Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-24
GOVERNOR HILL.
is Greeted on Each Occasion by Large
AMI Enthusiastic Crowds.

MAssILLoN, ONO, Oct. 23.-Governor
Hill and party left Massillon on the
morning train for Mlllsburg, county seat
of Holmes county, in the Sixteenth con-
gresslonal district. The inhabitants of
Holmes county, which is purely
an agricultural county, with a
population OF u 900, are known through
out the state as "mossbaoks - A re-
ception was held in the hotel perlors and
haudshaking by the horny handed sons
of toll taxed the governors strength for
two hours, when, after lunch, he pro-
ceeded to the village opera house and ad-
dressed an audience composed of residents
of Holmes county. The house was
crowded by 1900 people, and as many
more had been unable to secure even
standing room in the hall. When the
governor, who was introduced by Judge
william Reed, commenced his remarks
he said in part: 1.-THE rain which poured
down upon us to-day will not harm us
half SO much as the reign of the Repub-
lican party in the national government.
The surplus oecasloned by the operation
of the recent tariff laws will re-
suit in congressional representa-
tives bartering this surplus among
themselves in order to obtain unneces-
sary public buildings costing hundreds of
thousands of dollars for their respective
localities, and those extravaganza appro-
priations are supplied by money taken
from the pockets of the people through
unnecessary import duties. do not be-
lieve there should be a partpe rship ex-
listing between the national government
and private interests, as is the present
rul odr int
tiou.'
In explaining the benefits which he
said it is claimed the farmer derives from
the Mckinley bill, he said the Mckinley
bill was impure in more respects than
one, but chiefly in its apparent
solicitude for the American farmer.
High tariff was once sacrifice which he
was willing to endure if it was for the
general prosperity of his countrymen,
but lately 1t has appeared to a large
number OF patriotic and thoughtful
farmers that this sacrifice has gone far
enough. They have seen other people
growing rich while they were
growing poor. They have found their
profits shrinking, while their farm
mortgages were increasing, until lately
they have loudly complained against the
injurious effect of high tariffs upon their
interests. Murmurs and protests,
however, are now being heard
all over tho country 1t be-
came audible In the campaign
of 1855, and is now so fierce and threat
ening that it has frightened even the
creatures and legislative agents of ia
vored manufacturing industries, who
begin to realize that without the support
of the Republican farmers their govern
mental bounties will cease.
How does the party in power dis
charge its duty in this emergency towards
that third of our population who depend
upon agricultural means of subsistence
by making cheaper necessities Of life,
reducing taxation, providing wider
markets and encouraging commerce,
which Jefferson called the hand maid
of agriculture. Not at all, their hands
were tied too tightly to enrich individuals
of favored industries, to enable them to
give genuine relief. Instead, they have
devised monstrous legislature humbug,