Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-21


three years, 10 subject TO taxation as
though IL was the property Of the lessee.
He showed Clearly that II Gen. Ross
ideas prevailed q Chinese wall would be
erected beyond which no settler could go.
Col. Sw0in deprecated such policy,
and said that instead OF establishing
peace on the Western border II would
open up new fields OF strife, which would
retard the settlement OF the country for
twenty years
The cattlemen had declared In favor OF
the lease policy, and al would join In O
fair, Just and simple law which de-
I fines the rights OF all.
/ Col. Swain quoted the Democratic plat
form Of 1884 10 show that the lease policy
was the one espouscd by the Democ-
rRcy OF Texas. He said that
Col. Jones ran on the oppO-
sition ticket in 1884 on the
platform now occupied by Gen. Ross, II
4 he had any platform. Ross had said that
the lease policy had come near disrupting
the Democratic party. He Is presumed
TO have been with Col. Jones In 1885 at
/ any rate, he Is now convert 70 the Jones
doctrine, the same that every Greenback-
er In the land holds to-.free air, free
water and free land. That II Ross had
any notion OF running as an Independent
candidate In 1884, as his remark would
seem to indicate, he might stand little
chance now. With his fTee-grass yagarles
| he might ret the disahected knights OF
Labor aud all GreeIbackers, Republicans
and KnownOthings IN the land. Ross was
prohlbitionist In 1876, when he helped fix
up the local.option constitution, and he
was In favor Of II In 1881, when be voted
for IL In the senate, and he was In favor
OF IL In 1885, but Coke, Mills and
Clarke told him he had TO say To-
cal option was undemocratic, and he
forthwith went to Lorena and
said 1t was against personal liberty
Ross didn't speak bis convictions. They
told him to say II and he said It. Ross
charges 10 Paris that the grass commi
sionsrs had been sent out TO electioneer
for Swain, IL was not true, as II was not
known whether more than two OF them
favored Swain, and II they had said any
thing In favor OF him, he presumed II was
about as right aud proper as for the mill
tary and educational departments OF the
state 10 bc used In running over the state
to fix up the primaries for Ross. The
grass commissioners had done and were
still doing much good. Some Of them he
understood were for Ross; II any OF them
were not doing good work II was those
Of that sort Col Swain said that the
Knights OF Labor and Farmers alliance
were creating Il great deal Of un-
easlness In the state, more from
fear OF their political action He did
not fear that they would do any
thing 90 injure the country or had
particular designs upon the party. He
felt satisfied that there were Republicans
and 1reenbackers trying to use these so
cleties TO declare In favor OF n new party
and new leaders, many would 20 with
them, but there were enough good Demo-
Gratis, who cannot be led off, TO keep the
Democratic party intact. Our statutes
are full Of arbitration and mechanic lien
laws, and the farmer had his lncorpora
ton law, 80 that they eau form themselves
Into corporate bodies for mutual aid.
That there should be established ar
agricultural bureau In connection with
the bureau of insurance and statistics.
That under our system OF government
all persons Were equal before the law
That the sober, Industrious poor boy Of
to-day becomes the rich man Of to-mor-
row. That the rich man Of to-day was
poor but few years ago. The great
HlVH WIZ nhNt HtONH wealthy WtI6 pour
a generation ago, We can
not legislate riches into the
hands OF some without taking
out OF the hands of others The partial
laws passed by congress during the war,
the tarlif, the exemptions OF bonds and
legal tender currency from taxation, has
lghtened the burdens of some, while
Others still sustain and carry the load OF
taxation. This has brought discomfort
In some quarters, but the only way TO
remedy the evil II to stick to aud purify
the Democratic party. We cannot com.
promise with the commune, Every true
man In Texas would put his foot down at
once and say, b. the Eternal tholaw shall
be upheld.
That railroad companies should be
held strictly TO their charter rights aud
made to comply with the law. Pooling
and discrimination in frelghts should be
discontinued. But railroads are the
public highways of Texas, and should be
kept open Tor our public good
That our schools should be fostered
and encouraged, and some arrangement
should be made to pay teachers promptly;
that now many OF them had to sell their
vouchers, which works u hardship.
The penilentlnrles should be managed
so as to place convlcts In the walls, and
indu'trles established that will conflict
as little az possible with honest labor of
the country.