The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-18

Eaewhcfe In ths ilino we publish Nm 10.
terylow had ny Tie Cincinnati Commercial
with Cotosrt Mrnpf,, nm old Cinolnnn
tltn, relative ~ fexos, her resources, llmn.
DIAL status, political complexion, etc. Much
of What that gentleman says IN regard 10
our great progress 10 prominently true,
much Of what lac asserts a. evils flowing
from democratic rule is prominently false.
lie assigns, for instance, the republican
policy In tie state rs q cause for the Hour
ishiug condition Of our schools, from the
close Of the war to 1873, when the demo
Gratis took control lie contends that since
that period they have not iourished. lie
insists that the state debt at the latter date
has been increased to $5,O0O,0OO from the
comparatively small one of 81 800, 600
when his party passed out of power.
The presentation is essentially fallacious,
The truth is that in 1878 there came a
panic over the entire country which under
mined nearly the whole business structure
of the United States, Texas included, and
from the throes OF which the country begun
Whom the republican party took pos
session of the state after the war; they
found this very small debt the colonel
speaks about. That was their inheritance
from democracy When they dissolved
connexion with us and left the political
pc sitions, it was found to be necessary to
provide for what they had entailed by legis-
lation upon us, hence much of the increase
ofthe pr b C debt. But this increase does
not by any means signify a worse condition
OF the state. When we consider how
only since the democrats came into power
Texas has begun to blossom as a rose how
during their regime the very 5000 miles OF
new railway he himself admits to was con-
structed through the confidence created by
fair and equitable administration how
new public buildings have been erected, and
the. older institutions, such as the asylums
penitentiaries, ETC., have been increased in
dimensions and improved in utilities; and
how to-day the nd valorem tax as imposed
by the last legislature is only 30 cents on
the 500, as against the onerous one exist
ing in 1873; how liberal appropriations have
been made for the veterans that gave us
o IT freedom; how all general interests
have been fostered and how, not
wthstanding all these and other
things, we had when he wrote out his in
tarview for the Commercial, a cash balance
in the treasury of over Sl,2O0,0OO, with
bonded debt of only $4,400000, and a def
cheney account of but $28 900, it will be seen
what a wrong the reckless calculator has
done to our state, what mis-statement he
has made to a northern journal. We apprc-
bend, we are willing to believe that lie was
not informed as to our true condition now
and since 1873 His glitteriDg generality
charges are valueless to the renecting and
reasoning mind. If fraud was meant, why
did he not point ont wherein it ex-
listed? If imprudeit administration was
meant, why. did he not In
Ndicate even one single piece of legislation
sincN 1875 that smelt of error? We are
quite aware of vast mass OF acts and con-
duct in the halls. of the capitol at Austin
that to our judgment were not of the most
eypedient by any means. Errors of
omission and commission-and who
does not make them?-are written
all over our statute books, until
they almost seem like volumes of guesses,
but when we come to cast up the good and
evil balance account, we fancy we are not in
worse condition in the matter of legislation
than is even his great state of Ohio. We
always ciiticse freely our own office-hold-
ers, but we do not propose to be silent in
their defense when unmerited censure is
visited upon them by ill-informed persons
abroad. We are no apologists for really
mistaken measures, we see them, we con-
cede them, we lament them; but we must
not forget the good, for 'errors are
like straws that on the surface flow,
he who would see the pearls must dive be-
low" The closing remarks of the
interview are peculiarly significant and in
the warning given as to the predicted coali-
ton of republicans, democrats and green
hackers, is imbedded truth the outcrop-
pings whereof we have seen and whose
outcome will yet astonish many of our
people now dreaming in fancied security of
the impregnability .of the pure democratic
tadel. The HERALD has indicated, was of
the first to indicate two years ago, all this,
aud We pointed out the remedy again and
again. 1t is clear. Put no man on ticket
for a prominent position who is not in
every way worthy and well qualified, who
does not comprehend the fearful response
bility he assumes when he takes the sacred
trust of Office and does not fully appreciate
the immense uncollected debt that he owes
TO his constituency and which he should
qudit TO their satisfaction when he lays
down his budget of behavior. Let the
democratic convention that is TO meet in
Galveston in July next remember and put
in completest practice these suggestions,
'and then all may be we'll"