Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-03
GIVE THEM 4 CHANCE.
The state should Not Sue Delinquent
Interest-Pnyrrs ON school Lnnds.

Ihc sthtc should Not Sue Delinquent
Intercst-rnyerS ON school Lands.
49, Fort Worth, Tex. Jan 2s, 1894.
Editor Gazette.
While there Is much talk OF reducing
prices Of leased land from to . cents
per acre, would 1t not be wen to see
what could be done for the thousands
Of poor farmers and land owners In
Texas, who have bought land at and
10 per cent interest from the state, and
who now, because they are unable 10
pay this usurlous interest are to be sold
out Of house and home by the great
state OF TeXns2
Ten per cent interest was not so birh
ten years ago in Texas as It Is now.
Money brought as high as 20 and 25
per cent In many cases. Cotton, wheat
and wool We're worth twice as much
then az now and people were induced
to buy cheap" land and pay 10 per
cent on deferred payu ents. Texas
wanted big school fund and home
owners on every section Of her land
Know that Texas meunt well for bns
people, and the people who bought this
land meant well for their state. But
hard times have come upon our country
ana Texas suffers with other statea
Tor wrongs she had no hand in max.
ing The people are not to blame no
cause they cannot pny this or 10 per
cent interest to the state with 4-cent
cotton or 4O-cent wheat The land will
not produce twice as much as IL would
when they bought the land or can thew
work twice as hard Some of the land
WIZ not produce even Accent cotton
, out " mas taken the buyer Ave or six
years to find 1t out.
There Is due tho state about one-boIf
million dollars back interest on snbonl
land purchases. Now. when there Is
NOT dollar to pay with, when the far-
mers have nothing to sell, and IN thev
uld could get nothing for It. the state
oo'',ts onward ana says they must paw
or the state Will forfeit their lana
repeat the people cannot at this ,ir,a
pay one-half million dollnrs To liz
sAte' but II the state win withdraw Inc
SUITS against the farmers ana ,I,,o
mem Two or three years I'm which "a
pay up their interest the state win ,ot
10Y uouar due her. Ii the present
H. M, sunnot pay II out In that time
ne VIII then be able 10 sell Ia snr,a t,io
MMn,o ls financially strong enough to
ulg up shylock's 10 per cent 6pr two
unu half pounds Of cotton per 1olio,S
on delinquent payments. '"'
LOW WIN The state be benefited n abo
~ !eI's me land OF every delInuuert
IN the state2 She will have ber ii,,, I'M ~
De sure, hut has she moi got l., Nv W
S ana WIN she not keep IT tin 'everv cemt
S Sur her mas been paid? The purcbosa,
uoes nor own the land TN, no roe ,,sis
y, u, out and got patent from tho st paw
1.e ehly person who will be bensT,c1
% III, ee me man with the "casb" ~,
nppaIl who win take in" an M
s,soSsou thlngs" In his section ~ the
Avn s,lf ahl sen them to some othcr nonr
improved homes Of some n. Tntv tne
asor , eosi him, and when the moor | dn,,i
s1S1fesaid fails to come IN he oV w, IeH w
soia 2ut lust like the fiist one w wi'' ne
1yh" Nh not Ne the great state Of Tayes
n" ~ WIN 40 The act AeN"S
ots.s should reduce her intares, mt
In saat purchasers at least one'bais
~ raet she should never have cb a,al il;
haS e snah per cent for her lana s IN
~ u she done so. there womb nnt ,o dnu
worth having. '''u IN ehe state
land IN man et can lease a seotIn, a,
IN go man wanting Ia onen
p assy and add 10 the v wssltb F ms nlS
rsa'0 Tni Of the state, must ~ anu ,h
san section assume a debf az ri ue
a AZ interest for 81 land ssa IN I'M ~, pay
A .'0in sls 70 a2s tax year. ''i', r,,s