Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-31
WASHINGTON LETTER
Taxing the Many to Enrich u. ~.
A Travesty on Justice. ''"-''
Iilden's Nomination by Aoclama,,o,
most Assured Buffers Mansu. AZ
verings.
The knights OF Labor Ioom,u.. :,
Inc Strongest Factor in Our Z
Politics.
Special Correspondence Of ,no o.....

WASHINGTON, May 2l.-It ia 49,.
well II commercial comm,,,,.y
having large population idls -. (
unemployed, tax themselves to cya..a nv
cotton mill. But such COMMUNIST.
mas no right to tax the whole coun,rs
Tor Its own local argrand,,s
ment. Taxpayers, in the one oa.s
are investing their money prot,,sn SS
Tor themselves; in the other, tax pavs,s
are forced, without their consent 80
worse, without their knowledge, to In
vest their money for other uses. ~.
very proper therefore II Fort \yorth
would give employment and habits ~
industry and personal Independents
to idle boys and girls and helnisss
women to exempt the property af
cotton mill from local taxs
ton for ten years in ords.
to induce capital to embark In mn m.
terprise full of local beueficence. hnt
Fort Worth can have no right 10 re-
quire congress to tax the whole conn.
try in promotion of its designs of local
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The same reason.
ing might be employed in defending
the peculiar policy of state. likee
Pennsylvania, which may imnose
burdens upon its people to maintain
its mining industries.
In truth Gen. Hancock was not far
from the absolute truth when he said
that the tariff question was local and
not national. If cotton growers plant
and produce more than they can sell
profltably, nobody proposes to levy a
tax on all other producers to remedy
the folly Of these cotton growers, and
there Is no more reason or
right in guarding manufac-
turers against results of blum.
dering investments than farmers
'Protecti0n," therefore, by federal
law, is only robbery OF the many for
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the few-of the
whole country that special localities
may be enriched. None imbued with
proper conceptions Of local independ-
ence would assent to a federal system
of protection and a federal tariff should
be for revenue only. Then it is still
protective tariff and to that extent
wrongful. But the tariff code
has been so long operative,
steadily and rapidly transferring
the riches and gains of farming to
manufs curing populations, that Rhode
Island and Connecticut have greater
wealth than Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida and Tennessee, and If resort
be had to direct taxation this must be
levied upon population and not upon
wealth, and the states plucked TO pow
erty by the "protectionn they have
given other states would be robbed to
restitution by direct taxation. The
wrong of protection thus per-
petuates itself, and worse,
the more protection given
the more it demands and the more II
can buy.
TILDEN AND HIS CoMpErIToRs-BEN
BUTLER.
Ben Butler is securing for himself
nominations at the hands of all the
odds and ends and one-idea conyen-
tions. The Greenback, proper, con-
yention sits this week in indianapolis.
The Anti-monopoly fellows, against
whose action James A. George, lead
ing the delegation from this city, re-
VOTED, gave honest Ben Butler a
| powerful boost. The great body OF the
Greenbackers, guided by Walter Il
Shupe. and De La Matyr, will pro-
nounce for Ben Butler; though Lee
Crapdal], the editor of the View, and
the philosopher Martin, like George at
Chicsgo' WIZ 49,. o. 90 sure Of
apoiis' u am not nurpose
! this. Inc pre-anioua,, onoaro,s n
to rebel is NOT aan nsSn;n;.tered
soothing syrup may W ;tm nav Ina
in such a case, unanll ,I ssttainsbIe
desirable and Is comni s nnw where
Buffers agents already hhT Tho dele.
and how to provide Tor II. nreo,a;m.
CATION from this Guy go gu. p hoSt;Iitv
Ing from the housetops tnei IN. no'' 81.
to the Massachusetts Chameie esnino 3 ON
san b. and Mrs. Stanton are goils l,o ID
q pilgrimage to Lowell ana THESE p sy~
danes will probably set up ben pu nar.
as their candidate, and thus nc S Tbs
lures the ''long haired men; ,.,a ny
knights of Labor are inclined, plia ars
the best and wisest OF these p,,ia,img
of one and otter sort, now nnt thew
tho nolitics of the country. But thuJ
NAV be practical as well as sentlms sa"t
and when they can't get al tnsy Vest hsst
NAV be INDUCED to do the ei nsa. o onS
thing possible ana s1a tendency Of
John Hancock. luz d;rection Of the
Democracy is in the a .he Knights Of
governmental policy o. ;.a .n = the restor-
Labor. Their grand lueu 20 q he he neoplc
alton of the government =, Of classes
instead of the goyer mn moderation S' q
They do not dislike the i, si taken up BY
try as the preferred c sl;.,ocpacy, ths
government-created ari .Mo grest body
knights of Labor, with tn asaEstedn nee