Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28

and it goes On until it gets to the farmer,
setting up his produce notch higher, he
sets up his back-band and digs little deeper
in Mother Earth.
The farmers and laborers, Sc, 600, 900 in
number, representing 40 per cent of the pop
ulation, have not been working in concert,
but running in single harness and poking
the earth along, but get nothing The
system needs to be reversed. There are
1000, 600 of homes in this country and g.
100000 of them -mortgaged. The money
power, foreign and domestic SyndicateS,
own enough land to make twenty-six states
in the Union and then have enough territory
left to make a state for the children of the
representatives of monopoly to play in. He
said that the state, county and municipal
tax was SIT per capita, to say nothing of
the tax imposed by the mortgages of mo-
nopoly. It takes more cotton and corn to
get dollar than it did ten
years ago. Your produce is going down
while the power and influence of the money
power are going up He said that the
gross earnings of one big railroad system
of the East amounted to more than the
whole tax imposed on the people of the six
states through which it ran.
''Telling you of these evil facts,
I propose to tell you. of
the remedy that our organization
will give to cure them" He then reveled
of its purpose, if enacted, to allow the gov
eminent to loan the farmer money at per
cent on his produce in the government
warehouse, which, he said, having the gov
eminent as competitor, brought down the
rate of interest of the money power.
He said that the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals illustrated the pur
pose and intent of the convention at Gin
cinnati, only the latter represented society
for the prevention of cruelty to human be-
ings. Instead of dehorning cattle they pro-
posed to dehorn the bulls and pull the claws
of the bears of Wall street.
He said that California had a
banking interest of $40 per
head and mortgage interest of
$50 per head. Iowa had banking capital
of 81 per head and a mortgage debt of $104
per head. Texas had a banking interest of
SCI per head and 4 mortgage debt of
about the same size, and some one
added, soto yoce, which the speaker
did not hear. ''and the largest Democratic
majority in the Union
He said that congress was composed of
railroad lawyers and bankers, and that you
might as well send the devil out to preach
the cause of Christ as to send
national banker to congress to re-
that the Democratic party has not declared
against this self-same law since 1858. He
said that petitions from the people memorial
izing congress to pass the sub-treasury bill
were so voluminous that they were reduced
in size by hay presses and sent to congress
by express, but they had about as much
effect as if they had been presented to the
Car of Russia.
The plutocratic power is destined to
cease in few years. We won't have a
revolution but an evolution, and the sub
treasury principle is the wedge that will be
driven for that purposes. The great OBJ
lection to this principle is that it
is unconstitutional, but call it
an internal improvement bill and
you have the best constitutional lawyer
in the nation hemmed
He spoke of the great amount of money
that had been appropriated by the govern
ment for the burial Of its servants. Senar
tor Hearsis funeral cost So, 900; Con-
gresham Spinola's sc, 600, ETC., but when
the great farming class meet with
the misfortune of death the last mule
is mortgaged to pay for a shroud and cof-
I'm and the deceased is followed to the
grave in two-horse wagon borrowed for
the occasion.
Let me draw another contrast, said he.
When the great Western country was
blighted by scorching drouth the
inhabitants of that blighted coun-
try piteously begged congress for