San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-09-18
MARCOS HAYS COUNTY,

ment." They have seen iit TO occup
that position by cruel proscriptiv
policy, excluding every man who di
not agree with them, and what d
you think OF it, my countrymen
Shall il be continued any longer
lCries Of mol What condition hav
we come tot / refer TO the state
ment made by Mr.. Calkins, Republi
can candidate for Congress, in
speech at Richmond, few week
ago. He said we now have $500,
100000 in the treasury. Do yov
know how he came TO sly that 7 H
said that by way Of braggadocio
But as a taunt TO Democrats he sale
the Republican party, when it cam
into power, found an empty treasury
and now it has $400, 100000. Do yol
want to hear me express my opinion
of what is q fortunate condition o
the country Well, it is not in hav
ing the treasury overfowing. 1t il
not in collecting from people untolt
millions that it may be hid away il
the vaults of the treasury; and a
Washington, to-day, they are dig
ging new vaults and adding TO the
old, 80 as to find room for put
tingaway the peoples currency
It is a matter Of concern-thai
Republicans have now in the treasury
$40O. 100000, for that, gentlemen, is
more than half Of the paper currency
in the country. The paper currency
of the country is about 100000, ,0OO'
and of the currency of the country
there is locked up in the treasury
$4OO,O 100000. Do you desire that
If 80. vote for Mr.. Calkins vote for
the Republican candidate for presi
dent, for they boast to you that they
have locked up $400, 900, 900 of your
money. What right has the govern
ment to $400, 100000 of the peoples
money that it has no occasion to use
in the administration of its affairs 7
What would be the effect if taxes
were reduced so that money would
come back into your pockets and into
the channels of trade? Don't you
know it would stimulate enterprise? 7?
Don't you know that it would give
employment to laborers? Shall l stop
now and speak of the present condi-
tions of business over the country?
Four years ago, when you knew it
was fusher times and everything was
we'll with the people, wheat was worth
81 20 and labor was we'll paid, and
and the Republican orator came to
you and said: "My countrymen,
wont you let well enough alone ?
Are you willing to turn the party out
that brought you such prosperity and
put party in of whose acts you do
not know what will be the conse-
quence?" And the people listened.
How is itnow? Are men employed?
Are the furnaces throwing out fire
Ind smoke that intimate enterprise
and industry? have here from an
Indianapolis paper of yesterday even
ng-perhaps the best edited paper
,f the Republican party in that city
the News-a statement of the
amount of failures that have recently
aiken place in the country. 1t is a
dispatch from New York that the
business failures throughout the
country during the last seven days,
'eported to r. g. Dun & Co.-and
hey are great authorities on that sub
ect. The number for the United
States foots up 1879; for Canada, IA
;otal, 213-as against total OF 196
asst week-showlng an increase of II
ailures this week over last week. In
,ther words, it is 8 per cent more for
The week that ended yesterday than
he week before. An increase in
ailures of 9 per cent! And how can
t be otherwise, where there is this
enormous portion of the peoples
locked up in the vaults OF
he treasury Send that money out
more into the channels of trade and
wheat won't sell at begging market
or sixty y-eight cents bushel. 1t is
fifty cents bushel less to-day than it
vas when you elected the Republican
andidate four years ago, who made
!. G.. Blaine secretary of state, and If
'ou have your mortgage to pay or
interest upon it, counting bushel for
lollar, it takes a good many more
,ushels now to pay the intssest on
our mortgage than it did four years
go, and when you come TO pay your
nortgage off it will take agood many
nore hundred bushels than it did a
.ood while ago. They do not say to
on now, as they did four years ago,
ct well enough alone. 1t is not well
nough; it is bad enough. When
ou see men out OF employment you
now there is trouble somewhere.
rod wrote it in the early days Of our
ace, that by the sweat Of his brow
nan shall earn his bread; but it did
eem that there was coupled with
bat divine sentiment that perhapsla
IAN should have Q chance TO earn his
read by the sweat Of his brow; but
is not so now with all Some can
ot get employment to earn their
GARD have understood that one
stablishmentin this city that gave en-
loyment to 100 bandsis now closed
here is no employment there any
lore; and 90 IL IL with the rolling