Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04
MORE MONEY.
Why Can't the state Issue Currency to
Meet the Demand-Too Many
Kickers, Too Few Suggesters.
FORT WORTH, Ten, Jnne 2. 1891.

FORT WORTH, TEN, Jnne 2, 1891.
Editor Gazette.
I have a desire that is is irresistible to
help our friend Barney Gibbs in the great
cause he has espoused-that of contributing
to the campaign education OF the Gay. That
there is much presumption and some humor
in this there is no doubt but, the writer be-
longing to the N'kid element of the South,
wishes to ask you in behalf of the great
struggling masses of the West and South to
give space to little thoughtful succotash.
A terrible amount of kicking at this time
is coming from our old friends, the war Dem
ocrats OF the South against the Farmers
Alliance and the third party. 1t reminds
us very forciblv of Travis, Crockett and
Bowie at the Alamo. Though Santa Anna
had about fifty men to their one, says
Travis: 1--WE will never surrender
While this was fine exhibition of grit
still, would not the better policy have been
to have marched in the direction of the re-
Inducements near by so as to
have been able to make battle
with some chances of victoryl
Now this was also true of the South during
the late unpl1aSantness. Sam Houston
said as the boys marched out Of 1ndepend-
ence that we were outnumbered, that We
stood no chance, that it was but a matter
OF time. True, the boys who wore the gray
and bore the flag with the single star made
the most gallant fight that will ever be
known to history, but, of course, it was
only matter of time-they too were out
numbered more than fifty to one. But
they were indeed people, and to call them
''the last of the Romans would be a feeble
tribute. They were truly ''the admiration
of two continents and the wonder of the
World Analogous to these has been the
fight of the Democracy for the past twenty
six years-a feeble band fighting without
hope, but looking on the most stupeudous,
tlra Of ole
legislation that was ever known to a civil
lied peoplel Now times are changing and
men are adapting themselves TO them as
best they can. Young men from the West
and South are coming to the front and de-
mand reforms. They are familiar with the
past but following the dictates Of new and
progressive thought; burying dead issues,
they wish to unite on peoples pla torn
one broad and statesmanlike-one for pure
and good government. No people than
those of the West. know better that the
South fought for principle guaranteed by
the constitution-that while secession was
impracticable and that while Mr. Lincoln
said Let the erring sisters depart in
peace that il was solely the cry of Save
the Union!'' that defeated the South. No
people know better than the young men of
the West that the Southern people should
have been paid for their slaves which were
sold to them by the Yankee ships. While
a thought right here might seem irrevelant,
l wish to say the like of the old time
Southern gentleman will never be seen
again. The true type was noble. honest.
trustworthy. confiding and chivalrous to
that degree that he. like the ancient Roman.
would prefer death to diShonor and self
degradation But the few who survived the
late civil war are fast passing from this
theater of action Our country has become
New Englandized and this designing
conquest has been at work since
the landing of the May Flower
We have become tradesmen and hucksters
and have no time to study the science OF
government. Very naturally our minds
will become restricted dwarfed and con-
tracted like the down East Yankee Broad
gauge statesmen like Henry Clay, the great