Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-03


du-try.
We are In better political condition
than in any other land. Every two
years Ia the state and four years IN the
nation we clean house, Alter The We
hement expression Of sentiment at the
bllet.boX In the aulumnd election the
people sit down satisfied. AnEnglish-
man said To me in an Engl'sh rail train.
How do you stand II to have revo-
luton every four years. nc is
better 10 have queen for life
and all things settled But, my
friends, England changes government |
Just as certainly as we do. AZ some /
adverse vote in Parliament oat goes /
Dsraeli aud in comes Gladstone, and |
after while there will be another adj |
monitory vote ia parliament and /
out will go Gladstone and Ia will come |
somebody else. Administrations |
change there but not as advantageous !
~ as hore, for there the change may
come almost any day, while here
party In power continues four years !
in power
II ia said that in this country we
have more political stealing than In
other lands. The difference IL that ia
this country almost every official has
few people absorb so much that the
others have no chance at appropri-
alton. The governments of Europe
are so expensive that after the sala-
ries of the royal families are
paid there is not 50 much left TO mis-
appropriate. The emperor of Russia
has an annual salary Of IS, 2l0 900; the
emperor of Austria, $4,000 600; Nlcto-
ria, 81, 200 900 salary. the royal pla Q
Of 81. James palace is worth $40 600,
600. Queens hsir-dTesser. gets $4,000
s year. There Is host OF attendants,
all GU salaries, some OF them 5000 and
! $4,000 Master of buckhounds, $500;
grand falconer, $4,000, and so on and so
on, ad infinitIm, I'D nauseam, until 10
Is said that the queen sometimes
suffers from thirst because IL takes so
much machinery TO get hera glass Of
water. All this is only type of the
fabulous expense Of foreign govern
ments All this paid for by the sweat
and blood OF the peopiel Are the peo-
Pile satished2 However much the
Germans like William, and the Span
iMds like their young king, and Eu-
4 glandliRes the queen. these supendOus
governmental expenses are built on q
groan as vide as Europe. IL it were
Germany, Austria, Russia, whether
these expensive as Adjustments should
be KEEP up, do you doubt what the
vote would be2 But these questions
are not there lett 10 the ballot-buN.
Now, is iii not better tina we be taxed
and the surplus distributed all over the
land among legislatures aud congresses
aud lubbymen than that the people
should be taxed aud have il piled all
up inside yard OF palaces In our
case there is more prospect that the
surplus will some day get back TO It's
lawful channel.
Then, again, | find we are better of
in regard to monopOlistic oppression,
The airs full of protest because great
houses, great companies, great indi-
, viduale are building such overtowerinp
fortunes. Stephen GiTard and John JR.
J cob Astor OF olden time, stared at In
their day tor their august fortunes
: would not now be pointed out on the
. streets of Philadelphia or New \ orb
| as any thing remarkable. These vas
t fortunes for some imply pinchednesi
s of want for others. a great protruber
4 ance on a mans head implies the i'll
< ness of the whole body. These vas
r estates Of dtsprOpOrtioned size weaker
3 I Ill AiAE tfif UVllLlaH HuN AlAN NNAl ~
nothing as compared with monOpo
listic oppression abroad. Great ecelesi
astieal monopOlies. The pOpe's in
, come is SIS 900, 600 year. Cathedral
! of statuary and braided arch and wall
! covered with masterpieces Of Rubeu
r and Raphael and Michael Angelo
! against all their sides dashing seas o
) poverty and crime and filth ana abom
I nation. Ireland one vast monopo
r listic devastation. About $4,000, 900 o
a people ia England, and yet all of TIN
/ soil owned by about 81 900. Duke %
/ | DeVOnshire owns SO. 900 acres in Derby
! ! Duke OF Richmond 100000 acres 3
a Gordon Castle. Marquis OF Breadal
: bane goes on journey of 100 miles In
. a straight line, and all on his owl
4 properly. Duke Of Sutherland has al
4 estate as vide IS Scotland, and re9ch
r ing to the sea on either side, Bad a
a we have il here, IL IS thousand time
4 worse there.
% Besides that, Ii here few fortune
u OveT-shad0w all others, we must re
o member there is a vast throng OF th
s people being enriched, and this fac
i shows the thrlftiness Of the country
: The most Of people here will he ricl
L themselves, OF their children viii b
i rich. Beside that, the domains @
C Europe aud Asia are already full
j, every place occupied unless 1t be DEF
d ert or volcano or condemned barren
a ness, while here we have plenty q
g room, and the resources are only jus
a opening. In other lands j fortune
Y fatten they must fatten Oh otherF, bu
+ here they can fatten out OF illimitabl
= prairie and out of ineXhaustible mines
If We have only just begun to aet ia
b family table OF uhis country. We hay
r put on one silver fork and one saltce
l. lar aud one loaf OF bread and one smoh
# ing platter. Wait till the fruits com
It in rom all the orchards and the meal
b from all the markets and the yegett
y bles from all the gardens and the sllve
from all the mines and the bells rim
y out, saying: Come, all the peopl
q from between the two oceans. Con-
e from between the Thousand island
It and the Gulf OF Mexico Come an
e dinel