Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17

TOTAL .ts'O
IhaVe here before me list of land pm.-
chaSeS ranging from ~, 900 10 1000. UOJ acres
aggregatiug ~ 900 acres. With the pub
lie land exhausted, disposed of in immense
grants or II nominal prices to foreign and
domestic capitalists, then and not Till then
the period of peril to this republic Will be-
gin, Mr.. Holman continues. \ great mo
nupOly OF land admits of no remedy; it IS Il
crime against the human race, and deserves
the eXcerdtiOn Of mankind; no time can
palate the wrong.
MORE LIGHT on THIS 81 ~ EC T-LI>TEN TO An
English THREAT.
The Hon. John HeaSton OF Council Grove.
Nan. relates Il conversation that ttol place
between himself and an agent OF an English
syndicate that points pretty clearly TO oar
condition to-day The Brit!sher was telling
of the superior intelligence OF Euglishmcn
over Americans. He WIS returning from
Texas, where he had been looking after his
large landed estates, which he had obtained
through grant by the legislature of Texas
for the building of the state house. Said
he: Texas built her own state house and
gave us :. 900 600 acres of her lands for the
privilege. The railroad systems Of the
United States We're built by Americans but
belong to us and are run in our interests,
your bonded debt, vast mortgage indebted
ness, of which YOU have not money among
yourSelve to pay one-third the interest
1our-hfthS, as your records show, belong To
the intelligent English" If we have
not money To pay the interest On the mort
gage, what will be the final result. said MIR.
HeaSton to the foreign agent, The British
allStOCrat said Enforce your laws. close you
out; we are better moderns Americans than
you are, and think more Of your laws
Should you oppose them we have 100000
armed men iii India that we can throw here
at once 10 sustain them. We have but to
call on your congress-
You don't near 10 say that the congress
and senate of the United States Will sustain
you in taking our country
If the congress and senate of the United
States nave been your friends they would
have kept the laws in your interest. If
friendly to US they would make the laws in
our favor. Examine your laws Was the
tool of the foreign drones right in his state
ment! Yes, shameful Is that statement is:
il is living reality, and the damnaDIe
fraud goes on under our very nose.
The Dutch company, under the protec-
ZION OF on laws, shot down our fcllow-citi-
zens on the Maxwell land grant in New
Mexico, and our fellow-citiZen Partridge was
shot and killed on the Baker ranch i'll Texas
by the mercinaries Of a foreign corporation.
Verify. we must he III dread of the j. 900 900
armed men from India.
India brings me to your question about
excluding foreign money. India was a pros
porous country before they saw English
money. Her people were civilized and
clothed in purple and fine linen when the
Anglo SaXons were naked. painted ssvageS
roaming over the wilds OF Ho.Stcin
With English money curse AMI blight
fell on India. The trial of Warren Hast
ings exposed part of their villainy. first rs
trader next intriQuer. Since then India
has had nothing out war, famine aud pesti-
lence. Her sons chained 10 posts and
blown by hundreds from the mouths of
British cannon. and her daughters are at
this day led captive as prostitutes To-. the
British army.
Look at the benefit foreign capital has