The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-07
GENERAL PRESS.
NOT ONLY THE RAscALs.

places requiring the skill and expert
ence they possess their political views
should have no weight in determining
their removal. 1t is not the r8scals
only who must go, but the Bourbons
also, the old moss-b2cks whose sole |
stock in trade is belief in the dogma |
that "to the viotors belong the spoils" |
and sheer for the reform which pro- |
poses to divorce the civil service from |
partisan politics. Rochester Herald. |
A BIG SUBSCRIPTION.
The popular subscription to the |
pedestal fund undertaken by the |
World has been remarkably successful. |
The sum of $79,3l5 has been collected |
and reported by our contemporary yes. |
t6rday, and we have no doubt that the !
full amount OF 100000, which it set out
to raise in this manner, will soon DO
reached, 1t is very credltable work.
Indeed, it is not easy TO SEQ what
would have been done to M. Bar
tholdi's colossal statue If the World
had not labored with such zeal and
persistence to provide standing
place for it. The Times congratulates
the World upon its success, and has
sent check for $3.50 as its contribution
to the World fund.-[N. Y. Times,
THE MANUFACTURER
The tender solicitude of the Amer j.
can manufacturer for the American
wage-worker is the theme Of great
deal o. imprisoned discourse-in pro-
tectionist journals. IL has received
some beautiful illustrations Of late.
One was the importation at New York
Of whole fam lilies of flaX-workors I'M
der labor contracts fixing their wages
at about two-thirGs the going rate III
this country and compelling them TO
pay therefrom the expenses Of their
transportation, all in violation OF the
labor importation act Another Illus
tration was The importation of $50
French Canadians TO work III the
mills at Hamilton, Massachusetts,
where hundreds of natives are out OF
emplo yment, If the American work
ingman live long enough, he will
learn that the protected employer
buys his labor in the cheapest market
and keeps his wages sccout and phi
lanthropy in separate boxes.-[CSur-
ier Journal.
MEXICAN FINANCES.
There is certainly no occasion to OK
press sympathy with tho brilliant
American Enanciers who devised the
Mexican railroad schemes which have
proved 80 unfortunate to many per
sons. The investments of the former
probably cost them but little actual
cash. They have always been in pc
sitlon to extricate themselves from
their holdings on the first
adverse turn of the tide.
The Boston market where most of
these Mexican railroad securities are
bought and sold, has been the scene
of great activity from a date long
previous to the first report or sus-
picion OF the action of the Mexican
government. fhe willy manlpulators
Of the roads In question have boubt-
less managed to stand clear Of tho
MISUNDERSTANDING the unsophisti-
Gated public to bear the brunt OF the
shock. Herein Is a warning not only
against speculation but against sub
sidies. An enormously rich
country like the United States,
England, or France survives the
folly Of subsidies, because
that folly is not pushed TO tho extent
of bankruptcy. But a poorer land like
Mexico cannot endure such costly
fallecies. When combined with
severe industrial depression, which
lowers all the taxable resources of the
nation, they greatly contribute to the
precipitation OF q financial crisis such
as now alfiicts Mexico. In the end it
would have been far better for our sis
ter republic TO await the gradual and
natural development of her railroad
system than 10 force il into premature
maturity by lavish donations of land
and money-the latter being sub
tracted from the available funds
needed to carry on the government
IN. Y. Journal Of Commerce.
PIANOS.
That the piano has, on the whole,
been beneficial to mankind Is mat
NnWs NrNNt lob = 80 Q -
II may DO true that music
hath charms which soothe the
savage breast, but it is also truo that
man must possess the breast OF saw
age II no can be soothed by some piano
music to which we have I'M
willingly listened. II there is
in this "vale OF wOen more
terrible experience than being Tor an
eternal hour within the four walls
whore vigorous school girl is trying
to express poetic sentiment by the trip
hammer action of her finger tips, we
have not as yet passed through IL. A
com blnation Of jumping toothache and
those diabolical twingos In which the
govt deals 80 lavishly can be
borne, OF course 10 is not
a desirable contamination, and a
well regulated man seldom longs for
IL; but when the govt and its accom-
pRntment OF toOthache are put side by
side with beginners resolve to sound
every note on tho piano AT the same in
atant, We should not hesitate q mo-
ment to choose the govt, ct cetera.
Clergymen grow eloquent when they
describe the music OF the other world;
but II there are TO be pianos there, and
II certain persons whom we know are
to preside over them throughout eter-
nifty, we-well, we shall not be very
particular about our morals and take
our chances.-lN New York Herald.
CALIFoRNIA's CROPS.
The California wheat crop of this
year is estimated at only three-sev-
onths that OF last year. This falling
oil Will BIO serious loss TO the farmers
OF that State, particularly the large
ranch propriotors, and II IL probable 1t
will have tho effect of breaking up
some OF tho baronial land.holders and
causing their vast ranches TO be d.
vided among many small farmers. 1t
will also discourage embarrassing and
divert more effort TO fruit culture,
The two staple crops Of California are
wheat and fruit-and the State Is un-
fortunately situated for both. Its
wheat must be shipped In sailing yes.
sells round Cape Horn 10 Liverpool, a
distance OF 5000 miles, at q
cost for carriage which leaves
the farmer very low price for his
labor. IL is the same with fruit. There
is a good demand in the States for
California fruits, and large quantities
are shipped nearly every month In the
year. But the distance from the fruit
region OF Southern California to New
York is $500 miles, and the charges on
car OF fruit arc $500, or five times as
much as the fruit is worth in the vine
yards and orchards. IL takes FIVE
pounds of California grapes to pay tho
cost of getting one 10 marketr-and, be
sides, the railroad charges make the
price higher in the Eastern markets
and thereby limit the consumption.
Neither fruitgrowing nor wheat-rals-
ing is very profitable in the State, al
though the climate and soil are ad-
mirably adapted 70 both. IL California
had good markets noar at hand its
farmers would be the most prosperous