Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-20
WASHINGTON.
A Watery and Diffusive Letter. It is
Thin and vapoury Like Hoary
Tarif Speeches.
1t Gets Into Deep Water and Doesn't
Get Out. It is Varied and
Spotted. It Is Personal

very little Ia known by the house OF
measures enacted by congress would
amaze the multitude Of constituencies.
a group OF NJ. C's were talking this
morning about the Mississippi river
Improvement policy, which Will cost
the treasury, rs the appropriations aFe
now Administered q hundred millions
or more. One OF the interlocutors
said he had "never devoted a moments
thought to the matter.
haven't time. belong to
the Judiciary and | find II impossible
to master these questions us / would
like to do, that come within the pro-
vince OF these two committees. In
fact i devote my whole time, when
not on the floor of the house, To the
study of questions submitted To two
sstb-committees 10 which am assigned.
hut the Mississippi river begins
to loom up In the political horizon.
1t begins 10 address itself to the whole
country. These monstrous floods In
the valley of the Ohio presage the des-
olation OF the great central valley of
the continent next May and
June. The mighty railway
corporations discover la the Mississippi
as, rJ OF railway commission which
regulates and define rates OF transport
tation for them and for the continent.
East aud west railway lines discover
that grain and cattle crops of the west
Ind In the river, II 1t be madca proper
commercial agency, competition
more effective In restraining their
pooling processes than the lake route
and Wa and canal acknowledgement
of the enst discovers In the navigability
and In the redemption of the lowlands,
cheap bread. beef and clothing md
Europe, finding u mouth-piece in De
Lcsseps, pronounccs the modest steam
boat Captain Cowden, who breaks
away from the plans and habits of
thinking and action OF centuries and
defines new methods Of restraining
and utilizing the rivers forces and its
superintendent floods, tho "hydro-
dynamic philosopher ofthe lowlnnds.
EFFECT or THE SPEECH.
! need not tell you that this col
loquiai speech Of the young M. G. begat
much thoughtful inquiry and the con-
sequences to flow from the conversion
Of the Mississippi into an arm
of the sea were discovered
to involve the repeal of all tariffs, by
reducing the cost of bread bacon, beef,
that no nation can. compete with these
free states i'm any manufacturing in
dustry. Prohibiting duties on blank
cts Will not put twenty millionsaafssssss.i
ally into the pockets of leu ,oollen
suilss I'D naked con .on- clad, negroes of
tar s.u.n need 2X5ionsssr be beroft of
wool hats or OF acknowledgement that
"iniant industries" may be robed in
sspurplc and fms linen,b
THE FLOODS AND THE RKPLUEST
TIDE or PHILOSOPHY.
In fact the Mississippi Is wider and
longer in the eyes of Amer
lean statesmen than ever before,
and the hungry, ragged, toiling, strug-
Cling multitudca of great cities of the
east begin to discover In productive
commercial agencies of the drain OF
the continent more peaceful and per-
feet and cheaper solution OF their trou-
bles than was ever exploited by Horr
Most or Fourier or Train. Ii IL be
not discovered la the solution OF the
river problem Grant will find IL, first
as ruler In Mexico, that he may be
next. "anncxed' with Mexico NJ con-
tinental emperor. Such are supposed
to be his plans inaugurated
when he sent Boss Shepherd
AZ his precursor and pipe-layer
into Tamanlipns. Every route
To the third term aud the crown of the
Caesars does not lie through u Chicago
convention.
sYCOPHANCN.
A body Of idiots In st. Louis ask
congress that In retiring Gen. sherman
II award him as pension the cquiva-
lent of his present pay anu stipends.
A dozen or more bills are considered in
committees awarding jolly pensions to
widows Of divers good mon aud the list
Of the retired and pensioncd nobility
OF this imperial government grows
apace. And yet every honest toll
ing farmer Of the United States,
who has grown too ola TO
follow the plow and dig subsistence
from the ground with tnxes and tariffs
to maintain the country and its spend.
thrift government, IL NJ honestly and
fairly entitled to n pension as Gen.
sherman Sherman has done his
whole duty: even so, with the farmer.
Sherman has lived quite royalty en-
vironed by every comfort and splen-
dor of private and public life The
farmer has tolled steadily aud fed
aud clothed humanity. Iie has done
his whole duty Let both be pen
stoned or neither. IL one be enti-
tied to place In the government sane
tuary or poor house, SO Ia the other. II
one must be ennohied SO should be the
other. and least OF oil should the farm
ar he compelled by law TO
contribute from his hard earnings
to the splendid lordly maintenance of
sherman, simply because the latter
wears straps on his shoulders in-
tiniteiy justcr would be the pensionlhg
and ennobling of zach rude soldier
who defied shot and shell, than the
concession of wealth and patents OF
nobility IL gildcd officers who con
tcmplated, through field glasses FROM
convenient hill-tops, the eNecut on ol
their commands that sent myriais "a
hell or heaven. III sherman be n pa
triot, and inherit the virtues ot his
patrlot fathers, and would perpetuate
The truc republicantsm THAT framed
this congercs OF republics, he WIN re,
tire to private life content VIII,
ana refuse TO enter this
u,onstrous government almshouse
In which titled dead-beats air theil
IRA a buttons, or gowns aud wigs and
vanity seeking to make a titled lazzar-
mi respectabie. Biuif and hearty
Tecumseh sherman will hardly con'
sent 10 20 into this sort of retirement
ruE .sARiFF TX THE SENATE,
senator Brown, uf Georgia, insists
hat the south Is barely living by pro.
dmcinr cotton and that the poor 81
most starve. Strangely enough he
would remedy the evil by having
southern industry diversified and
,t,;s Tint tho south may enjoy share