Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09
CURRENT COMNENT.

Cincinnati Enquirer: A second and
eral Don NJ. Dickinson IS report fails to
discover what was the matter with Michi-
gan.
Philadelphia Record: President
Cleveland s courageous stand for revenue
reform will fix him permanently in Il
high place among our statesmen and
patriots.
Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep.): Henry
WattersOn, speaking for the South, says
that 'the average negro i'll the cotton,
sugar and rice belts of the South is no
more fit to vote or capable of taking care
of his yote than an orang-outang. -
Would Mr.. Watterson and the solid
South vote to disfranchise the colored
voter? Nearly one-half of the political
power of the South is due to the colored
vote. Do they wish to use it, and call it
the half 'orang- outang' vote?.
Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer: Mrs.
James q. Blaine, Jr. is going on the
stage. AS she is an Ohio girl, intelligent,
handsome and of good family, she will
succeed. And the whipper-snapper that
she married, the degenerate son of the
author of the Mulligan letters, will regret
that he basely deserted her after mar
riage, and haunt her for restoration.
There never was meaner or more con-
temptible desertiOn of an honest woman
than III the case of Mrs. James G.. Blaine,
Jr. Is
Louisville Times: Mckinley seems to
have the speakership of tine Fifty-lirst
congress in a sling. This is rs it should
be. Mckinley is q protectionist crank
and, like most cranks, he is honest and
really believes that taxation should be
formouopoly and not for the necessities
of the treasury. He wrote the Republic
can platform and the day it is engrafted
upon our revenue system viii be the dawn
of a free trade era, just as the bred Scott
decision and the Lecompton constitution
were the dawn of liberty to the African
slave in Southern cotton fields.
Louisville Times: Grover Cleveland,
though defeated, stands to-day the great
est and the brayest American tribune,
throwing down the gauntlet to monopoly
and battling for the masses against the
classes. He reiterates in most emphatic
terms his recommendations of relief for
the toiling poor from the burdens of I'M
necessary and dishonest taxation; he
takes comprehensive view of our
relations with Canada and other for
eign powers; he deals with the sub
jects in charge of the interior department
like statesman and not like a boodler,
as was the case during all the years from
Grant to Arthur. The message is all the
Democrats could wish, ard before Ben
Harrison is well in the saddle monopoly
bought for him the country viii regret
Grover Cleveland. A magnanimity never
fell to earth and there is future for
Grover Cleveland.
Washington Post: That the South is
in imminent danger from Northern in
reference is beyond question, and there
is little doubt that the election of Mr..
Harrison will precipitate matters. Fig
ures do not lie. These figures show that
the rapacious Yankee capitalist of New
England and New York has during the
past month organized a So 900 900 COM
pany in Alabama to develop mineral
lands, build furnaces and make other
additions to the taxable value of the
state. This is only part, too, of what
is going on in the South, and
only for a month past, and the
bulk of it is the result of North
ern interference. There is money in the
North-barrels of it-and it moves to-
ward the South in more reputable chan
nels than politics, and the more of it that
goes down there the more closely will the
North be allied to the South, for where
mans treasure is there is his heart also.
The time is coming when the taxes of the
South will be paid by Northern money,
planted there and developed into WON
derful growth, and the fears of the South
that they will be bankrnpted by a politi-
cal turn will be as baseless as the fabric
of dream.