The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-12
TUE PERFECTION orMrupi NOE

harangues within her borders against other
nations with whom we are on friendly
terms and time honored principles and ar
ticles Of popular faith, until the impudence
Of these agitators is we'll nigh that point
where self-respect and selfpreservation will
cause us TO put a stop to the matter. There
are classes of citizens, as there are individ-
uals, who seem to be entirely unappreciative
of special liberties accorded, and continue
to encroach upon the privileges given until
a hearing must be denied them altogether.
| II would seem that all that could possibly
be asked of this government in the matter
of Irish agitation against England would
be the privilege of meeting and discussing
measures in the United States looking to
the advantage Of Ireland. No sane man
would suppose that the spirit of hostility
to England would be carried 30 far as TO
threaten our own citizens and
property in the event that
an American should dare to
honor Great Britain or express admiration
for its rulers or customs. In other words,
it has not been anticipated that those who
stayed and spoke amongst us by suilerance
only, would actually in a few short months
turn upon the government and the native
citizens OF this country and dictate to them
what they should or should not do in the
matter of public celebrations or public ex-
preston. As astounding as the fact may
be, IL is fact that these loud-mouthed
enemies OF Great Britain who are skulking
in this country have done Just the thing
OF them. One of the boldest, mesr .
est, checklist and insane threa,. :
we have ever heard of, has been made
by the "agitators" referred TO in connection
with the proposed opening of the great
Brooklyn bridge on the 9th of this month.
II is hardly credible, were the fact not SO
authenticity vouched Tor. 1t is u warning
to the Brooklyn bridge trustees not to open
that structure to the public on the day pro
posed, as that is the birthday of tn, Queen
of England, and the celebration would
smack of an honor paid to Her British Ma
jesty. The warning was accompanied with
threats of the destruction of the bridge by
dynamite il its opening was turned into a
celebration of VICTORIA IS birthday. This is
the first intimation we have had from the
Irish rulers of this country, the gentlemen
who have recently taken charge Of us, that
hereafter great public enterprises and event
must be so timed that they cannot even
indirectly be construed into sym
pathy with or respect for anything
British, the first intimation that our great
public works have been confscated by the
Fenians and dynamters. The Brooklyn
bridge is one of the greatest engineering
feats Of modern times, grand commercial
artery between Manhattan and Long
Island, and has about as much connection
with affairs in Great Britain as the bridge
over the Trinity river at this point has with
affairs AT New York. Throwing it open to
the public on the anniversary of VIoroRIA's
birth was purely accidental, but il the
trustees wanted to turn the occasion into
celebration also of the birthday of
England's noble old queen, no Irishmar,
or &c man, or Chinese on this continent
had right to say word in opposition
thereto. When the impudence and reck
lessness OF these men have reached that
point that they threaten to destroy one OF
the hugest, most costly and magnificent
works of engineering in this country and
Of modern times, because 1t is to be
thrown open TO the public on u
day distasteful to them, or whenever
their bravado and revolutionary prociviies
reach point that they threaten to attack
English property even and distinctively
| English schemes and celebrations in this
country, it strikes us that it is about time
to "set down" on them with vigor and
rapidity that would strike even the British
or Russian governments with establishment.
The sober-sided thinking.men among
Fenians, socialists or communists even,
would never dream of such tiendish act as
threatened under the circumstances, but
there are enthusiasts and cranks who would
jump at such an idea and feel that success
in the premises would cover them all over
with glory. There is a liberty of the press
and ofspeech that II is dangerous to to,er-
ate, and it looks as II we had about reached
it, a degeneration of sober and wellregulat
ed liberty into mere unbrdled license with
no reverence for men, government or
institutions. Such rabid talk, such reok.
less assertions and conduct, coupled with
such presumptious threats, by these foreign
exiles and their friends in the east, is be-
coming nauseating as well US dangerous to
the well-being Of society, and reflects more
severely upon the wisdom OF our mum
cipal state and Federal authorities in allow.
ing 1t than 1t proves injurious to Great
Britain. 1t Is bulldozing and disturbance
OF the peace of the very best defined char.
acter, and ought to have quietus put upon
1t before 1t goes further and becomes there.
lore more difficult of suppression. lfthreats
and warnings, such as that we have been
discussing do no, open the eyes of Ameri.
can citizens to the dangerous extent of the
liberty and privileges they have been nc.
cording to these fiery antagonists of Great
Britain, we may as we'll turn over the gov
eminent to them at once. A word sternly
spoken is all that is necessary to shut up all
this disgusting bravado.
The State Pharmaceutical Association,
which has been in session in Austin for
some days, is an honest effort by competent
and educated druggists to bring public
opinion In this state up to that point where
the enactment of laws will follow, as mat.
ter OF course, looking to the employment
and handling drugs and compromising pre-.
scriptions of none but educated pharma.
cists. Wetook occasion to refer some time
ago to this matter in these columns, and
pointed out the Importance to the public
Of the question. In all portions of the state