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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
THEY MUST THROW ROCKS.

The disastrous overthrow OF the
Farmers Alliance in Kentucky, where
it made the first experiment in Sonth-
ern state of antagonizing the Demo
cratic party in state contest, is in
striking contrast with the successes it
has won in other states where it has
acted inside the Democratic party. By
this means the Alliance compelled the
nomination Of Buchanan in Tennessee,
Of Tillman in South Carolina, and Of
Northen in Georgia, as governors. 1t
sent Irby and Gordon to the United
States senate, and elected five members
to congress from Georgia. Then its
leaders became ambitious, and led it
out Of the Democratic party, or as many
as would follow them, and started it
into business as the sponsor for a new
rganization-the Peoples party. In
the first trial its exhibit OF strength is
so insignificant as not to deserve a pass
ing kick OF contempt.
The lesson ought to teach the Ali
ance leaders in other states some sense,
but it won't. Inside the Democratic
party they are nothing. The natural
and well-qualified leaders of that party
stand so far above them that they
make poor showing and have to play
second fiddle. Like a great many other
third-rate minds, the Alliance leaders
can stand anything but to be over
Swallowed. They would rather be
whales among minnows than minnows
among whales. They will not let the
Alliance members stay in the Demo
cratic party if they can help it, but
would rather hang on the edges and
throw rocks.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

bill and virtual military rule once
more. Are the farmers OF Texas ready
to assume the responsibility for conse-
quences SO terrible? Do they want to
play into the hands OF the political
marplots and malignants OF New Eng
land? Have they not been told by rep
resentative Alliance leaders OF high
character and standing that the very
men in the order who are engineering
this Ubiquitous and ourge-breeding
heresy are nothing but the paid emissa-
ries OF the Republican campaign COM
mittee? Do they not know that the
overthrow OF the Democratic party in
the South, if that were possible, would
be the breaking down OF the only bar
rier between this land and the greedy
despoilers and reckless myrmidons of
the bloody-shirt party? If they do not
know it, it is high time that they were
learning it. 1t is also high time that
the Democratic leaders of Texas who
have been so apathetic OF late should
grid on their armor and swing their
glittering claymores over the head of
the ugly sub-treasury dragon that is
devastating the state while they sleep.
Wake up, gentlemen, and tell the peo-
pie, who are eager to learn, something
about the fearful consequences Of any
rash act
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
AN INFAMOUS COMPACT.

Time and again has it been charged
that certain leaders OF the Southern
Alliance were receiving substantial en-
couragement from the Republican cam
paign committee. In view of the pc
culiar and unfriendly attitude of the
Republican party towards the South,
there appeared to be no other
hypothesis on which to account
for the course OF those Alliance
leaders who sought TO override
the fundamental law of their order
in the effort to establish third party,
and if possible divide the South. In
trinsic evidence OF still more convinc-
ing character appeared to strengthen
and confirm the hypothesis.
Now comes the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat with an able editorial striv-
ing to convince Republican leaders Of
the folly OF fading the Southern ALI
ance. 1t takes the ground that the
whole thing is waste of effort, because
the Alliance people Of the South are
Democrats first, and Alliance next, and
that when the tug of war comes, they
viii be found voting the Democratic
ticket. The CD. is doubtless correct:
but unless the attention which it de-
votes to enligh1ening the leaders of its
party is also a waste OF effort, it is
based on the fac. that a conspiracy of
the kind indicated does exist and that
the third party leaders in the South
ere deriving thelr inspiration aud sup
port from the Republican party. The
fact that the Globe considers the mat
ter worthy of leading editorial, is Of
itself an additional link in the chain of
proof that fastens the brand and stigma
of corruption and treason on the
wretches who would betray the South to
the malignants who fathered the force
hin
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
and retire it after it had accomplished

and retire it after it had accomplished
its purposes, which all recognize as
benefcent, wholesome and salutary.
a New England syndicate may come
into Texas and loan money right and
left at a rate OF interest higher than
that demanded by alien syndicates, and
in the course OF time, by foreclosure,
may acquire large areas OF Texas land
which it can hold out Of the market for
century if it chooses. An alien syn
dicate acquiring land under the same
law, and on loans made at a lower rate
OF interest, too, would be forced to part
with it inside of six years. Now which
OF these syndicates would be the better
friend Of Texas and her people? ANY
simpleton can see that the odds are
largely in favor Of the alien money.
The law as it is now simply throws
Texas, bound hand and foot, at the
feet OF the Eastern loan syndicates,
which are given monopoly of the
OtiolAcSo IL tAc SldlS, WILL lOFcl III
checked by competition from abroad
to place the tariff as high as the traffic
will bear, and by squeezing the IN
lucky borrowers, gobble up land in
Texas as they did in Kansas. Common
sense of the very commonest sort can
see the stupid and pernicious folly OF
such law. 1t is ruinous and disas-
trous, and should be amended. Pro
hibit alien ownership, if you desire,
but don't rebel against alien money.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your
face. A slight modicum Of sense and
reason, and correct understanding Of
the evil effect of the law, ought to be
sufficient to bring every sane man in
Texas to The GAZETTE'S position on
this subject
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
THE FULL SIGNIFICANCE OF IT.

There Is movement on foot in Texas,
as well as in every other Southern
state, engineered by the chief conspir-
ators of the sub-treasury abomination,
| and designed to capture the Demo-
cratic party at the primaries if posi-
bic; if not possible, or the attempt
proves failure, then to eliminate in q
third party. The leaders of this new
movement are displaying extraordinary
vigor and energy in evangelizing and
organizing the rural districts, and
ranging the farmers under the SUBJ
treasury banner. The increased taxes
and unbridled extravaganza of the bill
Hon-dollar congress, coupled with the
hard times, furnish them with power
full arguments wherewith to assail the
popular ear, open to anything plausible
OF specious that contains the promised
relief. That this movement is the
most formidable and dangerous that
has menaced the Solid South since re-
construction, is hardly any longer
matter of doubt. The evidences of it
are multiplying daily, although they
may not haunt themselves in the pub
lie eye.
The full significance of this move
ment, if it shall succeed, will not stop
with the displacement OF the Demo-
cratic party and the substitution OF a
batch of political denominations for the
time-honored principles of Democracy,
but will result in the enslavement of
the South to the radical fro
eating element of the Re-
publican party. What that ele-
ment failed to do at the last session of
congress in passing the force bill, the
sub-treasuryites are preparing the way
for. Their main purpose is to divide
and break up the Democratic party in
the South, and bring about state of
political chaos OF which the Hoars,
Clarksons, Chambers and Forakers
may take advantage at one time or an
other to put into execution their plans
for controlling elections in the South
by the aid of the bayonet. The force
bill is not dead. Let not patriotic
Southerners lay the hattering JUNCTION
to their souls that it is. The recent
Republican platform of the state of
Ohio pronounced in favor of it, and If
this pernicious sub-treasury movement
be not checked soon, other Northern
states will be found clamoring for it.
Sub-treasury or third party success
simply means not only political chaos
and decentralization in the South, but it
means the final passage OF the force
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
THE ALIEN LAND LAW.

There is one feature, and that the
main one, OF the Gossett alien land law
that is MISUNDERSTOOD by great many.
1t is commonly believed, and by many
Intelligent people too, that the law per-
mits aliens to hereafter lend money on
Texas land mortgages, and gives them
six years in which to part with such
parcels of land as they may have ac
quired by foreclosure, That idea is
wholly erroneous. Article 10 of the
law reads: 'No alien, or a person who
is not citizen OF the United States OF
America, shall acquire title to or own
any interest in the lands within the
state of Texas, and any deed or other
conveyance purporting to convey such
title or interest to any alien or unnatur-
allied foreigner, or TO any firm, COM
pany or corporation composed of such
in whole or in part, shall be void"
Aliens who took mortgages on land
before the law went into effect can &C
quire title to the same. but must part
with it in six years. If that proviso
had been extended to loans made after
the law went into effect, that is to say,
if future loans might be secured in the
same manner, and six years allowed
for disposal OF the land acquired I'M
der foreclosure, there would be no real
cause for complaint. Under such
law no alien could acquire land by d.
rect purchase, and those who should
secure titles under foreclosures would
be compelled to part with them to citi-
zens OF Texas, or, at any rate, citizens
OF the United States, within a period
of sig years, under a penalty OF an
escheat 10 the state.
The law SO altered from its present
hideous and abnormal shape would not
be one particle less prohibitive than it
is now OF alien ownership. 1t would be
q barrier as formidable against it as
law could make it, and at the same
time would leave a channel open for
the ingress of foreign money with a
reasonable time for its owners to collect
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

THE Atlanta Constitution calls the
internal revenue system "our infamous
Russian system It is not badly mis-
called. in 50 far as the method OF pro-
cedure is considered. The Federal
law invests revenue officer with al
most as unlimited power as the Rus
sian police have, and that power is
sometimes as arrogantly used. But
the tax on whisky will not be removed.
IS it not better to make whisky, an
evil, bear the burdens of government
expense than to put those burdens
upon the consumers of necessaries?
An internal revenue tax Is to DO pre-
ferred 10 tariff tax.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
THE SPLIT EXTENDS.

Following fast upon the split in the
Texas Alliance over the sub-treasury
question, as evidenced by the action of
the Fort Worth convention, comes
proof that split is imminent in the
Kansas Alliance. W. 4. Harris and
c. W. Shum. two of the leaders OF the
order in that state, publicly condemn
tho sub-treasury scheme. Harris is re-
garded as the safest leader in the Ali
ance, and would have been elected
United States senator in place of PETER
had he not been a Confederate colonel.
Shum was the Peoples party candidate
for Acknowledgements last fall. Sub
Alliances throughout Kansas this
month will vote on the sub-treaSury
scheme to decide whether it shall be
incorporated in the Peoples party plat
form, and the indications now are that
it viii be defeated.
Frank McGrath, president Of the AL
lance, who has been warm in its ad-
vocacy, has now come out openly
against the sub-treasury scheme, and
big fight is looked for when the annual
meeting OF the Alliance occurs in Sep
TENDER. Col. Harris declares that after
a brilliant victory had been Won by the
Alliance the so-called sub-treasury
scheme was brought forth. The scheme
in its essential features is modelled after
all the most vicious and corrupt prac-
tees, which had been condemned pat
terms after illegitimate loaning Of
money by the government to national
banks aud to railroads, and warehous-
ing and storing Of goods for importers
and distillers, a scheme to tax the many
for the benefit of the few, and of even
most doubtful benefit to these few.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

A FUNNY state of affairs recently
came up in Nebra l1a, which was near
having far from funny termination.
The governor was in Detroit attending
the C. y. r. meeting. The lieutenant
governor was somewhere out OF the
state on business. This left the gov
ernment OF the state in the hands of
the president of the senate, who is an
Alliance man. Taking advantage of
his temporary authority, he was Just
getting ready to call special session
OF the legislature 10 make some laws
thai the Alliance are calling for, when
the Republicans learned what was
going on. and almost broke the wires
down in telegraphing for the governor
and Acknowledgements to come back.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

of the power to control the destinies OF
millions by divine right is nothing but
a very common man, no bigger than
other men, no wiser than thousands
whom he controls, no better. Drawer or
truer man than thousands who will
look upon him. And he will see a
thing that he never saw before In all
his life-a million sovereigns, each
claiming to be as good man as he,
who acknowledge no superiority in
him, and who laugh at his pretensions
to rule men by divine right, or any
other right except the right conferred
by majority Of the people whom he
rrlac
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

SOME OF the Crowned heads" of Eu-
rope viii condescend to pay US a visit
on the occasion of our big fair in 1898.
That is the promise they make, adding
only this coudition-if there is no war
on hand. So, unless they are engaged
IN Strengthening each others subjects
al home, We may have chance to gaze
upon some real live kings and en-
perors. 1t viii be a good thing for US
and for them. We will see a rare Curl
ostty in this country-an individual
who claims TO rule millions OF sensible
men by divine right, which divine
right descended upon him by virtue of
his oeiug the son of some other man
WIG claimed and exercised the same
right We will see that this claimant
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

GOVERNOR BUCHNER, The sitting
governor Of kentucky, was elected by a
majority Of L. 600 votes. That was be-
fore the Peoples party came into the
field to overthrow old partyism in Ken
lucky. John Young Brown, the Demo
cratic candidate who was voted for last
Monday, carried the state by $1,000
majority. If the Peoples party will
but stay in the field an6 keep up the
fight. in i few years Kentucky Will be
crowding Texas in the matter OF big
Democratic majorities.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

a New ENGLAND preacher, raising
his eyes from his desk in the midst of
his sermon, was paralyzed TO see his
rude offspring in the gallery peltiug
the hearers in the pews below with
peanuts. But while the good man was
preparing a frown of disproof the
young hopeful cried out: you tend to
your preaching, daddy; III keep 'em
awake"
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TIE announcement that brought
forth the loudest burst Of patriotism at
the Grand Army OF the Republic en-
campment was Raum's statement that
sll5, 900, 900 would be paid out for PEN
sions this year.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

WITH the farmers OF Tennessee pro-
testing against change in the convict
law and the workingmen' associations
demanding such change the Ten
nessee politician Is between the devil
and the deep sea, and the tide rising.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

A LADY delegate to the Peoples
party convention Of Ohio opened her
mouth with an ominous snap and told
the convention that if she was not ad
mitted as delegate she was done with
the party forever. She was then ad-
mitted. The party is too small to take
the risk Of split
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

THE GOssETT alien law should have
been entitled An Act to Prevent the
Development o. Texas and to With
draw from the Circulation of Money in
this State Millions Of Dollars, to the
Bankruptcy Of Merchants and Ruin of
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deficits of the sub-treasury humbu in
glowing terms. Mr.. hilgore in rounding-up
some of the third party leaders in his
speech fired broadside into Jacob Rhodes,
who took offense ut the remarks of the
colonel and marched up TO the stand to
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Wade Mansen happened to be near and he
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This is the second day of the Alliance en-
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Judge Felix McCord arrived to-day and
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A CONTESTANT for tho Gibbs prize
for the best plan Of getting treasury
notes among the people, proposes the
bold plan of I per capita distribution.
This is a pretty good start toward COM
lnuaisln. 1t takes from the men who
have property ana distributes among
those who have none. These notes
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The physician who should tell sick
man that his condition was dangerous,
and nc would have to get out OF bed at
once and take to the woods, even if he
died, would be kicked out OF doors by
the sick mans friends. That is the
kind of treatment prescribed for the
debtors OF Texas by the defenders OF
the alien land law The law IS likely
10 wreck thousands Of fortunes, they
admit, hut after that Is over with the
state will be in better condition. In
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Nursery Methods In Universities.


The new university can cut itself loose
from the time worn English college curric-
ulum and its much patched American
equivalent, with its system of favored
studies and false incentives. It can give to
each line of work the time and freedom it
needs, thus leaving all questions of the
relative value Of studies to be settled by
the student for himself. The new school
can treat its students as men, and not as
children. The nursery should cease where
the university begins, and the university
student should not do his work in the
child's fear of ''the rod behind the mirror"
The new school can rest its impulse for
work on the desire for knowledge, the
eternal hunger and thirst which only the
student knows" the only basis on which
scholarship can rest
Marks, honors, prizes, degrees even. are
incentives which belong to the nursery
days. They date from the time when the
youth of the aristocracy must be coaxcd or
driven to resemblace Of culture. All
these things arc forms, and forms only, and
the substance of our higher education is
fast outKrowing them. College marks.
college honors. college courses, college de-
grees, the college itself as distinguished
from the university ON the one hand and
the public school On the other-all these
belong with the college cap and gown, and
the wreath Of laurel berries to the baby
hood Of culture. They arc part of our in
heritance Of the past. from the time when
scholarship was net manhood, when the
life Of the student had No relation to the
life of the wsrld-David S. Jordan in
Forum.