Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04
rho Observation-Disclosures Adj
dress a Dallas County
Gathering.
II. will Vote for a Commission, and will
Support jim HOgg for
Governor.
-. peorIs Not to be Frightened by the Cry
A., no More Railroads will be Built"
Georgia Taken as an Example.

spscisl TO the Gazette
c,p1,yp, TEX, May 3.-GovernoI
c;,bs addressed q large crowd here to-
s.r At many points in his speech he
"a, loudly cheered. His audience was
IN enthusiastic one. He spoke as fol-
lows:
r.,,,,r Citizens OF Garland and Vicinity:
Tornreciate and always try to comply
.-,,b 1our invitations not only because
hare always found cordial greeting here
t,om many friends, but because l know
.bot there is no freer and more indepen-
sart neople in this broad state than those
~ live around Garland. 1t is here that
vs find a population who perform their
dolly labor, beautlfy and love their
bomss vet find time to study
onr poltical institutions, and, after
all one is as great q duty IS the
otbsr None but those who scheme
AGAINST the rights and happiness of hu-
mapity have any cause to fear a people
who love their God, their home and their
conntry, Inscriptions ambition and
unbridled avariciousness can never eX-
nsot TO find consolation OF resting place
among people whose daily life pro-
claims the fact that they only ask the
legitimate fruits or honest toll. These
people don I make their living off of the
mlsfortunes or weakness of their fellow
man, and only ask of government that
II take or permit to be taken from their
substance only so much as is honestly
and economically necessary.
intend to vote for commission, al
though my preference has always been
for specific statutory enaotments. No
man who is honestly in favor of railroad
regulation can afford to fight against the
principle, or resist the end TO be attained
because he can't have his method tried
first. believe a majority of the people
Of Texas think the best results can be OBJ
tanned by means of q commission, and it
being only question of methods should
have a fair trial. If the commission
should prove q success the agitation
ceases and the results sought are OBJ
tanned; If it should not prove a success,
then the power in the constitution is
ample to permit us to try specific statu-
tory enactment.
When it was a question whether the
legislature should regulate railroads by a
tutOnal amendment, or by q sepecif1e
statutory enactment of freight rates, 1
was for the latter method. Some of my
friends who think l should have been
with them against commission say that
this is inconsistent. Well they can
make the most of it. for It just meant
that am for railroad regulation, and
that am not pig headed enough to re-
fuse somebody else IS method because 1
can I get mine. am neither an Office
seeker or an issue in this campaign, but
the usual misrepresentation to which L
am subjected makes this much necessary
TO be said. / always hope to be able TO
DO my share in a struggle for the vim
dcation of any policy of government
which ! conceive to be right, and in
The interest of those people, among
whom have cast my lot for life and
from whom have received much. 1
would be ashamed TO let any difference
0l opinion impair my esteem for friend
ana hold lightly any friendship that
hangs by so slender q thread.
PAST AGITATION.
Texas has expended many thousands
OF dollars in discussing in its various
legislatures, whether the constitution
would permit the creation of a railroad
commission with plensry powers. Also
III trying TO settle which was the proper
method, commission or a fixed statutory
Felght tariff. Much time and more
money has been thus fritted away, and
ieei that the time has come when this
renee straddling and backing and filing
should cease, and every man who be-
l'eVes IN railroad regulation should vote
70 strengthen the constitution. With
Doth methods provided we can exercise
either.
RAILROAD REGULATION.
railroad regulation is a necessity if
4e1as is to have full benefit of her re-
sources and natural advantages, and the
producers are to have reasonable profit
Ou Their labor and investments. A rail-
soad that is only attempting to earn a
,,easouaole rate of interest on an actual
Investment by an equitable distribution
VI freight rates is in no dam
set' ana no other is entitled to consider
a'lon beyond this. There are some rail-
. .S1-s IN Texas that are fully determined
- Sla' texas shall derive no benefit from a
s.eep-Water port when obtained; that
- ',,eIe snail be no manufacturing interests
~ consequence in our borders, aud that
agricultural and stock interest shall
sasey live as "hewers of wood and
N'T"efs Of water for The East. !"
a. tue statute against theft is not after
s .no honest man but the thief; the rail-
-S.,- commission will not be after the
a , Ihat are built and operated on
'imate business basis, but after
- 80 which put on every product all the
NJ ~ " II will bear, rather than its fair
pe1. 'ala OF annual earnings and ex-
ana snS' e 1t was the boy up the apple tree
%, ,- -ot Tue one at Sunday-sohool who
Hot INTO trouble.
~. course no one expects any gratitude
iro re-, faiiroads for the bondss or large
cnr ems OI land given by the state 10 Sc
pit,. 'ue!r building These like most
na,t s Ioh count. Independent of do
PAIL Inc people are morally and le-
amo, entitled TO a fair freight rate
tsn, themselves as wen as with dis
ers ave. markets. No intelligent people
sish. "ant more than what is Just and
-' I'll this is refused them.
THE FIGHT.
"a. believe that the canvass will be
onss active one. and the discussion thor
eH' LOT the railroads are determined