The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-12
nrnE woMEn iA1nE CASE -

conservative, impartial, Just and honorable
IN all of H. editorial matter that va were
as,onished 10 500 any such article ns tho ono
In question In its columns II hso malicious
In tone, 80 absolutely untrue In It's alleged
facts, so absurd in its conclusions, 70 de'pi'
cable in It's assertions, oil Of which Is 80
entirely contrary to It's course always
heretofore, that We arc al loss
TO account for the animus of the article in
question. 1t certainly cannot be that Colonel
Alexander X. Mcclure, the genial and able
editor of the Times, was at homo when it
was published. In his letter to hiss.papcr on
his recent tour through some of the southern
states, made on purpose to mingle with the
people and study tho southern situation, he
was 80 uniformly just, so liberal in hls views
and SO comprehensive and nearly correct in
his conclusions, that it does not seem possloia
that he could endorse such an editorial,
especially in his own paper, rs the one or "the
Women In the Case" But TO come directly
to the point. l 8 asserted in this article
that woman is one of the potencies that
rule southern life and policies, and thus
goes on to say: "Any one who sets upon
this trail will be apt to recall much that
Significantly corroborates the fact. When
southern ideas dominated the government
it will be remembered tsat they were for the
most part the crystallized piques, caprices and
Insult tions of feminine coterie. This,
however, is result that attends the close
soldering of coteries. Whenever one class
of men hold power any length of time he
virile methods that fret enable them to grasp
it are always strained and attenusted until
efeminacy rules. What could more strikS
ingly illustrate this than the last four years
of Grant, when the wives of the cabinet
virtually made and unmade ministers, carried
out or killed policies? 1t was Mrs. Grants
consuming thirst for wealth and show,to put
herself upon plane with the wives
of the millionsres, that gave the Black
Friday end San Domingo schemes their
vitality. 1t is a singular fact that the in
huence of women in affairs of state is never
good or pure. What Byron said of the sex
in love is at all events true in politics.
Women have in public affairs no sense OF
honor or moral responsibility. This may be
considered to be proven by the study of
woman's part in affairs from the queau of
Sheba down to-the Empress ,Eugenie. No
wonder, then, that the crude in methods and
the doubtful in morals remain part OF the
southron's educate n. By this is meant The
prevalence of the ducllo as the end of an
argument and the paternal idea in govern
ment as panacea for all ordinary civic ills,
for it is one of the broad farces of the con-
ditious of parties that the southron who be-
lieves himself Jeilersonisn democrat makes
no compunctious scruple against making the
general government a paymaster for the local
needs of the states, principle as opposed to
real democracy as nihilism TO trinitarisnisn
Every assertion, every suggestion IN the
above extract from the Times, in so fer as
the south is concerned or is referred to, is
positively untrue. There has never
been any act, or any
semblance of an act to justify so unreason-
able, SO senseess charge. When South
ern des" dominated the government" a wise
craftsmanship prevailed, and we have but to
look at the history Of the country to attest
the fact. The country was prosperous from
It's one limit to another; it paid its debts as
they were created it acquired territory and
grew richer day by day; its flag WAS respected
and honored abroad its navy was an honor
and credit to it; its merchant marine COW
cred the waters of the globe; credit
mobilers, DeGolyer contracts. Star
route frauds, Black Friday,
bargains in post traderships, speculatons in
landauleis, whisky rings aud the thousand
and one other frauds of the last twenty
years were unknown, unthought Oh anu
could not have been. There was honesty
and honor in high places; the constitution
was the law of the land, and such thing rs
the fraudulent appropriation of the presi-
dency by perjury AMI bribery, and tue after
reWhIOlnR Ol Nno peIJurots ouu OAiOO-tahOis
with exalted official stations, would have
filed the minds and hearts of southern
dominsnts with horror, and loathing
and scorn for the man who could even have
whispered such thing, that would have
driven him to direr madness, no matter how
constituencies he might have been, than a
lash OF scorpions could have done. 1t is true
that southern women have always had
influence with southern men, but il was and
Is an influence directed in the right channel
an influence elevated and elevsting, an infu
ence noble and enobling. II is an easy thing,
however unmAnly II msy be, 10 speak slight
ingly of woman, TO underrate her
powers. 10 dispsrsge her purity, but he who
does il is ignoble Of heart degraded
IN his instincts, unworthy Of the respect and
the confdsncs Of his fellow men. II may Be
lha. the southron is crude in methods, A.
the Times says. the methods Of The age tta,
Is upon Us. We know that n the progress
siveness Of The hour az taught and p-scticed |