davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
HARD MAN TO DEAL WITH.

The logical construction Of the mind
that produces arguments for the vicious
Goss EFT amendment to the alien law is
a wonder among wonders. 1t assumes
as an axiom all things that may be
turned to favor the law, and with a
placid. countenance OF satisfaction
pushes aside everything that is ad-
vanced to show the impolicy of the law.
The most strenuous contention is made
against the absorption OF large bodies
of land by aliens, without regard to the
fact that nobody has word to say
against that feature of the law. When,
after much pulling and hauling, an ad-
vocate of the Gossett amendment is
brought face to face with the real point
at issue, that the driving away of many
millions OF cheap money will bankrupt
thousands OF the best citizens of the
state and advance the rate of interest,
he takes up the argument by contend
ing that it is not good to borrow money
from foreign capitalists, because it will
have to be paid back, and that interest,
also, must be paid on it, which will
draw money from the state.
To say that the use of this money
puts the borrower in position to earn
more money than he could without it;
that he can afford to pay the interest
and the principal, too, as well to for
eign lenders as to New England lend
ers; that per cent is easier paid to an
English capitalist that IL per cent to
Massachusetts capitalist; all these have
no effect at all upon him. He has but
one answer to make: British landlord
ism! 1t avails little with him to con-
tend that British landlordism may be
averted and British capital be retained
by slight amendment to the law.
When that point is made he falls back
upon the proposition that people will
endanger their welfare by going in
debt if money can be had too easily and
too cheaply. So there is no doing any
thing with him. Like Dick Bakers cat,
Tom Quartz, he is ''sot," and nothing
will move him.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
YANKEE GALL.

The Boston and Maine railroad is a
political power in New Hampshire,
where Senator Billy Chandler enjoyed
for years its friendship and support.
1t kept Billy at the public crib in Wash
ington, and Billy's New Hampshire
friends saw to it that the railroad got
from the legislature OF the state what
ever it wanted.
But in the course of time the road,
contrary to Billy's expressed wishes,
lent its countenance and aid in the
election of DR., Gallinger as Billy's COL
league in the senate. The little fire.
eater grew wrathy and harbored only
thoughts of revenge. He formulated
and laid before the interstate CON-
merce commission complaint showing
that the road was constantly violating
the interstate law by issuing free
passes to all sorts of people, and espe-
cially to state officials and politicians
of high and low degree. It had done
the same thing for Billy and his polit-
zeal strikers for years, but that cut no
figure in his calculations. 1t wasn't
doing so now and that was how the
shoe pinched Billy. He figured out
ten classes of people, which appear to
include almost the entire population,
that travelled on tree passes.
The commission called upon the
road for reply to the charge made by
United States senator. 1t came, and
it is daisy. YES" it answered, 1--WE
issue lots OF passes, but we do not dis
obey the law. We make no discrimi-
nations. We simply pay some people
for what they do for us and others for
leaving US alone by issuing passes.
We could pay them money but passes
are cheaper. This We take to be full
and complete answer to all the things
inquired of US by the commission, and
the Boston and Maine railroad asks
that it be discharged from any further
answer or duty in the premises"
Why. to be sure! How could the COM
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

IF the object of the Gossett alien
land law was not to exclude money
from Texas, why do so many advocates
OF the law contend that it is injurious
to borrow money and inveigh against
Speculation" Whose business is it,
pray. if man desires to borrow money?
These gentlemen that aspire to control
the affairs of other people should first
demonstrate an ability to manage their
own affairs. The GAZETTE has not
yet noted that any man famous for sue
cess, financially, has lent his indorse-
ment to law that is defended because
it prevents men from managing their
own affairs in their own way. What
have Macune and Tracy and Lamb
and other third partyites accomplished
that they should presume to indorse
legislation that assumes control of
other peoples business? Democrats
who can not distinguish between alien
land-holding and money-lending should
be ashamed ofthemselves. Democracy
is not paternalism.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

WHAT Another kindergarten pu-
pill? Well, come into the class, and
The GAZETTE will do the best it can
for you. And the first question that
this weanling, the Childress Star, asks
is so simple:
To the esteemed GAZETTE: How do you
expect to amend the alien land law in such
a manner as to permit the lending of money
on land and yet prevent the requirement Of
landl Your proposition is purile.
THE GAZETTE would amend the law
to make it as it is in other states that
have legislated against alien land-hold
ing, by allowing alien mortgages to
foreclose their mortgages, but requir-
ing them to sell the lands so acquired
in five or six years. 1t is not the &C
quiring of real estate, but the holding
of it with the intent to build up large
estates in perpetuity, that the people of
Texas fear There is no danger of any
loan company trying to get possession
of land that must be sold in six years
or be forfeited. Under such conditions
loan companies can afford to lend
money on real estate security, because
they can, where compelled to foreclose,
make their money out of the land in
six years or less time, and they will get
rid OF it as soon as they can.
Now run along with the Austin
News and play, but don't get your face
dirty or soil your pantalettes.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
to destroy each others arguments.

WE emphatically tell The GAZETTE and
other frantic journals on the alien law that
we want to get rid of the last vesrige of
foreign influence in Texas. We can borrow
as much money as we want in Wall street
just as cheap as the foreign loan agents Will
furnish il. Texas herself is no pauper and
needn't be dependent on any outsider. We
lived without the foreign loan agents once
and can do so again. Austin News.
We are delighted to know that ''we
can borrow as much money as we want
in Wall street." Gentlemen who have
been trying to borrow money in Wall
street to open Llano mines, to build
Northwest Texas railroads, to erect fac
tories in Fort Worth and to otherwise
develop Texas, come back with a differ
ent report, and even fail to sell munich
pal bonds. Perhaps the News has a
cinch on Wall street and is, therefore,
willing to keep Texas in bondage to the
centralized money supply that is con-
trolling the finances of the republic to
its own fattening and the depletion OF
the South and West.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

TIE Democratic party IS practically no
more democratic in administration of law
tran is the Republican party; both are in
the clutches of and legislate in the interest
6f centralized money power, and both
ipiike, fight every effort of the people for
Justice and right Linden Standard.
The Democratic party has been in
control OF Texas for seventeen years,
aud, despite the size OF the state and its
variant interests. no state in the Union
can boast better government. Taxes
are low, defaulters among public SER
wants are unknown, and the people
would be altogether happy and content
but for political cranks and corn-shuck
sfinaaciers. How would it be in. Texas
if the state had been managed since
1874 as the Farmers Alliance exchange
was managed?-an yet the Standard
would substitute Macune for Ross, and
Coke, and Hogg, and Roberts.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

buying at a lower price. In case there
should be general rise after deposit, the
chances would be that the farmers most in
need of protiting by 1t would not be in po-
sition to do so, for the poorer ones would
have parted with their notes as soon as re-
ceived, in payment of their debts, and
would have also sold their deposit certify
Gates at the first opportunity. Whatever,
rise there might be, therefore, would go to
the advantage Of the spectators in certif-
Gates. -
As for the deprecated value OF the notes
issued in such volume, there can be 10
doubt upon that point 1t would be fat
money of more worthless kind than any
which has hitherto been issued. 1t would
be more worthless than the land-bank
money of Rhode Island, because that was
based upon the land of the state. II would
be more worthless than that of john Laws
bank in France, for that was based upon
all the property of France. 1t would be
more worthless than that of the Argentine
Republic, for that was based upon all the
landed property of the nation. In all these
instances the fiat money was declared to be
legal tender, and to be payable for public
and private debts. In all of them it was
issued for a term of years. But this ware
house-deposit money is based upon nothing
except the arbitrary judgments of an ire
sponsible body OF political appointees as to
the value of products year hence, and is
TO be destroyed al the end of year. No
body would ever consent to take it at its
face value in payment of debt or in pay
ment for goods, and it would be confined,
as the Rhode Island paper money was, al
most entirely to transactions among its
original holders. It would enormously in
fate prices in the communities in
which it circulated, and thus make
dearer everything that the farmer had
to buy. But it would never be received else
where except at a discount, and conse-
quently would have no effect in raising the
price of the products of the farmer, which
have to be sold in the markets of the world.
Then, too. each period of enormous infla-
ton would be followed by period of sud-
den and almost paralying contraction, for
at the end of each year all the notes and
certificates must be destroyed.
We have said nothing about the uncon-
stitutlonal aspect of the proposition for the
government to go into the business of loan
ing money and specializing in crops-a form
of paternalism the most extreme ever pro-
posed in this country. One of the advo-
Gates of the measure. when asked at hear
ing before congressional committee why
its authors had not included wool
hops, rice and cheese with the other pro-
duee specified for deposit, made answer
that those staples were protected by high
tariff, 10 per cent on wool alone, and were
not entitled to further aid from the gov
eminent. Whatever virtues may reside in
the protective system, il is unfortunately
true that to the arguments advanced in de-
Tense of a high tariff we owe the impress
sion, so strong among many portions Of the
population, that it is the duty of LIE gov
ernment to render assistance to al indus
tries and occupations whose members are
in distress.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

IT NOW seems that there viii be no lack
of capital to take the place of that driven
out of Texas by the alien land law. Last
week two companies representing S90,OO0-
600 applied TO the department of state for
permit to operate in TeXas-the Continental
savings loan and building company of Min
nesota, and the Fidelity building and loan
association of Colorado.
The above item is taken from the
Southern Mercury, which paper credits
the item to the Nacogdoches Chronicle.
In the above paragraph the admission
is clearly made that the Gossett law
does drive money out OF Texas, and the
people are deceived by the statement
that two American companies will bring
ninety millions of dollars into the state
to take the place of the money driven
out by the Gossett law.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

THE Democratic party has opposed
alien ownership OF land, but has never
declared against the policy of borrow
ing alien money. Indeed Democracy
teaches the doctrine OF buying in the
cheapest markets and selling in the
deares, Why not apply the same rule
to money? Why not loan in the dear
est markets and borrow in the cheap
est?-T Congressman Grain.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

THE GAZETTE will not undertake 10 return
rejected manuscripts. Persons wishing 10 pre-
serve their literary productions should retain
copies Of all communications sent this office
for publication.
s1ecAn letters or communications for TEE
GAZETTE, whether on business or for pubhca-
zion, should be addressed 10 TIE GAZETTE or
Democrat Publishing Company, Fort Worth,
Tex, and not 70 any Individual.
All communications intended sor publication
must be accompanied by the writer's name and
nd 9ddress-not for publication, bat as an evil
deuce OF good faith. No attention PAID to
LuonynOus communications.
Parties writing to TIE q AZETTE on business
personal TO themselves Will please encloSI
Etamp for reply
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
HOW THE CASE STANDS.

OF the many rem edies for the relief
of the oppressed farmer there is no end.
They are of all kinds, and range from
the drastic purgative of McKinleyism
to the lenitive electuary of John W.
Bookwalter. This gentleman, who made
a fortune out of turbine wheels, pub
fishes an article in the Forum for this
MONTH in which he laments the hard
condition OF the farming population
throughout the country, but being a
good Republican and therefore blind to
the faults OF his party, is wholly unable
to account for the agricultural misery
which he deplores so deeply, and signs
over SO pityingly. He quotes some
figures that prove, if they prove any
thing, that the cause or causes OF our
agricultural woe, are mainly, if not en-
tirely, political in their nature. Bad
politics are at the bottom of it all. But
while the causes of the trouble are
political, he proposes remedy that is
purely social and philanthropic. But
let that pass for another time.
His figures show that the total esti-
mated gain in wealth for the whole
country during the past twenty years,
or from 1870 to 1890, is twenty-five bill
ion dollars. OF that gain, only two and
half billions, or one-tenth is repre-
sented by agricultural values.
From 1870 to 1880 the increase in ag-
ricultural values was in round numbers
s980,00o,00O From 1850 to 1860 the in
crease in those same values was more
than four times as great, or tribe
over $4,000 100000. During that de-
cade agricultural values rose from So
967, S43, $50 in 1850, to $3.50, 493, O63 in
1860. In 1870 the value of agricultural
property OF all kinds was sl1, l23, 944.
$50, and in 1880 2,1O4, l0S.141. Here
was an increase OF less than
billion although population
had nearly doubled. The increase
in farm values for the decade
1850 to 1860, which was in round. num-
bers four billions, was equal to the in
crease for the two decades from 1870 to
1890, which was a fraction over four
billions.
What do these figures mean? What
sort OF story do they tell ? Do they
not substantiate the allegations OF Dem
ocratic statesmen when they say that
the policy of the Republican party that
has controlled the government since
1S90-excepting for four years, and
then had the senate-has operated to
the ruin Of the agricultural classes, and
the impoverishment of the masses ?
Can any sane man feel doubt OF it
There has been extraordinary
gain in the total wealth of the
country-twenty-fv billions-but of
that the farmers got only one
tenth. Where have the other
nine-tenths gone? Suppose that sort
of thing is allowed to go on, in what is
it going to end? What is to be the
fate OF that class that receives of the
whole gain in national wealth only 10
per cent, while 80 per cent goes into
the Golfers of the protected and subsi-
died classes?
The Democratic party says detroy
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
DAVID A. WELLS says that the

DAVID A. WELLS says that the
American people wear more shoddy
and less wool than any other people in
the world, and proves it by statistics
and the extraordinary increase in late
years of the importation Of shoddy
from Europe. Hurrah for the wool
tariff. Our clothing, made up as it is
largely of the pauper rags of Europe,
may not be all wool and yard wide,
but the price we pay for it is, and that
saves it from being "cheap and nasty"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

ALL the Kansas statesmen who
come to Texas to teach Texas the truth
as it is found in cant, consider it incum-
bent upon them TO belabor THE GA
zETTE. Kansas stole Southern property
during the war and before the war;
Kansas legislated against The South for
aquarter of acentury after the war; Kan
ssas is the hot-bed Of violence and of
fraud and crankiness in politics. The
abuse of people from such a state is
Sreferable to their praise-their poll
tbs is hate, their religion is cant, their
paSiotism is an investment and their
law selfishness. From the Jayhawk
ers AID their politics and their religion,
good lord, deliver Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

Tho only travenng persons. male or female.
81 present authorized 10 receive and receipt for
subscri ptious TO THE q AZETTE are:
[. T. Hogan, John 2. MEDIUM,
}. Il. BIrbee {. l.. Bcwley,
v L. Marchmau. Mrs. Minoua Ross
Mrs q b Baugh W. T. koyster,
l. Calhoun, O, W. Ellington,
Miss Annie Shapdrd, Mrs. NJ. J. Roberts
A IA Boil Geo. A Paine.
The pubic are cautioned not to pay money
90 any other persons representing them
&c. yes as travelling agents OF this paper, as all
authority heretofore issued to any other person
Than those named is hereby revoked
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
June !. 1871.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

~ one was to believe what the Fort
Worth GAZETTE has to say about the Farm
ers' Alliance they would come to the con-
clusion that it was composed of such people
who cared but little about this government
and who knew good deal less about it. and
were led and lectured by the very imp him
self Bat no matter what The GAzETTE
says about the Alliance, its members ana
its leaders are here to stay. And THE GA
zETrE. where will il be- We predict it will
be preaching for the Alliance and its leaders
before the battle for the just and right is
over And no one by its editorials then
will ever dream that at one time it stood in
with the enemv.-fGraudview Sentinel
Please tell US what Alliance you al
ludeto THE Alliance that adhered to
its professions of n-partisanship had
only praise from The GAZETTE. The
Alliance or any other political party
that opposes Democracy can expect no
commendation from any Democrat.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

The travel and immigration into
Northwest Texas demonstrates the
benefit OF advertising. Those sections
of Texas have been well advertised,
and those sections Will receive 10 per
cent of the heavy immigration that
Will seek Texas this fall and winter.
The tide has turned Texasward, and
legislation should not o0struct it.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
BRANCH OTFICEs-


c. W. WILSON. Correspondent ana business
Agent Office 23l Elm street. where orders
Tor subscriptions and advertising should be
!sit- THE GAZETTE can be found sale At all
news stands in the civ
WACO
A. RAGLAND, Agent. Il5 South Fourth street
NEATHEHFOkD
f B. DORSEY, Agent and Correspondent
ABILENE.
z F. RADFoRD, Agent and Correspondent.
ONCE. Postof1ce building % Chestnut street,
FIRST floor, where all orders for subscriptions
and advertising should be left
CLEBUESE.
". q. BYRD, Agent and Correspondent
AUSTIN.
NJ. G. PoNDEETER, agent, lo2 West Sixth
street
This papeg skept on file and ADVERTTSING
RATES nay be ascertaLcd at the ONCE OF the
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION, Temple Court, New York. or
from its
EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE,
Is Tribune Building. New York
WESTERN BUSINESS OFFICE,
bcs The Rookery," Chicago, IL
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

COKE, Culberson, Chiffon, Abbott,
Lanham. Grain and other Democrats
are in the field. Experimenting this
effort Of Democratic leaders, Democrats
all over Texas should organize clubs
and preach true Democracy. There
are enemies without and within.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

the party and the policy that is impover-
ishing the masses, and return to the
honest methods that before the war
gave the farmer an equal chance with
all others. The sub-treasuryite says
flood the country with fat money, as
though that would not go where every
thing else is going-into the pockets OF
the plutocrats and other pets of pater-
naliSm
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

unwind him. Our domestic corpora
tons, ne says, get money in Europe at
per cent and reloan it in Texas at 10
per cent And again we are told that
the 100000 of foreign money loaned
in this state is draining US OF $1,000, 600
a year that goes to Europe for interest
payments. Both OF these statements
can't be true. If the borrowers OF this
English money get it at per cent. the
drain of money to Europe is only
100000 instead of 5000, 600. The
rest of the interest, 100000, goes to
the American loan companies, who re-
let this money, and it is kept in-New
England. The Gossett law champions
should hold convention and agree not
to destroy each others arguments.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
NOTICE.

AL PosTMASTERs in the state are authorized
70 tahe subscriptions to TIE GAZETTE.
LIBCRAL. COMMISSIONS ALLOWED-Wrtte Tor
sernls and sample copies.
REMTTIASCES-By draft, check, postohcc
money order Or registered letter can be sent at
cur risk. All Other character Ct remittances
al Sender's risk.
Silver can be sent IN registered letter.
All checks, money orders. etc. must be made
payable 10 TIE GAZETTE, Fort Worth. Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

THE old method, when drouth was
threatened, was to pray for rain. Now
all you have to do is to go down into
your wallet and buy all the rain you
want of the nearest rain maker at SO
much per inch or shower.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
POSTAGE.

Entered at the Postofice IN Fort Worth. Tex,
as Second-Class Matter.
For the beLeft OF our patrons who desire 70
send single copies Of THE GAZETTE through
The mail We give herewith the transient rate CT
postage;
Foreign and Domestic Per Copy.
Eight aud twelve page paper. j cent
sixteen and twenty page paper..........2 cents