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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
BUILD THE COUNTRY.

The letter of ''Uncle Billy" from
ALE, insisting that something be done
to settle farmers in Tarrant county,
touches upon a subject that deserves
the attention of the men who are build
ing city in Fort Worth. We have a
county that is full of good land, and
the northern and western parts of it
are full of big pastures. There are
$4,000 acres of land in Tarrant county.
They ought to be cut up into eighty
acre and 160-acre farms, each support
ing family. There are many farms
of thousand acres in this county with
not more than two hundred acres in
cultivation, and there are pastures of
three or four thousand acres that are
not cultivated at all. Big pastures and
overgrown farms do not build up cities.
In 1850 Tarrant county had popula-
ton of q, 1000, OF whom 6O00 were cred
tied to Fort Worth, leaving an outside
population of $4,000. The population
of the county had grown in 1890 to Al
600, of that number $4,000 being cred
tied to Fort Worth, leaving an outside
population of 5000, but 1000 more than
we had ten years ago. II we consider the
people in the suburbs and additions to
Fort Worth. that are not included in
the $1,000 credited to this city, and the
growth of the smaller towns, such as
Arlington and Mansfield, we shall find
that the agricultural districts of Tar
rant county have barely as many peo-
pie as they had in 1880. Ten years has
added nothing to our country popula-
ton.
The next ten years should not be al
lowed to tell such tale. There are
thousands of people passing through
Fort Worth looking for homes and
farms. They are suffered to go by
without an effort to add them to our
own population. Perhaps land is
higher in Tarrant county than it is in
the counties further west, but that Is
because it is worth more by virtue OF
its nearness to market. Many farmers
would rather pay SIS or $40 an acre for
land that has the ad vantage of close
ness to the railroads that make a spi-
der web of Tarrant county than to go
into new and unsettled county and
pay S. to 80 for land that is ten to
twenty miles from 8 railroad, They
would buy our lands, settle on them,
and build up the county and the city,
if proper showing of the facts were
made to them.
The people of the county and the city
should get together and make an eff
fort for the mutual welfare of all of
them. Boom the county and The city
will boom itself.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

In an interesting paper on the habits Of
the moose in The Zoologist one of the
points noted is that moose generally lie
with the tail to windward trusting to their
senses of hearing and smelling, which are
remarkably acute, to warn them OF ap-
preaching danger from that quarter They
can Use their eyes to warn them from dam
ger 10 leeward. where hearing and especial
Is smelling would be of little Use. While
they are sleeping or chewing the cud their
ears are in perpetual motion. one back
ward. the other forward, alternately. They
also have the remarkable insight to make
4 short turn and sleep below tine wind of
their fresh track, SO that any one falling
thereon and following it up is sure to be
heard or smelled before he can get within
shooting distance.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
A DIsCoURAGER OF ENTERPRISE

There is something to think about in
this quotation, taken from dispatch
| which says that syndicate is prepar-
ing to buy up all the rice mills of the
South:
The syndicate propose to put in Dutch
milling machinery, by means of which the
price of rice will be lowered so that the i'm
porters of foreign rice cannot undersell
American.
Note the language. The syndicate
propose to put in Dutch milling ma
chinery, by means of which the price
of rice will be lowered so that the i'm
porters of foreign rice cannot undersell
American.
The presumption is, then. that the
foreigners are able to undersell Ameri-
can rice, because they have better and
more economical machinery for clean
ing and preparing it for market. When
we get this improved foreign ma
chinery, we shall be able to compete
with the foreigners who are now
using it.
Our people, instead of keeping up
with the progress of the world and
putting in the most economical ma
chinery-machinery that will do the
most work in the least time-have come
TO depend upon the tariff to protect
them against competition. In this
way the tariff has become discourager
of enterprise and advancement. AS
long as foreign competition is kept out
OF the country by taxing it, our manu-
iacturers and millers will not keep up
with the world in the use OF the most
improved machinery to do their work.
With old machinery and Anticipated
methods they jog along, depending
upon the tariff enacted by paternal
government to keep them up against
the competition OF enterprising foreign
ers.
The tariff is not only tax-it is an
enemy of enterprise, industry and in
yention.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

The Henderson Times may find
amusement in the suffering OF people
and in the depression that has followed
the expulsion of money from the state;
but a day is coming in Texas when
Rusk county craftsmanship, such as is
that represented by the Henderson
Times, will not be potent to retard de-
velopment and sit astride the neck of
West Texas like an Old Man OF the Sea.
Let the Times laugh and mock at dis
tress while it may: Western Texas is
attracting immigration, and when it is
given representation, demanded by
Justice, Rusk county will not be in it
as ii is to-day.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

THE Jefferson Jimplecute calls upon
The GAZETTE with a query: Col. Fl.
Mckay asks us the following question:
IF the alien land law ruins Texas by
driving out English capital, how is it
that after having the English cheap
money for twelve years the people have
derived no benefit from it, and the
farmers are in a worse condition than
before English capital was introduced?'
We respectfully call ON THE GAZETTE
TO answer
We do not know that the people have
derived no benefit from English cheap
money. Does Mr.. Mckay know that?
Neither do we know that her farmers
are in worse condition than before En-
glish capital was introduced. Ii they
are, it is more likely owing TO the high
prices they have had TO pay for tariff
taxed goods than for the low prices
they have had to pay for money.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15


1t falls to the lot of The GAZETTE,
therefore, to vindicate the propriety of
the committees conduct.
The Dallas Times-Herald, journal
that is generally to be counted on as an
exponent of sound Democracy, assails
the committee and says: 'The sub
treasury is only part OF the Ocala
platform, and is not pronounced against
by any national Democratic conven-
tion." Therefore, that paper holds
that it was improper to exclude man
from the councils of the party because
he is a follower of the sub-treasury
party.
The sub-treasury is only small part
of the Ocala platform. True enough.
A drop of prussic acid is only small
part of the glass of water in which it is
dropped, but it poisons the whole. 1t
if also true that no national Democratic
convention has put the ban OF its con-
demnation upon the sub-treasury, one
very good reason for this omission be-
ing. probably, because no national
Democratic convention has been held
since the sub-treasury question got into
politics. The state Democratic con-
vention has, however, recorded the OPP
position of the Democratic party OF
Texas to the sub-treasury, and that is
good enough and high enough author
ity for county executive committee to
act under. The state Democratic plat
form also repudiates the doctrine of
state ownership of railroads, which the
Ocala platform calls for.
We take it, however, that the ac-
ton of the Dallas county committee
was put upon other grounds than the
mere circumstance that Mr.. Cole
held to the sub-treasury fallacy. We
know that at meeting of the sub
treasury Alliance of Texas, held at
Waco few months ago, resolution
was adopted pledging the members OF
the Alliance to not only support the
Ocala platform, but to oppose all candi-
dates for office who will not support
it. No Democrat can say, in advance
of the action OF his party, that he will
oppose any candidate of that party
who refuses to believe as he does on
any point; and in this case the sub
treasury Alliance took up the fight
against the Democratic party of the
state. That party's declaration is
against the sub-treasury. The ALI
ancee then-or that part OF it which
follows the sub-treasury banner-made
utterance that it would not support any
man that stood on this Democratic plat
form of opposition to the sub-treasury
plank of the Ocala platform. The issue
is clearly made up. If one wishes to be
in line with the Democratic party of
Texas he cannot favor the sub-treasury
scheme; if he wants the support OF the
sub-treasuryites he cannot oppose it.
What will he be for, the Democratic
party or the sub-treasury?:
That is the question that the Demo
cratic executive committee Of Dallas
county had to settle, and its decision
was that any man who had pledged |
himself to oppose candidate for Office |
who stood on the Democratic platform |
was not the right kind of man to |
counsel good Democrats how to act
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
Patronizc Home industry.
Sfenhenyilla Emnire

tends to build large maltery, aud thiSy4fll
make market for SOC, 600 bushels Of arley.
and will give our Erath commissioners a
chance to decrease their cafSon patches.
Every man who drinks beer 6dght to use the
Fort Worth beer. The tu1fh of the matter
is Texas sends too Zach money to St
Louis for beer no bss3r than that made in
the state, and isS2flppling the state at a
fearful rate. Is itghy wonder tbss There is
scarcity of mopsyl We sendsif out of the
state by the carload to esfich people in
other states. Is there anySKonder that our
people cannot find sale, For their surplus
horses and mulesl Ts6 much money goes
to ST. Louis. Alwayf patroHize hoMeCns
terprises, and there WILL be more money at
home to trade and tr8fic upon. ~
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
DRAW THE LINES.

II a sub-treasury advocate will not
support any man for any Office who OPP
poses the sub-treasury scheme, why
should he be permitted, why should he
ask, to participate in a convention Of a
party that opposes the sub-treasury?
If men cut loose from all past political
ties by making the sub-treasury scheme
the test of their fealty and the condi-
ton of their support, they cannot, and
in self-respect they should not, COM
plain if invited to be absent from the
councils OF men who oppose the sub
treasury.
The time has. come in Texas for Dem
ocrats to be Democrats. There is not
an i'll OF which the people have cause
to complain for which Democracy is
not a remedy. and the state is suffering
enough from Democratic pliancy with
out further trucking TO those who are
Democrats only when Democracy is
bent to their will and within. Let De-
mocracy be true to itself and it win
better serve the whole people than by
yielding to every demand Of political
quaclls and demagogues, who are too
often in the pay, directly or indirectly,
of Republicanism, the enemy of De-
mocracy and Of the people.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
DELLA PLAIN. Tex. Sept. 50. 1891.

Editor Gazette.
VIII you please inform us through the
columns OF the daily GAZETTE the number
of representatives in the United States
congress and how the house and senate are
divided polltically-number OF members
each party has: Also the number Of repre-
sentatives and senatorial districts in Texas,
with number of representatives in lower
house. There are some representatives
from the state al large, are there not!
FAYETrE COPELAND.
The Fifty-second congress that will
gather at Washington City in Deem
Der will have 322 members, of which
236 are Democrats, eighty-seven Re-
publicans and eight Farmers Alliance.
The Alliance. however, claims several
of the mem bers classed with the Demo-
Gratis and Republicans. The senate has
forty-five Republican members, forty
Democrats and three-PetTer. Irby and
senator from South Dakota-who
probably will act with the Alliance.
There are thirty-one senatorial dis
tricts in Texas. The full membership
of the lower house is 1O4. There are
no representatives at large from the
state.
1t is to be kept in mind that the pres
ent congressional representation is not
based on the apportionment under the
census of 1890, but under the 1880 CEN
sus. The new congress to be elected
next year will have 800 members.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
The keynote.
Fort Worth Bulletin.

Boom Tarrant county! That is the key
note struck. We want to assist in il. Land
is not so very high as yet. Good improved
farms can be bought for from Sl2 to SIS per
acre. In Kansas the same land would bring
$50 to $40 Kansas has to ship to Kansas
City to obtain market. We offer our own
Fort Worth right in the county. OF course
Fort Worth is not Kansas City as yet, but
we have he railroads. the packery. cotton
and wooden mills, flour mills, and the prom
Use of more coming. And we are almost in
the center of Tarrant county, great in
ducement for the farming public.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

WEST TEXAS needs wheat elevators.
West Texas is the wheat granary of
the South, but until enough elevator
capacity is obtained to handle the
wheat to advantage it can never get the
largest benefits out of favorable condi-
lions that God has bestowed upon us.
To build elevators and handle wheat
needs an abundance of money. Here
again the alien land law steps in and
clashes against Texas progress and
prosperity. If there is any evil that
the alien land law has not hand in,
i failed TO get ont OF Pandora's box.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

THE corn yield is placed by the Gin
cinnati Price-Current ut 1890. 100000
bushels. or 5O0,000,0 bushels above
the yield of 1890, and l23, 000, 900 BUSH
els below tie officially reported yield
Of 1890. For the past ten years the
corn crop has averaged l,G30, 100000
bushels annually, and yearly exports
have averaged 50.Ga0,00O bushels. 1t
Is estimated that about l,S25. 100000
bushels viii be needed tor the usual
home requirements. This would leave
l65, OO0G coo for export and charging re-
serves, which last, however, are IN
usually low.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

U. S. HALL, eX-president Of the Mis-
souri, Alliance, is looked upon with
high favor as the Democratic candidate
for governor of Missouri. The gallant
tiGht made by him against the sub
treasury party iu the Alliance, though
unavailiag. as Is usually the ease where
brain is put against the mob, has com
mended Mr.. Hall to the Democrats Of
Missouri, and it may happen that the
sub-treasury crowd, in displaeing him
from the head of the Alliance in that
state, has kicked him upstairs"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
A New idea for Preventing Hot Boxes.

A new method of lubricating passenger
car Journals is under the experiment OF
members of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
company. The idea is as simple as can be,
consisting of strip of goods resem bling
lamp.wick, one end of which is immersed
in oil. the wick outside of the oil is wrap
ped around the journal. and at every revo-
luton of the wheel the oil is drawn to the
journal, keeping it continually cool. One
pint of oil, it is claimed, will run a train
5000 miles without the slightest danget OF
an overheated bearing. The Manufactttr>
ers' Gazette, authority for the foregoing,
says if this method is developed it will un.
doubtedly meet with success. as hos~eoSes
resulting from tSissi.--s the source OF
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

The Democratic demand is Tor law
preventing corporate ownership of
large bodies Of agricultural or grazing
lands. The cry raised against alien
ownership was the device OF men rep
reseating landed corporations. Now
that the courts are knocking the legal
ity out OF the Gossett alien land law,
the people OF Texas should seriously
consider how foolish is the cutlery
against aliens.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

GOVERNOR HOLT of North Carolina
says the people OF the southern states
have contributed $40,000OOO for the
educGtion OF the negro-more than
twice as much as all the rest of the
We a." and. he might have added,
four-iiths more thau was ever contrib
uted BY the negroes themselves. But
"ilthis does not prevent misrepresenta-
ton Of Southern white people with re-
gard to their treatment OF the negroes.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

WHATEVER else may be said of Sem
ator Norwood's financial plan, he struck
the cause of the agitation in declaring
that tie present system produces con-
gestion in one part of our political
body and paralysis in the other parts. :"
The protest, now so emphatic. is
against the control Of the country s
money supply by Wall street.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

How insignificant and pitiful Bach
elor Dave Hill must have felt when he
rose to face an audience after Grover
Cleveland had addressed it, when the
audience knew, and he knew it knew,
that Cleveland was periodically en-
ga@ed in the work OF building up the
country, while he-what was he doing?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
THE BACHELORS ADVICE.
Chicago herald.

Chicago herald. II
Do you know q luscioussQogth
Honey oozing like the SoutHsF
Lips like bashful roses red
On bed Of lilies wed:
Do not think about it.
Thinking leads to mad desire
That will scorch the heart like fire;
II sweet mouth haunts you still
Put 1t from you with will,
Never think about il.
Do you know pair Of eyes,
Dreamy, soft and passion wiser
Or mayhap pair you've seen
OF serene and naughty sheen
Do not think about 'em.
Liquid eyes are like pool
Where one looks and sees a fool.
Can you deem that such are kind
II they kill your peace Of mind?
Never think about EN-.
Do you know o downy cheek,
Peachy, plump and satin sleek,
Where, when daughters zepkyrs sweep,
Dimples deep like eddies keepf
Do not think about it
Dimples come and dimples go
Where the roses stain the snow,
But the wound that did the harm
Fen outlives that fatal charm.
Never think about it.
'Tis rule for young and old,
Good TO keep and good to hold;
Woman's charms are DEVILS bait
All TOO late we mourn our fate.
Do not think about en-
Lily hands and fairy feet.
Luscious lips and glances sweet
Loves chain and these are links
He's slave who looks and thinks
Never think about EN-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

The year 1891 will be known in Texas
as the year of hangings. More crimi-
mails have gone through the gallows
since January l, 1891, by legal process,
than for any two preceding years, and
the material is not all exhausted by
any means.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
A CONSISTENT THING TO DO.

The action OF the Democratic execu-
tive committee of Dallas county in de-
handing the resignation Of one OF its
members who has taken his stand on
the Ocala platform, finds no defense
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
THE NEW YANKEE DOODLE.

Little frankie Cleveland.
Pretty as can be,
Sends her sQualling compliments
To little one Mckee;
frankie Cleveland's come to town;
Fame-she's bound TO win It:
Growers prancing up and down
This time Growers in it
Mothers doing very well,
Father. stfil plethoric.
Hustles lively-zirgs the bell
Seas Of paregorici
For little Ffankie'S come 70 town
Here this very minutei
Let Mckee and grandpa froWp~
This time Growers In Il
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

THE farmer who sells his crop and
puts the money in an old sock in the
chimney jamb is taking that much
money from circulation and intensity
ing the hard times that ne COM
nlaiDc pf
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

THREE feet of snow in Montana will
greatly encourage the prophesiers OF a
cold winter to give additional coloring
to their predictions.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

He takes existence calmly in his weed
strewn box. not ut all disturbed by the
curious who throng to see him all day.
His large black eyes are trimmed with flesh
of dull golden color and make him
rather a ghnstly object than otherwise.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
e.s.AHsn.. i. s.sc.ef.1 Tex.

We have sdR-divida1l6,CO COO acres Of fine
lands 1nte smA hs. in five payments.
VIII build hos and help improve.
Healthy cliNle,Q ild winters; land rich
and adapte 20 cotfAQ, corn, vegetables and
fruits. Maps and ihSQrmation free by Bf-
terprise Land and CoASpization Co., Rss
ville TEE.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

A careful examination of the aqSsslS
humor of the eyes Of cattle will determines
whether they are suffering from tubercle
or not. The bacilli will be found there in
all cases where the disease exists.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
WOVEN WIRE ROPE.

erful transmitting capacity. The author
ity mentioned says that the rope is hollow,
being nothing more than spiral spring,
woven through and through with small
wire. Actual tests of cable of this chjE-
acter, weighing ten ounces to the fooff6nd
made of ordinary Bessemer wire. slowed
that it possessed a tensile strength OF.
600 pounds. a
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
AN ANOMALY IN FROGS.
A Recent Acquisition t" the London Zoo
logical Garden.

The London Geological society has con-
tributed many curious objects TO the gaze
of the wonder loving public A recent
acquisition OF a kind to interest visitors
is none other than white frog--a rare ob-
ject indeed. He was caught in Wiltshire,
and is a fine specimen Of his Kind.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
Increase in Aluminium Products.

There has been a remarkable develop
ment in aluminium products, due in large
part to the use of electricityin obesiniRg
the metal. According to a ceYeus report
one company produced about tfSo tony of,
aluminium bronzes in 1885, dnd ovef so
sffortlons in 1889; another prdduced 519, 10
pounds ofaiyminum in 1889, aed lae y6kal
product in th4ssseountry, inclpaiog the
aluminium in bronzes,' Cor that year is esti-
mated at A 1868 pounds, and valued at s97,-
335 The business is now being developed
80 rapidly that it is expected the worlds
product annually will be in short time
equal to .the product of all ne yeasS be-
tween ,as,e $50 and ad las' Thfprice t00'tT