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


ntive arm of the state should be tot
weak, they will be put down and pun
= ished, if it takes the united power o
all the states to accomplish 1t. Let
those who control capital also remem
Der that their unreasonable demands
to be sustained here in Texas rs u IA
yored class on tree grass, is unjust;
that the duties of capital are no less
4 imperative than are its rights; that
this is government of the people, fol
the people and by the people, and that
the greatest good to the greatest mum
Der of them is the high mission of that
government.
! In one breath this bill is assailed,
because it would give security to big
pastures owned 10y individuals and in
4! the next, because it eXempts twenty
five cattle of the poor man. A big
pasture, honestly owned by citizen,
should be always subject to the right
to establish roads through it; and, after
that, ii should be made as safe as the
humblest C ,bin In the land, or civil
cation will be rooted out by violence
What man gets honestly, whether
much or little, is his; and wherever
| there is state on earth that refuses to
protect him in it, there ought TO be IA
big hole in the earth there, instead of
! the state.
The exemption of twenty-five cattle
for the poor man is in strict cor form
ity with the whole policy of your laws.
| lfany of you should cut one tree on
public land the law Furnishes you Us "A
criminal; but the poor man, with no
property but his AK and no company
but his wife, may, wherever on public
land he pitches his tent, and desires to
stay as u pre-emptor, cut all the tim
Der he wants. Texas has always
cared for her poor; and this feature in
the bill only continues her policy.
| said to you, in opening this discus
sion several days ago, that consistency
was the virtue of fools, and without
regard to past blunders we should bury
our past differences aud unite ON the
side of social order For that | am
arraigned, and am told of territory
along the line of the Missouri Pacific,
all the way across Texas, belonging to
that company. But, sir, Texas can
not frown on me and say: you helped
do it," Whatever have been my legis-
lative blunders, and they are many,
they have never been on the side of
land grants to corporations. Go to
your journals, and you will find that |
worked and voted To prevent that conf
pany from obtaining these lands. On
the 18th of July, 1876, when the land
reservation of the Texas Pacific rail
way was forfeited, and relief bill was
before us, i used this language: "Sir,
those over-coniident off our future may
smile at that which should make a
patriot tremble. Capital in this coun-
try is marching with a rapid step
10 power. 1t already shapes the
legislation of national and state
governments. If threatened by agra
rlanism, this capital will seek Sc
curlty in the formation of strong
goyernment for the few at the expense
OF The many. And, sir, on the other
handy the unwise exercise of power
winch capital secures, in controlling
sometimes the press, and in thous-
and ways moulding legislation for its
own benefit, proyokes in its turn the
very spirit of agraranism which will
threaten 1t. IL seems to me that wise
craftsmanship would husband our re-
sources for the benefit of the great body
VI the people on whose devotion TO our
.or'il OF government our security in
Vhe future must depend. A landed
monopoly is more dangerous to free
government than n moneyed one. And
yer, we are gravely considering wheth-
u forfeited gift of 10000, 900 of acres
snail be again bestowed without mon
" ana without price, on nonresident
specuiators who own a road, which, if
ever finished, is destined to tantalize
you ny wheeling the commerce OF the
toIlihent across your extreme borders,
W. oe emptied into the lap of rival
Turn to page ESQ of the senate Jour
Lais OF 1876, when the law granting
, ,i, TO railroads was passed, and YOU
WIN ma the following senators voted
~ ~. Ball, Blassingame, Grace, GUY,
imenry, Plner aud Terrell--only seven
al aI .he entire senate of that senate. 1
T we remain. Nor are my views that
f teAas mas been receiving immigration
na than we could assimilate them.
G Gew. Ia 1877, in speech delivered i'm
i rnad setown, Just after the great rail-
, vIau strike, | said: II know these
oi tvms 90 not harmonise with the stere-
u orr eu Views of the press, which too
I tas ,n represents capital and grand en-
ers p,,ses, or of gushing stump-speak-
:. annr w.. a'ter reflection they will be
r peppI,, by the calm judgment of the
| tons q, Tor know that in other por-
close ~ ~ s this country, the evil days are
/ free y ., nand when the experiment of
! tested ' ,bnn will be more fearfully
; NAV no man ever before, and It
failure TThi be pronounced
, forced inn,; 40 not wish by
shape Of '',,hhi;'sfation to import, In the
Of our de- WIS turbulent labor, the seeds
We have , ,anion. l fear, and surely
: Nor'hern e a,. TO fear, that in our
rise like o'ues starving laborers will
. strength, ana howling giant in his
wild misra Ia w sIn1Iarchy, butchery or
, establIshinv , WIN pave the way for
, the interest ~ strong government, In
pense Of freea, social order, at the ex-
OF republics frans put lhe ora