Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24

general; still later hs was appointed a
judge of the court of az eals, and again
later on, he was appoiies "a attorney for
all the railways in TexasA Except two, for
that is the way he signetH MS name to Ma
lor Tom Brown while pc B ng in the lobby
before this legislature, apg !, so far as any
body knows, he is at thu moment faith
fully following the insf auctions of his
clients, as he crows wis e abusing your
legislature like barn ya I bantam in the
opera houses Of our cities to the applause
of admiring SPECTATORS This legislature
is quite as likely 20 watc the liberties of
the people, which he chaTfa res US with de-
stroying. as the attorney 1 for all the rail-
ways in Texas except two %
If convention is in its wisdom, Of i'm
maculate conception, Judge Clark of all
men should have learned ITO shun its iudg-
ments, for the only time he ever invited a
Texas Democratic conven ton to pass on
his official fitness, they sebuked, and re-
pudiated him, after tryip g him as an ap-
pointed judge, when he sought a nominal
ton for the same offi1 &c.
AN ADvIsoPiGY COMMISSION.
NO one IS bold epabugh to urge the de-
struction Of the 'Jtommission, with 100000
majority TO susF tain it The battle opens
IN its faux i'll the effort to restrict the
'cso -5pe 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 COM
mission to a railway, and you all know it.
Talk to me about the injury caused by our
laws! Let it once go forth that man was
defeated for governor here In Texas be-
cause he urged the
PUNISHMENT OF TEE 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
can the Democracy look to protect her ark
in this hour Of its peril2 The batteries
of 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
land for alien goid-citleS are angry at the
restraining hand that would check their
march to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. remedies
that breed discord divide the ranks of labor
while the champion of all this devilment is
airing himself as disciple of Thomas JEFF
ferson. Thus capital strikes hands with
cupidity and vice as its stepping stones to
power Wulle Tue StlOO0 men Will DC invited
to echo their champions cry of ''paternal-
ism" which was once so potent in protect
ing them. Opera house meetings, demon
strations in cities and votes of commercial
men on railway trains, are heralded to the
world. But who has heard from the great
army Of wealth-producers, who are nov di-
vided on economic problems of national re-
form, but who love Texas and whose toll
sustains here They are standing at an or
der arms, and no mans voice can keep them
from taking charge of your county conven-
lions when the time for action comes. The
great agricultural masses of Texas are not
deceived They are the
TRUE DISCIPLES OF THOMAS JEFFERSON,
and no jackdaw of the corporations can
strut with JefIersonian plumes without
their detection. Listen to the words of
Jefferson, written in the darkest days of the
first revolution. He said: ''ThoSs who
labor in the earth are the chosen people of
God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose
breasts he has made the peculiar deposit
for substantial and genuine virtue 1t is
the focus in which he keeps alive that sa-
cred fire which otherwise might escape
from the face of the earth. Corruption in
morals in the mass of cultivators is a phe-
nomenon of which no age or nation has fur
nished an example. 1t is the mark set on
those who mot looking up to heaven-to
their own soil and industry, as does the
husbandman for his subsistence) depend
for it on the casualties and caprice of Gus
toners. Dependence begets subServience
and venality, sufocates the germs of virtue
and prepares st tools for the designs of am
bition. The mobs of great cities
add just as much to the support of pure gov
eminent as do sores to the strength of the
human body" This, in the judgment of
some, is demagoguery-so mote it be; it
was Jefferson'S demagoguery-it is mine.
If ever Texas needed that her sons,
whether in the country or her villages,
should keep close together in the defense of
labor against the power of corporate cash,
it is now lIoney concentrated in the hands
of tremendous and invisible powers has
been at last foiled in its lobby work by your
representatives and now assails every ave-
nue. of intelligence it can corrupt. As its
last resource, it is now seeking to confuse
and deceive the people. Its first assault is
upon our cities now embarrassed with spec
ulations, and from them 1t will soon pour
forth its crop of advocates. Your disSen-
sions about remedies for scarce money is
now our great danger, for it is the oppor-
tunity of our common adversary. In sad
ness of heart, have seen your discord and
asked myself whether labor must see all
its rights perish at the hands of its own
children. I have no angry word for any
class of those who toll and who now quar-
rel about remedies, but ask you in the
name of Texas to pool every minor issue,
and when the time comes, send your best
men who revere the the doctrines of
Democracy to your county conventions to
stand for the right. Reinforce in your
cities the great army of wealth producers
there who are in sympathy with you, and
keep this state as the patriots created it
a state of men, not of corporate powers.
Turn not Texas loose to the cormorants
who, after obtaining her lands, desire to
frame her laws Turn her not adrift to |
wallow in the trough of engulfing waves,
but keep her head to the storm, with a |
strong hand at her helm, and she will safely |
ride through sunshine and through storm, |
freighted with the hopes ai.a aspirations of |
her toiling millions.