Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-28
All Wisdom is Not Dead.

An lndistinct memory of a man who
suddenly and without apparent
provocation blazed UP into big notori.
ETY. four years ago as the Sancho Panza
of the Quixotic Greenbacker crusade
against the Democratic party is re-
vived at sight of the name of "B. ].
Chambers" at the foot of half-column
article in the dallas Herald. This
relic of the late lamented Greenback
party emerges from the shades of OBJ
livlon to indite an address TO Mr.. An
drew Young and other gentlemen who
have been associated with him in the
work of laying plans to defeat the
Democratic party of Texas. 1t goes
without saying that he is for the lease
law, and "unalterably opposed" to free
grass for the settlement of Texas.
With that cogency of logical state
ment and elegance of diction that have
given him lustrous fame as wide 40
the bounds of Johnson county. the
Greenback Sage opens his discourse
with the profound observation: "They
the cattle kings, of course wish to be-
come the owners of the chlldren's land
SO they can fence it all up.n 1T is
well known that the Fort Worth GA
zETTE, the chief organ of the cattle
kings and land-grabbers, first raised
the howl of free grass, and the song
of free grass has been sung through
nearly every column of the paoer
since" And then the Sage proceeds
to show by his profound reasoning
that the free-grass cry is but an under.
hand scheme of the insidious cattle
kings to get possession of the whole
country and live off the fat of the
land.
Ii Is perfectly plain that these cattle
Kings contemplate something danger
GUS to the autonomy of the state. The
strategy of these cabalists shows their
skill for intrigue, and The GAZETTE
AZ chief trumpster of the plotters. is
the instrument for the advancement of
their designs against the liberties of
the people. Mark the deep anxiety of
The GAZETTE for reserving all the
school lands for actual settlers only is
there not some nefarious design under
MD here? Plainly it is SO. The plan
Is TO draw great numbers of settler, TO
Northwest Texas, let them take nm
the country, make farms and improve
them, advance the value of land from
" 10 30 and $40 an acre, and then the
cattle kings and bullionaires will come
In and buy them all out, fence no the
country and disport themselves like
lords. The people don't see this, but
Mr.. Chambers does. All, it is a great
thing to be intellectually gifted above
ones f,llow-men
But the Sage would not be UNDER
stood as in favor of the lease svstem
II Is opposed to the general policy Of
Sages TO be In favor of anything; thew
are "agin" everything human because
hothing human Is perfect-ssve them.
selves; and it is a singular circum.
A
stance that they are all "aginn each
DINER. Each one is the only genuine
unnduiterated, yard-wide and all wool
sage and all Others are impostors
ih's one only prefers the lease system
because lat the end of the lease the
iahd reverts to the people and thew
can then adopt better policy.u He
uoesht suggest what that better policy
Shal. DC. This is very wise pre-
measure. IF the Sage nm.
corKed all his wisdom at once the
common people couldn't stand II. He
WIZ impress 1t on them by degrees
break It to them gently, so that by the
line the land Is all tied up In barbed.
wire fences they will understand how
'hey might have adopted a better
nolicy. '' {
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