Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-18
THE wEEALl eAzErr FORT WORTH TEXAS FRIDAY NAY IS

tions and elections, city elections, state
elections and national elections. He buv!
no Legislatures with free passes and thu
appointment Of needy friends to lucrativ.
positions and by retaining them as attor.
neys, II they are lawyers, and by carrying
their goods at Is per cent less If they ar;
merchants, and, IL he f1uds stubborn
case on which much depends, put dowr
the hard cash Of bribery. It has come tc
this pass In many Of our Leg
islatures, that laws which mo
| nopolists favor pass, and laws
which monopolists oppose are defeated
| Judge Black in his recent speech before
the National Autobiography League
avowed that nobody proposed to deny
| railroad operators fair profit on theiI
investments and for their services, but In.
| sisted thst there was ground for the gen.
eral complaint that they exac!ed far more
than what is fair. This point he Illus
tre'es with the following statement:
There is one fact which we may take as
q starting point in the calculation, which
sll will admit. The through freight,
north and south, east aud west, and psr-
ticulsrly between New York and Chicago,
are tie lowest charged. They are twice
IS high IS they ought to be. They are
now 35 cents per 100 weight, and before
the Hepburn committee In Albany it WAS
proved by experts that an enormous
prt d. could be made BY charging 20 cents
Now 1t wss computed before more than
one committee that an advance Of cents
per 100 weight on the corn crop OF 1873
amounted to gain Of So, 000, 900 for the
railroads. The came al owsnce on
the crop Of last vesr would amount to
not less than SIS. 900, 900 This was on the
grain Gro alone, which was Certainly not
one-third Of the business Multiplying
oy three we have S225. 000, 600 in one year
on an advance OF but cents; but the
charge is Is cents above what experts say
would be just. Multiplying again by
three, we have the enormous amount OF
1915 600, 900 extorted from the pockets of
the people in one year-enough to pay
half the national debt-and this is only
On the through-freights. The farmers
must submit to this highway robbery, or
else keep the products Of their land to
rot on their hands. The influence
OF these great corporations can hardly be
calculated. They have methods of de-
Tense and offense which make them al
NEST invincible. Some OF the state gov
ernments are literally subjugsted by them
now. It will require strong organization
and much labor to reduce them. Undis-
cip!ined militia, In the open field, make 8
Door fight against regulars intrenched.
What are cOrnstalks against cannons?
Such is truth against money.
This Is the language OF one of Ameri-
cas- greatest jurists.
The Hon. John q. Reagan, in the
United States, SAYS: History will write
1t down that the policy Of The government
from 1869 to now, so far as the executive
department is concerned and 80 fsr as
the laws were concerned up to 1873,
has been distinctly policy in
the interest Of the money lords
Of this country and Of Europe, o policy
distinctly at war with the best interests
Ct the people of this country. 1 know
that the present administration has taken
up and maintained the policy of its Re-
publican predecessors. an very good
party man, but being q party man does
not require me to sacrifice the interests
Of my country and be fei,hless to the duty
l owe 10 those who sent me here. R =
mem oerirg the duty do owe 30 far az
my action is concerned, without refere nee
to what those In other and even higher
pisces may do, I propose to stand by the
interests Of the people and insist
upon their righte, and to insist
that this government shall be
conducted in the interest of the people
who support it, Instead Of in the interest
Of special classes who live by robning
both the government and the people. 1
have made these remarks more for the
purpose and with the hope Of calling at
tention to these acts and to their i'm.
policy than in the hope Of any present
success in securing the adoption Of my
We are all perhaps some.
times led to forbear action by the chances
Of political success, which may depend
on our yielding to the money power. II
| had to acquire success by that means
think 1t would be my duty to retire from
my present position. II have to sacrifice
the interests of the pscple for the bene-
dt ct men WAC have enjoyed special ad-
vantsges and privileges Of Legislation,
policy 60 wrong az that to which have
alluded, must say that cannot consent
to follow such q policy. My hope Is that
the voice Of the people may be heard, that
The interests of the people may be con-
sidered and that the policy which has 80
long prevailed may be reversed. And
say, Mr.. President, 80 far ss am con-
cerned ss an individual, that I would |
rather be in minority in the right and
be able to make vigorous fight against |
the ms ority in the wrong, than to be In q
iiv,deo party between right and wrong,
spelogizipg fer cur position ali the time.
The Hon. David B. Culberson, one Of
Texas greatest statesmen, snid:
The proposition now msde to abandon
The fruits Of those magnificent triumphs |
Of Democracy over the combined power |
II Donopolies and to repeat the folly of
the Z. publican party by destroying our
growing volume Of money, either by the |
suspension of the coinsge of silver or the |
and cancellation Of green |
oacke, falls on the ears Of the people like |
Tie sound of flre-bells at night. Are there |
20 loftier aims or nosler pur
poses to inspire the heart |
If Democracy thsn blindly fol- |
owing 1t in the paths Of outrsge and |
wrong made by the Republican party over
he rights Of the people? Ii the Dems-
cratic party would remain In power 1t |
must keep its pledge to the people. In
1delity to that great and fundamental |
principle on which the psrty rests, which |
declares that all men are equal before the |
aw and that whatever blessings the gov
eminent shall bestow shall fall like the |
Jews of heaven on all alike-.he poor IS |
we'll as the rlch-will wound Its honor |
md insure the speedy desth of its reign. |
The love of the great popular heart can |