The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-26
ISSUES WITH THE uERaLp


did trout from the quiet brook,
but he never hauled up with his
drag net truer one than that
when he wrote "lf thou be severe, sour.
complexioned man, then dlsallow thee to
be competent judge" And GOETHE in
his Wilhelm Meister, said "Ill.humor is
nothing more than an inward feeling OF our
own want Of merit, dissatisfaction with
ourselves which is always united with
an A envy that foolish vanity ex-
cites and that everybody understands. !"
And the chaste and esteemed ADDISON
than whom purer writer or better man
his country knew not, complained that
some Of his contemporaries were $50 full of
Ill nature and envy that lampoons were
sent him by people who cannot spell, and
sltires composed by those who scarcely
know how to write" 1t Is because We have
been fully aware of this sad condition and
unhappy temperament Of some people that
the HERALD has forborne all replies TO ILL
natured remarks about it or its course, pur-
suing that "even tenor of its way" that
gives longer life and solid reputation when
Its traducers or critics are dead and forgot
ten. Were we to stop and worry and squb
or snarl back at every cross thing said
against paper that goes daily to thous-
ands Of people with every hue of thought
and feeling, our usefulness would be gone,
and the HERALD would degrade itself to u
fourth or fifth class level. In the light of
all past experience such II course OF disaf-
lection diagnosed gives invariably the
symptoms of coming dissolution. The
healthy man and mind moves on pleas
anlly and serenely, the diseased and irrita-
ted one does, by the laws of nature run in
the channel of continuous complaint, soon
to be emptied into the sea of the Never
more. But when the Mayor Of the city,
sitting in the Council Chamber, presiding
at its deliberations, travels outside the
limits of his functions to cIiticise with
out warrant, without any, the least
provocation then or at any other time, a
paper that never harmed nor said aught
against him personally, we feel that we
should notice his structures, when he there
asserted, among other things, that the
HERALD had opposed his administration
from its beginning, conveying the impress
sion that its animus was opposition to him
rather than as to his policy for the city, or
to his own official work and record. Now,
in reply, we have to say that we
have no interest to subserve and certainly
it is not our pleasure to war on or in any
manner antayonize the administration,
Mayor or Council. We should much prefer
to cooperate in the most amiable manner
and be on good terms as good citizens
should be- working for common interest,
the welfare Of the city. Whether the reverse
condition of feelings obtains with him, and
whether his thoughts are the gloomy COM
panions Of a breast disturbed, we know not,
aud we hope not. In our advocacy of the
improvement of our streets and pavcments,
we have been inspired by views that are
born of travel and experience, and lmpelled
by motives that find their source and life in
the true veal and onward progress
of this great, growing, central city.
That this pc ition conilcted with his views
was never query with us, for it was assumed
that he conceded with the views as to the
desideration, but perhaps differed as to the
method and details of its attainment. We
have not sought in any of all this to in
flame the ire Of the mayor, but to appeal
to the enlightenment of the people. We
have not striven to announce any defect in
his opposition, but to disclose to these citi-
zens how best they could be benefited by
some propositions we offered. Had we felt
toward him the hostility we learn he has
toward the HERALD, then We
might have repeated, through its
columns, much OF criticism that has
at times been aoat, whether
it had reference to the visit to the
east and west last year on the water
works business, or to the rumor that hS
possessed property, which, under q
paving ordinance, would entail an expense
which might account for his opposition tC
the paving of the city, etc. But for our
selves, we have not been disposed to play
as against the mayor, the part of the littl,
flea, whereofthc couplct says;
Big ncas have little lcas
Upon their backs to bite en-,
And little leas have little ones,
And so al iniiinitum.
But certainly we have had q right rs pub
lie press to advise our readers about affair:
wherein their deepest interests, pecuniary
sanitary and social are involved. Ever,
true citizen, alive to tho issues and tn
wants Of the day, should applaud thi
course, whether he agree with our views o
not. We may perish in the desert befor
we arrive at the land of promise, but just a
sure as the sun shines, Dallas will soon pu
on the apparel to which, as one of theleadin
cities and best known of the south, she
prominently entitled. Her slovenl
streets and disgraceful sidewalks will 500
give place to genteel garb in which sh
ought long since have been al
rayed. Whoever inaugurates tn
now era will have his nam
long preserved as one OF the bcneiactors
his homo. Lot us homo that orr worth