The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

ance Of further usefulness. Further
west is the senator from Cameron
Senator Collins, himself the owner
OF a 10000 acre pasture, which has
never been cut, for he Expresses no
neighbOr, and who faYOrs and reported
this bill. These two stand on the from
tier like rocks in the ocean, mistaken
by free grass champions.
The pressure on these border sena-
tors in favor Of land corporations be
comes more apparent when l tell you
that, since we met here one short year
ago, when on my motion, we solemnly
enacted that no land corporation should
buy more than one school section in
one county, the following charters
have been granted, with headquarters
OF the corporations in the following
towns in the districts of those Sena-
tors:
co,1pA>rIrs CAPITAL HEAD
ii a. tiA9 STOCK, QUARTERS;
Mill Iron Cattle Co.. 10 600 Gainesville
Monro Cattle Co.,. 100000 Albany
Ohio Wool Growing Co 100000 San Antonio
Mexico Cattle Co... 100000 Colorado
ESpuela Cattle Co... 100000 Fort Worth
LlanO Live Stock Co 100000 Fort Worth
North COnchO Cattle Co 300C00 Colorado
Alamo Cattle Co... G90,u00 Fort Worth
Rio Grande Cattle Co.. 250,0v0 Colorado
Gainesville Live Stock
Publishing Co. 10000 Gainesville
Colorado, Chicago AID
ment Co. ............ 3,5oO,0OO Gainesville
ture Go, .............. 100000 Gainesville
and Land Co........,. 100000 Fort Worth
Boston and Texas Land
and Loan Coz. 100000 Dallas
Texas, Land and Live
Texas Investment Co.. 100000 Fort Worth
Cattle Co... 69O,rOO Fort Worth
Indiana Live Stock Co $4,000 Dallas
Association. ...... $4,000 Dallas
Gainesville Land and
Cattle CO............. 1000 900 Gainesville
S. RE. Land and Cattle
Co........ 49,. 100000 Fort Worth
Horse Shoe attic Go. 100000 Fort Worth
WeStTeXaS Stock, Yard
and Refrigeratng CO 10000 San Antonio
FOrtNOri hStocll Yards 10000 Fort Worth
Liberty Cattle Co. &C.. 100000 Fort Worth
st. Louis Cattle Co... 100000 Colorado
BraZOS Cattle Co... - Fort Worth
Keystone Real Estate
Association -. $1,000 Dallas
San Antonio Live Stock
and Land Co... 100000 Coleman
Jumbo Cattle Co.. 100000 Colorado
IahOka Cattle Co... 100000 Fort Worth
Texas Real Estate IS
SOcldtlOn. ......-..... 1OO,GO0 Dallas
Scan the surroundings Of those Sen
ators more closely, and what more do
you discern? You were told through
the press only yesterday, that Senator
Johnson was the only rich Senator, and
all the rest OF us were poor. Let us
see. Senator Fleming told you yester-
day that he had 10000 acres in his
pasture. He has 100000 acres in one
pasture and 10000 in another. With
such load in his pocket, and gOaded
by the barbed wire of the situation, it
is no wonder that he grew eloquent in
favor Of the wandering herdsmen out
side Of his domain; but it would have
been wiser if he had remembered that
the laWleSs depredations on school
grass, which he now encourages,
breeds the commune spirit that will
poster him hereaftaG The Senator
from Dallas also has LIS 5000 acres of
enclosed pasture, near Dallas, and by a
strange coincidence his colleague in the
other house wants to limit the size of
pastures to just that amount. The Sena-
tor from Bell has a large pasture, on
which the nippers have been at work.
Senator Traylor, when we failed to get
a rational road law through the other
house. sold his large pasture, and cast
his vote with no handicap weights.
Now, sir, right here and in this con-
necti0n let me fortify, by the history of
our race, as it has passed through the
centuries, the position that reforms and
increased punishment should go hand
in hand. Civilization can not reform
by punishment alone; therefore it is
that my bill, while increasing the pun
ishment of the fence cutter, under
takes to punish those who Cypress him,
for capital has its duties as well as its
rights. X =
ROMAN PASTURES.
Some senators in Rome had their
big pasture troubles once, just as these
senators have to-day. That era was
prolific in writers, so that its history,
told by Froude, stands out as plain in
detail as the Irish question of yester-
day.
In the early days of Rome Spurius
CasSius procured a law that the public
domain of Italy, usurped by patri-
clans, should be surrendered to the
state for necessitous citizens. The
law was resisted by the Roman SEN
ate, and became dead letter. The
keeping Of large fiocks upon the COM
excluded the small farmers from them.
The law De Modo Agri was then
passed, that no one should possess
more than $50 acres of the public do
main. Again the patriclans tri-
umphed, and, without repeating the
law, it was disregarded; and Italy,
with its pasturage, woods and forests,
was parceled out for two centuries by
patrician senators. 70 enforce that
law not to disturb vested rights, Tibe-
RUS. and afterwards CaiuS Gracious
lost their lives. And then came upon
the stage Il wonderful man-C8Sar,
the nephew by marriage of Marius,
who had seen the rights of the people
crushed under the legions of Sulla,
and bided his time. When he became
consul large tracts were held on the
usual easy terms by great landed SEN
ators and patricians. These Caesar,
when consul, proposed to buy out and
settle on them Pompey's veterans,
who had just driven the pirates from
the Mediterranean, and could find no
land on which to rest. The public
lands had been shared conveniently
among the senators, and they resisted
him. Cato headed the opposition,
while the senate groaned and ,foamed
even worse than these border senators
did yesterday. Caesar then went
before the Temple of Castor and pro-
posed his decree to the people. Pom
pey and Crassius were at his side.
Cesar asked Pompey: evil you,
Pompey, support the law if it be ille-
gally opposed?" He replied: 'If you,
Consul, and you, my fellow-citiZeAs,
ask aid of me, a poor individual, with
out office and without authority, who,
nevertheless, has done the state some
service, say that / will bar the shield
if others will draw the sword" A
hundred thousand threats applauded
the answer; the law was enacted by
the people, who broke the rods of Lie
tors, and scourged the Tribunes who
had betrayed their trusts. And thus
were 10000 Pompey's battered Veter-
ans located on public lands, in one
year. over Italy. Thus, concession to
public necessity preserved the public
peace and perhaps avoided another
Catalina conspiracy.
REFORM IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
Sir, wherever a republic has gone
down, some land trouble, exasperating