Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-18

great head OF the grand "depart-
menV'(2), who wanted the half million
dollars as badly and only secured
$4,000 more than was given to his IL
lustrious predecessor, issued prOcls-
nation. II was addressed to hfs trav-
cling agents and TO cattle owners, but
never once mentioned Texas csttle
1 fever" The newspapers commented
on this fact. The $500 900 appropria.
\ ton was originally sought In order 10
pay cattle doctors bills in advance,
-, and the anticipated disease OF which
/ the poor cows were 10 die was named
Texas cattle fever.n But rep
Iesentatives Of Texas were unwilling to
have the value Of Texas property de-
strOyed by the bureaus nomenclature
Of cattle plaques, and therefore the
word "Texasn was stricken out of the
"ca.tle disease billn In fact IL was
proven by hundreds of experts and
dealers that there was no such disease
peculiar TO cattle in Texas or coming
from that state.
But this week Loring IL again ex-
ploring, and his SUBJ comes before
us with another explosion to illumine
the bureauaccursed country.
He pirates nightly about
the "Texssn cattle fever or milk sick
ness and things, and the fellows that
are enjoying the $40 per diem are in
structed to hop around nightly.
There is nothing like justifying con-
gress in giving the $3.50 600 IL the
hungry bureau Is still famished for
want of the $500, 900 which Oklahoma
Plumb wished to give it..
PAYNE AND THIS FEDERAL DEsPoT-
ISM.
This reminds me that Payne and his
immigrants are at last ia court. But
in which court? Don't you see how
the rascals-these plundering bureaus
have put up job on Payne? He has
sought access to the courts for years.
This Republican" (?) government has
only arrested and imprisoned him.
The courts were closed and armed
men guarded the lawless wire fence
Of the ring that appropriated the land
belonging to the people. Payne is
poor, Plumb rich. The law and the
right are with Payne; the money with
Plumb. Plumb is of the governments
created nobility; Payne is poor devil
who was fool enough to serve his flag
a. a common soldier through two wars
Plumb gathered offices and bonds
and waxed fat And this is
the rich mans and not the
poor mans government 1t is the
government Of tariffs, banks, bonds,
rail, mines and OF Corporations, and the
common toiling people, like Payne, are
voiceless and helpless. The law gives
him the right TO own and cultivate
100 acres OF the fair plains OF Okla
homa. He set up barrOom on this
land. IL Indian land, the barroom
10
can stand. But the courts, instructed
from Washington, will not try the
case in any of its aspects, and Payne Is
trounced out by federal soldiers.
Payne sued Pope, commanding these
soldiers but the court belongs to the
grandees at Washington, and there is
no trial. And now when Payne is
arrested and secures the writ of habeas
corpus the nefarious courts, instructed
from Washington, deny their own
Jurisdiction and Payne is helpless, and
the depraved, vicious government IL q
simple instrument in the hands of the
rich and powerful TO imprison and rob
the poor aud helpless. Dis
patches state this morning that
IA grand jury, rs instructed by the fed
eral court, has at last found true bill
against Payne, and the case may come
before the supreme court, where at
least one Justice, Field, will honestly
apply the law and the facts, and
Plumb's wire fences must go.
THE GAZETTE HONoRED.
When the Virginia Democracy last
night passed under the sign-board of
your Washington office they gave
three cheers for the press of the Lone
Star state The Alexandria Gazette
has made known in that ancient city
the virtues of THE GAZETTE of Texas.
The Washington Post has also con.
tributed TO this result by copying from
your pages, and the vigorous news
paper of the Southwest should
doft It's hat IN recognition
of honors awarded IL in the federal
capital.
ROUNDS AND THE PRINTERS.
Mr.. Rounds, the public printer, is n
master Of his profession, for printing is
fine art. But money doesn't grow
ON trees as babies should, and he can't
| go around and pluck when he needs it.
! The Democratic house, in the presence
OF the presidential election, cut down
Rounds estimate about 81 600, 900, and
the result Is Rounds is forced to dis
charge about 20 per cent. of the whole
number of his employees. OF these un.
fortunates and most unfortunate is he.
of all the rest, with his large family
and bad Health, heard one, cogni2-
ant of all the facts. still asserting the
| splendid virtues of Mr.. Rounds. Com
monty, the discharged clerk orgovern-
ment employee wreaks vengeance, In
empty excavations, upon the head of
the bureau that sends him forth TO
root hog or die" but here / find an
intelligent Mississippian, an excellent
scholar and gentleman, discharged
aud yet lauding the man who did il.
But one can hardly refrain
from weeping when contemplating
the griefs Of these hapless eX-piace-
holders. They know not how To- live
and in Washington there Ia no work
for the poor save that for which the
government pays. No capitalist can
compete in the labor mar
ket with the government and
therefore manufactures do not exist In
IA capital, state or federal Therefore
the inhabitants OF capital are devoid
OF enterprising spirit. They are "pen-
stoned lazzaronin The women Keen
boarders, the men purloin cocktails at
market.