The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-13
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.

Su9 bAll fIophItu ny JbdBe LOWELL u bue
Federal court in Boston. The World
says:
The only opposition TO tke bill--snd' thi.
seems 30 BE- betrayed rather than expressed
comes from few firms who transact im-
mense business and who prefer taking their
chsnces in tho confidential sch edue Of their
debtors to taking the prOp0rtionste share
which would be awarded TO them under a
Just bankruptcy act The grea, msiOri.y u
merchants, traders snd manufacturers, how
ever, have little liking for the mere insol-
veucy laws which exist in various states,
aimee these laws are only 10 be put in motion
by the debtor or insolvent VINO selects his
ground, his tribunal and his assignee, They
recognize that bankruptcy laws may be
invoked equally by creditor and debtor.
A Although the pending bankruptcy measure
IS called Judge Lowel's bill because tho
eminent federal judge Of Boston was its
draughtsman and brought to its preparation
special experience and II special study Of
bankruptcy procedures which no other iurist
claimed to posses, yet the bill may be we'll
regarded, AS our news report indieat nat
it is, as the report ofa national con- ue. lal
convention, If ii be urged at Was li on
That little time remains for the consiGe ion
of this measure by the present con-ttss, it
might DO well for the friends of this measure
10 show by the Congressional Record now
curly and sullenly the old law was repealed.
II was then said that the abuses Of the
law far oulnumbered and outweighed it.
benefits But now that Judge Lowell hss
removed the provisions which were suscepti-
BILE of abuse, and has not only retained the
old benefits, but has dded new ones which
Fhas been suggested by commercial events
during the seven years which have passed
since the former bill WAS last amended, there
i9 no reason why congress should hesitate
to pass the bill at once upon the recommen-
alton Of Judge Lowell and of the CONNER
ciAi convention.
The New York Evening Mail,
being one oftho salwsrtost Of stalwart re-
publican journalists rejoicod that the colorod
EI.West Point Cadet Whitaker ia going to
have lair trial. No one in his good senses
doubts the fairness and impsrtiality Of his
first trial and the degree of the court, but as
the hail says the scratches on his ears touch
other principles, The principles that actuato
political partizanism. The Wittsker case
is only a mako-shift for stslwart attacks upon
the southern people. The Mail says:
II seems ludierioui that few scratches
upon Cadit Whiltakers ears should set the
the nation in anuprOar, snd engage the stu
dlnns attention OF veteran army officers for
weeks. Those scratches sra deep enough 70
touch great principles and whatever the re-
suit Whitaker himself, theoutrage has turn |
ed the chiefclicer Of the military ac.demy
OUT Of bis scat. It ia soma satisfaction to /
know that the decision of the court-mgterial |
now sitting at tho armory building in Hous
ton street will BE- final, snd vii strip the ca |
dots uniform from the back of Whitaker aud |
replace it with the striped suit of prison, or
'end him back TO his studies ut West Point.
lie Is likely 10 have - fair trisl this time, and
tho truth will Vindicate or irretriavably dis.
grsce him, He has the services of his stead
fast friend, Prof, Gfeener, Of Howard Uni
versi!y, snd eIGOyernor Chamberlain, Of
South Carolina, q brilliant lawyer, as his
counsel.
We do not know how trns tho follving
statements of correspondent to the Phil
adelpha Times may be, but true or not Us to
the sentiments Of General Garfield individu-
ally, they ought to be- the cue to the negro
for the estimate in which no is held by the
Republican party. He is good enough, to vote
and just the factor to use in getting up political
claptrsps and furnishes the text for msny
a hsrangue about tbs rights OF man and all
that sort of thing but when it comes to &C
cording him all thorights of man'social recog-
milton and eligibility to office, thst is another
thing, The correspondent says:
A friend Of Gen. Garded's sad to the
Times correspondent to-day: 81 don't be-
lieve that Gen. Garfield will show ang spec
isl favor to tho colo~ej people. and he |
ought not Without knowing 10, perhaps, he
shAre1 in the natural inersdicabla prejudice |
which most white men have against tho Airs !
Can race Why, don't you know that when
he beard that soma negro delegation were
coming to Mentor he mado i. convenient TO !
20 20 Cleveland 10 meet them. One of the I
visits was delayed and the General was
compelled to come home before receiving
tae second delegation. When Robert B. !
Elliott and his party arrived here their rscep- !
lion was not such a. is accorded 10 whita |
statesmen. Although here NJ the dinner hour, |
not word wss said about the dinner or lunch, /
and they returned TO Cleveland hunsrier i'll
not wiser. A few days afterwards party of
white men came from the south, most of
whom had been officers Of the Confederate
army, and they were enterlsined OF dinner
and treated with the cordiaity that is charac-
.eris!lc of Gen. Garleld's hospi!sble home.
tell you II isn't in human nature to treat
negro like white man, ana great aud good |
rs Gen Garfield ia, there's great deal of
human nature in him. He will not place
colored men in official positions that will |
bring them into social equality with himself, |
his family or his friends,
The Memphis Appeal does not believe in
dolstry and believes that in this land of
ours brazen God has been erect ed for the
fetish worships of a class to the eternal
damustion of the entire people, SO TO spoak |
1t Gays:
We are like the nation whose god WAS
powerful in the mountains but could do |
nothing in the valley, The English, the Dane, |
the Swede, even tho land-locked German |
can face the salt sea waves, brave the winds |
of ocean. dare the pelting of the storm, and |
rush on, by the power of steam and the |
bold energy of his unshrinking will, though
thunders, Storms and tempests array all their
terrors. All-even the Chinese-csn do this:
but the proud high spirited, intrepid Ameri.
can shrinks and shrivels, and submits TO
the smile of the worlds ridicule. Does the
reader doubt the truth now utteredi Let
that reader know that tho total amount of