Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-24

erect upon the price OF such cOmmod1-
ties, and hence it follows that SO long as
we are producing annually hundreds of
millions IN value of agricultural products
in excess Of our own wants, no tariff lev
led upon like products can benefit the
| farmer.
1t is equally apparent, as has been
demonstrated so many times, that q
tariff upon manufactured goods increase
their cost and the cost of like goods
produced at home, because of such
goods we produce less than We use and
hence must supply our wants in part by
| importations from other countries.
| But this increased cost is not the far
mer's chief ground of complaint against
q protective tariff. He must have q
market for his surplus productions in
foreign lands. Unlike the manufacturer
he produces largely more than the home
market will take. The most important
question, therefore, for him to consider
is how
TO EXTEND THE MARKETS
for his products. Nothing is more plain
than the fact that If we sell to foreign
nations we must buy of them. No ma
ton could long pay in gold for any con-
siderable amount of imports, and escape
bankruptcy. 1t follows irresistably that
q luiiu Ftuat hctpS the pTOuucts Ol huy
foreign nation out of our markets must
to considerable extent keep ours out of
its market, and inasmuch as the farmers
of the country supply three fourths of
all our exports they are the chief suf-
ferers from any policy that accomplishes
such result.
The farmers have right to demand
that in the future policy of this govern
ment no discrimination be made in favor
of other Industries at the expense OF
their own; that the power of the govern
ment to levy taxes be limited to the
single purpose of raising necessary reve-
nue. to be economically expended; that
all property bear its just portion of that
burden; that markets broad enough to
consume the products of their labor and
capital at compensatory prices, he as
carefully looked after and nutured as
those that consume the productions of
labor and capital employed in other
lines of business.
They may also demand that a cur
rency which is good enough for one man
shall be made good enough for all others
and plenty enough to preserve just
equality between its value and the value
of the products of labor in all legitimate
kinds of business. That both the nation
and the state shall exercise over lines of
transportation q reasonable and just con-
troll, to the end that their products, the
most bulky compared to their value of
any produced, shall not be subjected to
charges out OF proportion to such value.
1t is because the Il epublican party in
line of SUGGESTIONS but once broken in q
third of century has ignored their
reasonable demands, because in all that
time but one voice in high places has
called attention to the most essential of
of Democratic president, that they
turned to his party in the election, the
results of which we are assembled to
celebrate.
If the Democratic party is true to itself
it will be true to its new allies in the
northwest and henceforth the union be-
tween them Is complete.
Roger Q. Mills of Texas was to have
spoken to the toast Reciprocity, - but
telegraphed from Washington that he
was suffering from affection of the throat
and regretted to have to decline the
banquet.
When Cleveland finished speaking g
massive silver cup was presented
to him by President Wheeler. The cup
had on one side a representation of JEFF
ferson IS mill and on the other of his res
idence, said to be one of a set of thirteen
made for presentation to Jefferson on
behalf of his admirers in the thirteen
original states. 1t was unearthed in
Virginia few years since and came into
the hands Of Mr.. Jesse Metcalf of Provi-
dence, r. 1. who handed it to the COM
mittee to present to MIR. Cleveland.