The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-21
GENERAL PRES.

grade, and lhe safely Of the community
requires that our trains DO run slowly
over highway crossings and through
cities and villageB,w English road
beds are almost invariably above or
below grade and have absolutely
nothing to impede tho progress OF
their trains. This Is the whole secret
of tho English fast express trains, and
il IL very simple. Once in motion there
is nothing to check them from one end
of the route to the other, except the
stops for passengers at stations Rail-
way Register.
II the Virginia Republicans are as
red hot in tho State campaign as they
were in their State convention, the
Bourbons will have fiery time of II
during the summer and fall.-[Com-
merclal Gazette.
"If the Virginia Republicans are as
red-hot In the State campaign as they
were in the State convention" ia
fighting among themselves they will
have "fiery time'without any assist
ance in their "picnic" from the Bour-
bons. That disgraceful scene We'd
nesday in their convention WAS about
as nearly "a monkey and parrot OF q
time" as could be gotten up under any
auspices. There was enough Gre
publican SUCCESS at the next election
i indianapolis Sentinel.
LABoRER TO CAPITALIST.
30 when the capitalist says 10 the
laboring man; "You got 81 or SO &
day for work which yopr great, grea'
grandfather was very glad to do for 81
cents; therefore you ought to KEEP
your family well and put money ii
the bank on n weekly income which
no would have regarded as good psy
for a months steady werk"-when the
capitallsJ says this, the laborer should
reply: eyes, get four times or six
times what my ancestor received, bu
for clothes, food, house rent, amusa.
ments-eyerythinB In fact which
makes life worth llylny-I pay four on
six times what he did. In addition tC
this, he lived In tho simplest way, be
cause 1t was the custom in his day
Now, have beon moved on by Gus
the style of llfo which wa.
seemly and decent when he
lived Is out OF the question foI
me. My vlIo requires better clothes
my boys and girls have many wants
which were unknown when was
child; but some Of them must DO graft
lied. You cannot dress your wife and
girls In calico on Sunday whom youi
neigh6ors, who arc no better of. woai
silk; you canuos mako your family
contented u lie on mush and mill
when tho smell Of your next-dool
neighbor's roast boel is In their nos
trils. SO, when you add all these
things together, how much is left al
the end OF the week 10 be put away In
the bRnkP-L Frisco Chronicle.
is POPULAR GOVERNMENT 4 FAILURE,
We believe there is no question tina
the following report, published some
days ago by the Evening Star Of
washington, is true and accurate. AZ
any rate, IL has not been contradlcted,
as IL should have been If incorrect:
81 had a serious talk with Secretary
Bayard, said prominent Democratic
congressman. II warned him against
the policy this administration is pur-
IuinR with reference to appointments.
l told him that Democrats
had not maintained political warfare
for over 20 years Just TO koop their nc
iitical enemies in Office, and / warned
him that If the Administration did not
change its policy it would become in.
yolved in sea of complications. The
Secretary looked me in the face, and,
strengthening up, replied: The sea OF
complications will be welcomed in
such an Issue
"'But, Mr.. Secretary pursued, lst
mo toll you that the Democratic
masses, tho mon who do the voting
and give their time aud money TO 60
cure party success, will saw that If
republicans only are ilt for ollice, that
II a Democratic administration can't
ind Democrats to Gll tho places, thev
VIII quit work, and they'll doit, too
TO this Secretary BAyard replied
linen popular government is fail
ure. III party Is TO administer gov
eminent only 10 put It's followers in
ONCE, popular government ia a fail
To this LET us say, that iftho govern
ment Is 10 bG administered under tho
auspices Of the Democratic party, moi
by the elect OF tho people, according
tothe constitution, but by q Q iyil ser.
vice commission unknown ,to the
constitution, why, then popular GOV
eminent Ia indeed tremendous fall
ure, and tho Democratic party will
md IL very difficult, and perhaps i'm.
possible, TO escape tho destructive
consequences.-tNow York Sun.
TuR oPIyM EVIL.
The New York papers are beginning
10 comment on the increase Of opium
dens in that city, caused by tho influx
OF Chinese. II win not take long for
the coolle to spread his viceB In ali the
large Eastern cities especially as there
40 80 largo an element among the
young eagor TO acquire any habit
sround which an air Of mystery aud
oriental sensuousness 10 thrown. The
men VINO nave written OF tho delights
answer for. Upon highly culu-
waited man OF vivid Imagination like
De Quincy or Coleridge, opium acted
as a powerful stimulus to the creative
faculties, and, no doubt, led TO the
gorgeous day dreams which the ono
reproduced IN his incompatible prose
and the other in his poetical rhapso-
dies But upon tho ordinary mind
opium has small pleaaurablo effect.
what IT does Is to break down tho will
power, destroy ambition and
Kill all real manhood, bring
ing tho victim OF the vice
below the level OF tho brute. What
the authorities of Eastern cities will
do TO break up the practice of opium
smoking remains to bo seen. Ii can
be easily Kept in check by making it q
misdemeanor 10 sell opium 10 q white
person. punlsnaDlo by nno or imprls-
onment or both. This would remove
III the attraction Of tho traffic for the
Chinese, who would simply confine |
The sale TO their own country
men. This, with q strict |
ordinance against tho mainto- |
nance OF opium.HmokinE establish
ments, ought TO put a practical end TO |
The vice. That such thorough. going |
measures havo not been taken In this |
city Ii a disgrace to tho authorities, |
and, like the liberation OF the nui.
sancos OF Chinatown, tho worst com
on the lack Of sincerity in
much OF tho snti.Chinoas talk OF poll-
tiolans. Where the remedy for an evil
lies near at hand, hut Is not used, the
natural inference Is that some pecu.
mary consideration deters from Its
This is actually tho se-
cret Of the FARGO which Is so often OK
hiblted In dealing with the oifenses
against law and morals in Chinatown.
-lSan Francisco Chronicle.
The only cigarettes which do not
ailOlr IN tho lima ara nxnAwa Ipr,A.