The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-16
STATE PRESS.


HUMAN LIFE.
When we looe at mans life sBd
sum 1t all up, IL seems to amount 90
put little. A great man dies, the world
IN Its rush meves right on az though
nothlng had gone wrong kaufman
Sun.
LOCAL OPTION LAW.
When the present local option law,
with its acknowledged defects, can be
made so etiicscious, we may readily
calculate the great advantages of an
efficient law of that kind. Such law
the next Legislature should give tho
people of the State.-[WilliRmson
County Sun.
NOT A PARTY QUESTION.
Prohibition is politics., of course, but
1t is not party politics and should not
be made 80. That is, it should not
and Will not be made an issue be-
tween the two parties now contend
ing. III there Is 10 be ut any time an
election on prohibition, 1t should be at
q separate election and disconnected
from other issues Houston Age.
PROHIBITION,
There IL q great principle at stake in
this prohibition matter. We aoknOwl-
edge that drunkenness is great evil,
but there are other evils Just as bad
and some tar worse, 1t is Infinitely
moro dangerous to give the govern
ment so much power oyer the citizen
that 1t may prescribe his dict, his drink
and his apparel. 1t is time to call
halt III these matters. We are going
too far and too fast in this thing
Waco Examiner.
BEATS JRRICHo'S RAMS HORN.
The editor OF the Henderson Times
saws: "rhe press is the power before,
behind and all around the throne; and
like the horns that blew around the
walls of Jericho until they crumbled
TO ruins, il has power to overthrow
every Institution antagonislic to the
best interests OF society" No ono
newspaper and 70 combination OF
newspapers can direct the current of
public sentiment. But i'll the aggre-
gate the pross stands az the voice of
tho people, and when 1t speakS in their
behalf the rams horn at Jericho sinks
into silerce.-L Waco Day.
THE suRIEKS OF JEALOSY AND ENVY.
Men who take no notice Of ISLANDERS
directed against them act wisely. If
once they can possess their souls in
patience and sit down in quietness
and self.coltrOl when they are misun-
derstood or misrepresented, they may
rest assured that they will gain q
much more certain and easy victory
than if they insisted upon doing battle
with all whom they regard as their
enemies. "rLe truth is great and will
prevail" says an old Latin proverb.
One may 90 iurther, anu say that after
all the truth hardly needs to be helped
by us. II will make its own weight;
1t will prevail by reason of its own
strength. Lot the storm blow past, do
not busy yourself in fruitless attempts
to hurl back tho remorseless blast.
Leave IL alone, it win shrek around
you hsrshly, and by and by tho hurrl-
cane will have blown Itself out, and
you will be exactly where you was be-
fore it began TO rise, that is, provided
you have the wisdom TO let 1t alone.
Montague Northwest.
THE MONEY SHARKS MUST STEP DOWN
AND OUT.
Cheap money for Texas, is new
move inaugurated by THE DALLAS
HERALD. 1t is a grand schemn and
will prove of iDcalculabl0 benefit to
The industries or the State. The bold
and determined spirit in which TH Il
HERALD presents it, arguments has
naturally incurred tho displeasurs OF
bankers and other local capitalists,
but the logic OF THE HERALD ON the
subject Is JAS clear as crystal aud rs
solid ~ stOnewall, and all the bank
ers in the work can't roiute It. With
the samo collateral employed al
nome, millions of u3ney can be oh
tained in New York AZ / and 2 pog
cent, whilo local capitalists have been
bleeding tho people and Gripping the
industries Of The State at enormous
rates ranging an tho way from II 10 q
per cent. heretofore cheap money has
been diverted nom Texas interests
and investments Ivy this same class oil
capitalists, but business men are be-
ginning 10 realize the disadvantages
under which they haYe been laboring
and when lh0 situation ~ fully com
pretended, the money sharks whC
hsvO SO uuscrupulousiy manipulated
b, me capital viii have to step dow
iIut unJ or compete with foreign re
sources Il NavasOta Tablet.
OUR CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR,
II ho IL not au Invalid, we do no
care a whit how OH he IL. Nor do ",
care a jOt more how young he Is, n h,
has proven ability. But the Governor
of Texas ought 10 POSSESS certain quail
ifioations, and the first one is that ht
should bo done with tho past except az
an aid to guide him in dealing with thu
future. To select 3 man Us governor
who did something many years age
and never did anything since, Ia 10 dc
in politics what the monks OF Mount
AthOs do d call 10 religiou-bent
double and stare at ones naval fol
twelve hours day. Some people thinl
that the harder and more asSiduoualJ
apolitiuian stRres at that humble relit
we refer to, the greater man he Is. w,
differ with tuom. We want mar
who faces To tho east, who has car,
for the greaJ problems in our Stat,
affairs, who would carry into tho eX'
ocutive office determination that bus
mess methods shall prevail there, whit
would make his appointments accord
ing to the highest standard and whit
who would ind time, In addition {,
the ordinary cares Of Office, 60 wgtCl
the corporations and the representa-
tives of the people rs well. Given
man OF this kind aud no matter whor
he halls from, he Is our candidate
- CleburDe Chronicle.
WAITING FOR ITS ACTION.
Tho Galveston News, OF YESTERDAY
alludes, editorislly, TO the resolution
Of tue land board, and says 1t was al
unnecessary. Says IL did not charge
che land. BOARD with corruption. Tho gis
OF tho whole matter Ia the News vir
tually contessCs IL had no grounds fol
the tdark aud mysterious insinu
atoms, which 1t certainly die
make. The Statesman is no cham
pion of the land board. Bus
must be apparent TO all that tho New
now assumes the position, before tn
people OF Texas, OF either havinJ
backed down, or Of absolutely deny
Ing what IL did say. Either way Oh,
position Ia fearmlly weak and unenvi
able. The charge was made that tn
university and school funds were an
nually robbed of million dollars
BuG when the News Is asked to make
plain stRtement,it say 5 IL did not meal
there had been any oorruptionl Tn
Statesman believes tlat an immens
sum of money is loat 10 the schoe
fund annually, but has been generou
enough to attribute II TO the bad polite.
OF the land board, rather than TO an,
corruption on tho part Of its mem
bers. i there Is anything to sustall