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

| the land grabbers. The very men who {
hau snort time back looked upon the {
hester (the small farmer) as the very !
worst enemy they had and whom they
mad been making 1t very unpleasant FOR |
| cut in that prairie land, now ,
became the protested friend of the act ,
ual settler. They became overwhelm- ,
lnSly Impressed with the conviction
that the very best interests Of the state
demanded that the school and asylum
lands should be disposed of to actual
settlers. They favored the selling OF
the lands only to heads of families, in
bodies not to exceed 100 acres, to any
one person, and that, too, after three
years occupancy and AZ price
not less than SO or 81 an acre.
On, how they loved the nestersI | L
knew then, as every senator here must
know now, that that only meant stree
grass" for hundred years;or as long,
at least, as such q law Should last. So
well, Mr.. Chairman, did they succeed,
| through the medium ofinterested news.
papers and subsidized agencies, in inn
pressing the public mind with tho ides
OF The wondrous fertility OF that cOun-
try, and Of the further
idea of its being ruthlessly
squandered, greatly to the injury |
OF the respective funds to which il be-
loused, that by the time the eighteenth |
legislature convened, a. senators may /
well remember, there was much excite |
ment on the subject. Indeed, | might |
say there was almost a panic, so
strongly we're the minds OF the newly |
elected members of both houses inn
pressed with the imninence OF danger
which, in their fevered imaginations,
threatened the destruction of the
school and asylum funds that il
required all tho parliamentary
tact of those Of us who
were really acquainted with the
situation were m as 0rs OF 10 defeat hasiy
aud very injudicions legislation. 5"
wild were someOt our new senators on
, the subject that the law providing for
the sale OF the school, university and
, other lauds was attempted to be 10
, pealed by "A simple resolution the first
DAY Of tho session. The country was
then in real danger OF being subjected
, 10 the bad results Of hgsty aud
. i!l-advised legislation. We were
! able, however, by parliamentary
: devices o. hold what seemed to he the
i majority in check until they had had
a nnio take the sober second thought, and
r 80 instead of taking the lands of OF the
, market aud turning them over TO the
i "flpe grassh lords who were AZ that time
,, holding uudisputad sway over almost
+. the entire region of tine west, the YER
=, dant hills aud fertile Wales and run
/. uing streams which they had divided
. inJO great baronetsies amongst them
q selves, one taking 10 this aud another
y. lone TO that dividing ridge
Il or river, without any reference
!, whatever to tho ownership Of tho land,
,, whether il was owned by individuals or
~ corporations, or schools. Twas all the
!, same to them. This imperial Will was
i. the law of the laHd cut there, AMI reck
=. less, indeed, would have been the man
In who, single handed, would have ques
In u4ued their dominion. the lahDrs oI
IA the Eighteenth legislature finally re
in suited IN the present law providing TOR
- the sale and leasing of the school anC
tn asylum lands. did not ike the Law
W when IL was onSeted, but 10 seemed 4
90 h, about the hest thing 1t that tim
~, That we could do, aud | voted for IT
- lpaseage. The law, in my JudEomen'
=, mas too much machinery apiut II. In
az land board attachment / thought the
in ~ think now, was great mistake
90 | preferred then, rs do now, clsa
W. sat Jaw, one simple and easily unuel
- stood, one without scale or classihc'
az lion, and a law in the execution
10 which the departments should have \
~ discussion / prefer n law 80 sinp
III. mar any man of ordinary Intelligent
~ mxy know himself when he hes dol
W. what is necessary to entitle him 10 h
W., settlement on the land and not nave
,,,'' be forced to wait for All INDEFINITE peri'
- The capricious rulings OF land boar
who are unable To- zee amongst theI
-. selves, / DO nuy desire 70 Oe uudt
% stnnd, sir, to be finding fault with,
, w. rejecting upon, the composition OF Z
= NJ ~ urpsent land board, for do not belle
~ | mat within the broad domain OF Tex
material could he found 10 Improve
'm personally. But object
ins The law creating or allowll
~ At and the great discretion given
.nU Tie law NC have now would De w
,ore enough, but for this hlts-wheel
~. rAnuement. Million, OF acres Vi Acht
you .ud asvluln lands which now lie Id
on.s furnishing "free grass" for the wealt
"nV stockmen would long since have be
i,ulSi leased Mt REASONABLE and romuneratl
uli' ratea. but Tor the land board In raisi
W., ths lease rates so high that sto'
'n's man could not afford TO P
,n,S5 them, and a. a consequence,
i,,Nt use Of that unfortunate discretl
"" resulted In the Withdrawal OF the lai
~ entirely from the market, Huu Tor Wh
ijii result the "ifeo grass mon, tle ie"s'
IN an. have reason TO complain. All WI
va ON pretty well, however, aud tn
80, "a, med no very great objection 20 II
49, nh the teuce.cuiiug troubles, result
~ uartly from the hugishness ul tnuss
'u'v we're not satisfied with simply taxing
- sduN chance OF the NONRESIDENT :
~ ~ senool.laud grass, with their nelgnb'
" nut soaght by means OF wire zen
aud line riders, 10 approprl
~ 10 their own use ana oeh
- more than their own share ol what
itook not belong to them, paftly rom an
-, nresssd determination on inc part
t uA" those who would not lease or buy tAt
W. selves, TO deter others from dong
~ aud partlv from pure aud unaduc'
IA rad cuaSodness, ntCessltaieu the tpe
i,,,'i sessiou Of tho Eighteenth leBleial
i ., and the enactment Of certain laws
VS. aay there was no particular ohleol
- raised 10 the lesss law until thth'
'Ii"ai reason ia obvious, There WAS
go law until the one enacted
,t,Il ing that session, whlch mHuo
IifTsr. unlawful 70 appropriate exclusively
~ school and asylum lands 20 tho us'
80 any one without leasing them, so
80 bOys not on very well. They TO-
u'nu, IhSm N they wanted To-, itnOt, why
"uo ,'t INST usad them all the same, WIN
pu' iet or bindranee. They had I'LL
uals. utroe rrassn they wanted, free 10
y my Gloss and appropriato, and exclude
.sti' ers tnerelrom, Thdt was
- -, grass; free TO tho man
I the had money v V,J grse IN no ono
nand, me rlle ~ W. u,,ra Mad been oslle,
might wen, lne los ,,ia sn.sinn for the purr
Iodate seVher w y. ,1,,,,,.s ~ devisinu :
nts, AmonB otnu, Observation-Disclosures irot
school remedy LOT wy Lei ,,,t rrnblem
NO by anu ~ WresslqI m'vr md I thinl,
III its neslly anu "un,cc.sssrnliv. or rea,
led on Oily so' tuuanN ~ w. ' ~ to sup,
,' sa' az crime that now think Of The a.
us,,,h amend the fence law generally ki
ii to rs tne lanu y',,Nrtn ths lsri.ls
} buy very lhlPoI'a .',,s,h,,,n ,,,ysrd. tne
WORTH lnIonusu w ~, ,snca uniting trol
!, aud tleihehs ". .1 ,So,,,,ht ~ ori finally
nat IL and was ou,s a,,S pnt In rnschpd n
nd the means W I ~ ,1,,,,s man was thu