San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-02
BREWSTER VS.. GRAIN.
CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST IN
9TH DISTRICT.
Colonel Brewster's Vigorous Ar
raignment of Grains Free
Trade Record.

Believing that the readers of the EXpress
throughout the district had a deep interest in
Colonel c. G. Bre ster's candidacy against the
Hon. ". Il. Grain for congress- your re porter
called on the gentleman today tor the purpose
of obtaining mis- views upon some of the ques
! tons that are iuterC sting this people. As will
G seen. the Re porter confined his questions
entirely IL the tariff issue, bel ewing that to be
OF paramount interest just at this moment.
HIS remarks however, need no lengthy intro
ductiOn. They are herewith submitted, my
questions, which make themselves apparent,
being eliminated:
| would be pleased if you would state to
your readers that in compliance with the re-
q Gest of many friends, irrespective of party,
in this congressional district TO become a can
didate for congress against the present in
cumbent. Hon. w. H. Grain, avail myself OF
this opportunity TO express through you my
sincere thanks 20 those who have done me the
honor TO name me as the one TO head move
ment avainSt the rulnOus free trade policy OF
the Mills bill, now in the senate, having
passed the house OF representatives rs it is
calculated TO effect the industrial aud COM
mercIal interests OF south and southwest
Texas. L am free to say, however, that would
have pref erred that some democrat, who cared
more for the true interests OF tits portion OF
Texas than for supposed interests in other
sections, and one VINO had no fear of the party
lash, would have come forward as the leader
in this protest against the ruin OF all our
stock interests.
II is one of the marveIs of this age of sur.
prises, that Mr.. Grain cou ID have stood 10y and
seen his party slaughter the wool industry,
VIII Oh is represented by millions of dollars in
Texas. Nor is this all, He not only stood by
and saw it done. without a protest, but he
aided by his vote in this wanton onslaught, he
tamely submitted to this outrage while other
representatives in other southern states Sc
cured ample protection for their home indus
tries. II they did SO why could not MIR. Cram
have made the same for his district? But it is
an undeniaOle fact that he voted to place wool
on the free list. If his fellow democrats were
dustrieS in Louisiana, Georgia and the Caro-
linas, why should not our representative have
industry of his congressional iii trIcr! and il
doing so l t mink he misIepresented
the wishes G BAD majority Gr, Oh odn ms
what he should have done both by his
influence and mis- vCte-rangcd himself
against the unjust discrimination against
wool 1t would have met with the approya. OF
his constituents. lii tact, had he Withheld his
approval OF scheme for reducing our rev.
enueS so maniiestly unjust TO our Interests,
they would have said to him well done, good
and faithful servant But did he do this
DID he enter his protest against the caucus
schedule that placed every interest OF his con-
stituents on tn free list! Did he withhold
his approval! Not at all. In obedience to his
blind zeal to a party creed unter the whip OF
Vi lis and Scott, he heroicaily sacrificed the
interests of his district to make himself solid
with the admins tratiOn, geDer ,uSly putting
the largest wool growing, cattle ana LOrSe
breeding district in Ihe United States on tue
free list. How lavish one can be with what
belongs to another. He was as liberal in MS
sacrifice of the wool interest, as was the late
Artemus Ward who was willing to sacrifice
all of his wite's relatives i'll the late war.
Right here is where Mr.. Grain and differ |
am Tor protection, he being, SO IA as western
Texas Is concerned, an avUwed free trader.
Mr.. Grains friends will come around soon
with their soothing rhetoric and New York
statistics, gotten up by SpOHOrd Tor campaign
purposes to convince US that Grain is not Il
f~.,1 t~pE o.
fact. that whatever ne or mis- rlenuS may say,
in this and Other STA eS, he, Mr. Cram the
Hon. W. H. Grain, of the Seventh congress
siOnal district of Texas, is tiattrOted free
trader, as far rs his district Is Concerned as
he placed his district on the free list.
This is fac, I. l. W. n Grain and his friends
TO face When they come among rs they ca,
not deny it without mourning the RISK OF
center shot from fixed lact OF killing con-
tradictiOn. ASK then wEcn th"y come q"oting
their Sputf0rd figures what protection the
horses Ask them theee questions and d.
inand answers. | want every iegal voter in
this district to understand how gener .usly |
Mr, Grain has offered his entire constituency
for the good Of MS party In other states, /
want them to understand that Nr. T.. am
deems party interests in other states para |
mount to all the wool and cattle interests OF |
his constituents i'll his district. This Is |
what he has said by his vote In. Wash |
ingtOn, notwithstanding anything that he MAJ |
say now. His vote was with Mills, v no told \
the MANUFACTURERS OF RnOQe lSldnh Ildt WItE |
raw ma erlal, wool on the free list. they could
make five per cent more than now, aided by |
protection. Well, suppose that they can how |
W ii it be with the wool grower here and his |
profits and wages one half? How will it be |
with our ca, tie and horse men when cattle
from Chihuahua and sonora, Mexico can be-
srld in the Chicag market chet per tran the
cattle and horses from southwest Texas?
What must be the price Of wool that mus
with wool from 5 nth America?
What will "tc'mc OF our wool growing mar
kttS, beginning ~ Galveston aud ending 1T
Eagle Pass: Perhaps. 100, our generous Mr..
Grain will tel. you that cheaper wool will give
cheaper cotton.
voted TO Kill vitHl industry OF this street.
He did not seem to think that, in killing the
wool industry, h. was thereby cutting GOWN
the price of iaud, ana, WITH this industry
Swept away, what an irreparabe loss there
will be. TO vote again for Grain. is vote t.
lie StrOy every sheep ranch in this district, and
TO reduce the LAND back to its price twenty
years ago. TO vote for hIs return to Washing
,On is TO vote to deprive h rise and cattle men
IF all their profits and render their rancht
Improbable. This is condition and not
theory" that cOufrOnts every voter III this dis
riot, and If he feels that his party realty IS
more important to him than his horses, his cat
lie, and hls sheep, let him vote for @r. Grains
'eturn to congress. But if he feels hat his ill.,
erAsts, and his neighbours interests, and the
interests of the entire district. are more to
lim than Mr. Grains l.dity with tnc free
rade bosses, let him vote to let Mr.. Grain re.
main at home tor awhile.
Let him come home and feel the lrlbOw
ouch of his fellows. and realize their cOndi-
ion, instead OF feeding on theories at Wash
ngton. On the intelligent man, who cannot
Ice that free trade ON wool in west Texas
means dcstructiOn-full and complete-of the
ire wOh Interests | have no words To
waste. If free trade for wool was
rood for this district, why was it not
rood for sugar in Louisiana? Why was it not
rood for Rice in Georgia? Why was it not
rood for IRON IN Alabama and Pennsylvania q?
( Won wOud the fruit pT tpcriOn. IODk /