Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-15

house Of congress. fIe now represent
II and his class Of tarlil.pensioncd no
bility in the other end Of the capitol.
! Hon. Warner has suffered himself e
be interviewed that mankind may
know what wondrous Ideas Of patriotic
statecraft find Judgment in the Woo
pulp of his wooden head. He Is cS
cecdingly wroth because Of thi'
recent augmentation of dis.
abled soldiers pensions In this
he wins the appreciation OF the bond
holders and tariffmongors Of tic east
He doesn't well see how the country
can afford 10 pay one hundred and
ten millions annually to disabled vet
Grams and continue 10 pay twelve hun
} dred millions annually, as IL does, to
, ninmnt industries" and especially
: 10 those Of suclfa PUPPY nature that
they have not even yet donned their
swadding clothes. He fears that the
tax payers Of the country will not toll
crate transferable burdens, and that
4 they will demand either the abroea.
ton of the Tariff or Of the pension
code. He has dim percep.
ton Of the fact that the peo-
pie prefer the retention OF the latter
1 because, under its operation, one hun
annually among the common people.
/ Therefore do we find Vest, Voorhees,,
! Harris, Coke, and other multiplication
and "rcbel' Democrats voting always
with those who vote the largest con-
cegsions TO wounded Union soldiers,
and, on the other hand, voting as per-
I sistently with those who would re-
! dUce tafifi-stolcn revenues 10 mini
mum IN other words Democrats
! represent the common people and vote
! money literally out of the treas
ury hat II may bc distributed by and
among the common people, while Mr.
! Miller tnfl his partisan associates rep
| rcsenting the goyernment-cielted and
/ poYernneAt-nggrandized nobility
not forgetting the wOod-pulp Irstoc
racy- fear that the people cannot
properly maintain the helpless vet
Grams and at tho salnc time continue
10 thrust twelve hundred millions an
nually into the pulp.distended pockets
of the tariff mOnopolists. We do not
think MI Miller fearsg roundicss. We
do not believe that the people will long
endure eXacilons imposed by the in
iquitous tariff system, which, however
changed In many OF It's details, IL re-
formed in nothing. And we would
warn.Mr. Warner Miller that when
ever he and his m0uthpicce undertake
TO lessen the annual sum paid disabled
veterans, that donated 10 wood-pulp
and other mill and bond and bank
owners Will be lcssened IN II doubly
greater ratio. Very certainly il any
citizens of the United States are en-
titled to "protection,p these soldiers
are pre-emininently deserving, and
least and last OF all are they who prey
upon the people through the iilmy
fraud OF u tariff on paper pulp.
THE RIVER QUESTION.
The contest between the Eads and
Cowdon theorists grew IN violence as
the days passed. Eighty members of
the house had agreed 10 support Cow
don's proposition To give the flooded
Mississippi vent into Lake Borgne.
When these saw that the river and
harbor bill made no provision for this
purpose and that the leveC-builders
had II majority of one in the special
committee, most of Cowden's friends
deemed ii wise TO suffer the river and
harhor bill to so the way of the
lcvces. 1t was, accordingly, utterly
| wrecked. Cowden came to Washing
ton uniriended by power and unsuB-
II.
He was u novel lobby all by himself.
He fought potent commission and
| many newspapers and the associated
press. lie had not vote when he
| came, and yet he has so popuariZed
his simple and comparatively mex
penslve plan OF making the river navl-
gable and oyerllows impossible that
lle will as certainly triumph next
winter NJ congress meets. The Mis-
sissippi itself is now making speech
IN his behalf TO which continent
| listens.
| PERSONALS.
Mr., VIM. Ruilln Cox, of North Car
| DINA, In his practical, sensible speech
! IN the house, made Just before the adj
lournment, showed how cunning
managers of the button-hole bouquet
compression garden had It's little ap.
preparations cunningly hidden about
ny incidents to three different bills
| Each of the three, despite AIR. Cox's
opposition, WAS thussmuggled through
and the sum total IL dumped into an
awful rat hole.
| Hon. r. :, stevens, democratic
member-elect from the Attica district
OF New York, was in Washington To
! witness the closing scenes of the forty.
seventh congress. MIR. Stevens con
| gressional career will be doubtless ns
brilliant and successful rs his achieve
ments as u railroad builder in Mis-
souri, Kansas, Texas and the Indian
territory, He enriched and populated
great states, and added Infinitely 10
| the wealth of the west. New York
has thus added an able man 10 her
! delegation while the southwest will
esteem him its especial representa-
I tive.
! IL Is said by those who are interestep
! IN the scheme, that Mr.. Secretary Tel
ler VIII recommend that thespresident
approve the transferred the nnearned
and forfeited lana-gant of the New
Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicllshurg
hallway, 80 the New Orleans Pacific
! IL Secretary Teller do this, ne viii
commit an error to be deplored. He
would thus give Jay Gould one and
half million acres Of land. The
story Is incredible, but current. that
! Gould is to divide this territory among
those who hold old bonds, given them
IN 1870 and 1871, for voting for the
! bill.
THE RAILWAYS.
Some time ago the fish commission
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