Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-19


600 600 acres at 81 per acre, si,0Oo,0o0
more money In two years than was re.
ceived In nine years before, and S45O,VOO
In cash from leases. The latter sales
20 actual settlers, while the
| former were without restriction as 70 SET
tier except the few acres sold under act
| Of 1874.
He ehowed by this statement II there
was more money In the sale Of lands that
the lease law should stand, for we had
sold more land under the lease act than
we had under general sale law. He
successfully controverted the state
lment OF Gen. Ross that the
land was not subject 10 taxation
while under lease, and said that our stat
utes provide that ain land under the con-
troll Of the state, lAased for a period Of
three years, Is subject TO taxation ms
though II was the PROPERTY Of the Lessee.
Heshowed clearly that II Gen. Ross
ideas prevailed Chinese wall would be
erected beyond which noSettler could go.
Col. Swain deprecated such policy,
and said that instead or establishing
peace on the Western border II would
open up new fields Of strife, which would
retard the settlement OF the country for
twenty years
The cattlemen had declared In favor OF
the lease policy, and all would join IN a
fair, Just and simple law which de-
fines the rights OF all.
Col. Swain quoted the Democratic plat
form OF ss4 TO show that the lease policy
was the one espoused by the Democ-
racy Of Texas. He said that
col Jones ran on the oppo-
sitlon ticket in 1884 on the
platform now occupied by Gen. Ross, II
he had any platform. Ross had said that
the lease policy had come near dlsrupting
the Democratic party. He Is presumed
to have been with Col. Jones in 1884; at
any rate, he Is now convert To the Jones
doctrine, the same that every Greenback-
er In the land holds to-free air, free
water and free land. That II Ross had
any notion OF running as an independent
candidate In 1884, as his remark would
seem TO indicate, he might stand little
chance now. With his free-grass yagaries
he might get the disafected Knights OF
Labor and all Greenbackers, Republicans
and Knownothings In the land. Ross was
prohibitionist in $50, when he helped Tx
up the local. option constitution, and he
was in favor Of IL in 1881, when he voted
for II in the senate, and he was In favor
Of 1t in 1885, but Coke, Mills and
Clarke told him he had to say To-
cal option was undemocratic, and he
forthwith went to Lorena and
said II was against personal liberty
Ross didn't speak his convictions. They
told him TO say II and he said IL. Ross
charges In Paris that the grass commi
sloners had been sent out TO electioneer
for Swain. IL was not true, as 1t was not
known whether more than two OF them
f.,ty Ia hnA aof %
thing In favor Of him, he presumed II was
about MS right and proper as for the mill
tary and educational departments of the
state to be used in running over the state
to fix up the primaries for Ross. The
grass commissioners had done aud were
still doing much good, Some Of them he
understood were for Ross; If any of them
were not doing good work 1t was those
OF that sort. Col. Swain said that the
Knights Of Labor and Farmers alliance
were creating great deal Of UNI
easlness in the state, more from
fear OF their political action. He did
not fear that they would do any
thing to injure the country or had
particular designs upon the party. He
felt satisfied that there were Republicans
aud 1reenbackers trying to use these So
cleties to declare In favor of new party |
and new leaders; many would 90 with |
them, but there were enough good Demo |
Gratis, who cannot be led off, to keep the |
Democratic party intact. Our statutes
are full Of arbitration and mechanic lien |
laws, aud the farmer had his incorpora-
ton law, 50 that they eau form themselves |
into corporate bodies for mutual aid.
That there should be established an
agricultural bureau in connection with |
fha Inn Ns.f In a pt.. l.tS
That under our system OF government |
all persons were equal before the law |
That the sober, industrious poor boy of |
to-day becomes the rich man OF to-mor-
row, That the rich man of to-day was
poor but n few years ago, The great
men who have grown wealthy were poor
generation ago. We can
not leglslate riches into the
hands of some without taking |
out OF the hands of others, The partial
laws passed by congress during the war,
the tarf, the exemptions of bonds and |
legal tender currency from taxation, has .
lghtened the burdens OF some, while |
others stlll sustain and carry the load Of |
taxation This has brought discomfort |
in some quarters, but the only way to !
remedy the evil is to stick To and purify |
the Democratic party. We cannot com.
promise with the commune. Every true |
man In Texas would put his foot down at |
once and say, b. the Eternal the law shall |
be upheld
That railroad companies should be
held strictly to their charter rights aud |
made to comply with the law. Pooling
and discrimination In freights should be |
discontinued. But railroads are the
public highways of Texas, and should be |
kept open for our public good.
That our schools should be fostered |
and encouraged, and some arrangement |
should be made to pay teachers promptly; |
that now many of them had to sell their |
vouchers, which works hardship.
The penitentiares should be managed |
so as to place convicts Ia the walls, and |
industries established that win conflict
as little as possible with honest labor of
the country,
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