Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-06

preserve silence Sbcut It's public policies.
Ehe election OF United States Senator
ny Legislature removes thkt officer too
'er from the people, and hiss filed the
Senate with milliouaires. Two years sgo
L acVocsted an amendment to the Federal
constitution n quiring the American San
stor 10 De elected by "a direct vote of the
people. The thick snd-thin corporate
press Of Texas then derided my views.
a lew days sgo such sn amendment
WAS recommended by . committee OF Con-
gress without dissenting vote. II it
should be adopted We shall see less of
that Congressional dignity which refuses
10 grsp2Ie with live problems that IN
VolVe me prosperity Of state, which
loses Itself In the mysteries Of the tsrifi,
and gees nothing 10 condemn 10 ,he eMac
lions OF corporate power tyran zirg eyer
the highways Of the people We nbw
rave much CT thst patricisn apathy that
characterized the privileged classes who
In France gsthered tolls on bighwsYs
ard everywhere el.e from pstient labor,
until the revolution of 1889 burst full
armed upon them. II We would es-
cape such Calamity, economic prob
lens involving Ihe relations Of all
labor with all monopolies ard trust COM
blnations must be solved; for unless they
are, the man who is not 8 fool NAV stand
erect and hear the rumbliDe OF the coming
revolution.
I believe you were present when /,
made the first enti-prohibition speech
ever delivered in the Senate OF Texas sftsr
the constitution Of 1875 will therefore
be excused for reminding you that then
predicted shst II prohibition wss ever
submitted to popular vote, 1t would in
1sct into the general state can-
yass thereafter, an Issue that swould
threaten to dominate sll others. Such
sn evil row impends, snd 1t can be
averted only by conservative couusels.
Let 1t be determined by the common
Judgment whether 1t is best for US to
spend the next summer in preparing to
emancipste all the Industries of this state
from corporate tyrsnny, or egain to pass
the dog-d1ys In listening 70 qusrrals on
the hustiugs between ministers of the
gosrel and politicians about what kind of
beverage the constitution should per-
nit the citizen to purchase or drink.
The effort now made in some qusrters
to make deep water perform duty as q
state Issue will be failure, unless accom-
panied with 8 demand for leg station that
will make deep water beneficial. Every
body wants deep water at the entrance to
one or more Texas ports for no state can
be truly great that neglects Its own SEES
ports to send the products of its soil to
the ocean ever distant wharves. All
Texas people desire deep water; yes
every merchant and farmer from Denison
. Galveston knows that II we LAD fifty
fset OF deep water st the entrance to Gal
weston harbor 1t would not divert one
more bale OF cotton to Galveston wharf,
so long IS enc man is permitted to sit
down in Houston as pooling of1cer for
every road ,defyipg the state constitution,
fixing freight rstes, destroying eompeti-
tiop, and dividing the plumber.
There Is an issue OF paramount impor-
lance to the people of Texas whish they
will not suffer to be ignored, either by
politicians or platforms. II concerns the
prosperity of agriculture, on which all
other properties must depend. The old
church tenth Of our products, in value, Is
collected from our people by railway cor
porations IS the price of transporting to
the seeports st our very doors. And as o
result. hslf OF the farms In the most pro-
ducnve portions Of the state are plastered
wiz" 10 per Cent' mUTiSsEtS 10 hnSlisO
and Scotch money lenders.
These are no times for men who agree
on vitsl questions to break ranks and
jostle each other in the hunt for of1ce. /
believe that Senator Coke aud myself
agree as to the evils that threaten US, and
slso as to the remedies necessary to un-
fetter agriculture and trade. / will sus-
tain him, If he will meet, as I believe he
will, with aggressive esrnestness the full
measure Of duty in the approaching can
vass. The public welfare sht uld be pre-
ferred above the friendships or ambitions
OF life, and highly as I esteem Senator
Coke l could not sustain him II he
fails to wage an opFn war on the
methods OF corporate power in this state.
he does this or not, railway
kings, their emissaries and newspaper
allies will fad that they have something
else to do in the next canvass besides in
spring Associated Press DISPATCHES, load
ing newspaper columns with ssrsilroad
to bride public opinion with the
promise Of new rosds, and stocking pri-
msry meetings over false issues before
they csn elect another Legislature. re-
main sincerely your friend.
A. ". TKRRELL.