Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-08

In the valley Of the Missouri. 10 re-.
suit, ike that In the lowlands of the
mississippi, In the useless expenditure
oil millions of money on earthen walls
as unsubstantial rs the argument nv
which this criminal waste of the peo-
ple's money IL justified
Even II Van Horn of Kansas Civ
who understands thoroughly the
proper methods of dealing with the
rivers of the West, were invt sted with
the power to expend this million dol.
lars, the original wrong involved In
violating the country's organic law, by
making the expenditure for the BUR-
pose contemplated, would not be rene
died. Unhappily, however, the
beneficence designed to be achieved
and the diffusion of gold among the
people, soothes consciences troubled
Win scrupies affecting the right to
extend these millions, and states
and people are corrupted
by the compatibility of con.
gress, maddened by glittering heaps
of silver and gold lying idle in cavern
GUS vaults of the treasury. Aud the
only response to reasoning like this In
these days of degenerate public con.
science, Is the apologize plea of posi-.
bic good results of unmixed perjury.
| HoLMANIZING THE COUNTRY.
In TACT, the congress plainly tells the
people that 1t knows better how to use
their money than they who dig il out
of the ground, and that the congress.
infinitely wiser than they, is unre.
strained by the plain letter of the
country's organic law, and expediency,
as congress comprehends the necessi-
ties OF the country, and rights and
autonomy of states, is the supreme law
OF the land. One nsurpatiOn be-
comes an established prec-
edent for another. Humanity
and charity and floods and ignorance
injected into ballot boxes, each and all
are preteXts held up before the people
for the robbery of the people, not only
of money by the ton, but of local
rights and of personal liberty and of
the freedom OF their newspapers. Like
Mr.. Holman, II object,' and it Is
time that the whole country were
Holmanized. II should enter It's sob
lection" of record in November next.
REPUBLICAN SELF STULTIFICATIoN
RepuDlicanism violated all laws,
human and divine, when il undertook
to govern the South by making the
negro master of the South.
If IL could only control the South, its
power must be elevated. 1t CONSOLE
dated the negro race, and invested it
lawlessly with every privilege of citi-
zenship. With the bayonet it wrote
constitutional amendments having no
more validity than other contracts ex-
ecuted under duress. First through
loyal leagues, and then with the
bloody shirt, 1t consolidated the negro
against the whites. But failing to
pnin in ha
contrary only succeeding ia forcing
the whole white population into the
Democratic party, and thus failing to
subject the South to the absolutism of
unmixed baIbarisnl, it suddenly
changes its tack, aud its contrition
Tor It's crime becomes so painful that IL
would now buy potency in the South
by giving the very states Which
~ recently sought to govern
through forces of barbarism and igno-
rance, countless millions of money to
dissipate this barbarism and ignorance.
When lawless force fails of its purpose
1T resorts to bribery. To escape deri-
sion for failure and hatred for its at
tempt to make the South Dahomey.
} 1t suddenly conceives the purpose of
|. converting 1t into an intellectual para.
disc, and buying with money wrenched
from the South by an Ubiquitous sys.
tenn of thieving and unequal taxation
Tue potency there which the besCtted
negro could not give it.
A PROTEST.
1t may be well enough to accept this
money, as The GAZETTE insists,
|, but we should not fail to
enter cur protest against the
: purpose and policy and violation of
organic law involved in this splendid
J scheme of federal beneticence and
; bribery of states and populations.
am glad, therefore, that Sherman
J and Malone still stupidity sling the
, bloody shirt. Otherwise, the people of
, The South, contemplating the stream
! OF glittering gold flowing down among
them from the treasury might forget
, that, force and savagery having failed
, to win supremacy for Sherman's
, party in the South, 1t would now edu-
cate the South in the faith that it owes
J 1t chiefesi blessing to those who re-
2Sently sought to reign through vio-
.ence aha ignorance, and falling,
) would buy it by buying the gratitu le
: and intelligence of the South.
Nine-tenths of West Pointers are
tslaqlarehlsts or consolidaiionists. Their
: fprinIdfy saj.risHes they are edu-
Gated, is due 10 the cefifT5ysvvass..,
ana each government-maintain
school must be another West Point.
A charity school originally, West Point
IS the school of au aristocracy.
Founded by devotees at the shrine Of
local and personal liberty, it produced
, The personal government of Grant. and
iilied the country's capital with statues
dedicated to despotism. The govern.
ment-educated child, here as In Prus.
sla, is the child of the empire and moi
OF The family or of the state, and the
senate of the Uaited States, in giving
me South seventy millions Tor its
schools, has only offered these seventy
millions for the imperial purple.
THE HOUSE WILL FOLLOW THE SENATE
NO sooner Is free or government
school instituted, than other schools
die. The best schools succumb to the
meanest. The best teachers starye: the
political teachers and parasites of bow.
er monopolize the business. The
cheap John pedagogues flock in: the
a. M.'s-mdgistri drtiuDt-disappear
me richest of the people are paid TO
Delieve themselves too poor to educate
their own children,a nd these children
are thus paid to forget parents as
chiefest beDefactors. The whole re.
publican social system underpoes
transformation. The very school
books used are designed TO produce n
race OF imperialists, aud false history
as well as false nhiioaopL, ~ -y