Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-03

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tween Cleveland and Hill, with DISPOSE
ton to accept Senator German or Carlisle
instead of the Western Democrat to be de-
veloped by tall elections.
TEXAs.
There is no general want Of confidence
East in Texas securities, except where
towns have doomed too much and increased
their taxes. expenses and debts too rapidly.
1t is the unanimous opinion that Texas owes
less in proportion, and Will in the fab have
more to pay with than any other Southern
or Western state.
THE ALIEN LAND LAW.
It is remarkable that with so many
printed copies of the bill furnished mem
bers. and with so many paid representatives
of the press at Austin, that this agitation
comes so late. There should have been
discussion or campaign Of education at the
right time and in advance. The underlying
principle and intentions of the law are cor
rect and doubtless will be adhered TO by any
representatives elected by the people on the
issue, but the law as ii stands will be ma
terially changed by the first legislature that
reaches II.
The distinction has not been sufficiently
marked between foreign companies loaning
money for the interest and taking property
only incidentally and when forced to- and
pie for purposes of holding. The old En-
clish remedy Of equity of redemptious
should have been applied TO loan companies.
When the mortgaGor loan company buys in
the lands OF the mortgage, so long as they
fail TO ALLEVIATE to individuals. the mortagee
or his heirs should have the right to redeem
by payment of principal and interest ac-
crued. When the state purchases q citizens
land for taxes he has the right TO redeem
until the state sells it.
Such equity of redemption has stood tho
test il England and in some of our own
states, and no legitimate loan company
would complain. Money is the only one
commodity that every man wants, and trade
in il should be as free as possible. On the
other hand, ownership of real estate in fee
should be as far as possible accompanied
by citizenship; but the two principles and
policies have been and can be easily recon-
cilcd. There is no principle Of government
that can be Justly applied absolutely with
cut limitations.
SCB-TRvAsURT THIRD PARTY.
There is no DANCER in the sub-treasury or
third party movement. The farmers are
not welded to either. One of the Alliance
leaders told me that he believed that he
could himself get up a dozen better bills 10
produce the necessary results The mis-
take some Democrats make is 10 suppose
that the Democratic party has no mission
On earth except 10 fight somebody elses
propositions, instead oil inaugurating meth
DDS and policies of its own. The party is
awakening TO the necessity of more free
dom. more originality and more aggressive
ness in its own ranks. This is what is the
matter with the South and West.
The Democratic party can't maintain its
hold on the South or increase its strength
in the West without inaugurating methods
and policies of its own, instead of combining
itself to attacks on other methods and poll
cies. Tie people have reached that point
where political parties must suggest rem
edy for the evils they discover. The ma
tional Democratic conventions viii give US
the platform of principles, but the cam
paign CT education will evolve detailed
methods.
The evils of legislation are nearly always
found in the details of bill considered and
discussed by the few, if any Even with
correct principle as basis, or a genuine
evil to be remedied, the tendency to eX-
tremes is developed in some small clause.
According to their own confessions, silver
was benefited, without the president who
signed the bill, or the congressman who
voted for it, knowing that such was the
effect of it. With 400 years of experience,
Switzerland has found that the greatest
danger to republican institutions is hasty or
illy-conSidered legislation. Our state and
national governments spend thousands of
dollars in printing copies of bills, which 60
from the public printer to the waste basket.
Permanent political clubs, with copies of
these bills. would be heard from, long in
advance of these bills being perfected into
laws. The people should give more of their
time and less of their money to govern
ment.
THE EAST.
In tho East both Democrats and Republi-
cans are opposed to silver coinage. They
are not Directing so much to the scarcity of
money, as the hundred and fifty millions q
year pensions and the millions paid out in
and about New York and Washington by
the government drives them to Indifference
to the condition of the rest of the country
They are for any policy that will keep in
terest rates high in the South and West
and keep the financial center in New York
and Washington. The Republicans figure
that they have enough votes bought by pen
sion money, tariff bonuses and official sal
aries to control presidential election, and
il at any time they get doubtful they go out
and buy more by appropriations or cash
squeezed ont of favored classes. If they
hal passed the force bill they would in all
probability have passed Vaughn's negro
pension bill, but they don't want to buy
that vote, unless it can be delivered in To-
calitics where it would count electoral |
votes. OF course the people who don't sell |
out pay the purchase money for the others. |