Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-17
THE GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER Il

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hls hari earnings offered you the pric,
! uxcd by law, almost beyond hi.
/ little means, but here yov
/ lean over the barriers o.
! the law 10 lease miles and miles OF wOodct
wales and silver streams 10 a great cor
poratlon! But while you discriminat,
against the settler In favor of corpora.
| ton, as rule, vet you have your fayorite,
| even among that most favored class. lot
! lease watered land east Of the tooth me
ridlan To a land and cattle syndicate
! Now, why don't You cross over west into
I Coillngsworth aud leases the same kline
/ OF land TO Curtis & AtkinsonS They will
/ pay as much as your Austin friends. Ar,
I Austin syndicates better than those o.
/ Henrietta? What, then, Is the basis Of
distinctions Referring to the appoint
ment of the land board emlssarles, tn,
''rcnt agents. (the grass commissioner:
named In the Terrell BID IN my former
article, asked out Of what appropria-
ton would they be paid, and the authority
for their appointment, and all the adher
cnts OF the land board, great and small
with one voice answered that the author.
lily arose under section IS, Of the law
creating the land board, approved April
~, 1883, aud which reads as follows
"The said land board shall have the power
to employ and discharge such persons
as may be necessary to enable them
TO cause this act TO be efficiently
executed, and fix their compensation, and
may delegate to them such powers as
may he necessary TO enable them to aid
in carrying out the pro visions of this
act" Now, for the sake of the proud
and once honored position which the
members Of the land board fiji, no matter
how they I'LL them, hope, as an humble
citizen of Texas, that no member of that
board permitted that defensel CIlerc the
editor OF the Dallas Herald should speak,
or forever hold his peacc!) II is false,
illogical, ridiculous! Better far had they
come forward and as in reference TO the
lease Of the public domain, confessed
usurpation and pleaded expediency.
Those rent agents are appointed to en-
force the Enclosure act OF February IL,
1884! Why, here is the preamble of their
Instructions:
GAS agents of the state in ascertaining
who are violating the land Enclosure act
of the session of 1881, chapter G3, page
GS, an act to prohibit the unlawful fencing
or inclosing, or keeping inclosed of the
lands OF another, and of the public
school, university aud asylum lands of
the state of Texas, to prevent the
herding or loose lerdng or de-
tention OF stock upon the lands
of the state, the public schools,
the university and the aSylums, and to
provide penalties for the violation of this
act, your attention is called to the follow
ing instructions" etc. These published
instructions contain no reference what
ever to the act of Ss3, but relate eXclu-
syely to the Enclosure uct, and section
No. ] of p. GS, Laws, 1884, provides that
these "persons informing shall be paid
out of the penalty prescribed in that act
The Enclosure act is no part Of the act of
April -, 1883; it is not amendatory of it,
and II our statutes were revised to-mor-
row the Enclosure act would become Il
part of the penal code, and that act of
April II, 1883, would be placed in the
civil code And now, when the instruc-
tons of these detectives refer in toto to
the inclosure act, whit lawyer familiar
with the elementary rules of construction
will claim that section IS of the act APP
proved April II, 1888, quoted above,
could provide for the appointment and
of men to aid in carrying
out a law not then in existence, and
which, when passed nearly year later,
no reference to the said law of
lSs3I The Enclosure act provides for its
own enforcement. Citizens of Texas, the
intormer, the most poisonous and odious
adjunction of British oppression, is
among you, and is being maintained from
the funds which the constitution solemnlv
dedicateS to the education of your off
spring! The inclosure act provides that
its convicted yiolators, not the school
fund, shall pay the informer. ! repeat IL,
the people repeat 1t, what explanation will
you make for the money expended In
sullying the fair fame of Texas by setting
the spy and the detective upon the citizen?
II you want the Enclosure act enforced,
why does not the attorney general perform
his duty as laid down in section |, of the
Enclosure act. He can do so in person or
by proxy? Has he ever moved peg?
Has he ever introduced any one else to do
SOP While can not notice all the bush
attacks made on me, |
wish to ask an explanation. On the -
day OF August last there appeared stimuli
taneously in the Houston Post and Dallas
Herald-a Siamese twin producton-re-
terring to my former article. Itappeared
In the Herald as editorial matter, headed
the Land Board and Our Public and
school Lands, and in the Post as staff
correspondence from Austin, and signed
X. Nj. j. The article occupies about two
and one-halt columns of loaded minion
type. There are some slight verbal
variations between the two copies. hut
substantially they match well, and were
evidently prepared by the same person.
ms witness the following quotations,
Whom this admins. when This odmtnts
trntion came into power tration came min nnv,c,
II found the lands 20. ID found Tho lands ,,o
Ing to corporations at.ing to coruorntions ~
% cents an acre by the so cents an acre--loo
100000 acres at CLIP. 600 acres MI n i'm,
nm, .n's wholesale slough- This was all stopped by
~ " our pubic 10 the present administra
mann was promptly ar.ltiOn Not mn aero ms
rested UndOr ttslgone 10 ccrnorottn,,s
leslinc not an acre has, since II came into
SYW"t 70 corporations. power, and all that has
sold has been sold tplsetllcrs nj faIr nrico W
settlers at fair prices THE remainder II stlii
what remains Is still In possession ~ tha
W nv Wy htale, 70 Delstdte, TO We disposed of
t'NSVA VI az INV lleae az the pleasure of the