Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-03

proved one appropriating more than
SO, Zoo. 900 the preceding year, and the
President had been called an hour before
Congress adjourned to sign that OF the
last session, approprlating Sl4, GOO, 600,
without opportunity to read it or know
tenth Of its provisions. he had been en-
gagged in the very act Of reading
it In the capitol when the hammers fell
and Congress adjourned. Fsithiulness
to public trdst ana judicious regard for
public interest had stood alike IS barriers
TO au act whose omission the Senator
from Ohio condemned. The Senator had.
appealed to the labor Of the country, AID
bad declared that TO lift the burdens OF
the laboring man and to give him equal
opportunities in the great strUg
gle of life would be to degrade
him. To show the Senator's
Inconsistency on that point be referred to
the law Of July 4, 1864, passed undcr the
special patronage Of Sherman, allowing
immigration under contract. This, he
said, wss the first formal and official in
PRODUCTION of foreign selfdom into free
America. In very recent years the hon
orable SenStor voted against bill to re-
strict the immigration OF Chinese. He
afterwards pleaded for the limitation Of
the term Of exclusion to five years and
finally voting for the last bill he
insisted that every skilled laboTer
in China should be excluded from its
operation. These are matters CT public
history, of public record and it is right
that they should 60 to the country. l. is
undoubtedly true that while our excess
of import duties hiss had tendency TO
build up andtioster .mCnopolies and enrich
the few at the expense Of the many, 1t
to invoke free Ecompetition to
labor and to reduce the workingmen
10 q minimum Of compensation. It has
drawn vast army from Europe, as the
Senator says, who enter into competition
with the labor they find employed when
they reach America, and who enter into like
competition among themselves. 1t has
not simply invited the tide OF valuable
and manly immigration, to which extent
we would all concur in its benetcencYi
but by the increased cost of his living and
the multipI ed eIactions from his earn
ings it has made life q precious burden to
him here. By artificial and false reports
| Of his Industries for time it has Invited
millions into open competition with him
from every hill top and valley in our own
country ard from every quarter and Sec
ton of the civilized world. The Hun
gsrisr, italian aud Cainamsn have crowd
ed him alike. They have come from every
nation, from everywhere
Come as the waves come when navies are
| stranded;
Come as the winds came When forests are
| rended,
Yet the laborirg men are blSndly told
that they are to bind themselves hand enC
foot, forever and forever, TO 6 system
which gives them al the free trade ant
competition, and to the other and prlvi-
lodged few who monopolize, the profit
He (Kenns) WAS mistaken in thu
Intelligence OF the American labor
national born and nsturalized, i
it allowed that condition K
longer exist. He had no further purpose
10 the discussion than to indicate his CO
operation with the President in the inter,
ests CT the people. The system of taxa
ton in this country for the last twent!
wears had been standing menace srt
source Of constitutional injustice K
Lsbor himself. VINO would den,
that the system which nsd pre-
vailed under the Republican admin
|
yesrs past had made more strikes, driver
more men from employment, filled IT,
country with more tTsmps, aggravated
more distress, created more disconsen
and produced more starvation and dealt
than any other system the country eve
saw? Was it not time for change
And get the President o
the United States, confronting
bravely the solemn requirement.
of his high Office and daring to preserY'
q patriotic regard for his public response
biIities, ventured the suggestion Of I
remedy which had over and over egaiI
been presented and demanded by one Gd'
minist!ation after another, he WSs asssile(
by oRe Of the acknowledged leaders o
the Republican organization IS frivolous
in his action, or bent on destruction. |
might as well be understood nov
IS hereafter that this moVemen
for reform and relief OF tn
public burdens in which the Presiden
had calamity and manfully taken to
lead meant practical results. The couDtr.
WAS aroused to the justice Of its de
mands. The ranks would be closed.
spirit Of fairness and Of justice woul
prevail IN ell things and bot
the benefits and burdens of on
system OF taxation would be distribute,
fairly. That system, both internal an
external, would be treated IS 8 whole
The Democratic party had never been a
enemy of labor. Maintaining the encien
doctrine Of home rule, special privilege
to none and equality before the law,
has ever been, IS it ever would be, tn
safest gusrGisn Of the poor ana humble
Labor would flnd, under its control Of tn
government fairer and a securer and
i better reward, but monopoly fortified an
entrenched behind twenty years an
> more of Republican ex,ction and misrul
would have to go. Its citadel would b
stormed and in this Congress. Its ex
? actions would be denied, its hold on tn
throats OF the masses would be broker
. The mask ef Republican protection woul
i be torn from the face OF hypocrisy an
. tx; ortion.
Mr.. Sherman congratulated his frien
, from West Virginia st having procIstms
: the fsct thst the ranks OF the Democrat
+ party were closed and that a oil!
2 tinct issue vas to be presente
: to the people. That party had bee
& in possession of power in the House {
e Representatives for more than ten year
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