Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-16

,"ment The paper aatters and caioles the
radical Republican leaders, has Mnuy
word for each and all OF them win an
equally kind aud cordial feeling for Nugent
aud bis Third party allies. rms T. supple
neutod In THr GIzErrH Of the l2th .by a
lending editorial evidently faeOr.ng the re-
organization Of the knownothing party
This Is strange order OF Journalism
Marshall Star.
The above is reproduced because It
furnishes q text for a short sermon,
suggested by existing political condi-
lions in Texas
II we were seeking for an illustration
Of the political evil from which Texas
suffers more than from all others, we
should unhesitatingly point to this ut
torance for 1t.
The trouble with Texas politics
comes from pretentious and violently
preiudiccd ignorance, which conceives
the free speech and free thought Of the
constitution to be limited TO itself,
which acknowledges no honesty and
pa triotism OF purpose beyond itself,
and believes the safety OF the government
to be dependent on its own domination.
This spirit Of intolerance is not fault
to be corrected by reproof 1t is u dis
ease; disease OF the brain. The
comfort Is that, unlike other brain dis
cases, there is some hope for its cure.
Successive disasters ia politics have
often been known to materially improve
and sometimes 10 entirely relieve the
afflicted.
A prominent symptom Of this disease
Is sycophancy to party onlciaiism. 1t
worships everything with tail to it OF
party ribbon, from the chief function
airy Of the machinery to the secretary
Of a ward meeting. 1t esteems gryl-
cious privilege the opportunity to kiss
the hem Of the garment OF the holder
Of a third rate office, and it ia in d very
heaven OF delight il invited within the
sanctuary where Power takes its morn
ing bath.
This is tho curse Of politics in Texas
everywhere. Men forget that they
have brains furnished with all the
equipments necessary to do their own
thinking, and they follow around, like
so many whipped spaniels, other men
who have no more brains, but infinite
ly more assurance.
The time is coming whom these deml-
gods Of common clay will cease to be,
and each man, in the quiet Of bis own
household, viii determine from year to
year, from day TO day, what course to
him seemeth best, and will steadfastly
follow 10.
In the editorial referred to THE GA
2ErrE protested against the introduce
ton into this country of the paupers
and criminal CLASSES Of Europe, to dis
ease the body polite and todestroy the
independence OF our working classes.
Intelligence has taken alarm aud, with |
ont regard to party is clamormg for pro
lection against this dangerous infection,
as loudly as Ii clumurs for protection |
against the loss dangerous disease Of
'h't'iN 49, Nub il4' NNthp uOAu statesmen |
on both sides, whose success is the first
fruit Of electoral deterioration, attempt |
to drown the cry OF danger with APP
poals to the projudices Of tho mthought-
ed
THE GAZETTE has devoted the most
Of its political efforts to the destruction
OF the political Inquisiiion, because it |
believes that wherever Thought is free
and untrImolled, with Conscience for
Its appellate court, principles can be
trusted to take care Of themselves.
II pleads guilty to kindly feeling !
toward every party, because it believes
each has It's mission and is honest
in It's general purpose, and that the I'M
restrained rule Of either would be fatal
to popular liberty.
1t hates nothing but Ignorance,
Superstition and Intolerance, and, so
help 1t God, il win do all it can to rele-
gate them TO tho obscurity they de- |
serve.