The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-04
STATE PRESS.
TWIN rRrTHs.


roads are put in good condition and
the creeks and sloughs nicely bTidged
before tall, and if our merchants will
pull together anu yet q CASH cotton
buyer or Two at Cooper wouldn't We
loom when the cotton trade opens p?
Oh! you bet!- Delta Banner.
ANCIENT MATERIAL.
1t is related tnHt during the delibera.
tons OF the capitol board an odd lump
was submitted for inspection. Captain
Walsh, who is pronounced to be the
finest geologist on the board, after
chewing up 9 mouthful OF the speci-
men declared 1t 70 be cOnglomOrate Of
felspar, mica and hurBblende, but al
the suggestion Of Uncle Frank Lub-
book 1t was subjected 10 further test
and tOunG to DO a fragment Of an "an-
tlquated Pecan street. boarding house
biscuit" IL stood Inc pressure test, but
Tears were entertained Of its dlscOlOra.
ton and 1t low lies among tins re-
1ected stone lJetierso News.
OUR ROADS,
III the press really voices the sGnil
ments OF tho people tho next Legisl5
ture will bo called upon TO appeal the
existing road law and make one that
will give tho several counties good
roads. That tho existing road law il q
failure and farce, is aJtested by the
miserable condition OF the public
roads throughout the State. Until i'm
proved road building machinery 10 in
troduced aad the rOads, arc systcmati-
cally worked by men who know how
to make roads but little il any i'm
proyements in the general condition
OF the rugdg need beeXpeCted, but il is
possible TO put no substan.ia l bridges
that viii not wash away every ireehet
i Brenham Banner.
THE POLITICAL TIDE.
Waco with Ross, Dallas with Gibbs
and Crawford Tor governor, Clint
for attorney general and Elliott for
treasurer; swain, of Red River, Tor
governor, Traylor, Of Hood county
and Barry, Of Corsicana, for compirol-
Ter; McLeary,, OF san Antonio, and
Pope, Of Harrison, and GOoch, OF An
derson, tor lteut0nant-gOvernO Hogg,
of Tyler, Charles Cdlberson, of Ma.
ron, 9. k. Bell, OF Houston, for at
torney- general. Now with all these
meu "bDboiug up IN State politics."
will the Waco Examiner please tell us
why he should think that we would
"bob up in State politics." There Ger.
tainly docs not seem TO DO room for a
small cruising boat like ours on this
political tide Franklin Herald.
AND HENbE.
Patriotism Is q sentiment, Poliu-
clans dare not appeal to patriotism. ac.
cording to the Gazette. To put IL In
another way only men who are unfit
or office appeal TO the patriotic sentl-
ment Of the people. State pride is q
sentiment, but when Swain, Temple.
ton and Walsh, under great pressure,
yielded to the sentiment of State pride, |
they showed themselves to be unit for
office. This Is not our argument |
1t Is tho Gazette's. Who has |
been diverting the "sentl- |
ment of tho people to his own sinister
purposeW Show us the man. We
have not as much as heard of him.
Wo do know some men whose ideas
seem TO coincide remarkably with the
ideas of the people. The reasonable
conclusion is that such men and tho
people agree because they are both
right. Evon an tempt To- divert pop
ular sentiment in any selfish direction |
is so haz ndOus an undertaking that |
few politicians have the hardihood to |
attempt 10, and those who do 80 are |
soon buried beneath popular contempt. |
IL IN a reflection on the people which |
the Gazette casts. rather than upon |
anyone else. II that journal knows OF |
anyone who Is guilty of what IL |
charges 10 owes IL TO tho public, rs
duty, to spot him and tell his name.
lnnuondoos 90 Tor mighty little now
adays- sen Antonio Times.
our GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
Many O'h OF the Southern States,
besides Tex 8, feel the necessity of a
thorough geological survey of their
States. one # the results OF the lato
New Orleans Exposition was TO call
attention TO this matter. Louisiana
has made movement in this direc-
ton. The State Press association
adopted y resolution showing the ne
cessity of, and calling for geological
survey OF tuat State. During tho ses.
sion OF our last Legislature, an act was
passed directing such survey In this
State. II would be needless to emu
merate the advantages to DO derived
from IL. AT present, our mineral re
sources, or the wealth hidden In the
soil OF Texas, is entirely matter of
conjecture. Whatever discoveries have
been made, have been tho result OF &C.
cident. A geological survey would re-
duco our subierraneous discoveries to
some system. Sections of country
containing coal or iron, or tho pre-
cious metal, would be indicated with
eNactness aud the rich deposits of stone
pointed out with precision aud Ger
tainty. In this way capital would
seek Investment by calling attention
10 a remuneration Tor its Investment.
Several Of tho Southern States have
already completed such surveys with
marked profit and advantage Fl De.i-
son Herald-News.
"rELL THE TRUTu".
A garbled statement of tho items in
the assessment roll of this county for
1885 was published In the Galveston |
News, which, apparently, showed that
the property values of the county had
decreased something over q million
and quarter of dollars. This report
has been taken up by the press of the
State and used TO our disadyantag o.
Pick up almost any papor you will and
you find staring you In the face tho
statement that Galveston Is going
down, One paper Is charitable enou. h
TO hope that II will not become as en-
tirely depopulated az Jefferson has, but
that II Is losing not only in real values
but In commercial supremacy Is be-.
You'd question. Doour merchants ever
consider how such reports retailed and
magnihod throughout tho State anect
business2 How many merchants In
the Interior fBau THESE reports an
thor homo papers and bollove thomY
Believing them, what follows? It IA
not reasonable 20 suppose that thew
will not only ship their cotton to some
other market but that they will send
their orders Tor supplies TO another
market. Aud all this is the result Of
carolessuess on the part OF . paper that
has grown and iattcned on thoyitsls OF
Galveston. Yesterday, tho Eyeniuq
Tribune published tAe itoms In tho gs.
sossment rolls Tor 1885 as furnished the
collector blythe assessor aud by analy-
sls and comparison showed that thoro
was really n ghrinkage In tho real
values of Galveston county, Tho an
parent shrinD age OF something over
100000 ~ fully accounted for
by the explanation OF the
assessor that certain items
which had been carried ON tho rolls
from year 10 year-and aggregatiupI
that amouut, or more, had beon ex
nuuund ua IA Orlhlous, Now wa will go. |