Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-24
CONVERTED.
Lease Law Advocate is Converted
by a Trip Through the
Northwest.
Transfer Of the School Fund in the
Case Of Itinerants Refused,

BENBRooK, Tx, Sept. ., 1884.
he Editor OF the Gazette.
have Just returned from a trip
Tough Parker, Palo Pinto, Jack,
hung, Archer, Clay, Montague and
BE counties in search of a home.
Int ont u rampant lease-law man
b returned a weak and humble free
lssite. When we started we *.
cted to be able to buy an improved
ice very cheap, but what was our
lprise when we got out from home
Mort distance and began trying to
N land to have men tell us, o, yes,
sell my land in minute II times
tse like they used to be. Then you
Hld sell out and settle on another
Ne of land without any trouble. Not
bow. Lease men, corporations ana
tdlOates have control of the land.
sell this place l must buy land of
nlators or corporations, for the
Dol lands in such shape | can't
at it,
vsin argued that the school lands
open to sale to actual settlers.
me i was met with the assertion
no man with spoonful OF sense
bid settle on them, leased as they
This was repeated to me with
cations until j got to Belknap, in
1hng county, where / determined to
ID northeast. Going in that direc-
ID was met with the same story. l
Ind no man with a really desirable
ece that appeared to care about sell
III out. More than that, / met with
teht numbers of men out on precisely
De same mission, who one and all re-
ported the same state Of affairs. Now,
nave come To the conclusion that II
p his leasing business that has so
pmRletely stopped the settlement OF
~ West.
1 is now oyer one hundred days
nce we have had enough rain more
IN to lay the dust for a few hours,
4 dry don't begin to express II. MOI
" Of wheat land Is prepared. There
Nothing 10 do but 10 haul our little
of grain to market aud almost give
awsy. Truly we are in bad condi
Ihe school begins to-day at thii
nc with WirL Mann, principal
fs McDade, assistant, Our trustee
e shown themselves to be cormo
rs, inasmuch as they enrolled abeu
hty-tive pupils, about twenty o
pm were children of renters VIII
. not going TO remain In the district
parents OF some of these chlorei
led for transfers for their children
y OF the school fund. They wer
with refusal point blank, ana
cement volunteered thai the.
y pied certain number of month
,Eool in this district, ana II the.
Nnsferred the funds of all the renter
o were moving out, including IN
ldren Of the pastor in charge OF TN
R1it, who is to be transferred
! Pc other circuit, that they would ne
Re funds to run the school the give
k4e. This decision leaves these poe
iers to 20 into other districts, pa
tuition of their children, and leaN
ae land owners The funds that
nanimous state government Ia
part To educate the poor as well
II hch. Now, right here comes
f!her feature of the lease law, ia
NJ qe to raise funds for the educauo
NE children. The land Is tleo u
That 1t cannot be bought by u
ffage poor man, so he has TO rem
tents this year in this district, me-
- In another, but the director stel
and refuses to let him have b
oren's money, or what amounts
~ same, refust s TO allow IL transferre
y as this beautiful lease law defeats
own object. 1t prevents the pc
q from owning land and gives y
ney intended to educate his childr'
the men who own the Ian
what are you going TO !.
putt? Well, there is one thil