Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
The Afternoon Proceedings.

Marion Martin of Navarro county ad-
dressed the audience in the afternoon Mr.
Martin began by asking the meaning of the
assembling of such large audience of far
mers and the coming together of the people
in general. He answered the question Civ
ing as reason that the people were tired
of being hoodwinked, and came for
the purpose of receiving light on the
important questions in which they
are so vitality interested and not from idle
curiosity; That the people had demands to
make and were met together to give eX-
preston to those demands These, he
said, were the people of the first party
first because it was composed OF the people
and demanded just treatment of the masses
There was nothing, he said, to break the
bonds of slavery which now enthrall the
farmers except the ballot. This he APP
they wished to emancipate their wives from
the cotton fields and place the blessings of
education at the feet of their sons and
daughters. He secuted the idea of over
production being the cause of the present
hard times, and said it was rather under
consumption. The people were tired of
being hoodwinked for thirty years. and
asked if any one could follow the course of
the American people during this time with
any pride and satisfaction. Would not
a blush of shame rather mantle
an honest mans cheek should he review
carefully the financial policy of the nation.
The Democrats, Mr.. Martin said, had long
been strangers to the platform of Democ-
racy, and had drifted farther and farther
from the faith OF their fathers, and though
they still called themselves Democrats, the
title was a misnomer, as their sole object
was to share in the party spoils He had
voted for the platform from year
to year in the hope that some
relief would be received, but the same old
promises had been promised and nothing
had materialized. Jeffersonian Democracy,
the speaker said, is the watchword of the
first party, and the issue would be fought
on the platform of honesty and principle.
The tsriff was then touched upon and the
tenets Of the third party were said to be
for tariff reform. Something more draining
than the tariff, Mr. Martin said, was the
tremendous and unwarranted appropriations
which were constantly being made by the
congress of the United States, that these
must be stopped and then the tariff looked
after and reduced. The sub-treasury cues
ton was taken up, and the great benefits to
be derived from it We're discussed from the
speakers standpoint The lame objections
of dissenters We're ridiculed, the speaker al
leging that capitalists were trembling
in their shoes, lest the scheme
should be adopted and allie
and lessen the inflow of gold'1nto their own
eXchequer That the cries of breakers
breakers ahead and the direful predictions
were but the means employed to mislead
the farmer on this vital question Cotton,
the speaker said, had no equal for collat-
eral was more stable than silver, and WAS
the equal of gold, and this product was the
basis of the sub-treasury scheme; that the
great objection to the sub-treasury was from
ignorance of the financial situation, and
that the hue and cry of it being ultimately
the end of capital was only from those who
most bitterly opposed it. If this were a
fact the speaker affirmed that the next con-
gress would pass the measure without
dissenting vote. The people were begin
ming to see that it is not only the farmer
who is benefited, but doctor, lawyer, mer-
chant, and in fact everyone, would receive
benefit from the Sub-treaSury and
the country would rise up from beneath the
burdensome yoke of class legislation. The
alien land law and the railroad questions
were taken up and discussed briefly. The
speaker favored government ownership of
the railroads. and demanded to know why
they could not be operated as successfully
as the postal service of the United States.
which was the pride of America and the
wonder of the governments of Europe
which were annually sending over experts
to study its intricacies, that they might
initiate its workings, and thus better per
that government operation of
the railroads could be carried on just as
and hailed the day when such
would be the case. In this connection Mr.
Martin incidentally paid his respects
to Governor Hogg in no very
fattering terms, and was any
thing but complimentary in his
observations upon the policy pursued by
the governor. The speaker closed by ad-
juring the people to think more for them
selves and to study the questions which the
occ aston demands, casting their ballots so
that legislation would eventually be for the
benefit of the producers and wealth flow in
the right channels, that no
more was asked for the farmer
than for any other class, but
that the Farmers Alliance had come to
stay, and would work out the salvation of
the farmer and the laboring man
When Marion Martin had finished, ]. II.
Veatch of Johnson county was introduced
and spoke for an hour or more. His remarks
were devoted to reviewing the records of
the Democratic and Republican parties
most of them being devoted to the short
comings and dereictions of the former
party, which he said had gone
of after false gods and had
been traitorous to the interests of the peo-
Pile Mr. Veatch said: What means this
agitation and converting of this people, and
why were the Farmers Alliance, the
Knights Of Labor and the trades unions or