Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-01

Htie cOtnhou sense Is ueeueu III tOTl
Worth ut this time, and G little knowl-
of history and of human nature-as it is
CONFUSION ANON G REPUBLICANS.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat dis
cusses seriously the foolish and frivolou:
charge that the national Democratic ex-
ecutive committee has been urging con-
gressmeD and others to see as manY
Democratic merchants as possible. and
prevail on them to mark up their goods
for week or so In order TO influence the
election November 4. This is only one OF
the many absurdities, contradictions and
lies which the leaders of the g.
o. p. find themselves involved
in since the Mckinley bill began
to get in its work. A Dakota congress-
man wrote a frantic letter to Quay some
days ago begging him to ask the ner-
chants and manufacturers to mark down
their goods for a few days, or at
least to quit advertising an ad-
vance in prices, and declaring that if
something could not be done to hide from
the Western voter, until after the cleo
ton, the advance in prices, the jig was
up with himself and other aspiring patri-
OTIS. OF course Quay could do nothing in
the premises, and could no more intiu-
ence the fellows who had fried out, to
mark down their goods temporarily
even, than he could persuade them to
close up shop altogether. In the tace OF
this crazy appeal for help, this grasping
by a drowning patriot at imaginary
straws, what rank idiocy it is to say that
Democratic leaders are Ieagued in a vile
conspiracy with the manufacturers and
merchants throughout the country for
the double purpose of plundering the
people by extortionate prices, and of
prejudicing them against that most
glorious of all national blessings, the
Mckinley bill.
There is something ludicrous, almost
pathetic, in the utter confusion and per-
plexity into which that bill has thrown
it on the stump. Such a tumble of in
coherencies, falsehoods and contradic-
tions as they are severally plunged into,
has perhaps never before been heard
from the rostrum. 1t Is positively
humiliating, and calculated more to in
spire pity for the hard fate and ratified
condition of the tariff statesmen, than
disgust at the awkward and blunderlng
nature of their efforts to deceive and
koodwink the unrefecting masses.
Such case of raZZle- dazzle was never
before 50 general among o generation of
patriots and statesmen.
One patriot admits the increase in
price, but defends it by saying that ga
cheap coat makes cheap man, and a
cheap man makes cheap coun-
try This is new political
precept whose application lies in
this, that the more man pays
for his coat-without any reference to its
intrinsic worth-the more sturdy, self
reliant and independent he becomes; and
that il by any possibility he could get it
for "mere song.' it would be the
utter and complete ruin, not only of
him, but Of the country as we'll! This
sage political dogma may not be very
clear to the average reader, but DR..
Harrison apprehends it passing shrewdly,
and hopes for great things from it.
Another patriot confesses the rise in
prices of necessaries, but contends that
it will fall, rot on the consumer, but on
the dealer. That is fully as clear as
mud. Still another contends that it will
result in general good, since it will some
how cause the price of farm products and
labor to rise with it. If that were true,
what good would result &c the farmer or
laborer, unless the prices which the one
and the wages which the other gets are
advanced in greater proportion by the
tariff than the prices of the things
which they must buy?
And finally, another patriot makes q |
plump denial of any increase in prices, |
and declares boldly that the entire thing |
is Democratic lie made out of the whole !
cloth. And he Is the best of the gang-a |
plain, blunt liar, who says thing and |
sticks to it.