Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-10
VISIONARY SCHEMES
That will Make Our Boosted Freedom
Burst Over Our Heads Like Cs-
clone-Nidsummer Fallacies.
ST. 10, TEX, July S, 1921.

ST. Jo TEX, July S, 1921.
To the Gazette:
| l read so many of your things of late,
| thought few words from me would not be
amiss. l read that the Dallas county Ali
| ance and Parker county Alliance have de
nounced the Farmers World'' and al
| those who made the call to meet at Fort
Worth on the 10th and 18th instant, and
charge them as '-traitorS.f Wonder what
they take for traitor During the days
of secession, rebels" were called traitors,
but now the shoe is on the other foot. The
very men who pass resolutions and cry
traitor, are the genuine stuff.
How do you know,
Well when the Alliance procured char
ter the organic law was so plain, the most
ignorant farmer could understand it. After
being conducted 10 the altar preparatory to
initiation he was told from the start. | as
sSs5re YOU Brother Smith, there is nothing in
this TO interfere with your religious or po-
litical views. With this assurance are you
willing 10 proceed!
A. | am.
Now, this very sacred promise, like
pie-cruSt, was made to be broken, by whom
Not by those who oppose the sub-treasury,
government ownership of railroads, etc
Who is the traitors
Away with all such stuff. The real Farm
ers' Alliance had no more to do in formulat-
ing the Ocala demands than Col. Bob
Ingersoll had in formulating the ordinance
of secession. Yet all of those who favor
loyalty 10 the constitution are to be osra-
cised.
Oh, consistency, thou art jewell
1t has been charged by some that it was
all gotten up by the Republican party
This charge is false, for every man knows
that the Republicans, while they have been
charged with all the mean things from the
birth of Abraham Lincoln TO the death Of
Roscoe Conkling, have n ever been guilty of
openly violating the fundamental principles
of good government since the reconstruc-
ton. Now. if any or all, believe it is
Republican trick, let the Democratic party
adopt the Oca la demands and the Third
party platform, and call a convention.
These same Third party men would swear
by all that is good, that it was Democratic
trick to beat them out of office, and would
call L new convention and create q new
creature under a new name. These new
partyites do good, however much they are
cussed and discussed. Why!
Well. YOU see it causes all those who are
lovers of constitutional liberty to whet their
ideas TO sharp point, IN order 10 be ready
to puncture and dissect and analyze the
federal constitution and bill of rights
l have been student of politics since the
days OF Henry Clay. All of those visionary
schemes, like the mushroom, only have to
wait TO see the sunshine of liberty pour
down upon them, then they wilt, and return
from whence they came.
| read so many resolutions from the
Farmers Alliance denOunCing the Farmers
Alliance, one county against another county,
one brother against another, while those
outside laugh and say Il told you 500 The
Farmers Alliance in Texas, like the Demo-
cratic party, outgrew itself. 1t is only
sloughing off now. The alien land law was
the child of the Farmers Alliance, put TO
walking by the Democratic party. Almost
every political move inaugurated by the
Alliance has come to nought. 1t takes
wisdom TO continue. If my Farmer
Alliance brethren think they can run the
government, and the farms too, they will
have accomplished more than any politi-
clans ever have during the 115 years Of the
nations existence. When the cry of free
coinage, free trade, sub-treasury, and all
the visionary schemes made BY our
brethren is put into practice then our
boosted freedom will pass from US, and the
crash that will follow will be like the rush
ing of cyclone The great cry of aliens
owning land IN this country will in the
future bring US to the point which the
Irish Confederate soldier reached at
Mocon. Ga. He had been sick at a farm
On arriving at Macon, he found he had left
his shirt. He wrote to the landiady:
'1'lease send my SHIRT. =
She replied:
DEAR PAT:-I have taken YOUR shirt for
a shift. You must make shift for shirt
in some other way. Goodbye, JANE"
All of our sub-treasury third party
brethren will have to make shift in some
other way. A. =. eagle.