Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-17

prices of their chief products are fixed by
the prices in Europe. The protective sys-
tenn has been SO arranged as to
restrict the market, and thus reduce
the prices of such products and
at the same time enhance the price of what
the farmer has to buy. We declare it to be
the highest duty OF the government to rem
der due justice to the agricultural and labor
ing classes-the real producers OF wealth.
To this end we favor repeal OF the heayy
tariff taxation on the necessarles OF life,
and the extension of our foreign commerce.
In this connection it must not be forgotten
that though the Democratic party has not
for thirty years had entire control OF the
government, and therefore has not been
able to give relief to the people by repeating
class legislation anG enactlng Just ana hon
est laws, yet it has ever manifested It's pur-
pose to give this relief when 1t shall have
the power to do so and it is the part of
wisdom to hold up its hand, and not condemn
until it has had an opportunity and failed to
take advantage OF it.
4. We believe that gold and silver should
be coined upon the same terms and condl-
lions, and that when the government shall
cease to discriminate between them they
will freely circulate side by side and be
equally useful and acceptable to the people.
We also believe that there should be an ad-
ditional issue of treasury notes interchange
able with coin. sufficient to transact
the business of the country, and to relieve
the present financial depression.
). We believe that every legitimate
power of the government should be eXertcd
to provide the people with cheaper facilities
for transportation. inaSmuch as large
portion of their earnings is now taken from
them to pay the cost of marketing their
products. We. therefore, demand liberal
appropriations by congress for the improve
ment of our rivers and harbors, regarding
their improvement as an absolute essential
step towards the accomplishment OF the de-
sired end.
e. We denounce as unconstitutional, revo-
lutionary and infamous the force bill at
tempted to be passed by the Republicans of
the Fifty-first congress, whereby they
would have taken from the states the right
to hold their congressional elections through
the agency of their own officers, as they
have done since the beginning of the gov
ernment, and by subiecting the white peo-
pie of the Southern states to the DONNA
ton of ignorant negro hordeS would have
perpetuated their party in power. Believ-
ing, as we do, that the Democratic party
alone can secure us against such disaster,
we beseech all Democrats to stand by its
colors and to avoid all issues which might
create dissatisfaction and by dlSrupting
that party place the South at the mercy of
its enemies. We extend our thanks and
congratulations to the Democratic senators
led by that able and patriotic statesman,
Senator George, and the Republican sena-
tors who assisted them, for the defeat of
the infamous, sectional and partisan force
bill, and we take special pride in the con-
spicuouS part played in that splendid fight
by Our own able and honored sena-
tors, George and Walthall and
we indOrse their course as our
senators. We take pride in the fact that
the Democratic party has always been the
opponent of class legislation, the greatest
evil of the times in which we live, and of
all the centralizing tendencies of the Re-
publican party. We are opposed to what is
known as the sub-treasury scheme, as VIC
lative of the me-honored principles of the
Democratic party and violation of the
Democratic idea of the proper construction
of the constitution, and we regret that the
discussion of the same has been thrust into
politics over the state. We regard it as
being not only undemocratic, but iInpracti-
cable, and not calculated to furnish the re
lief claimed for it.