Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Wise Suggestions Of Senator Dawes nj
New England Festival.
How Seas aud Mountains Interposed
Made Eremles OF Nations,
Till Linked With Iron Dandsor Steam,
Swift Wing,
They Now. Like Kindred Drops. Have
Melted Into One.
The Paper Money Craze Lessons o.
lniiation In Other Days.


luiiation in Other Days.
Special Correspondents OF the Gazette.
Washington, March Ex-senator
Dawes OF Massachusetts appeared
at an entertainment at Wizards hall
last night with one hundred and sixty
excursionists from Boston. These or
ganiaed bodies OF pleasure-seekers go
out from Eastern cities every day.
Men are engaged in the business of
making special contracts In all direc.
tons with railway managers
for the transportation, at special
rates. of societies and
of idle and independent people, who
choose to see the whole country and
mingle with those of remote dtates and
cities. 1t Is the New England mode
of studying character and geography.
Senator Dawes said II was the wisest
and best possible method OF cementing
ties OF Interstate amity. He went
further and stated that he had pro-
posed in the senate TO have Southern
congressman shipped, during vacation,
into New England, and those of New
England into the South. that Eastern
and Western states in like measure
should interchange these "commodi-
tea Very evidently the Massachusetts
senator has been reading that admiia.
BILE brochure OF your townsman, Mr..
Iiogg, who insists with infinite philo-
sophical and logical force that railways
are the truest and wisest and most
communicative of pedagogues. The
Massachusetts senator even grew elo-
quent; and forgetful of his usual di-
dactic style and dry, methodlcal, mo-
notonous voice and manner, he APP
pealed successfully to the enthusiasm
of his auditors and pronounced an elo-
quent eulogium upon the peculiar vir-
tues of the people Of each great subdi-
vision of American states.
One New England lady sang charm
ingly, and another enacted the role of
Lolita TO the great delight of the list
ening throng, We are led TO believe
by these facts that two results must
ensue; the one affecting rates of rail-
way travel the other, the relations OF
in habitants of remote sections to one
another.
CHEAP RATES.
These people travel, and are housed
and entertained at the best hotels in
the country for fifteen days at cost
of five dollars per diem each. They
leave Boston, spend n dry
or two in New York, n day in Phila-
uelphia, five days in Washington, a
day in Luray cave, return to Washing
ton TO spend three days in the Cave OF
the Winds on Capitol hill, they nd
mire the scattered squadron OF cavalry
in bronze that browses in our parks,
and go home, having expended noth-
| ing--these Bostonians neither smoke
nor drink-except few pennies In
street.car fare. Since Senator
| Dawes congressional excursions
will have no dead congressman In tow
to get away with cigars and liquors.
there can be no reason why the
scheme may not be cheuply executed.
The futile objection that the cOnstitu-
ton would not authorize such an eX-
penditure for such purpose might
have been listened to few years ago;
but the constitution il defunct. The
supreme court has Just knocked hole
in IL through which not only F0lger
may float out on bOundless sea of
French "assigDats" but Dawes may
run thousand locomotives and pull
through thousand Pullmans. !
While Democracy was dreaming Of the
extinction of the banks and substitu-
ton OF silver aud gold certificates for
bond-guarded promises to pay. the
supreme court comes to the rescue and |
sets up the Greenbackers and fiat |
money philosophers.
BAsELEss PAPER MONEY.
Do you remember the end of "Flush |
Times In Mississippi and Alabema9' |
] WIS telling you not long ago of fas-
cinating book having this title. With
in few years the book may be repub- |
lished. IL need not be rewritten, aud |
vet IL will he ali accurate history OF |
these next Ave OF. ten years. IN
Flush Times the whole country WAC
body owned more or less Of bank,
Property, land, horses and slaves
brought fabulous prices. Speculation
ran riot. Impossible towns aud cities
sprang into existence everywhere.
on the Mississippi won and
Lost ten and even one hundred thou
aand dollars on the turn of a card. a
United States senator
staked 100000 Ia the bonds Of that
state on game OF poker
and won. Never WAS there
such prosperity, never were such
fortunes 80 suddenly accumulated.
How il happened, ] don't know, but
/ used to hoar my father talk aissut IL,
that everybody seemed 10 wake up
one morning perfectly sober, Every.
body, at the same moment, Uncovered
the sballowness Of thisnniyersal iinan-
cial delusion. Nobody wanted any
more paper money. Every body de.
silver and gold, and fiat mon
ey OF the period was utterly worth
lees. The richest of the day before weret
the poorest OF the next. aud men and
women went mad. There were duelsl
and suicides and wretched poverty
and universal grief and pitiable snlier-
idgs OF the poor, until society Itself was
absolutely dissolved, and crime and
vice and beggary overwhelmed The
country.
ANOTHER FIAT MONEY CRAZE.
There was fiat money craze
in France. am no,
sure that il had origin in
the dicia Of the republican supreme
court OF that country, but 1t operated
there precisely as eighty years later, IN
the United States. France, too, had
rs speculative mania. France gam
bled In stocks and bonds. and town
lots, aud Frenchmen invested untold
millions in the mississippi scheme o.