Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Great and Overshadowing Question
For Solution by Congress.
Whisky Of Secondary Importance AT
tcmpts to Divert Attention.
An Appeal to Past History--Senator
Maxey's Vigorous Thrust.
,clal CORRESPONDENCE Of the Gazette.

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Social Correspondence of the Gazette.
Washington, January a. Senator
Maxey made q vigorous thrust Mt the
monstrous class-breeding tariff system
when he said to Senator Frye this
morning that the best thing England
had ever done, in behalf of her world
wide commercial power and ubiqui-
the establishment of practical free
trade. In 1855 we Ind the
lowest tariff that distinguishes the
history of our revenue system for q
long series of years, and from 1916,
when the revenue tariff became opera
tive, till IL was supplanted by the
present scheme of robbery and wrong,
our ships and trade competed with
those of England everywhere the
world over. But the war tariff came
and everything entering into the con
struction of ships was doubled in
price, until John Roach asks
that such material be- admitted
free of duty. MIR. Holman proposes
that ii such s'drawbacks" be given
Roach he be required 10 pay half
the sum he thus receives to the men
he EMPLOYS In ship-building, aud then
another and wiser law-giver proposes
To have all raw materials used in man
utacturing processes imported duty
free, in order that the manu- ,ictured
articles may bear expectation, and
compete in foreign markets with pro-
ducts OF those markets. Until this is
done, insists another, there can be
no profitable American ships
and none will be built. Then
comes Senator Morgan of Alabama
with the proposition 10 repeal the nav
igation acts and suffer Americans TO
buy ships anywhere aud have them
registered rs American built vessels
and give them monopoly of our
coasting trade, or better still repeal
the whole scheme of navigation acts.
But the great end aimed at is the re-
duction of burdens imposed upon the
masses of the people that the few
may he enriched. The treasury in
vest one hundred millions more, an
nually, from toiling multitudes than
the government needs. The remo-
cratic party would suffer the people to
retain this sum; the Republican party
| thinks IL can use and eXpend tnis
money more wisely for The people
than they for themselves, The
party in power is the party
of the rich--of the protected classes
OF banks, bonds, rails, mines and tar
IFS. Tho Democracy is the party Of
the plundered common people, The
pending partisan conflict iJ therefore
war of classes, and the sooner 1t Is
peacefully Terminated by the in
sentative of the people, like Morrison,
with executives power, the better for
the masses OF our countrymen.
THE WHISKY QUESTION
is subordinate issue. a class of men
enormously taxed and without refer
enc right or equality OF public bur
den aXed, in fact, n hundred-iold
more than any other producers or con-
sumers, If we except those of tobacco
tells congress that the government
having perfect security for $50, 600 600,
now due, must extend the time of
payment two years. There can be no
loss and the question IL whether the
whisky men and banks carrying
them must be ruined or the extern
sion granted. The government does
not need the money. The tariff extorls
by process of indirecti0n and thrift,
more than enough wealth
from the people to maintain
the government and the pension bu-
reau and give the whisky men the
credit they ask for If they were not
whisky men, IL they were hog and
hominy men asking such relief under
such circumstances, nobody would OBJ
ject, but taese whisky producers UNI
happily command popular sympathy
in nothing. In truth half
the people think the
government criminal that It suffers
whisky mills to exist on any terms,
aud that If the government fail 10
bankrupt these heavily taxed citizens,
having equal rights with the rest OF
W., the government itself will be ac-
cursed of heaven. There is
mo, more oh.e OF empty m prejudice, you
ton TO the request Of the whisky man
uineturcfs than of approved reason,
and If the whisky bin be enacted and
the relief asked for be granted, and
eodly people raise an uproar about it,
they should reflect that the whisky
men were induced 10 make this APP
cause the tariff fiiIs the
treasury To overlooking, and the gov
as veil as not, may save
these gorgeous Taxpayers, and the
banks that carry them, from whole
sale bankruptcy and ruin.
Practically, 80 far as public burdens
are involved, 1t signifies little or moth
ing whether the whisky men be re-
lieved or not. The government has no
use for the money whisky owes II,
and there Is no probability
Of loss. The government holds
two dollars or more in whisky for each
one dollar due the government, and
time rapidly doubles the value OF this
security.
Bat this question, of which I was
telling, discussed by Senators Maxey,
Morgan and others this morning, in
wolves the diminution of burdens
that robe negroes in rags and make
the people of the South "profectedn in
nothing and enormously taxed in all
things, the poorest of all our country
men.