Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-06

W." 'Ne pues'Oi Va '''i' a. -
ana concerns US here, ana with iacts
and conditions that are known to u.s."
He then declares that the sigle taxer
has been unable to point out 4 single
acre in Texas that has been acquired by
violence or blood etc. The single taxer
declares, and history confirms the truth.
that the origin Of title to land In Texas,
as in all other states Ia the union, with
the possible exception OF one or two.
has been traced to the Identical sources
quoted from Spencer The single taNer
freely comedies that present holders
have bought or Inherited. or otherwise
become honestly possessed OF their hold
ings in land. Bur he alleges that mill
tary conquest, force. fraud, and cunning
further back thgn the inception OF their
titles, were the means employed to
obtain and hold possession OF the lands
which are now held by the limited p0r-
ti1n of mon in every state and county
in the civilized world
Nor does the argument "prove too
much " II provps exactly whit Judge
Webb admits Immediately after the
wards uuotpd It belonged 70 the
Indiana They are rightfuly in possess
sion. The single taxer afTrms this
But tho single tuver upunses the priucl-
pie of monopoly and declares il the
means OF robbiug large portions of men
of their rights nnd that il will continue
Ia do IA inst sn long as men submit 10
be thus robbed. Now the less than
a million of Indians found in the new
world mad no right to monopolIze this
half of the rlobp with its abundant
capabilities of supporting "a thousand
millions. But they had the right to
live ON the land to occupy permanently
enough to enable them 10 live, as has
every man that chose to come hlther.
Had the Caucasian coutented himself
with the occupancy and use of what
he needed for his own comfortable sup
port and that Of his dependents. the
indians would probably long since have
seen the better, happier condition thus
enjoyed than his own precariDus and
miserable mode Of life. At all events
ne would not have grudged the pale
face the moderate demands thus nude
for land But when the rod man
learned that the white demanded not o
part of the land hut The whole. his
alarm and h5sglities drove him TO
cruel cNtermiuatinr war and the old.
old story. told ia an history, has been
written here also War, conquest,
sygllatton. uppryuliation. pNtprminu-
don. force. fraud superior cunning or
sup.rIog progress I'M arms. these have
boon the "caiD" paid the red men. not
for. enough Of the land TO amply suppIv
tho Indians had IN the various states
east Of the NIisglssippl river and the
most Of those west And to justify the
orI,,,,e thc pitiflll philos1phv Is Invoked
TINT man can Hadvnnce'' only by de-
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