The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-06-07
LETTER.
~Demonlacal .orce Of the Pniure-Wh
the Peace
Conference Of American Notions FAILED
-Frellnghuysen's Weakness.
Bright and Gladstone, Statesmen an'
Philanthropists.
Jay Gould In n Bad Fix, Etc., Etc.

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WASHINGTON, June 3.-Everybody has
observed how aver herds of cattle or horses
when railway train goes hurrying by, are
affected by sheer sympathy with motion.
There is no fear generated ana only a SUP
tie, nameless electric force developed
something more refined than sympathy,
which, when a laundering, rushing, roaring
railway train exerts its impressive iascina-
ton induces action among all living crea-
lures. 1t comes like the shock of an earth
quake, The very earth tremDles,
rs vibrations, as the monstrous train
draws nigh, are perceptible. A resistless,
dilating, roaring mass, dropping cleaning
Goals, vomiting smoke and steam, preastlnB
the wind, the shower and the sunshlne, IL
thunders down Upon us. The fiery devil,
with a shrek and a roar and a rattle;
plunges past, working in such a storm OF
energy aud perseverance that, amidst the
darkness, its glare of light and lurid smoke,
hides itself in wlerdest shapes, and distort-
ed demons seem to choke the murky dis
lance in vague deiormities. A defiant,
reckless, resistless fiend of fire and smoke,
it descends in darkness beneath mountains
only to emerge screaming wheh
It gree.s the sunlight in o Wilaei 81
its long train, it. climbs the
mountains side. 1t twipes us train about
it's crags. 1t follows carefully its tortuous
path. When it reaches its highest summit
It's long black plume of smoke is thrown
backward by the winds. 1t shouts OF vic
tory and precipitates itself down tie steep
declivity, while they who are borne for
ward by its accelerated velocity d
or are SO overwhelmed by this grandeur OF
movement or of scenery that self coLscious-
ness is wholly lost. When electrical force,
which il a form of life, supplants steam and
electrically driven locomotives become
yeritable living creatures, then we will no
longer wonder and admire. Then a rail-
way train will only be a few dozen wagons
drawn by a living mastodon on wheels. !.
Webb Rodgers e. Son., electricians, OF this
city, are now creating a train.
THE WORLDS PEACE.
It seems that the Peace convention OF all
American States and nations was not con-
vened because Mr.. Frelinghuysen became
afraid that such a convocation OF North ana
South Americans would offend Europe.
Frelinghuysen having suggested the posi-.
billty of such a result, European kings al
once adopted the idea and made 1t
in South America that they would be very
in Washington, and thus the basis for final
America peace was never fixed. But the
condemnation of Mr.. Frelinghuysen's
weakness becomes painful when we ind
that Guatemala is now express
ing its deep regret that
the original peace project failed, and the
hope that it will be speedily revived" In
this sentiment all American states n Peo-
pie concur. But the kings and nobility,
upheld by great standing armies in Europe
we're not pleased, and sympathetic Frellng'
huysep abandoned the only original scheme
of beneficents tatesmanshipt that ever graced
the marty in power. In tact, it wants a
great standing army and banks N pro-
lection and q government OF tne Few III
stead of the many, and the world's peace is
not always desirable to the worlds masters.
masters, and the sooner plLtocracy is de-
throned here and in Europe, the sooner
will monstrous armies be dissolved, ana
the sooner the millennium i~naugurated.
WHAT BRITISH STATESMEN SAY.
Mr., Bright's latest speeches have ex-
pressed, with characteristic eloquence, tne
honorable members dislike of war, which
is shared by the British nation, MI. ulau'
stone included, so that it cannot be ex-
pected that there will be any unnecessary
and unbecoming acceptance of temptations
to warfare which are being recklessly thrown
about lust now Mr.. Bright explained to
his hearers at Glasgow university the
misery and cost of useless wars OF the pres
emit century, and it is ~undeniable That II the
powers were all just and reasonable a reign
of universal peace would be established;
Rpt such unanimity cannot be hoped
for. Mr.. Bright maintains that the sums
have been spent by England in war since
the beginning of the present century
amounts to Fl Ala, 900, 200. The civil ex-
nenditure OF the country during the same
time is estimated by Mr.. Bright at a little
over 81, 100, 10000. These figures, assn.
ming their correctness, must intensity the
national abhorrence oil war ana strehgsneI ~
the desire for settlement OF the troubles OF
nations by arbitration. There passes be-
fore nv eyes" said Mr.. Bright, in a very
eIoouen passage of his address, "a vision
of millions of families-not individuals, but
famiIies-fathers and mothers, children
passing, CHASTITY, sorrow-stricken, In never
ending procession, from their cradle
ncIsrs that we have trodden for W centur.
les past in the footsteps Of the Caesars and
have accepted the barburous policy OF
! nsgsn Rome, while at the same time with
a vast and unconscious hypocrisy, we have
built thousands of temples and have dedi-
Gated them to the Prince OF Peace. And i
say, and say it with grief and shame, that
they who have ministered at his AFFAIRS
have for the most part on these matters
| heen absolutely dumb" These are grand
sentences, embodying a great truth as per-
iipent to American as European govern
ments.
The story goes here that Jay Gould is
| sadly in need Of a railway crossing Texas
from north 10 south. 1t is known as the
Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe. Its stock and
bonds are held in Galveston, and Gould can
neither bull nor ''bear" it. In fact 1t makes
him sick, and he can't bear 1t at all, and
must pay the honest cost OF the road II ne
becomes its owner. IL is hard on Gould.
Meanwhile be has been bea7ng ana buying
bonds and stocks OF East tennessee roaos;
Owning them, he can destroy the value oil
the road from Memphis to Chattanooga,
and owning this, as be does the road from
| Memphis 10 Little Rock and thence 70 81;
| Louis. and then, on the other hand 70 Texas'
he becomes the supreme master OIL another
outlet for his southwestern railway tys-
TENS. Isn't II barely possible that Gould
built his Yacht for sale and not for sail, and
has he not sold Wall street, His consoli'
datiops and ACQUISITIONS are more numer'
Gus than ever, and he can't well leave the
! country while holding the lettering and
vast heap of Western Union Telegraph
stock which must soon collapse beneath
the forces Of rapidly improved systems OF
telegraphy. Gould and bis pals ca nope
for a time, that by eKtortiOn upon the PEG
ME he would force congress 10 buy his
| telegraph stock, water and al, and let him
ont but the inventors and the Baltimore 4
ohio railway company, and the New 1ork
Herald came 70 the rescue OF the people Dy
constructing independent lines and cables
and the great Western UniOn stock bubble
is tsteIly uricked. The fac that Gould II
fnsd e alone delays its inevitable collapse.