The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-14
TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS

POPULAR.
The little pop mas been remarkably ac-
i've during the past week and many have
been the shooting scrapes over the state.
Jefferson Wldeawake.
ENCOURAGING.
Possibly the legislature may succeed in
passing "A law requiring everybody TO be
'acclnated. That will certainly be cheer
ng.- Sulphur Springs Gazette.
a JOURNALISTIC EpEN.
Eternity is q day without yesterd ay or
)r tomorrow. What an Eden for news.
paper man. The delinquent subscribe
lau not then promise to pay one day after
i ate Gainesville Register.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
a billiard table manufactured at Clarks-
Vile, Texas, Is said to equal, in all respects,
nose manufactured AZ the north, and
finished i'll the highest style by iniaid
woods, and will cost from $50 to S65 less
than those brought from the morrill, Bas-
Irop Advertiser.
WILL PAY.
All things considered, there is certainly
good and salient reasons why constitu-
ylonal convention should be called, and u
new constitution framed and submitted to
the people. IL may cost little more, but
The advantages will be apparent as well
worth the outlay, and the people will APP
prove the BILL Marshall Herald
INEXCUsABLE.
Why should there be delay by the senate
IN acting on the bill granting pittance to
the re xas veterans? Why not suspend the
rules and pass the bill at once, and let
these old men, who have been patiently
waiting, have what the state proposes TO
give them. 1t will cost no more to give
them something at once than TO make
them wait indetinitely.-[A Austin States
man.
WILL DO LITTLE GOOD.
A bill has been introduced and reported
fav0rably providing for the location of
veteran and Confederate cripple certih-
Gates. If the bill becomes law it will do
the cripples no good, for not one in twenty
OF them have their certificates, having dis
posed of them aJ from $40 to 500 each,
there being no provision made when the
law granting the certificates was passed for
lands to locate on, and the grantees fearing
there never would be, disposed OF their
certilioatesat almost any price.-[ Limestone
New IRA.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Our legislature should recognize promptly
the fact that all assessing, collecting and
disbursng officers should nave fair COM
pensatlon. IL is quite unsafe, financially,
TO operate on any other basis. 1t is also
wrong TO exact service from magistrates,
sherl.fs and OOnstables for which they get
no pay. If too large fees are allowed ior
any services reduce them, but pay Tor every
act, Tor there is no just presumption that
men will exert themselves to perform du-
ties for which they are not paid any com
pensation whatever Clarksyille Stand
ard.
A CHILD or WISDOM.
We know staunch farmer of Cherokee
whose plans ana thrift have demon.
strated beyond cavil, that the true policy
for the farmer is to 20 abroad only for that
which cannot be produced at home He
has resided on his pre- ,ent premises for the
last quarter OF century, and has uniformly
produced everything requisite for his table,
except sugar anu coffee, and of recent years
manufactures the former article for home
use. He has never, during that period,
purchased barrel of flour or peck of corn
or meal, or pound OF meat. and yet has had
a superabundanCe of each, and usually has
considerable surplus, which he CELLS to his
cotton.planting neighbors.- Demo-
crat AID Reporter.
SOLID TRUTH.
Whatwe need to supplement the splendid
work OF our farmers is manufactures. We
need factories that will supply the articles
We are now sending money out OF the south
TO buy. We are moving rapidly in that d.
rection. New factories are being built and
new articles made at home. Even now we
note that the watch at which we have
glanced to catch the time, and the humble
but useful broom that u rat has just tum.
lad Il hob ind nttr ntitn an 4 A
sashes that the wind is rafting in our win
dows, formerly all imp orted, were all made
in the south. But until great many more
factories are built within our borders we
will be wanting to know where the money
goes as the totals of each year are footed
up Vernon Guard.
CuENowETH's BILL.
II is universally admitted that the consti'
tuition does not give the legislature authority
to delegate to a commission the power to
fix the freight aud passenger rates to be-
charged bv the railroads. To obviate this
difficulty, Mr. Cheuoweth's bill fixes maxi
mum rates TO be charged on every class Of
freight Austin dispatches indicate the
the defeat of the bill, and it is possible that
q constitutional amendment providing fol
the creation of Il commission will be sub
mitted TO the people. This should bedone
| UuI lHt NntUOWOlu ulll suOlilu UttOlllc y
| law now, rs ii will certainly be Il great i'm
provement on the laws nowin force. II Thu
bill is imperfect, those who oppose ii on tina
around should endeavor to amend and i'm
prove it, instead of making that an excus,
Tor opposing it.-[Greenville Herald.
UNNECESSARY.
Some of our exchanges are advising oul
| legislative solons to call q constitu
tioual convention, adjourn and COM
home. We do not believe that IL i
necessary to entail upon the stat
the expense of constitutional convention
1t ~ rather too expensive luxury to b.
repeated every few years. That the presen
organic law rs detective in some respects
will admit of no cavil; but those defects ca
easily be remedied by proper amendment
We have never yet seen perfect constttu
ton, and never expect to. IL convention
was convened for the purpose and q neN
constitution made II would doubtless hay
some defects. We believe II to be the dut
of the leg stature to remaini session q
long as II has important business TO atten
to.-TDenton Chronicle.
STOCK LOSSES.
With those to whom this city Is n tradin
point, the losses, except IN a few instances
are immuterial. Cattle for the past thirt
DAVIS have shrunken considerably, but "
arc vet to learn of any losses, Horses, toe
have wintered well. The warm rains OF tn
early part of the Neek will bring forwar
grass and weeds, unless checked by uneA
pected cold weather. A few weeks and on
stock will be on the upgrade. Our be,
will not he marketed as early as last veal
but II delayed will only be the bettei
Sheep that were properly cared for durin
the summer and fall months have wiutere
without loss. A few flockmasters, who ha
unacclimated tlocks or who permitted th
rayages of scab, are hunting markets Tor the
pelts and pulled wool, Sheep have Wind
Gated The fact that, when well cared io
that when the range care is even modera'
md the scab Is kept In check, they, TO,
like the cattle, will Kick up their heels on
he merry when the spring time appear
Our muttons, as rule, have wintered vel
, and shipments In this. line will perbat
be earlier than that Of cattle.-lColorat