The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-21
ALiTTLE SPASM OF VIRTUE.

At the meeting Of the Commissioners
OF the state to the New Orleans EXpOsi-
ton, the other day at Austin, it was re-
solved to request the railroads to carry
the Honorary Commissioners free to the
Exposition. 1t was not that it was de
sired to "dead beat" the railroads, but
in order to make the appropriation for
our exhibit go as far Il possible, while
not putting anybody else, not even the
roads, to any extra expense. Our virtu-
Gus contemporary by the sea has seen
naught but matter for severe criti-
cism in this resolution. 1t unfOrtu-
nately had one of its captious
and misanthropic fits on il
about the time tho Commissioners met
and it turned its battery upon the pov-
erty-stricken Commissioners, the little
Ways and Means committee with 500
600 for the complete representation of
Texas before the world in way that
doubtless mado the great earth throb
and roll under the Commissioners feet.
Naughty, naughty News! What have
these Commissioners done to it that ii
should slap them in the face with a
direct insult? Does it charge that they
would be guilty of running an army of
honorary Commissioners over to New
Orleans simply that they might beat the
railroads out of free ride? Does it
think that honorable men in or out of
otli"e would be guilty of so low and dis
honest an act, so contemplate fraud :?
we trust that tho people will read that
editorial of the News, the friends of the
Exposition and the acquaintance and
helpers and well-wishers of the honora-
BILE men and women who are trying to
place Texas upon footing with the
greatest States and first countries repre-
scented mt New Orleans. 1t will have the
effect of deepening and broadening that
tender and atlectionate regard for the
virtuous and unsellish News which is
found throughout the State, that same
tender feeling which the other beasts of
the field had for the animal that pulled
the lions skin over himself and roared
so Justify The captious, briny criticism
of the News carries with il about the
same terrors.
But why the railways shDUl ,rc. be more
than willing to accedc 10 ,Ais request of
the Commissioners We cannot see. No
State has ever been so generous towards
railways. From none, not even the
general government, have they received
more valuable grants and conces sions.
No enterprise will he, on the other
hand, so benefited by the great rush to
the Exposition. The request Is in futh-
eranco of state interests, not those OF
any corporation or individual, and ii
seems to us but fitting and proper that
these great corporations, as vitality
interested in the States welfare as any
body Of citizens are, should he requested
to carry our Commissioners to and from
the Exposition, both regular and honor
AIRY. IL isn't often that the State MS such
asks favor of them, Notwithstanding
the munlicencc Of its former gifts, and
tais one in question can be complied
With without the expenditure on their
part OF a single dollar extra. They have
already offered literally, aud we doubt
not win respond with alacrity and cheer
fulness to the proposed request of the
Commissioners.
The appropriation by the last I.cgis-
laturo for this Exposition was miserably
small-it was niggardly in fact, but such
as it is the State must do with, and the
Commissioners only show their patriot
ism and efficiency in attempting to sup
ply the want of an adequate approprla-
ton by bringing individuals, towns and
corporations TO the rescue.