Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-18

Now bless your innocent souls,
every farmer among Us knows that we
get just what dealers can pay for
wheat, basing the price on Liverpool,
deductipg freight, elevator charges,
interest, insurance, commissions, fair
margin, etc. You from the East come
10 Chicago aud buy what you want In
the open market, and pay no more than
the relative Liverpool value. The same
Is true OF pork, beef. aud corn; and II
YOU do use 90 per cent. of all our prod
ice, you do mot of our great staple,
wheat So we who do the hardest OF
the work get the least pay, wear the
poorest clothes, and pay the highest
price for all we buy Give us cheaper
goods. aud we will give yop cheaper
provisions; make your goods n little
cheaper nld you can sell In other
lands, You cannot do 20 now. We
Furnish YOU the hest breadstufis In the
world, and cheaier than the English
manufacturer gets them. We are do.
ing our share 10 enable you TO send
your goods 10 Mexico and to South
America.
Last year we took forty-nine million
dollars worth of coffee from Brazil
aud paid SIS, 100000 of II In gold. DO
~ England Is doing In wheat, getting
Il elsewhere than where gold must be
paid for Il. Brazil taxes our pork 4
cents per pound, hams 3 cents; and we
should buy coffee of Mexico where We
cam sell our productions. Cultivate
| trade with our friends AMI they will
cultivate more cnilce, and let Brazil
keep her coffee 40 long ns she discriml-
mates against ny. What Mr.. Chair
man, is the tendency OF the times; Is II
not toward the increase of niitlionaircs
and trampsr We can remember when
we had very few of either, and II we go
on ss we have been going we will soon
have nothing else Aud do you think
the people will be happy them win
we not rather lave such work ~ at
| Pittsburg a few years ago?
Isa tariff OF % per cent. on diamonds
and 90 To 100 per cent. on wooden goods
conducive to comfort for the poor, yea,
for the great middle classes In my state,
where the mercury reaches thirty de-
gree below zero every wintorY wish
to protest against such Legislation, and
would gladly join In amending the
pending bill +; but ! give notice here
that | will vote for u horizontal reduc-
ton VI nothing better can he had, even
II II does reduce the tariff on diamonds
TO per cent. and leave the mnnufac-
lures of wool at SO per cent.
We are forced To compete with all
the world aud In the open markets OF
the world In our productions, and pay
81 per cent. on our wooden goods In
duty, So per cent. ON glass and earth.
ern ware; and still we found no fault 40
long ns the money was needed, but
when Il IN not needed, we object.
Mr.. Chairman, our farms have
changed hands on AN average
twice already since we made
them In my state; yes,
sir, twice ON mortgages In thirty years,
going Into the hands of these Eastern
men. who still cry out for more protec-
tion. Money loaned at 10 per cent.
out Ia our country In 1855, and 10 on
down To ~ until the whole property
changed hands. Mr.. Chairman, the
gentleman from Connecticut Mr..
Eatonl said that there were now sixty
articles manufactured In his state
which need no protection, And /
met n gentleman this week who In
Misunderstanding down In Virginia and
sending his productions to England,
and IL prosperous and n free-trader.
| Now, apprehend that II we had
facilities OF transportation on the
water ma we have 10y our railroads on
the land we would very soon be put
ting our productions into South Amer
lea md into different countries where
we send nothing now, and commend
, Ia the attention of our manufacturing
friends In New England the carrying
trade on the high seas, in. which call
! ing many thousands of our people eau
find employment profitnbly, II we fos-
ter that Interest as we should. We
can not reach Rio JaneIro 40 quickly
or ~ chcaply direct as we can by way
OF England.
Mr. Chairman, II we can not amend
this bill, then ] for one will vote for II
as II H. II we can get 10 a vote on the
main question; and ! know thnt Ia
be the sentiment OF the people of my
state.