Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-04


Zstion and discipline and oiths tha. bint
them to blind, unressoniug obedience.
! All men Of all political parties, ell mel
Of all conditions and Of ell classes, hsvt
common interest in the blessing!
OF individual liberty and civil
methods guaranteed by free gov.
eminent, bv government by the
people Of the people, by q government Of
liberty AID law. The existence of this Sc
cret oath-bound political order has beer
boldly justified in public speech snt
print, and the challenge bias been ISSUED
to the people, what are you going to dc
about IT,! Sc spoke Boss Tweed-snd he
went down in shame and ruin before the
ballots Of an outraged, deHed and al
powerful people.
And what should the people do about
III They should think about it, and ad.
dress themselves to the duty, devolvine
upon each and every individual, Of ersdi'
eating the perniclous lessons inculcsted
by false tssehers-by men themselves
misguided through ignorsnce-snd by
ambitious, Inscriptions individuals who
look for profs to themselves in political
upheava!. and whose regard for the state
is limited by their own sinister desires
and deeigrs.
The first step in she performance CT
this imperative duty is to stamp out Ut
terly I'll eecre. osth b9upd political
orders. l! is in such societies that error
is taught-!s is in these secret cir
clss that fermentation of politi-
csl plan is substituted for free po-
hAcsl df'cussion-within these courcils
SIT men who scheme and devise plans TO
put into execution their srbitrars edicts,
snd whose consideration Of the public is
restricted to ways snd means for bending
the pubic to predetermined plans and
intrigues. The secret, oath bound po!iti
csl order is an authority as despctic ss
the government OF Russia or CT Turkey;
the subjects OF the Cz.r or OF ths Sulten
have no part In or knowledge Of the de-
bates OF their ruler until they sre called
to obey; the members O. any political
patty dominated by he V.de,tes are as
ignorant OF the council proceedings that
outline and dictate their "conven .iop,"
voice and obedience.
The domination Of politics and offices
q
dettes IN KANSAS seek the destruction Of
the Republican party and in Texas Of the
Democratic psrty-they seek to destroy
ell political parties thst, under the plsus-
lble guise OF ION partissnsh!p,
lew Den, self.elec:ed ca bosses, nav
rule the land through It's politics. WHIST
that rule would he, no msn can doub:
who has read Ct The past wish i!s Jscobin
CLUBS and rs carnival OF socisl wreck snd
governmental ruin. Vide.tes are obi
gated TO promote bad nominations il the
Republican and Democratic parties,
where they fall TO put IN comrade, that
defeat of such old party may be more
surely wroughi-snd yet Videttes prate
OF treason and CT treachery.
The mistake must not be made that all
Vtdettes zre bosses or that all members Of
the party dominated by the Vide!tes have
like intent with She elmer councils"
Tho vast majority Of each party, Demo-
cratic, Republican, Prohibition and Union
Labor, are intensely and equally
patriotic. The "l3". or "inner coun-
ell" are men OF superior intelli-
serce, ana they nistsach, misguide,
aud deceive their followers. No artifcs
known TO partisan cunning. no deception,
no MISREPRESENTATION, no srt OF the poll
tcian is spared 10 binding the reason
and enslavips the very minds of men who
have been persuaded TO follow those who
have Organize this close political corpo-
rstior. A duty rests upoa every citizen
to show 10 every other cit.z9n the peril
in secret, osth-bound political orders,
and their unavoidable Tendency 20 vio-
leree because hidden from the public
scrutiny. The Jscobil Club OF France
once numbered such men as Lafayette
and Tslleyrand-yet the reign Of terror
WIS the wolk Of the JscobIns. Men
should pause snd Ieiec.. Glass prejudice
is the germ Of Class war. Class
war is revolution, and out Of
the revolution springs the Ran on
Horseback who rides without COM
FUNCTION ever the PROSTATE form Of in
divldusl liberty. The Jicobins were
ps.riots-but IN TINE they grew to give
France reign CT terror and Napoleon.
The tendency OF secret, oath-oound po-
litical orders is always the came; the
appetite CT power is never whetted or
appessed, but grows, unrestricted, to
become rsvenous and wo!fsh. The only
RESTRAINT on power Ia puo lic criticism,
bu. who sees or hears the inner COUCH?
There can be no criticism and no re
streint on ito power. THE GAZETTE sp-
pesls 70 Vide.tss themselves as citizens
to stop and think and so no further in o
Cause that leads SIS surely in bat one di.
rection as that water seeks Ii. level.
Freedom cannot live in government
administered in secret, OF controlled by
men moving in secret their schemes and
plsrs TO perform. Even the executive
sessions of the Federal Senate, so neces-
! doit nhr q