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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

ger the usefulness Of this Legitimate and
powerful weapon" We have In our
minds eye q case here In Texas, where
''the boycott has been grossly sbused,"
and no steps are taken to correct the
abuse. For daring TO mildly criticise
the wisdom OF the strike at
Galveston, the Houston Age has been boy
cottcd by the local organization OF the
knights Of Labor of that city. Business
men advertising in the offending news
paper have been ordered to discontinue
their advertisements and withdraw
their patronage, upon pain OF losing the
custom Of the boycotters. No one can
see in this anything butan effort TO starve
the proprietor OF the Age into submission
70 few men who control the labor or
ganization in Houston. And, though the
unworthy endeavor seems destined to
failure, because the business men Of
Houston will not submit to such dicta-
ton, the spirit that led the attempt is
none the less tyrannical and oppressive.
1t is charged, with much appearance Of
truth, that personal dislike of the editor
OF the ostracized paper by few of the
chief spirits among the Houston labor
agitators Is the true cause Of the boycott,
and the offensive criticism is only a pre-
text for their course toward it. II an or
ganization which was begun as a means
Of promoting the welfare of the laboring
man is to be thus turned to an engine Of
oppression to silence free speech, II is
time for the Labor Federation to declare
that the "remedy of the boycott has been
grossly abused.u
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
LET us GIVE AIMS.

Are we a nation Of pensioners? The
question is not Irrelevant, when we think
of the number of persons who are d.
rectly and indirectly made the beneh-
Charles OF national alms-giving.
There are ON the pension lists of the
army 345,l25 persons, who draw from the
public treasury S6O,OOO,0GO year. A
constant pressure is bearing on congress
to enlarge this list by adding to 1t thou
sands OF names now barred out by the linn
itation of pensions act. In expectation
that this raid on the treasury will be sue
cessful, the secretary of the treasury in
his budget for 1887 estimates that to pay
the pensions falling due for that year will
require an appropriation of $40, 900, 900.
And the end is not yet to be seen. Every
year some fresh excuse is manufactured
for adding another class to the rolls and
swelling the appropriations, until it is
not beyond the bounds of probability that
in few years we shall be paying out
hundred million dollars annually in the
shape of pensions to relics of the war.
This is not the worst feature of the
pension system, nor the costliest. Under
the name OF n protective tariff the people
of this country are paying sum esti-
mated at six hundred million dollars to
few hundred thousand tariff pensionaries.
We call IL tariff but that ia only an
other name for public aims. Whatever
the name, the fact stands out that GER
tain class OF men, manufacturers and
producers OF favored articles, are the
recipients of the benefits of tax that
costs the people of this country
that enormous sum annually. 1t is in eff
feet every bit as much pension as the
money paid under that name to survivors
OF the war.
An honorable excuse may be found for
crippled soldier accepting the bounty
of the nation which he exposed his life
to defend. He forfeits none of his claim
to respect by accepting such help. We
do not speak Of the bounty-iumpers, de-
pNAhNio bAb WIN TIC
fraudulently enjoying the generosity OF
the government, but of deserving sol
diers, who were wounded in the war, and
are unable to support themselves. 1t de-
tracts nothing from their responsibility
that they are dependents upon the pub
lie. But what can be more humiliating
to the mind of one who has proper
sense of independence than to see rich
and powerful organizations enjoying the
fruits, not of their labor, but of the taxes
imposed upon others9 This is the plain
truth OF 1t. Their avaricious conduct is
disgusting.
II we are not nation of pensioners,
we come nearer to it than any other peo-
pie. Everybody is on the pension rolls,
in one form or another, who can get there,
and those who are not there are striving
to get in.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

OUR JUDICIARY Is supposed to be non
partisan in interpreting the laws but 1t is
noticeable that Democratic court will
decide the laws so as to benefit Demo-
Gratis, while Republican court will de-
eide in favor of Republicans. The Repub-
leans in Cincinnati obtained mandamus
restraining the clerk from issuing certin-
Gates of election to the Democrats who
were declared upon the face of the re-
turns to have been elected to the leglsla-
ture from the city, and the Republican
circuit court before which the question
was tried decided that the Republican
candidates were elected. The Democrats
appealed the case to the supreme court,
which has Democratic majority, and
that court declared the Democrats
elected Yet the same law governed both
decisions.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

IT was quite natural, and not at all sur
prlsing, that the Kansas City Journal and
Chicago Inter-Ocean should propose an
amendment to Senator Beck's bill for the
removal of political disabilities, excluding
Jefferson Davis from the benefits of the
proposed law. The papers mentioned are
post-bellum warriors, and still quake in
their boots when the name of the leader
of the late Coniederacy is mentioned
Probably Mr., Davis is less concerned
than they in the result of the proposed
meahnre
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
An Honorable Exception.

Not a single paper in the state that OBJ
poses prohibition, except the Fort Worth
GAZETTE, has published the result of the
local option election in Atlanta. WhyP-
Prairie News.
The reason is obvious-they fear the
influence of this great temperance tri-
umph IN Texas, and hence seek to keen
the facts from their readers. This COW
ardly and dishonest course is eminentlv
characteristic of most of the anti-prohibi-
tlon newspapers and politicians of the
state. The Fort Worth GAZETTE is an
honorable exception. 49,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

FERD WARD has been interviewed in
his cell at Sing Sing, and the tale of hard
ships and privations which he pours into
the ear OF the newspaper miniou would
melt the heart Of the Cardiff Giant.
He is subjected to the humiliation
of having to work with his deli
cate hands, and to eat his coarse
prison food out OF tin plate with COM
mon steel knife and fork IL seems hard
that the champion rascal OF the age
should be subjected 70 rough treatment
like an ordinary felon. Here is a place
for the advocates of prison reform to get
in little effectual work. There is a One
field for sentiment and 1t should be cul-
tivated, What's the incentive TO being
renowned rascal II one is TO be treated
like an ordinary sneak-thief or house.
burner9
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
THE BOYCOTT.

The Fort Worth GAZETTE says, and very cor
reotly, too, that every man who falls out with
his merchant, tailor, milkman, butcher, and
quits and turns his patronage to some one else,
is a boycotter, In kind like those fellows over
at Houston who are making business of boy
cOttlng. So, after all, this thing OF changing
trading places and men you have been acous-
toned to trading with, Ia no new thing. but Is
an old custom given new name--I Decatur
Post
The principle Of the boycott must be as
old as human nature, for man has ever
been a creature OF resentment and prone
TO retaliation. 1t is not saying too much
to say that 'we all do it," Offended by
the conduct of any man, we withdraw
our favors from him, and it is not saying
too much to say that we would do So
Sell-respect and seli-protectlon both de-
mand this from us. All men, and all
kinds OF organizations Of men, religious,
benevolent, social, business aud even po-
litical, practice this kind OF boycotting--
and no one can deny the inallen-
able right thus exercised. 1t is
only when the boycott is perverted, when
1t assais the rights of an innocent party,
that 1t antagoni7es the popular sense Of
justice; and it is against the abuse of it,
not the use OF it, that the public so vigor-
ously rebels.
Might does not make right. The end
does not justify the means. Justice, not
expedlenoy; right, not might, are immor-
tai, Advocates OF the boycott compare 1t
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

TO war, in which all is said TO be fair, and
the rights OF innocent parties dIsregarded
in order to win victory. In making this
comparison, the boycotter loses sight Of
the conditions Of struggle submitted to
the arbitrament Of the sword and one sub
United to popular opinion. In war the
sword decides and ends the discussion by
It's decision. Not SO with the boycott.
It's upholders may win local fight by
assault on the rights of third and inno-
cent parties, but what OF the aroused pub
lie opinion, the popular sense OF
injustice and the reactionY To H.
lustrate: A merchant who pat
ronlses newspaper does so, presum-
ably. because 1t is profitable; what has
he to do with ''the war; between that
paper aud any class of citizens9 This
class of citizens may withdraw their
patronage from the paper just as an
offended individual does, and no one can
justly deny their right to do SO. But
when q man who has no cause OF com
plant against the paper is boycotted by
the class of men who have, simply be-
cause he will not become party to the
strife, popular condemnation follows,
and, whether the boycotters win or lose
in this local contest, their cause is in
iured. No man, no class of men, can es-
tablish u principle or practice in this
country in defiance of popular opinion.
Local triumphs avail no more than local
defeats; and aggrieved classes (and God
knows there are, too many men in this
free republic with just cause of COM
plain) will find their most potent ally in
the pubic sense Of justice. When they
offend that, they do themselves cruel
wrong and retard the progress of mans
advancement.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
The True SPIRIT.
Sherman RepIslor.

Atlanta is our home. Whether IL is
wei or dry, 1t Is our Atlanta. Our faith
~ pinned to the old red hills on which She
s,ts, ana our interests are centered here.
Many OF us, we may say, intend that
what we gather here shall be left as an
inheritance to our children. 1t behooves
every man, therefore, accepting the situ-
atloh as best he can, TO discard all pas
SION ana give, as he has always given,
~, his pest energies to the upbullding of At
,anta ana the maintenance of her pros
peTlty'-,Atlanta Constitution.
me above testimonial is the true one.
ana mat which every journal should have
az heart' sherman stands there To The
register, and we intend to llght for our
own owl city to the bitter end, no matter who
our antagonist may be. VIZ
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

SPECIAL advices from Dallas contain
the information that Editor Sterett is
preparing schedule of the losses sus-
tanned by the failure of three banks and
an insurance company in that city, and
that when the exact amount is ascertained
he will pay them off, SO that he can with
a clear conscience upbraid Fort Worth
insovents. Sterett has a tender con-
science, and will engage in nothing that
does It violence.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

GROVER CLEVELAND favors protec-
tive tariff on the importation and
expectation of criminals between Can
ada and the United States. An
amendment to the extradition treaty
with Great Britain will doubtless be
strictly resisted by the managers of rail-
roads having their termini on the Cana
dian border They reap rich harvest
from the transportation OF fleeing rascals
which they would be 10th to give up.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

THE present Indictment weather may
deter the active work going on in the city
for few days, but the final result will
be the same. 1t is down on the bills that
Fort Worth ia to make its appearance in
1890 as the largest city In Texas, and a
little Indictment weather now and then
will not prevent compliance with the
Fort Worth never de-
ceives the public.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

The running expenses of this govern
ment are almost a million dollars day
for each working day. 1t would take a
dozen men, counting two dollars each
second, working twelve hours day, to
count this money as fast as tits spent,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

THANKFUL FOR SMALL FAVORS,
Our friends, the protectionists, derive
much satisfaction from that part OF the
presidents message relating to the tariff
1t is the same kind OF satisfaction that
one feels when a thing turns out to be
not so bad as he had feared. They are
glad that it is no worse--that he didn't
kick as hard as they expected.
That part of the message with which
they are most pleased is contained in the
following words; "The question of free
trade is not involved, nor is there now
any occasion for the general discussion of
the wisdom or expediency of a protective
system. Justice and fairness dictate that
in any modification of our present laws
interests which have been encouraged by
such laws, and in which our citizens have
large investments, should not be ruthlessly
injured or destroyed. We should also
deal with the subject in such manner as
to protect American labor, which is the
capital of our workingmen; its stability
and proper remuneration furnish the
most iusti1able pretext for protective
policy"
We can't see that there is cause for
iubilation here among the protectionsts.
The only thing that they can find in their
favor is that the president has refrained
from condemning them outright. He GER
tainly has not approved their policies. 1t
is merely said that ia modifying our pro-
tective laws--and his voice is in favor OF
such modilcation-care should be taken
| against any sudden change that will
so alter the existing conditions OF
trade as to iniure any of our
industries or interests. Among free-trad.
ers themselves this recommendation will
find favor. They do not ask for any rash
| shocking change of tariff laws that will
overthrow things and bring about a
catastrophe. They desire that free trade
shall be brought about not by violent
reversal of our protective policy, but
gradually, so that industry and trade
shall be able to adjust itself to the
change as it progresses toward free trade
in full.
The restrictive policy of protection i:
an evil, but it is an evil that cannot be
corrected by a violent impulse. Illness Is
great aflllction, but the invalid must be
brought back to health and strength by
progressive methods and wise treatment
II would be death to take him out of bed
and order him to go about his business as
a well man, simply because Illness is al
abnormal condition of the body, which
should not be allowed. That is the con
dition OF our industrial affairs that are
suffering under the malady OF protection
They are sick, but we cannot cure then
by harsh treatment. They must be
brought back to health by a gradual pro
cess OF laws that ultimately will lead To
free trade. This, we take it, is the obvi
Gus desire of the president, as indicated
| by his language.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

THE management of the News (both
Ends) have just discovered the blbli-
cal utterance that ga house divided
against itself cannot stand" and have
taken their eye of THE GAZETTE just long
enough to analyze the sentence and dis
cover that that is the true reason for not
'holding the field"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

MORE than $4,000, 900 acres Of land are
comprised in the Indian reservations, TO
support 100000 worthless Indians. This
allows about 500 acres to every buck,
squaw and pappoosc of the lot, or an
average Of $500 acres to each head Of a
family. Reform is needed here, as well
as elsewhere In our government.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
'Possum Up de Gum-stump.

We haven't learned the art of controll-
ing the colored vote IN Texas like they
appear to have done in Georgia. Just be-
fore the local-option election in Atlanta,
the local-optionists tempted the colored
brethren with grand 'possum barbecue,
and they fell.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
AN ARUNE a. pomEn

Doubtless the United Labor Federation,
whose delegates have been assembled ia
convention in Washington City, have am.
pie ground for the statements made in
resolutions adopted, that "the boycott
has been grossly abused, so as to endan-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

TnE GAZETTE expects that its new iea-
lures will be initiated by amateurs,
That's what THE GAZETTE is here for--to
lead the way
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

A GLANCE at THE GAzErrE's daily re-
port of the presence of merchants In this
city buying goods will give investors and
prospcctors an idea of the extent of terri
tory covered by Fort Worths wholesale
trade.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

WE have been expecting it. The doc.
tors are disputing about what caused Van
derbDt's death. They have not yet set
tied satisfactorily the question as TO what
caused the deaths of Hendricks and Md,
Cullough.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

HERE Is curious factor an internal
fraud. There are 295 veterans Of the war
of 1912 on the pension list and $1,000
widows Of veterans Of that war are draw
ing pensions. How do the mortality
statisticlans account for this extraor-
binary excess Of longevity among females
over males?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
r.trnred or sIol''

from W. IT. Pollard's , 'q o. ! \ 4
the night Of the 10Th q KIN is,i
Of black pony horses ops ,lsnl
left shoulder and lnls aS lfmi
hands high; one brsude .,l, 4 "a
on left thigh, hind foot WIZ I 'ssls
white spot in forehead; ~ ~
for each viii be paid ..I + d 4
leading to their recossp 4. AZ
paid for Apprehension 9 so,i
dress Thomas Walden
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

WHEN q stranger enters Fort Worth at
o o'clock at night and is told by all its
leading hotels that he cannot get room,
he says cd such town" This happens
almost daily.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

ALONG with the tariff and silver Ques-
lions, the Forth-ninth congress will
wrestle with prohibition and woman suf-
frage Blair of New Hampshire is the
champion of these twin measures of re-
form,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

TuE whistles Of the engines on the Fort
Worth s New Orleans road will soon be
heard in the land, Then Fort Worth will
need more hotel room than ever aud
strangers win damn the town more than
ever because they cannot tlnd lodging
place,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

CorToS is still king among our eI-
ports. Manufactured and raw, we sent
off s226, 100000 worth OF the focculent
staple last year. Corn and wheat COM
bined only brought us $3.50, OOO,O 900 from
abroad,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

THE drummcrs OF the Fort, those gay
and festive commercial John the Baptists
are invading the territory east of Dallas.
The Fort is commercial distributing
Doint
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

DEMocRATs of the Morrison. Carlisle
type-which means the pure unadulter-
ated kind--dnd but little comfort in the
presidents message. 1t may yet come to
pass that the general public viii coincide
with Gen. Hancock, that the tariff is a
local issue.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

ANOTHER day of injury to Fort Worth
because of insufficient hotel accommoda-
tlons has passed. What has been done
to remedy the evll2
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

THE GAZETTE yesterday was forced to
make permanent addition OF 1870 papers
to its issue, and still there was not one
copy left over. Let her go.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

THIS Evening Mail of this city an
nounces the addition of Col. Carey w.
Styles to its editorial staff. Col. Styles
reputation as an editorial writer is so
wide that the Mail must profit largely by
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

THE sGs,OOO,0O surplus stored up in
the treasury would do more good If it
was being passed from hand to hand
among the people.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
Corsicana's Need.
Corslcana Courier.

Corsicana does q big business, and is
improving steadily, but she must reach
out IN new fields in order to distance all
possible competition. Connection with
deep water means permanent prosperity.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
The Fort Gets There.
Lampasas Dispatch.

The work goes bravely on upon the
Fort Worth & New Orleans railroad. The
Fort is a live town, and gets there with
both feet
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
THE GAZETTE has the largest
bona-hde circulation of any daily
newspaper published in Texas.
SIXTEEN PAGES.

Fort WORM is the great distributing
point for groceries and other goods, as
well as for newspapers.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

the accession. His ability will soon
make itself felt in the columns of the
Mail.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
Mules and nnr.a.

y, mi.chen Bros at their old stand want
AZ 'ne good mules and horses in the mar
A''' anu VIII pay spot cash for them,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
no THE PUBLIC.

Parties having bills against THE Ga
zErTE will please present them promptly
on the LIST OF each month. On the 10th
OF each month every bill OF every kind
will be settled in full. II found correct.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
.ArEs OF INSCRIPTION.
Rates Of Advertising Furnished on April
cation.

Rates of Advertising Furnished on Appn-
cation.
Remitfances bv draft posto9ce money order or
On registered letter, at RISK Of Office.
Correspondence 70 collected upon al ne'os "io
PROMPT Information OF euenfs and netcs happen
fn0s on general interest solicited, and tofH DC
property Compensated
,susf be accompanied bp the wT1ters name and dd
dress mot for publication but as an evfdenee OF
good faith -
person % Mesclpes tciu please inclose stamp for
reply
IA letters relating 10 business Of any kind should
be addressed 10 THE GAZETTE Fort Worth Ter.
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

E. Unveils, 500 Hou ,'.. 81
and Houston, Is inc p
money for holiday pressn~
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
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