Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-02
WASHINGTON.
Platitudes and Tedious Debates Gouging
the Hspless South.
Sugar and Wool Fleeced- Poverty as the
Result Of Tariff Exactions.
Poor Tennessee The Aristocracy of tho
Nation" in Splendid Attire.
How ii Struts and Airs its Nobility.

exclusively to the consideration Of the
tariff Its discussion Is tedious. Each
protected industry has its peculiar
guardians, and the masses of the peo-
pie have few representatives.
Sugar and wool will suffer most, and
since iron cotton ties are consumed
wholly In the South, these will be
protected" most vengefully.
A SAD STORY.
BY the way, Daniel MoComb OF
Memphis was the inventor of
these iron ties and fastenings !
for cotton bales. He struggled |
through many years with poverty, and |
with fixed habits OF cotton growers 10 /
induce them to use iron ties instead Of l
ropes, but bempen ropes were in vogue
and nobody would have iron, "because |
IL would rust and stain the cotton |
Within Hemp growers, too, fought |
McComb. Their industry was threat |
ened with destruction and habits of n !
lifetime could not be shaken of by cot |
ton planters. As. those who have /
lived always behind mud walls along /
the Mississippi and the Danube can
conceive OF no other means of security
than levees, aggravatlng disasters of
each successive mood and destroying
constantly the rivers navigabiity. 4
so with cotton planters, who
pronounced McComb "A "crankn
and his proposed bcneiaction was
hooted ut and despised. When, at
length, wiser planters began to use
McCombs' iron hoops aud arrow tie
and otEer fastenings, he succeeded in
inducing few rich men 10 aid him.
They invested large money in the
manufacture of iron ties, and, finally,
securing majority interest in Me-
Combs patents, they went into the
Federal Courts and squeezed or
'froze him out.n Money was kingl
McCombs, beggared, and now tie
monstrons ring owns the most valua-
BILE patented monopoly, except Pull
mans and the coal oil gentry's, ever
devised by judicial and congressional
legislation. Cotton growers are protected
In nothing and only wooded" by
every sentence In the intcrminable
tariff code. That they may be wholly
impoverished aud this vast volume of
wealth may be continuously thrust
by the government into the pockets of
the iron tie manufacturers, a strong
lobby Is organized and they who sent
McComb y great public benefactor,
bcggarcd to his grave, are declaring
that unless protected 10y unheard OF
cxactions, imposed upon farming pop
ulations of the South their Industry
is ruined. They are "choodticrs az
IN dustrie.n
PooR sAMBOi
The negro is the especial victim OF
these thieves. Negro labor produces
half the cotton grown In the United
States; but the poor negro knows
nothing of the enormity of
wrongs to which he IL subjected
by his Northern Republican and PRO
tectionst" friends. They skin him
alive for his money; they cnslave him
for his gold; they steal all profits of his
toll, and then howl piteously that he
cannot maintain schools, and the three
negro representatives in congress from
Tennessee denounce the bankrupted
state they represent rs II common
wealth of dishonesty and knavery, of
which Polk, they tell W., Is the natural
product and outgrowth. Through
Lincoln they destroyed, ut one stroke
Of the pen, half the wealth of Ton
ncssee; armies did their worst, and
carpet baggers finished the task of
spoliation, and now IL Is gravely pro-
posed not only to aggravato n
scheme of taxation that levics
certainly five per cent. upon
the whole wealth of Tennessee.
returning nothing In the shape of PRO
testionh TO that state, but to amend
the Federal constitution 40 that L ed
eral courts may decree the coniisca-
ton of the whole property of the state.
And all this that protected bond
holders who paid forty and sixty cents
FOR the states paper may have their
fuii pound OF flesh. Southern farm
era, plundcred MS they arc by TARIFF
and tobacco and whisky taxes, do not
make one per cent. on their capital.
Deduct from this the cost of living and
then superinposc local municipal
taxation and then add to this tax of
one or ono and one-half
and honest bonds may be paid, and
contiscation is accomplished. The
people will be expelled from the state.
and tho bondholders, as designed
by the trainers of the proposed
constitutional amendment. enabling
creditors To sue states, will own the
states. Congress has already given TO
iifty great capitalists mn urea of cotln-
try larger than New England, New
York and Pennsylvania, and now
II IL proposed To turn over to this elan
the ownership Of Tennessee. Tho see
tional tariffs eXactions are part of
the grand process of robbery and
wrong, Watch the progress OF the
bill IN the two houses, and II Is
discovered that the odium attaching
20 the south shapes financial systems,
and all burdens and no henekctions
are proposed or contemplated in it, be-
half.
polNGS OF THE NOBILITY.
We have here u grand social sensa.
ton. The clever governor general of
Canada Is feted by our legaliged
nobility. He is sort of lett-handed
adjunct of royalty, and how the
governmcnt-made aristocracy do
iawn upon and flatter him!
prince Arthur with his
sweet button-hole bouquet IL
in ecstacies, He swings around
among the retired lace-6edizxencd
gilded, retired fellows of the army
aud navy and among the railway and
bond-holding nobility, their pretty
wives flashing in gcw-gaws and siia-
monis, quite royalty. One cannot see
IN what the native aristocrat OF the
old world cXcels In imposinfy forunli.,n