Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
REWARD OFFERED
FOR RETURN OF PROSPERITY,
LIBERTIES, MANHOOD
And Integrity of the People of Texas-Po-
litical Crime Perpetrated by the
Twenty Legislature.

IoLOIeIl-in INe Guy OIL AUSTIN, on TIE loll
day of April, 1891, between the legislative
halls and the governors mansion, the pros
perity, liberties, manhood and integrity OF
the people of Texas. 1t is known that the
above property was taken by Il well-organ-
lied band of robbers, under the leadership
OF celebrated freebooter, but rs reasons
OF policy prevent prosecution of the Offend
erS liberal reward will be paid and no
questions asked, by the undersigned.
THE PRESS OF TEXAS.
The above announcement accurately
states the facts of the great political crime
perpetrated by the TweRty-second legisla-
ture, in passing, and by the governor, in
approving, the present alien land law; and
also shows exactly the attitude of the state
press of Texas, which should be the con
servator of the peoples liberty, and the po-
lice whose duty it is to arrest and prosecute
the offenders.
Every one knows and realizes that the
burglars are in the house, but all the people
of Texas lie trembling and shiVering under
the party bed-clOtheS, hiding under the
crazy-quilt of Democracy, and the press of
Texas Is discussing the expectancy Of ask
ing the robbers TO return the stolen prop
erty, and is loudly notifying the outlaws
that by so doing they will be allowed to 70
free and unwhipped of justice.
No one has yet been found manly enough
to take the robbers BY the throat and de
clare their crime These political robbers,
therefore, are appearinS openly. and some
of them are boldly defending their nefarious
conduct, while the usurer and mOney-shark
is already counting over his per cent per
month gains, and the bats and vampires are
loudly advertising the ruin of our people
and posting notices OF the great bankrupt
sale to citizens of other states, and glory
ing in the hope that from the spois they
can furnish cheap homes to immigrants:
nrnCi1Pf ALWAYS that they hA allowed
their commission as ''auctioneers.'
Oh! but say the great Democratic ma
jOrity, how can we escape, These men
were elected by US and we cannot 90 back
on the party.
Be not deceived, my fellow citizens;
these men betrayed you Under the mask
of Democracy they serve your enemies.
The crime consists in our chosen lawgivers
proving traitors to Democratic principles
in their enacting a measure of protection
ten thousand times more OdiOuS and OBJ
pressive than the protective tariff advo-
Gated by the Republican party. The crime
consists in robbing you of your vote when
you thought you were voting for Democ-
racy and against anarchy, communism, the
sub-treasury and the third party. You
voted for the wolves, deceived by their
Sleeps clothing
A Democratic legislature and Democratic
governor should legislate tor the good of
the citizens of the republic, for the good of
the people as a people, and not for the
usurer and the immigrant. What right
have they to rob the people of Texas for the
benefit of the disconnected of this and other
states. Is 1t the man who now owns Texas
real estate or the stranger who is hunting
cheap property who will be benefited by
this law What consolation is offered you
except that the stranger who buys your
property will get bargain! What IS the
tan hsn nt Ina
il not speak out in thunder tones, and de-
mand redress? Where is the manhood the
integrity, the love of liberty of the people
of Texas The papers of the state are
feebly asking for modification of the alien
land law. instead of demanding its repeal.
They seem willing TO serve notice upon
non-residents that they approve of the
spirit that auimates the law, and are willing
to heap insult and injury upon capital from
other states and upon friendly aliens, if
only loophole is left by which we can Dor
row their money. For shame. Has the
bark of the politicians so intimidated the
press of Texas as to make it forget that the
nature of the politician and oftice-seeker is
that Of the dog, which will stand and bark
at the passer-by and snap at his heels, but
the same cur will lick the hand that smiteS
it, As sooncaS the political robbers find
that the people will arise and Smite them.
and put others in the places that they now
usurp, they will come, like whipped ours,
crouching and fawning at the feet of their
masters.
The alien land law was not intended for
the good of the people, but is simply bid
for Office and political power, addressed by
mistaken politicians 10 the prejudices of
the ignorant and the disconnected. 1t is
the price which the pander offers for the
seduction of our political liberties. Ii is
the undertow of the wave upon which Gov
ernor Hogg rode into Office. But liberty is
not dead it is only sleeping. The people
are not ignorant nor vicious, nor discon-
tented, the tempters are mistaken The
which the alien law is offered as an accept
able sacrifice is only a ghost, walking in
the habiliments of the grave. The sunlight
of manhood and liberty will drive it from
the face of the earth.
In the meantime the arrow is ranking
and fostering in the wound, the iron is eat
ing into the flesh and hearts of the people
and the day of vengeance will surely come
Arisel fellow citizens of Texas from your
slumbers, shake of the sleep of the deadly
narcotic administered by these robbers,
strike down those who would Cypress YOU.
and trample upon the destroyers of your
peace. Not one of you but is the peer and
equal of your oppreSSors, and tens OF thou
sands among you are the Supporters of the
men who voted for and the man who ap-
proved this iniquitous law They were
chosen TO serve you and not TO be your mas
tiers. ID. ). Ross.