The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-09-03

likewise stumbling DlOcF IN the WAY
Of cheaper NJ jney, and moro extern
slvo banking business in Texas. Weard
for good, subsi au.ial homestead law,
II is tho poor mans sheet'anchor, aud
stands bstwesn helpless women and
Children in tho dark hours OF advers
ity. Rut our law Is now a cloak for
tue grossost frauds upon creditors a
man may fail, owing hundreds of poor
people, and yet, under this bone
stead law, reserve ouoTgh property TO
live, oven Ia luxury. This Is all wrong.
Italso impsirs credit aud decreases
loans. Whom capital is asked TO come
hero and supply the demand TOR
money, hereply often Is that the Texas
homestead law renders uncertain
what is valuable and what is worthless
security. This law, wo think, ought
to be made clear aud simple, and OF
such nature to proven fraud and lux
ury on tho pan of the bankrupt, while
securing a good, substantial homo TO
all.
Another favorito policy Of THE HER
AID is the abolition OF the grand jury
syston, or at least of lis exparte and
inQuisitoria, features. IL is costly
and inefficient arm and cloak for per-
secution and malice. Then the great
questions OF the landed policy OF the
State and tho handling OF the peniten.
tiary problem havo met with no
eauiyocal discussion ~ our hands.
The lands should be leased until
every acre Is taken up by the
actual settler. So long rs the actual
settler is not there, those who
use the public domain should pay for
Il. Convict labor should bs made self
sustaining, without coming into COM
petition with free labor. 1t Is a knotiy
problem, and we know OF no better
way to accomplish the result, than by
utilizing the convicts in agricultural
labor upon State lands, for there are
\many objeovnas to turning the peni-
ten iaries inv factories or commercial
ventures. ~ sgriculturlsts, the con-
victs would well the volume of crops,
be self-sustaining in food, wearing APP
parel, ETC., and in no wise conflict with
honest labor.
TO this section we have ever been
earnestly devoted. We have pressed
with all our abilities the construction
of railroads, and to such extent that
lines now in operation were ridiculed
then by rival towns, as "THE HER
AIDS paper roads," And yet they are
now realized comfort and a conven-
fence to all the surrounding country.
With equal ardor we pleaded for q
county Jail, until at last it arose in
most creditabls shape. And the same
is true of our school interests. And to-
day, as in the past, we are insisting
with fine prospect of consummation,o on
the making of good county roads, for
the benefit of our planters and mer.
chants.
To Dallas, THE HERALD has given
its greatest attention and its best
efforts. The Dallas of TO- day Is not the
Dallas of two or three years ago. LIS
principal streets are paved, IL has
splendid opera house, an imposing
Merchants Exchange,its water service
has been improved, and many other
substantial metropolitan features been
added. And yet, when The HERALD
first advocated these improvements,
it was sneered and laughed at. Eut
day after day, and month after monIhi
we were persistent, until public senti'
ment was aroused and the improve
ments were made. The scope OF this
article il too limited to recount the
struggles through which THE her
AID has passed and the opposition II
has met, and the results it has accom-
plis1ed in seeking to place Dallas in
the front rank of Texas cities, and
upon a metropolitan plane. A strong
element of active, Intelligent business
men have ably seconded and assisted
In the efforts, until the Dallas OF to-
day has bsen reached. But the end
has not yet been reached. Dallas has
but started upon its career.
Nationally, THE DALLAS HERALr
has ever striven to represent fairly
and boldly the views OF this people,
and has commended for that JEFFERSON
IAN Democracy which is the political
meat and drink of this State. We have
fought for revision and wise read
justment of the tariff, which would bs
q reform, but not revolution, and
have foil owed the financial policy OF
the best Southern leaders. These great
questions, finance and the revenue,are
really the only important national
issues now. The labor question,
though national in its Importance in
one sense, is to be handled in Its legal
aspects by State Legislatures. The
powers OF corporations should Do
abridged and the poor man given
greater safeguards as to the tenure
and compensation of his service.
While THE HERALD will never ap
prove of mob violence or interference
with the legal rights of others,'ts sy M
pathy is with that great laboring els-
ment who have many burdens to bear,
nd many expressions to combat.
1t will be seen from this retrospect
that we have not been recklessly or
blindly filing those columns with
comment for the day or the occasion,
but working for rounded whole, to
which these various matters are
directly relevant, aud, indeed, OF
which each is necessary part, as are
the several spokes to the whole wheel.
That completed structure IL the u'u-
mate greatness and independence -
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