The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-28


south 10 the wage-wOrkers of the north but to the
few who employed them What has been the re
suit: fortunes were acq Tired by the few VIII,
owned the machinery of New Jersey, New York
/ Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, while the multi
tude of labOrers, diverted from agriculture toileC
/ on as wage-workers, until they now outnumber tn,
/ representations in every great mannfacturin.
state. This unequal distribution of wealth ne tn,
direct result OF violating the great principles of de
mccracy, which favOrs the reatest good to the
greatest number, ana tie very states which reapeC
the chief benefit from violating the constitution
are now confronted with the avenging Nemesis OF
| turbulent and disseminated wage-workers There
VIII be toundthe storm centers of labor agitation
| and lis tiercest mutterings are hearC
in the depths of their Mines in the heart of theil
great cities, and wherever protected MACHINERY
gathers wealth for the few.
EXCUSES To CoNTINsE HIGH TARIFF
With national trea ury loaded with nearly two
hundred millions of money, now needed by the
people as circulating medium, every effort is
made to attract the public mind with
grand enterprises that require much money,
in order to create a . necessity for
continuing this organized plumber of the prOduC-
lng classes We are advised to raise about seventy
millions OF money under pretense of educating,
or ten millions more than we needed for all gov
eminent expenses in 1860 This can only be raised
by tariff that would collect from the people only
to be returned to them with directions how to use
il.
y like sum is proposed to be issued in bonds to
dlg snip railway through the lands of another
government under the pretense of building up a
commerce which we have lost, AID can never be re-
established until the tariff bars that keep from
far trade with the world are removed. With such
drains upon the treasury the continuance of a
protective tariff would be necessity Thus
the public mind is to be diverted
from considering the infamy of or
grand enterprises, even as Roman emperors once
attracted the populace with shows and costly pa
geants, that they might rejoice in their gilded
seryitlde,
HOW 1T OPERATES ON TEXAS.
If the money, which under the operation of this
high tariff is transferred to the owners of northern
factories, would ever return to us, we might find
some little consolation, 1t never returns Each
year Texas alone pays to the protected machinery
OF the north over fifteen millions of money on
their goods which we consume, and this over and
ABOVE the amount We pay into the federal treas
nry on foreign imports used by us. This, under
the operation OF tariff laws, is in the nature of
forced contribution, The trainers of our govern.
ment woul1 blush for our degeneracy,it they could
see the uses to which the taxing power under the
broad sweep of that general welfare clause Is pros
ututed. The money which Texas people alone pay
under protective tariff, over and above the
amount We pay into the federal treasury would ii
Kept at nome as circulating medium, make us
prosper In SIX years, as no other people do under
the sun
CAway with this protect Re tariff, for it has pau.
perized all other sections to enrich those who
nave mOnopoliZed the forces of nature in one sec
On, and 1t now stands in the very front of the real
CAUSES that breed discomfort, Away with the Sam
Randallites of congress, who never knew the mean
ing Ut Jeifersonian democracy, and who stand the
recognized poems of protected machinery Which
they serve This man. Randall, in the last CON
gress, proposed, for the benefit of PENNSYLVANIA
to increase the duty on tin, which is
used most by the poor, from one per cent. to two
and half per cent, which would have resulted in
an increased tax of over eighteen millions.
TARIFF REFORM
What is the remedy The destruction of the vast
wealth, embarked in protective industries wOull
involve multitude in ruin. In the language of
the national platform: "ln making reduction in
taxes it is lot propo. ed to injure any domestic in
lustres, butrather promote their healthy growth.
The government which is responsible for the I'M
natural growth of factory enterprises, must grad.
lally reverse its policy. This reform can come
only from closer union of the great masses of
The west and SOUTH gradual reduction of duties
IN most foreign imports, their abolition all ar
iCles in common Use as food among men, and their
Increase on articles luxury used by the few should
De the first reform, and only enough money
should be collected to pay the interest the ubC
lebt, and ran the government with economy For
myself, believe the end, for which we should |
abor, is free trade with the world That country |
= always best governed in which every citizen |
l derstands just how much he pays fOrithe max |
ng and enforcement Of its laws, and who knows |
ut when, and to whom, he pays it.
The plundering methods of protective tariff on |
agriculture, from which our great wea TIA has been
lrawn, must cease, Nr our form of government !
will change. Already Blaine, Sherman and Logan |
nave spoken and the burden OF their song is
protective tariff. This will be a republican slogan
If the next presidential contest
10 show how narrow the issues have become be- |
ween the two parties, which the mere politician |
JrUClaims, the Illinois republican convention, on
he first of last month, adopted a platform which |
avored the preservation Of government lands for |
ctual settlers opposed alien ownership, favored |
he forfeiture of lnearned land grants to the gov
rnment; denounced anarchists: favored prompt |
onvictiOn of fraudulent voters; favored pensions
o disabled soldiers, and favored regulating and !
Uniting the powers OF railway companies On
wO things Only did they distinctly announce any
hing that democrat cannot approve. One was
enumeration of the administration of President
Cleveland, and the other was opposition to demo-
ratio attempts to establish free trade
But other issues than the tariff will confront
hem. Their systematic violation of the constitu-
ion for over twenty years has crystalizeG the
over of moneyed and transportation corpora
ions, which now dictate the policies of govern
lent, and it is the mission of the democracy to
uTb and restrain them.
PAYMENT OF BONDS IN COIN.
Under the operation of the tariff broad inequali-
les of fortunes, not only between men, but be-
yeen states, began; but it was reserved for re-
ublican congress to increase these inequalities by
single act of legislation, which, for bold, un-
flushing injustice, mas no parallel The act of
$685. which required payment OF government bonds
n coin, which, by the terms OF the contract, were
ayabe in greenbacks, was an act of unbushing
Obhery. 1t was free will Offering of the fruits of
aX8tiOn to our creditors, without consid ration,
ihich when We con ider the deprecated value of
aper money at the time, had the effect of increas
ny the value of the bonds not less |
han seven hundred millions of money.
Iere was a transfer of seven hundred millions
f money by republican congress from those who
oil to the pockets OF those who scheme. 7 his
legislative transfer was made in the face of the
rotest made only a year before in the national
platform, which demanded in terms
one money for the bond-holder well as the
PRODUCER, and that wren bonds were not on their
ace payable in coin, they should be redeemed by
he lawful money of the country
The race, my friends, for wealth between those
lho toll in manual labor and those who, being
more carefully educated, mediate and scheme, is
Unequal without government hell to the men who
lad already grown rich enough to have loaned it
heir millions When that aid was bestowed by
n act of congress, which required us all to toll
nd pay taxes to the extent of seven hundred
Millions in value, more than the government was
for, In order that il might 90 to credit
RS who had not earned it, and to whom we hac
ever promised it, a crime was perDetrated against
itizen who was thus despoied, and against civilza
OrtuEe.
THE PACIFIC RAILWAY.
The democratic party had proclaimed as a part
f its creed "public money and public credit for
ublic purposes only, and public land for actual
ettlers.
The republican party, under pretense of eXpe-
iting commerce, voted away to the Pacific roads
lone, between July, 1862, and March, 1871, one
undred and forty-fOur million five hundred ana
thousand one hundred and thirty -four
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