Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-15
ANTI-MONOPOLY FEvfo
How it is Working With Fatal Dc
The People the Only Suffere,,
Coal Oil Inspection Law the Most Pm.
Piece of Legislation White Men E.
Brought into Existence.

To the Gazette.
Monopolles are hurtfuI, but anti,
nopoly erankism is death in the NOT ~
have been bored for the last deca5. We
anti-monopoly harangues, and II on, IN
mated last fall in the election of -
ture that was thought to he tba
quintessence of anti-monoDoIv -.
manship. Let's examine and 900
all this "hullabaIloo" ended. NotS
DRY of how or why the sun shine.
convincing of the fact as the sun shin
so no theory of what could or o, ,,-'.s,
have been done so clearly defines t5 - %
uation as what was actually done -
the anti-monopoly effervescence the. NJ
the people, sent down TO Austin N -
stitute the twenty-tirst legislatnrsO eol'
have escaped some how, and il sear ,-uS'
have mostly evanesced, for %
lind but one possible e.cosI
pipe-the coal oil Inspection Ups o
and greater imposition was never ~
tened upon any people.
Before we can arrive at at a fa,r o.
clusion concerning any measure
must ascertain the exact relations -. W
other of the resulting benefits and i,'t
ries. In the present case the insDaa,!a-'
are the only ones benefited the rbsl'
people of Texas the injured party rbg'
the railroads and the STANDARD on
nopoly are affected in no possible no
1t is hardly necessary to state tbot -
oil is neither better nor purer, and bn,r,
neither louder nor longer than bafo.-
The legislature in enacting the 1.
merely pandered to the cry of am;
monopoly crapks, but / do not hold /,
blamabIe any further than human,r
holds a man responsible for aoatin.
on the current when ne knows !,
is rushing to the devil ar5
carrying him with it. I am trying !,
stem the current and not the trash that
floating on the top. Previous to the mas
sage of this abomlnable law oil was "a
failing at 81 .65 per case, but now it ba,
risen 20 81 .25. The inspector gets +;
cents per case 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 nov
buys case of oil in Texas he invests 90
cents in anti-monOpoly crankism.
Besides, who have TO suffer from tbs
exorbitant and detestable exactiou? na
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
of the common masses, and
they must pay cents more
per gallon, all because anti-monopoy
crankism abounds in the land Like ali
other crankisms, this law was untimely,
for it went into effect at a time when
farmers needed thousands of gallons Of
oil TO prevent their cotton from being en-
tirely destroyed by the millers As in.
significant as this additional cost NAV
seem at first sight, coal oil is used for 50
many various purposes that this abOm-
Unable inspection law rObs the pe0DeX
this state of more actual money than
expended in maintaining our schools.
What a sacrifice to the God of anti
crankism'' He ought to DO
The Standard coal oil mo-
pays no more for labor and gets
just as much for OIL as before. This leg
isIation in Texas against mOnOpOlies
in Ohio affects them just about
as much as John L. Sullivan
SLrlktuR the NOUN OF InG MlSslHSippl uuo
of his sockdoIlagers would effect the
bosom of Lake Itasca its source.
Does this law reduce freights? rot
bit of it. But the consumers in Texas
pay more for this useless and bOthersOms
than for transporting the oil
1000 miles, but still the railroads are
What fools we mOrtali
oe!' Anti-monOpoly craukiness in hay-
ing this law enacted reminds me OF the
butcher, who, having worked himseltup
to such a frenzy because he couldn
reach his enemy across the MISSISSIPPI
river, whirled his -cleaver go trantieaLy
that he cut off his own head There
40 sentiment IN coal oil, and if monopoly
,an give it to us at 20 cents per gallon
and anti-monopolY crankism makes Us
pay % cents per gallon for the same OILS
give as monopoly world without end.
While am bitterly opposed to mo-
lopolies, trusts, ETC., am more bitterly
opposed to anti-mouopoly cIankism, io'
/ wild, frantic and unreasOning oppos-
ion IS often more hurtful than tn'
grievances complained of
A SPRINGTOWNIIE'
August u, 1889