El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-12
For Country and City People to
Think About

DALLAS news.
However important may have been
deemed the late election contests in this
state, the News conside it now in
order to assure citizens of Texas that
there are matters of even greater i'm
portance demanding the attention and
effort OF the residents of both country
and town. There is no doub.
whatever0t that many of the
people have come to depend for sue
cess and prosperity in their private af-
fairs vastly too much on legislation,
and on the whirligig industry of poll
tics. Some of the grievances over
classes of citizens to complain are
imaginary. Not all. There are weak
places to be strengthened and much
in justice to be corrected, but the pol
iticsl condition of the country is by no
means as hopeless or as bad as many
have been led to belies 9
1t is all right for the farmer, the Ia
boring man and others to vote their
own ballots and do at the polls every
thing possible to improve the m .nage-
ment of public affairs, but let them
bear we'll in mind the fact that they
must work out their salvation in the
field, at the forge, in the factory, on
the wall, in the shop or elsewhere.
No kind of improvement in the laws
and government is DING to do away
with the high offices and
devotion to ones private business. It
may be added that cities can not be
improved and cleaned by legislation
or street-cOrner politics alone. A
purpose, q plan, and q deal of hard
work are necessary in the endless
task of cleaning and improving cities.
In many quarters farmers are very
much depressed over the low price of
cotton and the difficulty in saving it
and getting it to market. 1t is an ex-
cellent time for them to interest
themselves in the method OF raising
and marketing csntsloupes, adopted
in many coast counties, of establishing
central cane mills 1T which their
molasses can be made in the best aud
most scientific manner, in arranging
with railroad lines for shipping fruit
to customers located in ad-
ssd factories tn building Which .Sdf
vast produces may be saved
feeding to hogs, beeves or poultry
crops too bulky and abundant to justify
shipment to consumers at a distance.
Let US 0rid 9 ourselves of the
long cherished delusion of frequent
changes in legislation, wild efforts
to turn our political economy inside
out, theories aud fsncies over supply
and demand, and the highly cultivated
and passions by which
thousands of good men have been cal
led away from their work and led down
TO failure and danger. No set of elo-
quent politicians can bring to a people
the untold and unbouuded
prosp parity of which we have
30 often heard. Let some
Of the old delusions go. Let party
feeling, the smost pestilent of ali the
give place to higher quality
Of the heart. Let US get down to busf-
ness. There is at hand something in
teresting and profitable for the people
of Texas to think about and unite on.
While the farmers and stockmen are
engaged in devising how to husband
and utilize their resources and advan-
tag es, it is quite in order for the resi-
dents of cities and towns to cooperate
with them in this good work as far as
possible, and to spend the rest of their
time in cleaning and improving their
towns. There is something profita BILE
Tor all to consider. There is something
useful for all to do.