Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-07

Republican orator came to you and
said:
My countrymen, won't you let
well enough alone Are you willing
70 turn the party out that
brought YOU suCu PROsPERIrYP
and put the party IN that you do not
know what will be the consequence"
and the people listened,
HOW rs IN now
Are the men employed? Are the fur.
naces throwing out fire and smoke
that intimate enterprise and industry?
i have hete nom AN Indianapolis pa.
per OF yesterday afternoon, perhaps
the best edited paper Of the Republican
party In that city, the news OF the
statement of the amount of failures
that have recently taken place IN the
country. IL Is n dispatch from New
York that the business failures
throughout the country for the last
seven days number for the United
states 100, for Canada II. total 2l8, ms
against total OF 1876 last week, show.
ing an increase OF II failures this week
over last week, In other words
II is per cent. more for
the week that ended yesterday
that for the week before. An increase
In failures Of eight per cent; and how
can IL be otherwise when there IN this
enormous portion Of the peoples
currency locked up in the vaults of
the treasury Send that money out
more
INTO THE CHANNELS OF TRADE
and wheat won't sell at IA begging
market at siXty-eight cents bushel.
IL Is nay cents a bushel cheaper than
IL was when you elected "a Republican
candidate fonr years aRo, who made
James G.. Blaine secretary OF state, and
If you have your mortgage TO pay, or
the Interest upon II, counting the
bushel for the dollar II takes a good
many more bushels now to pay
the interest on your mortgage than
1t did four years hgo aud when you
come TO pay your mortgage ofl'it Will
take good many more hundred BUSH
els than IL did good while ago. They
do not say 10 you now as they did
FoUR YEARS AGO,
"let well enough aloneh IL " not
well enough, when YOU see men out
of employment. You may know
there Is trouble somewhere. / have
understood that one establishment In
this city that gave employment TO 100
hands Is now closed. There IL no en-
plOyment there any more, and so II IL
with the rolling mill at indianapolis
that formerly employed a hundred
men. IL Is silent now as In the
graveyard across the way. The
stimulant Of labor, the stimulant
Of enterprise, the life OF the city IL
dead. The money Is locked up in the
nations treasury, and the Democrats
shy that change in. policy TO reduce
the taxation and make II easier upon
the people II necessary.
There are n few other matters about
which probably ] ought to speak h
You this afternoon. The Re
publieans have pretty much given you
and me up, my ordinary fellow-cltl-
lens. They do not expect any more
no GIT THE VOTES or THE NATIVES
OF this country those
( that were born here.
/ 1hey have pretty much given up our
German citizens. They have pretty
much given up the Swedes and Danes,
and / believe they have come down
hard and heavy upon our Irish fellow.
citizens. When they come 10 the con.
clusion that they can get the Irish
votes they are pretty much
oONE uP THEMSELVES.
! IL will be u pretty disappointment u
/ them when November comes around
That IL my prediction. think that
\ II Is 50 In the neighborhOOd where
/ live. Why, j said the other at Cou-
nersville that The lrlshman was
A NATURAL DEMOCRAT.
That Is pretty much the truth For
100 years he has been with the Dem
ocrats. lie recollects the time that /
lien law made In the administration o
Z John Adams was revoked by Thonai
Jefienon. He rememberst the day wher
Z KnownOthinglsm WAS rampant In thil
country and that the Democratic part.
wss the champion ~ Ire religion aux