The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-23
NE VILE FANG.

called for attacks upon Senator Msxey, be-
cause he was chairman of the Senate COM
mt,te on pos. Offices and post roads, when
the alleged Star route frauds were COM
miued, one or two papers in the state have
seen proper to assRil the HERALD aud throw
mud At it because of its Independence, char,
acterlzipg it rs a "nsmby- psmby, fence
riding paper" having no position upon any
question. These assaults have no effect
upon US whatever. We are as Indifferent to
them Ms the stars of night are undisturbtd
by the howlings that may fret The quiet
of the evening hour. We pursue the even
tenor Of our way, actusted by those princi>
pie, we deem to be proper and
correct, and nothing can swerve
US from this course or deter us from
continuing. Our idea Of journalism is that
it should be pursued on basis Of strict
truth and justice to ALL This should be the
principle that guides it in all things tina,
actuates il, that is to itas pole star, that
il its soul End its conscience. Without il
no newspaper can be Influential, no newsps-
per can in reality have an oplnioa of its
own. 1t is wise principle of law that 10
man ehall be adjudged as guilty or pun-
ished until the proofs of guilt ere made un-
deuiably manifest by fir and impartial
process of investigation. Without this prin>
ciple be embodied in journalism and be
vigorously lived to up there can be no purity
in it and purity without virlue aud that 1--we
of truth, whichdares all things, which knows
neither friend or foe, journalism cans
not be influential or poten,isl.
Therefore We say no vilo faro,
"let there be nothing vile in the temple"
This is the motto up to which the HEARD
lives, and that it may live up to it, it is ILL.,
dependent The organ of a political party
or of a political idea Of any character or Or
eanzation, cannot 1.-Two up to this principle.
ltcan sec nothing worthy in its par.y or IFS
leaders, nothing worthy in the tenet or doc
trine it advocates, nothing wrong in the Or
CARNATIONS or Its undertakings that it repre-
sents. And seeing nothing wrong in these
taings, it can SEQ nothing good in anything
that may be to tho contrary. The indepen-
dent journal. like the HERALD can recognize
the good wherever it GEES il and hts the
boldnessto point it out. The organ ia
special pleader, the independent paper ad
Vocstes only truth and justice. In so far as
public men are concerned, in so far as any
undertaking is concerned, tho HERALD
seeks only 10 deal fairly and Justly. No
matter what a mans politics may be, 10
matter what his religious creed, what his
social standing, he has right TO justice;
it ia his inalienable privilege TO have fair al d
impartial treatment, and the HERALD Will
never condemn any man unheard, will never
oin in tho hue and cry that may be rails, d
against any man simply because there is a
hue and cry raised against him. No friend
ships can make US partial, no enmities can
Influence US to Partially. We do not
believe in total depravity, but alas it is a
lamentsble fact that the temple of journalism
IS filled with priests who minister at its allars.
who seem to delight in Matchmaking reputa-
ions, in pulling down rather than in building
up, who dip their pens in venom
without regard to whore or whom it NAV
wound. Their stock in trade Is but an sc
of insinustons, of. innuendoee,
They WELD the stillet to that strikes only in
The dark or wounds only 10 the back. There
IRE others who are merely ,houghtless and
VINO, delighting in sensations never think Of
he effect or the consequences of what they
may say. They def o the temple without
meaning TO do so, but stll the stains they
cave upon its columns are there and lust "a
deeply marked rs though Inspired by evil
designs. AS some of This lat.sr class of pa
pers ssy they do not charge Senator Maxty
Win being dishonest, but MS his action in
with the star route business is
open to criticism, he owes it TO his constilu-
'ncy to explain. The purpos, of this
irlicle is not defense of Senator
Maxey, for he needs none, there ia
nothing to defend, but is simply to
make manifest TO obtuse minds, if i. be DOS
'ible, what independent journalism is, ,hs.
/ is the only true journalism, but We reft to
his matter in connection with Senator
Maxey, as 1t is used as pretext for assaults
upon the HERALD, TO illustrate our IDEA
Right here though, we will ask what has
Senator Maxey got to explain? In the first
place, who knows whether there have been
any frauds committed ia connection with
The star route postal contracts? Brady and
Dorsey have been accused in o number of
newspapers, but neither of them have been
Indicted by any grand jury, nor arraigned
before any congressional investigating com.
mit.oe. No proof has been made Of any
frauds having been committed and nobody
has been found guilty by any process of law.
Then, why talk about star route frauds and
ssealings until the proof is made and
somebody found guilty! Blu! if
1t be true that Brady and Dorsey and whole
ring Of associates did commit frauds, has any
pr, of baen offered or made that Senator
MMey had anything TO do with 1t, or that