Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-05

I ilpt Dun iNbEh7NHi-f NANN~ 49,
referred to-
IT Is the mission Of the press to dis
cover evils that exist in our form of
government or in ils administration,
and to point them out TO the public
I that they may he avoided while they
exist and eradicaie1 ms speedily
as possible. Occasionally it hap.
I pens that paper is found lacking
+ in perception, which precludes the
possibility Of making any such dis.
coyery. but rather than be found lag
I cling in the rear Of the procession, IL
centuries mp imaginary wrongs and
heralds them TO theworld calling down
/ upon them and their authors the i'm
precautions Of an outraged public. The
I Chicago Iatcr-Oceua belongs to
/ this class Of short-sightel or
I thick.headed papers, and never
seeing the wrongs that are every day
I perDetrated within carshot Of its office,
goes abroad Into the field OF magma
ton or realm Of fancy TO find subjects
I for complaint. 1t has been recently
discovered that the liberties of fifty
millions Of people are endangered by
the acts ola handful Of Belgians who
contemplate the purchase of 1000 0U
acres OF land on the head.waters of the
Missouri river, at four dollars per acre,
furnishing u landed estate twenty-five
times as large as that owned by the
largest landowner in Great Britain,
the Duke of Northumberland, who
owns but l9l $50 acres. Comparing
this mammoth evil with that
Of pauper emigration the ~. says
that "of the two evils the arrival Of
the Irish pauper, made 30 by foreign
oppression. but ready TO work and earn
his living, and the arrival of English,
Scotch and Belgian syndicates, intent
not on improvement, but merely on
grabbing up immense estates and hold
ing them out of the market until they
get their price for them or rent them
in a manner to keep them from ever
becoming the property of those who
till them, we greatly prefer the pauper
TO the syndicate. The pauper, SO called,
as rule will not he distinguisiiable in
six months from the working masses
Of the country. But the syndi-
cate may prove to be curse,
which little short of revolution
will eradicate. The committee has
made one cali TO shut out the poorer
victims of oppression, all OF whom arc
too weak to be dangerous, too helpless
to be prosecuted, and too eager to get
homes to think of excluding others
Now let them make one more call to
OBJECT TO the class OF excessively rich,
who propose 10 use the unearned
wealth they haYe gra>ped in Europe
to give them similar precedence in
grasplng unearned wealth in America. -
Toe Iat9r-O ccaIi Is not ut all sincere in
its protests against Belgian or any
other foreign capital coming to Amer
lea. 1t knows that the more wea!th
that comes to this country. the better
viii be the condition of the people at
large 1t will furnish employ to
the poor aud money for their labor. A
community otpoor persons cannot get
rich OIL one another, but II there is any
wealth in their midsts it will soon be
distributed among them, according a..
they are industrious and economical
The law CT primogeniture does not
prevail in this country and the large
estates amassed in this country can
not hold toy ether but for a generation
or two, when it will dissolve and be
distributed among the masses. The
cutlery against wealth Is not only in
sincere but it is the shallowest den,a-
goguery, which has an influence only
upon those who live and flourish by
agitation, and by the conlmotion and
discontent which follows the ARRIVAL
oil one class of citizens against another
J" e'''h adds to the comfort and hap
pihess OF the community in which
II Is found. There are evils md
enough OF them for the attention of tho
press. In Chicago there is abundant
heid for the employment of the dailv
press III unearthiug and exposing The
wrongs committed against the poorer
CLASSES by such men as MCGEoou who
instituted the corner ON lard and after
oullng the market to its utmost limit
JAILED leaving an Indebtedness of over
So,oD,0l1. We advise the Inter- OCEAN
to direct its attention to home evils
and let the Belgian thalers come on
To supply the losses occasioned by the
explosion of the lard corner.
SOMETHING or other conspired to
lose the Democratic party of ra>,,s