The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-04-14
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NY on the subject;
Tho monetary conference,
1e invitation of tho United
Heet in Paris. 1t now seems
certain that vii the great powers
y5 Represented, though, owing 70 tne
lding of the invitation, II is probable that
VGrest Britain and Germany will appear in an
informal manner. The experience OF ls'e
wears has brought about a decided change oil
opinion on the question of bimetalism, and
restoration Of the double standard is likely 10
result. The vast power of the United
States and its influence in determin'
ing European policy are clearly
shown by tho history of this contest
between the advocates of tie two standards
of value. The action of congress- in remon
etizing silver was bold step, but has proven
a wise one. /. seemed for time that there
was great danger in sdhering to financial
system that the nations of Europe mad
either abandoned or were rapidly drltting
away from. The strength and vigor OF me
republic have supplemented the silver OIL
BY turning the flow of specie from Europe
to America. We have not only retained
the product of our mines, but have drawn
from the great banks of the Ola world
$3.50, 900 900 in gold within the last two ana
the precious metals by the American people,
has entirely changed the aspect OF this vexeo
monetary question, and we look for return
of the old principles.
The Post-Dispatch seems to be sad and
lonely and POLITICALLY inclined. 1t rather
gushes over in its lamentations
and the "hired young man"
who got off the following you oughtto be put
upon diet OF spriDg poetry, with desert
of summer romauces for a fortnight or three
weeks to cool his fevered brow, tone up his
system and soothe his pensive heart:
There are no 'angels in the air" with
voices ringing clear to "tell us that Spring IS
near" but the almanacs all agree that this is
the yernal season. Yet the catbird has not
wsrbled in the thicket, nor has the cherry
blossom tingei the air with Its 6alsamac
odor. Last year hyacinths and tulips we're
in bloom on the 9th of April, and now they
are but tnrustiDg their tips through tho
ground. Shakespeare, in his sonnels, com
pares the frgd bosom of his sweetheart to
The "pinks that April BEARS" and yet no
soulless pink has dared to lift up its head in
this latitude to even cheer the heart Of its
upflisl mother. In Chicago they are still
slegh-riding. Here the retail merchants
stand behind their ladened counters
and wait for the coming OF
customers The milliner is in despair, for her
gorgeous stock of Easter bonnets lies IN
touched. Business men are asking, "Are we
to have any spring trade at all ?' 1t would
be very, very provoking, indeed to have to
Jump from Water into midsummer without
The e,sy stages and "ethereal mldness" OF
spring but Vennor tells US that the latter
end of the month will be more balmy than
the first. In the course of nature this ought
to be go. Let our merchants take courage.
The winter has been long and hard one
and family supplies have been pretty well
exhausted. A few warm days will convert
every store in the city into beehive, and
the sunny days will certainly come next
week. Business may be clogged by season
of snow and rain, but when the thaw comes
il will sweep on in its Iesistless course
There We thought we heard the piping
of blue bird, bat, alas, it was only The
cracking of sign.
That the New Orleans Democrat is devoted
to the material interests and the prosperity
of New Orleans, no one who reads III
columns can for moment doubt. 1t never
spares an opportunity to say something II
behalf of its commercial importance, it,
heallhfuness and its natural aud acquired
advantages. And it always says what 1t doei
say we'll, presenting every point in the very
best and most truthful light. Ia late issui
il remarks:
The magnificent river, which has SO long
been permitted to remain unimproved-
neglected in the interest of giant rail mono
poles of the cast-has, SO TO speak, beer
recently undiscovered, and lite ilimitablt
capacity for transporting he products OF the
vAlley-its tremendous influence, for good IL
the /, emng and industrious millions of the
north and northwest-aro now, for the frs
time in the history Of the country, appreciated
by the people themselves, and the results are
alresdy apparent 10 the extraordinary
imnulse which has been given
20 the grain trade between st. Louis arc
New Orleans Ia the quickeni1g pus9 Of
trade throughout the valley, AID in the
grand enterprises which are to throw opel
10 us the rich and practically unexplOrec
regions of Mexico, Central and South Amer
lea. as well as the countries on the Pacific
COST and ia the far of Orent-countTiei
which have heretofore paid heavy tribute to
Germany, France aud England, but which
when equal trade facilities are offered by lbt
United States, will inevitably send us theil
products and buy from us their supplies
New Orleans sitting at the mouth of the
great national waterway, offering at once the
shortest line Of transit, the best and really
the only hRrbor on the CALF except that oil
Pensacola, will necessarily be the gateway
for all the vast commerce which will soon bt
developed. and must reap the benefits nat
urally accruing TO her location, She will b
the import of al the trade to the South anc
Southwest of US, and the outport of all th'
supplies and products which will pour into
those new countries from the West the mo-
ment close commercial relations are secured
The Philsdelphia Times sounds the not
of warning TO President Garfield and ih'
republican party in the following, and take
the part Of the honest south:
Teunessee-whs more deeply plunged int
the mirs # repudiAiiOn thar any other south
ern stste, bui her people have bravely 70
deemed themselves by the passage Of an nc
funding Der whole debt al par in three PEI
cent bonds. Virgins Is nov the southern
ststa IN which the neat battle is 10 be mAd
80. ,-ra.orvatfou Of the houor and rros