Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-30

CLASP upon which the very foundation
of the government rests.
Now, say farm lite Is hard life,
but why Is IL 30? Because you don't
get fair share Of the profit OF what
you produce. Look at the sgricul-
tural implements | see here. How
much has the power OF the farmer been
increased by thisimproved machinery?
More than 300 fold. You can produce
200 fold as much In the same time.
Now why is not the condition of the
farmer 200 fold better now than IL was
before the good gifts of God to him In
the shape Of machinery were given
him TO make production. He either
ought to get 200 times richer
or he ought to work 300 times
less than formerly. But he does not.
Where has this money gone TO? Who
has got II? Voices In the crowd:
The monopoli.ts"
mot always, but the monopolists
get the most Of It. The farmer hasn't
got IL. He has got his lands little
better or a little worse,
but all this great production
has gone somewhere. 1t has not been
eaten up. II has not been burned.
II has not taken wings and flown
away. You will Sc 1t In these i'm.
mense fortunes which have been nc.
quired. ] am not here TO say one
word against these men who acquired
them.
~ am here toarraign the laws Of the
country which allow them SO to ac.
cumulate the wages Of the honest la
Dor and honest production. Cheering
and applause. am mere
ray the laws and legislators
that can he 80 manipulated to
make the rich richer aud the poor
ioorer. ought TO be changed. or the
fifty billions of dollars worth of prop.
erty in the country the farmers own
more than one.fOurtb. Well, why
have they not got rich? Because, first,
their riches don't flow in piles to them;
II " a steady stream. And then you
pay all the taxes, sub
siantially. WHY do / say that?
why, If we could get all the fifty bill
ion Of dollars worth Of property taxed
taxes would be nothing at oil, they
would be llea bite, but Mr.. Wander
bilt says that under the law he is not
taxable at all for any personal proper
ty and yet, by your laws, he had ut
that time SIS 900, 900 Of the national
debt and other securities and the law
would not allow him to escape taxi
ton. Do you say word about these
laws? on, no! You get In ali
manner of quarrels over state
rights and old matters of any kind
that are mere matters of Importance
long agn, and one will call himself
Republican and another a Democrat
and get vexed and angry and make
row and are bled every day while you
are quarreling, nothing more nor LEGS
Why does the farmer pay so much?
IL Is because all his prop.
erty lies where IL can
be seen and the tax gaiherer can't
miss II, whereas my bonds II | have
got any. ana my stocks and my notes
and my securities may be away in my
safe and the assessor can't find them.
The farmer is worse Off than the
working man because he hasgot some
thing To be taxed that can't be
seen. The workingman has
got his capital which il
his capability Of doing days work
This Ia not taxed, but tho farmer hav-
ing one-fourth of the property OF this
country pays three-fourths of the
taxes.p
The general then considered the sub
iect of transportation and said:
The railroad companies league to-
petherand make discriminating rates OF
freight and now without going into this
matter at length let me sketch you one
thing. Chicago beef IL and has been
cheaper In Liverpool, Eng. than In
Boston, and this beef has been taken
through Boston. You say that that IL
4. ..rlr mi al. A q
that one thing to your mind to show
you how those great corporations
act against the farmers. The corpora.
ton leaves the individual manager ON
tirely relieved from the responsibility.
GU so ana compial II tn the manager.
oh, iays he, sd relieve you II |
could, but the company have voted go
and 80, and such Ia the order And
who isthe company? You can't find
them. The company has neither
conscience nor soul, and the indiyid.
ual IL relieved from his
responsibility, and that IL the worst
thing ] have against the corporations
Corporations are necessary, but what
are they? They are agents of the peo-
Pile and they are to net onl,' for the
good OF the people, snd they are all
for remuneration, and IL they
do that alone they become the friend
OF the working man, and friend of
the farmer, ~ means OF commnica.
tion and Interchange of freight and
passengers, but II they transcend this
limit your legislature should have full
power IL is In theory constitutional
right To restrain them, but now, how
IL IL I'm ppnnsvlyania No vnn
believe honestly that there Is power
enough In any Democratic or Repub.
lican legislature In the state to restrain
and controlt the Pennsy lvania railway?
There Is not y man of you who he
lieves this: II has been tried every
year to and failed every time"
The general then addressed himself
70 his Democratic nearer who has
been throwing away his vote and To
his Republican brothers who have
been doing worse by sustaining
the party that has brought
about these things and 1t didn't make
any difference which party won. The
pennsylvania railway controlled all.
Men are pretty much alike In this
world. The mass ofthc populace always
right and they are always intelligent,
for everybody knows more than any
body. The general considered the low
prices now ruling and gave his reason
therefor as undef-consumption, not
over-production.
THE DuTLER CAMPAIGN AND BADQE
PHILADkLrHIA, PA, Aug. - Az
u conference OF the national Green back
labor leaders with Gen Butler ut vii.
liams Grove to-day, an AGGRESSIVE. cau-
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