Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

through the farmers. But this answers
nothing. The trouble to-day is that the
money must go through so many mediums
from the government 10 theslaborers that
they (the laborers) are kicked if they
claim the right TO handle money at all.
In all the Jumbo argument advanced by
the ''Sub-treaSury bosses, = not once have
ever heard of one of them asserting, much
less showing, wherein the miners or mine
laborers were to be benefited . cents worth
by this newly named ''Greenbacker 5
scheme" What can our iaboring friends
OF the mining class say of this wildcat
theory They can but answer: Away with
your class legislation.
The farming class is not the only class
that is depressed. Next, we will examine
the bill or theory in regard to stock rails
ing. Does this new, plan Of relief make
any provisions for the woolgrowers, who
furnish more than three hundred million
pounds of wool annually 10 clothe the
farmers as well Us any other class Of peo-
plei viii it furnish warehouses in which
to place this $50 600. Geo worth of sheep, or
the annual wool crop when put on market
No, the sheep raiSers is not the class the
sub-treasury leaders are footing their
horns for.
The value of the hogs in the United
States amounts TO more than $3.50, 900, 600.
Is this reform PLAN to assist the hog
raisers by building warehouses through
which to sell the hogs 10 the factories'
No. the sub-treasury partisans are not
bothering their brains about this class.
Is this poppy sub-treasury plan TO build
warehouses with plenty Of stalls. seif-wa-
tered and feeded in which to store beef
steers until the market is better Not if
the Sub-treasury tiddlerS know themselves
Only think of it, there are more than
5000, 000, 900 worth of cattle in the United
States-more than the value of two cotton
cropS-yet the Sub-treaSury ''whoOperSN
don't know. or don't heed, that they should
be included in legislating for the masses.
Another dose for the sub-treasuryites. In
the name of equality, why should there not
have been mule and horse and jackass
provision in the egg before it was placed in
the incubator! Did you not know that
81 900. 600, 900 is much less than the horses
and mules in the United States, the cost of
more than three cotton crops? How is it,
anyway that you are soinspired as 10 make
no warehouse provision for the sale of
mules and horses, sheep, hogs, cattle, etc2
Then when you made hen-scratch and
rOoster-cluck over your late discovery
from dream" you could have come more
nearly saying that your scheme was for the
general welfare, and not been growing,
s.The greatest good for the greatest num-
ber,' a correlative to Equal rights TO the
the same,'' but with a clearer conscience
said: The greatest good to all, Il har-
mony to Equal rights TO all and special
privileges to none"
Now to the last part of the subject, man.
ufacturing
This sub-treasury scheme provides for
the sale of textile cottOn-out turns deaf
ear to textile wool-to the manufactures.
Now properly and very appropriately arises
the question, does this plan provide for
the sale of goods through the government
to the consumers!
Not in any one of the bills introduced in
congress. or stated in the so-called Ocala
platform, is any such provision made. Is
not manufacturing an authorized. honest,
beneticial-yea. an essentiai-industry
Are not those engaged in this industry de-
serving legislative notice. Do not the
million honest laborerS engaged in this
pursuit who are by class legislation that
is SO absorbing their financial vitality that
they are compelled against their most
sacred desire, to strike in order to obtain
equal rights with those who have been
blessed with the cream Of legislative pro-
lection. deserve a notice in legislation for
the masses! l answer emphatically that
they do, and any proposed plan that is
gotten up for one class detrimental 10 an
other, as is true of this sub-treasury
plan, should not occupy the time of reform
organizations.
say this sub-treasury plan is discrim-
mating in favor of one class and detri-
mental to another, probably some one will
ask, how is thati 1t is easy enough
answered because the class for which this
scheme is concocted is to Get money direct
from the government while the other classes,
regardless of their depressed condition,
must get their money through the favored
class at any rate OF per cent that might be
charged.
The sub-treasury advocates who are I'M
able to meet the argument of the plan being
class legislation, have Matched out a new
absent one-of class legisla-
ton. If any one doubts it, an investigation
will prove it. He who studies the general
welfare cannot advocate class legislation.
l will consider all the Objectionable features
to the sub-trea ury plan aud then follow
with a Democratic plan.
GEO. I. MURRAY.