The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-03

IL tuo iOiOWinS iIVm tuo Lisho AsoSA
(Arkansas) Herald is = legitimate specimen
Of Arkansas journalism, why then we must
say that the for,iter in re greatly predom-
mats over the suayiter in modo. 1, is very
vigorous and pointed:
The Washington National Republican
SAYS: "The democratic obstructiohists in
the United States senate are responsible for
this result. TIE offices would be filed and
the routine Of life settle to its easy flow, II
the senate was not dead locked BY the revo'
lutionsry minority"
The black hearted villain that wrote the
above knew that he lied when he pebned the
same, as he was bound to know that the dem.
ocratic members of the senate have tried TO
go into executive session every day for the
purpose of confirming the nominations
which are SO necessary TO the affairs OF the
country, but the republicans refuse to do SO
unless they go into the election OF new
officers. No. the truth is, the republican
party are trying 10 bulldoze the democratic
party and because they fail to succeed they
are trying to place the odium on the democ.
racy. 1t can't be did.
The New Orleans Democrat, referring to
the patriot Heath whose cock.and-bull story
Senator Dave, reqashed in the United States
senate short time since, says:
In bis statement Edward Heath dwells
upon the difficulty he had in keeping labor.
ers on his plantation in Caldwell parish, and
in his sworn statement to the insurance
companies he declared that he realized So per
cent. on the goods sold 10 the laborers on his
place. No wonder the negroes were net
happy with Heath; there Gre not many labor
ers in the world who would be content 10
pay the employer a profit of 85 per cent. on
their food and clothing and tobacco. That
S5 per cent profit explains good deal of the
trouble the Heaths hsd in running plsnta.
ton in Louisiana, and if they had tried the
same thing on in Massachusetts, they would
probably have met with similar discourage.
ments. The insurance claim was settled on
q basis Of 80 per cent. profit, figure steep
enough in all conscience.
The following from the New Orleans
Picayune gives some idea of the boom that
is now upon our country, and the upward
rise of the wave of prosperity, especially in
the matter ofrailroad building:
Though there is just now lull in COM
mercial circles throughout the country, the
prospects seem favorable for a continuance
of the prosperity which has characterized the
history of the last two seasons. AT no time
has there been more activity in railway con.
struction, ard all the interests depending
upon this are fourishing. 1t has now be.
come impossible to buy locomotive within
the bounds of the United States. The
builder, are crowded with orders, their con.
tracts covering the capacity of their works
for many months TO come, while some have
orders for all that can be turned out for q
year. The rolling mills on both sides the
Atlantic are running to their full capacity
and are unable to supply the demand fol
rails. The car factories are crowded with
orders. and many of the new lines will have
to wait. The southwestern roads are also
experiencing much difficulty ia procuring
labor. The Denver s Rio Grandc railroad
company, after advertising in vain through.
out the north and west, Is about to send
agents to southern France to secure 10,
workmen from that country. An army Of
10000 workmen will be needed in construct
ing the railways between the City of Mexico
and the Rio Grsnde. and fully 10000 are
now employed in Texas, with constant add
tons TO the forces. Most of tho vessels
coming to the gulf get outward csrgoes oil
rails or other railway material from Europe,
and an immense impetus has been given tC
thelumbsr and timber trade of the gulf BY
these enterprises.
The rank and file Of the republican party
seems to be getting on big disgust at III,
action of republican senators in prolongins
the dead lock, and constituencies are film,
the mails with letters Of apprehension ant
protest. Some of the republican papers, toe
are speaking out in meeting" The follow
ing from the New York Evening Mail,
stalwart journal is in point:
But have not the republican senat or
abandoned tie only business for which they
are in session quite long enough, in order t
show that they are willing TO give MIR. Ma
homes independency moral support, and tina
they believe in the rule of the majority Hav
the constitutional requirements on senator
to act on treaties and appointments no bind
ing force! Mr.. Malone has been sustained
In most exemplary and persistent manner
Is 1t not about time 10 sustain the president
who represents not only the whole republi
can party, but the American people?' Tn
people look at these questions in yer,
practical manner. They are not at all interest
ed in speech making on generalities. The,
want to SEQ their government working har
moniously in all its branches. Not only re-
publicsns, but intelligent and patriotic dem
ocrats, want the responsible executive sup
ported by the senate-not as body of speech
makers ,controversslists and epithet singers
but as an executive body, called to do execu
tive business and doing it. 1t is for thes
reasons that republican senators arc annoye
with very plain letters from their co.'s a, 1
ents. The former will do vr' " heed tn
"signs of the times" And when they &c
into executive session they had better keep o
1t until important treaties are ratified or re-
jected and until every presidential appoin,
ment is confirmed or rejected.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times, speak
ing:of the terrible dsmags done by the II
cent freshets, says:
The full extent Of the loss entailed upo
the people Of the Missouri valley by the foo
will probably never be known, but the fax
Is already apparent that more than few {
our own people-ctizens Of our own count
have been financially ruined BY the water
Upon tho rich bottom lands at Kickspot
and especially upon Kickapoo island, only
few miles above here, the water has destroye
everything. AT least twenty five families ,
thia noint ara rendered fon,nor. .;i,, 49,.