Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-14
Boring for the Motive.

The Dallas Herald bores deep into the mo- |
| tives that propel the free grass machinery OF
| the Fort Worth GAZETTE. II held aloof from |
| the discussion of the free-grass question, be-
| lieving IL TO be inopportune, but recent lie
| marks of THE GAZETTE, (which seem to be
| a willfdl perversion of the Ideas IL wished TO
advocate" a reply is rendered necessary, and
| the Herald goes Tor its cheeky neighbour
Austin Capital.
Men who fail in argument "bore for
a motive" envy CHORES for motive;"
the people are not fools-they are not
children. The Dallas Herald is
supposed to circulate among the peo-
| pie by whom THE GAZETTE is read.
The arguments of THE GAZETTE are
printed in bold, clear type, on good
paper. With these only have the pub
lie to do, and the Herald will gain
nothing in the absence of argument
against THE GAzETTE's position by
"boring for motives" The GAZETTE
represents Northwest Texas and the
policy which is time-honored in all
Texas. What does the Herald rep
resent? That paper says:
| Whether true or not, 1t is the generally &C
copied belief that the Fort Worth GAZETTE is
owned and controlled by the Texas Invest
| ment company, company composed of
| many of the heaviest cattlemeu in the state
| IL would be to the Interest OF this company
tolhave free grass, as IL would enabls them to
feed their stock on the broad domain of Tex
as withoutfee or cost TO themselves. For
this reason alone, II is to be inferred, the pa
per owned by that company was
the first one 10 agitate the free-grass
proposition.
The Texas Investment company does
a commission or brokerage business,
and depends largely for its profits, If
any, on the sale of cattle. 1t would,
therefore, be to the interest of the COM
: pany If West Texas could be made q
grazing country only; it would be to
the interest Of the company to join the
e organs of the land syndicates and pas
a ture lords in an effort to perpetually
# leave the wealth to "syndicates and
j corporations outside of Texas" IL
If would be to the interest of the com.
Is pany to print u gratuitous edition Of
Prof. Roberts Book on Texas, mule
cared rabbit and all; IL is to the inter
p est of the Dallas Herald to misrep-
L resent THE GAZETTE.
Q The question before the people o
'e Texas is, Is the West adapted to agri
Is culture; and, If so, what Is the hes
IL means to attract actual settlers an,
people its waste places? The settle
ment of the West is the paramount
is consideration. THE GAZETTE affirm
20 that West Texas is susceptible O
s. agricultural development and that tn
re lease law with its barbed wire i, al
q impeachment to that settlement. Dali
al THE GAZETTE supports its positio
with arguments and facts. Let thos
who deny The GAZErrE's po,itio
re meet argument with argument, fc
to Misrepresentation will react on thos
to who resort to 1t.
ny The people-the actual settlers
is- determined that the lease law shall /
Oh repealed. If quasi Democratic jou
nails want the annulment accomplishe
under Democratic rule, let thel
I'M heed the voice Of the people. If thes
A. journals honestly believe the people al
ne mistaken, let them drop misrepresen
10 alton and get down to argument /
10 order that the people may be col
'ed WINGED of their error before the i'd
iat of November.
Misrepresentation of The GAzErr
;. will not affect the people Of Northwe
-. Texas-and, be the motive Of TIL
~ GAZETTE what it may, the paper plea,
'ss for actual settlement; 1t plea.
~, for population 1t pleads for that pc
~ icy for the people of Jones and Baylt
y, and Taylor that governed the countl
- when people were trying to settle d i
- las, Ellis and McLennan In years gor
by. THE GAZETTE pleads for the Dan
or oexatic party when 1t pleads for a
Ger amendment to the lease law.
do Ia the rear OF every army there al
camp followers. THE GAzE1rE cal
-, not help 1t II some men are actuate
by purely selfish motives In advoca
OF Ing free grass; but there lis more selflsl
ness evinced when fifteen firms or co
Ac- porations take and :" tie up" oper on
On million acres Of iands out Of y total Z
d. little more than million and = hal
~ Some men will profit by an a,nsns
b nsnt VI the lease law who do n 1t nee
The benefit Of tree grass. But no ma