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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-09

The report OF the committee concludes
with the statement that this code of ethics
was compiled from papers read on the sub
ject at meetings of this Employers Union in
the local branches Of it throughout the
country. 1t embodies the Judgment of
thousands of experienced mon as to the best
methods Of transacting business.
1t is said that a high dignitary of the Rus
sian Government once set his official sigma
ture to copy of the Lords Prayer. Some
body had made a wager that this dignitarv
would sign anything. As q proof, he had
written out the Lords Prayer in a fine,
clerkly hand, on the customary paper under
the usual heading. and had shuffied it in
with a lot OF other documents to be laid
upon the dignitary's table. The other doc.
uments, If am not mistaken, related to the
banishing Of various suspected people into
the horrible wildernesses of Siberia. And
this light-hearted official, accustomed to
slay with pen and ink his daily tally of his
fellow countrymen, the innocent with the
guilty, making no effort to separate the
wheat from the chaff, read no word in Ali
the pile of papers, but signed them every
one, the Lords Prayer among the number
the most Christian document Mr. Kennan
says, that was ever approved by the Govern
ment OF Russia!
And now, here is a copy of the Sermon on
the Mount which has been Respectfully
submitted by committee to convention
of business men, and adopted and ordered
to be printed. The Sermon on the Mount is
not quoted here exactly as it stands in the
King James version of the Gospel of St.
Matthew But words are the least Important
part of truth. The King James version it.
self is but translation out of an old lam
guage into a new one. and this latest Sermon
on the Mount does little more than to carry
that good business of translation one step
further on-out of the language of the
church into the language Of the SHOP The
Professor can but devoutly hope tina. the
signatures which have been set to this docu-
ment mean more t.ian the signature OF the
dignitary in the Government OF Russia.
In Theory and in Practice.
The Professor is informed by an employer
that the Sermon on the Mount, in this new
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
In Bad Luck.
Houston Age,

Uncle Dan'l's Houston Age says the Texas
railroad commission Is monster trust -
The phrase is not original with Uncle
Daniel, owing its application to Major
Michael Looscan, who is outraged in mind
because the commission will not let the
roads charge a man as much for hauling a
load of freight fifty miles as for hauling it
$50 miles.
The phrase is not bad one nor is it mis-
applied. The commission Is monster
trust 1t is trust, or rather a trustee,
for :, 500, 600 people in Texas, to care for
their welfare and protect them from greedi-
ness and eXaction against which they were
powerless. That's the kind of a trust the
railroad commission is Fort Worth Ga
Zette.
Mai. Looscau is in bad luck. Any man
is in bad luck who is held responsible for
the editorials of the Age. He was held re-
sponsible the other day by the Austin
Statesman for an editorial in the Age favor
ing special session OF the legislature, and
now, as will be seen by the above extract
he is held RESPONSIBLE by the Fort Worth
GAZETTE for an editorial opposing the rail
road commission. And yet the major op-
poses a special session of the legislature
and favors the railroad commission. The
commission is monstrous mistake It is
''paternalismn in its worst form. 1t is q
piece OF legislative confiscation. That is
the proper view of it. But Mai. Looscan
declines to view it that way. He advocated
a commission in the gubernatorial canvass,
and favors commission now. He has conf
dence in the Judgment and honesty of the
commissioners, and insists that their work
will advance the welfare of the people and
promote the prosperity of the state.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
Inflated NO. 9.
Nothing Else Thought of or Talked About.
Additional Names of the Dead
and Injured.

STATEsvILLE, y. C.,Aug. 2S.-The friends
and relatives of the dead and injured in last
night awful wreck are fockin@ here, and
nothing is thought of or talked about except
the Inflated No of yesterday morning
All gaze at the fearful wreck. and can only
wonder that u single life was saved. The
dead are being embalmed as fast as possible
and expressed TO their former homes, and
the injured are receiving warm-hearted
Southern hospitality.
Following IS list of the dead not given
last night:
Charles Webster, Pittsburg, Pa; Mrs.
Frank White Memphis, Tenn. Henry Wat
terson, colOred; an unknown man with
tickets from Reidyille to Corinth Miss,
and a statement containing the name Al
Brigham. The total dead now focts IN to
twenty-five and the number of il jured
about twenty-six
A. L. Link and bride of Lexington. just
married, are seriously hurt. Mrs r. c
Moore, Helena, Ark. j. f. Halter of Ga
taba county. B. NJ. Estes of Memphis and
f. l.. johnson and a negro boy are also hurt,
and their injuries are thought to be serious.
The coroner's investigation is now in
progress.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
Polytechnic College.

Bishop Key Of the Methodist church
South, and his co-worbers have not made
much noise about il but they have given
this city and the state tirSt-claSS
college building Known as the Poly
technic institute, which will De open on
September II. The first building, now
nearly done, is three-stcry stone and
brick structure located on an emineuce
about two miles east of the city, not far
from the line of the Texas and Pacific and
on the boulevard from the Union Depot ad
dition TO the cotton mill which Is beyond Il.
MessrS. Smith n Bdrdon have done tIIeir
work well and have erected modern
building in frst-clasS style. \ boys
boarding hall has also been built, and the
college will open with something like one
hundred boys on the rolls of the shCoo..
The building about completed is only one
OF severa. 10 be erected and IS not the main
building which Will probably be built BY
September, 1892. y street car line IS now
being built TO the college and will probably
be ready for operation some time i'll Sep.
TENDER y number Of lots have been sold
near the college 10 people VINO desire To
educate their sons here and several houses
are now being built. Polytechnic addition
promises TO become thriving suburb.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
AN AWFUL DEATH.
A Man Dragged to Death Before His Wife
and Children in His Attempt to Con-
troll a Frightened Team
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
WACO, Ten, Aug. 2S.-Piera Walling.
prominent farmer of Limestone county, was
moving to Erath county. and was making
the trip overland. He was riding in spring
wagon with his wife and children. Whils'
crossing this county his team besssfe
frightened and ran away. WalIhE at
tempted to control them, but could ut, and
10 save his wife and children from Injuries
he held to the reins. He was dragget-ove1l
the dashboard and for q considerable dS-
lance by the frightened animals. He was
killed, his head being beat into a Jelly by
striking against trees. The accident hap
pened several days ago. His family were
eye-witneSses to the horrible death of hus-
band and father. The news was Just received
in Waco to-day, on account of its happening
in rural neghborhood
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

stupidity or passion, and THE GAZETTE
is far from sympathizing with those
who. differing from it on this point,
vent their spleen by heaping abuse and
ridicule on the legislature. There were
too many good, too many able, men in
that body to warrant the assumption
that it would or could enact with cool
elaboration and malice aforethought,
law that would damage the state as
this Gossett act has done, and will do.
Want of study, Of reflection, OF con-
sideration, is wholly responsible for the
law, and there is but one way to cor
rect the mischief of it. and that is to
give the legislature another chance
a il
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29


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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
THIS is the Democratic demand

We demand that the constitutional pro-
vision that prohibits monopolies. contrary
to the genius of free government, be re-
spected and obeyed in all particulars, and
especially by an enactment of law that
will prohibit the further operation of land
corporations, and requiring those now hold
ing possession or title Of lands 20 dispose Of
the same within such reasonable time as
will not impair invested rights, and that
the policy of selling public lands to actual
settlers may be strictly enforced.
1t was left to Mr., Gossett to concoct
and the legislature to hurriedly pass
the law which the sub-treasuly party
now indorses. Democracy is opposed
to corporate ownership OF lands in large
bodies to the hindrance of homemak-
ing
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
ANSWER NOT j. FOOL ETC.

Inc Dallas News, Austin Statesman and
Fort Worth GAZETTE, in their fanatical
| fight against the alien land law, are doing
| Texas more harm than any one could i'm
| agine. for they are misrepresenting facts
| and placing our people as antagOnistic 10
! capital and immigration. Texans hold their
arms wide open TO receive capital and I'M
migration when it comes TO remain among
| US Us blessing and not as a curse. We
| want capital, we want immigration, but we
do not intend hereafter to allow the landed
| gentry of Europe to buy lands in Texas I'M
| less they come ana live on it. That is the
| whole of it Kaufman Sun.
1t is not easy to deal with such stuff
as this from Texas newspaper. Its
folly hardly deserves the dignity OF TAX
ing account Of its perversions.
So far as THE GAZETTE has eyerted
its influence in this matter. it has mis-
represented nothing. The alien land
law has been published in full in this
paper, that all may read it and know
what it is. That is not misrepresenta-
ton.
Space has not been denied in these
| columns to any defender of the law to
print what he had to say in its favor,
and its friends have not been backward
in availing themselves of this privilege.
Twice as much space has been used in
favor Of the law in the columns of THE
GAZETTE as has been given to it by the
sheet that charges this paper with
''fanaticism.n
We do not know of a newspaper in
Texas that has word to say against
the legitimate purpose of the alien land
law-the purpose OF excluding foreign
misunderstanding purpose of striking at
the accumulation of vast estates in the
hands OF non-citizens. This THE GA
zETrE cOmmends, and We believe the
feeling is unanimous for it.
The Gossett amendment to the law.
which prohibits a foreign land com
pany from taking land as security for
loans, is the evil and Objectionable fea-
ture Of the law. As has clearly been
proved by the evidence of the loan
companies, they do not want land in
Texas or elsewhere. They do not lend
money for the purpose of getting land.
All they want is interest and security
for the principal. If they are denied
the right to take real estate security
they must go out of business and close
down on the mortgages that they may
have made up to July -, as the law
gives them the legal right to do. The
effect is disastrous to Texas. 1t will
wreck half OF the most progressive men
of the state to be called upon to pay
SAC, 900, 900 Of borrowed money in two
or three years.
The GAZETTE asks only that the
Gossett amendment may be modified so
as to allow the debtors of Texas TO get
the benefit of cheap foreign money.
This can be done and the danger OF
alien landlordism guarded against, by
giving the lenders five or six years for
getting rid OF the land that they may
have to take for their loans Nobody,
no company, will go into the business
of acquiring land that can be kept for
only half a dozen years.
If this be fanaticism. make the most
of it.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

To THE Democrats OF Texas: Fall in.
There are foes without and foes within.
Be true to your principles and have the
courage of your convictions, despite the
faint-hearted and the faithless. De
mocracy is opposed alike to the cormo-
rant and to the commune. Rally round
the flag, boys, and be Democrats in pro-
fession and practice. Let not the cor
morant seduce nor the commune ter
rify. Democracy will live until the
republic dies.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
Notes of Progress.

-Four Fort Worth flour mills are now
grinding day and night, making excellent
flour They find market for al they are
making.
Farmers who bring their wheat to Fort
Worth are rejoicing At the good prices they
are getting. Millers paid % cents Il bushe.
yesterday. TalTant county wheat is very
fine this year.
Four residences are being built in differ
ent portions of North Fort Worth.
Work is well under way on Neil =. An
derson's eleveu-room residence GA East
Beiknap street.
Hyde Jennings elegant residence viii DC
completed by February 1t will be one Of
the finest houses in Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
LET THEM TRY, TRY AGAIN.

The GAZETTE believes. and has
done so from the beginning, that the
passage of the Gossett alien land law
took place under total misapprehen-
sion by the members Of both houses Of
the real character of the bill under
not consideration, for in the hurry of
the closing hours there was no time for
consideration, but under way. That is
virtually what Representative Baker Of
San Angelo says about it, and there is
no reason to doubt his statement, as he
was regarded as one of the most care
full and level-headed members of the
house. Had the bill come up earlier in
the session when members could have
studied it more carefully, he declares
that it would have been shorn OF its
harshness and be made to conform to
the real sentiment OF the members
whose purpose was the exclusion of
alien ownership in such manner as to
injure no one, neither the aliens nor
our own people. We have no doubt
that he is correct in that, as well as in
the other statement that. if called to-
gether in special session, the legis-
lature would amend the law by robbing
it OF the harsh and cruel features that
now disfgure it.
The law is not the result OF ignorance,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

Hon. REDFIELD PROCTOR. secre-
taly of the navy, will resign a cabinet
position to accept an appointment to
the senate from Vermont to ill out Ed
munds' unexpired term. This little
understanding between the president
and the governor OF Vermont will give
Benjamin a strong card in the appoint
ing of 4 secretary in place OF Proctor.
Ben is not throwing away any tricks,
nor trusting wholly to the Lord this
time for q nomination.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

EAST TEXAS papers are hopping
onto" The GAZETTE as "a sectional
paper 1t is not sectional for a minor
ity to control a majority; it is not sec
tional to grab all the offices: it is not
sectional to draw more money from
the state than is paid into the state
but it is sectional for newspaper to
call attention to all this and to ask for
Justice The GAZETTE is not sectional.
This paper contends that sectionalism
shall cease by justice to all sections.
THE GAZETTE cheerfully supports
East Texas candidates, but this paper
cannot support the selfshness that
would hold the western half of the state
in political bondage forever.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
THE census reports show that the

The census reports show that the
real estate mortgages of Kansas, indie
pendent of all other form of obligation
for debt. amounted during the past ten
years TO s4Sa, 700, 900, of which $235,-
000,0 still remain. The per capita
debt in such mortgages is $50. Sew
enty-one per cent of mortgages are on
farms, 2S per cent are subject to 10 per
cent interest, per cent to II per cent
interest. and some, they say, to 40 per
cent interest. The number OF mort
cages representing this debt is $40, 900.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
NO CONCERN OF OURS.

Outside of one or two New York
firms who sold them firearms, no one
in this country feels any concern in
the issue of the row in Chill between
the Balmacedists and the Insurgents.
Europeans are the interested parties.
They trade with the Chilians and have
large interests in that country. Uncle
Sam has none. He never wanted any.
The blessed home market was
enough for him until Signor Blaine
bethought him that it would be fine
idea to amuse the farmer with high
hopes of dumping his surplus wheat
corn and pork into South American
countries, which he ought to know
very well have no use for such arti-
Giles. At another time, during Gar
fields brief reign. lingo Jim turned his
attention towards South America.
when he tried to grab Peru's guano
beds. and got his fingers burned.
These are the only efforts attempted in
this country to establish trade rela-
tions of any sort with the South
American republics, and they have not
been such bowling successes as would
cause US to care a rap whether Balma-
ceda cleans out the Junta or the Junta
beheads Balmaceda. or each eXtermi-
mates the other. Between the tariff,
the sub-treasury fake and the alien
land law. we have troubles enough Of
our own 10 occupy our attention.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

Col. POLK, the president OF the Ma
tional Alliance, is talking Of challeng-
ing two newspaper men TO fight a
deadly duel with pistols.
Col McAllister, president of the
Mississippi Alliance, slugs DR.. Macune
of the national executive committee,
and defaces the manly beauty of the
doctor.
Instead of Equal Rights for All, :
the Alliance needs such a motto as
"Noli Me Tangere," the American
meaning of which is, Don't tread on
nv cOat-tail."
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

HEMemphis Commercial says that
Lecturer McAllister Of Mississippi was
heard to say. that he was utterly in
different as to what methods were in
voked by his rabid enemies to get him
out of the Alliance, as it was running
beyond the hope of redemption, and he
has no longera desire to hold relations
TO it: that it becomes more evident
every day that the destiny of the AL
Ii, 7~ae is the third party, and he, being
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

WHAT right has man protected by
the homestead law to say what another
man shall do with his land in excess OF
homestead protection? What right
has DR.. Macune and other sub-treasury-
ties who indorse the Gossett law to say
what free Texans shall do with their
own property? Has 1t come to this,
that Evan Jones and Harry Tracy
shall say what man with 80 acres
OF land shall do with the extra fifty
acres?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
FROST DAMAGE.
1t Doesn't Amount to Much in North Da,
kota and Minnesota

ST. Louis. Mo, Aug. 2S-Folowing is a
Northwestern points in reference % frost:
kilkenney, Minn.-No damage, except to
buckwheat
Alexandria, Minn.-Great damage to corn
and garden products.
Slayton, Minn.-No damage TO cereals.
New Eorkford, Miun.-Damage % per
cent.
Glendale. n. Drainage l to 5 per cent
on wheat. corn and fax
Hunnigs, Nina little damage TO late
sown wheat others harvested.
Cambridge, Minn.-No damage
Hector, Minn.-Reports everything in
good shane
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
no CnRKEsrONDENTs.

THE GAZETTE viii not undertake to return
rejected manuscripts. Persons wishing 10 pre-
serve their literary productions should retain
for publication.
s1f-An letters or communications for THE
GAZETTE. whether on business or Tor publica-
ton, should be addressed TO The GAZkTTE, or
Democrat Publishing Company, Fort Worth,
Tex, and not 10 any Individual
Al! communications intended FOR publication
must be accompanied by the writer's name and
ana aoGress-not for publication, but as an evil
ceuCe OF good faith No attention paid TO
ANONYMOUS communications.
Parties writing to THE GAZETTE on business
personal TO themselves wIl please ENCLOSE
sIaI. . for reply.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

The silver agitation is one of the
prime causes of hard times in this
country. Such is the explanation Of
fered by some OF the Eastern single
standard newspapers. Bradstreets
shows that the percentage of increase
Of failures is about the same in Canada
as in the United States. Our silver
legislation can't affect Canada. Some
other explanation is needed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

The Australian who has discovered
that nitrate OF strychnine is an antidote
for snake-bite is hereby warned to keep
away from Texas What fisherman.
think you, is going to start out with a
supply of nitrate eff strychnine to use in
caSe Of snake-bite?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

SENATOR LELAND STANFORD. who
is now such an ardent sympathizer with
the moneyless farmer, never during
his entire Legislative career cast a vote
against the plundering tariff, the sub
sides, or any of the prohigate and
-jobbing schemes of the Q. o. p.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

All. POSTNASTERS n The state are authorized
70 take suDscri ptious TO THE GAZETTE
LIBERAL COMMISSIONS ALLOWED-Write for
Germs and sample copies.
EEM.TTANCEs-By draft, check, postoricc
money order or registered letter can be sent AT
our risk. All other character o. cemittances
kt sender's risk
SILVER can be sent in registered letter.
All checks. money orders. etc. must be made
payable 10 TIE q AzETTE, Fort Worth, Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

NEGRO colonization Of the Oklahoma
lands is not Objectionable to the South.
They will be far enough away from US
to do 10 harm. and a negro colony that
will bud into negro territory and de-
velop into negro state would be an in
teresting experiment that the South is
not ayerse to seeing tried.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
IN VERMONT.
President Harrison Making Hay While the
sun Shines and Not Letting Any
Grass Grow While Raining

RUTLAND, VT, Aug. 2S.-When President
Harrison arose this morning a rain was
falling. At II Is a. IN. the presidents train
started from Proctor to Rutland, where he
was met by ex-Commander-in-C Chief Veazey
and committee OF Roberts post, G. A R.,
and the party proceeded to Memorial hall,
where the president addressed large as
semblage. The party was then driven
through the streets, and after luncheon the
train returned to Proctor where here vii
be demonstration tonight.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29

burial took place to-day at II 80. about two
and half miles southeast of Aledo, in this
county. at the family burying ground. The
community is greatly erieved at the sad
taking-off of deceased.
Judge Heath of Rockwell. Texas, candi-
date for governor on the Prohibition ticket
last year, spoke 10 fair audience at the
courthouse last night. He left this morn
ing for Whit. in this county, where the
Prohibitionist are to have grand rally, be-
ginning tomorrow.