The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-02

advancing westward, the ebb of tho first
native fertility 10 Alabama and Florida, the
rising tide Of restored praductiveness in the
Carolinas, with Georgla on the westward
slope of the wave, on which it is risiac and
showing distinctly higher product per acre
in is eastern than 10 its western portioa,
where the use of fertszsr is much Less ex,
tended
The ST, Louis Post-Dispstch need not
hope by e1corialing G oyernor Critten-
den TO blend thu eyes Of the world 10 the
true neral status of Missouri. Everybody
knows that train robbers pursue their svoca-
ton there with impunity--that murders
dire are committed day and night, and that
when murderer after elk or seven years
hard work is convicted, that u higher court
steps in ind SAVES his meek, Missouri is II
wicked, wicked State ind Governor Crit,
tenden ktoRs il; and he klYss nat if the
railroad com psnies do not teen elves stop
the robbi & of their trains =. t wont be
stopped. He is not very Pr'o in giving
up en- indicted for murder in other states,
especially if they have little political in
luence, but then he would like TO have
somebody stop the train robbing, as he
sometimes travels sbou. himself. The
Dispatch says:
Replying to the Post-Dispatch objection
to our system OF taxing railroads in Mis-
souri, and then compelling the companies to
protect themselves against organized BAN
diti, the Kansas City Mail ssys: The
merchants in all our cities find it
nect ssary at their own expense to employ
private wstchmen TO guard their property.
There is not state or county in the union
where owners Of private property do not
tind it necessary sometimes to offer IeN
wards for its recovery when stolen,
or for the capture of the thief.
We have seen that before, but the case is
not analogous A merchant in St Louis
has q large stock ofgo, ds. He insures them
and he knows I the police and fire de
partments will afford him ample protection,
but linden nifty /, not what he wants. lie
doesn'. care to be annoyed by either bur
glary or conhagra.iOn, so hs concludes to
watch his properly himself as an extra pre-
caution That is his privilege. Railways
may find it pr htable to employ private de
,eciives and offer rewards for the apprehen.
sion of desp' radoes. That is their own
fair, and it is we'll TO supplement justice in
this way but when Gov. Orlttenoen called
the meeting OF railroad managers in this
city last Tuesday he virtually acknowledged
that the state of Missouri was unable to re-
press lswlessness. He placed the state,
whether purposely or not, before the world
in an attitude likely to result in prejudice.
We don't know whether the Little
Rock (Aik mas Gszstte ID writing at any of
the Texas speIs or not, but it keeps on fir
ing ,olid shot tlat strikes them between
wind an water, with now and then one that
pierCes b ow the water line, and we keep on
repubhsi ing them. 1t says:
b n ssdng" ST. Louis morning dsilies
rave failed 20 asssuse tne thirst OF an inter
r, gator" Tor Knowledge of the meaning of
the term "slsr route" They agree that it is
a route marked on the department rolls with
"slsr." Il This result shows progress,
snd in week or two the pleading daihes"
will be able to explain that star route is
one not served by railroad or steamer. To
the average editorial ignoramus, however, all
mail rou es served at u heavy loss are star
routes" and all contractors for such routes
have C rrupted the government, without even
giving the Q. !. a chBncs TO repel on attack
on his impregnsbe virtue. What the edito-
rial ignorHmus lacks in facis-snd he lacks
in every thing msterisl-he makes up in inn
sgiDstion, which, constantly irrigated by ma
lightly, is ever fertile, and responsive TO all
demands
Arkansas rushes fran!ically 10 the rescu Q
of Governor Roberts in the proclaim alton
business, the Fort Smith Herald exclaim-
ing:
Governor Roberts, of Texss, has been
much howled at by the press and people
because as governor he declined TO appoint
day of thsr ksgiving and prayer for the
recovery of Garfield. Whatever Governor
Roberts motives may have been it is GER
.ainly true that church ,ervices and prayers
in this country do not come within
the limits Of governmental direction.
They are matters that should remain
with the churches themselves, and
tie conscience of the people. Thanksgiving
proclsmatioLs have become customary. but
they originated certainly in executive oftici-
ousness or cant. They are never contem'
plated by the spiri! or letter of our institu
tons. Proclrmslons appointing days for
christian Thanksgiving aRd prayers funda.
mentally are quite as officious as would be
proclsmslions for Buddhistic services, the
only difference ia that the latter would be
repudiated by the people The one sccoTds
with popular sentiment, the other would be
revolving. The masses readily yield TO what
suits them without n feciiDg that the same
license could be used Coz purposes extremely
distaLteful. Such matters should be left for
the direction Of bishops and parsons.
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