Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-10
The Newly Patented American kcolii'J-'
A Grand Gala Day.
How they Stopped over and shOue in
Royal splendor
The Pitiable Death Of Minister--The
Cleansing Of AugBan. Stables in 1884.

genius. denominaied the Union Yet
eyan, which Is not an organ ei great
plundering pension firm. These Tieh
comb ,l.tions send publications To
every kldier possible and circulation
and plnnder are great. OF course they
minister solely, while prating about
soldierly patriotism, to soldieriy greed
for g1Id. Their business IL to organize
raids upon the Federal treasury. They
send, out printed petitions to be
signld by these ex-soldiers and re-
tuIrld 20 the senate and house thus
aooyed with piteous prayers for the
augS Leutation and multiplicatlOns 81
MENTIONS. Ii was commonly supposed
whH congress agreed 10 lavish one
hundred millions per anhuin upon
pensioners that cupidity would not
itnIbo4A further exac,ions upon Federal
pefieroaity: but the hunger Of claim
agents, many of them having grown
enormously rich by preying upon
exAsoldie,r, Is Toy no means
appeaesd. The more they have, the
more they demand. One Of these ray
enousputlications tells IL readers mat
"no CONGRESSMAN viii dare 10 deny
their demands and that no such
congresstinn can be reelected"
ATARIFF-MONGERS
Reprcscl tatives Of protected mon
opolies taI advantage Of the fact that
for many saars to come more than one
hundred mtnions annually must be cx-
pended on(ascount of pensions, and
Vast sumsI ~ the retired pen
stoned lobiIlty Of the army
and navl aud judiciary. We
are told ey,Ty day that these drains
upon the Nations purse" render any
national IA elton Of tariffs impossi-
BILE. For eN y dollar gathered in by
custom houaAs at least four are given
10 Bessimek steel and other govern
ncnt-blest a --c.. Every dollar paid
10 pensionedE soldiers aud 10 the re
tired nobility costs tho tax-paying
people five dollars, and ut this hour
this pension system costs popular IN
dusify not less than five hundred mil
lions per annum. Mill owners aud
sugar growers therefore tell ms That We
cannot reduccthe tariftlist and thus one
vast item OF Federal expenditures is
made To justify measnreless Federal eX-
actions aud one act OF generosity Is
made to perpotuate intol cradle systems
of gricVious taxation. Capital forces
labor 10 make good all losses II sustains
u
lord adds taxes aud tariffs To rent
charges, aud the vendor of foods aud
clothing TO the selling price Of these
commodities and the whole sum is
paid at last by toiling consumers
Therefore 1t Is that under this lnqul
tons scheme OF taxation thersSf
for eacll Gould and Vanderbilt and
Huntington and Jaflray AND iiilton
hundred thousand trauS~and bsg
gars. The tariff system creates TIA,
few enormously rich and the Multi
tude wreechedly poor. II IL, In fact
suhverting our simple republican sys
tenn of government aud substituting 4
government-begotteu, tarittgilded oil
garchcy.
THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
The Sandwich Islands gave tn,
true name to the chief constituent o
ones feast AT railway hash house
There il is small slice OF land In th,
Pacific, sandwiched between Asia ant
America as of butter and ham between
stony barriers of biscuit nj Dallus
tavern. But these Sandwich Islands
are the half way home aud resting
place for our Oriental commerce
Daniel Webster said that American
mastery of these islands would justify
u ten years war with England Oi
France. ny n treaty made some year.
ago, the islands became virtually an
American province--an outlying Utah
lin which IL signifies nothingtu oui
elevated moral sense, whether a fellow
have one or dozen wives. Common.
cial annexation was perfect and eXclu
sive. European powers are etlrctuallS
shut out and the United States su
premo. A great International end
was gained, and Hawaiian sugar en-
tiers Portland and san Francisco free
Louisiana sugar cost our conpatriots
an enormous price on the Pacific
coast. Railway charges Were intoler.
able The Hawaiian treaty was thus
godsend To trans Nevadan states.
But the tariff system, like the pension
code, In its appeals to the greed of eN-
soldiers, had excited aud aggravated
the chpidity of sngar-growers in Lou
lsiana. They cannot oompete with
Hawaii IN the sugar market OF san
Francisco, They demand the abruga
tion OF the wisely conceived
treaty, They would repeal thi,
act of practical annexation
They would rescind a contract undo,
which we sell Ia the islands thrice n,
y
and yet abhor this pmcticaland beneii
cont Illustration OF theories of fire.,
trade. The few must be enriched NJ
the cost OF the many. The principl,
OF the greatest good 10 the greatest
number IL despised 10y Randall-C,ih
son and the sugarcoated Democracy o
Louisiana,
srihNpoRs or THE REPUBLIC,
You can't imagine with what un
utterable loathing, simple, homes
country pumpkins contemplated ~
cent gorgeous social depmvity OF th,
capital. How the lacehedIazened arts
tecracy of office ami power did stru
nand out OF the royal Arthur's i'm
posing, howlng presence. His COS
tune ON this "state occasionp Is mos
minutely described In the court -FOUR
mails. He had his stilted ''assistants'
aud chamberlains and dukes of Ia,
household and ladies' in waiting
twenty odd OF them 10 receive the dir
nlSries of the empire. al,