Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-27
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How an Enriishrnan win Kick and orowl
TIL Nc Gains His Point.

TIL Nc Gains His Point.
This is true story, and one that & in
tended 60 illustrate u characteristic OF the
English people. 1t shows, l think, 70
what lengths an Englishman will 80 to
gain his rights when an American would
iay. "Oh, what Ia the usei" or Never
mind" but he will learn ia time that
the reason the Engllshman has better
roads md better streets and better pro-
lection for his life and property is because
he "mnkes kick about e" and protests
mud growls and is generally disagreeable
until lie gets what he wants. Equally
strong with his desire 90 have his rights u
the EnglishmRnis Difference for the rights
Of others. He shows his Difference by re-
specting the English law, which makes
those rights good. There WIS young
woman in England who told me that she
and seven or eight other Young people had
trnmped In single flo through a gentle
mans dining room one evening, while he
and his guests were nt dinner, in order to
establish right Of why. The English
man had built his house on meadow di-
rectly across pathway that had been used
for centuries, and once year the young
people OF the neighboring estates marched
across his lawn and up his stairs and
through his house In order that he should
remember that the right Of way still e1-
listed. She was an exceedingly shy and
well bred young person and of family
quite as old rs the right Of way, but it np-
pnrently did not strike her that she was
rude In tramping through q stranger
house, or indeed that she was doing any
thing but public duty. And the inter
esting point Of her story to me was that
the English householder, instead Of got
ting winchester and driving the young
tresspassers of OF his lawn, should hive
had so full an appreciation of their right
to question his right that he simply bit
his lips and went to law about IL.
There was an lrishmnn in the same
county who lived in small cottage on an
estate and who was In the habit Of cross
ing from It 20 another through tho gate
way of very distinguished and noble
gentleman. lie had done this for 20
years, and when the noble gentleman
came into some more money and hung
two fine iron gates between the posts the
Irish lnborer took crowbar and broke
the hinges on which they hung and
tramped over them GU his way, lie was
| put in Jail for this for month, at the end
| Of which time no went after his crowbai
! and tore the gates down again. When he
| the people round about took up his case
and the right OF way was declared just
one, and the gates camo down forever
/ The Englishmnn will 70 further than this
he will not only fight for his rights, but
he will light for some other man g rights
He will go out OF his road to tramI
through q gentleman's property simply
because the people in the neighborhooC
are disputing for right of way with him
heard OF three young barristers when
was in London who went on Il walking
tour, and who laid out their route entire
ly with the purpose in view OF taking il
all the disputed rights OF way in the coun
tics through which they passed, and VIII
cheerfully sacrificed themselves for til
good OF others by forcing their way int
houses and across private grounds and b.
tearing down hedgos.--Harper's Weekly.