Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-25

| eachresident $50. It is simple problem
| and illustrates perfectly some current
! financial ideas. The latter, however,
would have the day of payment postponed
| until the $50 were spent.-[Kansas City
Times.
Emigration from the hungry and over
populated quarters of the continent must
| be checked, and the sooner we handle the
| question without gloves the better it will be
| for the country.-i New York Herald.
A man whose wife is mayor of Kiowa,
Kan, has signed very popular petition to
her requesting her resignation from Office.
Her antagonism to the whisky shops has
brought the movement about, and her hus-
bands attitude in the matter furnishes a
clew to the situation suggestive OF points
that are both humorous and pathetic
Washington Star.
The Mail and Express is very confident
that Mr.. Blaine's magnanirnity has induced
him to keep out of the race for the nominal
ton against Mr.. Harrison, and that this will
be made known officially at the proper
time. This is very cheerful news for Dem
ocrats. Mr.. Blaine is fine politician and
it is evidently his opinion that the chances
of success for the Republican nominee are
too slight to make it worth while to try for
the Observation-Disclosures American.
If the Democrats should carry Massa-
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Iowa in November, there will rise a
mighty clamor for recognition among the
Democratic hosts. and there is going to be
grand free-for-all race for the presiden-
tial stakes. That is about all there can be
said now. The Democrats of the impor
tant states mentioned are at present busy
in the work of securing victories; they are
not discussing presidential availabilities.
memphis Appeal-Avalanche.
Sundry sabbatarians of Pittsburg have
decided TO enforce an antique code of old
time blue laws which they have recently
unearthed among the archives of the Smoky
City. Among other reforms, they mediate
an onslaught upon the Sunday paper. To-
night they will arrest all editors, reporters,
compositors and pressmen found working
after midnight. In addition they propose
to corral all the carriers and newsboys
found engaged in their highly criminal pur-
suit on Sunday morning. These good
people mean well. but they have made a
mistake of about two centuries in getting
down to work. Their determination savors
not Of the Nineteenth century in which
they live, but rather of those old times
when it was considered mans duty to be
wholly miserable on the Sabbath day.
y Minneapolis Tribune.
The importance of river improvement
cannot be Overestimated. The navigable
rivers (not the creeks) are the natural high
ways of the country and it is the duty of
the government to keep them open and I'M
INSTRUCTED. Rivers are valuable as check
upon the greed of railroads, even if not en-
ployed regularly and continuously as q
means of transportation. But water trans
portation may be revived and protitably car
ried on, thus cheapening transportation, if
congress will keep the great rivers open.
-[kansas City Star.
II. e.. Al
continued adherence to the Democratic
party. If there is division among the
whites in this section the Republicans can
easily obtain control of the government and
if that party should come once again into
power, the force bill will follow as a GER
tainty. But for Senator Germans able
leadership in the senate, the force bill
would now be law and Mr.. Harrison could
see to his own reelection and that of Re
publican majority in congress without any
sort of difficulty Atlanta Herald.
The New York Tribune thinks that the
task which Maj Mckinley has undertaken
of going on the stump for eleven consecu-
tive weeks Is gigantic. The really hard
part of the majors work. however. consists
in showing how the tariff is paid by for
eigners, and that at the same time that TAX
ing it off sugar has relieved Americans
how he has decreased the price of some ar
ticles by taking the tariff off and yet cheap
ened other articles by putting it on. This,
in combination with his straightforward
trick of making tin plate out of lead, must
be very wearing on even the major Nash
vile American.
Mr. Blaine says in his letter that without
the reciprocity clause the Mckinley bill
did not provide a market for a bushel of
wheat or barrel Of pork, but that with it,
it does do so. This is absolutely abandon
ing the whole theory of protection as ap-
piled to the farmer, for the argument of
Mckinley has always been, and is, that the
farmer should tax himself in order to build
up home market. Mr.. Blaine says that
protection does not build up a home market
at all. but that reciprocity will afford
market abroad. This i, the worst stab that
Mckinley has received yet Nashville
American.
Some persons in Ohio who are betting
heavily on the success of Mckinley will
probably find themselves much the worse
for it when the returns come in. 1t is
claimed that Ohio is relia bly, Republican,
and it has been so heretofore. This can
vass differs from all preceding ones in that
Mills and Campbell have forced the Re
publicans to defend their absurd tariff pol
icy of making the people rich by taxation.
The bloody shirt, for the first time, is of
no more account in the fight than a wooden
gun. and the new Australian ballot law
will allow many 4 workingman to vote as
he pleases, unfettered by the fear of losing
his place Nashville American.