The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-09
their counsels and teachings, urging that
because of this the southern people we're
vastly inferior 10 those of the north:

their coansels and teachings, urging that
because of this the southern people were
vastly inferior TO those of the north:
Leisure has given certain persons In Eng
land the time to carry on a whimsical
controversy, the pro and cons OF which have
found steady supporters in the great dailies,
the great weeklies, and even the monthly
periodicals. What will it be imagined this
prolific .thems:csn be that has already ex.
hausted columns in the London Times and
responsive c.lumhs in the Spectacle: and
Saturday Review. No more nor less than
the question of the value or fuse Of rela>
tiona." The very asking OF the question has
sort of Timbuctoo suggestion in which one
thinks one sees a tender brother, sister or
mother.in-law packed npon ice in neatly cut
steaks, ready for the epicurean appetite of
the Timbuctoo household. But this is not
obviously the relation in which the English
writer's are discussing the moral, social or
mental advantages of having or not having
kinsmen. There are two schools. One
holds that the possession of recognition of
family ties is hindrance to men who have
their way to mako in the world. They
instance Disrsel as an evidence Of this.
While he was hsmpered by acknowledging
his family ne was in perpetual condition of
suspended development. so soon, however,
rs he broke loose from kindred and allied
himself to strangers, he comprised all
the success that he fel. in him the faculty for
achieving. Nor is the argument thus put
without certain grotes9ue claims 10 force. If
a man be kin to large brotherhood of very
ordinary men and women his lines are cast
in very difficult places for intellectual eman-
cipation; he is always moro or less like the
duckling that comes out in tho hens brood.
His ability to push GU! into other and inde-
pendent spheres of action is not always hailed
with satisfaction by the less vaulting ambi-
ton of his kinsmep. If he show eminent
capacities for the acquisition of learning at
school, tho Ounce Of the family is as apt as
not to have his chances for college course.
Later, the preliminary work of life mastered,
it is not the promising lad who receives the
encouragement. 1t is oftenest the Ounce.
Perhaps, morally, this is as il should be,
and the doctrine of compensation thus re-
ceives its justest fulllllment. But the ques.
ton doesn't deal with the humanities; it
deals with the use Of relations to the way
fs-er who girds himself for career as for a
battle. Then, as he pushes upward and on.
ward, his relations hold him back through a
thousand pretexts. The Ounce resents his
social pre.eminence, or his political, or bus
mess or what not.
The St. Louis Post-Dispstch does not
seem to have much faith in prohibition and
prohibitory measures. and in its usual pun
gent pi.hy way tgives expression to that
lack of faith in the following:
We have often had occasion TO admire tho
broad craftsmanship and mustache of Gov.
st. John, of Kansas, but we never sppreci-
ated until this morning the profound depth
OF his intellectually. In an interview, pubs
lished in local print in reference 10 the new
temperance law in his state, he makes the
prediction that the time will come in this
country when there will not be man
opposed to prohibition. The governor is
right, but as u prophet he should have fixed
the time. 1t will be twenty-four hours after
the destruction of all things terrestrial, as set
forth in the revelations of his distinguished
relative, st. John the Evangelist.