The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-09

Never In the history of the government
was there time when the party lines re
presented such scanty divergenccs ant
when the aggregation of the public bust
ness, which goes under the name o
politics was so inane as at this present
moment. Excepting the 'lOaves and
| fishes" what Is there, outside of old ties Of
! tradition and association, now dividing
parties, state and national? Not the tariff
| Tor there are free-trade republicans and
protection democrats. Not the sections
| for there are confederate republicans and
union democrats. Not the finances; for in
both parties we encounter. all sorts OF
opinions Unfortunately mixed. In Eir-
ginia the republicans are allies OF repuda-
ton, and the democrats are standing by the
public credit. In Tennessee the larger
democratic element is reputation. On
the one hand, we find Mr.. VOORHEES,, hailing
from q grain-growing state of the west
urging the lallacies Of protection and cry
ing out against "a tariff for revenue only
and, on the other hand, Mr.. Blaine, coming
from the manufacturing east, trimming his
sails to catch the winds OF revenue
reform. Nowhere, within organized lines,
do we meet organized ideas. Moral
forces are literally "lying about
loose" Every little statesman, who has
come. or thinks he has come, in sight of
the White House, has the presidential bee in
bonnet. Every little politician who has an
office devotes all his time, energy ana ca
pacity to keeping it, and every little poll
tician who has hot an office is doing the
same to get one. The people are busy
making money. Government is become an
affair of the official class, popular interests
are forgotten, or merged into personal In
terests, the longest pole tetches the per-
simmons, and our little friend Beelzebub
looks after gentlemen who lag in the rear;
1t is, emphatcally, an epoch of political
mathematician incidentto high state Of
prosperity and low state of morals. But
there are signs that betoken a reaction and
inspire a hope. Already, upon the scene of
action, men, having the sagacity to see
ahead and the industry to work out, de-
tails, begin to appear and assert themselves.
The coming question is undoubtedly reVe-
nue. reform. 1t is the pivital point i'll our
system of taxation. Naturally, being more
or less an exact SCIENCE" which cannot
be treated except by patient, pains-taklng
and intelligent men; 1t has
been Stunned by the rhetorician,
the orators and the blatherskites,
who are able only to sky-lark. These,
however, will have to give way to leaders
who do not scrape the floors of Heaven in
search of material for defamation and
tomfoolng. 1t is of the best possible
augury when we look into the Senate and
see there comparatively new man, bear
ing a name not familiar to the nation at
large, grasping this great question with
breadth and power which have never
been surpassed. Nothing less was ex-
pected of Mr.. Beck, who has long been
known to the country as man thoroughly
equipped and splendidly endowed for the
business of legislation applied TO practical
questions. But comparatively little has
been heard of Richard Coke, the junior
senator from Texas, who has Just rlade a
speech upon "a tariff for revenue only" us
mastery in its treatment and as exhaustive
in its comprehension as was ever made IN
either IA use ii congress. Senator Coke,
though alIectionately called by his init
mates sold Coke" is yet Il young man,
being Just turned of fifty. He is man of
modest demeanor and unobstrusiye habits
But this speech shows him to be rs robust
in his mind as he is in person, and MARKS
him as Il coming power III TINS coming
question. True revenue retormerS Will
everywhere recognize and welcome him as
a leader. With one stride he takes his
place as Beck's greatest conirere III BODY
of resolute statesmen, who mean what they
saw, and are determined to drive robber
doctrines out of our system OF taxation ana
robber classes, whom that system now en-
courages and protects, TO honest work IA
| this connection we ought in justice, to add,
since we have mentioned the name of Mr..
Beck, that Mr.. Beck's Kentucky col
! league, the gallant Cerro Gordo Viii
liams, stands shoulder to shoulder with the
| big Scotchman and deserves the thanks OF
the country for another great speech on
this selEsame question, making Kentucky
a unit in the senate, as she is in the house.
These are gratifying statements to be laid
before the multiplying forces OF revenue
reform. They indicate progress. They
show movement. They encourage the toll
ing masses and bode the downfall of monop-
olies.-[ Louisville Courer-Journal.