Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-28

baby, raised him, schooled him, aud 4
start him in business, decided him be
farm and all she had but a bed and COW
After awhile she became bed-riddeD, an
be charged her the bed and COW for keer
Ing her and then put her on the county
Since this demand OF $40 freight pc
carload by those roads from these PEG
pie, II appears % me that this boy was
dutiful son.
Pr But they have no souls 10 punish.
MI Why cannot the state aid thes
heroic people When ! was down there
J three years ago, the treasurer took mi
around and showed me what he called
pile and Il looked a little like that bis
pile al Washington.
Pr That Is all goDej and, besides
these people every one bought a section
OF land, al 81 per acre, paying one
thirtieth down and giving their notes foi
the remainder. And, by the law, II the
Interest Is not paid BY the fret Of August,
/, sl.o iaBu4, ~ payments, .De improve
ments-all are ipse facto forfeited; and
now the fret OF August Is passed and
they are homeless, as well as breadless.
! NJ. The legislature will relieve them.
r.. II cannot; the constitution forbids
It.
NJ. Wen, that Is locking the door he
Tore you get the horse In. II | were
those settlers, | would leave the lands
and let the state take them back, II she Is
so hide-hound as that.
r., But they have nowhere else 70 20
The state and the general government
have both given awey all the lands where
IL rains regularly.
NJ Then, is not the state generous
enough to aid these people who are her
pioneer citizens, who bough. lands OF
her and settled them, thereby aiding to
sell the other lands, otherwise unsafe
ablef
Pr Pshawl Texas is the most liberal
state on earth. She learned liberallty
from her Spanish predecessors, who gave
away eleven leagues OF land at time
and after she became republic she gave
away league TO every settler for many
years. Then she gave every soldier who
ever saw the track Of Mexican or an In
dian league, She even gave 1880 acres
TO every one OF her Confederate soldiers,
millions OF acres TO found asylums, col.
leges, universities, schools, and three
million acres Of the best land In the PAN
handle TO build state-house. Not stop
ping at these petty gifts, she gave untold
millions, enough 20 make greae state, to
railroads. as an absolute gift. Why, she
never thought OF selling lands until the
last Few years. 1t was humlliatlpg 10 her
10 stop giving and 90 TO selling. But she
had to have school fund, and the land
was mostly gonei so she began to sell
here az this line, the mesquite grass line,
the line where the drought sets In. Gen.
erous IL no name for Texas Munincence
I A a "a. al
crafty.
M But IL appears that she gave away
all the land where IL rains, and is now
selling only that which nobody would
have In the days Of munlhCence, and IA
FORGETTING improvements and ALL
Tor the non-payment OF the interest
single day, aud then has a constitutional
provision that the Legislature cannot re.
lleye them even In such case as this.
That reminds me OF rich old bachelor
who IN his will gave millions TO bankers,
railroad kings, and all great dlgnitarles,
and TO one pooe sister he willed little
farm which no had taken for debt, with
mortgage on II four times its worth, on
the condition that she should pay the
mortgage Well, now, II the big pile Is
gone ana the seasonable lands are nil
gone cannot the state aid the people out
OF the taxesr DO the people OF Texas
pay taxes2
P.i Yes, everybody, except few rail.
roads, pays taxes, Even those people
out there for whom | am soliciting aid.
the poorest OF them are taxed S12 so.
Ms Got property TO that amount and
cannot subsist without and for a year
III They do not own that amount, but
they are taxed 10 that amount In this way
the state, to encourage them TO risk
the drought and TO get good price for
Its land, sells on thirty years tlme-one-
thlrtieth, Si2 on the section, cash They
paid their last dollar IN making that paw.
ment and do not own any other property
no they are worth only S42, but are taxed
on the land at $3.50 a section.
MI Astonishing have always heard
that taxes were low In Texas, but now
you say that these starving people are
taxed sl2s0 on sac. Why, that is more
Than 10 per cent Is there not some
mistake about thatY
~ No, that is the way II is. The law
must be obeyed, and the law is that
way.
NJ; But 1t cannot be collected of ot
them because, as you say, they have lost
their lands, SO, now, 1t cannot he col. |
leoted.
r. Yes, personal property can be sold
10 pay real estate taxes.
Mi But the legislature will relieve
them of this tax.
f.; II can OF the state tax; but that IA |
small amount, the greater part being
county tax.
NJ That Is easily remcdied by the /
county authorities, who can take IL Oh.
P'' lteould be, II II were ordinary
county tax but the greater part OF il Is
10 pay bonds, and the hondholders have
vested rights In Il.
NJ What, bonds 10 that new county,
~ Yes, fifty thousand for court.
mouse and twenty thousand for Jail.
nj. Startllngl Seventy thousand dol.
lars How many Inhabitants has Cole.
man county,
~ one thousand, two years ago: 1900
last year about 1000 now.
NJ Seventy Thousand dollars debt for
'oOo inhaoitan,sy You must be a iawless
set to need such buildings as that Tor SO
lew people,
4, No, thoro is nobody In jail, and our