Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
1ETT.NONOPOLY FEVER.
# is Working With Fatal Effect.
The People the Only Sufferers.
,oH Inspection Law the Most Bungling
Piece Of legislation White Men Ever
Brought into Existence

,l,ronoiles are hurtful, but anti-mo-
-.Ir crankfsfn is death in the pot. We
-. been bored for the last decade with
-..nopopoly harangues, and it culmi-
-..5lost fall in the election of a legisla-
that was thought to be the very
..,+sssence of anti-monopoly states
-.bfn Let's examine and see how
~ chi. ,.bullabaIloo' ended. No the
IF how or why the sun shines is so
"-!s-frrfng of the fact as the sun shining,
na theory Of what could or ought to
20 beeu done so clearly defines the sit
IN ne what was actually done. All
.Ee onti-monOpoly e1ervescence that we,
..snsopIe. sent down to Austin to con-
....r,e the twenty first legislature must
5.ra aseaned some how, and it seems to
l,ra mostly evanesced, for 1 can
sr1 but one possible escape
-,a-tbe coal oil inspection law
asr5 q greater imposition was never fas-
tened upon any people.
Before we can arrive at at a far con-
,rsfon concerning any measure, we
INST ascertain the exact relations to each
her of the resulting benefits and imju-
-.. IU the present case the inspectors
.-a the only ones benefited, the whole
rsonle of Texas the injured party, while
.aa -afroads and the Standard oil mo-
ror5Iv are affected in no possible way.
ri. hardly necessary to state that the
rni.neitheT better nor purer, and burns
neither louder nor longer than before.
The legislature in enacting the law
merely wandered to the cry Of anti
m6ropav crauks, but / do not hold it
famab!e auv further than humanity
holds man responsible for floating
m the current when he knows it
q rushing to the devil and
CARRYING him with it. I am trying to
stem the current and not the trash that 3
floating on the top. Previous to the pas
SAGE of this abommable law oil was re-
falling az 81 SO per case, but now it has
risen 90 8 %. The inspector gets 10
cents per cast and the wholesale and re-
tail merchants add their per cent; then
there is the cost for detention and both
Grafton. so that every time a man now
buys 8 case Of oil in Texas he invests 60
cents in aEti-mouOpOly crankism.
Besides, who have TO suffer from this
ezlaitaut and detestable exaction? The
farmers and all other laboring classes.
IN the cities the gaslight and the electric
light are universally used, while coal oil
Is the light Of the family circles
II the common masses, and
they must pay 6 cents more
per gallon, all because auti-monQboIy
uanfism ah0unds III the land. Like all
other crauEi>ms, this law was -ufltimely,
i0r il went into effect at q time when
farmers needed thousands Of gallons Of
oil 10 prevent their cotton from being en-
t1jy destroyed by the millers. As in
significant ass this additional cost may
seem at first sf3ht, coal oil is.used' foFzs
many various purposes that this abom-
mable1uspection law Tobs the people of
tbs state of more actual money than is
expended in maintaining our schools.
NhaC sacrifice to the "God of anti
monopoly craukism!'' He ought TO be
alpeaseJ. The Standard coal oil mo-
lolaly pays no more for labor and gets
just rs much for OH as before. This leg
haton in Texas against monopolies
Ohio affects them just about
as much as John l.. Sullivan
striking the mouth of the Mississippi one
o., bis "socEd0ilagers would effect tho.
bosom of Lake Itasca its source
Does this law reduce fTeights? Not q
Cto. IT, But the consumers in Texas
pay more for this useless and botheYsome
Inspection than for transporting the oil
..l miles but still, the railroads are
lansuous " What fools We mortals
'e. Autobiography cTankiness in hay
i-s this law enacted reminds me of the