Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-24
LAW AND ORDER.
Another Open Letter To Judge Thorn

Another Open Letter 10 Judge lhOm-
asOn.
OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS ARE THEY
ANSWERED.
To the Hon. Judge Thomson;
In my letter Of several days ago /
| carefully refrained from personal
abuse OF any kind or of any person
Replying TO my letter you wholly ig-
more the substance OF my letter aud
attempt to fling mud at me. In the
letter 1 refer 10 / never uttered a word
I'm defense OF gambling or prostitution,
but made suggestions as to the measure
Of abOlishiug both, which suggestions
you have not answered and
cannot answer, because they
are well founCed in law and
appealed to the common sense OF every
man. Commenting upon my letter
you say Indeed il has been said that
wise men seldom offer grRtuitous adj
vice, OF which, however, fools are pro.
life" What have the law and order
people, and you in particular, been do
Ing for weeks but offering gratuitous
advice and assistance To the people, to
the officers, 10 juries, TO Judge Hood,
to the grand Jury; even IN the letter
to-day in the same breath in which
y
vice you launch off into sermon to
TIE GAZETTE. Talk about Offering
advice; why you and they would offer
advice TO the Almighty If you could
get his ear. Measured by your own
rule, as laid down by yourself, what
must you needs be?
Does 1t not occur to you, Judge Thorn
ason, when yoa comment as you doom |
the action of the recorders court and |
the fines therein (see.your letter.: |
And that IL has been found almost |
impossible to convict In the city court |
in cases where the law is plain and the
proof full" That possibly the men
who composed those jurles were as
honest, as intelligent, as respectable,
and possessed OF as good morals as
yourself or any of your moral REFORM
ers? Your remarks about those city
cases only show that fool is
wise in his own conceit. Doa't |
you know that your law and
order people evince the same disposl-
ton and are aotuated by the same
spirit that has actuated fanatics from
the earliest times, and / make no
doubt at all but the judge and his as
sociates would, If they had lived in
those days, have been In the front rank
OF that vast army of moral reformers
who used TO convert people to their
way of thinking by burning them at
the stake, throwing them into boiling
caul irons and other kindred ways.
You say that myself and others are
destitute OF morals. Is that argu-
ment? Does your saying so tend
In any wise to prove that IL is so; on
the contrary, in view of the ISLANDERS
uttered of and concerning this city,
and other unwarrauted statements
made by you and your party, is IL not
pretty good evidence that IL is not true,
and do you think that you will con-
vince any reasonable person that you
are right in your views by accusing
all persons that differ from you of
being fools or immoral persons? Have
you any corner on morality, that you
are so long on it and every one else
short?
What have you or any of your law
and order people done or refrained
from doing by which you are war
ranted in setting yourselves upin high
places like the Pharisees of old as pub
lie censors and in characterizing your
and fellOw-cltizens, because
they are not as narrow and contracted
and bigoted as you are, as depraved
and destitute of morals and ignorant
and dishonest as jurymen, aud Sab.
bath'breakers? You very moral peo-
pie would do we'll to read your Bible
more or be guided more by its teach
ings and by needing the rebukes the
Savior administered TO such as you.
You talk about lending your moral
aid to the law and its officers. Why,
II the truth was known, / suspect that
an Invoice of your supplies in the way
OF moral aid, etc, that you folks have
on hand for your own use or to lend.
would reveal the same state of affairs
that existed at the time satan took
Christ upon the high mountain and
offered him everything In sight, when
In fact, the devil did not own us
much as the ground he stood on.
Haven't you and your friends about
all You can do to look after your own
morals. Amt your hands full
enough without worrying about other
peoples moralsP
Remember what Burns says: "Oh,
We who are sac good, your sells sac
righteous and sac holy etc.