The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-24

following,
| Tho womgn suffrage law In Utah provides
that every woman NJ tho age OF Fl years,
who has resided in that territory six months
next preceding any general or special elec-
ton, born or naturalizad nthe United States,
or who is the wife, widow. or the daughter
of native born or natralized citizen of the
United States, shall be entitled TO vote ut any
election In the'territory. The Mormon pa
pers are indignant because Governor Murray
has declared that under this law any girl u
years OF age, ifmsrred TO y Mormon, may
vote. But the law bears evidence of Nor
mon cunning. An unmarried Yankee girl,
teaching school we will cay in Utah, must be
| Fl years of age TO have vote. But If q
Mormon elder marries seven or eight girls in
Europe and transports them TO Salt Lake
City, they at once become voters. A Gem
| tile home with four or five daughters under
| 81 will not have the benefit of their votes. A
Mormon home with four or five wives no
older than the Others will have every woman
represented by a vote. II is clear the law
was formed in the interest of the Mormons
and that it confers citizenship on persons not
Of age
Let the government do its duty and wipe
out Mormonism, and then this law will not
be so Objectionable. Too long has the shame
Of this Mormon concubinism rested as a
stigma npon tho decency of this country and
it should be suppressed.
The kansas City Times has 'em bad
Speaking of Emma Abbott, it calls her
"our own honest little Emma" and further
says:
Whose voice in an echo of heavens music
| itself-whose smile is softer than velvet, and
| ia sweeter than maple sap; whose words are
honey, whose eyes are diamonds; whose form
| is that Of Hebe whose touch is magic, and
whose kiss is dream, from which one
awakens refreshed in body and spiritualized
| in soul.
Great hevingsl somebody ought to put ice
to that gushing Washers head and q liver pad
! ell over bis heaying bosom.
The Peoples Advocat, most sptly says:
That the press is q power in the world Of
untold influence, an educator rs widespread
as essth's bounds; that it should be held to a
strict account and encouraged in every right
effort to spread the great work Of true ciyili-
cation. Ike prees is the first estate in the
nation, and to it must look in greatest CONT
| dence for protection, advancement and vsdi-
cation, the church and tina state; therefore
the press should be wise, just aid elevated
above the petty meanness that disgrace the
nobler instincts of humanity.
The truth Of tho above cannot bs gsinaaid,
yet there are people who sneeringly say that
a peudipg bill should not become law in
Texss because it will benefit newspapers.
Is there a paper in the state Of Texas taat
has ever failed in a single one Of its issues to
say something that was Of benefit to its 10.
cality or the state at large
The Courier-Journal wants the veterans Of
lthe Mexican war pensioned ard character
lies the objection to paying southern mer
pensions because they were contederates Us
poor and trivial:
These survivors number a little over 3D.:
600, and the disbursement will not exceed
1 81, 250,t00 year, tho average time TO live
lof the veterans being estimated 1T fourteen
years. These men aided in adding vast
and enormously rich territory TO this coun.
Try. The acts heretofore passed have &C.
wsrded them but lightly for their gregt
services, which merit full and grateful re-
cognition from the American people. The
i objection heretofore urged to the passage OF
the proposed measure is that among the
veterans are some southern men, who were
in the ranks Of the confederate army. That
/ objection is a poor and triyisl one. Those
men performed great service for the coun-
try under our common flag. We are all
one, and their plea should be recognized
promptly by the preaentcongress.
The objection to paying southern Mexican
war veterans pensions is not only poor md
trivial, but IT is unjust and despicablc. Why
make few men who did noble service for
the country in the Mexic 81 wsr scepegoats
| for the whole south becspss Of il, Sc rsssion
and the war that followecg II anybody Is
to be punished for secession and the late
civil war, why not punish all who took parl
in behalf Of The southern cause, and not a
few old men whose claims upon the United
States government are greaTg
The Philadelphia Times takes the same
! ground that we do On the river and harboI
tsll aud handles It's impulses without gloves
The fact is, the independent press is always
right. for It views every question from !
perfectly disinleresied standpoint, or rather
q standpoint exclusively in the interest OF the
people and of the general good, and it looks
at everything in the clear light Of common
sense. The Times says:
Like Popes wounded snake The river and
harbor Job is drsgglnglis slow length along
I(nx uuncfurinr ifs argentine Joints Al each