El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-10

drop the question in Texas is right now
and suggest that We do that very
/ thing"
Land Question His Hobby.
There was no suggestion Of dropping
the land plank Instead the new gov
ernor went into the history Of the plank
which originated in his mind He told
how II had come TO him out Of his own
experience IN renting land and how. at
the suggestion Of his wife, he had re
FUSED a bonus on one Of his farms be-
cause her womanly intuition told her
II was not right 4 am more Of a
farmer than I am a banker" the next
governor said. That little experience
started me to thinking about the land
problem Of Texas The more thought
the bigger 1 saw that the question was.
II IS a vital problem and one that must
be settled 1 have come to the definite
conclusion that the one-third of the
grain yield and One-fourth Of the cotton
yield is sufficient rental
Farmer Takes All Risk.
IF a bonus is paId above this the
tenant farmer is taking all Of the risk
and the landowner none. Suppose cot
ton should go to five cents under such a
bonus system We would have a revOlu-
ton IN six weeks It would put the tenant
farmer into absolute peonage. The
black land farmer is a fine citizen and
he has his ambitions The rent Ques-
ton is one Of compensation for labor,
Just as the wage earner's wages are.
There IS no difference between the
brickIayer in FL Paso and the tenant
farmer in the black lands of east Texas.
I believe that the rents of the tenant
farms should be reduced to one-third Of
the grain and one-fOurth Of the cotton.
If more is charged il should be treated
as usury under the law and the one
receiving It should be made TO pay
double that amount
School Problem Vital One.
Closely akin TO the tenant farm
problem is that Of the schools Of the
state. I am in favor Of a system Of tax
alton which viii put a school house in
every county as good as the ones in the
city. II we would have patriotism
among our children they must be edu-
Gated and the rural schools in Texas are
wholly bad There are 100000 children
in Texas who haye never had a chance
to 20 TO school I propose to reduce
that number to nothing
Il will approach the penitentiary sys-
TEN with an open mind. / intend to
make the prison farms self sustaining
I have no criticism Of the men connected
with the prisons. but with the system.
intend to put the farms in the hands
Of actual farmers When I advocated
that, the penitentiary politicians quit
me, but intend TO do it anyway
Foreign Capital Is Needed.
Foreign capital is needed badly in
Texas and I am in favor Of exempting
factories from taxation for a period of
ten years after they are built in order
TO encourage them to build in this state
/ am not in favor Of repeating any Of
the laws requiring the investment OF
capital in Texas by foreign corporations
doing business in the state That is a
good law, but I do intend TO do every
thing / can to encourage the industries
TO come here 1 am not so much in
terested in the colonization of Texas as
am Of lettering the condition Of the
people who are already here"
Wants Wilson Endorsed.
What is your attitude toward the I
national Democratic administrations (
he was asked.
'I favor a full endorsement Of the I
national administration The endorse
nent Of my opponent was a personal I
indiscretiOn and not the act Of the /
administration. We have won and we .
can afford to be big and overlook that. ]
4 am not sufficiently acquainted with /
the details Of the Mexican situation to 4
express an opinion on that I have been /
too busy with state politics to follow 1
The developments
In conclusion want to say that 1
81 PasO is the best town between !
Temple and San Francisco and you have I
IN earth"
Jim FergusOn--A Sketch.
A black land farmer Of Texas That I
8 Jim Ferguson The only thing polit-
cal about the next governor is a little, l
narrow black string tie, which he wears !
with a rundown collar He would look
more at home at a farmers union con-
7enton than he does al the Democratic Z
state convention, which is to ratify his
domination for the office that the
stump speakers love to refer to as the
highest omice in the gift of the peepuL"
jim Ferguson is the Texas type OF
nan. He is six feet tall with a head
u Diack halr which is inclined to curl