San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-10-25

exactly to the same fgure-if ho
docs not do it no is q fool-they
have done it, because they have all
grown immensely rich Carnegie
alone has an income of over million
dollars year.
I mn not astonished that the farm
ors are uneasy, but may DO aston
ished and regretful that they do not
look in tho right direction for relief
The farmers OF this county have pro-
duced 600 millions surplus that can
not be sold or consumed in this
country, and Of that surplus, 2O3
millions is cotton-one third Of the
entire surplus cotton. Do You sup
pose that you can sell that 600 mil
lion to those people in Europe unless
you buy something from them 7 Do
you think ships will take our cotton
aud bring back nothing in return for
it? They send us about 700 million
and we send them 600 worth OF our
products to balance This is trade,
this is commerce. The farmers OF
the United States are settling all tho
balance of trade in this country OK
cept 100 millions and the farmers OF
the South arc settling about one
third OF the whole with their cotton.
The worst feature of the present
tariff is that it levies specific duties
almost entirely with but little al
valorem. The Mills bill gets rid OF
the specific duty and substitutes IN
ad valorem duty. The poor men OF
this country are paying the interest
on the public debt and are paying
the debt. 1 can find very poor
man who is paying more of the M
tional debt than any rich man in this
country. 1t Is tax on consumption,
not on property, not on what you
have but on that which you want to
buy to consume.
I would rather see every democrat
in this State, including myself de-
feated than to see Roger @. Mills de-
feated. They are waging an unholy
war on Roger Mills.
The little, two-bit hired stump
speakers who are defaming the dem
ocratic party, these non-partisans,
like all hypocrites, when they assume
virtue they begin the same story II
am a democrat OF Jacksonian and re-
publican principles" This non-par-
tisan party which has sprung up like
Jonah's gourd in single night, led
by men who know nothing of politi
cal economy and finance claims that
the democratic party is responsible
for the misfortunes of the poor farm
err. From 1865 to 1876 the repub-
lican party has held uncontrolled
possession of the country; the dem
ocratic party of your nation never
had possession of the government,
the Senate is unfriendly to you, it is
in the hands of the republican party;
we have the President and the House
but every bill must pass the Senate
before it can reach the President,
and in the Senate there q majority
against us. The democratic house
has done all that could be done to
relieve these people of taxation.
l love an independent man. Born
free myself, and of Irish blood, II
want to be Independent, and I am
but 1 am independent in my party.
I love my neighbors and can meet
them in convention and counsel with
them. I can fight my battles at
home with my own brethren, but be-
fore creep around to the republi-
can party for an endorsement as did
the great mogul of the non-partisan
party in this county, I would creep
into my grave. The non partisans
were too mean to be democrats and
not good enough to be republicans.
The speaker charged that COL r.
j. Sledge had solicited the endorse
ment of the republican district con-
vention at Schulenberg, as q candl-
date for congress from this district.
In this statement he was corroborat- |
ed by G. w. Buchanan, col, who
was delegate to that convention.
Sledge does not know whether to go
in or to come out, while I have been
in Washington he (Sledge) has been
corresponding with republicans of
my county, trying to secure their en-
dorscment for congress. He has ia
ken advantage Of me in my absence
and gone into these societies where l
could not go, and there underworld
to undermine me with my neIghbors
and friends in this district. Fellow
if have personal friend
N this county l do not want him to
persuade Sledge not to run let him
run and when he starts it will be the
fastest running he ever did-hell
run, but he'll run from the honest
non of this county like the very
levil!
II