Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
EVEN JUSTICE.
j. X. M'CARTY SUBMITS A PLAN
DOING AWAY WITH
What He Terms Political Fraud, Etc,
Thereby Insaring Proportional
Representation.
NORMAN, o. T., July IL, 1891.


Editor Gazette.
There is considerable stir going on i'll tie
field of politics, and the Prohibitionlsts,
Greenbackers, Mossbackers, Democrats,
Republicans and Mugwumps are ali busy
fixing up their platforms Tor '92. They are
this man AID that man, and where
their platform is not big enough
to admit their idea they are putting
in new planks over which will soon grow
the moss of political corruption unless we
succeed in purifying politics of that faint
ing. selfish interest that furnishes our laws.
Everyone has his plan. 1t is generally
some one else's plan that they have Dor
roWed for political use. Let ne ask you to
send it home and quit borrowing. To ac-
cept political ideas, il matters not how
plausible they are, without laying down
your prejudice and turning it into a
fulcrum to prize around, to see
whether the new plan is true or not, or
whether your old ground in one is consis-
tent with common sense and reason, you
are virtually selling your vote. Aye, worse
than that; YOU are selling your own liberty,
and handing your children over into serf
dom to be slaves! If you are not your own
boss in thought, how can you expect 20
be in action, Until you are able to
control yourself in thought and action, and
not till then viii you have voice in fran
ing Jle ldWS LOT inc SUOu VI llo UdutOIl, Us
well as of yourself. Every man Is supposed
to be factor in the making of our laws
opponents of the power to make laws. If
we must have justice, peace and tranquility,
we cannot do better toward obtaining it
than finding out for ourselves and forming
an idea of our own. 1t may be
based on somebody else's, but first
know it is consistent with common sense.
We should begin by being Just ourselves
11pi,lSt dariSa a inc Ia,
II is not in him. He can't think that way;
it is impossible. Look at what botches our
laws arel What we want is to make known
our wants to the lawmakers, who should
be the whole people. They should assemble
in the various districts, say once month,
and make known their wants to congress or
the legislature, and instruct their repre-
sentatives to act accordingly. Such rtpre-
sentatives should be elected by popular
vote and should have power to cast as many
votes in the house as were cast for them III
the national election. The minority man
or the man beaten by a majority of votes,
would have seat in congress, and could
vote as many times as he received votes IN
the national election, the salaries of
each to be proportionate with the
number of votes each received. This
would give every voter representation
and would have tendency to establish JUS
tice, domestic tranquility and peace. First
and foremost these representatives should
be impressed with the fact that they are
working for the people and not for them
selves. 1t is this selfish egotism that de-
stroys social equilibrium. The people
should have the right to recall any
of such representatives who failed 70
work for the interests of the people or who
did what they disapproved, not at the end of
their terms, but the day after they We're
elected If necessary. This would stop
selfishness on the part of our legislators
and put healthy system to work in our
law-producing faculty instead of the cor
rEption and avaricious greed that now
characterize it. The senate, being use
less mockery of the house of lords, could
well be abolished, being a great expense
and of no practical use. The silver ques-
ton, reciprocity, etc, are mugwumps and
great humougs. J. L. MCCARIY.