The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-21


The Morris county Banner G. ntly touche
up class of people In its town OF Danger
field, that is TO be found in every tow
and city. They are the greenbsckers.> ,h
crossers, the fsultfsders, the back biters
We have them here in Dallas. They lacl
enterprise; they will not agree TO any propo
sition ,hss may be made fer the cty's good
they are unwilling to contribute dollar t
aid in the progress of the city OF Its develop
.mens, but are willing enough to profit by tn,
efforts in this direction. lta rairosd wa |:
to come to Dallas, and asks help of the city
they tighten their purse strings, and some OF
them assert taa, the agent who ssks the do.
nation wants the money to put in his own
pocket, as the road is coming here anyhow.
This class of people are the ravens Of every
community ia which they live the black and
omnous birds of evil whose comings. snd
the shadaw of whose wigs are as an /, cusus
upon the advancement Of any town or city.
The Banner says:
ln almost every town thers ara a number
of persons who make 1t their special bus.
ness 10 whne and talk down their TO vn. and
grumbla and discourage every enterprise thst
is undertaken. They complain Of dull bus
mess aud say the town is going down-that
ii is deaf plsce--ani il they tallo trim off
anywhere, they r9iurn home praising the
towns they have seen, and talking vi how
tney are growini into cities, While they de-
clare that their own town is going TO the
aeviI, Whea a stranger comes in they
tell him of all the woes and disadvan,srass
OF tho place that they can think Of Toey
bemo4n Inc lack OF enterprise and energy of
their nsighbors, and, in fact. whine and
grumble st everyth ng no mater what Lind
of town they live 10. Thy are ALWAYS
trying to tear down aud DESTROY. Danger
field has such men. Every other town has
them, and they are curses to any commu
nifty. But when town prospers it must do
so In spite them. The progressive element
must press forward and turn deaf Gar 10
these ,rumblers.
Inc Waco Telephone is opposed to the
system that obtains of eectiog judges, and
proceeds in the following, which wa extract
from its editorial columns, to give cogea,
reason; for the faith that is in II:
A convention, to nominate Judge, is one
OF the deplorabIe features OF our system.
And if SO Of the convention, what of the
canvass and election that follow? The YER,
defects of our judicial system are serving Ia
inspire the masses with profound conlemnt
TOR law aud its methods. OF course there
are honorable exceptions to tho rule. Oace
in while we get IA ebo and incorruplibe
judge on the bench. But The system is de
moraiziug and psrnicious, in that lis ulti-
mate tendency i, to drive the best legal
talent away from tho bench, and sur.
render the ermine to men who are hardly
worthy to wear it. The lswyers, of all men
are best aware Of these evils; but tho LAWYERS
Of all men, are the last to ask or suggest
a remedy. The conclusion fellows,
that the shrewd lawyer thrives where
defective Judiciary system is fastened
upon the state. The masses, little given to
thoughtful analysis of such subjects resen,
any measures looking to an appointive.
high-sslary. long.tem Judiciary. Dema.
gogues have instructed the average citizen
that such measures sro Entertainments upon
his privileges and denial of Of his "a jsciiy
to make an intelligent choice. The result is
that our courts, our laws, our whole system
OF jurisprudence has utterly failed to keep
pace with the advances made in every other
direction. These observations, it should be
stated, apply only TO state courts, Texas
chief among the number of the states fur,
nishing the examples.
The Pamela Waterman asks the question.
"Does cotton-growing pay?' and then pro.
ceeds to answer in tie negative that it does
notas now managed, and proposes REMEDY
for the evil. II says:
Cotton chopping is now tho order of the
day, and as farmers chop and sweat and sweat
and chop, they do not much relish the idea
OF not getting more than seven or eight cents
for 1t next winter. As long as farmers raise
five hundred thousand bales of cotton over
and above the demand, they will have to
continue to suffer other people TO fix the
price OF cotton, or in other words,
fix the price Of their labor. If
they would set the price on cotton
themselves, let them grow little less thaa
there Is demand for, and to do this success,
fully "cotton congress" should be organized
ia the cotton belt, and M agreement entered
into allowing only So many acres TO be
planted to the hand, or plant for only so
many bales to the hand, according to tho
productiveness of tho land, regardless of the
number of acres planted. By adopting a
plas like this, the "production" would be
kept down to the "domand," and GOOD
price would always be obLainel, and in this
way, aud IN this way a'one can cotton
growing be maize to pay the cost of growing
1t and leave u profit TO the farmer.
Not long ago Whitelaw r id, editor of the
New York Tribune, delivered an address at
Xenia, Ohio, on education, in which no ad
vised parents and teachers to pay more a,ten-
ton to tho basis Of education than tho SUPER
structure. In other words, he advanced
about the same doctrine as Lieutenant. Gov
ernor Storey did in his inaugural adress--the
"resdin', 'ritin' and 'rithme,ic" policy. The
Jefferson Democrat, commenting upon Mr..
Reid's theory, says:
This is sensible advice that ought to be
engraven on every schoolhouso and dwelling
OF the land. The tendency of modern educs
ton is to eolsrge tho pupers,ructure and
neglect the basis. As contemporary remarks,
tho result Is the education acquired by the
average pupil is inferior 10 that which his
ia'her and grandfather obtained BY the old
fashioned method Eyerv pripter and od;,n, |