Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-12

| be discussed on their merits for it is no
answer to them to say they are undemo-
| cratic, unless you can show plank IN the
| last national platform excluding them from
consideration. The masses are too familiar
with the platform, to be fooled by some
| man yelling that this or that is undemo-
cratic. The last platform makes or fixes
the standard of Democracy and not some
smart individuals declaration, who may
| not have read the platform.
Would it be Democratic for our govern
| ment to buy all the gold and silver brought
to it at the market price and pay for it IN
legal tenders Eli so. why not do thisl Then
every man would know the metal was
there, and besides we might in this way
corner the rest of the world on the
precious metals. BY having our treasury
full of it we would not only be able to
redeem on demand but might occasionally
give the European tail a twist. Our gov
eminent might buy gold with legal tenders
until England got sick for it.
Instead OF making deficits to issue legal
tenders. as suggested by Col. Culberson,
why not the government build double
track railroad from Chicago 10 and through
South America, the governments to the
south of Us paving for and operating their
part of the line? This is better than build
lag navies to fight imaginary battles, or
forts to repel imaginary foes. This would
put legal tenders in circulation, open COM
mercial channels and reduce freights on
some lines of railways. VIII Sulphur
Springs permit this TO be debated2
When people are read out of the Demo
cratic party, the reading must be done from
the National platform, and not from any
unwritten law. The platform is in politics
what the charge of the court is in law
suit. 1t is the law of the case. The Demo
cratic platforms have not always been the
same, and Democrats in convention as
sembled have a right to change them.
This reading-out business is very super
fuous, if not ridiculous, unless the reading
is done from the last platform and the one
to come.
If Sulphur Springs and Bonham do not
read Col. CulberSon out on his deficit
scheme, and Senator Coke out on his
amendment to the National bank act, and
George Clark out on his Forthcoming ''popu-
lar system of banking they will lose their
reputation and will have to be read out for
neglect of duty. They evidently have some
secret method of their own, for getting this
legal tender into circulation, that they don't
propose to give away, but merely use TO
read out by.
Would it be Democratic for the Federal
government TO abolish all internal revenue
and let each state regulate the whisky and
II So, tucN cover INC
deficit with legal tender issues, and let the
states get all that revenue. This would be
making deficit without increasing the ex-
penseS of government. Can this be dis
cussed in campaig on of education without
man riSl1ing his Democracy! What does
it profit man to vote the ticket all his life
if lie can be read out for making suggest
ion7
If a man by reason of not having over
two hundred acres of land can't take stock
in bank on real estate basis, yet isn't he
benefited by his neighbors with surplus
of land starting a bank and loaniug him
money at . per cent on such security as he
has? If a man hasn't bonds he can't take
stock in national bank. If the nation is
going to bank on its Indebtedness it should
be large enough to go around so there could
be more banks. On basis of agricultural
land the rural districts might have banks
able to move the crops.
Even if by reason of the exemption laws
man wouldn't have real estate to take
stock III the organization of the bank,
still, better banking facilities and more
money in his locality would enhance the
value of his land and products. Banking
is always done on surplus wealth of some
kind. As long as government bonds are
recognized as the only commodity valuable
enough to bank on the government credit
viii be good and the citizens credit bad.
Did this government reserve the monop-
oily of issuing money to benefit the few or
protect the many? Did it do this TO make
banking restrictive and interest high2
Democrats who believe this may belong in
the Republican party. Democrats who are
afraid to suggest, discuss or adopt remedy
belong in the ambulance corps. The issue
is how to get these legal tenders to the peo-
pie, and no rIan can show in the last Demo-
cratic national platform even suggestion
on this point, but Will find it in the next
one IN some shape.
National bankers and men who now have
the big end of the rope will never see any
wisdom in any suggestion for change from
the present financial system. The people
are doing some things on their own account
and will see that the East doesn't make the
next Democratic platform and expect the
South and West to elect the ticket. The
farmer would like, on basis of less than 10
per cent, TO fix up his farm to enjoy while
at work, and he knows that.the Wall street
fnanciers don't want him to do it.
After campaign of education the next
delegations from the South to the national
convention will know from instructions
what they are there for.
The fact that every Democrat who speaks
makes a different suggestion as to the best
method of increasing the circulating me-
dunn, shows that the party has not de-
clared itself on this question and left it to
be discussed on its merits. When the cam
paign of education gets George Clark's bill
providing a bank system, and specifications
of Col. Culberson'S deficit scheme, and
Senator Coke's bill reforming the national
bank system, the boys will have lots of dis
cussions and substitutes for the Gibbs bill,
the sub-treasury and national bank act.
They will write to Sulphur Springs and
Bonham for permission to discuss.
This is an off year and an open question,
and the boys at the forks of the creek will
discuss other peoples propositions and
make some of their own, and are not scared
about somebody suspecting their Democ-
racy. 1t is more than skin deep.
The Democratic masses are doing some
reading and some thinking on their own
account, and the leaders will find them well
up on political questions when the next
campaign is formally opened. When the
crops are laid by there will be discussions
in every school house on the political situa-
ton. If the present financial system is all
right the people viii say so; if not, they
will know the reason why and suggest
good work helping on the campaign of edu-
cation without committing itself to any par
ticular plan. Its article on European finance
or mortgage banks will add to the general
and help the solution.
Our government can buy all the gold and
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