The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-03-09

and small, of that district, who say they
do aot demand it; do not even desire it,
and do not agree with the senator that
the lsase law will prove detrimental toll
the very A>est interests OF that country.
It Is true that I have also conversed
with rfauy others who have told me
that the less o law was very objsctiona.
bis to shem; that ic will tend to increase
tbs eoss CT rsh sing eattle. Some have
tsid me shat q icy had control OF large
areas al railroad lands, and that that
gave them the ontroi OF the intsrmedi.
ATE sections OF the school lands, which
they wsre ,using, ana woutd
like to continue {, use, frse of expense,
and, of course, to the exclusion OF
others. This lesSa law, with the land
enclosure act sgin unrepealadv would
force them 10 leass and pay Tor the use
Of those internesffa to sections, adding
that much 20 the el ST OF cattle raising,
and, therefore, ths1 opposed It; But,
sir, il tho ser a,or VITA correct III his as
5ertiOn that his peep le all opposed the
leasing Of tbs school lands, does that
fact, IN the least. afSst t our dAty in the
premlsesP | certainly think NOT. We
have no public donal I'm. This land,
about which wa are tall ing, is not pub
lie land. o. which tratl |, however, the
senator, judging from, hi line OF discus
sIon, seoins entirely obti vious. lie has
based his entire ar gument upon
tne premises thgS the land
in question is public land.
lila premises being wrong his conclu-
slons, Of course, are wrong. This land,
sir, is not public domain edicated, as
| it is, every acre Of it, BY Il 10 constitu-
! ton and laws of the late to the
schools and to tho asylums, we have no
right, legal or rnnral, to nAak, use of 1t
ss an Immigration fund, o. for airy
other purpose except in the interest q
! the funds to which 1t b9longs. II IL a
sacred trust, placed in Ger char 'ge by thO
laws of the state, to be manai led hon
estly and in business-like v ay. We
| have no right to use II in the in terest o.
any locality or OF any class. 1t is our
duty, think, to do the" very best we
can with it, f0T the funds placed in on
,charge. To treat the matter as p rudent
snd honest business men would be ex-
pected TO act in the manaP smeui
Of their own affairs, or Of an esta, en-
trusted to their keeping and prote elton
and no good reason hiss yet been of
tered why we should take any Other
course.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, o Few more W ord'
IN reply To the senetor's warni ngs
hurled so Justify at the Democratic par
, ", To look 70 Itself in this matter, Will
me threat that If IL failed to respond
he demands. of the people OF his co,ln
, Try, there was great danger OF its loss OF
{ northwest Texas. La ibis matter, too
he does his people AS well as those
have in part the honor TO represent, ,
/ great ana inexcusahls injustice. Tht
+, people of northwest rsIas are loyal Il
r their state and TO the Democratic party
b and for him intimate to the contrary
!, does them a SERIOUS wrong
4 aud thus denounce II
II But it Is about on a pAr with the sense
!, less vaporing of certain newspapers
- lust before the meeting Of the Houston
h conversion, and will amount, in III.
h humble Judgment, to about as much.
i Those people will rot desert the Dem
q ocratic party. They endorsed its actio
. and It's declarations in the last can
., paign, and will, too, hold Us to striC
- compliance with its behests, the mos
la pronounced of which is that We shout
q, not sacrifice the rEoud inheritance {
ID the children of the state 20 tho greed {
" aaY class.