Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-10-30

hese issues well.
The first issue presented is the
:arifs. A greater piece of injustice
% the farmers and other people who
10 not depend on manufacturing
interests could never have been per
petrated than the Mckinley tariff
law. 1t was bad enough before; it
is worse now. Under the pretext OF
fostering home enterprise and build
iug up home markets the people at
large are robbed to enrich a few
people engaged in manufacturing.
It has been well said that the first
tariff act before the war was for the
protection of American industries;
that the war tariff was for the pur-
pose of paying the expenses of car
ry1ng on the war; and that the pres
emit tariff, which is greater than the
war tariff is for the purpose OF en-
rich manufacturers SO that they can
provide the republicans with a cam
paign fund for the purpose OF cor
rupting the people to their own
hurt. There can be no doubt but
that the present tariff is for cam
paign purposes, to pay back the con
tributions of 1888 made to eject
Harrison and to provide funds for
the future. One or two instances OF
oppression need only be given a
tariff is levied on tin that greatly m
creases the cost of all tin vessels, not
only the bucket in which the work
man carries his dinner, but many
domestic articles-all canned goods
must pay a tribute to the tariff.
Does the government get the tax
that is imposed? Not by a great
deal. The purpose of the tax is to
raise the price OF sheet iron utensils
so that the iron men may pocket the
difference in prices, and also to fos-
ter job in Dakota where some tin
has been discovered. Another in
stance is the raising of the tax on
cotton bagging and ties. 1t was re
duced on the Western farmers bind
ing Irvine, and as an instance of the
consistency and good faith of the
democratic party, the democratic
senators united with the western re-
publican senators in voting for free
binding Irvine, when a half hour Ia
ter the western republicans voted
with these eastern republican
bretheren to raise the duty on
cetton ties. Can a Southern man
vote for such a sectional party?
What is known as the Force bill
is the second issue. In order to
perpetrate itself in power and to rob
the people of their right to elect
their own representatives to con-
gress the republican party has passed
in the lower House bill wrestling
from the several States their right
to control the election of their Con-
gressmen and vesting it in super
visors and returning boards appoint
ed and created by the republicans
themselves, thus putting the entire
election machinery for representa-
tives in Congress under the control
of the republicans. They hypocri-
tically chagre that this is done to
prevent frauds, of course democratic
frauds as meant by them, but the
result of the charge would be re-
publican fraud in every COMPRESSION
al district that was either democratic
or doubtful. By supervisors and
deputy marshals at the polls, they
seek to overawe and intimidate the
voters: but if the voter should have
manhood enough to cast a demo
cratic ballot in spite of all, then the
convenient returning board will
throw it out as fraudulently cast
and count in the republican candi-
date. This bill is now pending be
fore the United States Senate, and
will be called at the session which
convenes December l. VIII not the
people administer such a rebuke to
the republican party at the polls il
November that it will not dare to
pass such bill?
Profigate extravaganza III the ap,
preparation of money belonging tc
the people is the next issue. At the
session of Congress which has just
expired the republican House ap'
propriated sixty millions of dollars
more that the last House, which was
democratic. Reckless extravaganza
runs riot. A surplus of one hundred
millions left in the treasury by
Cleveland's democratic administra
ton will be gone when the first two
years of Harrisons republican ad
ministration has expired. Immense
appropriations are made for the
erection of public federal buildings
in the most insignificant Northern
towns. and all manner of profigatt
expenditures are made to exhaust
the surplus which admonishes the
people of the excessive tariff.
The majority of the voters of the
United States are democrats, and O.
the white voters the democrats have
a majority of over a million, anC