Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-12

plainly In the senate on this subject al
said the time hid come for q
Democracy Of Texas to deal with this e'
As ITS IMPoRTANCE DEMANDED.
Over the Panhandle country the autho
. ity Of law should be extended, and u
vast land corporations now depr
dating on school lands should
! abolished While lnaugurating reform
, property rights must be respected, 70
the man worth his millions was entitle
10 the same protection under the law tina
I Is accorded the poorest man, or civillz1
ton Is at an end. The speaker close
with the expression II deep convctlo
that the universal spread Of education
among all classes would develop tina
conservatism that would preserve consti
tutional 4 eedom for our posterity
THE AUSTIN CONFEDERATE HOME.
Special q the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Tx, Aug. 1.-THE fol
lowing resolution was this morning In
troduced by Lambert Of Austin ant
adopted without reference TO the platform
committee:
Resol sed, by the Democratic party o.
Texast In convention assembled, that we
approve Of the grand and noble efforts
now being made by the members Of John
! b. Hood camp, Confederate veterans, to
establish at Austin, Tex, home for In.
digent and worthy Confederate sol
Tiers and we commend the same to all
the people OF Texas for their encourage
ment and support.
PENDLEToN's sPEECn
Hon. w. S. Pendleton, at the invitation
of the convention, addressed the Assem-.
bled delegates In nearly an hours dis
course. He called attention to the i'm
perfect and loose organization OF the
Democratic party In Texas, and d8elt
upon the importance OF the present con-
vention appointing a committee on
gr. evances, in order thai individuals or
classes who
THOUGHT THEMSELVES AGGRIEvRD
might have their wrongs remedied within
the party without the necessity of having
to organize into conclaves for the pur-
pose Of righting their grievances
He was opposed to placing legislative
services upon money basis, and regretted
that home talent, as soon as IL found
Itself equal to discussing intelligently
public measures before state
convention, should at once turn
Its ambition from home towards the ma
tional halls at Washington. What the
Ia mer needed more than anything else
was to be able to make prices on his own
products and cotton particularly, with
out consulting the New York cotton
brokers, who, In order to learn what the
prices would be the coming season, APP
piled to Liverpool commission merchants,
who, in turn, after fixing the
PRICES or FUTURES
upon product, rot one pound of which
their country has then produced, would
ADJUST the price to slioing scale, nearly
always keeping 1t down to the minimum
This state of things he charged the gov.
eminent with being responsible for by
prohibiting her citizens from purchasing
hips from foreign countries and register.
ne them American, thus preventing them
rom hoating their products in American
bottoms.
Referring to the
SCHOOL LAND QUESTION,
re said he believed the laws infrinoed |
lirecily upon the great stock interest of |
he state, representing as it does nearly |
20 per cent. OF the total values of The |
vote, or about $l25, 900, 900 of property |
Ihelr effect has been to repress and in. |
ure that interest to the extent that IT has
AIKEN the dry-rot, and the owners of cat
lie are being compelled to move their |
stock out of the state by the ters OF |
thousands. The actual settler had IN |
permitted under these laws to 90 into ne |
enter OF leased pasture and locate nd |
iettle upon l60 acres and take the G, he
II his friend from Il poor pasturage nd
urn them loose upon the already over !
lerded leased lands, thus destroying mis-
ease. lie criticised the land board sew ere
y Tor legislating the minimum lease
Price up to a rate that rendered IL impos-
iible for stock men to make any profit on
.heir Investments, because when it re.
luires ten acres of land for one COW. ne
'nnnot afford to pay even six cents an
icre. In certain parts of Texas they have
'een forced 10 extend their domain by
purchase, because 1t vas cheaper, but the
took interests do not want TO purchase
and and pay taxes upon it, They want TO
ease IT, The lease law is, it Is admitted,
TO DR A FAILURE.
)nly 3,5O0,000 out of $4,000, 900 acres
ave been leased; that list is growing
ess instead Of larger constantly, ard the
.attlemen are driving their cattle out of
he state. We do not want this power
md source Of wealth to leave the state
let the Democratic party take hold IT Il
ma LOOK into 1t, and see that Injustice is
lone to no one. This forces corporations
o buy it, and the people do not want that;
oey want a revenue from it, under a
ensible and practical system.