Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
Bile to pay the government bonds that fall
due in September, for should they be paid,
there will not be money enough left

TO PAY THE CURRENT EXPENSES
OF the government thirty days longer; a
party, too which raised the average rate of
duties from 46 to 81 per cent; that clothes
the president of the United States with IN
constitutional power to levy and take off
taxes; that right in the face of the decision
of the supreme court, which said that such
taxation was robbery, authorized the secre-
tary of the treasury to pay direct bounty
out of the moneys collected from the people
ostensibly to 4 few sugar planters in the
South, but in reality to the sugar trust: q
party that by its perniclous class legisla-
ton drives the American marine from OF
of the high seas and pretends that it can be
rehabilitated by direct subsidies to steam
ship lines.
In other words, after destroying it by tax
alton they mean TO restore il by greater tax
alton. II is Il party whose legislation has
II every way and at all times assisted Eng
land in her attempt to establish monometal-
ism; a party that in short reign of two
years added 1000 names to the list of ofice
holders; party that blocked all legislation
for months in an endeavor 10 enact the in
famous villainouS and partisan force bill, d
bill under which they expected by fraud
and intimidation
TO PERPETUATE THEMSELVES IN POWER.
The time is near when the people will ex-
press their belief in complete, and not re-
longer sustain any party which levies and
collects one dollar of the peoples money
above which is required to econom-
icaliy administer the affairs of
the government; when they will
give due notice that the infant
industries that have been nursed for one
hundred years have arrived at an age when
they must take care of themselves: when
they will brand protective tariff as steal
ing, its advocates as beggarS and demand
that we must have 4 tariff for revenue
only
l most earnestly beseach the farmers
whose interests are identically the same as
my own, not to follow this wild
scheme of the government loaning money
upon warehouse certificates or upon lands.
the taking possession of the railways and
telegraphs by the government, internal I'M
prOvements and other minor issues that
lead not only to greater taxation, but to
THE RASKEST KIND OF SOCIALISM.
| say to them, put this scheme to one side
and stick to the tariff issue until you get
what is due YOU On this issue the right is
absolutely on our side, and a challenge hav-
ing been fairly given by the nomination of
the high chief of protection, Maj. Mcl<iu-
ley. let US meet it, aud make every hill top
and every valley in the whole state ring
with the battle-cry, industrial freedom for
the many
In conclusion, Mr.. Thurman character
lied the Mckinley tariff law as class legis-
ton of the most vicious tendency. As an
illustration he 'instanced tin plate, which
for fifteen j ears had been protected by a
SO per cent duty. Last winter few gen
tlemen said that if Mr.. Mckinley would
only raise the tax so they could be assured
of making 81, 000, 900 a year, they would be
perfectly willing
SACRIFICE THEMSELVES
in an attempt to manufacture it. Now, Nc
kinlcy said, Certainly L will what does a
little matter of S, 000,0 900 amount to to u
people who own billion-dollar country
He increased the 80 per cent duty to rs
per cent. The Ubiquitous feature of this in
creased duty put upon tin plate was that
the new tariff was made to take effect not
upon the passage of the act, but six
months after, thereby enabling them
to purchase all of this article that could be
produced in England and Wales, import to
this country under the old rate, hold it I'M
til July l and then sell it to the American
consumer under the new rate.
This, though, is only one of the many
outrageous things that these tin soldiers
got Maj. Mckinley to incorporate in his
bill, for there is not line that does not
either express or conceal some ingenuity.
No wonder the protected classes wanted it.
No wonder they poured out money like
water, intimidated the workmen and
STRAINED EVERY NERVE
to carry the Mckinley bill last fall. In
trenched monopoly will not surrender with
out making desperate struggle. There
fore l implore every man in this
convention to work after he leaves
here with his whole soul for our
success. Let no personal difference
or feelings OF disappointment in any way
deter you, but be diligent, be active, be
alert. Organize in every school district and
above all be courageous. Let there be no
faint hearts, but a time when honest, brave
men should be willing to fight with their
whole power for what they know to be
right.
Ex-Congressman Frank Leblond of Mer-
Ger county was made permanent chairman.
The report of the committee on rules was
presented and adopted, and Chairman Fin
ley of the committee on resolutions, then
presented the following majority report of
that committee:
THE PLATFORM
We are opposed to ali class legislation,
and believe in a tariff levied for the sole
purpose of producing a revenue sufficient
to defray the legitimate expenses of
the government economically administered.
we accept the issue rendered to US by the
Republican party on the subject of the tariff
DIS w SO-CdlltU MCKINNEY
tariff act. We favor graded income tax
We denounce the demonstration of
silver in 1873 by the party then in
power as an iniquitons alteration of
the money standard in favor of creditors
and against the debtors, tax payers and
producers; and we demand the reinstate-
ment of the constitutional standard of both
gold and silver with the equal rights of
each to free and unlimited coinage.
We denounce the Republican billion-dol-
lar congress, which, by eXtravagant ex-
penditure, exhausted the surplus in the
national treasury left there by the Demo
cratic administration and created
a deficit, which substituted des-
potic rule for free discussion IN
the house of representatives, and we con-
graduate the people on the defeat of the
odious force bill demanded by the Republi-
can president and championed by the Re-
publican party.
We are opposed 10 the enactment of all
laws which unnecessarily interfere with
the habits and customs of any
of our people which are not often
sive to the moral sentiment of the
civilized world, and we believe that the
personal rights Of the individual should be
curtailed only when it is essential to main
tain the peace, good order and welfare of
the community.
The persecution of the Jewish people by
the Russian government justly deserves
and receives our unqualified censure. We
extend 10 them our sincere sympathies, and
believe that this government, in connection