Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-11

effort to be heard on the discussion Of
the unit rule was cool and mastery
one ana won for him many friends
and admirers among those who voted
against his resolution. Those who ex-
pected to find
JOHN KELLY
covered with war-paint and indulging
In bullying demonstrations have been
disappointed. He Is pleasant and
educated gentleman and Ms quiet aud
unassuming in appearance as any man.
He seldom speaks, but when he takes
the floor his clear blue eyes flash fire
andshow what manner OF nan he is.
His headquarters are thronged con-
tinually. He is not so much of
schemer as he is reported, His trusty
friends hatch out all the schemes and
plans of operation and they are cub.
mitted to Kelly for his approval or re-
lection. He is kind OF managing ed
itor of the wire-workers,
ARTHUR SULLIVAN.
Those who gave up the Irish vote 10
the Republicans on account of the alac-
rity with which the plank offered by
Arthur Sullivan was inserted in their
platform have cause to change their
mind, now that the Irish leader Is be-
fore the Democrats in the same atti-
tude and for the same purpose. Mr..
nj ro To sol,
attention anywhere, and as he is the
head or supposed TO be, of the much
coveted Irish vote" he receives
marked courtesy. His address before
the committee on platforms made a
favorable impression on that body.
He presented many new and strik-
ingly original ideas in his argument
and when he concluded he was heart
lily applauded. After being
granted the floor he proceeded
by calling attention to the
sympathy of Americans for the suffer
ing Irish and of his position as spokes-
man for the Irish National league of
America, he continued We have been
instructed to call your attention to the
evil of anti-Americsn absentee land
lordism, and after showing by brief
resume of history of public lands in
the United States, that the national
government has jurisdiction over pub
lie domain and that the principle OF
citizenship under the United States
was paramount in the laws passed for
transferring title from the government
to an individual, continued, If the in
dividual states felt and confessed by
their unanimous action that the per.
petuity of the republic would not suffer
individual state jurisdiction over pub.
lie lands, would it have been possible
for those patriots to have tolerated fol
n moment an anti-republican occupan
cy of an area equal to the entire thir
teen states by foreign proprietors,
HOSTILE BY BIRTH,
training and interest. to free the Demo
cratic institutions for the policy of one
consequence of which Is the stealth
Invasion of the anti-American ab
sentee landlord system. Both tn,
great political parties are responsible
arising out of a general desire to pu
into speedy communication the Eas
and the West, the North and tn
South, for their common benefit. Thi
policy has produced results us deplora
BILE as they are gigantic. Corporation
which have procured wide areas hav,
brought in upon US foreign monopolisti
and we are confronted with an alb
sentee proprietary owning more than
twenty million acres Of our soil
whence are extracted vast revenues To
maintain aristocracy in foreign land
To discuss before you the monstrous
social and industrial effects of iant
monopoly, and especially of an alb
sentee monopoly, rs exh ibited In tn
low plane Of tenant life, and in tn
monstrous crimes of landlordism called
famines perpetrated by
THE BRITISH SYSTEM
of land ownership in Europe ana Ash
is assuredly needless. Aside from tn
substantial injury inflicted upon GU
national growth by the Enclosure G
immense tracts greater than Kingdoms
the exclusion of manufacturers and tn
retardation of trade, our Democrat
institutions are menaced by the insta
lation of an aristocracy on our soil, tn
! moral influence and the materlt
| strength of which aristocracy ma
i prove an embarrassment to the reput
lie. The notorious fact that these ant
American monopolists are subjects q
power from which only by revolution
} the people were able to obtain liberi,
: which by intrigue, jobbery and CORFU
ton known only to the tactics Of Bri
, ish craftsmanship endeavors to rob u
after victory Of the rights
e WON BY ARMS
9 from It's king. his armies and hi
fleets, power which compelled US
) second war In the defence of our te
l ritory aud in the vindicstion OF til
: right of adopted American citizens;
: power which during cruel domesti
3 conflict betrayed with equal basenes
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