Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-12
A CLASS WAR.
One bad Phase Of the Contest Now
Waging In Texas Glasses Ar.
rayed Against Glasses,
Some OF tho Methods Employed by 1hose
who Proclaim Their Mission TO
bo one Of Reform.



sweeping over Texas Is producing one
serious result For the FIRST time the at
tempt has been successful In this state 10
array classes against each other. Tho
main issue In political contests every
where seems TO be the business or pro-
ieseion OF the candidates. A general
boycott has been promulgated against
lawyers, and IN many instances nen
Without any legal knowledge whatever
are aepironts for judicial Offices, with
fair prospects Of success. Tho purpose
seems 20 be
no EXCLUDE THE rRoFEssIONs,
especially lawyers, from holding Office
II IN Of course unnecessary 70 state that
at tho bottom Of this newly aroused
prejudice lies tho jealousles OF small
politicians 90 whom the lawyers have
been stumbllng-block, The arguments
they have used TO produce this feeling are
10 certain extent Ingenious.
A legal friend who accidentally
overheard tho philippe Of a
travelling lecturer against the legal pro-
fession ia Knight OF Labor hall not long
since, repeated TO me the glst OF his argn-
mont. The lecturer said that lawyers, az
class, were unreliable from the force OF
habit. Their professions 10 said, demand
cd that they should nccnHtom themselves
10 reason on either side of question with
equal facility, which 80 demoralized their
minds that they were unable TO FIX ON any
permanent belief The speaker counseled
his audience not TO vote for lawyers for
anything.
IN many places, I ann told, those who
have been affected by tho present aqlta-
l....t .Is.tt. a a.
lodges not to argue any political questions
with outsiders for fear Of being convinced
Ot error. Having found the truth at last
they propose TO lntrench themselves In II |
by
CLOSING THEIR EARs
20 all further arguments, Such are the |
methods OF those who proclaim their
mission TO be one Of Feform, II might prove
an interesting research TO trace back the
personal history Of the agitators who have
been most conspicuous IN the new political
movement refer, Of course, TO the In
diyiduals who are seeking TO convert
certain class organizations into pO-
litlcnl machines against the do.
clarod purposes Of the orders which
they assume 10 serve However, the
game IA not worth the candle The com,
mon sense Of the people Is too keen to be
long blinded TO n fact 80 patent as that
the aims of these reiormers are purely
sclilsh-t0 pull somebody else out OF
Office and put themselves ln The mls.
fortune OF II IL that "the evil that men
do lives after thom,n Glass prejudice
once aroused Is not easily suppressed.
lis methods are intensely sclHsh and It's
results most vicious.
II i doubtful whether tho gentlemen
who have been 40 active In exciting pop.
ular resentment against lawyers could
name one great reform or one movement
which had for It's object the advance
ment Of human liberty that did not orig
mate with a lawyer.
Such preiudlcos, were they national.
i1ed, would become a national peril be.
cause the ostraclsm Of one class Inv
another Is direct violation OF the
spirit OF the constitution, and would be
the lrst warning OF the decay Of ltepub-
lican principles. Perfect equality IL the
cornerstone Of Democratic govern.
mcnt-a recognition Of the fact that ylr-
tue ~ not thing OF class or birth, but
Jewel which all may wear who choose.
The man who assumes superior merit 10
himself because OF the business In which
he IL engaged ~ worse than a dcma.
gogne. He IS an arrant lmposter.
LOWS LABoR LOST
Tho late convention In Fort Worth of
"laOOrors and producersh has given the
new party serious backaet. When Il
was learned that the movement which
was TO purity Texas politics was under
the direction OF those distinguished la
borors, Chambers and Young OF Cloburne,
kenrby Of Dallas, Dohoney of Paris, az
al, feeling OF profound disgust settled
down upon the disciples OF the new
movement everywhere. Tho general
verdict was that Il was the same old
thing opposition 20 Democracy In now
clothes.
INCONSISTENCIES on POLITICAL pnILos.
opUKR.
by the way, | heard an Interesting
statement the other day on the train In
regard 10 that enthusiastic autl.monopo.
list, Col. 3 J. Chambers. The colonel
II credited, believe, with good share
OF tho opposition TO the land monopoly IN
the Fort WORTH convention, even going 80
far, 80 II Is stated, ~ 20 favor
government ownership Of land with In.
divldual right limited 10 nero occu.
pancy. When this proposition was lost.
so the report goes on, tho colonel wanted
TO limit the amount OF Individual owner
ship OF land to 100 acres The statement
J heard on the train was that Col.
Chambers owned 2000 acres OF land In
Navarro, 100 acres In johnson and
large tract In lillIs--all unlm.
proved and unoocupled, besides a
large amount of Improved real estate,
My informant suggested that the colonel
ought TO give some OF his fellow hborors,
now In enforced idlenoss, a chance to earn
their living on these lands which are also
idlei In other words that he ought To
divide up The colonel, I'm sure, would
consider the proposition seriously were
not the whole thing libel on his con.
sisteney.
VI course he doesn't own any such
tracts OF land those who are acquainted
with the great Gr0enbaokor know that
above all things he dearly loves consist.
euoy.
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