The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-23

=. AAo "oulhu suffrage law IN Ulan provide
That every woman at the age of q year
VINO has resided in that territory six month
next preceding any general or special elet
lion, born or naturslized in the United State
or who Is the wife, widow, or the daughtt
OF 2 nativo born or natralized citizen Of th
Unlled Stat 8, shall be entitled TO vote at Rn
election in tho territory. The Mormon pa
pers are indignant because Governor Murra
mas declared that under this law any girl /
years Of age, Unmarried to Mormon, ma
vote. But the law benrs evidence Of Nor
mon cunning. Al unmarried Yankee cir
teaching school we will say in Utab, must b
u years of to have a vote. But if
Mormon elder marres seven or eight girs I
Europe aud transports them to Salt LAX
Uliy they nj once become voters. A Gen
tile home with four or five daughters unde
u will not have tho benefit of their votes. 4
Mormon home with four or five wives n,
Older than the Others will have every woman
represented by vote 1t is clear the Law
was formed in the interest of the Mormons
and that it confers citizenship on persons no
Of age.
Let the government do its duty and wip,
out Mormonism, and thon this law will mo-
be SO Objectionable. Too long has the sham,
OF this Mormon concubinism rested as
stigma upon tho decency of this country ant
1t should be suppressed.
Tho Kansas City Times has 'em bad
Speaking Of Emma Abbott, it calls her
"our own honest little Emma" and further
says:
Whose voice in An echo Of heavens music
itself-whose smie is softer than velvet and
IS sweeter than maple sap; whose words are
money, whose eyes are diamonds; whose form
Is That Of Hebe, whose touch Is magic, and
whose kiss is dream, from which one
awakegs refreshed in body AMI apiritualizod
in soul.
Great hevings somebody ought to put leo
to that gushing mashers head and liver pad
ali over his heaving bosom.
The Peoples Advocate most aptly says;
4 That the press Is power in the world of
untold influence. an educator as widespread
as eaath's bounds; that il should be held to a
strict account and encouraged in every right
effort 10 spread the great work Of true civil.
cation. The press ia the first estate in the
nation, and to it must look in greatest conf
dence for protection, advancement and yisdi.
cation, the church and tho state; therefore
tae press should be wise, just ard elevated
above the petty meanness that disgrace the
nobler instincts of humanity.
The truth of the above cannot b, gainsaid,
yet there are people who sneeringly cay that
pending bill should not become law in
Tex g because it will benefit newspapers.
ls there paper in the state of Texas that
has ever failed in n single one of its issues 10
say something that was of benefit to its To-
c'lity or tho state at large
The Courier-Journal wants the veterans of
tho Mexican war pensionod AID character
ICES the objection to paying southern men
pensions because they wefo conlederates ag
moor and trivial:
These survivors number little oyer 13..
QUO, and tho disbursement will not exceed
, l,20Ol0Oa year, the sveiage time to live
OF the veterans being estimated Mt fourteen
years These men aided ia adding "A yAst
and enormously rich territory to this coun.
try. The qcis heretofore passed have re-
warded them but lightly for their great
services, which merit full and grateful rg-
cognltlon from the American people. Tho
objection heretofore urged to the passage of
The proposed measure s tina. amopg tho
veterans are some southern men, who were
N the racks Of the confederate army. That
objection Is poor and trivial one. These
mon performed q great service for the ooun-
Try under our common aag. We are all
me, and their plea should b. recognized
by the prCsentcongress.
Tho objection to paying southern Mexican
var veterans pensions is not only poor and
rivlal, but it is unjust and despicable. Why
make few mon who did noble service for
ne country in the Mexican war scspepoats
Tor The whole south because of its secession
md tho war that followedY If ANYBODY il
20 DO punished for secession and tho hie
lvil war, why not punish all who took part
behalf of the southern cause, and not
ew old men whose claims upon the United
states government are great?
The Philadelphia Times takes the same
round that we do on the river and hsrbor
'ill and handles it's iniQuities without gloves
The fact is, the Independent press is alweys
ignt' Tor it views every question from
'eriectly disinterested standpoint, or rather,
standpoint exclusively in the interest of the
'eople and OF the general good, and it looks
! everything in the clear light of common
onse. The Times says:
Like Pope's wounded snake the river and
arbor job is dragging iis slow length slorc
,N Pune'urlog It's argentine joints At each
Ihroiiins OF the stupendous coil The battle
oeeoming more equal as the iliuuity
'merges. more boldly into daylight and tho
conomlc humorlstisgraduaIly ladirg host
when every hour makes less and less for
orn' The old trick of letting tho bill pass
rush oil noisy reclamation was the onl,
ope OF success, The members who were {
'iliing TO DO consuming parties, though re-,
using acN'e participation in pushgs !,
Sea y. - ben eeenea into - .--nee =
driyssg vents his impaucncs 90 80 'Is i, G
since they are obliged to take part, and. if '
tho bill is finally happily defeated, it will be c
through this cruical need of going on the re- :
cord. Meanwhile the humors of the discus. |
sion outside congress increase. That droll
organ of all manner Of subsidies, the Tribune
styles the bill the annual I
democratic sleal, as thought had never {
heard Of q session OF coDgve:s before the !
present; as though It had never heard of the Z
a. A