The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-20


dioripl, VIA Capitalists nom ether psll
,i his country nfd .fom abroad Who nlf
large Investments 40 reEa'
aud snd cattle ana other enterprises will
DO Interested Ia one days news nom tast
otherwise inyililg region The slsush
.er OF AHnREw JoHssos in quar-
fol abou. his vito, with $40 charg
of gunahot, by W. PREgiEs, 90 Csdar
Bayou, might be overlooked, because auch
things sometimes occur IN more civilized
aommunltIaa-only, as rule in th.s lau
Indo, &c 10 the original vsongdosg who 10
shot Instead % doing the nhooiing. The
rohtng OF iwo s,ages a one lime on the
way from WhliCsbofO 70 Gainesville, by
ony three road ageuts, speaks yell for the
sol On Of stage robbing and tho discipline
and cop ,oity o.. stage robbers In Texas.
Tho 60 euro OF the Office and com.
posing ROMA ol Tho principal newspaper
n no capital Of Tcxis by sub.
ecribor Suo wss offended e, itl a!Tictaroi
bse.us, 10 previously, with similar
brand..aing Of pistols, bad taken poser
sion Of nnd cleaned out" banquet
of tho cattlomen's convention, Indicates the
higa degree % development 70 which the
sense Of personal rights has attained Ia
Texas. Yet. pCrhag1, the attention of the
clasEss referred 10 VIII .bs chiefly Cimei
by tho threat to poison I'll the waters Ia
Texas II the lrglsl turs shall do rnyihiug
to maintain Tho integrity OK tho fences
which owners choose 10 erect on thSir
lands. This threat, anonymously made TO
a member Of the lsgisltiye session espscl-
al y convened I, contider the fence ques.
ion, taken In connection with the mysie'
rlous dealh Of large numbers OF cattle Ia
certain parts Of tle ,tite, is certainly cal
culated to make prudent men wait for the
civil z4ti)n OF Texas to crystal ~ a
little before sending any moro money /,
that direction"
II will be remembered that Texas has a
population OF over 100000 souls, and that
1t is more than six times the size Of New
York itself. And yet we daily note in tao
n newspapers a much smaller and less
populous states, not merely oocasi0nsl, but
frequent occurrences, just such as that com.
planned OF in the case Of PERKINS,
who shot q man In quarrel about
his wife. The robbing OF the
mails fuds it5 duplicate continuously
in 20 many Of the Her states; only when
tho thieves plunder there they must iro'
quently 10 Ia by the wholesale, and in a
systematic, woli-pianHed man
ner. And those robberies, besides arc
lons by parties who have moved IN broad
cloth. and dupcd by the long-worn CLOAK
Of seeming integrity t. the community
Ia ic tfuscd them. In the ca9o O! BsN
TuoMP ON ia Austin alluded 10 we have Nd
apologies to make. Let Austin do that IL
J4e can. As for ths poisoning
Ill tho waters IN Texas, we are surprised
% tho Telegram even abiding 10 the iois
threat made 10 au anonymous oommunica-
lion 10 u member OF the legislature. 1t was
20 weak and silly thing 10 do, Ike &ERxEs
ashlng the wavee, or the angry Lilputisn
shooting at the sun, that we question u one
tenth OF the people of This state ever heard
OF the circumstance, while thooe who did
never thought OF IL moment after 1t was
referred to by the member in thu lower
house. Besides, the telegram does not
state the case correctly. The threat was
rot held out ''in the event the
should do anything to main
ain the integrity Of the fences which own
,rs should erect on their own lands" bul
in the event the legislature should not do
,rylhing to prevent parties from fencing in
ards not their owo." The evil complained
If was perhaps growing 10 be about as seri
BUS as the threat was ridiculous. Yet that
egs ature did remove the evil. Or, even
nad it been a. sta ed by the Telegram, still.
despite the threat, the members acted in
ts teeth and the waters OF
Texas ran to-day es pure and undefled
"a when tho buffllo rosmed tho ranges
undlsturbed by the polluting presence o.
these curious chgracierB known as tramps
who left their country for their conntry's
good, and settled. Ia section where the
,heriiI's writ from their former homes could
not find them.
The evil that these publications do w
,aea sen. cut 10 tho world ~ rockless
Or sefshly interested and instructed
from other states Of
on in their immigration interests.
s pointedly portrayed in ltt-
er published in this issue written
10 an esteemed citizen of Dallas by friend.
II Texas, Mr.. THOMAS ]. HUXLEY, from
It is about time these shameless
reports against the fair fame Of this law
ibid ng state should cease, whether they
,msnate from sensational reporters living
among Us or transient correspondents. A
person who Is redeeming an unfortunate
, ist by CONGREGATIONS reformation Is watch.
ID with kesner eye by o critical commu
nitythan one who happens not to have
been cursed with Gu ugly reputation.
'All their faults are noted, conned by rats
and set in nots book to fling into Their
Isetb." Just 80 with states. Texas to-day
IS freer from crime than the large majority
u her sisters, and yet if q single case OF
wrong occur. it is, presto, "eped through
he world lilss guilty thing upon guilty
while in another state tho mat
Ter goes unuoticed by. LIST US hope for bat
ier treatment at the hands OF justice
SOMETIME this month at Washington ore
hundred young ladies, wearing somethii g
ike dress coats, and made Of silk, satin, vsi.'