Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-04
AN OPEN LETTER.
To Mr.. X. l.. Brown of Brown-B Bros, Land
Mortgage Bankers, on the
Alien Land Law.
Kyle Star-Vindicator.

r. L. Brown ESD, Austin, Tex.
DEAR SIR was not knowing to the fact,
nor walked up to the startling humbug and
| the enormity the diabolical alien act per-
| petrated by set OF demagogues in a 81. co.,
| 600 state house last winter, built for the
| pose of enacting wholesome constitutional
! laws for their good and to
aid their progress in social
! and political advancement, until
| | received your letter to-day. ! am bitterly
! opposed to 81 corporations, domestic or
| foreign, absorbing land or the production
| of toll by which they can dictate their own
merciless and heartless terms to the great
/ toiling masses, whose sweat and wOrn-out
muscles produced them, and who are held
! by these corormants by their united
wealth, like manacled slaves, pow
erless 10 disobey or resist their
| tortuous demands. But when the
| law extends itself to the business that you
are in it not only transcends all bounds of
| decency and political rights of man, but it
invades the law of God and tramples under
foot the liberties of the people of Texas
| AS well might the law say that l shall
| not buy q bushel of corn from you
| as to forbid me from buying the
! use of your money and making you safe
| in either, as | am in duty bound to do. and
as for this thing, being done by your people
across the water for the objective purpose
of absorbing our lands, ] know from my
own experience that such is r0t the re-
hottest part of your desire, nor
apart of your business, and that you will
so to unnecessary trouble as l can say from
my own experience to renew the notes Of
your customers and help them on from
term to term as notes mature in order to
enable them to work out and hold to their
lands The unconstitutional and arbitrary
action of this devilish law would well nigh
break me up, would shatter my business
and PROSTATE thousands OF others in
our state who are in similar
situation, and it would utterly demoraliZe
and bring hunger to thousands of..doors and
be relieved only by selling our beef at
cents per pound in Chicago and paying our
own Eastern moneybags % per cent
for money Then in Gods name down
with corporations and double down with
this Ubiquitous law that will prevent you or
any other man from securing yourself in
land or in any other thing l may offer YOU
as security for favors | have received at
your hands and that could be obtained
from no other source and that has
made Texas to-day what she is, whilst our
our own people have left no schemes I'M
tried. either in congress or out of it, to
press US down, and 1t is the only thing we
can look TO in the future for
aid to help US into better circumstances,
and which our own state legis-
lators would now blast. You well
know, Mr.. Brown, that your custom
ers are your friends and you well know
that they would not tarnish their honor to
allow you TO lose one dollar. and I would
almost venture TO say that your interests in
their hands would be as safe without law as
with 1t. The Objectionable features of this
law should there be repealed al
the earliest possible moment regardless
of cost. for it is palpably the
legislation of Wall street, whose ambition
to become billionaires would sap the foun-
dation of modern civilization and make a
wreck of h Sfy, otherwise there is blood
in the nea e ard the deluded dude
militia wit we are threatened will
be swept IL the way.
William ". HAuPT
Kyle, Tex, July %, 1891.