The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-16

r,ono,ed construction of canal through
FLORIDA and the draining of the everglades
says:
The route, however, Is essentially different
from that surveyed by General Gilmore aud
as the capital stock is fixed at only $4,000.
600. it must be much more economical. Al
before suggested the combination of the
canal scheme, with the reclamation Of swamp
lands will insure the minimum cost, and
render possible lower tolls on the shipping
psssing through than could be otherwise
reached. The construction of the canal will
give great impetus 10 the commerce OF
New Orleans and the other gulf cities. II
Is equivalent 10 moving US 700 miles nearer
10 Liverpool. When the saving in distance
is added TO the immunity from the peril Of
navigation through the Florida straits. the
commercial advantages of the york are of en-.
ormus value. Such great proiecs as these
have an indirect benefit that it is difficult 10
estimate. Capital is initiative. One great
investment in particular section suggests
another The Florida canal will naturally
attract the attention of business men to the
gulf coast Ihe reclamation OF this enor .
nous area of the fertile land, capable of
supporting 100000 people, will bring be-
fore the public the vast swamps and sea
marshes of Louisiana, and stimulate the in
yestment of capital in reclamation enter.
prises within this state.
The Shreveport Standard speaking of the
republican senator's and their course in keep.
ing the senate dead locked, says:
They hail Malone as the great delverer Of
the south from its democratic solidity. In
order to show what fac thing this deliver.
snce is they revamp all the ISLANDERS against
all the southern people with which the
ton era. Mr.. Dawes, of Massachusetts, who
does not generally speak too often, WAS on
his feet every day for "a week making bloody
shirt speeches. He made coarse attack on
MIR. Lamar, at the end of his great speech,
when the senator was too sick 10 stand on
his feet. He WAS aided and sbetted by his
colleague, Mr. Hosr, who bad much to say
of similar import. John Logan went back
to Sheri ian's reign in Louisiana and retai'ed
some of tha. officers CHI, ice bits of f Is fcs-
tion which no decent republican should care
to remember. This opening up of the flood
gates of sectional strife by republican sens-
tors, {, near the b. ginning of n new republ'-
can administration, does not aGger well for
that quiet and repose which Mr.. Garfeld's
friends predicted for the country during his
term of Office. Unless there she'll be an i'm.
provement in the temper IF these men we
may prepare ourselves for m administration
scarcely superior in any respect 10 that of
Grant or of Hayes.
The New York Evening Express is bitter
against communism and the communists
who have focked 10 this country to teach
their pernicious doctrines. 1t says:
The shooting yesterday by detective of
the blackmailer Sagert, an account of which
was published in the Express, was an act of
Just retribution. The man had resorted to
the vilest means to extort money from his
victims. and when the officer attempted to
arrest him, his resistance proved him to be
desperate ruflian. The de ais of the case,
printed elsewhere, show that the plot to
blackmail Mr.. Strasburger, had been very
carefully and ingeniously planned, and, al
though il Is not likely that the affair had
anything to do with Nihiism, it is evident
that it WIS concocted by men versed in the
methods of those foreign anarchists. The
worst feature of tho case is that II reveals the
fact of the existence In this city Of dan.
ger0us class of foreign refugees who will stop
at nothing 10 gain their pefarious ends
There is no doubt that tho police are 10
measure to blame for this condition of
affairs. Too much license has been given to
the eeditious utterances made at the social
sot;o hat halA
to time, and New YORK i, becoming the
refuge for large number of scatter.
Drained malcontents Of tho Simon Taper
tit order, WHO in time may become exceed
ingly dangerous. They set law and order OF
defiance, have contempt for honestly
earned capital, hold Sunday night balls,
which frequently degenerate into dlsgraceful
orgies, and are in every way undesirable
citizens. This dastrrdly attempt to black
mail Mr.. Strasburger is only an outcome Of
the pernicious doctrines preached by the
Justus Schwab stripe. II shows that the
hottest sanctitles Of home are disregsrded
by these worthless people, and that the doc.
trines they advocate are eubversive of law
and common decency. Freedom Of speech
is an inalienable right Of all American ci
xens, but when speech becomes incendiary
and tends to overthrow the institutions Of
the land, 1t is time for the strong arm of the
law to suppress it, The commune of Paris.
with ils petroleuses and assassinations of 10.
nocent men and women, showed to what
extent of brutality the very theories that
are now being advocated here can be carried.
We want no commune In America.
The New York Herald is in love with the
independent voter. and thus shows its glowing
affection:
In the spring elections that have been held
thus far The independent voter has asserted
himself in way that cA-nos fail TO make
the regulation machino politician almost
despair Of tho country. He first made his
power felt In Philadelphia, where IN over.
whelming republican majority, cast solidly
year after yesr, hsd produced condition Of
affairs almost as corrupt and scsndalous as
the Tweed regime in this city. To-day the
Philadelphia "bosses" are driven from power.
and a reform administration, representing
the best men 10 both parties, 10 entbroned In
the positions which the minions Of tho repub.
liean "bosses' rro:tituted and dehled. In
Cincinnati a large number Of republicans
bolted the republican nomination and have
given that city democratic mayor who 10
pledged TO tho carrying out Of certain 70.
forms which IL was idle 10 hope for from his
competitor. II Chicago the democratic
candidate for mayor has narrowly escaped
great defeat, while in Hartford. Connecti mt