Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09

is the logical result TO which legislation Of
this character is tending. Experiments Of
this kind are most interesting to those who
have least to lose III making them, and if
the substantial and financially responsible
men OF the country flii to give these mat
tcIs attention, that logical result may De
reached much sooner than is expected.
If such laws as these must be enacted at
all, why can they not properly be localized,
leaving free from their operation those
parts of the state that are in no wise benc-
fitted by them! Alien ownership Is CO.
tainly not hurting our county of Callahan.
as there is scarcely any of it here; but on
the contrary, there are here hundreds OF
citizens VINO are very DESTROYS of having
capital, alien or otherwise, invested in our
non-producing lands, and in Il thousand
other forms
There are not more than one or two dozen
unSatistied mortgages and deeds Of trust of
record IN this county, ana these can GER
tainiy afford no just occasion for limiting
our right 10 contract such loans and such
terms of sale as may suit us. Now if that
kind Of restrictive legislation is needed in
other counties, why should it not be limited
to such lOcaliticS2 Let us suppose. merely
Tor illustration, that some county town east
CT Dallas has had bad crop seasons for sew
eral years, and the people there have got
involved financially. and instead OF leaving
of tobacco and other Injuries, they have
improvldcntly borrowed more money than
they can now repay. Perhaps, let US sup
pose, the loan corporations are fOrcclosing
their mortgages, and those people are nat
urallN feeling very sore at such conduct,
and very justly incensed against these
bloated monopolies, that they so kindly and
generously patronized by taking their
money. Perhaps some of these people are
wishing very ardently for a law to contis-
cate and repudiate those unjust debts alto
getler, If the courts and constitution would
only get out of the way of its enforcement.
Doubtless some of them desire that their
members Of the legislature go for those soul
less corporations i'll every way possible, TAX
ing off the epidermis and some blood with
II, at every vulnerable and alien point, and
thus get all the satisfaction possible for the
injuries they have received. Now this is
their matter and fight, and not ours here,
and / see no reason why, by constitutional
amendment, the legislature should not be
authorized in such cases of public calamity
TO place q county thus situated in the hands
of receiver, who shall be general guardian
for the good and unfortunate people there,
and make their contracts for them and look
after their interests until prosperity and
tranquility shall be restored. AS for myself
and my children and our people here we
ask only that the law keep its hands, its re-
strictions, off us; That it will not jnculcate
dishonesty and dependency, nor put upon
US the shortcomings of others; and if we
cannot stand up in our own manhood and
intelligence aud make our own contracts
and our own living we will not charge our
failure to the law. AS 4 Democrat l am in
favor Of free trade and open competition,
and, being opposed to the tariff that pro-
hibits the introduction of foreign products,
l am equally opposed TO this alien law. pro-
hibiting foreign capital, because involving
substantially the same principle.