Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-21

wealth nom burdens imposed
upon the people Of Ttxas to invest In
distant states-all these must depart
aud how wretched their fate There
sre no places for them In the distant
West, They cannot rueh to Wnshinp-
ton to unfold some terrible tale OF rebel
lniamy and persecution and thus com
mandlng Sepuhrican sympathy secure
SOFT places IN the capital.
THAT ABSURD, ExTRANEoUs. SORE
AND SWELLING ULCER
on the body polite, known as the
bureau OF education and unknown to
the FEDERAL constitution, has been suf-
Iered 10 exist solely for the special de.
IeceH'ion OF an eXtied and supernumer-
airy earpet-bagger. IL is rs Rrievous a
nuisance as the newly. tangled
cattle disease bureau which
has discovered and announced within
the week In a grave official publication
that the awful pleuro- pneumonia. a
IT xas cattle fever.n as they call 1t. Ia
caused by cows eating ergot. i infer.
therefore, that the cattle disease il n
powerful fever and Indication of the
100 rapid production of calves. But
the bureau, instead of the COW, mis-
carries and should be kpocked on the
mead. IL Is public nuisance, and
worse, q grievous public calamity.
The people will take better and wiser
care OF their property than any bureau
for them, and each state would serve
the people, through Its local agrlcul.
tural department, better than this alb
surd and lawless federal institution.
| WIS only going to suggest that when
the last OF the carpet.biggers aud the
last of the widely distributed Ohio
piaceholders moves away from the
South the cities of the South should
be Illuminated and bonfires blaze
every where. 1t is not that they are
bad men, but their very presence I'm
power has been signi6oanto Of conquest
they have b, en- perpetual menace.
Ihey tell Southern people, UniOnists
who followed Douglas aud Sam Hous-
ton, and Secessionists as well, that they
are unht TO represent the supremacy
God favored masters OF the central
government. They have made the
negro believe he would be reduced to
slavery IL subjected to the political and
partisan mastery of the Democratic or
white mans party. They have delib-
erately sought to make the blacks
masters in the South, and thus, un-
happily for both separated the races
as widely as the poles asun6er. They
have supplied the Northern press
with It's olobdy-shirt literature They
have, since they are the only Northern
people with whom the average South
erner comes in contact, created the im-
preston that the whole North Is
neither better nor worse than these adj
yenturers. and the country pumpkin
absolutely believes that there are only
Moseses, and Bullocks, aud Ameses,
andlKelloggs, aud neither honesty, nor
virtue, nor truth beyond the Ohio.
Unhappily, the South has served the
North rs sort OF Botany Bay,
WHITTIER the great party leaders sent
all the knaves clHmoFous for places
who were not decent enough to be
consigned to Ohio and the North. No
wonder good old Horace Greeley lifted
'his fearful eyes and pitiful voice and
exclaimed, 4,
THE CARPET BAddER is A MOURN
Full FACT.n
Should not the regenerate South fol-
low the last of these mournful curses
to the unity and peace of the country.
even to the confines of the North
with every demonstration OF joy? In
any event let Cleveland's Inauguration
be celebrated as the extinction of par
ties in the South distin.
gutshed solely by color, and
then let the whole people wear
Grape one month from the 4,h of
March next TO signify their irremedi-
able grief because Of the death OF car
pet-bagism Then let us devote a
special day to a reel al OF the whole
litany of hum N sorrows and let us
wear Grape because poor Kellogg Is no
more and then saGK-oloJh and ashes
because the innumerable family of
Romulus Remus roaring ranting
Raum goes out OF office. Cleveland
has promised 10 devote the first week
OF his reign TO the decapitatlon of the
uncles and aunts and nephews and
brothers and nieres aud mothers,in-
law and sons and daughters of Raums
and Eatons plastered all over the rot
ting hulk of the old ship of state as
fostering barnacles for twenty years.
PERSONALS.
MIR. Wellborn, the excellent repre-
sentative OF the Fort Worth congress
sional district of Texas, is in the city. |
Our modern Plato, who seems good |
fellow and certainly having devoted |
friends, Is always in hot water. He I
and Gov. Davis had row and Davis
curse rests on him, and other fellows
want PlatO's comfortable little tropical
custom'house and Plato fights sea of
troubles. don't know what the an
tiquated curmudgeon who Stops over
In the treasury will do with Plalo, but
the life Of Plato's chance grows very
brief aud he Is painfully anxious.
Cleveland's coming, however we re-
joice, begets infinite misery, and Pm
sorry for poor Plato and thousands
like him.
HOW CLEVELAND GETS IN.
You will remember that never be
lieved that Jay Gould would suffer
Cleveland TO be counted In. was sure
that enough returns would be bought
or cooked by Bliss, as Gould's agest,
10 make Blaine president. But the