The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-20

cAn only toll WHefo the tTOUUle hnu IthIiui
oommunIstIc tendencies will end, and what
the dlfeful consequences will be 10 society
aud the prosperity Of the county. IL there
are good men and citizens among these
fence cutters, who think they have been
wroDged they should stop and consider
what their examples will lead TO II carried
out TO their fullest measure. You are plac-
Dg In danger every mans property and
creating o communism that Is too terrible
to be contemplated, and while you may be-
lieve you are right In your depredations
against pastures you are most certainly fol-
lowing course that will entail upon your
own heads the thuDders of popular wrath
and evils that you can not Withstand in the
end. IL you have wrongs seek milder and
lawful means to Alright them. Ask con-
cessions in spirit of justice and liberality
from the stock and pasture men. and don't
foster an evil that will sooner or later draw
you into Its own kaufman SUM-
DOES IT PAY TO RAISE COTTON?
The experience Of the present season is
likely to suggest this enquiry to the farmers
of Texas. With the cost oil producing cot
ton so great as 1t has been for the past few
years and the prices at which it has sold 80
low, there can be but a small profit realized
from its production even when the seasons
are favorable. But observation and expert
ence demonstrate that it is very uncertain
present year is by no means remarkable
or unusual event. 1t is the part OF wisdom
then for farmers to cast about and see II
there is not something else whereby living
may be earned on less precarious terms than
by raising cotton. 1t is a very difficult
thing to get OUT of old ruts after running In
them great while, but it is often essential
to success and prosperity that it should be
done. When slavery existed cotton raising
was profitable because labor was cheap AMI
hence the cost of production was light, but
since the war the people in many sections
of the south have been impoverished by
planting too much cotton to the neglect OF
other products, and to-day wherever there
has been more attention given to raising
of cotton there is less poverty and debt and
fewer mortgages on farms. In most in
stances when the cotton crops have been
most abundant in their yield prices have
been low and farmers have had either 10
hold or sacrifice their cotton: We do not
wish to be understood as advising that cot
ton raising be stopped Altogether, but we 90
believe that much less should be raised and
more land devoted tothe grasses and pro-
visions, and more stock of all kinds raised.
Cattle, hogs and indeed every species OF
gentle stock will command good prices at
all times, and grain can ue utilized to good
advantage and profit by feeding it to STOCK,
and thus increasing their value. Mixed
husbandry is most profitable.-[ Meridian
Blade.
FENCE CUTTING.
Certainly those who engage In fence
cutting do not take time to think
on this vexed question, and the
final consequences of their acts. If
they fail TO destroy the pasture in.
dustry of the country, untold trouble and
vexations, law suits and prosecutions will
l. ffr IN fhnTy
succeed, anu their persistent energy should
destroy every pasture in the state, fnarcby
will reign in the country, might will be the
supreme law, and the pistol and rope will
sit in judgement. alike upon the side that
happens TO he, for the time, the least pro-
tected. We deplore the dangerous extent
to which the practice has already gone and
look with alarm on the rapid spread OF the
sentiments OF communism in our law-abld-
ing land, and though there are plausible
arguments against the right to fence such
immense tracts of land, no combination of
circumstances ought TO make men take the
correction of wrong in their own hands
without warrant of law. Evil results in
variably follow such summary proceedings,
feuds are engenderec. blood Is shed, immi-
grafton is retarded, property deprecIates in
value and governments are undermined by
the same principle that moves men 10 cut
the fences of those VINO choose to enclose
the land they have bought and own.-[Pal
Pinto News.
NONRESIDENT sTUDENTs-THE OTHERS OF
THE LAW.
1t is to be regretted that the governor has
manifested this disposition to interfere with
the matrculation of university students
t ON other states. 1t is said that one of
the young men now here from another
state, wrote to ex. Governor Roberts before
he came, asking the conditions upon which
he might be admitted to the school of law,
and the ex-goverr or, apro.e ,sor elect in the
law school, replied TO him that tuition was
absolutely free and that it would be so ex-
tended to him. The regency has sole man
agement OF the university Inc members be.
ing named by the governor but appointed
by the senate. He has no power to re-
move a regent and to substitute another,
and the regents are the sole rulers and.leg- |
islators for the university. They have npt
fixed special regulations as to the accept |
ance OF the "others" referred to. We do |
not hold that the regents have the power to |
80 consider such cases, but having left all
for this session on the same
footing, they viii not, after the session be- |
gins, be prevailed upon to regulate mat- |
ter already fixed in the opinion of all, by
silence. 1t was the purpose of the regents,
tor this session at least, to make no dis
All alike pay the fixed ma
cannot be updone, except by Legislature.
The nonresident students may feel at ease.
-[Austin Statesmen.
TIE CROPS.
From the best Of authority there will not
be raised in Texas this year exceeding one
halt OF q crop of cotton. This will result
greatly to the detriment of that class OF
merchants who have both bought and sold
large quantities of goods on time, depend
ing on the good result OF the cotton crop
for success. The consequence will be a
large number OF failures OF the class OF mer- |
chants mentioned. 1t might appear from |
FIRST thought that the farmers are the class |
that will feel the shortness OF the cotton |
crop most, but not so. The truth is the
merchant and others get all the average |
farmer makes anyway except so much. and |
II the farmer only makes these much" the |
doctor and others have to wait |
or do worse for they will all adhere to the |
FIRST law of nature. "self Preservation
Athens Narrow Gauge.
WATER.
In dry times water becomes an objec tot
importance. The water supply of BRENNAN |
is derived from cisterns and wells; many Of
The latter being unhealthy though 1t would |
be almost an impossiblity to convince the |
owner Of a well that the water in Il was not |
the best water in town. IL is very diff
cult matter TO find well. tine owner Of
which will admit that the water is Of an in |
ferior quality. At this time both cisterns
and wells are getting low. Some weeks ago
the Banner suggested waterworks; everv-
body IL in favor OF waterworks. and ell say
we ought 10 have them. but nobody takes
the inIIiation.-l Brenham Bonner.
PUBLIC wEIcHERs.
The war on the regularly elected public
weighers Of Dallas Is spirited and bitter.
The cotton buyers will not accept the
weights Of the public veighers, aud the
farmers refuse TO have their cotton weighed
By anyone else. The buyers OBJECT TO the
pubic veiehers on the ground that they
lthe public veigbersl are inexperienced.
The frouhle has causad a deadlock in the