Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-02

| by the demands of home consumption. The
wheel OF reciprocity will not be able TO
| counterbalance the one-sided and deStruc-
tive influence of protective tariff. What
| ever indirect benefits there may be IN 1t
| they are only such as would be felt III a
hundred measure more if we could open the
doors of the whole world to the energy OF
the American people.
Processing desire to improve the con-
dition of our navigation and foreign COM
Inerce, Republican leaders bring forward
the rusty
WHEEL OF SUBSIDY
and offer it to the country for that purpose.
They propose TO subsidiZe ships TO run be-
tween our own ports and foreign countries,
and thus sustain a commerce by stimula-
ton, which would thrive abundantly il they
would only give it more freedom and fresh
air. Concerning this SCENE ii Is enough to
say. that it has been tried often and failed.
1t was tried before the war and since the
war, tried under every favorable condition,
and if it is ever tried again it will meet the
same miserable fate.
But fellow citizens. reciprocity and sub
sidy are small wheels compared with some
others offered US, TO do the work Of correct
ing the manifest depression which weighs
down the farming interest OF this country.
1t has taken the rank Of an axiom, that az
rlculture is the foundation resource of all
industrial progress. and yet we find II pal
pably the victim of discrimination, under
the operation of the tax and currency laws
of the Federal government. The Demo
cratic party offers to restore justice TO
agriculture by uushachling commerce with
foreign nations and giving the people
currency which Spectators cannot control
These remedies are simply and easily under
stood, but new remedy is offered, which it
is said will balance the machine again, and
put agriculture upon its feet. II is called
h tN1,
about the novelty OF this patent. There is
no doubt about the immensely Of the wheel.
One trouble is, the wheel is too large to go
in the machine. In fact, calculations show
that If we try this experiment we
Will be obliged to sell the machine,
in order to raise money to buy the wheel.
The advocates of the sub-treasury do not
show US where such an experiment was
ever made in any other country on earth.
The nearest parallel to it is found in the af-
fairs of the Argentine Republic, which so
lately writhed in the misery and ruin of
universal bankruptcy to every class. While
] would not assail the sincerity OF all the
advocates of the Sub-treaSury, l believe
that the men who conceived the plan are
CONSCIOUS OF ITS WEAKNESS,
of its impossibiIty, of its fatal influence in
diVerting the attention of its believers, from
reforms which are vital, and almost in
reach, and concentrating that attention
upon 4 gorgeous phantasm, as delusive as
boys dream of finding vast heaps of money,
and filling his pockets to overfowing. Con-
corning this scheme, my own duty is plain.
The constitution of my country is against
it. The platform of the Democratic party
is against it. Economy, business judgment,
good old corn-teld common sense, the ex-
perience of the past, the hopes of the
future, the unanimous warnings of our
great statesmen, all stand in its way. fall |
these barriers should ever be broken down,
if folly should seize the head and despera-
ton fold the ballot OF the free people of
this country, in favor Of this scheme the |
farmers Will find that beyond the depths of |
their present hardship there is a still deeper |
depth, in the misfortuneS of the condition |
produced by the collapse of the sub-treas- |
uly
it comes now to perplex the counsels OF |
the people, TO divide the organized and ex- !
ultant forces which in a few years at most |
would bring the country back to the |
measure and equity of the plan of the |
fathers, where agriculture led all other in |
tereSts in profit Importance and independ-
ence.
And it is said that the managers of this
scheme will force the Democratic party to |
lend to it the Endorsement of its greag
name. In other words, that they will |
capture the Democratic party and pervert |
1t. This seems to be the settled policy OF |
the sub-treasury leaders in Texas. Let
them try. The Democratic party in Texas
has already spoken. l believe it will speak
again in the same steady tones of vigor and
resolution. The best men in Texas, the
best farmers, the best mechanics the best
merchants, the best representatives of |
every class, make up the Democratic party, |
and when its1voicessrises from the country |
schoolhouses and village meetings in the |
of 1892 it will have in it no tremor
OF uncertainty or retreat, but it will swell |
and consolidate into determined negative, |
as grand and as broad as Texas herself
The city is wild with excitement Anvils |
firing and the people yelling make one think
of Cleveland's election in 1854. Never did |
the Grand opera house hold such an enthu-
siastic audience.