Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-27
STRIKES AT THE COBE.
Judge Cummings Heartily Endorses the Com
munication of Capt. Johnson.
FORT WORTH TEX, Aug. 26, 1889.

Fort WORTH, TEX, Aug. %, 1889.
To the Gazette.
J The article of Mr.. 7. J Johnson in the
Sunday issue of your paper headed 1.-The
People, the Roads, - strikes at the very
! core of our troubles about ''freight
+ charges and ''factory failures - He
I shows how various enterprises have
! started here in Fort Worth and have
| failed and why they have failed. He
gives the figures so plain that Il child may
understand. He speaks out boldly and is
not afraid to give the cause and fixes the
responsibility where it belongs, which IS,
! in short, with the railroads which are
! owned by Eastern capitalists and who are
| interested in maintaining their lines on
the one hand and preventing competition
in the way of manufactures being es-
tablished here because they would inter
fere with the profits of the Eastern man
ufacturers who are interested III the roads
as well as the factories there. It is use
less to try to prevent, by sentiment, men
from making all they can
out of "plaut'' as they
call it, when they are the planters.
There was Il set of planters in olden times
that had monopoly Of labor in the South
by a decree of the constitution of the
United States, which we Southern peoeae
were taught came from God. But a new
dispensatiOn came under the teachings of
''higher law - And that monopoly.
disappeared under high tariff rendered
necessary to destroy that monopoly.
That monopoly of taking the labor of one
man to enrich another went down, but
in its place came another order of
slavery. Then ii was the enSlavement of
the black man alone, now it Is the en-
slavement of both white and black to
feed the tariff barons, who feed the mo-
nopolies of plants which have taken
the place of planters of the old slave
days Then the darkey got his board and
clothes after some fashion, now the white
man gets neither, but he is working for
bare living all the same as the black
man did of yore, and gets no more. Read
the story of Mr.. Johnson in Sunday s
GAZETTE and he will get you the facts
and figures down so fine that nothing
lives twixt it and silence, - as the great
tragedian said on our boards here when
rendered crazy by the death of the fair
ROman-his daughter.
Now, Mr.. johnson gives you the rem
edy as well as diagnosing the disease.
This is seldom done III one article, yet he
does, and it is the conclusion long since
reached by the writer when he and a
number of our citizens met here as many
as five years ago and had a series of
Iabored meetings in the courthouse and
sent out all over the county and had the
people to meet with the citizens
of Fort Worth and study the sit
uatiOn. Your Mr.. Malone, on
your editorial corps, was one of
its most Jealous members. All of our
told by Mr. Johnson 1t is because those
who own the lines of transportation live
in the East, ''and wherever the treasure
is there be the heart also. The East is
being enriched at our expense. 1t is fol-
Iy to talk about a ''piddling commits
sion, - as the Hon. Barney Gibbs well
saws, when it can only reach no farther
than the confines of the state. | agree
with Mr.. Johnson Have your commas
sion. and have mOre-have deep water.
Let us get to the gulf. They have
mortgaged the earth from here to
New York, and have it ready to
fOreclOse at q moment s warning, but
the wind and the waters and the Lord
God of the universe has not yet shown
them a way to fix one on the ocean, a
marine league from the shore. Let us
get deep water before they, find that out
also and claim it, too. comes from a
"higber law
The Eastern man is the most remark
able product of the earth yet discovered.
The keen intellect of the ancient Greek
was thought to have eXcelled all. and it
did till the landing Of the MaytlOwer
which has produced an intelligence that
exceeds anything that has yet been born.
The ancient Jew was ahead of him till
lN,Yf% L INV, I,ro
ham and his descendants, and that is the
genuine Yankee.
Let us acknowledge his worth and
know his ways, for they are golden. Let
lis not pay him tribute any more than we
can help, so let us help ourselves In
the language OF Mr.. T. j johnson, let
us have deep water, then a commission
and then the machinery of our courts7
shaped so that the humblest citizen caIis
have quick redress tor such dIscrimina-
lions which Mr.. Jshnson points out as oc-
curing TO confscatiOn. Take, for ex-
ample, the ton of coal he cites you to:
For instance, the freight on ton of
coal from Fort Worth to Aledo is So 20,
and since coal is delivered in Fort Worth
for So. 10, this freight for an eighteen
mile haul is confscatIon, and nearly 80
per cent. additional.
Now let 1t not be said that this emanates
from one whose section bases his judg-
ment. / mean no reflection when | COM
mend the keen business methods of the
East. l am wiling to admit that old
things have passed away with the great
civil strife that once rent us brothers of
the sections in twain, and that it is ce-
mented anew il the blood of the thou
sands that went down IN the strife. Let
us rather emulate the virtues of those
who take care of their own household,
and thus obey divine command l can
best close by quoting from Mr.. Johnson:
''NOw our sea coast is the only channel
through which this can be corrected, all
our Eastern states have cheap freights
because of their deep water The roads
have to make competing water rate to
get their freight. What is the prime
cause of the prosperous country and large
cities in the East? 1t is the cheap
freights. c. G. CUMMINGS.
Merit Wins.
We desire to say to our citizens that for
years we have been selling DR.. Kings New Dis