Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-10
ITSTIN LETTER.
a, Free Grass-Lease-Law
| S9sss,m NJ, on the Fly.
IT, (,obbler Battles His Wings
|''' il His Own Gore


.,,pce Of the Gazette. ,,,,
- TEX, Aug. o.-When an
- batteries have been silenced
.s,lv assumed that he is
When streaming flags and
q, ants 90 down to the ground
tails of the foe make fitful
behind a cloud of dust II
fom Van az corroborative evil
e, m = victory has been lost and
1. true the blazing August
unon a decided rout of the
mrres, for such are the pre-
,icstions they present to-day.
s sobbler went forth to battle
.ey .Se rooster and found his
= Yesterday it was beating
y and blowing of flies; today |
S;smal search of battered uni
' sse If any ammunition what
IN for a final stand.
l wv not remember the bragga-
u insolent arrogance which
a1i,ed the denunciation 80
'.iv sbowered upon the heads
Who dared to champion the
rsss heresy ~ Men whose
l' had whitened in the
If Democracy were
90 traitors, beretics, boilers,
[ites. grasping bullionaires and
, NV, What else, as easily as II 1t
an mere matter of skinning a
chipping child. There was
ofier Of mercy for even a peni-
mar. no conciliatory messages
No let us reason together" Oh,
action of the party had dared
sllon the righteousness of a
uassed by u party legislature,
~ presumption must be
a There was some little
sr to what that punishment
NJ but the odds were in favor
ming the offenders from the
asing them into outer dark
-csss apostles held no caucus to
Inc whether those who differed
hem should be halved or quar-
No ballots were taken to black
expunge them from the party.
hose responsible duties were
modestly relegated to the
convention. In the meantime
has been constant dripping
1.-THE rock of lease law theories.
Grievances of those to whom its
titles strike home have been pre-
h in a plain and simple manner.
Is been clearly shown that the
Bis herd law for the West, that
krds settlement and fosters mon
Is, that it is a bundle of false pre-
and wicked designs. All this
een urged against it-and proven.
i abuse, let 1t fall. Abuse is a :
q boomerang.
ERE are times when even the
may see, or If not see, do just as
feel. When the great heart of u
IN is thoroughly impregnated
political truth, politicians feel
nrbid atmosphere. If their vision
narrow to scan u lowering hori-
instinct improvises an argu-
(which their reasons are dead.
At once it has flashed upon the
mind that the lease
fcps, that 1t is not in harmony
lhs genius of our institutions,
lisa fostering sore upon the body
y, that it is unjust to the great
OF Western pioneers, and there
wrong, and being wrong it is un-
bentic. 1t takes several thousand
Tor a ray of light to speed from
pun to the earth, but 1t finally
p the trip. AS the source of
was not so distant in this case,
journey was accomplished in a
" reduced time. Nobody justifies
leasing system now. The free
men want 1t modified, and the
pea lease men want 1t modified
enly possible difference that cal
between them is as o the degre,
Pdlication. All this has not beef
upon the politicians. At presen
are indust4ously engaged il
psidering the question; it is be
ID they will consent to the reten
|oi the free-grass people in tn,
r
70 you know who are the most de
|lned advocates of the leasing sys
asked u prominent Westerner c
ne other day.
Nho?n
[ne railroads. They regard It as
ping stone to a herd law at, con
emily Will bitterly fight Its lie, cal
hture to say they have a powerfu
y Tor 1t in the next legislature. A
representative of a cattlemai
Ppiied recently to the agent {
certain railroad for tn
OF several sections in the Par
NE We differed as to the price
vas obstinate and i declined to az
70 bis extortionate demands.
y MN final proposition whic
lcorniIlly rejected, saying: 'Yo
|ws are ID independent now, bu
Walt. The first thing you kno,
mnl run a herd law through tn
6alare, and then we Will have ye
= mnat about politics in your coun
~ 9a,, its all one way"
lows that?p
I,9 Tree grass
" y, no are most interested in it %
une poorer classes"
Y sney wouldn't have any sort of
v without it.n
y companion was a Young man,
ssn OF Dickens county. He appeart
''what amazed that any one shoul
! asK the status of the Wester
"a ~ on the frse-grass question, an
with quiet emphasis whic
w crevice for q doubt. Mayl
M actual settlers struggling for
!, hood In the great plains of Il
vh uo not know what they nee'
~, ~ the political philosophers wi
40 Prescribe a lease law for the be