Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-05

Treasury at the rate Of SO 900 600 8
mon b, sId dec!sred that sly tsGsticn
I which tskes rom the people more money
than wss necessary TO wise and
economical administration Ct the
government is IN unjust taxation.
a citizen of McLeGuan county had ar
rsigned Cleveland, Carlisle SID the
speaker for trying to relieve the people
| OF this unnecessary taxation, That clti
Zar called the Mills bill fraud corrected
| by hslf dozeu men whose Democracy he
| impesched, aad wss nov seeking
. purer Democracy in the
I depths OF the Republican psrtY.
he q Ies) had been introduced
and cbampi0ned by William Cameron the
"Lumber King Of Texas" OF course
Cameron is against the Mills bill for It
strikes down the tariff Of 81 thousand
| on lumber, SO the poor man can buy it
cheap when he wants to fence his farm Or
| build shelter for his wife spd children.
Taking upthe wcol question the speaker
declare thst the Wool grower had always
realized more from this product u1der
s low than under q high tariff, snd tbs,
now, under the highest terif it had
| over borne, j: wss ceiling for 3
lower price than ever before. Gle said
the sheep growers were complaining be-
cause So many Of their sheep died, srd
wsuted to kuoH il a higher tariff would
lessen the death rae. TIE founders OF
! the government had put wool on the free
list. and there it remained from 1889 to
1924.
Colonel Jones ssys the Mills bill 10
| fraud 1. knocks $4S on the hundred
from the price Ct bl.nketP, makes E big
In - mt inn
| Der and salt on the free list, aud will have
the effect OF cheapening many ot1er
articles Of general daily cops3mp-
tion. Colonel Jones arraigned the sptlk-
er fJr putting sweet Gil on the
free iis., Qeclsring 1t wss done II the in
terest OF epicures. Colonel Mills de-
,lsred tina. Il W5 S found in every caTpea-
| ter's chop ia the country, and that !:htre
We're plor people VINO could rot 81 )Td 10
| buy meat or butter, VINO used II 80 eat
with their bread. Bat Colonel Jlnee
| thirk8 poor man HIS 70 RICH. 10 live in
this country.
Cd. jones declared thst the M:lls bill
pat tin plsta On the free list for the hene-
Il. of the. S:.5dsrd Oil Company and the
great ctnrirg factories. Tin cups and
tin pans and tin psils were used by ali
poor people; tin was used 20 roof the
poor man'J house. Jones y, uld deny
cGeap tin to GO,0oO, 900 people simply to
keep the Siandsrd OH Company from pSo-
a:lpg by the reduction. Jones had com
planned of the speaker this: his bill put 3
duty CT 100 per cent. on rice. Col. Mills
said the duty on rice WAS llS per cent.
The rice men would not agree to have
1t cut lower than 100, and
be had to leave 1t at that
figure to ccrciliste them and get their
support. He did not claim that the Mills
bill WAS perfect, l. did not go hslf fsr
enough to suit him, out /! WAS the best he
could dc.
Jones had sr-aignod him for leaving so
much protection TO the manufacturers OF
wooleM goods snd wanted 70 know why
/; was not cut down. The reason Wa
simply because they could not. They
needed In Congress more men Ike Cltve.
land and Csrlisle and Scott. There are
too many like Jones, who hunt for pure
Democracy in the Republican camp. The
DILL Is not as good as the spesker would
like TO have It, but it Is SIS; coo, eco better
than the present law.
Jones claims the Muls bill is q sec
tonai one gotten up in the interest ct
the north. Colonel Mills said be would
read that statement 10 the farmers OF
Illinois, to whom he intended to speak
mex. week. They are beibg told that it
is sectional scheme coGcocied il the
interest Of the south.
The speaker referred to the lecord
made IN the Legislature bV Jones, VINO
voted for the bill making 1t crime for E
fsrme- to Sell his cotton 0store he hsd
psid his reas. And yet he poses IS the
champion OF the poor man.
Colonel Mills attacked every position
taken By Co)oasl Jo2es in bis recent
speech, and routed hin from every one.
His speech WIS sugumentstive apd
Instructive, eloquent, sarcastic.
iroHicsl, and yet veil tempered
throughout. The above is the
b,iefess outline Of j., and only conveys Sd
idea Of its general tenor. He elcsedvish
: magnificent tribute to Democracy, and
Al earnest appeal 10 every citizen to
stand by the party in one OF the grealest
fights it has ever msde.
After Colonel Mills had finished bis
speech it vss announced that the hour
'ior dinner was G. hand, and all the peo-
pie were invited to psriaks of the sweet |
and JUICY barbecued meats which were |
served in abundance. TIE entire audi |
ence proceeded to where the lengthy.