The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-28
STATE PRESS REVIEW

We don't know whether the Wills Point
Local is trying TO get up revolution or
what It's object may be, but at any rate it
goes into the abstract most prodigiously in
the following;
The doctrine Of slsysh submission 70
government has long been exploded in Eng
land. 1t died in France last century under
specious name. sought,o DO revived on this
continent by the republican party, now
welding the political power of the union.
They say that rebellion against popular
government il crime against humanity" rs
if 1t could make any difference to the sg-
grieved citizen whether he was despoiled of
his rights by the many or the one-by a
republic ora monarchy. Ia the nature OF
things, no party in this country, unless in
trenched behind official power and patronage
would maintain such An odious doctrine. Ad-
mitted, the south to bs the most populous
section of the union, admitted the democratic
party in consequence thereof, to regain con-
troll Of the federal government and admitted
the election of 4 southern man as democratic
president on platform pledged to the
destruction of all the capital invested in
northern manufactures, who can doubt that
there would arise on every hill and valley of
the liberty-loving north the beacon fires Of
resistance to tie federal union.
The Jefferson Democrat is Joined to its
idols. 1t will not come up on the higher
plain Of liberal and enlightened views and
take advantage of that flaw of public senti.
ment in the south which Is. leading
on to II perfect prosperity and political
determination with our brethren of the north
and west. 1t will not let tho dead past bury
its dead and think and care and act only for
the living present. We regret it, but if it
will not we cannot help it. 1t says:
Men accorded their political opinions,
and being held accountable for their
political and moral honesty are,
totally different questions. Longstreet,
Mosby, Malone, the Keloggs, the Warmoths
the Dsvises, the Dorseys and the Bullocks,
and all of that class of recreants, of high
and low degree, are not respected in the
south. 1t is not natural that they should be,
We repest, that they sit In dishonored places.
and walk the streets with consciousness of
their degradation. For gain, and not from
principle, they joined the band Of adventures,
"whose hands they strengthened to rob, and
whose bsyonets they emboldened to Cypress
their fellow citizens" To talk about 'these
deserters to the enemies of their people,
these recruits to the plundering predatory
bands sent to humble and rob the south and
now disowned, or owned with blush, by
those who organized them, as martyrs of
independent opinion" being respected is
perfectly ridiculous. There is not an intel
in, ha nrfh M ~
know better.
The editor of the Waco Telephone has
carefully read and digested the tax law
now in force, and he takes direc: issue with
the comptroller in his ruling thereon. The
Telephone says:
As the comptroller says, the new law does
not authorize him to refund any portion of a
license tax that may have been paid, but il
does authorize him, in language as plain rs
can be, to apply such balances as credit to
pay for the new license 10 proportion to the
time that is unexpired on tho old one. To
place any other construction on the law
would be TO say that the state deliberately
swindled merchants out Of the various
amounts, large in some cases and
small in Others, represented
Dy tnelr unexplreu licenses.
Drummers who paid personal license are
amply protected by the new law, being per-
mitted to continue their calling for The full
twelve months from the date they paid their
5000. There is another feature of the new
law the drummers are complaining about.
This is personal application to have their
license recorded in counties where they wish
to do business. Some wooden headed sher-
IFS have contended such recording must be
applied for personally, and have mulcted
drummers accordingly. The law does not
so prescribe. The license can be mailed OF
sent to any county clerk, with fee of twen-
ty.ave cents, and 1t will be the clerks duty
to record it and mail or send 1t to the drum
mer at any address designated by the latter
We base these reflections on careful read
ing of the law, as the legislature passed it.
The Galveston Journal in an editorial on
Mexico, the railroad systems being deye,oped
and tbo roo,,;or;,;os oe Mo,;o., ,.,;s, ~
,. p"''' " 0"" '"''A "n'
inc ailheuities they are likely 10 produce IN
the matter OF commercial relations between
7, aJd;,;oyn "h howeno o, ' ~ l, cha. ar.
Gould and other msgnates deferred the
inauguration of their vast schemes until the
eiecu9h Oh Mr. 1afnela was assured Mr..
uoula Is hot - republican, democrat or
EreenpacKer. hs Is 'ra'iroader he Is
Tou,o. He hau no preference between
1arIelu ana Hahcock-cexcept IN so lar as II
WAS his interest,". III is thlr To presume. there-