The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-31


8, X y Land and Cattle 49,. 40, .w,.
Horse shos Cattle Co., 10000 forlworth
AID HeiriaerstInv Co 80 900 San Antonio
Fort Worth svnk Yards 10000 Fort Worth
Liberty Cattle Co .....,, lOt0l Fort worm
". Lonis Cattle Co see. 2O.Ooo colorado
Brasos Cattle Co. ,.,,.,,, - Fort worm
ystons Real Estate
Association, ...-,. ,,,.. 5000 Dallas
and Land Co ......... 10000 Coleman
jumbo Csite Cn, .,,..,, 5000 golofEo
TahoSa Cattle Z, ....... 100000 F1rtworth
Texas Real Estate Asso- -
Gallon .s,.,.,......'... lVSVV bains
Scan the surroundings OF those senators
more closely and what more do you discern?
You wers told through the press only yes.
terday that Senator johnson was the only
rich senator and that all the rast OF US were
moor. L-tu. see. Senator Fleming told
YOU yesterday that he had ITO coo acres In
mis- pasture and 10000 in srotper., with
such load 10 his pocket, aud goa ed py
the baroei wire OF the situation, II Is NO
| wonder that he grew eloquent in favor oil
the wandering herdsmeu outside OF his DO
main; but IL would have been wiser II he
had remem ber.d that the lswles, depfeda'
| tons on school grass, which he now encour'
| ages, breeds the commune spirit that will
poster him hereafter. The senator from
Dallas also has his 5 COO acres OF enclosed pas.
tare near Dallas and by strange coinci-
dencs his colleague in the other
house wants to limit the size
OF pastures to just that amount The sens'
ter from Bell has large pastu Q on which
the nippers have been at work. Senator
Traylor, when We failed TO get rational
road Law through the other house, sold his
large pasture and cast his vote with no
handicap weights.
Now. sir. right here and In this conneo.
Ia hu fha htQtnYv
race, as II has passed through CENTURIES,
the position that reforms and increased
punishment should 20 hand in hand. Civil.
| ization can not reform by punishment
alone; therefore il 10 that my bill, while in
cressing the punishment Of the fence-
cutter, undertakes to punish those who
Cypress him, for cspita! has its duties a.
well as Its rights.
ROMAN PASTURES.
Some senators in Rlme had their big
pasture troubles once, just as'hese senators
/ have to-day. That era Was prolific in
writer's, so that rs history, told by Fr'ane,
stands out IS plain In detail rs the Irish
question of yesterday.
In the early days or ONE, Spuriuo Cas-
sius procured raw that the public domain
of italy, usurped by patricians, should be
surrendered TO the state for necessitinus
citizsus. The law WAS resisted by the Ro.
man senate, and became q dead letter.
The Keeping of large tlotkS upon the com.
mon pasture lands in tho Campania ex'
cIuded the small farmers from theE. The
law De Modo Agri was then passed. that
no one should possess more than $50 acres
of the public domain. Again the palri-
the law, it was disregarded; and Italy, with
its pasturage, woods and forests, was par
csed out for two centuries by patriciau
senator's. To enforce that law not to dis.
tnrb vested rights, Tiberius,and afterwards
Caius Gracious lost their lives. And then
came upon the stage wonderful man
Cesar the nephew by marriage OF Marins,
who had seen the rights of the psople
crushed under the legions of Sulls, and
bijed his time. When he became consul
large tracts were held on the usual e'sy
terms by great landed senators and patrj-
clans. These Caesar when consul proposed
| 10 bay out aud settle on them Pompey's
veterans, who had just driven the pirates
from the Mediterranean. and could find no
land on which TO rest. The public lands
had bean shared conveniently among the
senai ors, aud they resisted him. Cato
headed the oppositisp, while the senate
groaned aud foamed even worse than these
border senators did yesterday Cesar then
went before the temple Of Ca tor and pro.
posed his decree TO the people. Pompey
and Crossus were . 1t his side side G p.
aSKeO IOmpey. WIN YOU, Iou'
gaily opposed2" He replied: ''Ityou.
Consul, and you, my fellow-olizens, ask
aid of me; poor individual, without office
and without authority, who, nevertheless,
has doue the state some service, say that
| will bear the shield If others will draw the
sword" A hundred thousand throats ap-
plauded the ansv-r; the law was enacted
| BY the people, Who broke the rods Of Lie
tors and scourgsd the Tribunes who had
betrayed their trusts. And thus were TO-.
900 Pom psy's battered veterans located on
public lands, in ono year. over Italy. Thus
| concession to public necessity preserved
the pu olic peace and perhaps avoided an.
other Oatalioe conspiracy.
RRToRM IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
Dir, wherever republic has gone
own, some land trouoe, exasDerating
the poorer class inflicted the wound. Louis,
OF France aud Navarro, in 1915, believe 1t
was, crystalized his power by enfranchisipg
the farmers and lining burlhens from their
necks in his celebrated decree, the first
Magma Charta of France. Over five hun.
bred years Afterwards Mr.. Gladstone found
himself pews1rlss' even WITT With the srea.
punish the fsnce-cuttsrs OF Ireland. That
statesman, in the same breath that in
creased tha punishment of the lAwlessness,
corrected real grievances by the land &C! OF
1880, passed to aid the tenant 10 obtain
an interest in the soil. In 1863,
the same disturbing forces vexed un-
happy Ireland, when tenants were
evicted in order to rent to large grazers at
high rent. The White Boys OF that day
destroyed the enclosures built for the cattle,
and the moon. lighters and the ribbon-men
over there only yesterday followed IN their
wake.
Here the senator had sent up to be read
oy the clerk an Irish question, showing Mr..
Gladstone's policy to do justics to the Irish
poor, which we omit
Mr.. Davis-Is he going TO have that whole
book readf
The President-The clerk will read as de.
sired.
Senator Tsrrell-Be patient. III make
you land corporation and ireo grass senators
more anxious for me to cease than this be-
fore finish.
GOVERNOR DOES not Ask FOB MORE TROOPS. |
call tho attention Of senators to the fact
that the governor, 10 his message to you OF
the 9Th OF January. nowhere asks you 70
plaza al increased military force at his dis |
nnaal How CouId he I? for onIy few days |