The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-02
DEADL0CKS.

Daily il is noticed in the United States
nat our politics are becoming most shame
lessly corrupt and are degeherating into the
merest personal differences. The parties
have worn threadbare the issues betw cen
them in former years, and have commenced
even bitterer fights within their own ranks
than they were wont TO wage against their
political enemies. 1t is, in one sense, iortu-
nately, fact that no great question dlvldes
the Democrat from the Republican politl-
cally, further than the general tendency
of their policies. There is no live subject
of dispute upon which they are re-
spectiyely unanimous and antag-
onistic. The one wants the National
government made stronger, while the other
desires to increase the powers OF the States.
But the office holder and the politician
must live, and if no decided principle de-
mands attention his business must necessa-
rily drop into simple struggle for the
places of profit in the government, and per
sonal matters are made the basis OF all
their contests. From one end of the coun-
try TO the other, as n consequence, we are
compelled TO see needed improvements and
legislation, and whose necessity all admit,
90 uncared for, while few men
paid by the people for another pur-
pose settle their personal accounts. 1t is
as dishonest to fritter away public time
which is paid lOr, as 10 rcchlessiy OF ne
gally spend the public money. Either is
criminal and it is singular that men who
have a proper appreciation of the duties of
private life so often seem TO think and act
as if the same obligations did not rest upon
them as servants OF the public. Where
such sacred trusts as legislation and the
handling OF governmental revenues are re-
posed in public functionarics even greater
regard should be had for Che little
niceties involved in morals than where
dealing with an individual, IT, OF
course. there eau be any distinc-
ton IN such affairs. We have had lately
another spectacle OF gross neglect of duty
and u.tei fjrge,nalnoss Of propricty IN the
case OF she deadlock ~ ODE Vow York Leg
islature. Thls baly h-s ~ Luee weeks
been in sessi % and not aren hfs ln orsaui-
cation been effected. We ere pat aFirecd
of the expenses OF the New NoIk Assem-
bly, per day. bat they mus unouat to
thousands Of lo.larl ia the tnc stated For
a uumgtr o. fr5frsse Iiy intcl iCUt and
%, nest nisn 10 thus throw aNay m iif,noai
sena.less. mnnner 50 muea lil.e AID 50
much money over petty aiLiE1nces j. q,
crime and shsne. aud TIE ineniearl onslt
20 fear 10 again face tngir con
sii.ne--'=sl 1nahe case ar tlie ccad icck in
the United States Senaie last year, some
little o-cl.e exisici. as ihcre was 'rliy .
oue-iion ofprinci.,le Of sia',c. bat even lIaf
proiucei no beneficial results, ard In the
lisht Of subsequent erenis ilie dass losi IN
zranrling could have been Tut in much
more proftabiy We arc I.ost nssuredly
drifine into more c1rrurt p-nciices md a
srernfn-iv iaas rerarl f1r TIE rensrai vel
fa-e than Eas dreamed n o. pos BE bali
emory az5. Then. Eenu'ne IN
tarrsf vrs mauif ed in i- aii0rs
rrl great mea srose rh1se 1amrs low
Arm ou- a-na's AMI the 1.rol.s IN
Il ,toae hrl11 r4.f'o. 's'l ADJ c1a7c'eii-
fi,rs I's-il-..s 81 Lle aa. eia-'- % ii-in
rn.ili lobe as.sff Dc rss1te a. ttel zoe
rIsa. nor lif1r the Dh-et I'D 80 can
r.s Boo hing iieasr fi.aI ii'e t'ea.im q
a a. 1aat. Ii 81 char-ei ihal .te rrfsei-i
t-ouiis IN Albany j. ihs vol 81 Il or eieht
5.ls-.ies oaiy. Who h5'd tbs balaues 0f pos-
o. ana ~ opsraii1E under the aariot and
-;.l.,s or aaf rr ci0us specimen % human
a.. rrhn Kelly. They Should ~ asked %
~-.irr md lbs lesson sboud - rsnsrn-
I'D in fbs future Ihe Whole
.,u-.s % Ell, IN such cases, Fesis e.