Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
THE REAL TROUBLE.
Tie Gas Let Out of Popular Gas Bags
Contentmeut, Faith and Attending to
Our Own Business the Need OF
To-Day.
DALLAS, TEX, Aug. :, 1891.
Editor Gazett

The following from the Omaha Bee and
| from 4 well-iuformed and reliable writer
from Kansas, in the Waterman, well illus
trates the facts in Texas. Is seen from the
real condition OF things compared
| with what gas-bag orators repre-
sent them. F'irst-The Omaha Bee on
| Mondav, July l3. printed IN exhaustive re-
| view OF the commercial and financial coudl-
| ton OF Nebraska, by counties, showing re-
markable development. The most import
ant phase Of the exhibit is the showing of
| deposits in the state and national banks,
/ which reach the aggregate OF so. SCI. 0i3. OF
| 81 per capita, showing that in spite of the
| failure of crops in the western part OF the
| state last year, and low prices for series
/ of Years. the people are in exceptionally
| good financial condition. with almost enough
| cash on deposit 10 llquidate the entire
| farm mortgage indebtedness of the state. In
| 1865 the value of property was So, 900, OCO !:
| the actual valuation in 1891 Is SI,5s5,-
| l6O,30O. The. estimated yield for tins
| year, in all crops, IS greater than
| ever before. Seven years ago no cattle
nor hogs were slaughtered. To-day Omaha
| is the third packing center in the Union.
| The creamery capacity OF the state IS 10000
| pounds of butter Il day. The educational
| system comprises $40 schooihOuses, valued
with sites and apparatus, at So, III, $40
| costing annually over S4.000000. The rail
| roads operate $40 miles OF track.
| There are Yet over l3,00O,OJ0 acres
| of unimproved land; only 10,OOO,0O0 acres
| under plow
Probably there never have been seen
| finer crops and better financial prospects in
| Texas. Yet, if we We're to listen to Al
| lance aud other agitatOrs who pretend
such wonderful love to the people, we
would see only poverty and general bank
| ruptcy before our state. While there are
| financial evils, ever have been and ever
| .,..1
| who knows the history of the past and will
close his ears 10 these so-called labor agita-
| tors and other croakerS and political dcm!
gOgues or ignoramuSeS will see only the
rainbow of promise accompanied by show
ers of blessings arching our country, pro-
vided the people Will throttle the saloon
aud will close their ears to Fictitious,
troublesome leaders of the people. The
following, from reliable Kansas writer, Is
to the point:
No state has been more maligned than
has our own. The strange thing IS, people
believe their tales. 4 still stranger thing
is, these misrepresentation frequently
come from our own citizens. senator
elect PETER has been the last one guilty of
such misdemeauor. He ought to know bet
ter. He does. He speaks for political effect.
To i prominent investment company IN
Lowell. Mass, he said the other day that
the farm mortgage Indebtedness of Kansas
is $3.50 900, 900, while the lend value is only
Sl6S 0OO.0 600. Only two years ago he HIM
self estimated the farm mortgage indebt-
edness at less tnan $50, 100000.
Is it credible that the farmers have in
creased their Indebtedness in the last couple
of years 100 per cent!
Even senator has no business TO make
such statements. The Daily Capital of our
city shows the imposSiDiiity OF such facts
in the following editorial:
&c ,,,.Ohal ,la INIT ha D1nptiODeI SItS
000.000 as the assessed valuation of the
farm lands, the actual value being about
$3.50 600, 600. Now, it is Il well-known
fact that loans are made up to one-third
of the actual value OF the land. If every
farm in Kansas, therefore, is mOrtgagcd to-
day to the extreme limit, the Indebtedness
cannot exceed $ll0,O0O0OO; and yet hun
dreds of thousands OF acres of lands, the
best in the state. are absolutely free of III
cumbrance, while other hundreds of thou
sands are but slightly burdened, and very
few except those abandoned quarters in the
western third Of the state are mortgaged
to the extreme limit
however aged, has but to look back to his
earliest memory and since then. He viii.
then call to mind grumbling political agitar
ton on grumbling political agitation. To APP
peal to large crowds, now attending politi-
cal encampments, as proof Of the
Da0 tDIGlJlOn OIL tllISS Is ONLY
so much ad Captandum, since the
dissatisfaction and the anxiety which have
drawn them together instead of being the
poverty condition of the people are the
creatures of agitating grumblers and dema-
gogueS, who want to see the wheel so turn
as to put them into power. OF course,
some honest people who help agitate this
subject, believe these so-called labor
agitatOrS.
The truth is. in everything which makes
a country materially great there has-going
back no Misunderstanding all our lives, been
only great and rapid progress. Witness the
wonderful progress i'll all the lines of bust
ness. and with industrious, temperate and
economical farmers within the last ten
years in our own state, within this time,
towns, cities and farms have sprung up
and as if by magic. Many, on farms and in
towns and cities, who were ten years ago
without house or home, are now fairly
wcll-to-do. and they are on the road to the
comforts of the old states. There are 10
indications of any retrogressiOn anywhere
along these lines, unless they are in
saloon curse and the discontentment,
distrust and isolations which the misrepre-
sensations of the SO-called lovers of 1.-The
dear people" are producing. | know of no
great line OF business in our state which has
not proSpered, unless it be railroads, and
about every one of them il Texas, notwith-
=
make mines of wealth, has been or is in
receivers hands, and if they are not
crushed or greatly retarded by foolish anti
railroad legislation, the settlement and the
development of our great state will. in the
not very distant future, put them into the
best condition, enable them TO pay good
dividends TO their stockholders and give
cheaper transportation and better accom-
modations in every way to the people.
In other words, our state Sorely
needs less of one class of people
seeking legislation against another:
less of cursing and suspicioning, misrepre-
senting each other; more loving, trusting
and blessing each other and more attending
to our own business.
We need more of that contentment which
leaves young people willing to begin life at
the bottom. rather than where their pa
rents quit life, and more of that patience
and contentmenU which have always
and ever Will be the condi-
tons by which the masses have
lived and made life happy success. a lit
tie less of the spirit which seeks to make
life holiday. and more of the spirit which
makes US feel life is real, life is earnest,
and the grave is not its goal
OF course, many are in debt; but when in
the history of our great nation, has this not
been the case. There is such thing as
being wisely and prosperously in debt as
well as in debt foOlishly and disastrouSly On
the whole, the Indebtedness of our people
is wisely and prosperously. By that they
have stepping stones TO future independ-
ence. | AM, myself poor man, in debt
near $500, but in debt wisely and prosper
ously Yet might rs well. as Others. join
oil bn II