The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-12-14
TExAs PRESS OPINIONS.
A MAN OF CHARACTER,

Legislators Will 90 To Austin thoroughly
impressed with the fact that the people
want the present road law changed. -tCom'
anche Chief.
THEY ARE LEARNING.
Farmers are learning that the price OF
nearly everything they sell is fixed in
Europe, while everything they buy is 10 to
90 per cent. above the European price in
consequence of the tariff Nj Paso Lone
Star.
ADoAsTFUL BUM.
A young man who was couspcuously in
connection with marriage associations in
Texas, and who skipped when the fraudu-
lent character OF the associations devel-
oped, has turned up in Mississippi, where
he has Just married. and boasts of having
skinned the Texans to the tune of $4,000,
--IStephenville Empire.
THE INIQUITY or THE PENSION LAWS.
No one would object TO giving reason
able pension to persons who lost a leg or
arm In the service, but to give pensions
pr0miscuously to those who eable-bodied,
or on account oil some defect existing long
before the war commenced, as we know of
in several cases, is fraud and outrage up
on the whole people, San Antonio Ex-
press.
AN APT METAPHOR.
The Houston Post urges the name of
John Hancock for speaker of the house.
The Post is an eel. which having been
thrown upon the bank of the friendship Of
democracy, is struggling to get back again
into its stream, pays no attention to the
trash washed ashore while trying TO impede
its progress. Hancock is not blind, and
can see through the wiggle, and democracy
will attend to its own IL Rockport Tran
script.
RETROSPECTIVE.
Ninety.three years ago the first congress
oil the United States attempted TO organize
in New York city. To begin with there
were on hand only eight senators and thir-
teen representatives. II took month to
get quorum. There are at present
over 700 members of congress present, and
after March there will be good many
more, in great many instances two men
trying TO take the same seat. Chalmers
will be making as much noise out of his
scat as two dozen average seated members.
Il Austin Statesman.
STOP ANN THINK.
The consumption of protected articles is
by no means equally divided between cap
italists and laborcrs; if it were so even
then protection would be unjust, but as the
laborers are greatly in the majority, il be-
comes more so. Capitalists are the manu-
tacturers, laboTers the consumers. The
the benefit OF it. Its burdens and benefits
are not equally distributed and it is unjust
and grieyous III the extreme Whitcsboro
News.
AWAITING AN INVENTOR.
A contemplating machine Is one of the
greatest needs OF the south. There are ma
chimes for planting, cultiyating, harvest
ing, thrcshing and Smelling the grain crops
at an immense saving of labor, but in the
south the entire cotton crop has to be
picked from the bolls by hand and the
cost of the work is estimated at $50,000,000
u year. Repeated attempts to invent a me-
chauical picker have so uniformly resulted
IN failure that planters have settled down
in the conviction that the thing is impossi-
bic ard the cotton crop must be picked BY
hand forever, But the Charleston papers
are just now interested in machine, in
vented by Il New hampshire man, resi-
dent in South Carolina for twenty.sx years,
which, IL is predicted, will be developed
into the cotton picker OF the future. IL il
immature yet, and works Cluinsiiy in the
field, but it is asserted that with u little
alteration it will pick 5000 to 5000 pounds
Of cotton day, doing the work OF ten TO
fifteen ordinary hands, lift can be made
to do this, II will be Of immeaaurable value,
as in some parts of the south considerable
want of labor 20 pick it,-[Marshall Mes
senger.
LAUpAnLE CROW.
We know there are thousands of good
men and women all over Texas who will re-
ioioe in our victory. She sends greeting TO
all industrious, honest mon aud women
who are looking for new homes aud who
have children to educate. The vote of yes
terday was an entering wedge. A iirst.class
system ofpublic education, thorough, hene.
iicient will be planted and cultivated here.
IL will develop and flourish. Such move
ments do not retrogade; such impulses do
not die out. The work will be permanent.
We shall have good and better schools in
Waco as long az the town exists. Finally,
TO tho pubic-spiritcd, taN-paying voters
who achieved this triumph in the face of
such charlottesville have redeemed Waco
from the uncnviable repute TO which she
was tcnding-we tender congratulations.
They will never have cause to regret their
work. The tree that was planted yesterday
will bear good fruit. The Examiner may
seem exhilarated this morning. Nobody
has welded and sent Widow Clquot or
extra dry Mumm to the office. But il is a
new experience to see the people of Waco
80 to tho ballot-box and vote TO tax them
selves one,half of one per cent. to run their
public schools for II twelyo.month. There
are some things better than wine from a
wedding feast. We exhilarate again.
Waco Examiner.
ruE TRUTH ABOUT SCHOOLS.
In state like Texas no one cnu promise
that the schools shall or shall not bc run
during certain months of the year. Neither
in Texas nor elsewhere can the farmer az.
ford to send his children TO school for pc
riod of ten out OF twelve months. lie needs
his children to either help him cultivate the
land or TO gather the harvest, and the COM
bined labor of these children represent a
not insignificant capital. In the cotton re.
gions, for instance, each farmers child can
pick vt least two or three hundred pounds OF
cotton per week, thereby saving consider
able sum In the aggregate to its parent. In
consequences fwhich-though theoretically
IL might be wrong--it could not be expected
that the farmers would send their children
20 the school.master during their busy sea.
sons, when every dollar saved represents so
much TODD to be saved for the planting and
growing time, when with tAe farmer every.
thing is Investment and nothing Is profit.
On tho other hand, H. is necessary that the
city children be taught the longest term In
the year. As long as the schools are sim
ply educational and not also industrial os.
lutte necessity 10 prevent the temptation OF
ldlencss by tho instillalion of moral pre-
ocpts through the means of general edit
cation. Children who have nothing TO do
must DO kept from the streets,
aud tho school 9ssuredly Is the
place whero manners and learn
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