The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-13

right as they are on the question OF expeil
ency of Mr.. Arthur TO take upon himself
what in his health Mr.. GGasld was elected
20 do. In this emphatic variance OF view,
who shall constitute himself the judge and
how best action should be taken, is a mat
tr Of most serious import and responsible
Ivy. Thus much for n pending issue bearing
upon the fate Of tho nation. On IA
smaller scale, yet embracing tho
same principle is HI anomaly
oxiatiug in our own community.
We slMde 10 tho case Of Ritter versus tbe
Chicago, Texas e. Mexican railway CONS
pany, the details Of which. have been given
daily for nearly week past in our local
columns. In it there is presented to ia "!he
glorious uncertainties Of the law" for In IL
we sec the conflicting conduct of two judges,
each supposed to DO learned in the law and
animated alone by a Just and decent regard
for its supremacy over anything like arbi.
trAry ambition or envious diclation. We
see one Of them Issuing for one party a writ
prohibiting the doing of a certain thing, and
the Othos one issuing writ permissivo OF
the doing, aud in consequence serious con-
llict between oil persona concerned in tho
unfortunate contest, each client earnestly
trusting 10 tho superior learning OF his own
counsel, and oNch =. relying upoH
the inialliblity of hia respoo,lyo
judge. The stlair ia becoming
50 wide,embrscing and Completing Ia i's
method and ts isouos ths, thousands otdol-
lars Of costs md foes must bo The iunl uP-
shot 10 onc OF tho lhgSnta, ard thousands
more pGrhepa to the unlucay party casi Ia
the auit, aad p, issuiog out oi tuo original
disagreement o, only te9 nuadoi duIal4
Now ml po.I9uH l.sa above prevented
end this community one, theo1 CMba sHga
datcct3 in so-cAllcd science, II inosya A0.
IA underlying stratum VI crGor whose eD-
tanging iniricacieg aua dIsbcar.oulns unceg-
ttinlios evolve aucn opposite yjows give e
to such possible rgsul8 6nd leopard 20
largo suhs of money. IL 70 bad enough 10
ba injured by o storm, ruined BY drouth,
or deyeated by destroying Insects, or BY any
otAer Of lho "acla OF God" or by wer etc,
but to he pillsgod by the deliberate work o
our fellow mortsls, whether in legislative
capacity, judicial power or legal acumsn
or the want of IL, through the so.cNlled
temple of JUSTICE" is not calculated
to inspire in Iha thinking mind any more
reverence for the dIsponsation Of that
temple" than was allowed OF old by the rupsi
bic people to the ancient heather demi.gods
81 wood and stone, aud whom the deceived |
were permitted TO take down and whip when |
matters turned out lily; or to the sayings of
the sstrologers who shared the same fate |
under like trsHspirings. Pursuing through |
a legitimate process the acts that have thus
far beea done by Judges Aldrodge and |
Bledsoe with their respective writs, and
there might, |; occurs to us, be arrested by
the latter the attorneys representing Ritter
nasmuoh As tho attorney representing tho
road WAS placed under keeper, 90 too OF
he clerks who issued any conflicting writ |
70 too the sheriff aud his deputy who served |
or unlawful aud unwarrante1 Interference,
nd 40 on nd intinilum. This would cost the |
rdivdualS aud the taxpHyors fat sum Of
money. Ritter and tho railroad company
lad bother have composoi latir dGicuises
0eo to have prccipiiated ouch
state Of things; tao former Il
would seem md better have
yivon away sill bis iarm except bis boro'-
leaLuu the ROAD had better have p,oaooied
Mr. RIaoy with a locomotive, and Of Bald. 4.
g,l's bosi, aud olso have called Do. little cp.-
.cf1 p'o, 81 sound, tha os0se Of all ltrss
d.eiul woes uunumbef,J," "ENiorw,h.'
Blowing na station houao e5 40 uaeh n0
Each pauy contestant vould lhmaoiya
lW.tbuo bal 'as.eo. JAe ogs'aeM3 utI
1'twa l.., sti3 .o" ul.a a..ya Sect
nsyA 0.ls aaHst N"u'IarA' Hr.g.
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