Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-30

country fully recognized and enforced.
and due compensation rs paid TO the
community for private right; not in
the form Of tenancy, but in that OF ac-
QUESTION Of title. That a tenant Is COM
mon has a natural right to make
partition with his co-tenants such as
viii give him his part In severalty, and
thus make his interest practically
. available, does not admit OF a doubt
In common sense and reason. The only
question left u, whether the partition
and such subsequent disposition in fee
OF his portion of the land as any given
individual may make, bars the entail
and cuts of the right of his children
to again claim the land as once more
free. or. can each successive genera
ton set aside the partitions and con-
veyances of IT'S ancestors, ana claim
a new distribution OF the land2 This
question is settled by the immutable
principles Of Inheritance governing the
universe, moral. psychical and physl-
cal alike, The heirs inherit the proper
~ Of the ancestor subject to his La
btlitles; his civilization subject 10 ITS
conditions; his poverty az well as his
wealth, they cannot take the one and
repudiate the other. Their inherited
right cannot be superior TO his: and his
right. as we have just seen, was the
right to purchase land from the COM
ailu AlhAu lAulNlludlh. ANN-
lures inexorable law of inheritance.
which visits the sins Of the father upon
the children even to the third and
fourth generations, imposes upon the
child even the mental and moral de-
formities and vices as well as the ply
slcal traits and poverty OF the ancestor
II the parent has been prodlgal and
wasteful of health. mental, moral or
physical, the Inheritance Is constitu-
tlnnHl nirnlua Hgh lttpa
ton, dementla, blindness, asthma, al.
coholism. insanity. moral depravlty
predisposltion to crime. idiocy, syphilis,
kleptomanla and other traits and ca
lures of hertable and atnvistic ten
denotes. Viewed from the standpoint
OF human reason, this natural law of
Inheritance. In respects extending far
beyond the mere matter of property
seems unspealeaby cruel and unjust to
the child; yet Justice inheres in Om-
impotence, for without this nothing
could endure. However, valnly the ves-
sal of clay may inquire why 1t has been
so fashioned. Sod is wiser than man;
wiser even than the slngle-tax advo-
cate. and the other socialists whose
theories have their foundations In the
shifting OF sands OF speculative philo-
sophi, s. and who are ever building
little ethical worlds within the cosmos,
only TO see them pass away like the
eXhalations OF the morning. or tho va
porous meteors that flare across a
sky where, in far distances It may be.
the great planets shine like eternal
truth with unfadng light. Woe unto
TINT nation. ito fastening Ills prey"
whose people shall be led astray from
the paths OF common sense and reason
by the visions OF impossible millen-
NUNS which socialism Is forever dang
ling before their eyes, when the land,
and eventually the other property. shall
be equally distributed, when social dis
tinctions shall be abolished, men made
equal whom God made unequal,and uni
formlty OF condition shall be enforced
by law-Utoplan fRncles as insubstan-
tial as tho baseless fabric of a dream;
as elusory as the mlrages OF tho des-
ert. or the midnight ignis fatuus that
lures its deluded followers into the
fathomless morasses of the Floridlan
swamps b. r. WEBB.