Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-18
FARMERS AND TAXATION.
Necessity for Relief of the Agricultural
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J al still live - John Quincy Adams.
J And the Democracy still lives. Though
/ Morrison aud Hurd are defeated, though
old Virginia has sent majority of Re-
publicans to represent her in the Fiitieth
congress, though Kentucky is seemingly
not what she once was, here is cause for
/ rejoicing In the great Democratic party
OF he country. Alabama, Arkansas,
| Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, have
their ranks well dressed. Louisiana will
cast solid vote for Carlisle for speaker,
and Missouri has done nobly. But the
streak of dawn is found in Minneso-
ia, Nebraska and Colorado. AT last the
great West Is aroused and the meridian
sun viii shed It's beams In 1888. Though
the Democratic administration has more
mugwumpery in its composition than is
heseeming to plain people, the Flftieth
congress will be Democratic and John g.
Carlisle will be speaker OF the house.
Though there was discomfort in some
quarters, ,reachery 10 others and apathy
all along the line, the result of last week
proves that Democratic vitality is unim-
paired, and that Republicanism is on its
last legs.
There Is but one cause for apprehen-
sion, and that is the Labor party. 1t il
whlrling around through space, without
any definite object except TO smash things
as 1t fnds them The great danger to the
farming interests lies in the fact that the
Labor party does not know what the rem.
edy is. 1t Is controlled by capitalists
who have grown rich of labor. Here we
find the protectionists OF Pennsylvania
using the knights Of Labor OF Illinois to
defeat VIM. II. Morrison, the foremost
tribune of the people in all the land. We
find them solidly against Frank Hurd, the
only true friend that labor has in OHIO,
with the exception Of Allen G. Thurman,
who has been mustered out of the service
A blind man ought to see that we can
have no real prosperity In this country
until we have relief for the great agrlcul-
tural interests, and relief for those inter-
ests can come only when we have practi-
cal free trade, bmetallism, free coinage
OF silver, the abolition of the national
banks, strict economy in the public ex-
penditures, and the combining of those ex-
penditures to the objects and purposes
found in the constitution after strict
construction Of that instrument, and an
interstate commerce law that will awaken
the railroad monopolists to the fact that
this country was built for the masses and
not for the classes.
These are The reforms we want and
these are the reforms we viii have when
the farmers of the Northwest Join the
farmers Of the South in demand for
them. II so.called labor organizations
in the North Snd East are TO cut wide
swath, why may not the farmers OF the
country, who are as much laboreGs as
those who WELD Il sledge in a shop or
gather coal In mine, cut a wider swath?
That which 10 good for Mississippi or
Texas is bound to be good for Kansas or
Nebraska. We can get no aid from any
party except the Democracy, and Dem
ocracy at that that is clesnsed
from Randall and Vandalism. NV
voice is Tor war. / would say TO
the revenue Ieformers in congress: "Ad- |
vance our banner and dress our ranks. |
Right must prevail and war taxes must
be repealed. Hold a caucus this winter
and pass reform tariff bill, even though /
we must have an extra session to pass the |
regular appropriation blllsn
You must have organization and discip-
line ia party in order to maintain il. |
Traitors must be tried, copyic led and
eN cuted, Expediency must give place 10
and all whose stomachs are too
delicate to eat what true Democracy sets
before them must be invited out Of the
house, and If they do not heed the invita-
tioh they must be kicked out