Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-04
THE GAZETTE FORT WORTH, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, july

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"Oh. ycs, sab. y said sam, i know
Use losing money, but / pays tli'
/ twenty-five cents a cord for the righ
to boss white man.
"I,m like sam" said our friend
"I'm losing money, but ! boss tn
railroads.
CAsUs BELL.
The Mexican authorities complain
! of the crookeduess Of Crook In goint
/ straight into Mexico. Crook theorie,
! of government involve the obliteratiof
1 Of state boundary lines. Why recog
nize them in compliance with treaty
| stipulations when he would hardly
regard them under our own constitu
ton? But the queercst aspect OF thl.
business is discovered in the fact The
Mexican governor, Torris OF sonora
demands most generously the delivery
OF the captured Apaches TO Himself
We wonder If he wouldn't Ike 20 have
Malone and IIouk and the rye-oat Gus
department OF justice.
VICES on THE PENSION SYSTEM.
Il will be observed that the National
RcbubicdD tells how base fellows are
coached and starved into physical con
ditions enabling them to sustain aud
corrobarate perjury with palpable facts.
AS living skeletons, after two months
training by an expert pension agent,
do they come before General Dudley
demanding frem $1,000 TO $4,000 back
pay and comfortable stipends for life.
This Is only one of countless de-
vices to which knaves every
where resort in order TO become
pensioners. One-half of the commun-
iiy preys upon the other through the
Intervention Of the go-betwcen govern
ment. The pensioners the mill own
crs. the banks and bondholders have,
alike, grand pension bureau in the
government Each of these classes re-
sist the enroachments of the other and
in selfish greed alone, as we are now
ruled consists the security of honest
toiling populations. Eastern organs
of high tariff protcctionists
are fierce in invoctives against
the generous pension code and bureau.
The boudholders and coupon clippers
are loud in denunciation of congress
men who vote away untold millions as
pensions. The bankers cry out against
The corruption of the people by the
conversion of the government into an
eleemosypary institution. Idleness
aud dependency and mcdicancy are
necessary incidents Of the system, and
these evils are speedily crowned by
every vice of conduct and character as
discovered in methods To Which knaves
resort to secure pensions. But since it
is simply q struggle between the poor
and unfortunate on the one hand, and
rich plunderers Of the treasury on the
other, we must insist that the pensions
be paid even If the tariff be cXtir-
pated, the banks ohliberated and the
bonds cashed with silver paper or
gold.
The South should be well pleased
that there are no pensioners there.
These people are forced to struggle
with direct poverty. They lost all
wealth and legs and arms and health
and strength. In proportion TO mum
hers and under n strictions imposed, If
Coufederates were beneilciaries OF the
law, Georgia would have, relatively
to numbers of people, twice
a many pensioners, if there be no per-
jury or fraud, as Ohio or any North
ern state. Therefore, since | have So
journed in Washington and recently
traverscd Western states, and witness
ed vicious effects Of this oorruptng
scheme of eXtravagant pensioniug ii
the people, and am glad ii does not
obtain in Texas or Georgia.