The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-01
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.

very stalwart republican organ and very
abusive of the southern people of any doc
trine that smacSs of states rights, seems TO
have small modicum of sense left,as is evil
denced by the following just remarks and
structures:
Il is sometimes very hard 10 tell whether
IN this country tho government exists for the
sake Of tho people and is controlled by tho
popular will, or whether the people exist for
ihe benefit of the government and are con-
trol.ed by their officials. Here, for instance,
ia Secretary Evarts, who is supposed TO de-
rive all Of his authority from the laws OF the
ccuniry, and who was ordered by congress
some ago 10 spend $4,000 in putting up u
an appropriate memorial tablet at the birth
place of Washington. Mr. EVarss' views on
the subject of memorial tablets did NOT agree
with those ofcoDgre;s, and he erected small
Blu. tasteful temple containing US muca
aesthetic harmony as could be scraped up Tor
$50 900, and on the recent birthday OF the
Father of his Country ne put the little account
into the appropriation bill, and IN conse-
quence OF tae seductive influences OF the day
congress was weak enough to allow The little
vancouver to succeed. Here again is Mr..
Knox, who is not 3 cabinet mlnisler nor even
a congressman, but who draws a m2oc {.
salary for seeing that the laws rogulatii 9 TIA
currency of the country are obeyed. la .
making of those laws Mr.. Knox has no We %
whatever except when congress requests MN
10 speak, aud he has no more authority to
interfere with any pending legislation than
he has to interfere with the running OF trains
on the New YORK ElGvz!et railroad. Yet
when the rcrunding bill was under considers
ton in the senate, and oil the iinsnclai sc 80
in New York ran hissing and ciuclung ana
stretching out their nccks in Wal stree, Mr.
Knox thought he ought TO &C. tue goose TOO
i3d hurjene1 the telegraph wires with onll-
nous announcements OF the manner ia which
no would obstruct redemption of circulation
if the congress of the United States should
pass law he did not approve OF, the pur-
ncss of hi. sinister menace boiag, of course,
10 intimiduto congress in the progress Of lAe
refunding bill.
Az prohibition is attracting such universal
attention. is one of the live questions ali over
the country, tho Memphis appeal has tho
following to say:
Prohibition is ono Of the coming Issues,
Many Of the states, among them our own,
are considering the feasibility of prohibito-
ry law, aad petitions in large numbers are
being presented in the United States senate
pfaying that IN amendmentto the cOno,ltu-
lion may DO passed giving power to limit,
restrain or prohibit the sale OF Intoxicating
LIQUORS. This is done because the general
government now receives large part of its
revenue from the manufacture and sale of an
artificial simunnt called whisky, that is
shaving more pleoplo and destroying moro
homes than the opium of India is today
doing in China. AS the Chicago News says;
ave donounce the India opium trade, aud
agree by treaty that our ships canno. engage
in it; yet We foster and encourage the sale Of
death dealing liquors that are dragging hun-
dreds of thousands of bodies into the gutter
and flingng hundreds Of Thousands Of souls
into the circles Of hell"
The.New Orleans Democrat, discussing
the advantages of tho Ead5 j'tties, and es-
peeialy to the west, says:
A great deal has been seid Of the advar-
tages that these works hayo brought 10 this
CITY, snd they have materially helped New
Orleans; but not enough BIAS been said Of tho
benefit they have been 10 the western farm.
ets in keeping pown the price Of yailroa3
fraiahts and thus increasing the value of
their grain at homo. Paople read that
l9. 600 GO bushels OF grain were received
h6ra hast year, three times aa mucn Hs 1873
snd they talk Of the promised prosperity If
New Orleans; but they seldom stop to tnipS
that the jetties have made this grain worth
from eight TO ten cents moro bushel TO
farmers and thus actually profted them
81 100000 IN one year. II would DO unfsit
however, 10 view this mAtter--tbo benefit
the west receives form the deepening Of the
done 50 far. Let Us rather look to what lie
going TO be done. Take the Gould barge
line, for instance, and what 1t promises.
From tho agent of the line We learn that
there Are now built for this line, or in process
of construction and almost ready for opera
tions, ifty-flvo barges, each of - capacity of
rtom 10 900 to 10000 bushels. Mr.. Gould.
however, will not rest satisfied with this
number, having informed the agents here,
Messrs. liellmsn and Seligman, thst the
company would continue building barges
until tho line had capacity of n daily tow
that IL, until it WAS able to bring tow of
from four TO six barges, containing say
100000 bushels, into this pot each day
This will require between eighty snd'' ,.one
hundred barges, which Can bring here half
Che grain exported from this country. The
company has slresdy gone energetically to
work, and two tows will STRIVE this week.
When everything 10 in thorough working
order these tows will be, as we have already
stated, dsily arrivals.
The New York World strikes some heayy
blows OF protection and the ruinous policy
thereof and not the least one of those is in
the following from its columns:
Mr. Hurd, of Ohio, who has been one of
the most intelligent and active members of
the congress which is now about TO expire,
WAS only able the Other day, it is reported, to
muster some thirty members into a confer.
once of the frel-trsde members of the house
OF representatives. Considering the manner
in Which sll of the democratic speakers rys
away when the republicans, during the presi-
dental canvass o. last October attempted to
create panic among tne artisans of the
country as to the effects of free trade on
home Industry, it is rather gratifying than
alarming to find that SO large number of
alleged democratic congressman can now bo
found willing to stand by the trsditionary
doctrines of the democratic party. Since
the democratic party, as party, chose 10
shirk its principles and strike its colors in
the presidential fight of 1880, it is to be pre-
sumed that those democratic members of
congress who now boldly avow their belief
in feee trade, or in that tariff for