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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
ABOUT MEN and WoMEM.


Mr.. Oscar s. Straus, the United States
minister to. Turkey, reports to the secre-
tary of state that he has obtained of the
grand viZier the necessary authorization
for the Bible house at Constantinople to
print in Turkish 80 200 Bible tracts, con-
sisting of the Psalms, the. Proverbs, the
four Gospels and the Acts.
Gen. Ordway s daughter, Mrs. Padel-
ford, social star of some magnitude at
the capital, made an instantaneous hit as
Felisa in the King S Fool at the Co
lumbia theater, Chicago. She is beau
tiful woman, and has a wonderful So
prano voice, clear, full and rich. Her
stage name is Bettina Gerard.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen.
Robert E. Lee, has presented James
Humbles, colored man of Lexington
Va, who fought for the Confederacy un-
der Gen. J. E. B Stuart, with two
handsome steel engravings &c Our
Fallen Braves showing the portraits
of all the leading generals of the South
ern army.
The California songstress, Miss Sibyl
Sanderson, is likely to be the means of
divorcing her tutor, Composer Massenet,
from his wife. According to Paris cor
respondent, Nine. Massenet is growing
jealous of the young operate star, who
Christine Nilsson said could take one note
higher and hold it longer than any singer
she ever heard.
Most American children and many of
their parents are familiar with the name
"Louis Carroll, - the author of ''AIice
in Wonderland and ''Through the
Looking glass House, - those inimitably
clever fairy stories. But probably there
are not many who know that ''LewIs
Carroll is nom de plume, and that the
author real name is Rev. DR.. Dodson,
who is lecturer on mathematics at
Christ Church College, Oxford.
Anthony Higgins, who is mentioned so
prominently as a candidate for senator in
Delaware, Is famous as an after-dinner
speaker and presiding officer in his own
state. He has a round, good-natured
face, and he looks so pleased after a din
ner that he makes everybody around him
feel happy. He is Familiarity called Tony
Higgins by his New York friends, who
were somewhat surprised when they
learned from the papers that he was
statesman.
Miss Madge Wiekham, the Indiana
yiolinist who played at Gen Harrison g
house few days ago, has gone to New
York and the East, where she viii give
several concerts. Miss Wiekham is
likely TO have as brilliant career in this
country as she has had in Europe. She
is the only American yiolinist who was
ever invited TO play in the Grand opera
house at Berlin, where the endorsement
of her teacher, Joachim, was fully con-
firmed by the Berlin critics
Bishop Potter of New York, in an essay
which win appear in the February Serb
ner's on Competition in Modern Life,
says: Let us understand, then, that
eompetition-a strife to excel. nay. If
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
Horrible Hayti.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

1t is not easy to get accurate news from
hat misguided island. This paper thinks
that it has some, but seeks to size it up
alongside of the information furnished by
the private grape-vines of its contempar-
aries. We quote as follows:
New York World: "'You can buy good
rum in Hayti for 25 cents gallon.
New York Herald: ''BFead is very
dear in Hayti. -
Boston Globe: "'They eat steaks from
the choice portions of black babies at the
hotels of Hayti and make lard out of the
refuse
New York Times: ''Gen. Legitime
will soon control the island.
New York Tribune: ''Gen Legitime 5
main army has been defeated, and Gen.
Hippolyte will soon be in supreme con-
troll -
The Cincinnati Enquirer: ''Our infor-
nation leads us to believe that HippolYte
viii win in the pending fight, but the re-
suit will in nowise relieve the horrible
situation. One side is as bad as the
other. Robbery, pestilence, repine, as
sassination, voodouism, cannibalism,
every horrible ism that ii enters into the
Imagination of man to conceive of runs
riot there
The civilized powers of the world should
step in and put an end to it, if they have
TO sink the whole island.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

tinctly that it was unlawful for the COM
panies to enter into q partnership ar
rangement for maSSing all their profits
and sharing gains and losses. In doing
so they abused their powers and exercised
privileges not conferred on them
by law. And further, Judge
Barrett afirms that combinations
TO prevent competition and control prices
are against public policy and are there
fore unlawful. ssThe trust - saws
Judge Barrett, s'can come as near to
creating an absolute monopoly as is
possible under the social, political and
economic conditions of to-day. II al
lowed to thrive and become general, they
must inevitably lead TO the oppression OF
the people and ultimately TO the sub
version of their political rights. - Surely,
MIR. Blaine win open his eyes when he
reads the language of this leyel-headed
judicial authority.
Judge Barrett's decision if upheld by
the upper courts, as ii probably will be,
will be a great help 10 the people in fight
ing their battles against the giants Of
monopoly and illegal combinations But
the trusts viii die hard. They will resort
to every strategy, every evasion every
trick to continue in existence. The peo-
pit viii have to be alive and active. As
the Sun points ont there is no law to pre-
vent the establishment of great coFpo-
ration which viii own all the sugar relin-
cries now owned by the parties to the trust
If they shall be Obliged to surrender their
charters. The capitalists viii whip the
devil around the stump in some way But
it is a long step toward emancipation
when the arguments that have been used
to defend trusts are swept away by such
a master stroke as that delivered by
Judge Barrett
There viii be universal rejoicing at the
result. Everywhere the people win feel
securer in their rights. The trusts are
not so much to be dreaded, now that they
have been declared Illegal There is
hope of relief. The press is quile gen
orally elated over the victory The New
York Times, World and Herald declare
it a great triumph over monopoly and
oppression. The Sun says the decision is
sound in law. The Tribune carefully re-
Trains from expressing any joy over the
result and the Press takes occasion to
remark that congress should pass Senator
Cullom s bill.
Judge Barrett IS decision has interest
apart from its relation to trusts. BE pro-
claims that the principle by which these
trusts are maintained is Illegal. But the
principal is identical with that of the pro-
tectiye tariff. The tariff and the trust
are alike formed to prevent competition
and to foster monopoly. The principle
of the tariff then is Illegal, as the Regis
ter has always claimed. 1t is not sound
in law. Away with trusts and tariff
for protection s sake!
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
AS TO TRUSTS


The. decision of Judge Barrett of New
York in the North River sugar refining
company IS case is of national Importance
and very naturally attracts much atten-
ton. The press as rule >commends the
decision which annuls the charter of the
company and no doubt the court of ap-
peals viii sustain the view held by the
judge. He says at one point:
Fortunately the law is able to protect itself
against abuses Of the privileges which it grants,
and while further legislation, both preventive
and disciplinary, may be suitable to check and
punish exceptional wrongs, yet there is existing,
to use phrase of a distinguished English judge
in a noted case, ''plain law and plain sense
enough to deal with corporate abuses like the
present-abuses which, if allowed to thrive and
become general, must inevitably lead TO the OPP
preston of the people and ultimately to the
subversiop of their political rights.
The whole question can be put in very
few words, and may be easily answered.
Are trusts contrary to public interests
aud public welfare? If so, then they
are unlawful combinations, and should
be checked. The state holds its power in
trust for the many and not in bondage
for the few. If trusts are public bene-
fit, the more we can have of them the
better; if they are an injury they should
be stopped by the same power that made
them possible.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
LAND Law AND RAILROADS.

Who was II in 1884 said the school land would
be leased at 20 cents an acre? It occurs 10 THE
GAzErTE that, four years ago, some paper in
GAZETTE.
1t was probably the man who last week refused
so cents per acre for 100 acres Of his grass burnt
in his pasture a few miles this side OF San An
gelo by sparks from Santa Fe railroad engine.
The claim agent offered him so cents per acre,
but he demanded 81. Why should cattlemen
growl at the cents asked by the state and then
claim 100 cents for burnt grass, when the pasture
next spring viii no doubt be better on account OF
the burning? The ways Of the average free grass
man are indeed wonderful and past finding out:
-[Waxahachie Enterprise.
s'Don [ mix your metaphors. But
since you jump from the land ques-
ton TO the prejudice against railroads.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
Congressman Laird on the SCI List.

OMAHA, NEB., Jan. Congressman
Laird reached his home in Hastings this
morning. kilograms from there to-day
that the MUD of Mr.. Laird is helplessly
gone. This is not credited here, how
ever. During his stay in Omaha he was
greatly relieved of stomach troubles and
last night he walked TO the clerk IS desk
in the hotel and drew a check for his
bill and then entered carriage with but
little assistance. 1t is not likely he will
visit Washington during the present ses-
sion, but he is now able to eat with
relish aud relishes his food, and the pros
pect for his recovery is considered good.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
Harrison Blows His Bugle.
Atlanta fGa.l Constitution.


A great many Southern politicians and
Southern newspapers have been talking
about Gen. Harrison Southern policy
Southern Republicans have conferred
with him about it, and protection Dem
Gratis from a neighborhood of BiFming-
ham have talked with him in regard to
the situation. There seems to be no
doubt that all thsse conferences have had
their influence i'll the general IS mind
and at last we have from him q
message that might well have been COM
posed in the seething brain of Picksniff
Shepard.
Not many days ago the president-elect
made speech at meeting of grand
army post in Indianapolis. In the course
of this speech, he so far defined his policy
as to say; ''The parting request I would
make of you would be that each of you,
if the bugle-call should sound again,
should stand shoulder to shoulder, as we
did during the war, to preserve a free
and honest ballot. -
Now, this is either the merest rot and
drivel, or it means that Gen. Harrison,
when once he is safely seated in the White
house, proposes to inaugurate the war
that Pecksniff Shepard has been demand
ing to compel the negro voters of the
Louth to cast their ballots. We NAV say
here that no president ever formulated 8
more interesting programme, or one less
likely to commend itself to the common
sense of the country.
For instance, who is going to ''sound
the bugle?" VIII that duty devolve on
Gen. Harrison himself, or will the tin
horn of partisanshp be given over to the
- -
after the horn is blown. the question will
arise, did the Union soldiers stand shout
der to shoulder during the war TO pre-
serve free and an honest ballot?
Nothing could be more amusing than
this sort Of talk from a president elect,
than this sort of vagary evolved from a
mind that is supposed TO be the greatest
and the grandest in the Republican party.
This bugle-call business is the very es-
sense of bosh, but what is laughable in
an ignoramus like Pecksniff Shepard is
inexcusable in Gen. Harrison, who occu-
pies really responsible position. Has
this worthy person forgotten all of sud-
den that the Republican party cannot
override the constitution and the inter-
pretative decisions of the supreme court?
Has he forgotten that in his capacity of
president his policy whether it be South
ern or Northern) will have no more effect.
on the country than the idiotic views of
Pecksniff Shepard? 1t is true that Gen.
Harrison has it in his power to do great
good, but he can do no harm whatever
His duties as president and his influence
for harm are prescribed by the constitu-
ton.
There has been great running to and
fro IN the South and elsewhere to find
out something about Gen. Harrison 8
Southern policy. Now that he has an
nounced that it will have bugle-calI
attachment, which is another name for
presidential fiZzlement, we trust there
will be no more fuss over the matter
Gen. Harrison is no better than his party,
and he lacks the brains of Blaine. This
is all that need be said, except that it is
of no sort of Importance to the South
what sort of policy he may have outlined
to Lie Halford.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

can You tell us how a SIS pony is
converted. into q SIS horse by cow
catcher, or how S1Olong horn is changed
into 500 Durham by the same means?
and while you are att, can you tell US
how the little finger of a man who could
never accumulate $1,000 if he had twenty
fingers, becomes worth 5000 when he
loses it through railroad accident2
When you talk land law talk land law,
and when you show up prejudice against
railro ads just say that the popular oppo-
sition to these and other corporations has
become a blind, unreasoning force that
makes farce of justice.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

THE announcement in the papers of
Tuesday that the electoral colleges of the
several states had met and voted for
president and vice-president, served no
other purpose than to call attention to a
feature of the Federal constitution that,
in everything except a name, has
fallen into innocuous desuetude.
When the electoral college was
instituted, the convention system had
not come into vogue, and the college was
devised to choose a president and vice.
president, not to record the prior choice of
the people, When the occasion for a sys-
tenn passes, usually it is time to abandon
the system itself. 1t is probable that
whenever iconoclastic hands are again
laid upon the Federal constitution the
electoral college will go.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
TEXAS IN TYPE.

The raising of Angora goats is proving
a successful industry in Blanco county
A petition for postofice at New Biz
mingham has been sent TO Washington.
S. M Bird of Taylor was drowned on
Sunday last by the capsizing of boat on
Ships lake.
The city council at Abilene at the re-
quest of the citizens named the 22d OF
February as Arbor day.
Arbor day, December 2S, was observed
in Hubbard City and quite number of
shade trees were set out
A sweet potato of the white yam
variety was recently exhibited in Hub
bard City that measured 3 feet Is inches.
Hubbard City News: Mr.. s. F.. John
son, living on our southern suburbs, has
a fine row Of English peas now growing
in his garden, from which he gathered
fine mess of peas for dinner the day before
last Christmas, and if the weather still
continues mild will gather another mess
before the week rolls round in January,
1889.
Cresson is the new town at the junction
of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande and
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
roads. Cresson is well located as to
drainage and distance from and relation
TO other towns, being fifteen miles from
Granbury, twenty-five from Fort Worth,
twenty from Weatherford and eighteen
from Cleburne. 1t has an abundance OF
good water, and fuel is as cheap as can
be obtained at any of the surrounding
towns. All trains stop, and the mail
service has recognized its importance by
giving it four daily mails from Fort
Worth Granbury Cleburne and Wealth
erford, thus making it can" exchange
office.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
The Ilesality of Trusts.


Mr.. Blalne's remark that trusts were
largely private affairs with which Presi-
dent Cleveland nor any other individual
has anything to do, does not seem TO
have been any more sound IN law than it
was wise as political utteranee. The
decision by Judge Barrett of New York
in the case of the People VS.. the North
River sugar refining company makes it
toleTably clear that trusts are not only
Illegal, but that they are dangerous pub
lie menaees about which every citizen
should feel the deepest concern. The
'speopIe'' won their case. 1t was
notable victory and one that win cause
rejoicing all over the land.
The North River sugar refining com
pany is a member of the sugar trust,
which includes all the refineries in the
country. Judge Barrett says this COM
pany and all other companies which en-
tered into the combination, have for
feIted their charters. he states dis
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

THE attorney of the Standard oil trust
and the author of the trust idea, s. C. T.
Dodd, thinks that the recent decision of
Judge Barrett of New York, annulling
the charter of the sugar refining COM
pany because of its connection with the
sugar trust, will not affect his company.
He argues that Judge Barrett 8 decision
relates TO corporate action, while
the ell trust is a union of corpO
rators, not of corporations. If
Mr.. Dodd is right the trusts will accom-
modate themselves to the occasion and
live by the grace of technicality. There
is strong probability, however, that
the courts win decide that tweedledum
and tweedledee are the same.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

in the time of political quietude; Ku-
Klux were organized in the South IN
time OF political turmoil. The Ku-
Klux were the recourse of a people made
desperate by insupportable local mis-
government; the White Caps are the OUT
growth of lawlessness pure and simple.
The virtuous North is more troubled with
the mote in the eye of the South than with
the beam in its own.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

A CORRESPONDENT in yesterdays GA
zETTE heads his screed against bonds,
Roads Without Bonds. - The people
of Texas will obtain good roads without
paying for them when the pigs begin to
fly. THE GAZETTE has little hope that
Texas win have good permanent road
ways during the life of the present gen.
GRAFTON; but, like the anti-bond patriots,
THE GAZETTE works for posterity. Per-
haps the seed now sown by THE GAZETTE
viii spring up and bear fruit when men
now on earth are all dead.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
EARLY RISING.

Early rising is bore,
Diabolical, terrific.
Most men vanquished lie before
Influences Soporific;
Some may make sudden leap
Ont of bed, and go 10 dressing,
Clearing thus their eyes OF sleep
In way that s most depressing.
Others yawn, and yswn, and yawn,
Dallying, as IN sinner,
Till, instead of being dawn,
1t is nearly time for dinner.
Others tightly close their eyes,
Resolute against temptations;
You can never make them rise
Early, e en- TO save the nation.
And, indeed, it seems 10 me
That their course is much the wiser;
have never yearned TO be
Famous SIS an early riser;
For / love 10 lie abed
While the early birds are singing,
With the blankets round my head,
Till the breakfast bell IS ringing;
And it gives me keen delight
When. with soft and honeyed phrases
Some one calls me, out of spite
To respond s'Oh, 60 to blszesle
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
.AMERECANTZE AMERICA.

THE GAZETTE is not the only newspa-
per in the state that believes in Amerl-
canizing America. The Waco Day says:
''The Texas legislature provided that
5000 copies of the governors message
should be printed in the German Ian
guage-a mere pittance of cost, it is true,
but involving a wrong principle. The
legislature of Missouri declined to have
the governors message in that state
printed in any foreign language, holding
that the people of Missouri of all nation
alities must at least in theory know how
to read the English language. The state
of Louisiana, with nearly half its popula-
ton speaking the French language, has
long ago abolished the use of that lam
guage in all its official publications.
This is all English-speaking nation, and
there should be no perpetuation of anoth-
er tongue by any act of legislation, and
even all foreign traditions should be as
far as possible merged into the customs
of our own people. - That resolution to
print the message in a foreign language
is premium on ignorance. AS THE Ga
ZETTE has said before: The man who
does not know the language of country
is hardly competent to rightly estimate
the genius of its government. This is
America, not Germany
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

GEN. HANDY of Austin is pre-emi-
nently the man to introduce an amend
ment of chapter 3, article 143 of the
Revised Statutes in the lower house of The
Texas legislature. Representative Ham
by's introduction of such bill would in
sure its passage. The statute books of
Texas have advertised Austin and Cal
weston as the only two cities in the state
ing enough. The Galveston dailies are
not the only newspapers in the Texas of
to-day by large majority
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

THE man who whispers is the man for
whom the president-elec is looking. To
a squad of Southern ofice-seekers who
explained how the South might be di-
vided, the general remarked recently:
You gentlemen come up here and go
into the closet and whisper to me. When
you go home you don't act according
ly.' The general has a right to be in
dignant The views and proposes ac-
credited to him by some of the Indian
apolis pilgrims are enough to excite the
fury of patient man.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

THE people Of Texas want twenty five
feet of water on the gulf coast wherever it
can be had quickest and for the least
money. The annual loss ON freights is
TOO large for the producer to stand any
more moukeying. Ignorance of, or in
difference TO this question is going to
make some political graves in this state
and neighborhood. The great mass of
people of Texas are tired of losing mil
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17

IF TEXAS politicians win draw straight
line north and south from Arkansas Pass
they win find that two thirds of the
acreage of the state lies west of this line,
and if they will examine the comp
troller's Office they will find that ma
jority of the wealth and population of
Texas is west of this line. 1t win pay
politicians better to post themselves than
TO try TO hoodwink the people.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
WHIPPED BY WHITE CAPS.
Punishment Melted to Those Who Took the
Places of Strikers.


PITTsFELD, MASS, Jan. 1.-Two
weeks ago forty weavers at the Monu-
ment mills in Housatonic left work be-
cause of trouble with an overseer. Some
new weavers from abroad have been at
work recently, which has annoyed the
strikers, but the new hands have
not been molested. Last night
two of the new hands, Paul
Purdy and Joseph Leaure, after finishing
work started for their home in Vanduzen-
vile. When they reached a dark piece
of wood they were confronted by fifteen
masked men, who announced
themselves as f'White Caps.
With that they beat and
kicked them into insensibility, leav-
ing them in the road. Purdy was
the worse sufferer, being bruised
and blackened from head to foot.
The pair reached their home
late at night, nearly exhausted from loss
of blood. Purdy Is unconscious at mid
night. All night the doctors feared he
would die, but he is improving this after
noon. The affair causes much excite
ment, and further trouble is feared,
The mill owners promise to punish the
offenders il found.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
a New GOMEZ DIseovered.

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Jan. 15.-DireetOr
Switch of the Warner observatory, re-
ceiyed notice to-day of the discovery Of a
new comet by Professor Brooks
at Smiths observatory, Geneyaa
at $3.50 O'Clock this morning
Its position is as follows: Right ascen-
sion, Is hours AZ minutes; declination
south, q degrees 20 minutes, with
rapid western motion.