Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-06

| field, KNOCKS out the cotton, eats the corn,
etc. We take day OFF to trade horses, go
| fishing, etc, when we should be gathering
our crops. 1t comes a rain, and the cotton
| is knocked out and it rots before it is saith
cred. It is wasted in the pens.
We get sick, or some other cause
prevents the saving of our crop.
Ii matters not how good crop we raise. If
| we don't gather it we have nothing to sell.
With all the probable losses occurring to
the farmers while harvesting time is on
hand, can there be any reason why there
should be such a paternal theory inaugur-
ated that would give US a big cocalorum"
to manage the garnering Of our crops? By
| no means! If the third party spouters''-
the principal musicians for the sub-treas
ury-wiQ act with little wisdom by inves-
tigating the intelligence of the farming
class, they will find that the farmers are
not such crankS as they look on the farmers
to be- Every man who ever saw a farm
knows that preparing for planting, cultivat-
ing, gathering and selling the products of
farm, all rank as of importance in the agri-
cultural pursuit. Now the sub-treasury
advocates have conceived that the farmers
don't possess intelligence enough 10 sell
their crops. This being true, of course
they have stored away in their swimming
craBiums'' that the farmers haven't the
| sense to plant, raise, gather, etc, their
crops. Now if there IS q farmer in the
I llttQ EOliiCS llGl Wall GuLllE Ul IE.S llGOul-
potency, | will agree he should have q
guardian or go to the asylum. Only think
of 1t. Suppose the government should have
a manager to sell the coal for the miners;
the cattle for the stockraisers: the sheep
for the sheepraiscrS; the goods for the
| merchants; the books for the agents. the
chickens for the peddlers: the milk Tor the
dairymen; the meat for the butchers; the
papers for the journalists-then everybody
be officers. The g sub-treasury pufferS'' can
not deny this because it will rice in the same
| saddle as this paternal sub-treasm'y theory.
Whoop, What patcrual horse the sub
treasury BOSSES have m0untedi
/ have put this question TO quite a number
of farmers: Don't you say that the
plOws, hoes, IN fact, all agricultural i'm
Elements, cost the farmers too muChI' 1t
has always been answered in the affirIna-
tive. Then / often reply: ut seems that if
the government should adopt certain
plowS, hoes, etc, for the farmers TO use
(or not adopt them. either and then let the
state have ! commissioner to buy the tools
from the manufacturers and sell them 10
the farmers great deal of money would be
saved to the farming class" | have never
made this statement to 4 farmer Yet with
out receiving an emphatic reply: No! no.
That would be paternGisn and would
fleet upon the farmers as not hayiNg sense
enough TO do their own business" Now. if
this IS paternalism, it's half brother" the
sub-treasury theory, IS patcrnallstic, be
cause in both the government is TO do the
business for the farmers.
notice that one ''hollow-headed sub
treasury boss claims that our school law IS
paternalistic.> 4 school boy, even, could
prove that this IS not true. because the
state provides an educational fund but edu-
Gates nothing. The state has not placed l.
self in the attitude of an educator, but only
provides the facilities for an education. \
boy may DE born, raised and married in this
state and never be educated to know the
English alphabet, or he may acquire an ac-
cGmplished education and never use the
state funds.
The name, paternalism, IS inconsistent
with republican form of government
much less 4 Representative democracy.
l'4teTndlism means slavery ard re
Progression. l'atenalism signifies that
those Tor whom such law is enacted are too
ignorant 10 transact their own business;
have TOO little sense 70 Judge the right from
the wrong; 20 green to ever be elevated
10 q level with those ''ane-to-be TOR would
be- sub-treasUry managers
Remember Texas under l.. ! Davis when
the citizens were considered Incompetent TO
act with that pcacefutneSs of human beings
and had iu2rshals treadng every pig
trail in order 10 remind the people Of that
extreme patornal peacemaking power OF
the government.
guess the c0l0red farmers who sent Mr..
IiumphrieS 10 Washington 10 ''bIgle'' for
this paternal scheme have forgotten their
pateInal bondage which was shaken off il
struggle that cost the lives OF nearly mil
lion men.
No sub-treasury advocate can deny but
that this theory is founded upon the laws of
Lycurgas.
The very declaration of independence of
the United States meant to sever the pa
al To- old