The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-11
STATE PRESS REVIEW.

lore, anu EVOLVES sis"s 'NJ +,
seoaences, ETC., in the course OF its reason
ins. tsays:
- long as there are numbers in society
xhe will insist upon violating its rules,
society must use force in the person OF It's
officers TO compel order and ooedience 70
law. Iu inter-c0mmuna' affairs the iorss ls
called the police. But there are ex'rsoidin'
ary occasions, such as riots ana feVoiuuons,
in which the feeble police have TO DC very
largely supplemented by tho military. linen
again. the nations Of the earth constitute q
community of individuals Of large and small
spheres of power and action; and here, again,
we see this International community con>
stsntly under the necessity of using force
against its unruly members. The occasions
which. call for the use of international forcs
are called wars, MS mole dignifed hames for
these grand assaults, rcbberies and murders
than are used 10 designate their kildred
crimes in the inter communal state. Sill
there is only the difference between tweedle
dunn and tweedledee that there is be-
tween tho wstchman of the bank in Paris
restraining the robbers of the city and 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'Shaughnes sy pur'
suing the murderous burglar through dark
alleys in New York CITY is idanucally thu
same as that OF thu Eighth United States
cavalry ON the Rio Grande, or even the First
infantry on tho Canadian frontier. With
GU. thieves, murderers and imposters where
would society get its thousands of great
ideas that produce our fine jsiis, magnificent
drops and giullotnes; our combination and
time locks, and the imposing show OF the
detective, conslables and sheriff. Without
the sin and sorrow that produces all OF this
and much more, there would not be friction
enough in religion to produce our Luthers,
Calvins, Wesleys, Edwards and other great
lights of religion. Suppose every man did
unto others as he would have Others do IN
TO him, how could we ever get any Cceros
Justinisns, Backstones and Kents, and that
host of lesser legal lights who organize the
political pri msries, and go to
the legislature and to congress?
The Austin Statesman has its thinking ap.
psrs,us fixed on things matrimonial, and
thus grinds out:..
Ii, in tho economy of nature, it was in
tended that every woman WAS entitled to Il
husband, then there Is no getting around the
argument of the Latter Day Saints, that
polygamy is proper" Tho census shows
that in this country there are SSS 29S more
females than males, AID so we SEQ preor-
dination, as it we're If q man must really
have only one wife that very soon one
million women must. be doomed to live
eli oil mi M Har
there is beginning to be such strong>minded
ness among women. Men are not created Ia
live alone, and we have no right to assume
that woman, who is 80 companionsble, must
live on without love until shriveled and
sour and sad she fills grave, unmourned.
There must be dual wifehood if this thing
TO be the rule, or the plan of sex,produc
tion.' advance nv that learned gentleman of
Houston, Mr.. Fiquet, must be tried on the
human race. 1t is terrible thing to con-
template-one million poor, lorn women
without one single baby to love among them
all. There must be some kind of relief, or
the strongmindednes Of woman may create
an Amsz ,nisn period destructive to man.
hood. Our readers must not think this a
light subject, for in reality, it is most
serious one. While we would not especially
prefer 10 have New England "gal" in our,
1t makes the heart sad to think of hundreds
Of thousands Of poor girls, up there, VIII
are absolutely debsrred the state OF double
blessedness, unless the Mormon agent come
along and relieve the situation. In ihv
south 1t ia said the males preponderate,
which according to the sex producing theory
of this same Houston gentleman, is credita.
bic to the virtues of southern men. But
assuming that this ratio of difference in the
sexes increases as it has, the problem mus,
simply perpotuate itself until the
North American contiqent is run by
women, who will be, socially and politically
several times p the msjority. Then, proba,
bly,, the country would DO forlorn study
for tho Spectator in race probabilities
Thore will DO then one poor disc ,nsolatt
little fellow to half dczsn strong>m,ndet
women, aud instead of ono man being occa,
slonally called upon 10 Utah to tske care o.
two or more wives, a dozen womsn viii bt
doting upon one poor dllapdated husband
The bare contemplation of he existence o
such period 10 the affairs of the human
race, makes one satisli I'd enough that he live
in the nineteenth century instead of the nine
tieth century. None who live now will fee
any particular intere,t in the condition o
society then, but feelings Of humanity lea,
US to avert, If possible, such evil. Mr.. Fiquo
has not made his discovery one day too soon
and what he applies to animals to contru
sex pr ,du ,tion becomes an indispensable
treatment, 10 be. regulated by law, for tn
human family.
The Jefferson ID mocrst, commenting @
an article ia the Mexa Ledger, relative /,
homes,eads, trains its batteries. not upo
the last itself, but upon tho abuses thereo
and says:
A homestead law that will cover bou.
worth from ten thousand to half a million
dollars built from money Justly due homes
creditors, leaves wide open door for rs'
caliIy. Men in Texas about to fail, or fai
Ing designedly, have erected hotels ,
business blocks which they have moved in'
and claimed as homesteads. That is al
wrong, and a law that sanctions such
claim ia pernicious. A law that allows
family homestead Of the value of fro,
threa to five thousand dollars. is right, bl
in that case II ought to b. built with y man
own money, and not with the mesns of 9th
people. If man starts In business wi,
little or nsthi5g,. and is trusted TO Il
amount Of thousands, take, tho none
justly belonging to Others o,
Of his business, and builds
valuable hotel and business stores with Il.
purchases AN elegant farm, has no moral, a,
certainly ought not to DO invested with
legal right TO hold it. That our prese
al lau, 1. urnno n ooor,s a., a.. A. .