The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-03
GIVE LEGAL NOTICES GREATER
PUBLICITY.

The fall campaign in this State for the
Legislature is an opportune time for the
of the question of the publica-
ton on u more extensive scale Of legal
notices Of one kind and another. All
Administrators, Trustees, Sheriils' and
other sales, and notices Of every kind Of
pecuniary interest to the citizen, should
be published for a reasonable time in the
County papers. The Texas statutes are
very defective in this particular and the
Legislature four years ago refused to en-
act the necessary laws because the vir-
tuous weather cocks imagined they
might be confronted by some narrow
minded supporter who wodld swear they
had been run by the newspapers.
This is the merest stuff. The news
papers will be assisted to limited ex-
tont by such law but it would be a
very poor law that did not especially
suit somebody it suited all. The laws
designed for the general good but yet
especially suited to cattlemen or mer-
chants or other interests are set down as
popular laws, and it can hardly be that
sentiment in this State is such that it
would refuse or condemn the enactment
ofan important and much needed statute
simply because the newspapers would
operate as medium in its enforcement.
But the papers are only incidentally
Interested in disqualification ofthoso legal
notices and sales. 1t is tho great mass
of the people who are vitality Interested
Those laws that were tackled upon tho
topmost noches Of the tallest
pillars and columns in Rome
were no more eilectually hidden from
the interested public than these notices
of sales and other important documents
that are posted in this State upol the
courthouse doors. Many poor man il
deprived of substantial interests by thu
want of notice. Many piece of prop
erty sacrificed, or an estate rlddled
while the only class now benefited b,
these posted, and often illogible, notices
is that class of spectators and Liant
grabbers who have nothing else to d.
but haunt the courthouse and watcl
the bulletins for bargains.
1t would be unjust to the most thinl
populated county TO continue this styl
of publication of legal notices, while
is non-progressive, wholly imadcquat
and positively unjust to fasten it upo
the people of the large and growing citi,
of this State, whore the rapid change
in business and population render it in
possible for tenth of the citizens to tah
, note of any merely posted notices.
, The law, or rather absence of law,
, this State in this matter is n disgrace
: the State, and Legislators ought to ha,
, had the foresight and the interest of Il
: public sufficiently at heart, long sine
, to have enacted comprehensive statu
, in the promises without waiting for i
;, agitation through the press. We tru
o., the various candidates will he callC
=, upon to speak out ON this subject to Il
- end that the State will cease to ri
away peoples property to speculate
and land robbers, who hang around 4
- courthouse doors, hunting such notice
- while other men are Mt their daily I,
,s and get no opportunity to see them. Y
Ia law, rs II now stands, is directly in /
"a interest Of spectators and against t
great body of citizens.