Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Sheepmen at Chicago Injustice 10
Cotton and Wheat Growers.
The Negro as Factor in Free Trade
and Tariff Legislation.
The BIcyclists, Parade---A Cosmopol-
itan Club at the Capital.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.

Special Correspondence ofthc Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-Have you
read the proceedings of those modest
gentlemen, anything but sheepish,
who were "platformingn Monday at
Chicago? Wasn't 1t refreshing? They
coolly come before the country and tell
us that raising wool is not profitable
unless everybody donate small sums
to themselves-these sheep owners.
They 90 further and declare they will
not support any party in the coming
presidential contest which will not
agree to force every man, woman and
child in America to make contribu-
tions. whether they will or not, to the
purses of these imperlous sheep owners.
When shearing n sheep these Chicago
shepherds are not happy unless at the
same time they are shearing the help
less people. They can't compete with
the Australian wool growers unless
you give them a bonus.
THE COTTON PLANTERS AND WHEAT
GROWERS
have taken the matter, as the courts
awkwardly put IL, ''under advise
ment." Thee cotton planters are
so ferociously plundered by the tariff
system, which doubles or qusdruples
the cost of everything they use or con-
sumo, that they can't compete with
India and Egypt, and live, Every
ragged, rusty negro, ROBBED in cotton
ana hatless and shoeless, driving his
team In a protected wagon with pro-
tected whip, in protected harness,
hauling protected iron ties to the un-
protected cotton patches, cries out,
like the sheepmen, not for "protec-
ton" for his wool, but for his cotton.
Let us require these sheepmen and
the rest of our countrymen to pay $40
bounty for every cotton bale produced
In the South. This would almost
double the value of cotton, even rs we
are required by these sheep grow.
ers to double the price of wool.
Cotton growers are greater benefactors
OF our own and all other peoples than
wool growers. They deserve more,
therefore, at the hands Of government,
and II signifies nothing TO the wool
growers whether we aggrandize and
enrich the cotton and wheat growers
by bounties or by tariff. The cost To
the people Is precisely the same and
the export duty or bounty IL more
just, since 1t goes directly into the
pockets Of those who toll In the fields
to produce the cotton, while the pro
ceeds OF tariff protection are given
to wooden mills or intrust1d TO the
mill owners and not to their laborers.
Let us have an understanding with
the wcol growers. They are hon
est and Just. They will not
have the government rob
us and the poor negroes without max
ing restitution, and If they must have
80 per cent. protection for wool against
Australia, they will surely concede to
us 40 per cent protection for our cot.
ton against India and Egypt.
A SEC )ND NEGRO REBELLION COMING.
The negroes of Texas have revolted
against the carpet baggers, and pro-
pose to inject their moral and intel
lectual force and their genius for tasks
of craftsmanship into the Republican
Chicago convention. Can't these
negroes compel Blaine or Arthur or
Grant or Logan to make terms with
them? Shall sheepmen swear
that they will support no party or can
didate that does not propose to support
the war tariff on wool, while the
astute Mr.. Nelson OF Galveston, lead
ing his race, demands no equivalent
protection for cotton? Shall the negro
always be newer OF wood and a
drawer of water for superior cunning
and adroiter robbers of popular toll
II is against Australian cheap labor
that the astute sheepmen demand
protection So they say. But is II
not, in fact, conspiracy to rob cheaper
labor in Texas cotton and Iowa wheat
fields? AS Sam Randall, rep.
es,nting protected mines and
mills, is n protectionist inside
the Democratic party, so should be
every negro, representing unprotected
cotton. free-trader inside the Repub-
lican party. Either this, or Sam RAN
dali should join the Republicans, and
Mr.. Nelson, with his colored followers.
the free trade Democracy. And very
certainly honest and just wool growers
would not consent to the eXaction of a
bonus from their cotton and wheat
growing neighbors, struggling against
Egypt and India and Russia and the
wretched toilers In the valley of the
Danube, In order that these wool
growers may be protected against rs-
mote Australia.
NEGRO CHARACTER AND INSTINCTS.
The most generous and kindly OF
Gods creatures Is the average planta-
ton negro. have never seen one
refusing to share his last crust with
one hungry or poorer than himself.
They are always ready to give. They
have an intuitive and keen sense OF
Justice. They are dreadful jurymen,
Furnishing crime and wrong with abso.
lutte iierceness. j am not telling OF
their faults, but of their virtues, and
these exaggerate, as every one reared
on q plantation will confess, in moth
ing. Their very virtues have lean
Ing to vices side. IL was gratitude"
to Lincoln, q Republican, that makes
them Republicans, and robbed as they
are with demoniacal selfishness
by Lincoln's unworthy party, they
persist in blind devotion to thofe
whose whole code OF morals, whose
politics or legislation consists in the
robbery OF the poor and OF the many,
and especially OF the negro, TO enrich
and aggrandize the rich aud powerful.
very mudsill on which Is reared this
vast and gorgeous superstructure OF
splendid robbery ycleped the "protec-
tivep tariff system. The wool-growers
tell the story when they demand pro-
lection against Australia, and utter
never u word In behalf OF those
who are plucked on every hand by
every process OF "protection,n and yet
when thus burdened must compete
with India and Egypt.
THE wIIEEI,MEN.