Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-03
THE UAZEITE: FORT WORTH TEXAs TUESDAY, ANGUISH ..

bered brotherhoods. The tariff was lev
led for revenue only, and the revenue was
mere pittance compared with the huge
monster now collected. Everything was
then free and easy. All this Is now
changed -magnihcence to squalor; opu-
lence to mortgages. The king has been
dethroned and all other interests have
formed a combination against the fallen
king with a solldity equal 10 that which
reduced the great Napoleon. Necessity
now demands, In self.defense, Southern
organization. Are not our people equal
to the taskP Once, when they merely
imagined their political and personal
rights were endangered, they combined
In military organization with such
unity and power that they
won the respect even OF their enemies.
They are now combined, politically, more
solidly than In any other section. Can
they not combine financially, when bread
and common necessities OF life are de.
pending? The third, and perhaps the
most difficult matter Is keeping refractory
members and nOn-members In line. All
planters see at once the necessity of some
change. Any intelligent man can see the
effects to come from such a scheme If IL
can bg made to work. Those who are not
intellig mt will he willing to try anything
that can suggest relief II IL can be carried
to their doors. This can be done by neigh
borhood clubs or leagues, local speakers,
etc. Having once tried It, and having
seen the rise, they will always remember
the former low prices and be inclined by
Irresistible logic, visible TO the dullest
eye, to adhere. Having seen, as all will
see If II be adhered to for two years, that
five acres will bring as much az ten had
formerly brought, and that the other i've
will produce more provisions than could
formerly have been bought with the cotton
raised ON it, it would be yeri;able
fool that would not sdhere But when
the price begins to ascend there will be
great temptations to break over. But
will not every Individual see that If he
break over others will be encouraged to
do so that thus the whole organization
will be endangered; and tina. il II be dis
solved the low prices will returup
Hence, for their own safety, Will not
most all the farmers (and quite all large
ones) be induced to maintain the order?
Besides, after having seen
THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING HOME SUP
PLIES
few will be inclined to return, even IL no
increase of price be produced. The diff
fculty now of inducing any individual
planter to lessen his cotton is that he is
aware that the little amount left off by
him would have no effect ON the market
But let him be assured at the first that
all others will, in obedience to the central
head, do likewise, and he will readily
yield, and after seeing its effect will ad-
here, But If some, tempted sorely by the
raising market, break the pledge, it will be
no more than is done every day BY men,
bers of every other order of any kinds
and their number will be so small as to
have no effect on the genera! result.
Judas deserted the twelve apostles at
time when all were needed, but the world
has been converted. Arnold deserted
Washington, at the darkest time In the
and yet independence was
obtained. Morgan deserted the Masons
and wrote a book against Masonry, vet
the ancient order remains. Butler, Nor
ton and Logan deserted the Democratic
party, and the Blairs, Brown and Curtin
the Republican party, yet each
of the great parties remains, without feel
ing the loss. The railroad kings sometimes
break, for time, the great pools that OPP
press us, yet the pools still obtain and
grind us as ever. Occasionally men I
per Of the trades unions, or Knight,
driven by necessity or tempted by gain,
breaks away, still the power of the
great order continues with un-
a0ated strength Five million
voters combine in one great party
and trust their choice of candidates to
general convention and carry Il to the re-
hottest township even Of mountain state
in the West single township may de-
niha a A al
and single state may control the nomi-
nation. That single township NAV have
been carried by fraud or bribery; vet the
great party viii submit gracefully and
poll their whole strength, although the
nominee may not be the first choice of
tenth of the people, No part of the
country adheres more closely to the nom
iuee than the SoutE. II they will do this
when the difference between the caudi-
dates OF the TWO parties can only be seen
with microscope, as to its effect on the
individual, will they not do IL when the
very bread and clothing OF their loved
ones Is dependingY To say they will not
Is to say that that people, who have
stamped history with their martial Prov
ess, and are the peers OF any
people OF this or any other age, in
learning, in eloquence, in science, in
morals, In devotion to cause (even u
lost cause) in everything that ennobles a
race, cannot, when their own living de-
Ponds on IT., combine together to save
themselves against the unholy combina-
tions Of capitalists, manufacturers, bank.
ers, laborers and roughs who successfully
combine against themy Those who will
be inclined to fall out of line can generally
be held by friendly council, argument,
committees and discipline such as is used
by other orders. II such means Will not
succeed with them, they can be expelled
and their names published, and they be
boycotted by public opinion. Few will
repeat the iniractlon, and these few will
not be large producers. They will have
no more effect on the general result than
those who rebel against the church or
other orders and parties, and will not be
felt more This plan will engender no
STRIFE, as labor and capital organizations
do; win bring no conflict OF property
rights, as strikes do will eyade no law,
as bankers, capitalists and railroad con.