Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-13
TOO HOT AT DALLAS.
The People HE Themselves to
the Suburbs and to
FORT WORTH TO COOL OFF
The Dallas Central Labor League Get To-
sether-Merits' of the Springtown
Platform Discussed-Hcn II.
A. Spencer's Speech.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
DALLAS, Tex, July 12-The hot weather
today has caused the city to have the ap-
pearance of utter descrtion by its inhabit-
ants. The cool resorts 1t Oak Cliff and the
fair grounds have been crowded with peO-
pie, all hunting cool place at which to
spend the day. Quite 4 number went to
Fort Worth, as is their usual Sunday Gus
tom.
The Dallas Central Labor League met
at 3 p. III. today, Mr.. Stvens Land
in the chair The debate was on
platform. The discussion called forth
numerous animated 1uspeeches on the
various demands of the platform, all of
them favorable to the platform, and its
similarity 10 the Peoples party was con-
coded.
Hon. H. A Spencer Of New York and
Dallas said: The platform recently
formulated at Sulphur Springs by the
Texas State Federation of Labor is in
striking contrast with the work OF politi-
clans scheming in the interest of monopo-
lists. l know majority of the delegates
there were Alliance members, and hand in
hand with them We're the Knights of Labor,
also members of trades unions and other
anti-monopoly guilds. The platform OPP
poses what the old parties and their mas
tiers in Wall street seek TO perpetuate in
,
money power. That power has become SO
despotic and ruin0us that no order Of in
telligent men, allied with American indus
tries, can be considered brave or just who
Will longer tolerate its control of the gov
ernmentn
He continued: 1.-THE men who profess
loyalty to the Alliance and claim that the
sub-treasury plan of securing loans at ? per
cent, instead Of continuing to pay 10 per
cent, as under the Democratic schemes OF
usury, are Benedict ArnoldS, seeking to
betray the great armies Of industry into
perpetual slavery to the shylocks.
The Alliance is threatened by 4 misery
statesman, is threatened with alcoholism.
That man advocates what national banks
las the United States bonds are fast wan
ing from banking foundatiOns) really de-
sire, state system; 4 system OF compound
ing credits more ruinOuS to the masses than
any yet devised by man, unless, indeed, 1t
be the faro bank, where its 81 per cent ad-
vantage usually absorbs all wealth placed
near its capacious nav in forty deals
4 believe that the recent anti-sub-treas-
ury pow-wow at Fort Worth shows that
Wall street. in addition to owning the ma
chinery and leaders OF the old parties,
aspires through their emissaries to control
the great Alliance. The scheme of ruling
or running the Alliance will not succeed
with the honest American farmers Com
government system seems to be 4 spark to
brighten Mr.. Hall Of Missouri. That state
evidently seeks a national Alliance anti
sub-treaSury conventions influence upon
her soil to save the state, if possible, from
passing wholly into the hands of the Peo-
pies party.
Mr.. Hall fails to complain of the COM
pounding of credits by the monopolistS for
years past until more than one-half of the
wealth Of the nation has passed into the
hands of less than 80, 600 SPECTATORS That
order of men are uniting in trying to
elect John Sherman to the United States
senate. The Democratic and Republican
press North and South are now uniting at
the behest of Wall street to elect that arch
demonetizer of silv er and chief of monopo-
listic legislation TO continue to serve them
in the senate
The speaker further said. What honest
man can continue TO serve those parties,
which exist only to serve Wall street2''
In conclusion he said: 81 call attention
to the fact that free coinage and tariff re-
form are but feeble reforms as compared
with those imperatively needed by the in
dustrial masses at this time. Taxation,
from the precinct up to the national govern
ment, exceeds the amount annually of the
whole volume Of money in this country.
No wonder the red flag Of confiscation floats
over the humble homes of millions of the
poor in city and country every year, sending
them into the servitude of tenantry. The
SUI phur Springs platform and the Peoples
party platform provides for those reforms
which the Alliance, knights of Labor and
kindred orders are founded upon, aud with
out which they would probably cease TO
exist o.zsssyl