The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-29
STATE PRESS REVIEW

Ice benson Herald-News pays its respect
TO the intamy of Mormonsm thuswise:
Not less than five hundred people are TO
day serving terms in the various penitentarie
for bigamy, but they are all gentiles. Thu
Mormon is the only man VINO has perfec
freedom in this line. Quite delegation fo
the Mormon hsrems will pass through
Chicago the coming week. The territory o
Utah Is the nations house of prostitution.
isa standing menace to all the recognized
laws OF societ., fostering shame upon th,
entire people who have 80 long permitted it
pollution. There Is not u savage tribe o
Indians upon our frontier who are not bette
types of civilized and re6ned manhood thai
these very MOrmons, who, under the cIoat
OF religion, attempt 10 hide their lechery
The time is coming when the people viii
compel politicians and statesmen to un
cover tho deformty and Danish its impiou
and unholy actors from the utmost borders
OF tho land. And the time is not far distsn,
either.
About the foolishest bit of gratuitout
advice we have ever heard Of, we read in tht
last issue of tho Terrell Times, dated Apri
2Sth,which we received yesterday. It's headed
"a WOrd to Texas Land Owners" and
goes on in a wandering sort of way tc
advise farmers not TO plant cotton, but turn
their attention principally to stock raising.
Here Is sample of the article in question:
All too soon the poor farmer finds himself
scarcely more than " serf beside Of his rich
neighbor's land, the result of faithful ad-
herence to the culture Of the south's pet
staple, cotton, But is this hlind folio wing of
ajack-'o lantern compulsory? Certainly not =.
No matter how small track of land you
may own, reserve above all things the
greater portion of it for stock. Do not crim-
inally destroy your greatest stock in trade,
tho rich native grasse', but rather encourage
Its growth, pas ure sparingly and increase
your herds as your lands improve. This is
the Texas farmers grand resource, this his
o,ly chance to keep on an equal footing a
his more wealthy neigtbor, and 10 avoid the
inevitable result of becoming, when past the
merit 80 Of life, humble hewers OF wood
and drawers of water.
Does not tho Times know that if agricul-
tural pursuits vera abandoned ia Texas that
the state would go 10 utter ruin inside of
two years. Farming i, the basis of all
prosperity, and cotton is tho surest, best
paying crop in the south. This giving of
advice to farmers Is all needless and non
sensical. They arc men of sense, and know
about As well what they ought to do as
those who presume to tell them.
The Jefferson Democrat, discussing, an
unjust and an untruthful criticism Of Mr..
Jefferson Davis forthcoming book, ascribed
to tho st. Louis Republican, among other
hings says:
This, to commence with, is msstatement
OF the work and of the attitude of the south
ern people not merely because it denounces
the book of Mr.. Davis as an apology for
secession, but for the reason that slavery, as
every southern man knows, was simply an
incident of the war, and not its
cause. 1t was u war brought on by the
north, as all the facts prove, and waged BY
Its lenders for sectional domination In viola.
ton OF the letter and spirit OF tho constitu.
uon The creature is not greater than its
creator. A government of delegated powers
has no right to increase Mt will those powers.
When, therefore, 1t assumed tho authority
TO coorce one or an entire section of states.
there was no warrant for its course, either in
the Instrument TO which il owed its existence
or derived from the spirit of the convection
OF 1857, that framed the constitution.
The sentiment expressed by the Democrat
is all right; We who seeded believed we
vera right then, and that we had a just cause
and We believe SO yet, but what /, the use O,
opening UP tho sepulchrs of tho past
LIT the Republican and any
other paper that desires to do so how
gnash It's teeth and roar like byena 10 lis
hearts content. twill neither affect Mr.
Davis, the south, nor tho men Of the south
who believed and still believe in constitution.
al government and tho doctrine of states
rights.
There was man once who kent a skeleton
in his house, and he would gsze upon and
contemplate it several times every day tc
remind him that no had to die some time
and to thus enable him 10 keep his mind
above the things of this earth, earthly. There
arc some people who are Away. thru ting
skeletons of some kind into the faces of othe,
people 10 make them feel dissgreeable, or "a
remind them Of au unpleasant, fact. The
Waco Telephone seems TO DO ono of these
kind, the following will attest:
Some Of the papers forget wha. thev ara
talking about and sllude to the seventeenth
legislature rs detunct BODY. THIS Ia a
mistake. The seventeenth will have certain.
ly one more whack At S. per diem, IA tht
governor will have TO convene both houses In
extra session next year TO appor,ion the con-
gressional and legislative dis,ricts on IN,
basis Of the tenth census. No, brethren
the seventeenth Legislature 10 still Of mi,
world.
The Telephone also contains the following
which 10 full Of sound sense and CONVEYS ,
bust that Dallas might we'll prof. by:
In this era Of railroads says the Texa
Land and Railway journal, too little atten
Non 10 paid to tho improvements of count,
roads, County towns aud villages can, b;
improvements Of roads In their neighbor
nood, commands trade and secure futur
prosperity; successfully rivslinp mushroom
fauroAd towns. The fact 1. many railron,
sowns arc simply shipping stations, and no
ousin y points. '-''' ~
The PauolA Waterman 1, ,o,d III,