The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-17
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II. Independence.
tusUnft-iosAi 1nAshs.
Or Is doubtful II any congress iHs' ras
lv.ubIsi Within co., 80 my 't. 1.
. .tcluurry hes witnessed the Introduction
of af many wild schemes aud measures ps
have found tLe.f way even s1 ar into iha
pre- ont session ~ ,hr iDty-e.shih congress,
Acuug upou the leo. ,Isl There .salusp.us
of moneys In the ir-lsg'T, bl.. after a.4ha.
bHyu Introduced too the establishment 20
tais aud thag, GA appropriation iuf on
thi.F aud another gHI tEa Inauguration o
a multitude OF cranky policies, until u
bef'us 90 look as Il the people had fo1. 30
Washington r. lot0i men who oSnotAin'
iu the 0.il Of the proper province OF lssis
Agsu ~ the true functions o. government
Fret came the Bg.t'sh'A.,grs with lot
OF resolutions calculated 10 anger and insult
Great Britain nation Nith whom We ale
Oh the best Of Iegu-. the resolutions degen'
Grating finally into one lEqu ring Il our
ministers abroad continued 10 'dIc's as
American Then senator wanted 10
pension al the ey,pT.s1u,Fs Of war Gli VS'
soldiers aud sailors OF the union army, q
scheme that would take from $500 OOjOJ
to $500, OJ0, O0Jaanually % the public money,
Then bill was introduced 10 appropriate
some $95,0JUCOJ 20 the education o! tns
youth oi the country Another senator
waatei the nation TO prohibit the sale or
manufacture OF alcoholic liquors, while
others brought forward Il dozen other equally
Wild. impraclic,b.e and unconstitutional
measures and schemes,
IN the house IL has been Glmcs. imposSl'
be to keep pace with tss imposing multi
tu9e OF mr-lotchCd and impraci!eable
schemes and proposed appropriations,
nearly every day recording tho introduce
ton OF from Que TO three hundred literally
cranky, uuclllel.ior and unconstitutional
measures ofone kind aud another. In yes
terdsy's report We noticed two more, each
OF which proposed to lake $1,000 900 for the
furihtrsnce ofthe scheme. One was to es'
,ablish national medical college, the
other 10 cpro or stamp out pleuFo-pneumo'
mia in cattle. We might rs well ts!ao'
lish a national business college, or
national gymnasium, or appropriate
81 100000 20 he distributed among the
states TO stamp .out scarlet fever among
children, or do anything else that private
moons alone properly attend TO. without
attempting 10 remember o. .psrticularize,
we make bold 10 say that no intelligent
man, acquainted wi.h fhe true functions
and DO icy OF the government can read the
proceedings of any one day OF congress for
the pas, two weeks without laughing
while 'astcuUded at the great number o!
properly denominated cranky bills and res
olut lons introduced by members.
What is the country coming to with such
representatives in the national halls OF leg
islation Z Will the people continue TO send
to Washington men who are eitherigaordnt
of CT ignore the practical limitation of the
mower, and PURPOSES OF the
federal constitution and government, and
allow their demagoguery or their imaGt "a
tons to shape their conduct as national
| legislators If so, we shall be forced to see
government annually become more and
more a very indulgent parent or the fnan-
c,al becker of ten thousand virtually pri
yate and useless establishments OF one
kind and another.
But government is neither APPARENT nor
business concern nor legitimate physi-
clan, nor veterinary surgeon, buta political
establishment, pure and simple, organized
for national defense to coin money, regu-
late commerce and preserve justice and
harmony among the states. The people
will have to begin to raise the standard
Of intelligence and multiply the qua!itica'
tions of their national representatives or
they will suffer grievously in the future. II
some of these men who are trying so hard
to get rid of the treasury surplus would pro-
pose o national school for the study OF SCI
ence of government and the principles o
political economy, diploma from
which should be one of the necessary quail
fcations of member of congress it woulc
be better and lar less Objectionable scheme
than half OF those now before the Forty
eighth congress.