Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-16
OUR GREAT ORATOR.
The 0pera-House Crowded to Hear
Hon, A. W. Terrell on the
Issues Of the Day,
A Pleasant Suggestion that Senator
Maxsy Needs Rest from His
LahOrs ut Washington.
The Strlct-Construction Democratic tho
Only Ones Who undersi and the True
Theory OF Our Government.

Judge Terrell addressed vast audience
at the Fort Worth opera-house last night
In comprehensive presentation OF que
tions, federal and state, that are at pres
ent agitatiug the public mind, lie alluded
pleasantly to the fact that he had been
suspected OF designs upon the seat occu-
pied by Senator Maxey, lie had high
personal regard for that gentleman, whom
the speaker had nominated, when mem
Der of the senate, to the position he now
holds, but he did not nominate him to
stay there forever, and still hoped that he
would voluntarily retire from the care OF
public life and recruit his frame, worn by
the tolls of state, in the approving smiles
of his Texas friends, He had also hoped
that some feeling OF resentment
would prompt him TO quit his
present associations for when he nomi-
mated Rim he was, he believed, the
only Democratic chairman OF a standing
committee OF the senate, being at the
head Of the committee on postotiices and
postroads, but now instead OF spelling
up they have spelled him down hill, az he
Is no longer chairman, but the sixth
name on the committee.
Referring TO the Blair educational bill,
the speaker said his chief objection to all
congressional intermeddling with educa-
tion was that the education OF cur chill
dren Is matter OF local and not OF fed.
eral concernment. The strong arm OF
federal power that gathers taxes from
| you with one hand to return u as educs'
| tional fund with the other hand,
/ would soon claim the righi
| to look to It's disbursement
and prescribe your textbooks aud dicia,,
how your children should be trained
| Texas can take care OF her own children
| II q wiser craftsmanship. shall Inspire hei
school land policy, as both Democrats
ana Republicans have done thugs JUS
as unconstitutional as the Blair bill.
| cannot understand how any genllemai
who endows with public taxes Mrs
Garfield and Mrs. Grant aud wants t,
spend millions to build SOM
ship-railway through another gov
eminent can gag over III
unconstltutionnlity OF the Blair bill
mean think 1t unconstitutional aud We
on the 9th OF March, 1878, my friend
Senator Maxey, introduced into the Amer
lean senate bill No. 1908 TO set a,id
forever the proceeds OF the sa'es Of a
public land as permanent educati0na
. fund To- be invested In United State
bonds, the interest TO be distribute
! among the states on the h9ss 20 ilii
eIaey.
, This bill sought TO dispose OF ov,
! eight hundred million acres acquired b
, purchase and treaty, for education. An
fail to see any difference betwee
7 d power TO take money from III
+ people TO educate and powt
l TO educate by selling lands bought wit
money raised by taxes and paid out {
} the treasury on the Louisiana purchas'
am not going to discuss the civil quel
. lions tonight, and there Is no danger tht
silver will be demonetized. It will be
$ we get too much. A little over six thol
4 sand million dollars worth Of silver h.
c been produced since 1893, or about foI
@ hundred years, not farfrom SO apiece 4
y every human being on the globe, " 1t ha
n all been coined, and we should think al
i wait awhile before dispensing with II |
c money. When we remember that b
Il tween 1880 and 1885 over eighty millioI
8 OF gold was exchanged a. uea
Il ury for silver certificates we can affol
l. TO doubt the alarmist who believes tn
r silver coinage will speedily drive all OF
|, gold away.
d He reviewed briefly the causes whit
8 had built up the protected industries
Q the North and Eastern portions OF u
d Union, and ascribed the present disco
G tent among the laboring people TO the G
j. ercise Of governmental power In beht
d OF favored classes. The effect Of 4
transfer Of property under tariff laws
protected classes are seen In q
fact that while last year the lab
bureau reported nearly one million
d workmen out Of employment, and &
census revealed the fact that the man
factnred products Of the United States
D. 1880 were over one thousand millions
a value more than the manufactured pI
:. ducts Of 1870
Steam, the lever and the loom had ]
; lieyed man from The curse Of toll, b
l. under partial laws and corporate pow
% were fixing on him the curse Of hung
J. and poverty The labor-say Bg machine
70 Of England and America now perform
10 the work OF q thousand million hum
le beings, II is owned and operated by c.
ut porate power, which now molds I
is policies of government and receives
II choice fayors.
u As long az congress sends out its iuI
d citing committees 10 inquire into
le cause Of strikes instead Of seeking
% them IN partial laws and perverted pc
ST ers. there Is no nope OF relief. H. "a
u he himself saw no ray Of hope for COVE
D. mental reform so long as we sought q
N Democratic inspiration from great inai
s. featuring states. We will never find
ID lief until the gre az agricultural product
of elements OF the South aud W,ss arot
IA itom their lethTgy and elect congre
" He demonstrated the identity Of ihe
81 terests OF the South and West, and n
that any man who, in this hour OF
country's peril, would arouse the =
tional prejudicos Of the past
appeal to sectional interests, exc
to preserve civll liberty for
% should be scorned by men aud WON
q The speaker WAS severe on the grasp
20 tendency OF corporate power, and nil
h. The necessity OF = firm but kind control
t. the railways in Texss. The necessity
10 a commission was urged, on which
" great Industrial interests should be r
e. resented, aud with powers that w0
secure a fair interest ON railway inv,
Of ments and proper compensation 70 Ia
70 operating them, and IN the uninterrup
n transportation OF freight and pass
ID gers.
20 Pooling and discrimination sho
n cease. With competing wabr-ways
evils Of pooling would be less. But v
b. no nayigable rivers IN Texas, ralls
& pools become Oppressive, for q
TX act without the check Of competitl
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