Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-09-22
ONES ON MILLS.
HIS SPEECH AT THE COURT
HOUSE LAST NIGHT.
He Favorathe Blaine Bill and Ar
raigns Mills--Judge Gerald
Makes Reply.

All pOItlcal partRs were representeu anu
there was a good-sized delegation of colored
people.
col Jones was introduced at s Is to his au-
dience by Col. William Cameron and spoke
substantially as follows
Colonel Jones opened his remarks with an an
ecdote which he said illustrated that it is often
the case that men who boast the most of their
religion, their patriotism or their democracy
have the least oft. OF the democracy of any
nIsa have nothing to say.
At this opening moment wish to say that
whatever may be said of me, as to my democ.
racy or my character will leave unanswered
Whatever the newspapers or those who employ
them may say will leave to be decided by pub
lie opinion. am here some ten days or SO
earlier than expected to be because of mis-
representations. Here Colonel Jones alluded
to the article in the st. Louis Republic de-
nouncing the parties who formed the Waco
Home Market Club. This he said was SLAM
,derous attack upon those who are his friends in
this controversy.
''Here,'' said the Colonel, ''let me say that
in this controversy am the follower and they
are in the advance.
Colonel Jones continued: 81 am here to dis
cuss the issues involved in this campaign. My
views are not the result of my candidacy but
nay candidacy Is the result of those views. In
this controversy 1t is said, ii is believed, that
the Mills Bill should be, not only the test Of
democracy, but, generally, that that il is the
great measure in which the people OF this coun
try are particularly interested. 1t is regarded
as the great measure for public interest.
regard the bill as a fraud. Further, so far
from being southern measure tits peculiarly
northern measure Whilst generally re-
garded as a free trade measure 1t Is not so I'M
derstood by those better informed.
Discussing the bill further, Colonel Jones
SAID | undertake to say that that measure in
its present shape had but one prime OBJECT and
that was political and partisan. twas shaped,
framed, formulated and passed for the purpose
of capturing two or three doubtful States to
get the presidency
That bill was formulated in conference of
four or five men for the purpose of debating q
policy the government should pursue. At
Rhode lslan,t Mills went to Providence and
made a speech. He told the manufacturers
mar the democrats party was not hostile to
their interests. You all remember the howl
that went up from Texas and its papers; the
howl that went up from the then unwhipped
democracy
Soon after the Presidents message followed
Time was consumed until the convention met
IN st. Louis and drove in the few democratic
opponents of the bill. Wool was kent on the
free list because Of the l60, 900 majority in
Texas. If Texas had o majority of 5 900 or TO-
900 her representatives would not have dared
support such q measure. Such an oyerWhel-
ming majority is unsafe
If Texas had small majority concessions
would be made to her.
This Mills BIZ is measure that sacrifices in
teIest TOR political purposes.
think the sheep lost in McLennan county of
more practical value than all the votes of New
England The difference between the demo-
cratic and republican parties is not equal to
the sheep lost in McLennan county.
This loss he regarded as the effect of the act
OF 1883 for which, he charged, Mills was partly
responsible.
80 long as you pay taxes and limitless PEN
SONS we need not discuss protection and free
trade. When You don have these heavy ex-
penses to meet you can 20 back to the ante
bel um times.
ee.luce. the surplus though it cost you a pres
r Cleveland loses this time it will be because
heAlas accepted o betrayal of part of the peo-
pie to get the votes of others.
this bill was reported there was report that
was an apology to the manufacturers. Who
hre the manufacturers We have heard they
We're Rloated bond; holders. You have heard It
probably for the last time, because speeches
made in Providence have been published
Wool, it is said, is put on the free list to enable
ne ne manufacture to get wool cheaper and en-
Bile him to send his goods into foreign markets.
This can only be made possibility by making
labor cheaper here than abroad.
Inns h measure VII put stop to Immigration
that this country is the laborer's paradise
that here he can get better wages for his work
The bill discourages immigration by reducing
the price of labor
The Colonel then read an extract from Mills
speech since the bill was reported in which
jured but benefited.
In confirmation OF proposition, which Col
Jones said he had not yet been fully able to de-
veiop, he read from o speech delivered in the
senate by. Senator Coke in 1882, declaring the
principles of Democracy to be that so long as
such vast sums are to be raised In this country
they must be raised by duty on Imports that
az lr Interests should be equally protected.
THIS discussion of tarih, or protection, per
Sc, declared Col. Jones' is not q live issue but |
an issue forced or us, by 1.-The accumulation of
vast surplus In the treasury, designedly piled |
up and constantly added to for political pur- |
poses This surplus should go back to the people |
even II direct legislation Is necessary to get II
back
Here Col. Jones announced that he was will |
ing LOT MS words to- be read in Providence or
anywhere, and in further discussion of the |
have been In the pockets of the people if its |
return had not been opposed by the friends of
tarn reform Seventy-seven millions of it |
could have been returned to the people by the |
over and its results ascertaned. ii was the duty
of the government to educate the enfranchised |
negroes. The ballot US never given to q peo- |
PIE more unprepared for its intelligent exercise
iasting except its foundation is intelligence |
Inc Blair bill ought to have passed because it |
would nave been only giving back the money |
advanced by the people,.
NOW, saiu the speaker what am going to |
say Is not, perhaps, as patriotic as some would |
say II should be, but II is impulsive and comes |
nom the heart of the man. How did that |
money get there II got there from the tariff,
wh, re the wealth is and, If the Blair bill had
plsseu, two-thirds of the seventy seven mil |
llons appropriated by the it would have come
10 the South ON account of the greater per cent.
81 illIleracy Oughtn't we to have had 1t |
don't know. what Democracy means 81
mayer expect to lind ont what defnocratlc or un-