Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-18
Editors, Instead Of Lawyers, to Gov.
ern the Country The Exclusion
Of Lawyers From
Knights Of Labor Associations - Joe
sayers and the Agricultural De-
partment,
Oklahoma Plumb and Payne-The Fort
Worth Gazette Must Make Little
Speech Discharged Printers.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l3.-It is well
that Miller and Grain and Sayers are
coming to Washington. Grain is brill
liant and perhaps somewhat erratic.
I've heard him appeal to the multitude,
and always with wit and eloquence.
1.-The comes down to hard work and
study the secret OF success Of men who
have won fame and power in the
house, there il no degree Of excellence
which he may not achieve. He ia
voluble talker; but u merely vol
uble talker cannot have an audience
In the house. He must think even
more accurately than he talks. "Blath-
erskitesn and bowling dervlshes and
ranting. furious disclaimers long ago lost
caste. They arc only esteemed as wind
mills TO fan genius and Intelligence
10 profoundest repose. This emptiness
Of speech is commonly measured, with
proximate accuracy, by that Of the
''benches" and nothing produces more
nearly atperiect vacuum than campaign
crossroads fiery defamation. This is
still tolerated in the house though
never dreamed of In the senate. In
that body the most disagreeable Of de-
chalmers often has the most attentive
listeners. In fact, "oratoTy,n as Mr..
Grain will soon discover, Is slowly los
ing caste, not only in congress but
among the people who no longer
follow mere stump speakers.
Great throngs were once
gathered by the "holdlng FORTH Of
candidates and electors. But mere
oratory, as an operative force at the
hustings and I'm deliberative assemblies,
il surely lapsing into desuetude. SEN
ators have abandoned the art and lead
ers In the house are not the orators,
but the wise, practical men OF that
body. They have capacity of brief eX-
preston. They can make succinct,
simple, logical statements of facts or
arguments; but never dream Of that
efIervesence of words which delights
the idle multitude.
PRINTED SPEECHES.
Those printed speeches sent over
each district, each session. by each con-
gresham, even II delivered at all on
the floor OF congress, are only listened
TO by personal friends OF the speaker
who would measure If possible the
orators" (?)success, not In shaping
legislation, but in capturing doubt
ing constituency. Where the "oratorn
is warmly congratulated" AS the
newspapers tell IL, IL means that he has
pulled the wool over the eyes OF the
reading portion of the constituency ad-
dressed. OF the 500 tariff speeches
made at the late session, not one was
designed TO have the slightest influence
upon legislation of the day, and each
speech was produced that IL might be
read and not heard, and each was n
written essay and In no proper sense a
speech.
TALKING MACHINES.
And yet the people of the new states
select congressman mainly with refer
ence TO the volubllity OF those gentle
men, aud since lawyers are the known
and praeticed takers of the country,
lawyers constitute the great body of
the congressman. From the older
states, on the contrary, are coming up
new Glasses OF representatives Editors
appear among them. Mercantile
communities are represented here, ms
in the British parliament, not by law
yers, but by merchants aud bankers
and manufacturers. From the West
and South there still come none but
lawyers. The tendency to change
in this behalf Is illustrated
in the action of the knights of Labor,
the most potent and conservative OF
industrial quasi political societies,
They will not suffer lawyer to be.
come member of the organization /
have lever learned the reason, save as
embodied in the general statement OF
the presiding officer of one OF these
societies; THAT this Ia republic and
can properly have no governing class,
and lawyers, therefore, must step down
aud out" He went ON to say that
courts are nuisances, costing the
country's industry tenfold more every
year than the absurdly costly govern
ment. The courts, sooner or later
save TO eutoree liens and trusts, and
dispose OF deeedents' estate.
must 20. Meanwhile the cor.
porstlons, and the lawyers repre-
senting them must, for time, sub
S!de.p
TITS NOT susr.
IL must be confessed, while the pur-
poses and theories OF the knights OF
Labor meet my approval, that / cannot
commend this exclusion of LAWYERS
from their assembly places. The
knights have no such strength In
Texas s In Eastern and Western
states or Texas would not be represent
ed In Washington M wisely and well
as to-day, and exclusively by LAWYERS,
II Grain be brilliant and a lawyer he
is wise and thoughtful, and only the
more admirable that genuisgilds talent
with professional learning even II
the We're rhapsodlcal and rhetorical
Eis redundRnces would be counter
balanced by the solid sense OF Miller
and sound conservatism of tue emit
neatly practical Joe SisyeIs. tho best
and most successful farmer OF Texas.
It's q great pity we have not such a
man 70 administer the affairs OF the
agricultural department. But a
bureau could hardly conllne him 30 its
narrow tasks and lac would be incapa.
BILE OF entering into combinations 10
"bullp the Eastern cattle market.
THE LAST PHASE or THE COW COM.
PLANT.
or course the agents of the agricul-
tural bureau nust deserve their $40
each, per diem. OF couTse sick COWS
have been found. Two weeks ago the