Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-04
Afternoon Session.

| business.
Afternoon Session
| The only important business done was
| the appointment of committee on ere
| dentialS, and the report OF this committee,
and the appointing of committees on reso-
| lutions and platform and demands. Then
! came some speeches, the most important OF
/ which was that of Mr.. p. II. Golden of
! Dallas, president of the State Federation OF
| Labor. who addressed the convention as
| follows:
! To the Officers and Members OF the State Fed
/ GRAFTON of Labor of Texas, Greeting
| AS your chief executive officer, it is my
| duty TO report at your annual meeting the
! progress and purposes of the order. This
| is the third annual gathering since the
founding of the order in this state July
| 4 1889, in the city of Dallas. l can con-
| graduate you upon the fact that the rapid
increase Of adherents is unparalleled in the
growth of Industrial reform movements.
You, as a body of delegates, now repre-
sent constituency having a majority of
the voting power OF the state, and upon
your action here largely depends whether
the reforms which have called the various
organizations comprising the Federation
into being, shall go forward and be crys-
tailed into legislation. or be halted, stopped
and disarmed upon the highway 10 their
full fruition and achievement.
\ great political contest has been Waged
since last you came together IL state as
semby. The outcome, as YOU well know,
was Il railroad commission demanded by the
people as against the politicians. The gov
ernor of the state, together with the state
railroad commission. with the one eXcep-
ton, and that one is that unique and hon
ored figure in political history, ex-senator
John II. Reagan. Gov. Hogg, having cor
raled your votes in his masquerade of re-
form, has, | fear, ceased to be even pre-
tended reformer, but is evidently allied
with the enemies of the principles which
called the Alliance, knights of Labor ard
kindred organizations into life.
There were many reforms we sought 10
work through the last legislature which
that body failed to act on-reforms not
necessarily sweeping, but essential to the
welfare and happiness of our people among
which was the question of the pure, un-
trammeled ballot, free from the corrupt and
degrading influences of bribery and intini-
dation reform by which every citizen
could be protected in the free enjoyment of
the right of suffrage, whether white or
black, rich or poor, great or small; the eX-
ercise of which, coupled and tempered with
Judgment, could not fail TO be of service in
remcdying the many evils of which we
justly complain, and in alternating the
poverty and perjury consequent on a
MALADJUSTMENT OF CONDITIONS.
The faithful teachers of the youths of
Texas. to the number of 500, met recently in
state convention Ut Austin and discussed
many points of interest connected with our
system of education. They also wisely
passed resolution recommending the in
vestnent of the state and county school
funds in good securities for building and
improving school houses ana equipping the
schools. The debt-ridden people, who have
improved real estate eligible for loans from
nv no taa
law, can furnish the solid security OF the
earth as a basis for loans from tany source
the surplus of the people, money now lying
inert and useless i'll the state treasury. The
claim of railroad corporations to the use of
money from the state should lind but little
favor when we consider how the United
States government has been treated by the
Union Pacific railroad after loaning it more
than 500 900, 900 of the credit of the whole
people through their national treasury. A
true republic, upholding the industries
upon which the greatness and perpetuity of
the nation must intelligeutly, safely and Sc
curely be founded. must comprise a bene-
ficient system of education for the masses
The agricultural, mechanical and com
mercial essentials of education should be
founded in the school system. and meas
ure of manual labor. earnestly believe as
tar as practicable, should be instituted to
inculcate intelligence practical physical in
ences, even in primary schools and all
through the years OF common school expert
ence and training. Thus the merely mental
educated droneS would in time De super
feded by active, energetic, well equipped
Young men and women. The great indus
tries of our state soon pass into the hands
of the rising generation. stretch out in
vast fields of products together with the
building up of cities, manufactures and
commerce. How feeble the preparation for
such responsibilities if the weak and mex
perienced. limited to the narrow confines of
a wretched little ediice. are intrusted with
the most sacred of all duties,
THAT OF EDUCATING THE YOUNG.
Let the cultivated, strong and experienced
be employed as instructors, and the young
spend alternate hours in the fields, work
shops and school rooms, that mental and
physical industry and development may
successfully go hand in hand in their edu-
cation. But few dollars a year are ex-
pended per capita for the education of the
children in the common schools, and but a
very small per cent of them, under the stern
demands for their services at a COMPARE
lively tender age to undertake Self-support,
ever reach the academy or university. where |
cost runs into the hundreds OF dollars per
annum. The many are to be considered
and cared for in the true democratic. COM |
mon schools of the country. The schools |
for the masses should be free, but the |
academy and university should DE sustained |
by and paid for by the select few who |
patronize them. A noted Judge, belonging |
proba bly, to the ring at the state capital |
has made public utterance that he did not |
favor the scheme Of giving academy train |
ing to the children of the masses, as it |
could only result in educating them out of |
their proper sphere, ana provide elements |
that in future would poster the state / |
say to you, brothers, any man who fears to |
trust the people to elect their officers is not |
worthy to sit on any bench, or sit in judg- |
ment on any man or class Of people. The |
stool of repentance is the place for such |
men, many of whom now vitalize our legis- |
latRuss from congress down to the alder |
s1aHic squad. They also manipulate the /
most petty courthouse rings in every state |
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