Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-22

The land market To such An extent 'ua'
the railroad corporations ought 10 DC
willing 10 pension us for life
1 believe we can get revenue 'rui"
lands without resorting to such hSn,
testify unjust aud rsdi al methods ~
ann not prepared to say that Il Is rlshl
In order to get one dollar for the scnool
fund that we should put Two doilsrs
into the pockets Of these already en- =
,iched corporstions If we sacrifice
west and northwest Texas by the enact
ment ofsuch law, let us At least favor
The rest OF the state by allowing the
farmer TO dispense with his fences.
II is useless to 20 before the people
and say we have allowed twenty-five
head OF stock to run at large aud only
required the stockman To own lshu
upon which to pasture an excess.
THE FARMER
will say, you have not bettered my
condition and have injured large
district.
Insist upon this requirement, and a
stock CORPORATION will control the
stock interests of Texas. The big
stockman will grow fat on such legis-
lation. and can afford to attend a con-
yention every week, but the little
stockmen OF 300 or 800 head Of cattle
will see his fine herds at oue-half their
present value driven into the already
large herd of the mOnopolist.
Ii need not be expected that you VIII
gain the favor of your people oy ex-
empting twenty-five head, for the
people know that this means an an
nual or biennial reduction in numbers
till the old gray mare and muly COW
will have to be staked out or penned
in. Before three years have elapsed
the good women of the land will b.
gin TO have Visions of bread made
without butter milk and of scrawny
children raised on condensed milk and
they will say this Is the milk that was
in Senator Terrelps cocoauut. No, sir,
this exemption wont quiet these poo
pie, for il you leave them twenty-five
slick cows and take away the crump'
led-hurn old SOOkey; II you leave them
twenty five slick mares aud take away
the glass-.yed, lavender-cOlured tilly,
they will feel that you have wronged
them. This bill with exemptions that
are not founded on justice, it is claim
ed, will work like charm on the
EAST AND NORTH TEXAs GRANGER.
But don't let us deceive ourselves, for
these PEG ple will not simply reflect on
how law effects them, but will ex-
anime further into it's merits You
can't maze an Arcadia out of one sec
ton of the state and hell out of the
other aud still find everything serene.
What il Ia become of The thousands
Z A.. l.. is.
tie, from which they support their
families? They will not only be gath !
cred into Abraham's bosom, but will !
have the eye squeezed out OF them.
Give these men fair chance To lease (
the school lands and force the railroads |
To pursue the same policy in grazing
distric AS the state pursues,. aud we
Sill get ply for the chlldren's grass.
| want the state TO hold on to these |
lands, and at the same time /
derive a revenue for the schools but /
this can hardly be accomplished By |
forcing the stuckmen to impnverish !
themselves in pay ,ng tribute to rail- |
roads and land spectators who own !
three acres to the sta'e's one.
This may read like poor mans law.
but IL oill have tue effect of making
even Tex " an exclusively rich mans |
county.
There are not many of my constitu-
cnts who have over the exempted
but this fact won't brguile
me into supporting the meas
IRE, and my constituents
are not 30 selfish as TO be
because the,r interests are
not directly affected by a measure
But, Mr.. President, say that this pro-
vision Of the bill was grounded on |
principles of manifest justice and CO |
uity, and it certainly is nos; say that II !
forces every mau to own the grass
HIS STOCK
eats, and certainly 1t does not; even |
then the Stubborn fact remains that il |
would cost more than the annual in |
come from the grass 10 enforce its pro- |
, isiOns
Those stockmen may be eating the
ihildren's grass, but if we will make
hem pay their share of taxes, they
have no schools, SO their money would
90 u he along education in our more
-ettled communities. If you can't
round up tselr cattle enough to yet
like correct appraise-
nent, how ARE you going To round
hem up so rs to discover the excess
over and above this exemption? This
Inst secli N is unjust, for il iixrs "a leg.
slative limit to the number of stock
/ man can run on FIRE. range, aud
when man has over the number.
iont require him tn RIM them on his I
,,wn range, for he may own sandy
ie-ert one place and craze his stock on |
Fn1n ri To-.
mere. Another objection to the bill is
nat IL permits cattle TO drift, and in
ilcts no penalty on their owner No
''il can De perfect that permits cattle
q drlit, ana the effects oi this provis-
nh wou'h be That the constituents of I
he senator from Collin would ALWAYS
nave their stock drifting on my CON
tituents Those features in the bill I
when punish men for fencing land \
lot Their. own, and when punish
as felony are ali right
tiis Dill had & ne further aud pro. ,
,lded road facilities or gates, but all I
hese subjects should be legislated l
pom IN separate bills and an ATTEMPT
mould not be made to legislate LDon I
he whole question. ;
IN ONE BILL.
BUT MIR. President, admit that the q
lil Is as perfect "A solution ofthe uues. i
Ioh as some OF he press and senators IA
ontehd that 1t II, what are we to saw d
tue means provided tn enforce itP H
am not surprised that so MANY ed f
nrs have favored ii, for it create, nm b
nee ~, Tor nearly every friend of the D
l nave no doubt but what this feature /,
the Oil would commend 1t TO those D
lemne's OF the senate whose terms [,
'ph explre, but for the fact his excel. ii
,m,cy 50 far has not discovered az much
hclai talent in this body as in the