Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-05
MALIcNANT ABScESS.

| ed, and e child was vel and happy.
Mrs. ]. a. KIEGNER. !
SLAfTNGToN, PA.
Send fot book on the Blood and Skin.
SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., ATLANTA, GA./l
will of course be built, on the same prin-
ciple that lumber mills build tramways,
because the Individual interest in which
they are built and not their traffic, is OK
pected to support them. but for all general
and public purposes Of developing this great
state railroad building is practically dead.
livery Chamber of Commerce within the
state OF Texas which has in any way inter
ested itself in new railroad enterprises
knows this TO be the unvarnished truth.
The commission can not induce Z Chamber
of Commerce within the state of Texas,
which has made any effort in this direction,
to pass a resolution denying It What then
does this condition of Affairs result in but
the most daming monopoly on the face OF the
earth. This monopoly to-day holds within
its fangs every acre of the many millions
within the state of Texas waiting for de-
velopment. 1t ezacts tribute and paralyzes
the one hope of all those immigrants to
whom it has been holding out inducements
similar to those offered the railroads to
come and settle up its magnificent and I'M
occupied domain, and will retafd thou
sands who have contemplated accept
ing its invitation to come and buy
cheap lands in the belief and promise
that the administration of the states af-
fairs, being in harmony with its eHterpris
ing people, would soon lead the iron horse
TO visit them, accompanied with all its man
fold blessings. This promise is mytha
and the hope fallacy under the present
commissions monopoly. Is it not better
that this truth should be known and pre-
serve what is left of the states honor than
that it should be hidden and the investor
in the unoccupied agricultural districts of
the state be led into the same trap foreign
investors in railway enterprises within the
state have been caught inl Every citizen
of Texas who has visited Eastern capital
lists in the interest of new railroad con-
struction in the state since the commits
sion commenced TO announce its work
knows that if his personal honor had been
attacked in the same proportion that the
states honor has been, he would have re-
sented it even at the sacrifice of his life.
The commission can't find such a citizen
within the state who will deny this has
been his experience.
The revenues accruing to the administra-
ton of the state at large from taxation Of
railway investments amounts approx
mately to as much aggregate revenue per
annum rs the entire donations of the state
to railways up to date amounts to, in the
value of the donations at the time they
were made, and but Tor the railways the
lands donated would be worth little if any
more than they were then. Is not then the
state receiving magnificent interest from
the railways on its inves tments But now
when in reality this interest on past invest
ments of the state could be increased three
fold without dollars additional donation
by the state the commission monopoly inter-
poses its veto. The laws of God and man
alike provide that the laborer is worthy OF
his hire, that every business is entitled to
q surplus for the protection of home, wife
and children, and whenever the country
begins to feel that these laws are even
partially imperative in results, consterna-
ton, fear, Generalization and panics fol-
low, diSarranglng the entire financial struc-
ture of not one country or part of country,
but of nearly the entire world. Hundreds
of thousands of people in only very moder-
ate circumstances have their savings
to-day invested in railways. Each and
all of these people form part of
the firm in the business of the various rail
ways in which they are interested, and are
absolutely dependent upon the returns from
their investment for the support of them
selves and those dependent upon them; and
while it is recognized as truth that no
other business is so precarious, on account
of the elements which are often arrayed
buCul III many 1OElIlS, III WHICH
all other business can provide against by
insurance, sweeping away in one night or
day hundreds of thousands of dollars of
their property, which paralyzes every dollar
invested in them until the damage can be
repaired; and while it is equally well recog-
nized that in no other business in the world
are the people so dependent for protection
of life, yet the commission monopoly of
Texas not only depriyes the roads of the
ability to properly provide for the protec-
ton of the lives Of its citizens, not only de-
pFives them of the possibility of a surplus
to protect them in any OF the many disasters
incident to their business, not only depriVes
them of the ability for the present,
much less for the future, to earn sufficient
with them as a firm, but deprives them
of the actual revenue necessary to keep the
firm alive, and all this the commission
of Texas enforces, contrary to all
the laws of God and man, from the simple
truth that neither they, the administration
which created them, nor the people not
of the firm, feel themselves per-
sonally interested in the death. The dead
corpse still continues to accommodate them
and the commission continues to pick at its
bones, and the people wonder why it don't
show some life and better provide for their
growing requirements. II when the firm
lies the corpse could be picksd up literally |
anu thrown INTO inc sea, the people who !
mad been dependent upon it for life and
would arise in their mighty jus4at
ice and throw the men instrumental in its
leath in after it. Can any man define the
distinction while combining himself to ius-
-icel If not, then let the people arise, and
Justice resume its sway.
MOTIVES.
The commission publicly expressed itself |
IS somewhat surprised at the motive which |
my open letter of November 25. |
SCI, and to avoid solicitation on its part re- |
pecting this communication will say that |
am now q private citizen of Texas. not |
connected with any railway corporation, |
md apart from the interest and pride l have !
n Texas as one of its citizens had no motive |
Unless it was one of two causes, first, that |
or couple of nights past the thoughts |
formulated In this letter have kept me |
wake almost against my will, when / |
ealiy felt 1 needed the sleep, aud in writ
ng the letter l relieved my brain of this ac- |
emulation and in so doing relieved the
ause which was keeping me awake; sec
nd, that the guardian spirits of the state |
4 Texas selected me as an agent for the |
reservation Of the states honor and in I
egrity.
STRONG ADJECTIvES Used.
In order that no one can possibly minute
motive in this letter to any personality IN |
onnection with the commission, ! desire to
tate collectively and individually that | |
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