Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
CAUSE OF ALL EVILS.
The Silly Complaints Heard in
Regard to the Commission.
QUESTIONS THAT MAY ARISE
u tie Practice of Milking tho Clouds Be
comes General-No Doubt Whatever
but the Alien ani Lawwiu
be Promptly Amended
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Special TO the Gazette

Special TO the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Tx, Aug 29-'sWell, what do
you think Of your railroad commission now
that ii has banishcd the Morgan line Of
steamers from GalvestOnfn asked an Austin
citizen Of the writer to-day. It is needless
70 say that this gentleman jumped ut con
clusions like the mau quoted Yesterday VINO
said that the International and Great
Northern receivcrship was established in
order TO wreck the road and pay big sala-
res q a lot Of fellows. He was 50 firmly
intro lched in his position that the commits
sion was wholly responsible for the with
drawal OF Morgan base of operations from
Galveston, that facts, reasons and Grcu-
Inents mad no more effect on him than water
On turtles back, or argument on Il sub
tCeasuryite. II was in vain to tell him that
only a single Morgan steamer visited
seasons, that the real base of opera
t!ons Ior those ships was New Orleans
Hhare the railroads which are owned by
the same company center.
Why cid This same Morgan line leave
Galveston once before, when there was no
commission" he was asked.
"Ch, there We're other reasons for it
then" OF course there We're. and probably
rood ones but he would not admit that
other reasons would account for the
recent witGdra wal.
This little circumstance IL cited merely 10
bLOW mat luSte is nOL, u JsI an, very nlGCD
difference between a Sub-tre 1srIryite and
IN anti-commsSiouist or anti-Hoggi'e. The
cranial " hJlstering of each is not widely
GissInlar. There IS the same conjecture,
the same imperyi0usneSs TO sense and rea-
sou. the same iInpdtience of argument and
,.c,n ness 10 eXtremeism and unreasoG.
! acn 3 abundan 'ly furnished with a
supply Of prejudice, crotchgts and cranky
notions. II the su5-treasCIyite longs to see
capital bauiSheu from tle state, and the
poor farmer plunged in misery still deeper,
1-s aUti-commlssiOnist IS no less anxious
for railroad receiverships and bankrupt
c.es. The greatest disappointment that
could come 10 the sa0-tr0Gsury leaders is
aCricnltUral prosperity, ana to The anti
Sommissionists, peace aud conteutment
among the railroads.
There IS this difference between the two
uses of GROWERS, one attributes all our
troubles 10 lack OF money, the ''circulain'
Tejum," and the other to the railroad com
mission. Whatever deVilmcnt or miSfOr-
>jHe falls out, will be by each referred 10
5 proper cause, to-wit: 4 law ''per
-apiy,' or the ''colEinish'L.' There IS not
:. considerable railroad in the state that
has not in past years gone through
one or more receivershipS. They usually
~ { the WrecGiuS route as lid the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas and the interua-
t.0nal There was no commission then
nth which 70 saddle the blame, and OF
course no blame was attributed and 10
fault found. ii was natural, perfectly nat
UrSl, AID everybody was happy. But
everybody would have to hump him
or themselves now if they would
would reach TIE exalted stage
a hiarity and exultatiun that would
burst forth from the anti-commissionists
should little jeTk-water railroad ASK for q
receiver. It would be hailed by them IS
proof positive, conclusive and uuanswerablo
t1at the commission was an invention of
the devil, designed for no other purpose but
so wreck railroads and restore barbarisIn,
Tbs troubadOurs, crusaders and mound
builders.
Providence permits men, some men, to
be afflicted with strange hailucinations and
aelusions. They become ridiculous in tho
extreme, and very amusing. whereat We
Flould not, perhaps, repine, for all or mosu
q US like to be aTlus-l, no matter whether
il he by a sub-trcasuTyP unch-and-judy
Shaw, with Macune and Tracy as puppets,
or by the mlar,icu!ate and desultory cruwl-
Jugs of the anLi-cnmmissionists who, like
the sub-treasury LEADERS, are but few in
mum bers.