Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-02


AS we anticipated the waco Day IN
reply to the challenge oil The Gazette
Tor it to point out a single act OF legis-
iation passed by the last legislature OF
which the foreign investor has reason
to complain, cites the alien land law
and the railway commission law-and
there it stops. There every one else
must stop who attempts job OF that
sort 1t admits that no actual injustice
mas been done to any mans property
interest'out says that confidence has
oeen los
1t Is bht repetition OF what has
been said many times before to show
that the headless alien land law Is re-
ally an object lesson which should en-
courage rather than alright the for
eign capitalist The law was passed
without objection from anybody. 1t
was unanimously approved in the con-
servative senate by Judiciary commit
tee OF which so conservative man us
Senator Pope was at the head. 1t
slippeo through without its
actual purport being discovered by
any Of the keen eyes and ears OF either
branch Of the legislature, In such
shape and under such circumstances, il
wontto the governor, with no voice
raised to stay his signature,
although representatives OF the loan
companies were then in Austin to see
that their interests were not jeopardized.
He signed 1t Of course, as any other
man in the governors Office would have
signed 1t, supposing that measure
which aroused no objection from any
one must DO unobjectionable. When
the actuaipurport Of the law was dis
covered, not a solitary legislator or
member OF the administration was found
to defend or clamor for the retention of
the feature principally complained Of
The supreme court killed the law, but
the special session of the legislature
could have revitalized it, Instead Of
doing that it passed law so moderate
that 1t invoked the praise of all those
who condemned the original law, show
ing in substantial way It's desire to
promote development
In view OF these well-known facts, IL
1t Is not only unjust but unpatriotic for
Il Texas paper to urge the late alien
land law against Texas Investment
Leave that work to the South-haters.
The Day tacitly admits that 1t knows
nothing about the merits of the com.
mission Gaze, whether the commissions
rates arc JUST or unjust, but it assumes
''''' 'le lat'er must DO true because the
commission law is ito be tied I'm in thu
courts fn,, tho nn,,t ,l,,,,,, 49,. -
W., 'i'Vo vi lour years.
Nheh the erudltc Day prOpo-
ses commission Inv No, 81
loot 90 a..a,,- "oV SUD
its criticisms nj ,ha ,,1 courts
of tho nrosont law wni Isl PHASES
ciate in volnn II mas, h" se's appre'
terest n .be nrhl,c th,n,., " ao.no ~ M
Dav to Lnor ,hat ., an " .,oV 70 nc
which bora odontoa ~ 'i'' s'aVeS
policy rnt ono bos os,o,,,, y,
attoc.s =, 1i,ioation - ' , 'eu'ous
ti,ns. II IL also n signidcan, ~ az .'s .,
in ueorlv ovorv INSANE ,,, iSoo 'h"'
fipallv rcsrltoa 70 tba 10. ''''U,y mas
BODY eynoc,'d which = $50 a',''u' II any
wonld ho ,ass,d ,,,a, -, - SSH" Jaw
by everybodv ,Si,hon. o o,a &c accepted
too fresb onS ,nnocsnt =, .Si te' ne Is
with ear,l,Iv aTairs '''Nou up
This IL TSo no,,s oo,,,.,,
matter aftor Tho snoo SCao,Ision OF the
M '''''Hs hamed'
ara p No, D sy maintains that Investments
,rnor who Is Utterly is gIS% ms q Coy ,S
' 'i.,I 4 and tho eonstitution--who viii