Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-06
THE GAZETTE: FORT WORTH TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 6.

settlement of the West, the San An
tonic Express is ompllmentary but
ur Just TO the men who are honestly
laboring to fill the West with settlers
rather than pastures, and who would
out.Hei cd Hcrod in advocacy ola lease
law II that was deemed the best Says
the Express: 1.-THE free-grass men
should feel proud OF their representa-.
tives In the Legislature They are maxi
ing the best possible fight for bad
cause. Texas has simply advanced be-
yond them, and their adherents fail to
appreciate the changed condition OF
things. The good old days, when a
man with only q rope and brand
blotcber for stock in trade could see the
way open to become "cattle king,n
have gone into the past. The land is
now worth something, and those who
own 1t expect TO realize something
from 1t "
The Waco Examiner gees disaster in
the leave Of absence granted the great
granger from Collin county; "Rnta-
baga is seeding garden sass, and the
state is steering right on to the rock of
destruction
The Houston Journal gives expires.
sion to the thoughts of thousands ia
its criticism of the outside-leasing sys-
tenn: Granting that legislative care
lessness has not provided sufficient &C.
commodation FOR all the c)nvicts, what
then? Should it be granted that the
plan by which the greatest amount of
money can be made " these unfor-
tunates should be adopted? A thous.
and times, no, say we. In the infiic-
ton OF legal penalties upon Its con victs,
the state in no manner consistent with
It's honor has ever recognized mon
| etary returns. 1t would he an in
famous law that would convert the
procedures OF justice into means OF
enriching the commonwealth Justice
Is simply Justice. 1t is simple. Its
costs fall on the state purely. 1t Is net
q matter of profit or logs to be weighed
by money scales. 1t ia justice-moral,
uncommercisl, incompatible Justice.
When a man lie condemned to the PEN
itentlary, the Journal holds, he should
be incarcerated, or else law and Justice
are sham. But, say the money. max
Ing justicers, 1t is impossible to carry
out the order of the court because there
Ia no room for the hordes that are sent
up! Then, IN the name Of everything
sacred, is there not demand on the
state to enlarge the prisons and pro.
vide for the due execution of the
laws" The exceptions to this point we
hold to be trivial and not worthy to be
considered by real jurist. The go.
called necessity should be removed, or
else tho law should be amended. But
again: The Journal denies, that I'M
der existing necessity, convicts should
as the best policy, be hired out to
private parties. The state should
never lose its grip on these convicts.
1t should have them ever on its own
hands, or else it is shamed. Let thea.
be worked on public roads, bridges,
farms or buildings as the case may be,
but not hired out as horses and mules
or mere chattels. If 1t has bee discov-
cred that large portion of these con.
victs are really unfit for the higher
branches of industrial labor, let farms
and other public fields OF employment
be devised in which such of the more
brutal convicts may be worked under
state supervision, directly the bene
tit of the state, and let the laws be &C
amended as to justify the same. As
the laws now are, all such outside
work IL unauthorized, and has ten
dency TO make merchandise of Justice. ;