The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-06-11
WHAT WE SEE.

ana t-t Tlbt- 10 blIItT lOu1UtI- II ''Ei''
Of ignorance commensurate with it,
own srlf-aSSumcd knowledge, The
Gazette should remember that many OF
the journals to which ii 50 i'ppantIE
ascrihc- ignorance, furnished th" news
TO the hardy pioneer while the west was
vet frontier. and before it was con
verified into the harronial estates OF
eastern capitalists. That these journals
| battlrd fDr the protection Of IN" west
! and tive daring stockmun'> herds long
| ere the genius millionaire had bcgottcn
/ the organ and offspring OF the cattle
/ kings plethuric purses The same Jour
/ mas Of central and east Texas that
( fought for the protection of the western
hester against the raids OF the red
men. are now battling for their prot"c-
ton from Inc trampling herds and domi-
nccrug line riders OF the bullionairc,.
| The men uf Central and East Texas,
who. for forty years, freely contributed
of ihcir money to protect IN" west
against rcd ,avagcs, will now give
their votes to protect it from more re-
fined bot equally rapaclous free grass
buccaneers. Many OF these journals
and their proprictora have seen those
then public lands covered - thickly
with the wild buffalo ~ the private"
acre. Of school children and others l.
now With the herds of eastern and
European syndicatcs. Many of their
feet have been first to bid the virgin
uras, Of those western plains to kiss ITS
mother Garth. and the wild beasts mar
row path was better known to many
than The well ridden line, of the now
bOundcss pasture are to the Gazette.
We fought for the west when il wa, in
decd q poor and bleeding frontier. We
won it, for men, not bulls women,
not COW and babics, not calves :;
ana # the Gazette thinks hat
even IT. vaulting greatness can tear
it from the men and children OF Texas
and convert ii into the cow-prn OF
Wal street sharks, who divide their
gains in their elegantly upholstered
offices, md squandcr the pilicring,
from lrya- children in NcW York
rioliua it has rcckoncd without it, host
The mes who have fought, BLEED and
suffered 20 win these school Lands from
savage, are nov upon trembling limbs
carr, hoary heads TO the grave, the
only legacy they leave their children j,
4 prince, free school domain amply
sufficient to educate their children,
for all time 10 come. Now 70
turn that domain over withuU. money
and without price 10 the bullionnircs, TO
give them lands paid for 10y blood,
every drop of which was worth all their
cattle upon thousand hills, and leave
children Of the heroes who bought il 10
be brought up to ignorance upon four
month";, schooling yrnr Oh.
no, 10 will never work ;he
schuv and, have been Fought
and paid for, they nov have money
value, and no man shall dcny the right
of Commanding that value The East
! TcNa, man may not see every thing the
Gazette does, but he does see the cat
I tie king. like the Texas rattlc,nalic.
1 hidden amid The free grass theories be
doc ,cc great section OF agricultural
aud pasture land, the property of his
chldrcp, "ith " market value conii--
Gated hey see money that should
/ 90 H. thy education of then children
going 30 swell the already handsome
! dividends Of the cattle kings They
! see countless thousands Of poor men
who might acquire Il competency and
rear happy family ii permitted TO
lease Isl acres OF land for his little
bunch and the state would protect it
! from The great herds OF the oNcrhcar-
ing and kingll corporations lie doe,
not see 70 dollar coming in from the
free grass hich enables the cattle dude
to sNlurgc at summer watering resorts
and oarou,c in eastern cities He does
not SEE the thousands OF poor but
industrious cmigrants, who developed
McLennan and Tarrnnt pouring into
those fertile lands where the bullion
air,'- line riders have established an
embargo, and he secs great journal
deyotine The columns of it, paper to
robbery Of the school children Of Tex
"a. fhc, would like to excuse The
great journal upon the score of ignor-
ancc, and while it seems hardly crcdi-
bic that paper like the Gazette should
be SO ignorant of the great west and of
right and Justice. yet il should be re-
mcmbcred that the humble ncstor i,
far away in the west lighting the line
rider, his voice is seldom heard in the
sanctum of the Gazette, while the bull
lionairo boss, making Fort Worth head |