Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-21

want. Unlike remark made by Louis
XIV upon memorable occasion, 81 am
the state, here the whole people consti-
tutethe state. Regard that which you
get from the government as so much gift,
and depend only upon your government
to make your neighbor keep his hands off
of your interests. I am not opposed to
taxation for school purposes, but am
only advising you to rely upon your
selves, and be thankful for what you re-
ceive from the state.
No other state has such an educational
endowment, SD 200 200 permanent
school fund, drawing an average of per
cent. interest; half that amount also
from the sale of school lands, and
20 900 900 acres of school lands yet for
sale. The university and all eleemosynary
institutions have handsome endowments,
bnt we have been very extravagant with
our public lands. I condemn the act of
the legislature in amending the constitu-
ton in 1873 by which the lands were
given to corporations.
How much better it would have been
to have endowed institutions in Arson,
Abilene and every other town and hamlet
in the state. These lands were given in
the year 1873 and I was the first man in
the house TO raise my voice against it.
Those of us who opposed the act managed
to save part of thepublic lands by pass
ing bill comforting every alternate Sec
ton upon the school fund. Iwant to see
all the people educated; education is the
great
BULWARK OF CIVIL LIBERTY.
Away down the corridors of time I can
see the approaching battle between capt.
tai and labor. Our government is di-
vided into three departments, and the
greatest of these is the judiciary The
United States constitution of to-day is
unlike the constitution of 1887 The
judiciary department is changing the
constitution every day. They will CEN
traliZe all the powers of the government
at one place, and we viii all be governed
from that point. States will soon take the
place of counties, as in our present gov
eminent, for the Judiciary is supreme.
There is no such thing as three cardinate
departments. 1t will be a fearful time
when it comes, much worse than the
late civil war. The result of the war
was not to break down state rights, and
that result only established the fact that
the South was not able to whip the North
WITH THE SWORD.
The South and West will at last be the
pillar of the Federal government.
Frozen New England cannot compete
with the South upou equal terms. We
can live cheaper, can work twelve
months in the year and have all the raw
material. Population and cheap money
is what we need. Money is worth too
much here, and the want of population
places us at the mercy of labor. When
we get to manufacturing the mills of
New England will rot down. When you
see population pouring into the South, as
/ know it has
POURED INTO JONES COUNTY
in the last six months, affairs viii be
different and 1 know that time is not far
distant. If the tariff is not removed
there viii be another war. New En-
gland viii secede and the South and West
viii whip her back into the Union. FPro-
longed applause. The question of
secession IS settled, but the tariff is uu-
settled. believe in taxing per capita.
Every man pays ten times more per
annum under the tariff than he would
under the per capita or direct taxation.
The tariff question viii be a contention
forever 1 have been quoted in the
papers as saying that We would become
protective people as we became a manu-
featuring people. l said we would be-
come protective people because We are
controlled more or less.
BY OUR POCKETS.
As we become q protective people,
New England will become a free trader,
and it will devolve upon us to give her a
spanking I expect to return 10 Arson
again soon ID the future. and when