The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-10-28

raign On one side was arraycd
James Stephens Hoge. who WAS "a
the one hand yiliified for all kinds
Of a demaEogue. and on the other
hand he was lauded for his patriot
ism On the other side appeared as
the champion of conservatism Geo
Clark, known rs the little giant ana
and as the Warwick OF Texas poll
tics The fight was fast and furi-
Gus. Hhe state convention met at
Houston. The fact was early de
veioped that the breach between the
two factions was too wide for the
pacific element to bridge The Tur-
ner Hall and Car Stable conventions
were held and each faction nomi-
mated its ticket The Hogg anc
commission crowd repudiated tho
national democratic platform and
declared for a railroad commission
and for free silver. The Clark fac
ton repudiated the commission plan
Of regulation OF railroad traffic and
indorsed tn enational platform. This
campaign happened before the or
sanization of pools, trusts and other
stupendous financial combinations
whose high handed methods have
called forth such storm of protest
from the consumers of the land
Up to that time political economists
had taught that competition was
sufficient protection against the
avarioe of the most grasping
trader or manufacturer Many OF
us thought the building of compet-
ing lines of road would naturally
result In reasonable traffic rates.
The trend CT events during the past
twenty years has surely convinced
the most skeptical that large bust
ness must be IN some manner re-
strained If the people are to enjoy
any degree of prosperity 1t seems
to be the history of the nations that
have come and gone since the first
record of mans appearance on earth
that colossal fortunes and extreme
poverty have been the ruling factors
in bringing about disintegration.
The United States government ana
the different states have barely
passed through the pioneer stage
and we as people are yet in tho
experimental stage of self govern
ment
Big business is thoroughly organ
ized the implements of industry are
fast falling into the possession of a
few and it is growing more difficult
every year for one to begin at the
ground and build up to a competen-
cy. am aware of the fact that this
proposition is disputed by respectable
authority, but that does not alter
conditions. Manufacturing plants
are no more owned and controlle1
by individuals but by corporations
Our larger mercantile concerns are
Incorporated Instead of man Nv
ing on and cultivating only enough
land to support his family we see
him buying out one neighbor alter
another until he owns large BODY
of land and then moves to town an !
lives off the rent The higher lann
goes in price the keener they are 10
buy. Within ten years land mas
advanced in this country approx
mately $4,000 per acre. Machinery
and all that we use in the production
Of the necessaries of life from year
to year climbs in price almost 10 ths
degree of prohibition. heeplno
mace with the rise in the necessaries
Of life is a demand for an increased
rent on agricultural lands me
demand at present is being mace
~cIv nv a few of the more graspinS
hut some of them will win this year
and next year others will follow ana
20 on until If something is not done
TO arrest its course the time WIZ
soon come when the good old thlro
and fourth rent for lands IN TINS
country will be only matter of his
tory. wrote two letters on TINS
rent question some time since III
which / appealed to tn generosity
and sense OF justice OF the lahn
lords I knew | was wasting time
far when YOU make such appeal 20
five men out of ten when their IN
terest is involved you only sho"
how little YOU know of selfish. grasp
ing. unregenerated humanity |
now pass up the landlord and make
an appeal to the tenant and business
classes of the country. They are
mutually interdependent and In ad-
ditiou thereto hold the power IN
their hands to procure through the
medium of the ballot the right 10
live ana educate their families IN
order that there may be no mistak-
inx OF my meaning suggest that tne
people this state get busy before
II ia too, late and through the me-
dunn OF legislation and by consuta-
ticnai amendment If necessary say
how much the tenants shah pas AS
rent for the land they cultivate SUP
psse such legislation should cause .
siizht fall in the price of land is II
not better that few should lose a
few dollars on the price or tna'
which they do not use than that hi"i