Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21

and North Carolina they are elected by the
legislature. Now, It is . singular fact. that
in Illinois and Georgia, where the governor
appoints, the relief 10 the people has been
most complete, and the regulation Of the
roads b their commissioners, works such
4 relief TO the producers OF those states,
that ell men, of al parties unite in sustain
ing then. In the Few states where the
commissioners are elected by the people,
railway regulation is almost q failure, for
capital, combining through its emIssaries,
TOO often dominates the commission ard
controls its work. Over thirty states now
seek protection for their people through
state commissions, aud just when al the
rest are wheeling into line, Texas is invited
81 the beck OF an agent of the roads to take
backward step by suDjecting them TO
party nominations.
STRANGE BED-FELLows.
Politics, like misery, makes strange bed
fellows, but never did it make any more
strange than when George Clark. the rail-
way representative, and Harry Tracy, the
farmers delegate fell into each others en-
brace, with mutual admiration over the
idea of an elective commission. Were
pledges thus given for marriage of Mr..
dess of Agriculture! Let them
beware2 She is pure maidenl
She is now planting for the bread that
must feed you all, but when she quits her
spring labor and wipes the sweat from her
brow, you will hear . different tune from
that sung at Fort Worth, when real estate
boomers, railway presidents and town lot
spectators walked humbly and on foot be-
hind this prophet Of reform.
WHY THIS NEWBORN ZEALl
Why this new born zeal for IN elective
commission Why delay tie broad asser-
ton that liberty was being destroyed in
Texas, by the appointment of that COM
mission. until now, when the peoples rep
rSSentatlveS are here on public duty and
the governor confined during their session
to his ofices OF all men in Texas who
should advocate an appointing Office,
George Clark should be the firstl For he
never held any other sort of position. He
was appointed by Coke secretary of state,
and was afterwards appointed attorney
general; still later he was appointed
judge OF the court OF appeals, and again
later on, he was appointed attorney for
all the railways in Texas except two, for
thai is the way he signed his name to Ma
jor Tom Brown while posing in the lobby
before this legislature, and, so far as any
body knows, ne is at this moment faith
fully following the instructions of his
clients, as he crows while abusing your
legislature like barn yard bantam in the
opera houses of our cities to the applause
of admiring spectators This legislature
is quite as likely to watch the liberties of
the people, which he charges US with de-
stroying, as the attorney for all the rail-
ways in Texas except two"
If a convention is in its wisdom, of i'm
maculate conception, Judge Clark of all
men should have learned to shun its judg-
ments, for the only time he ever invited a
Texas Democratic convention to pass on
his official fitness, they rebuked and re-
pudiated him, after trying him as an ap-
pointed judge, when he sought a nominal
ton for the same Office.
AN ADVISORY COMMISSION.
No one is boldeenough to urge the de-
struction of the commission, with 100000
majority to sustain it. The battle opens
on its flank in the effort to restrict the
scope of its powers. One of our daily
papers gives voice to the old theory of rail
way owners that a commission should be
merely advisory" to the roads. The bleat
of an exhausted jack rabbit under the
VOLTS paw would be Just as pers uasive of
mercy as would the mere advise of a com
mission to railway, and you all know it.
Talk to me about the injury caused by our
laws! Let it once 90 forth that a man was
defeated for governor here in Texas be-
cause he urged the
PUNISHMENT OF THE MURDERER,
closed saloons on the Sabbath, made Of
fcers raid the gambling dens, and dared to
oppose the unbridled ways of corporations
in their dealings with commerce and agri-
culture, and the clock of Texas progress
would be set back twenty years.
TO WHAT RESERVE FORCE
,an the Democracy look to protect her ark
N this hour of its peril? The batteries
If many newspapers are opened to render |
odious our laws. The moneyed power and
speculative classes are willing to sell the |
sovereignty and dominion of this favored |
and for~alien gold-cities are angry at the |
hand that would check their |
march to bankruptcy-Utopian remedies |
hat breed discord divide the ranks of labor |
while the champion Of all this devilment is |
firing himself as disciple of Thomas JEFF |
erson. Thus capital strikes hands with |
'upidity and vice as its stepping stones to
)ower, while the saloon men viii be invited |
o echo their champions cry of ''paternal- |
SIN, - which was once so potent in protect
ng them. Opera house meetings, demon
trations in cities and votes of commercial
nen on railway trains, are heralded to the
world But who has heard from the great
rmy of wealth producers, who are nov d.
ided on economic problems OF national re-
orm, but who love Texas and whose toll |
ustains here They are standing at an or |
er arms. and no mans voice can keep them
rom taking charge of your county conven-
ions when the time for action comes. The
reat agricultural masses of Texas are not
eceived. They are the
TRUE DISCIPLES OF THOMAS JEFFERSON,
nd no jackdaw of the c operations can
trut with Jehersonian plumes without
leir detection. Listen to the words Of
efferson written in the darkest days of the
rSt revolution. He said: 'EThose who |
dor in the earth are the chosen people of
cd, if ever he had a chosen people, whose
reasts he has made the peculiar deposit
n substantial and genuine virtue It is
lie focus in which he keeps alive that sa- |
ed fire which otherwise might escape | '
ON the face of the earth Corruption in
orals in the mass of cultivators is a phe-
of which no age or nation has fur
shed an example. 1t is the mark set on
lose who mot looking up to heaven-to |
elr own soil and industry, as does the
lsbandman for his subsistence) depend J.!
r 1t on the casualties and caprice of Gus
mers. Dependence begets subservience
I'd venality, sUIocates the germs of virtue.
I'd prepares 1T tools for the designs of am
ton. The mobs of great cities
ID just as much to the support of pure gov
nment as do sores to the strength of the
imam body" This, in the judgment of ,
me, Is demagoguery-so mote it be; it
as Jenerson's demagoguery-it is mine
II ever Texas needed that her sons,
neither in the country or her villages, :
ould keep close together in the defense of
Dor against the power of corporate cash,
IS now Eoney concentrated in the hands
tremendous and invisible powers has
en- at last fooled in its lobby work by your !
personalities aud now assails every ave
e OF Intelligence it can corrupt. AS its
u resource, 1t IS now seeking to confuse | l
d deceive the people. Its first assault is
on our cities now embarrassed with suac- |