida, on the other
hand, VAC is not legal luminary of the
frt fame holds that an inability is an evil
dence Of vacations that the vice president is
j the Judge OF this inability, and once installed
in the place of the disabled person, he holds
4 the office until the end Of the term. Thus
the shuttle goes and comes, aud the end will
be some decisive action by congress, which
1 shall give the couutry the minimum of wrong
even in the maximum Of eIigences.
The recent fires in Michigan and the north.
vest ere appalling indeed, and every dsy
5inss to light increasing horrors. Thous'
nds of people. in that section now need help
md those who are saved from such disasters
lhould help them 10 the extent OF their abils
iy. The New York Evening Mail slludiDg
/ 10 the Michigan fires, says.
1 Tho rnauuitudn of tho dian giar in hinhi0ap
/ does not appear less by further reports. On
/ The contrary, ii assumes constantly greater
proportions Six hundred people, it is now
1 pretty certain, haVe been burned to death
or6ufOcaied. And some of the survivors sit
helpless, starving, nearly naked and despair
ing in tte ellH, with blstered feet, hands
and ears, or deprived of eyesight by the
smoke and fsme. Mr. James Birney, late
our Minister to The Hague, has just returned
from the border Of the country over which
,he FIRE hes passed, estimates tho area of the
devastated district TO be- as large
IS the state of Vermont. Mr. Thur
low Weed declares that never within
his long experienced hsE.any part of our coun-
!y been 60 fearfully dcsolsted. And 1t lie
iHfe to SOY that seldom in the history of the
world has such terrible calamity been ex4
perien0ed. That the Wretched sufferers will
b helped, and helped generously, i, certain,
but this lis case in which he who gives
quickly will give twice. The committee
formed yesterday, Of which Mr. William
Dowd, the president OF the bank of North
America, is treasurer, makes the appeal for
the modest sum of $4,000 in money. But
ve hope to hear that ten times ten thousand
have been received by him before the sun
seIs to-day. Not money alone is needed.
Clothing bedding, dry goods, supplies of all
kinds will DO for the immediate present as
eficacious as money, and these, it is to be
ardently wished, will be contributed in
snnOuscos thst II will transport free to
Detroit articles sent for the relief Of the
sufferers, and let those who have anything to
send stand not upon tho order of their
sending, but send at once.
There are some questions coming up for
discussion now and then which can not be
treated otherwise than al length, and for our
general press review column, in which il is
or aim only TO have short extracts, wo now
and then come scross sn article that we %
not, because of lis excellence and the inn
portance of its subject, feel justified in cut.
ting. The following from the Grensds
Mississippi, New South is one of them and
therefore we give it almost entire. The New
South seyt:
Every man should feel that he is on in.
tegral part of the government under which
he lives, and that he is responsible TO the OF.
tent Of his vote and influence for all the bad
laws that il propagstes. Every common.
sense man knows now that we are cursed
with too msny email politicians, and thai
their silly ambition for prominence, with ne
talent of any kind to back it, is provin.
yearly to be q greater and greater curse t
the nation. The trouble is that our peopl,
act too much from prejudice anC
impulse. Men, 20 vote intellectually
must read, reflect and know
for themselves what the force of tht
ballot is, and to what it may lead. The
stump orator was power in the land, buI
our sge should repudiste his supremacy and
DO able to expose his shallow humbuggery
Newspapers are cheap and plentiful, and
sRy good weekly isannually worth lis weight
Ia gold 10 any man who is really anxious t
keep pace with the times and is unable L
reach the mere extensive and elaborate
avenue of knowledge There are men coming
into self-foroed prominence every day in oul
politics who repudiste the mother who bore
them and deny their Savior for the sake OF
office. The greed for political Office is ,
kind of lunscy, it is an incurable hydropho-
Bis that rarely attacks or fsstens itself OF
men of real ability. Men of the highest
talent are ashamed OF the demands Aicb Il
makes on their pride, hor0- d mnpliness
and they too often no lvrcci aside by III,
struggling horde political rlUuntebsnk ant
psupers that ar reaching for the emolument
Of place like starved ours fighting over crust
Of bread. OH the permanent success of tn
democratic party depends oil our local a
we'll rs national interests, and II seems 10 u
like the madness of folly for our people Il
think or act against Its success. What pos
Mble claims has rsdicalism on our support
1t has been blighiing curse whenever an
Wherever Il had the power, and 1t will be
double curse again, II successful.
Presidential disability and the right OF th
vice>presidsnt to act, being one of tho Wit,
questions of the day, discussions from o
sources arc of interest. therefore We civ
what the American Sentry, greenbsck or
gan, has to say:
The spirit in which many OF our contom
poraries are discussing the question of Pre.i
dent Garaeld's disability, indicates desir
for unseemly haste on tho part of Gen. Al
thur In assuming tho position and duties q
preeident, In the present condition of IN