Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-11

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he argued in favor OF the sugar tai
which he said was Q source ct revenue II
| time OF peace and war and gave employ
rhent to many lsborers. The country
was already producing enough beet sugar
to justify the prophecy that from hel
fields would be taken greater wealth thar
had been wrung in golden treas.
i ures from her mountains. Strike
down this industry, ntlemen OF
that new creed, gentlemen Of the
selected protection faith, and its ruins
would remain as q monument to their
lack OF craftsmanship with honest hu-
manity. 1. would not do for them to
think that they could offer destruction In
one hand and life in another. They could
not secure an abandonment Of principle
by talking about bounty on sugar.
Mr.. Brumm Of Pennsylvania said Gro
yer Cleveland, acting IS President of the
United States, had solemnly proclaimed .
doctrine which was the spawn Of the cot
ton combine, OF the Wall street sharks,
and OF Kentucky whisky rings. By pro-
lection only could fair remunerative
wages be paid for labor. He was there
fore for protection and against class leg
islation In the interest of cotton, whisky
and Great Britain. 1t was not the
fault Of the tariff thst there WAS distress
in the coal and iron regions. It was the
damnable tyranny Of Scott and Cox
and others like them which pitted the
men against each other.
Mr.. Brumm denounced the "gall' Of
the southern Democrats who professed
great regard efor lstor. That same ele-
ment had reduced its laborers to more
abject slavery than before the war. Then
they named them slaves; to-day they
added insult to injury by calling them
freemeD, and disgraciug them by placing
then side by side with convicts and shoot
ing them like dogs if they dared to pro-
test. TODAY the northern laborer WAS
working out the great problem of his re,
lation to capital, and the southern repro
sentatives would assist them and show to
the nations the path to glory and light.
Mr.. Clements of Georgia asked what
protection was doing for labor. The
American iron master got his labor az
cheap as he could even II he had to go in
to other countries for 1t, even II he had to
employ Plnkerton detectives to keep
the laboring man Of America
from revolving against him. |
This was practical illustration of the
great sympathy felt for labor. The talk
about organized labor being peculiar to
the north and not to the sonth was mean
ingless. There had risen up in the south
to-day great organizations or declarations
Of farmers. There we're labor unions of
one kind or another too. All of them
were the outgrowth OF the condition
In which the American people were placed
to-day under the system OF taxation.
They were not peculiar to one section or
another. They were peculiar to the dis
tressing conditions which surround the
leading men of the entire country, and
were only an indication that they were
seeking in their way and
In every way to better their condition.
He sdiured the gentlemen on the other |
side to abandon their disposition toward |
the Confederate constitution and slavery |
snd to deal with this question which con-
cerned the people Of the whole country. |
There had been inaugurated in this
system Of investment |
which would make the debtor |
class Of the United States north |
aud south as deeply enthralled as the
Irish were to-day. Money in great sums
WAS being loaned By associations Oh lands
in great quantities, and the result would |
be that the great mass OF the people |
would at no distant day be turned |
put Of their homes and the real estate Of |
The country, like the money, would be &C.
in the hands of the few.
The committee rose and the House took |
, recess until . O'Clock, the evening ses- |
'ion to be for debate on the tariff bill.