Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-22

confident that few salutary changes
a., ,he law will cause the fencecutters
,c dissolye as the snow In the sun
shine. Don't let us allow the ciick OF
a f,,,v miners or the acts of lew law
less men to make us so nervous as 10
chang, the form of our government or
abandon / economical features II
Nh the extraordinary remedies are
necessary, then let us make the coun-
ties encouraging or permitting inc
lawlessness
PAY FOR IT.
Let us adopt the old North Carolina
ruIe and make those that dance pay
the ii idler. Adopt this rule, and the
people in country won't see much 10
encourage in fence cutting, sheep
killing or other lawlessness. rms OIL
provides for nothing of the kind, ana
Is wholly impracticable in mahs oil Its
provisions. !,
If we are to have all this panoply OF
war and extraordinary expense IN the
beginning of the fight, the sinews
of war will soon give out, ana
we will have to reconsider the consti.
tutioral amendments recently adopted
reducing taxation.
There are lots of w who were not
old enough To get in the late war, ana
! il looks Ike folly 10 throw away our
chances for military glory, but duty
requires me 10 suppress my military
ambition, and fear causes ME To vote
aga nst the bill, for had As soon have
/ the dogs of war turned loo-e on me as
/ to meet some of y'hOary-hea led con-
stitueuts after having voted for such
an extraordinary aud eXtravagant bill.
Those features If the bill preventing
the fencing OF land by others than the
| owner and furnishing ience-cutting are
admirable, and levidently popular, AS
there are forty bills pending to the
same effect, and | expect to vote for
! them. but | cannot swallow the whole
thing even with the sugar coating of
/ the preamble and the twenty-five head
exemption, for if did the shades Of
| East Fork would know me never
more. III we should do as think we
would, and in adopting this bill pay
more money out than we got in, my
people would want u better linancier
10 represent
THEIR INTERESTS.
No man has less sympathy with
communism than myself, but when
III
they should be diligently inquired into
and the evil corrected While nine
tenths of the fence cutting has been
done without excuse, there were COM
plants that should have had patient
hearing long since.
The law should check all monopolis-
tic as well a. communIslic tendencies
for both result in the impoverishment
,Af tlill
tive of our institutions One produces
tyranny, the other anarchy.
| deny, most emphatically, the
charge of the senator that the state
encourages communism by not forcing
its citizens to pay for the grass on the
public domain. The law Of supply aud
demand will prove sufficient in this
case To give value, as il has always
done SO The lands Will be leased
speedily enough when you give sur
ance'of full protection, for the crowd
ing of the range will force such re-
suit. We have never given AN oppnr.
tunity To these people to lease the
school lands. As population increases
the agricultural interests will absorb
the agricultural laud and the stock
interest will settle down on the graz.
ing lands. By immense donations OF
land, we forced railroad building
thtad of TIL demands of the country
We forced our lands on the III ,rket ut
low prices. BY large expenditures of
money you mi ght say we have forced
immigration into the ate, and now
propose u force the people to leave the
land. These forced measures are bear
ing their fruits, for our social coudi-
tons and the character of our pppula-
ton nave been changed so rapidly
that the
DIFFERENT ELEMENTS
have had no time to assimilste or
blend. The senator has an aggravated
case OF American fever and wanted To
do everything at once. He can't wait
Tor ne seaso q, but must resort to the
hot-house growth.
You can't expect the Scottish lord or
cattle-corporation president and the |
born aud bred cowboy to fall in love |
win each other at first sight bit make
thein observe each others rights for n |
whlIe and they will soon become good |
neig hhors.
Don't legislate, as this bill proposes
10 90, so as To have the greater swal
low me less for the quiet resulting
tuereirom will he as transitory NJ
j nnah's residence in the whales belly
why should we legislate so strenuous.
" III favor OF tue children's grass i'm
West Texas and overlook the "chii.
dren,s acorns" in East Texas, off .f
"hlch the people are falteuing, and
Settlng some grass along with 10?
IN Sena or Go0ch's district thew
'nuy and sell what is known as wild
h"g claims;" that is, some man turns
lut an old SOW and forever after that
mans heirs or assignees can 10 i'm The
woods and kill his winter meat. if M.
;an fini it. | am afraid the same
'o"rse would he pursued as To these
grazing claims. Why Is the senator
% sanguine that his bill would nro-
luce this Immediate and immense rev.
-nue! me stockmen might get gra.
ing Claims from the railroads or indi-
'iuuals and let the children and the !
20 to grass.
III we cent unite this Gordian kno, c
u state policy by less radical and NOR, q
'easnha0le measures than proposed nm y
ms Dill, the next legislature can c,t /
oy re'orting to the old fasbloned u
ierd law; then the civiliz .tion when =
begins and ends with the plowU viii :
ohlf0i the state, even if ii does tenn .
'orarily reduce '' '''A- t
TAXABLE VALUES !.
nd Increase taxes. The stock inter. n
e.s III IeXas may be doomed: If so Il
~ thehi Ole at the hands of ciyiIiz,, II
ION, ana nol by premature legislation l,
Tue people, 10y COUNTIES, are gwen a l.
nance, they viii II they believe il to p