Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17

| He uses instances of eviction. both in ire
land and Scotland, TO illustrate the evils Of
| landlordISm. These instances forcibly
! typify the dangers of land MONOPOLY. but
furnish no argument against alien owner
| ship, for had the owners Of these lands
| been lrlshmen or ScotChmeu, they would
have had the same legal right to take pos
session OF their own Land, by eviction if
necessary, as did the English owners.
| The writer holds sternly that there is a
| great smouldering danger in the ownership
| of vast bodies of land, but the danger Is
| just the same to Texans whether the land
| in Texas is owned by Americans English
men or Dutchmen. The real soul Of the
| danger consists in immense bodies of land
| belonging to one man or one corporation
and the locality o: ownership. whether dc
/ nestle or alien. whether in New York or
| Holland or England. : not the true source
! of danger. This IS the evil Of land Iuouup-
\ oily. This is the evil shown b. both III
| stances OF eviction cited by the gentleman
| from Upshur Not the danger of alien own
erShip. And this danger the alien land law
| can not pretend TO meet save IL part.
Human nature Is substantially universal
| IN its operation. practically the same in
| Chicago as in London. ana Texas would b.
| exposed 70 the same dangers from lana
monopoly whether the landlords wered omi-
ClltC IN New l Crk Ur III LQl4DGrEG.
To Summarize: The views" of the
learned gentleman seem to consist in sub
stance of two assumptions:
/. In the absence of an alien land law we
would finally have in Texas a state of af-
fairs partially analogous 10 the audlOrii>m
referred To in his views This aS>ump-
ton is wholly ana radically unJenable on
principle. for the very origin OF things in
the two countries Is antipodal in their
points of difference
p This alien land bill Will protect Texas
from the bloody terrorS Of landlordiSm Is
depicted by him. There can be no 'oppreS-
sive landlordism except where there exists
a land monopoly. As this alien land law is
aimed chiefly 1T foreign ownership ana
Only incidentally at land monopoly as such.
and as il applies to foreigners, this secure
assumption does not appear to be based il
fact.
The illusions to Egypt and India are ''out
of point as applied 10 Texas The condi-
tons are radically dissinilar. Egypt is I'M
der English rule, but not because of Eng
lish money. Egypt was IN her national
senility when Moses lay in The bulruSheS.
Egypt was virtually in the cemetery Of ma
tons centuries before Napoleon triumphcd
over her Maineluke tyranlS beneath the
shadows OF the pyramids. Egypt was Il
national mummy long before the American
colonies ever dreamed of Independence.
India, too as a nation had run her course
Her sun had long been fading away in the
national Oecident. The forces OF internal
deterioration and dislnteerati)n as was the
case with the Romans, the Greeks. the
Assyrians and other peoples. had wrought
out their final consequences. English dom
inItloa in India to-day is not due to English
gold in any of its Influences. II is due TO
the dominant weight of the old Anglo
Saxon character. Ii is 4 case OF the sur
vlval of the tittest.
Texas is a great, strong. iUstv political
infant. and just as the infant child needs
nouriShment OF the proper kind to develop
its body. its nerves. muscle and bone. lust
in the same sense does Texas need financial
nourishment 20 develop her varied re-
sources. her agriculture, her manufactures.
her forests. her mines. her citieS-au of
which constitute her material bone and
muscle.
The gentleman from Upshur brings forth
the Hon. John Heaston of Kansas as author
lily that an EngliShmau told him recently
that four-tifths of our bonded and mort
gage debt was held by English investors,
and that in case the interest on these
bonds and mortgages should not ne paid. the
Britisher said: We would enforce YOUR
laws-ciose YOU out. We are better modern
Americans than you are and think more of
your laws. Should you oppose them, we
have 100000 armed men in India that we
can throw here at once to sustain them"
Let US pause here ten minutes and gasp
for breath
Let US pause another ten minutes and
consider whether one will explode with
wrath or into laughter.
If with wrath. let it be cioven-fOOted and
tire-eyed. II with laughter let it be a great
laugh, 4 huge, resonant laugh worthy of the
Thor of paganism, and like Mark Twain's
Alpine Echo, let it have tifty-twn distinct
repetitions.
The in%lishman undoubtedly was bilious
intellectually. There are thousands of
Texans who would enjoy the pleasure Of
making physical prescription 10 be forci-
bly, applied to the South pole of his auat-
omy. They would probably come III con
tact with more brains i'll that region than
they would We're they 10 kick him on the
Uranium.
This cock OF the walk Englishman fur
nishes us an exhibition. III pyrotechnic dis
play, of the very SublImity OF aSsinine stu
pidity. We would venture to suggest TO
ing pyramid of lunacy the expedicncy of
communing with the spirit of CORVALLIS
amid the shades of Yorktown.
The writer does not presume to say what
effect such bolderdash might have upon :!
community of HottentotS, but so long as
Texans have brains sufficient TO keep them
out OF the lUnatic asylum they will NOT have
even the grace of an apology for giving one
moments leed 70 such Brobdiguagian idi-
ocy. The English military strength i'll
India instead oil being 3, Go0,0 600 armed men
is only $50. O0O, rs given by the cyclopedia
of reference PUBLISHED in ISIS.
LONE STAR J
Fort Worth, Tex, Sept. "A, 1891.