Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-21

rev Ola WOmon huu Cnllulen IN distreea
but that their counties provided for them.
Justice demands that the world know
who those "three leading citizens,
are and their names. The article which
set forth to the world what those ,ileading
citizens" said was copied by the Boston
journal the same day that the other pa.
pers OF that city published my appeal IN
behalf of the unfortunate people of this
country. ! went TO the editor Of that pa.
per and asked him 60 allow me the priv
ilege of contradicting your article, but ne
would not. He claimed that you, the
"three leading citizens" and the Texas
press g Morally were telling the truth,
and that / was not. told him and 9th.
ers that TO the best of my judgment there
were 10000 families affected by the
d-oughr and needed aid more
or less to SOW down their
fields, or to carry them
through the winter till next harvest. 1
explained to hun that there were thou.
sands of families affected by the droutn
aud in restitution who were not of the
farming classes, but dwellers in our
cities. He said he would write Gov.
Ireland to see who was telling the truth,
you or I. 1t appears thai he has done so,
and that Gov. Ireland has confirmed the
'three leading citiztnsn OF your inter
viewers, and contradicted my statements:
anyhow the papers In the North say that
he has. Well, Gov. Ireland can do
so. lie may swear It over the
Bible il he wants To-, and also
put the seal OF the state 20 it, but before
high heaven my statements are nearer
the truth than your article referred to.
As | have not seen his contradiction, |
eau not meet it just vet square In the
face, but will say here and now, "a
said in Boston, that beginning AZ Dial.
las and going west to III Paso, and at the
Red river and going south to Esgle Pass,
you have in that great country probably
10000 families that are affected by the
drought and that need assistance in some
shape, and ought to have 1t, to tide them
over the winter or they will
be compelled to leave the country.
Since coming home and beginning my
present investigations l am more than
ever confirmed in my opinion. will say
also this, that II Gov Ireland gets his in
formation from Texas land agents and
Texas newspapers he is about as ignorant
of our condition In Northwestern Texas
as an ordinary Boston editor. If Gov.
Ireland wants TO know the truth, before
contradlctlng my statements he had bet
ter come up here md investigate for him
self as am doing
But the truthfulness or the falsi of
his statement would not be worth a far
thing one wey or another were 1t
not for the consequences of his
action The ministers Of Boston passed
resolutions sympathzing with our
drought-stricken people, and called upon
the churches OF the state to take collec-
lions for their relief on THANKSGIVING
DAY. never saw people in all my life
more earnest and anxious TO help than
they were, But the Journal, copying
IRON you as 1t did, cast cold water on the
movement, and now our governor, appa-
renty, has crushed IL. | believe that
thousands Of dollars that were collected
for us on Thanksgiving day in the
churches through the whole North are
being held back Some send to our com
mitteei and also to Rev Dr., Ken
dell, New York, for us, but there
Is confusion. The whole people North
are anxious to know the truth and are
ready to reach out to us a helping hand,
but they know not what to do. They
write us to Al bany for the facts, and il
my life is spared they shall have the facts
over the seal OF the county Judges, The
people North do not want any more gov
errors OF "leading citizens" or newspa-
per articles, or Associated Press dispatch
es. They have got enough of them. They
want the destitute people themselves 10
speak out, and say what they want
seven thousand dollars have been sent
them already through our committee, and
much more, we believe, will
yet be given when it is known
That 1t is needed beyond doubt.
hundred thousand dollars would have
been given cheerfully had IT not been for
tne miserable, senseless opposition that
got voice through you and very large
portion OF the state press.
Aud now, behold he condition of orr
poor people, with the winter upon them
VINO Is to blame for the hunger and the
nakednessP Why are our most industri-
GUS people compelled to leave the state.
ana wander In others, living monuments
OF our shame in search OF shelter for
themse yes and children Who is making
LUIS Ialr land desolation? Speak |
the truth and lie not. The distress
IN all lts iullness has not yet come, and | |
warn you, ana all Others concerned, that
you are playing with fire II you try any |
longer to cover up our condition. or even |
laugh at II. You may throw ndirt,, as |
long as you please on me, at least, but
remember that you are keeping bread
from hungry mouths. No one can hurt
me but myself were every editor in the
land pelting me, eoyou need not take aLy
consolation to your soul on that score.
nut you do shamefully hurt the moor
Wy against anarchists and Knights OF
Labor! You, and such as Won,
Saolng the work of heartless monopo,
iies and lendgrabers, make them.
After what / have learned during the
past six months, were | not Arm
oellever In a just God that Will yet give
every one his due, would be an an.
archlst tomorrow, and at the risk of INV
neck help send the oppressors of the poor
TO perdition, You had better get down
on the right side of this question as soon
AZ you can, and quit your contemplate
wearing, and the next time YOU send in
reviewers to this county send them not
70 leading cliizens," but send them into
the woods and out or the prairles, and let
mem report what they see and hear
mere Tor the iufOrmatinu 20 a. ,, |