The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-16

Ing. ~ sayt
Al long as there are numbers 10 society
nho will insist upon violating its rules
socjetv must use force In the person OF III
officers TO compel order and obedience V
law. In ipter-communa! affairs the force II
called the police. But there are extraordin'
arv occasions. such as riots and revolutions
in which the feeble police have to be very
largely supplemented by the military. Their
apsn' the nations Of the earth constitute
Community of individuals of large and small
spberes of power and action; and here, again
wa see this International community con-
stsn,ly under the necessity OF using force
agsns, its unruly members. Inc occasions
which call for the use OF international force
are called wars, as moe dignined names ior
these grand assaults, robberies ana murders,
than are used TO designate their kl-drou
crimes in the inter communal state. C.il
there is only the difference between tweedie-
dunn and tweedledee that there IS De-
tween the watchmen of the bank in Paris
restraining the robbers OF the city ana that
grand garrison of soldier on the Alsatlsn
border WHO are also there to restrain the
big International r.bber. The mission
of policeman Patrick O'Shaughnessy pur-
suing the murderous burglar through dark
ALLEYS in New York city is identically the
same as that OF the Eighth United States
cavalry on the RIO Grande, or even the Flrst
infantry on the Canadian frontier. With
out thieves, murderers and imposter5 where
would society get its Thousands OF great
ideas that produce our fine jaiIs, msgnlfhcent
drops and giullotines; our combination ana
time locks, and the imposing show OF the
detective, constables and sheritf:? without
the sin and sorrow that produces all OF ibis,
and much more, there would not be trlctlon
enough in religion to produce our Lutners,
Calvins, Wes'eys, Edwards and other great
lights of religion. Suppose every man dio
unto others as he would have others do IN
to him, how could we ever get any Clceros,
Justinians, Blackstones and Kents, and tnst
most of lesser legal lights WHO organize the
political pri msries, and go 20
the legislature and to copgressf
The Austin Statesman has its thinking sp-
parstus Gged on things matrimonial, and
thus grinds OUT.
II, in the economy of nsture,it was IN
tended that every woman was entitled to
husband, then there lie no getting around the
argument of the Latter Day Saints, 'that
poiygamy is proper" The census shows
that in this country there are S8S,290 more
females than males, ard so we see q preor"
dnatiop, as it were, if man must really
have only one wife that very soon one
million women must be doomed to live
everlastingly as OLD maids. NO Wonder
there is beginning to be such strong-minded
ness among women. Men are not created to
live alone, and we have no right to assume
that woman, who is so comprehensive, must.
liy, OH without love until shriveled ana
sour ar sad she fills a grave, unmourned'
There must be dual wfehood If this thing
is to be the r:la, OF The plan of sex-produc
ton, sdqaLc,d by that learned gentleman OF
Houston, Mr.. Fiquet, must be tried on the
human race. 1t is terrible thing TO con-
templste-one million poor, lorn women
without one single baby to love among them
all. There must be some kind OF reliel, or
the stroDgmindedness of woman may create
an Amaz 'nisn period destructive TO man
hood. Our readers must not think this
light subject for in reality, it is most
serious one. While we would not especially
prefer to have New England "gal" in our,
il makes the heart sad to think of hundreds
of thousands of poor girls, up theree. who
are absolutely debarred the state OF double
blessedness, unless the Mormon agent come
along and relieve the situation. In the
south It is said the males preponderste,
which according to the sex producing theory
of this same Houston gentleman, is credlta'
BILE to the virtues of southern men. But,
assuming that this ratio of difference in the
sexes increases as it has, the problem must
simply perpetuate itself until the
North American continent is run by
women, who will be, soci ally and politically
several times in the majority. Then, .probas
bly,, the country would be @ forlorn study
for the speculstor in race probabilities.
There will be then one poor disconsolate
little fellow to half dozen strong>minded
women, and instead of one man being occa.
sionally called upon iu Utah to take care OF
two or more wives, dozen women will be
doting upon one poor, dilapidated husband.
The bare contemplation of the existence OF
such a period In the affairs of the human
race, makes one satisfied enough that he lives
in the nineteenth century instead OF the nine.
tieth'century. None who live now will feel
any particular interest in the condition OF
society then, but feelings of humanity lead
us to avert, If possible, such evil. MIR. Fiquet
has not made his discovery one day too soon,
and what he applies to animals to control
sex production becomes an indispensable
treatment, TO be. regulated by law, for the
human family.
The jefferson Democrat, commenting OF
an article in the Mexia Ledger, relative 10
homesiesds, trains its batteries, not upon
the last itself, but upon the abuses thereof
ard says:
A homestead law that will cover house
worth from ten thousand 10 half million
dollars built from money Justly due honest
creditors. leaves a wide open door for ras-
cality. Men in Texas about 10 fail, or faii-
ing desiguedly, have erected hotels or
business blocks which they have moved into
and claimed as homestesds. That is ell
wrong, and law that sanctions such q
claim Is pernicious. A law that allows q
family homestead of the value OF from
three TO five thousand dollars, is right, but
in that case Il ought 10 be built with mans
own money, and not with the means OF other
people. ia man starts 10 business with
little or nechiag. and Is trusted to the
amount Of thousands, takes the money
Justly belonging 10 Others out
of bis business, and builds q
valuable hotel and business stores with IT, OF
purchases an elegant farm, has no moral, and
certainly ought not 10 be invested with q
legal right 70 hold H. Thst our present
homestead law is wrong. IL seems 70 IA, there
csr ha M ouestion A man gOnptimos buys