Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-04

! The youth Of Texas should be guarded
| against ignorance. which is in truth the
greatest poverty.
Our people should not forget TO keep con-
stantly before them the idea that heaven
| smiles upon those who most help them
| selves. The principle that has beeu iucul-
Gated into our order since its inception is.
Ia produce At home As far as possible all
| the necesSalieS and comforts OF life This
| Is necessary 10 our independent prosperity.
To this end we should cultivate 4 more
! friendly intercourse between the labOrsrs
Of the city and those who cultivate tine soil,
looking 70 mutual patronage and inter-
| change of products, that a preference for
| the goods OF organized labor may follow ::
| thus establishing a system of cooperation
that could not but rebound benefcialiy to
! both the agricultural and mechanical toilerS.
/ The working masses everywhere are IN
| Willingly sustaining trusts and Svndicates,
| not knowing that the goods they are con-
| Stunning each day enrichcs the mOuopolieS
| which are wholly unworthy OF support.
! This IS notably true in the tobacco trade.
| Twenty firms with au aggregate capital Of
| $40 00Q, 900 are seeking to destroy all honest
| competition in that line of business. The
working men of the United States can de
| stroy these firms by consuming only the
| goods OF manufacturers outside of this I'M
| halloWed nicotine combination. The names
| of those comprising the great tobacco trnSt
| arc i-lSGtl ~ pltIS anu StithAIlS To-
| baCco manufacturers, st. Louis, Mo; 7.
| Loriilard. Jersey City, manufacturers of
| Climax and other brands of plug, smoking
| tobacco and snuff, S20,0O0.O00 capital;
| Drummond Tobacco company, ST. Louis,
! Mo, plug. Horseshoe and other brands :
| Wilson s McCalley, Middleton, Ohio, plug;
/ John Finer & Bros, Louisville. Ky, plug
| and smoking tobacco; National Tobacco
! Works, Louisville, Ky. plug and smoking
tobacco; James G. Butler Tobacco company,
! Louisville, Ky, plug tobacco; Force
| Tobacco company, Louisville, ny,
| plug tobacco; tireenville Tobacco Works,
| Greenville brand: the Mcnamara Tobacco
| Works, Covington, Ky.
| The retailer wishing to deal with any of
| the above named firms comprising the great
! s4O,0OO,00O tobacco trust must do so upon
the following specific conditions, to-wit:
l. That you or Your employees will not
sell any tobacco manufactured by John
Finer 4 Bros, or any of the firms named,
at less than their current prices
RULING on DATE OF YOUR SALE.
,. That you are permitted 10 sell to other
jobbers the tobaccos manufactured by John
Finer IL Bros. or others al l cent per
pound above net cost to YOU after deducting
rebate.
3. That you or your employees will not sell
to any jobber after John Finer X Bros, or
others, notify you to discontinue
4. That you or your employees will con-
form to the terms and conditions printed on
the current price lists issued by John Fin
yer x Bros, and others, from time 10 time
In case you violate any or all OF the above
conditions. no rebate Will be allowed or
paid to you by John Finer & Bros. and
others. IF an employee of yours violates
any or all of the ABOVE conditions. YOU Will
be required to pay 10 john FINER & Bros,
and others. the sum of $50 for each and
every violation. and until such payment is
made no rebate whatever Will be paid YOU
by John Finer 4 Bros, or others of the
syndicate. Should charges be made indi-
eating a violation of the above on Your
part, or the part of an employe, we main
tain the right to and viii demand of YOU or
your employe an affidavit of denial. If we
make such demand and such affidavit is not
furnished promptly, it will be taken as
conclusive evidence of violation on your
part, or the part of your employe. as the
case may be.
The nicotine syndicate is only one of the
many monopolies now cursing the country,
and thus do these crusheVs of human lib
erty and destroyers of human hope run
riot over the land, devastating II as they
go. incarnate fendS, gloating over the mis-
cries of "a, O00,0 600 OF people, sucking the
life blood out of the nation. destroying
trade. sitting conscience, throttting free
dom, while the leaders of the two old par
ties haltingly wander amid the mazes OF a I
per cent increase or decrease in tariff rates
for a solution of the riddle which the
sphynx puts 10 our civilization. which not
to answer is TO be destroyed.
To enable the thousands of working men
and women, who are to-day deprived of the
Just and reasonable rewards of their labor.
thereby entailing upon them and their chill
dren all the evils and inconvenience of alb
iect poverty, by the enforcement of an IN
just financial and commercial system that
demands high profits TO capital. thereby en-
failing upon labor long hours,
LOW WAGES AND ENFORCED IDLRSESS
Believing that shortening of the hours
of labor TO j live-and-let-liVe length would
give employment TO all. increase the pow
ers of consumption and production. and
hence increase the demand for raw materi-
ais, stimulate investments, decrease crime,
increase intelligence, excite patriotism and
generally improve the condition of the
wage-earning and producing millions in
common with the more favored professions
and classes / would still recommend that
we renew our demand for the shorter work
day. making eight hours a legal days work
on all state and municipal works. and that
we continue to demand of the legislative
powers of this state the enactment of a law
so declaring. pledgino ourselves to do all in
our power to establish and perpetuate the
eight-hour system.
Under Il Just economic system, toilerS in
every cEducll Oh WOulu ne
better rewards that the public service offers
where the struggling, jostling attorneys
and politicians who, under partisan rule,
have become, in many instances, verita0le
vampires in public office.
A cooperative industrial financial system
once established, worthy of free and in
dustrious people, would aid IN giving labor
the full reward of the wealth which flows
from its unceasing energies. A humane
and equitable system under wise states
manship which will tax unimproved lands,
now held in cities towns and country out of
use for speculation to an amount which will
bring them INTO use, will place these lands
under the hands of labor and add many mil
lions of dollars annually to the wealth of
Texas.
y most important item to be considered
is the question of placing all county officers
on a salary to be regulated by law, the
salary to be commensurate with and a just
equivalent for services rendered, and the |
abolition Of the commission now prevalent |
in the nature of fees, and such reform in
our judicial procedure as will facilitate
justice, leaving its operation less tardy,
BURDENSONE AND OPPRESSIVE.
It is held by some that fees to officials !
come as fines from criminals, who should be |
compelled as far as possible to pay expenses
incurred because of their violations of the |
law. However, salaries paid TO officials |
really come out of the law-abiGing, and all |
citizens who are guilty of none of the !
crimes for which some are taxed to pay |
such salaries. When salaries are paid. the |
Official gets something whether he earns it |