Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-18

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Texas and Montana
Indiana Live stock Co 5ObOc0......,., .Dalla
Live stock Protection
Association 49,. $500, .......,D alla
I Gainesville Land and 49,
Cattle Co.. ...-..,......., l,WpVOO', SalnesNill
| $. II. T., Land and cat
| Horseshoe Cattle Co. 1u0.00O.,..Fort WORT
and hciriceratlns Go 100 coo San Antonio
Yards .................. l0,n00.,. Fort wortl
Liberty cattle CO.. 10000 Fort worti
ST. l. iuis cattle Co ,.,.,. 2Dp,eO. colorado
BfaHoS Cattle Co ......, ....,.,s.,...,f OFT WUrtl
| Key, tone Real Estate
Association. ......,.... $1,000 ........Dalla
san Antonio Live
stock and Land Co, 2000O.",..,."Co Coleman
Jumbo Cattle Co...,"" 'tsOO"...,."Coloradt
Tahoka Cattle Coz. 10000. Fort ORTIZ
Texas Real Estate As
ISOLATION ... ....... 100 u9l. !. :. LlsIlas
Scan the surroundings OF those sen.
ators more closely and what more dc
you discern? You were told through
the press only yesterday that Senator
Johnson was the only rich senator,
and all the rest of us were poor. Let
us see. Senator Fleming told you yes
terday that he had 10000 acres in
pasture He has 100000 acres in one
pasture, and 10000 in another. With
such n load in his pockets, and goaded
by the barbed wire of the situation, it
is no wonder that he grew eloquent in
favor OF the wandering herdsmen out
side of his domain; but it would have
been wiser If he had remembered that
the lawless depredations on school
grass, which he now encourages.
breed the commune spirit that willipes-
ter him hereafter.
The senator from Dallas also has
5000 acres of inclosed pasturage near
Dallas, and by a strange coincidence
his colleague in the other house wants
to limit the size of pastures to just that
amount.
The senator from Bell has a large
pasture, on which the nippers have
been at work, while the senator from
Montague's pasture wns lately destroy
ed. Senator Tr2ylor, when we failed
to get "a rational road law through the
other house, sold his large pasture and
casts his vote with no handicap
weights.
Now, sir, right here and in this con-
nection, let me fortify by the history
OF our race, as it has passed through
centuries, the position that reforms
and increased punishments should go
hand in had. Civilization can not re-
form by punishment alone; therefore
ii is that my bill, while increasing the
penalty of the fence-cutter, undertakes
TO punish those who Cypress him, for
capital has its duties as well as its
rights.
Some senators in Rome had their
big pasture troubles once, Just AS these
senators have to-day That era was
prolific in writers, 40 that history told
by Froude, stands out as plain in detail
as the Irish question of yesterday.
In the early days OF Rome, Spurius
Cassius procured law that the public
domain of Italy, occupied by p4tricians,
should be surrendered to the state for
lecesstous citizens. The law was
resisted by the Roman senate, and be-
anne a dead letter. The Keeping of
arge f1Ocks upon the common pasture
ands in the Campunia ex-
Guided the small farmer from them. |
The law De Modo Agri was then passed,
hat no one should possess more than |
80 acres ofthe public domain. Again |
he partricians uiumphed, and, with
u; repeating the law, il was disre-
arded and Italy, with its pastu,age,
woods and forests, was parceled out for |
wo centuries by patrician senators. |
% enforce that law, not to disturb. |
'ested rights, Tlberius, aud afterward |
iaius Gracious, lost their lives, And |
hen came upon the stage wonderful |,
nan Cesar, the nephew by marriage
If Marus, who had seen the rights of
he people crushed under the lpgions
If Sulla, and bided his time. When
ne became consul large tracts were
acid on the usual easy term by great
anded senators and patricians. These,
tn-ar, when consul, proposed To buy |
nut aud settle on them Pompey's |
veterans, who had just driven the |
pirates from the Mediterranean, and |
:ould find no land on which to rest. |
The public lands had been shared CON |
among the senators, and |
hey resisted him. Cato headed |
he opposition, while the sem |
tie groaned and foamed even
worse Than these border senators did
yesterday. Cesar then went before
ne temple OF Castor and proposed his
lecree to the people. Pompey and
rassus were at his side. Cesar asked
'ompey: will you, Pompey, sup
'oit the law If IL be illegally opposed?u
lie replied: IF you, consul, and you,
ny fellow-citizens. ask aid of me. n
'oor individual, without Office and
authority, who nevertheless,
las done the state service, | say that /
viii bear the shield if others draw the
word"
A hundred thousand throa,s ap-
'iauded the answer; the law was en-
cted by the people, who broke. the
ods OF lictors, and scourged the tri-
unes who had betrayed their threats.
ma thus were 10000 OF Pompey's bat
cred veterans located on public lands.
one year, over Italy. ,
Thus, concession to public necessity |
reserved the public peace, and per :
APPS avoided another Catillne con
piracy.
Sir, whenever republic has gone
own, some land trouble, exasperating
he poorer classes, first inflicted the
ound. Louis, of France and Ma. |
AFRO, in 1915 | believe it was, crystal /
ed his power by enfranchising the S
imers and lifting burthens from their {
ecks In his celebrated decree, the first /
agna Charta of France. Nearly 500 5
'ars afterwards Mr.. Gladstone found /
mself powerless, even with the (
my OF England at his back, to stop e
punish the fence-cutters OF Ireland, Il
lat statesman in the same breath o
men increased the punishment of Ii
g lawlessness, corrected real g
ievances by the land act k
1850, passed TO aid the tenant to oh Il
IN AN interest in the soil In 1863 n
same disturbing forces vexed I'M W
.ppy, Ireland, when tenants were s,
ic'cd In order to rent to large era. OF