Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-06

DAYS time and consideration. Vesuvius
has beiched and Pompeii is submerged.
Bills Affecting matters essential TO tbs
machinery of the state government. such
= as appropriations, taxation, courts, heads OF
! departments, public schools and state lands.
are properly given precedence. Bills of a
1 political character also nave right of way
! because of the interest attaching to them.
Bllls OF local character appeal with special
and peculiar force to their respective
authors; and lastly comes the general leg.
/ iSlaton. 1t is presumably to be found among
the COO unfinished bills. the debris of the
wreck. that so over 10 the waste basket at
the end of the session, and that represent
the expenditure Of two-thirds OF the legis-
latlye time and energy. The wonder is that
our soions are able to bring out of the whirl-
pool as much good legislation as we have.
The grave defects in the body of our civil
laws are to be deplored, but our legislation
as Affecting the autonomy and general OPP
Grafton OF the state government, its reve-
nues, its credits, its courts and its politi-
cal adj uStmentS is to be commended; and in
these respects Texas takes rank with ths
foremost states Of the Union.s This side of
our legislation is the big calf that consumes
the tactical fluid, while its twin mate is at
present like unto the lean kline of Pharaoh.
II is to be regretted that political matters
OF 70 real importance should demand so
much attention while our practical legisla-
tion is so lar behind; but this evil is III
herent in any system of popular govern
ment, and cannot be eradicated until the
doctrine of regeneration shall extend be-
yond the spiritual and revolutioniZe human
nature in toto. The prime minister OF Louis
XIV at one time informed that sagacious
Monarch that in many provinces the peo-
pie were suffering from want and destitu-
ton and IN others pestilence was sweep
ing them away, and there were murmurs OF
dissatisfaction. The king promptly replied
that war must be at once declared, and in
answer to the objection that the nation had
no quarrel he said one should be made;
that the people must have advertisement;
that the glory and honor of France should
be proclaimed aloud and the troops be set in
martial array for the slaughter. Human
nature continues through the centuries to
repeat its essential qualities and expression
under varied forms and conditions and it
may be now asked if there lives to-day IN
der the shining canopy Of Texas q single
patriot with soul so lean and dead that he
can pirate of deeds and limitations and the
loss of few paltry millions of sordid gold
at the critical juncture when the glory Of
victory beckons US on; when the success Of
our hero and of our side demands every
power Of our lungs, and the hated opposi-
ton are about TO beat Us and tramDle our
rights and our sacred liberties in the dustl
Ii SO, let him be anathema and maranatha-
Politics will continue to have preference,
but public agitation for material reforms
will eventually bring them about. The
people of Texas are progressive, and as
every facility which can be given. and
every form of legislation which can be
rightly adopted for promoting the security
of titles and decreasing litigation will con-
duce to the public welfare, the writer has
an abiding confidence that the day is not
far distant when the reforms here indi-
Gated shall be written in our laws, in lieu
of yet further provisions for additional
courts and tribunals. B. r. WEBB.