Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13

many opposing the very measures they
now demand. We thought our request
ought to have been needed. We then
| said: 1--WE will make you heed your
masters. and they did by giving us
sixty-three members of congress when
We did not want twenty -four this time.
| Party politicians cay it was the
tariff. Both old parties wan that to be
| the fight again in 1892. Once more we
! tell them that it is side issue. You
could not get the farmers TO
! listen to your tariff speeches
/ Ill 1890; you will not in 1892.
| There were no petitions sent in tor free
| traders. We never said n word against
| the tariff. We did not say we desired
fair adjustment of the tariff. We wanted
| a revenue for the government economi-
! cally administered. If 80 per centum
| (average) is necessary for protection to
| the laborer aud manufacturer we want
! this average OF per centum so ad"
/ justed that it will not Cypress
! the poor and be Of advantage
! to the rich. We did not think We were
fairly treated when so per centum was
put on many of the necessaries, while 20
! per centum was put on luxuries TO bring
| about the average. We said If binding
twine ought to be free (and it onghD,
cotton ties and bagging ought to be
/ treated in the same way. The brother
hood North said we will stand by the
/ brethren in the South. and they did.
We said: War issues are dead;
we want u reunited country. Ingalls,
I and others wanted to fight the war over
egain; the brotherhood stood together.
Veterans of both armies were there and
are there. We stood united for more
, currency. Foreign investments have SO
( increased that to pay the interest, it
takes not only our annual products of
gold, but we are drawing Oh our reserve
already coued--eveu with the balance of
trade in our favor. Yet the annual
interest and dividends call our gold all
out of our country. The legal tenders
are fixed in amount by law; the national
bank currency is constantly being re-
duced by the retiring process; fire and
food is destroying our currency yearly.
The reserves grow greater, just in pro-
portion to deposits, while our population
Is increasing, and our demand for cur
rency is also increasing. but our currency
is steadily decreasing. We ask that our
currency shall be increased. We want
as many dollars per capita as the rate of
tariff is per hundred. This would not
equal the per capita of France and We
have need for far more than France.
We said, and We challenged criticism,
TINT If the farmers were as we'll off as
they were prior to the war-so that they
were just one crop aheai-the entire cir
culating medium would not pay for their
crops. If they put the money into their
pockets and went home with it not O.
merchant, banker or broker would have
a dollar. We presented bills with view
Of increasing the currency; we we're r'dl-
culed aud called 'agrarian humbugs. -
So the people in their wrath hurled these
men from power. If the FIfty-secoud
congress gives us no relief-if they do not
make an effort to do so-they, too, will
be hurled from power. If q Democratic
house is disposed to aid US and u Repub-
lican senate opposes us, we will wipe the
earth up with the American house of
lords. We shall walt patiently and see
what the Deupcrats will do; If they do
not aid Jus, theuGthird party is just as
inevitable as de3fh23