The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-08-10


truth, for nafrowmlndod people are like
nanow.neosod bottles, the less they
have In them the moro noise they make IN
pouring II out. The slightest attention to
human nature dscloses the fact the most
ignorant are nearly always the most yocif-
orous and the most emphatic, II Is the n.
lustration Of the old proyerb Of fools rush
In where angels fear to tread" The silly
young fish gobbles quick the bait in what
he considers his shrewdness In discovery,
while the older one nibbles at IL cautiously
and thus detects the true condition Of
things. IL Is not the bull that bellows
loudest, nor the cock that crows the often.
est that will come oil victor in the
contest, nor the ass that brays the most
conspicuously that can carry the
heaviest pack, And so throughout all ma
ture. The quiet progress Of the ocean con-
tains more force than the ripping rivulet
and untamcd Niagara, in all its gush and
foam, is of less utility than some strong
stream whose steady flow keeps scores Of
factories at work. The poet has it, "the
shadows babble but the deeps are dumb"
The further man proceeds in .he walks Of
wisdom the clearer is made the uncertainty
of his surroundings. The more experience
we obtain the more cautious become cur
views and consequently the more qualified
our expressions. 1t is popularity of the
judicial mind that has daily presented to
it numberless embarrassing arguments
that it grows cautious in the formation of
opinion or the delivery of decis-
ion. OF these we find to be char
aeteristic such words and phrases
as perhaps" or'it would SEEM" or "if
this were true" and the like. Where what
had appeared to be one OF the clearest of
cases, after having been argued powerfully
on one side, the reverse may be made to APP
pear by an advocate on the opposing one.
And even where opinions have been
thoughtfully arrived at by one court they
have been reversed by another, to be in
turn neither affirmed nor reversed, but re-
manded for further needed calculations not
before thought of. When, too, expanding
the view, we witness the extraordinary
changes that daily occur in all of llfe's rela'
tions, the political, the social, the scientific,
the religious, etc., so that what one age ex-
tolls and practises as perfection, the next
condemns as heresies or laughs at as follies,
the observing and considerable mind is per-
suaded into the paths of modesty of de-
meanor. Recklessly one makes up his mind
about some event or occurrence, and yet
when put upon jury and so placed
in full possession of the facts, he arrives at
a wholly opposite conclusion. The object
of all inquiry should be the attainment OF
truth. The judge nor the jury should have
regard as to this advocate or that one in
the trial; their concern is the ascertain ment
OF all the facts and then the knowledge OF
the law as applicable thereto. So it is with
the newspaper, the honest journal, whose
exalted ambition it should be, not to be the
hired advocate or prejudiced with for
any person or in any event, but the up
right judge, weighing the evidence ard
then determining. Now any newspaper,
through its editor, that assumes to be
thoroughly posted and clear of opinion on
every issue of the age in which it exists, is
a fraud and hypocrite. 1t can, therefore,
honestly express itself cnly qualificdly, |
Another view is that
change is the eternal law of nature, from
the incessant, continuous disintegration |
and replacement ofour bodily tissues, to the !
changes of the seasons, modes of thought, |
OF living, of doing business, of government, !
etc., etc., and with these new circumstances |
must come new modes of correating them. |
The trouble is that some people never keep
upon all changes as inconsistencies. The
live newspaper of to-day cannot tie itself
to the receding past. 1t must lead. The
Herald of BENNETT, ST., is not the Herald
of BENNETT, JR. Neither can it allow itself
to be chained to the car of any creed,
theological, social, political or other. Such
a paper disappoints, of course, the bourbon
democrat, or the rabid republican, the |
SHAN t. kiss your wife-on-Sunday" preach
er and the more advanced free-love doc |
trinaire. For all such, it is, of course, not
sufficiently distinct, pronounced. emphat-
ic," etc, and the moment it becomes so il |
would lose all its usefulness as an honest |
In the meantime, the New |
York Herald, and all similar journals, |
flourish, while the "emphatic," the loud |
bawler," the "use-cuss.words" basso pro-
fundo sort, are sooner or later lost on the 1
ripping tide that engulfs the giddy would |
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