Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-18
TERRELL's SPEECH.
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especially announcement ana among
them are found warm dis
ciples Of Mr.. George-men
who believe that the land ought to he
free, and who whisper into the ear OF
! the hester that these pastures alone
cause all the trouble. Unless this gen
try are controlled by law, unless they
are made to cease their wandering
ways and buy or lease the grass on
which they feed, there is no peSce for
Texas. The fenced-in water.hole Is In
their way, and with the help OF the
deluded settler they make il the spe.
cial object of their devilment. see q
man in the lobby now who will tell
YOU that that the corporations which
own fat herds and no binds are not the
| only depredators, for that, within loo
miles eli where | now stand, there are
scores of men who own from 800 10
5000 cattle, who hardly own or lease
enough land on which to round up
their herds. These gentry are the
SAME in all ages. Since the days when
the herdsmen of Gerar strove with the
herdsmen of Isaac ut the well-since
the days when Jacob swindltd his
father-inlaw Laban, 10y fixing his
striped rods, the wandering herdsman
has been gathering by craft and hold
| lUV Will lllt EAIbiE luIlus lIltlI
habits are wild and unrestrrined, and
the custom of marking a calf without
| knowing the ownership of its mother
will never improve your civilization. |
| know this class well, and for thirty
years have both tried and defended
them. Faithful in friendship and vim
dictive in their hate, they will make
| your best citizens when you once stop
| their roaming. Until then they will
sometimes practice the strange moral
| ity of seeing no wrong In desolatiug
the range around the settlers door, or
hanging horsethief and branding nn
unknown calf, as some of them have
done on the same day. As long as
long as they are let alone they viii fix
boundaries on free range between
themselves in the Panhandle, even as !
Jacob and Laban did, aud watch each |
other with the same suspicion that |
this same Jacob did his brother Esau, 4
when after long absence h e came TO
meet him-with four hundred horse
men-sending forward his presents of
goats and cattle, but hiding in the
rear Rachel and her tender-eyed sister,
to both of whom he had taken fancy.
Sir, free grass in Texas is at the bot
tom of all this lawlessness; against il
this bill opens war; against ii | put
in motion u ball which, whatever this
senate may do, will roll over those who
stand in its way next November, for
upon its progress depends not only the
advance, but the existence of civilila-
ton i'm Texas.
Look at your condition. Last year
400 900 cattle were under contract in
January for the northern drive; this
day not one hoof is bought, for there is
not bank in st. Louis Chicago, or
any where else, that will advance
dollar to Texas cattleman. Your
banks at home will not advance far
beyond ninety days, and then only on
gilt-edge collaterals, while your landed
values are depreciating twenty mil
lions II month. Nobody wants your
land, for commune spirit demands
that it shall be free-even when you
fence 1t.
The whole social fabric is honey
combed with communism, and moth
ing but a heroic remedy will cure il;
no wizard oil or healing plasters viii
restore confidence or protect property
rights; for this is no skin disease-the /,
surgeons knife must go to the bnue, j,
for the hip joint is affected and the =,
state has ceased To advance free grass,
and the devilment that it breeds IL at
the bottom of all this trouble. This
lobby holds its grass advocates, who
says one thing in the cattle conven-
ton and another thing up here. But
| see
no FARMER HERE,
and here nothing of their conventions
in Austin; but when you refuse to
pass my bill-when you increase their
burdens in school taxes TO fatten cor
pOrati0ns and wandering herdsInen on
school lands, you will hear from them
at the numbering of the tribes in No
vember.
WHO SUPPORTS THE STATE?
In 1879 there were in Texas 200 coo
men Il leave Off odS figures; of agri-
cultural laborers there were Ii3, OOJ,
in all, of those who till the
earth, 5000. OF stockmen and herd
ars there We're only 1901, or about
farmers for one stOckman.
WHO OWNS THE LAND?
The value of farmers fencing and
in Texas in 1879 was $lTO.-
46S. S66. The whole land values of the
state Were 2l6,a5i ,00O-leaving to cor ,
porations, pasturemen and wild land
owners of values but $40 i6S $50, while
farmers paid taxes on fixed values
to over $l70,000,OOO.
WHO OWNS THE STOCK?
The census report shows the value
)f farm stock in 1850 was 500, 1901, 900.
The comp,roller's report shows the
whole value of cattle in the state in
1883 was $3S, 1907 900.
SO the cattle values of our farmers !
who had to sustain their stock without |
'chool land grass were double that of ,
he ranchmen. &
WHAT MORE? {
lie value of Texas farm products
was, In 1870, according to the con-
We raised cotton that year worth. 81 500
IN au .......',. sl32, H12O
Dr., in other words, our farmers made 7
rom the sweat OF their brows, in one n
ear, in Texas fields, more than three
lines the value OF all the ranch stock q
Ia the state. t
The farmer had some bmrdens. Il
hat year usIs) he spent In building IL
md he Invested in agricultural I'm ''O''''' !"
PIGMENTS ..,......., 10000 ~
lpiai". ''.'''''. ......,....Sl2. 07B G3
Vast as the products of our farmers Il
'ere, the farmer and farm laborer ay- Il
ragged III wages and profits but $25 u
lOnth. o.
HE AREA OF AVAILABLE PAsTuRAGE II
a Texas is $4,000, 900 of acres, while ~ y,
ne entire land area of the state Is 1877 n,