The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-31

Iudissa Live ocs Co. booon Dallas
.sooisiio, - Wv, 5000 Dallas
C.uis e. '....'....'. i.ooo.o 900 gainesville
s. II T. Lsnd and Cauli 49,
Hof U sSo; ia;l, o.. 1000 Fur, worth
ssa Reiriscrstns Co $50 On, san Ant,ni,
| Fort w rth Sinrg Yards 1000 Fort w nth
Liberty Cattle ca -. 100 Coz Fort Worth
| II Lauis "aul. 20 Goo, 20 ,0h Colorado
Brat ~ Csttle 20. ........ - Fort worm
yson. R.a Estate
Associ6 ton ........ ..... 5000 Dallas
san A Il nio Live Sock -
ard Lsnd Co. ........, 20lOOO COLEMAN
JUMBO Cat e Co. ....... 5000 Sot0isNo
Tan "a Cattle c, 600. 100000 Fyrt Worth
xa. R-al Estate Assc. -,
clhuOn .ss...s.....,.... lVJVvV bAihh
Scan The surroundings OF those senator,
moro closely and what more do you discern
You were Told through the preis only yes
terday ihsi Senator Johnson was the oAly
rich senator and that all the I.st OF ne were
poor. Let us zee. Senator fleming told
| you Yesterday that he had 10 600 acres ia
bis pasture aud 10000 In another. Win
such load 10 his pocket, and goa Cd ny
the barbei wire OF the situation. u ~ M
wonder that he grew eloquent IN favor Oh
the wandering Eerdsnen outside of hi, 40
uain; but IL would have been wiser II ne
had remembered that the lswles1 deprels
| tiOrs on school grass, which lie nov oncour
| ages, breeds the commune spirit ihat WI
poster him hereafter The ,eua'or from
Dallas also has his 5 600 acres OF enclosed pas
tare near Dallas and bya strange comet
dencs his colleague in the other
house wants to limit the size
| OF pastures to just that amount. The sena'
ter from Bsll has large pastu on when
tho nippers have been at work. senator
Traylor, when We failed 10 get rational
road law through the other house, sold his
| large pasture aud cast his vote with no
| handicap weights.
Now. sir. risut here and in this connec'
tiol let me forriiy, by the history OF our
| race, as IL has passed through centuries:
the position that reforms and Increased
punishment should 20 hand in hand C,vii.
ization can not reform by punishmen'
alone; theref . /. Ia that my BILL while in
cressing the punishment; OF the fence
cutter. undertakes to punish those VINO
Cypress him. for capital has ~ duties a.
well as It's rights
| ROMAN PASTURE.
Some senators in Rome had their bif
pasture troubles once, just as these senators
have to-day. That era visa pr0llnc III
k,>ers, so that its history, told by Froufe,
'AF.atidR out 40 plain 10 detail AZ the irish
queiu u Of YESTERDAY
In the early days # Rome Spurius Cas-
sius procured law thai me pubic domain
Of italg, usurpcd by pR'riciahs, shonld o.
surrendered 10 the state for necess'ious
citzaas. Ihe law was resisted oY we ~
man senate, and bsclma dead letter
The Keeping of large locls upon the com
nor, pasture lands 10 tho DGmpGnis ex
c.nded The small farmers from them. Inc
law De Modo Agri was then Dsssei, that
40 one should possess more than 33o acres
OF the public domain. Again The pHlri-
Clans triumphed, and, without; repeating
| a IL nd tall ~
ia pasiuragp, woods aud forests, was par
called out Tor two centuries by pa'riciah
senators To enforce that law not to dis
turb va ted rights, riberius,and alter ward;
Caius Gracious lost their lives. Aud then
same upol the stage wonderful man
| Cse sar, the nephew by marriage OF Ms'ius
VINO had seen The rights OF the people
crushed under the lesions OF Sulla, and
bited his time. When he became consu
large tracts were held on the usual eysy
terms by great landed senators and patti
ciane These Cesar when consul proposed
| 10 buy cat aud SETTLE or them Pompey's
Veterans, who had just driven the pirates
| from the 3cdit ,rr4nean aud could hnu 90
land on which 10 rest. This public iaudt
had been shared conveniently among thu
senators, and they resisted him. Cato
headed the opposition, while the senate
proaned md foamed even worse than sbese
border senators did yesterday Caesar then
went before the temple Of Ca tor and pro-
posed his decree 10 the people. Pompey
and Crlssius were ut his side. CT sr
asked Pompey: "Will you, Pom
raIly opposed" He replied: IT you.
Consul, and you, my fellow-citizens, ask
aid of me; poor individual, without otnce
and without authority, who, nevertheless,
has done the state some service, say that
| will bear the shield II others will draw the
sword" A hundred thousand throats ap.
plauded the nnsw r; the law was enacted
nv the people, Who broke the rods of Lie.
tors and scourgod the Tribunes vino had
ed their trusts. And thus were 20.
COO Pompey's battered veterans located on
public lands, In one year. over Italy. Thus
concession to public necessity preserved
the puol peace and perhaps avoided an
other Oatsline conspiracy.
RIPoRM IN faAHcE AND ENGLAND.
Sir, wherever q repu bic hae gone
own, s,m, lad trouo'-, exasperarfns
the poorer class inflicted tha " und. Louis,
OF France and Navarro, in 1915, believe It
was, crystaiized his power by eDfranchisipg
the farmers and lifting burthens from their
necks in his celebrated decree, the first
Magma Charta OF France. Over five hun
bred years Afterwards Mr.. Gladstone found
himself powerless, even with tho great
army of England at his back, TO stop or
punish the fsnce-cutters OF Ireland. That
statesman, In the same breath that in.
creased thr punishment OF the lawles sness,
Q )rrected real grievances by the land &C: OF
1880 passed TO aid the tenant to obtain
toe same disturbing forces vexed un-
happy Ireland, when tenants were
eyicted In order TO rent to large graxsrs at
high rent. The While Boys OF that day
destroyed she enclosures built for the cattle,
and the moon lighters and the ribbon mon
over there only yesterday followed IN their
wake.
Here the senator had sent up to he read
ny the clerk an Irish question, showing Mr..
Gladstone's policy to do justics to the Irish
poor, which We omit
Mr.. Dsvis-Is he going 10 have that whole
The Prssidsut-The CLERK will read a. de.
sired. 90,
Senator Tsrrell-Be patient. III make
you land corporation and irse grass senators
more anxious for me 10 cease than this be-
tore finish.
aovRsNoR DOES NOT AK FOR MORE TROOPS.
csli the attention OF senators T. the fact
that the governor, In his message TO you OF
the stn Of January. nowhere ask. you to
pnsal. How could he? fJr only few dAys
before he had said that 20 idiug troops %
catch fence-cutter would be like the king
OF France msrcbiug sn army MP hill only
to march Il down again, for the "ieuce cut.
ter wonld be fool 10 stay until the soldiers
came" Ifyou follow him then. you have
no uss for troops, nor even for detectives.
who, he seems to think, are opposed TO the
genius OF our aowrnmsnt.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
Many reforms suggested IN this message
I approve, (it mod.fied). and the perdfpe
bill Is IT, MID to meet them. 1 especially
re'er 10 that part Il bis message In which
he SAVE: II recommt1d a Law Swing