Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-11


are at this time engaged upon one of
their maudln and periodical attacks
on "the pistol.' They shrek in
chorus "the pistol must go" and, ac-
cording to the nervous org ,nization of
the scribe, write passionately or tenn
perately of the necessity for the de-
parture of the little pop" Now,
why should the pistol go? What has
the pistol done that IL should be incon-
tinently hustled cut Of sight and use?
Nay, do not the brethren themselves
but inveigh in the abstract against the
pretty piece Of mechanism that has
made so much news for the enterpris-
ing newspaper, and thus, themselves,
given the strongest and most practical
of negative to their sentimental ailir-
natives? What newspaper in all the
land dares to belittle "the gun" in
the concrete" But again, is not the
work of the pistol the royal road to
fame In this civilized land-in this
enlightened nineteenth century?
And do not the newspapers admit its
potency when they write 80 patheti-
cally of the murdered man
and his wife and orphans
ut distance. and maintain such
an eloquent silence concerning
the rich murderer's pistol practice on
poverty stricken white men and mig
| gers at their own doors? Who can
| who shall-deny the potency of "the
e gun % Is 1t not, indeed, an instru.
!. ment by which men achieve fame
= Jesse James with his pistol stopped
, railroad trains, riiled mail pouches
r murdered conductors and helpless
!. passengers, robbed men, women
$ and children; and yet, when he died
:, as he had lived, was 1t not the news
l. papers that howled about the "deeI
y damnationn and the c0wafdl,
/, treachery Of his taking of? Bel
e. Thompson with his pistol sent f ION
Ie fifteen to twenty men to the othe
a. world while he lived and walked tn,
10 streets of the capital of Texas, a red
n handed murderer, which newspape
N dared to allude to him otherwise than
Is rs "Capt., Major, or Col. Thompson
I'd the genial companion," etc? Is nc
d. Ben Thompson's life and exploits wit
t., the little pistol now in the hands Q
he thousands Of boys, and was 1t nc
1t, written by distinguished lawyer VIII
r. Is said to be an aspirant for n hig
ID, civic honor In which place he woul
In be expected to inspire respect fc
on id'0? A San Antonio paper says 18th
~. pistol must go" aud yet does that ~
In per denounce the Vaudeville theat,
nd where the crack of the little gun II,
In oft reverberated. and where huma
on life has 30 often been endangered an
ly. lost? Cunningham took his pist
mt and shot poor Fleming to death on Il
for streets of Fort Worth, and "a Jury
In his peers assessed the penalty as tn,
he would had the crime been theft of
on forty-dolar cbw pony instead Of mu
In der. Willis Adams took his pist
He and shot an unarmed m,
! Is to death In Dallas aft
,n) unbearable insult had been heap
In, upon his victim, and Judge of Il
.he law considers 1t u bailable case. n,
In no Dallas Journal protests. Fra,
as James and his little pistol are credit
Bile with having aided In robbery on n
lol- highway aud in murder; he Is trle
fis, bailcd and fcted and toasted. A lei
ms gram to THE GAZETTE Friday stat
ON. that "the jury in the case of Ike Loe
In charged with the murder OF Emanu
> a McClarty, coiored, brought In a v.
TIL dict Of not guilty Loeb was warm
his congratulated Aud thus 1t goes
ter telegraph, day in and day out: "Tl
Ill jury In the case of Mr.. So.and,s
APPS who was charged with murd,
The brought In n verdict Of not guilty
led The little pistol gets In It's work a,
ity gives fame to its owner, but ney
commits crime The law rs ADM
ave istered takes care of tho slayer, and
ars Is The widow and tho orphan the lit,
NIX pistol makes who must take care
ich themselves.