Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-18
rup GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS MONDAY FEBRUARY is.

then you have no use for troops, no
even for detectives, who, he seems
think, are opposed to the genius OF gu
government.
Many reforms suggested in the mes
sage | approve if modided); aud tn
pending bill is framed to meet them
| especially refer 30 that part of !i
message in which lie says: ~ recon
mend law giving landowner
| lien on stock that may trespnss ol
lands with the knowledge or consen
of the owner, and against the will o
the landowner, for all damages don
10y said stock. and value of grass an,
property destroyed by them.p This
| in plain English language, seemed L
be recommending herd law stricte
than we are prepared for, and nothing
else. Two days later when it was man
ifest that the stock convent on woulC
pronounce against n herd law, the gov
ernor made u speech, in which he said
THE herd law has been referred to IL
your body as the herd law of the exec
utive. | have not suggested such q
thing. What | might conceive to be
right, and what | referred to in my
message was, the driving of stock OF
the inclosed lands of another
So, at last it is made plain that the
governor has convened us to pass law
to give landowner a lien on stocl,
that are driven inside of pasture to eat
grass, with the knowledge of the ami
mails owner. This is a revelation; we
are convened to pass law to give q
lien to the pasturemen for pasture
charges, right which | believe the
common law has secured without n
statute, time out of mind.
But, in that same speech to the
stockmen, he said: Protect yourselves
Months ago ! said through the press
that the remedy is in the hands OF the
people. For this one OF the state journals
said that ! wanted them to take the
law into their own hands. No, sir;
but | do want to tell these officials to
do their whole duty; and il you catch
a man setting fire 10 your barn and
destroying your fences, if you catch
him in the net and shoot him-well, |
will make no pledge as to what | Will
do, if you will appeal to me in the
WHAT'S this but suggestion of cx-
ecutive pardon for murder? Is this
your remedy? Encourage the doctrine
that the fence owner must make him
self judge, jury and eXecutioner let
this doctrine go forth, and the prairie
will be dyed in blood from Red river
to the Rio Grande, Murder will pro-
woke organized retaliation, and the red
arm OF butchery will he doing its work
instead of the peaceful methods of pro-
tecting laws. The genius of social or
der, faint with wandering the plains.
and scorched by the vertical rays of
beheld the governor of Texas
afar OIL, romising her shade and pro-
lection. she hastened, heated and IA
ligued, TO his protecting arms; but
when she heard from his lips this i'm
piled promise to pardon the murderer,
she would not enter the circumference
Of his shade, and she must now look
for safety in the patriotism of the peo-
pie.
Social order can no more repose on
violence and terrorism than il can on
penalties, Laws must he grounded in
uotice To be respected; and any remedy
which leaves the Pandora's box of free
.rass open, will only increase the evil.
The wandering herdsman who owns
much cattle and no grass, must cease
MS travels; the pastureman must also
top his oppressive ways; and both in
iividuals and corporations learn, by
aging for school land grass, to divide !
he burdens of taxation with the farm
7, or there can be no peace in this
The remedy sometimes suggested OF !
living the governor power To remove
heriiis is open violation of the cunsti- |
ution, which entities the sheriff to "A |
rial 10y jury. So also the remedy of |
making each county pay for the fences
= not only unconstitutional but as
ome counties, like Archer, are fenced
II by pasture, we would have the
orange anomaly, under such rule,
making the owner of II pasture nav for
ne destruction of his own fence, Elk.
cutlVe appeals to the law and order
Element of Notwithstanding counties
eAds WELL but they come too late
" hen the whole social fabric Is infect
"a with the malady in county the
heriIis are powerless and grand iuries
become mockery then the causes of
lie malady mast be found and re-
moved IN the same hour in which the
'e1pie are invited to defend property
tights and social ORDER
a little patent nostrum which i'm dine
Ime viii see the light here in the
ehate, looks to giving a pastureman a
en on all cattle that enter his farm ,
lclosure after his fence is DESTROYED
nat remedy will deserve a medal of
'ad, for again you are met with the ,
oJectlon that the owners of the tres. ,
assing cattle would be the numerous ,
hder dogs, who are now mad: and :
Ills pasturman would be Il bold fellow
no would impound their cattle :
NOW, sir, | have explored sufficient J
the whole cloudy horizon. and a0ain
" to you that, plaster and doctor ibis 9
isease as you may, there will be no o
lall cease. He who looks the neriI =
'ne eye ana adopts the severe rene Il
:, "iiich alohe can cure, is not an n
az, al'list; ana he only in an hour like /
g unngeri or who, like the senator y
OH harrison, represents his constit- ii
va ny reading doggerel poetry TO r,
y 1t with ideas. ''''' WV !, y
y ana Inc now for the provisions of the q
". ihough modified herd law In n
resulls' IL l. not n herd law in the W
use that IA man shall keep his stock p,
ms own uninclosed land. Exist y
= hapits OF the people should be re- =,
~. us lar ms possible, by every ~ .,
w ana 1 assert that this bill il vi
s u with that view. Take an east. ~
u ieAas farmer who, with much ~ T.,
'or' mas Held in that timber region ~
thifty acres. He has IN
w. around him, but ~ -,
o 0ered with timber. If required to 81