Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-21

president and plaeeho!der, and then
sends along the voluble press gang to
witness ut his great park the ending
of the mighty, moving and monstrous
spectacle, 'difiuses stories of his fame
ami splendid generosity everywhere.
Every recipient of his hospitality and
beuefactious, including the president
and general of armies, director general
OF the great court journal and the hy-
drit-headed country press will all chant
the glories and beg for the release of
llncle Rufus from that million dollar
debt due the government. | speak
only of poor Uncle Rufus's share OF
this vast debt, aud hope the GAZETTE
Will induce sympathetic Texas sena-
| tors and congressman, and even stan
Hey Mathews and Instice Field to see
| that Uncle Rufus. Sidney Dillon and
| the rest are given a full acquittance.
| The country owes 1t to Uncle Rufus
| because of his gorgeous generosity to
| the couutry's mast ter 10 its military
chieftain, to the court journal, to the
western newspaper men, and To the
incongruous congeries Of Conger-.
YOUNGER MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL.
HOUSEHOLD.
1t is well enoagh 10 mention that
the rest OF the imperial household are
doing a. well as could be expected in
these dying days of summertime and
in the absence of the i!lustrious head
OF the family and
NATION
The crown prince is cumming
around in the Dominion with the gov
| ernor general son in-law of Queen
| Victoria and native lord, while the
! pretty daughter of his imperial males
| ~, Arthur /, is sailing along the New
! England coast in q mabogany-lined
| and porgeously gilded governm ent
steamship. the Dispatch, built for the
| delectation OF American emperors and
maintained for this purpose by their
tariff-plundered subjects.
THE COURT JOURNAL.
A leading article IN the court jour
nal of the 18th instant. conducted by
one of the Messrs. Conger, now the
Washington city postmaster rs we'll
as journalist for the royal household,
urges the next congress TO supply
another of the Congers aud Uncle
Rufus with money enough TO build
two or three hundred miles of Dick
| Hubbard narrow gauge railway lines
in all directions in this Yellowstone
park. Uncle Rufus should be suffered;
too, we are told, to build shabby gen
teel hotels with imposing seaside
frontsn wherever needed in the park
and the government narrow gauge
should reach every attractive spot
within the park, sixty-two by fifty
four miles in area. 1t will be u grand
garden of the Hesperides in which
the tariff and government enriched
few may air their nobility and splen
, dor, and miserable multitudes who cal
never hope TO behold the wonderous
place, should be taxed to foot the bills
of cost. The tTitie of million or 81
added to enormous sums OF taxation
10 enrich good and gentle smiling and
generous Uncle huilis, lessee, govern
ment &c, would signify nothing
Toiling farmers of America viii be de
lighted to have Holman, Cox, vii
lianis, Culberson and the rest vote fol
such appropriations
EXCEEDINGLY SAD.
t 1t is to be deeply deplored that nj
act of copgress-and | DO sympath!2,
in this with the court journal-at tn,
last session, and the expenditure o
f money devoted to this grand "Hatch
: cry of Congress. called Yellowstone
! Park, to "A little fellow of the army a
r the Yellowstone. Conger can only
1 draw his pay. He thus holds /
) wretched salaried sinecure in tn,
g wilderness without perquisites.