Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-30
HUMBUGS EXPOSED.
The Folly and Arrogance Of Lease. Law
Advocates.
Lack Of Logic Supplied by Plenty Of
Assertion.
One Candid Lease Law Man who Speaks
Out.


AUSTIN, June 2S.-The Waco Exam
liner seems to be very much incensed
because Gov. Ireland has said that
leases retard settlement and calls upon
him, under pain of accommodation
to deny the statement. If the Exami-
ner had kept posted on events it would
have known that the governor put
himself on record with that declara-
ton several months ago. Only day
or two since he said, in discussing the
question of the lease:
ut is simply folly to say that settlers
will take up land after it Is leased.n
Doubtless hundred men have heard
him repeat that sentiment, as he has
freely given his opinion on the subject
whenever questioned. 1t is ve.y queer
that all the lease journals persist in
Juggling in the land board "a an expo
nent and champion of the lease policy
when the board has pleaded alb along
that 1t should not be charged With the
evils of the system, that it was sim
ply
A CREATURE OF THE LAW
and in leasing the lands at all submit
Oth w thC lhCNltaOiS III CuIIy lDS Oub
the instructions of an imperative legis-
lative mandate. Every member, save
one, hastened to disclaim an indorse-
ment of the leasing system. They rec
ognized its glazing dangers, and want
ed the blood all washed away from
their own hands. When tie lease
journals get through vindicathg sew
eral of these worthy gentlemen they
will have torn down the Chinee wall
of the lessee, and inaugurated new
era of prosperity, with commons,
free for all and giving the settler a
living chance.
Attorney-G General Templeton 3 gem
orally rated an anti-free-grass nan of
the strictest type. He has been ,ueted
ard petted considerably of late ly the
lease organs, and dare say mne of
them will call him "baron" or "bul-
lionaire,n Mr.. Templeton was placed
upon the witness stand, April n by u
reporter of the Houston Post, Which it
is asserted by journalistic experts is
also opposed to tree grass, and here is
his testimony:
"Do you anticipate any sort of tnuble
with the dissenting cattlemen?n
mo, sir, do not anticipate TIN least
trouble on account of the refusal )f the
board to lease TO parties for less than
eight cents per acre. 1t is my belief
that their better judgment will pevail,
and they will come up and lease
at that figure as much land
as they absolutely need to
Craze their cattle, and that is all
want to see any OF them lease, md it
is all any of them should leae il
could compel it zone corporation has
leased over 100000 acres; fifteen COR
porations aud firms over million
acres-ED. GAZETTE. at leas until
further Legislation; and if the price
did no more than limit the AMOUNT
leased to what was absolutely Ieeded,
that alone would vindicate theaction
of the board"
"Then / am given to understand
=, that you oppose large leases?"
II am not eager to see thu lands
, leased in large quantities, and would
f rather they would not lease an ,cre for
a longer time than one year, that is fit
; for the pillow and the hoe. | want to
see the country settled, and tits my
conviction that when tract II land
, has been leased under the existing law
it is irrevocably gone from settle
ment for the term of the lease,
no matter how long that is. don't
: think greater calamity could befall
the West than for all the landfit for
settlement to be sealed against settle
ment for long term of years B long
leases. You say the theory of tie law
q Is different and that it contenplates
. and provides tor the sale and settle
ment of the land leased. So does,
but the thing is impracticable.u
Here is u pretty kettle of fish or the
!. lease men. One of their CHAMPIONS is
!. found talking just as if The GMErTE
= had put the words in his mouth.
Surely nothing could be mon EN-.
o phatic; when tract of land hss been
e leased under the existing Law it is
= irrevocably gone from settlement for
= the term of the lease"
POLITICAL BIGOTRY.
n have never yet found maj who
e made an argument for the lease An
argument is the one thing needhl fol
the jealous horde which is brking
away at the heels of THE GAZETTE
They will tell you with superiliou.
air that they know all about tie mo
It lives of The GAZETTE; they may en-
n tighten you with great many mys
e terl0us intlmations about the wicked
r Intentions of THE GAZETTE; thy ar.
If TO control conventions, nominal. can
), dldates and manufacture platforms
q and are equally certain that abou
o three-fourths of the western cantie.
1t VIII grab at the chance to express thei
/ loneliness for the lease, and yet when il
Is comes to one single solitary reason fol
h favoring the lease, they stand up t.
1t the hub In quagmire of hyFocris,
g and SANDER, from which they AWAY,
IF emerge on the same side they Wen
o in.
"Oh, yes, 1 am a. fire. e-grass man,
r said one the other day, '"but not tn,
y kind Of free grass The GAZETTE
,r wants."
n Pray. answer me two questions. M,
t, friend, what kind of free grass Go yoii
" 1.-The sort that is free to everybody
rs like we used to have in '72 and i73.D'
d Good enough; now what kind O
al Tree grass does The GAZETTE want p,
a. We'll, you fellows used to saw tina
er the West wasn't fit for the farmer--,
N stop right there. THE GAzErrl
y, has never said any such thing. anf
10 you ought to know 1t. Now, as 10 III,
I'd lntimation that THE GAZETTE favor
a Tree grass that is not free. / woul,
N nave you remember that 1t was one q
III the lew journals that during tn
le special session advocated making in
same penalty for the undergraduates ia
Id lence-cutter. II protested almost alon
le against lines for the rich and stripe
ia Tor the poor Was that the viii
10 jusiice?u p''" Az