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



| vote | cast for said law
When elected 10 the state legislature |
| wanted TO learn what duty should De called
upon TO perform. also 70 know what the
duty was 10 be performed. al found they
| We're simple things. That great statesman,
| ". L. Gladstone says that the business of Il
| legislative body IS Just 10 register the Will
OF the people and make it law.
We need as citizens eternal vigilance to
see that the land of the people is guarded.
| and by no law of common equity can the
| property of the many be taken and given 10
| the few. This has been done. The history of
| our land grants has been d history Of
| frauds, and ever recurring healing acts TO
| legalize and validate titles obtained by
| fraud. This has been done while the people
| slept. Our faithleSS servants has taken
lands. the property of the state which
| should he sacredly preserved to the latest
| generation for our landleSS. homeless peo-
| pie, and given them 10 individuals saying,
| here, this wealth of opportunity IS yours :;
| the uncounted millions of the future shall
| be your slaves and vaSSalS You shall tax
| their industry; you shall take toll from
| their wheat and corn; you shall hold the
| propheSy of the future; the increasing
| wealth of the coming years you shall sell
| for your own enrichment. But the people
| have awakened. and ike a giant refreshed
with sleep, will overturn and upset the
schemes of mice and men
do not wonder that there is the stirring
! of L revolt. The people. especially the
| farming class, are seeing the building up of
| great landed estates, with an anger that
| will not long be silent, that the common
| people by law, if possible, by force if need
| be. will overtUrn the unjust privileges that
| have been granted to the few and bring
| back to the peoples hands that which they
| have thoughtlessly surrendered or have
been dispoiled OF by violence or deceit. l
| am opposed to violence. | prefer the ballot
| 20 adjust these wrongs.
Our land and our liberty was won by
| force, and if need be the sovereign people
can maintain their rights by force.
EFFECTS OF LANDLoRDIsM.
Here is what Henry Labouchee, NJ. P,
editor of the London Truth, says of evic-
tions in Ireland. He says: THE horrors OF
Glenco have been outdone by those Of the
glen of Glcnbeigh. 1t is barren and desc
late spot and its wretched soil has been
made TO produce heritage by the toll of the
people that inhabit ii. They are so miSer-
ably poor that it is wondrous how they and
their families can live, while as for rent,
how are they to procure il! This glen be-
longs to the Hon. Rowland VIM, who it
would seem, has handed over its inhab-
itants to the tender mercies Of some London
money dealers. The agent of these Shy
locks appeared in the glen with policemen
and bailiffs and DEGREES of eviction death
sentenceSl. The wretched huts i'll which
the people We're living were burned over
their heads and the gang drove of, leaving
aged men and women, and children who
could hardly crawl, without q roof to cover
them i'll this Indictment season. What
would these poor people not give for Il
Texas Hogg 10 root up the whole bunch,
and Texas legislature TO enact just laws!
LANDLORDIsM IN SCOTLAND.
Down 10 the reign of King William III.
M btAlD n
pie of Scotland. In that reign landlordism
was established. and its first fruits was TO
take u mean, low-down man and give him
the title of Earl of Orkney, together with
in estate OF the stolen lands in considera-
ton of his marrying left-of mistress OF
King William, ANA the poor people are at
this day paving rent to the Earl of Orkney
for the very land of which their fathers
had been robbed 200 years age
We now come to a man VINO ought to be
known here. as he is one of our present
landlords, the Duke of Sutherland. Let US
examine some of the dOngs of this Suther-
land family on their Scotch estate towards
their serfs. The duchess started TO make
a game preserve for Prince Albert and his
London chumS 10 go deer stalking i'll, and
In doing reSorted to what the press of
that day called the Sutherland clearanceS.
That Is, she, the patrOneSS of Mrs. Beecher
Stowe; she who shed crocodile tears of
y
negro, issued her ukase of death TO clear
fifty square miles of the highlands of man.
woman and child TO make room for deer,
but as the process of evieting was too slow
she resorted to the faster system of burning
the cottages over their heads. and as the
houses We're matched with straw, the plan
was effective. An act of grace, When
the house was in flames, all those who
wished to obey the law had the liberty of
running out. All of a rebelliOuS spirit
could remain inside. But no one on the
border of the hfty-milc limit dare give
shelter to the hunted ones. A Presbyterian
minister permitted a poor mother and her
little ones to stop Que night Ill his cart-shed
for which offence he was evicted, and as the
lord of the soil is also lord of the kirk he
lost his living. Another case. an old
woman who had been bedridden for many
years was unable to run, so they burned
her in it. She had a rebelious spirit.
Some people said it was murder: so the
duchess was tried at the Inverness
assize and acquitted, of course. It was her
servants who burned the old cripple. for so
the words of acquittaE ran. lit WIS ma his
il wuS his man." was about to say from
such brutal tyranny may the Lord deliver US,
but l think with the help of the alien land
law act we will not require deliyerance.
God helps all those who help themselves.
What an awful day it would be when the
Duke of sutherland could burn some of the
Texas citizens ont and turn it into game
preserve. Me thinks | hear some one say.
''Oh. such things could never happen here
! believe that one ounce of prevention is
better than pound of cure The grunt of
the Texas Hogg has sounded the death knell
of Sutherlandism in Texas. and the strange
echo comes back from the state legislature
No foreign landlordism here; and the patri-
otto portion of onr people all say, amen.
LASDLoRDISM IN ENGLAND.
In 1884 DR.. Baeshaw, bishop of Noting
ham, writes: 'Unhappily in England the
state government is chiefly in the interest
of the wealthy and land-owning classes,
leaves this unjust and barbarous power Al
most uncontrolled. We see this in the
rackrenting and evicting which has gone on
for SO many years in Ireland. and still goes
on, which has caused the ruin and death of
millions and most miSchievously depopu-
lated that country 1t is evident TO every
one that an accumulation of land gives to
its owners a power to make poor men |
through sheer necessity. and TO avoid star
walton, work for them on the owners own
terms. He takes TO himself almost the !
whole profit of their labor, arbitrarily gives |
or refuses the right to live on the land and |
so holds at his own caprice, the lives and |
homes of multitudes.
The alien land law act was to prevent |
such state of things.
Many honest and well-meaning people |
don't know what landlordism is It don't |
mean working on shares. I now turn to |
America. l read the speech of Congressman |