Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-27
ONE THING AT 4 TINE

| ONE THING AT d 1LNE.
The Farmers Alliance of the Tenth
! congressional district OF Texas held q
| of this month, at which the usual string
! of resolutions or declaration of princi-
Dles was adopted. An Alliance meeting
without that evidence Of life, without
| going over for the thousandt. time the
| story of its wrongs and of the mode of
| redressing them would be almost q
curiosity. The worthy people of this
society appear TO forget that the man
| with grievance who is forever DINING
1t into the ears of his neighbors amp
friends incurs the risk of firing, if uot
disgusting them. Instead of exciting
sympathy he is more apt to inspire dis
gust. All men are sorry for The victim
of deep seated ulcer, but if he should
go about constantly exposing it to the
public gaze, and calling attention to the
fostering sore, pity would socn degener-
ate to Indifference, if not disgust. To
be sure, the analogy between the Ali
ance and the invalid is not altogether
complete, but the similitude is suf-
firiently striking to arrest attention.
Maladies affecting the body polite are in
their consequences very much like those
attacking the physical organism, and
there is kind of social hippo. or assault
OF blue devils, that ravage COM
munlties, as they distract and worry in
div!duals, stimulating morbid fancies
and grotesque imaginings. Under the
influence of this malady the imaeina-
ton becomes as foul as Vulcan's smithy,
aud peoples the surrounding air with
ugly phnntoms and mercless ogres.
The disease is largely one of the mind,
and not of the body, functional instead
talking about it, grooming and lament
ing, doctoring and dosing himself with a
thousand and one quackeries and nos
trums.
There is q way OF going roundly to
work quietly and judiciously, to cure the
complaint, if only one has the good
sense to quit quackeries aud curealls,
and leave off moaning and winning
At the late election the farmers of the
United States did more for their interest
in a single day. by q wise use Of the bal
lot, than they have done since the war,
with all their talking and resoluting.
Organization doubtless contributed to
the result. But that result was achieved
by q concentration of effort upon single
wrong, aud not as we too often see, by
scattering it over a multitude of more or
less imaginary woes. That effort was
death blow at protection and high taxes.
To reap the fruits of it, it Is ueedful that
the victory be followed up energeticallv,
and not be neglected to go in chase of
wil-o' -the-wIsps and jack-o'- the-ian-
terms.
Here we have this Aus in Alliance
calling for uniformity in school books,
the Australian ballot system, a reduction
of the legal rate of interest, the confin-
ing of convicts within the walls OF the
pententiary, and the manufacture by
them of cotton baggng. separate tax
rolls for negro taxpayers, the employ
ment in state departments of female
clerks and so forth.
Now all these things NAV be very well.
or they may not, but whether they are
or not 1t is extremely doubtful if all of
them, and others besides, were granted
by the state the average condition of the
Texas farmer would be appreciably im-
proved. He is the victim, not of bad
government in the state, but in the ua-
ton; not at Austin, but ut Washington.
Unjust and discriminating Federal leg
islntion that has made him the victim of
monopoly, is to blame for bis wrongs,
1t is against that he should direct his eff
forts, and upon the general government
he should call for Justice. \ separate
roll for the negro taxpayer, or q half |
dozen more female clerks the depart. |
ments may be all right. but how does
that cheaper the cost Of living to the |
farmer, or enhance the price of his cot |
ton or corn? The world Is 5000 years old,
and still there are men who have yet to |
learn the value of the old spase. "one
thing at time. and fhe big thing
eEt." NA