Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04


Every man is entitled TO his opinion on
any political issue, but he is not entitled
to any office by q majority vote, where
he Is not in accord with that majority on
important Issues This should be cam
paign of issues and not one of personal
manipulation, preferences or prejudices.
The merchant, the manufacturer, the
producer and the consumer, the farmer
and laborer and the professional man
should all stand together in this fight TO
see that railroads properly perform the
! duties for which their franchises were
granted. Business of no kin will be on
a stable basis until there is some system
and certainty about freight rates.
If the people will present a solid front
and put no man on guard who has not
declared himself, they can win any
fight. Teach your children 10 declare
"a fair freight rate must and shall be
had and you will have it now and
hereafter and be protected in il by law.
Instead of groauing and granting and
moving to get rid of political evils, have
neighborhood meetings and discuss
political evils and their remedies, Quit
electing men to office and paying taxes
to support them when they are secretly
fighting you on issues of Importance.
Organize within your party or organized
capital will regulate you and the party
both. Organized suffrage can't be
overcome in any state in this Union.
No matter how strong fight is mode
against the railroad commission, if every
candidate for Justice of the peace i'll
Texas at the coming election is for it,
we will win, for each one can get the
people in his precinct together and
organize them and nothing more Is
needed.
The question is, ought not railroads be
regulated? If so, ought we not have the
commission as well as other methods pro-
vided for in the constitution?
My fellow citizens there is no use max
ing q pilgrimage to Waco to find out
what Democracy requires of you in the
matter of railway regulation. The
Democratic party of Texas in the last
three platforms, and God knows how
often before, has declared that good
government and the best interests of the
people demanded it. 1t is the duty OF
Democrats to see that the pledges of the
party are carried out less the people lose
confidence in its ability or honesty. The
Dallas News says it don't see how Judge
Clark and Democrats of his school can
affiliate with Jim Hogg and the Demo-
Gratis of his school favoring railroad
regulation. They will find way or be
the lonesomest set that ever held po-
litical caucus. They will affiliate and
not follow the advice of the News,
or il will be another case OF fLIttle Bo-
peeps sheep coming home with their
tails behind them. The News
is suspicious of Jim Hogg's Democ-
racy, but the people of Texas are not,
no more than they were suspicious of
Governor Roberts brains when the News
was. The News in Its editorials of the
goth, is suspicious of the Democracy OF
tine commission men, and intimates thai
they should be kept out of the primaries,
This would be genuine case of Jonah
swallowing the whale. While it is great
Jonah in politics.
Every corporation in this state from the
Slap-slop Foot street sprInkling company
Operated by negro and blind mule) to
the biggest insurance company will feel
called upon to oppose Jim Hogg and
commission. They don't want the peo-
pie to learn any more than they can find
in blue back speller. These same fell
lows said that it was in "restraint OF
trade and violation OF vested and in
alienable rights when Hogg rooted out
those insurance companies, that were
taking the peoples money in premiums
and paying no losses when fires occurred.
Every civilization has had laws in re-
straint of dishonest trade. If you will go
and whisper to Joe Brown at Fort Worth,
and some of the Dallas wholesale mer-
chants, you will find that the rail-
of trade, than commission
ever could, even if constituted
out Of the jackass material that the OPP
position seems to think the only kind 10
be had in Texas. What these corpora
ton advocates claim to know of vested
and inalienable rights would fill an IN
abridged dictionary. When l read their
speeches on this question and then re-
member that when this government
started out the people had all the rights,
it does seem to me that in some game OF
s'jack pot' the people must have run
up against four aces with "bob-tail
fiush.'' You had better be careful
about loaning your neighbor a sitter or
peck measure or he may get a vested
right on your corn crib. According 10
the gentlemen on the other side, all the
rights our revolutionary fathers fought
for, have vested in the corporations
created by law. Those men who were
left over from the last war and didn't
get scared of Confederates or Yankees,
had better keep their eyes skinned for
''vested rights for they are slicker
than an eel and have more DISCUSSES
than a ku-klux. If Sam Weller had lived
in these days, he would have said beware
of ''vested rights instead OF "beware
of vidders.'' Tine old darkey in speak
ing of the new preacher, said che am
certainly an eloquent man, fur he argued
me into giving him my good watermelon
fur the good of the Lord The people
knew they were vestInE sixteen sections
Of land to the mile in the railroads, but
never dreamed that the only right they
had left was to "chaw tobacco aud
cuss'' when all they raised went TO
freight.
The greatest trouble is that the people
allow their rights taken one by one. and
are too easily fiattered into believing it
is all for the best, and made TO believe
by the interested few that it viii soon be
all right. Mr. Gould went to Jefferson
and gave them nice little
speech about what Jefferson would be,
and what he would do for 1t when il
became the head of navigation, etc.
Just below there at Shreveport, Mr..
Gould's extortionate freights, drove the
merchants into putting in their own