The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-06
AZ Warrington.

AT Washington this winter there
will be two very important questions
pressing for settlement, the tariff and
and silver questions. These are both
of the utmost importance to the
whole country, but particularly so
to the west and the south. In their
proper adjustment Is bound up the
veal and woe of these two sections.
The weight of the agricultural inter-
ests of tho nation is found in the west
and the south. Six-sevenths of our
flfty millions of people are dependent
upon agricultural operations and sill
yer mining. 1t is to the best inter
ests of the farmers to be permitted to
buy where they can buy the cheapest,
aud sell where they can secure the
best prices. A tariff, such as Mr..
Randall proposes, shuts them of
from all the outside markets, pre-
vents that barter of commodities in
which is found the largest per cent,
of profit, and forces the farming
classes to purchase such wares as the
protected industries of the country
choose to give them, and for the price
demanded. Before a protective tariff,
the farmers of the union will stand
bound hand and foot, the silt mt, help
less and voiceless victims of the greed
of the manufacturers. The congress
sional representation from this state
is In accord with the other southern
representations ON both ofthese ques-
tious. They are unanimously
free-traders in sentiment and
will vote and work to
defeat Mr.. Randalrs iron
masters methods of growing rich by
grinding the faces of the poor, and
by levying exactions upon the farm
ing interests of the nation. We would
not have Texas stand back while such
an issue was being settled. We would
even have her to lead in it. We would
have our stalwart senator, Coke,
stand out well to the front in the up
per, while Culberson, Reagan, Mills,
Wellborn, Miller, Stewart and others,
exhibited the temper of Texas in the
lower house. After that settlement
has been made, after permanent,
equitable and fair tariff law had been
secured, we would be equally prond
to see them rise up in solid pbalanx
behind silver, the money of the south
and the west, the money OF our fore
fathers, and the money of the poor
On these two points the south canno,
afford to be either weak or vascillat-
ing. She must come tothe front, and
in coming, we would be proud TO see
Texas in the lead, as well in numbsrs
a. in ability and unity.
To the west aud northwest of us
is growing up tremendous empire
built solidly upon foundations of sill
yer. The vast Rocky Mountain re-
gion is scanned throughout its entire
length aud to its utmost depths with
silver lined assures. While time
lasts this will furnish employment
and business for six or seven popu
lous and prosperous states. But de-
stroy the money quality Of silver, and
these would soon revert to the savage
conditions which prevailed before the
precious metal deposits beckoned tht
civilization of the world to theii
wierdly beautiful valleys and awfully
sublime snow-capped mountain peaks
The silver west and the sunny south
stand shoulder to shoulder upon these
two great questions. The one pro-
tects her fields, the other her mines
They have protective leagues all over
the iron-producing eastern aud mid.
die states. They have untold sums
of money boarded with which to
fight silver in the interests Of gold
and the bondholders, aud agriculture
in the interests of the irOn-kings of
Pennsylvania. To this solid ofganiz-
alton we can only oppose votes, and
votes are what win the fight. As
long as the west aud the south enjoy
an equal suffrage with the north and
the east, so long are they safe, but
we must see to it that the votes are
cast.