The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-17

The New York Express ought not 10 be
pFopounding foolish conundrums. Don't
the Express know thu. the Bliss,ful doctors
who have hold of the president have too
good thing 10 let it loosel Tho country
don't want Arthur trying to administer the
government, and tho Express should not in
innate a,thlng even that would be likely to
send him to Washington. The Express
ssys:
The President tried several times ~ write
his name yesterday, but at last succeeded in
making scrswl which, by the aid of pow
erful Imagination, can be regarded as his
signature. We are informed that the paper
was of the gravest importance. he could
not read it, but its contents we're explained
to him Now the question naturally arises
whether President who has such difficulty
N signing his name o. Mr.. Gerlald confess
eddy experiences to documents whose alleged
contents are injected into his brain in state
of high dilutiou by Secretary Blaine, is ex.
actly in a condition Of body and mind to al,
minister the affairs of the United States
Government Tho grave and important
state papers sglod yesterday may have been
quite right, bu. would one Of our largest
merchants or bankers. or linanciers consider
himself, or be considered by his intimate ne
soeiates inca condition to slgu important
documents were he in the same fix as Nj,
Garfield? We think neither Mr.. Seney, Mr.
Vanderbilt, or Mr.. A. a, Low would siga q
paper whose contents were infltraled into
his understanding by clerk, when after q
half-hour's trying he could not write his
name 30 1t would be recognized Tho prac
ticsl question is, How long will Mr.. Gar
fields inability last
WHEN the man Gri1sby made his non
senaicsl remarks at the reunion of ex-Con-
Tolerate Missourlan,s it was said at once that
the ST. Louis Globe Democrat would ignore
common decency and The rules of hospital
isy, for its representative was especially cared
for by the association, and make the occasion
pretext for the abuse Of the Southern peo~
pie. How nearly correct the people were in
their estimate OF the venality and disreputa,
bleness of the concern lot the following at
test:
1.-THE effort was made to create the inns
preston that Capt. Grigeby's speech was
Niosuotoiui w udO Nupb VI ploc'
emit. The indications do not point that way.
1t was an escape Of truth-the revelation of
the true inwsrdness of thu reunion. If any
spirit al all animated the ex-contedersts res
union it WAS that of the rebellion, and Capt
Grigsby was its real exponent-not Gen.
LOWS. If the ex-confederates wish to con.
vince people of their loyalty they had better
put an end to such experiments as that at
Dallas. No amount Of caution can proven.
the truth from cropping out where the con-
gregstion OF sympathetic numbers cOmpels
enthusiastic expression. Tho fire ia sure to
be there, and playing with it is dangerous.
The profession Of loyalty was but an apology
for the meeting. The Lost Cause had better
be dropped where it is. II is worse than fu
tile TO drag IL back to cover 1t with mantle
that does not belong to it. II has been writ
ten that one cannot worship two masters"
And yet there arc Misaourians and Texans
who will buy this Globe,D Democrat. who will
contribute to its support that it may continue
to villify and saudor the southern people.
The st. Louis Republican has the follow
ing to say of the financial condition of the
country:
Mr.. Knox, comptroller Of the currency. in
paper read before tho bankers convenSn
at Niagara Falls, gives this statement Of Tho
amount of money in the country and the
kinds of it, on the LIST of May last;