Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
DEMOCRATIC CLUB SAYINGS.

United States Secretary of the Treasury
Foster was seen in New York for the last
few days in conference with Wall street
bankers to know exactly what they de-
manded of the government and on what
terms to be granted by the government
would they turn loose money enough to
move the crops. It has been this way ever
since the eXigencies of war forced the gov
eminent to accept their demands for the
present restrictive national bank system.
1t is a shame. Yet men in congress from
Texas are giving flip" opinions against
the Gibbs bill and in return for their large
salaries offer no specific measure of relief.
How to get legal tenders into circulation
to supplement the gold and silver change
is an issue and an open question IN the
Democratic party. From the birth of the
world there have been but three methods
suggested by human wisdom.
l. A banking system of some kind con-
nected directly or Indirectly with the gov
eminent.
,. By loan directly to the individual cit
iZen.
3. BY payment on daily expenses of gov
eminent, or in payment of extraordinary
expenses incurred for the purpose of circu-
lating the money.
This is the A b C. Which shall it be-
Pitching into men vino have presented
measures will not enable congressman in
esse or congressman in future to escape the
issue. The campaign of education will
teach even the children to ask politicians,
what are you IN favor off The Democrats
of Texas have made up their minds TO pay
no more attention, or salaries either, to
those men who are against everything in
general and in favor of nothing in particu-
lar. The people may not be as slick as the
politicians, but they are beginning to find
out what they want and are everywhere
declaring for positive men and politics.
Democratic clubs of education will not
for some time to come indorse any body or
any measure, and will not pay any attention
to would be leaders who want to give them
moonshine or war talk. The politician who
has contempt for the fancied grievances
of the masses will find himself along with
ingalls, hunting another job. The people
can find men at the forks of the creek that
will do as well as the congressman who has
TO wait until he gets to Washington and
gets cue before proposing anything
specific.
The bankers and politicians who are hop
ping out to criticise, and not offering any
thing better or worse, are being laughed at
Us first-class idiots with more vanity than
brains. Even the bootblacks are beginning
to laugh atmen who won't defend the pres
stitute.
The campaign Of education would like for
George Clark to submit bill or specific
proposition embodying his idea of "a ''popu-
lariZed banking system' such as suggested
in his article. A proposition will be made
that on the last Saturday of July the Demo-
Gratis all over Texas meet at their county
sites.
Mo for hot tIa 4I,A hAa .
the conservative '.toiler for al" is aroused,
shows that something is wrong. He can
stand the dronth or even short crops bor-
dering on famine, but the present tax and
finance system he doesn't propose to stand,
il he can find a way out Of it. The agricult-
ural classes are the last to go in for re-
form, but when they do they stay with it.
They are determined that reform in the
tariff and the financial system shall go hand
in hand if they have to repudiate all the
leaders they have ever followed. Some
politicians don't understand the situation,
and won't until it is too late.
The people of the South and West want
the tariff reduced to a revenue basis and
enough change put in circulation to do the
legitimate business of the country They
have about quit the Republican party and
are looking more to the Democratic party
than any third party. The Democratic
party has got to face both issues in the next
congress and in the next national platform
or lose its prestige as the party of the peo-
pie.
1t is for this reason that a campaign of
education has been inaugurated by party
leaders-it is to get information from as
well as to give information to the Demo-
cratic masses.
Those people and newspapers that are
trying to read out everybody that offers a
Suggestion to the campaign of education
viii find themselves without admirers or
followers. The day for their sort has
passed in Texas and the country The
clubs and the people want distinct PROPOSE
tons and arguments and can't waste time
on burcombe or glittering generalities.
Tariff and financial reform on specific
basis is the demand. They will sink or
swim together. If you have nothing to
offer on this line write or speak on astron-
omical questions and address yourself to
the moon
Agricultural land may not be the proper
basis for circulation. What iss Banks of
circulation may not be the proper thing.
What is? In spite of the wisdom of all
civilized and commercial nations banks even
remotely connected with the government
their place. According to some inanciers,
if the supply of gold stops and weekly
wages ere only dollar the present system
is the only one. The Democratic party by
a campaign of education is inviting its
thinkers and not its yellers or resoluters to
come to the front.
When bankers conventions quit meeting
to drink champagne and study how to raise
interest rates, and meet to devise an elastic
system OF finance the people will listen to
them criticiSe other measures. The masses
are neither fools, towards nor natural revo-
lutionists. They are seeking light and not
dictas or dogmas.
Every time anybody else offers bill or
to the campaign of education
few seem dispOsed) Gibbs can have his
laugh. The boys, old and young, have got
to face the issue or hide out this summer
and fall The man with the hoe is killing
grass now, but will kill politicians later on.
Mr.. Bailey, the congressman-elect, saws
Just in one line that he is opposed to the
Gibbs bill Will he give the clubs specific
measure for discussion. His constituents
are solid on tariff reform, but want to know
how the needed additional legal tender is to
reach the people.
The Oldest bun in the Democratic herd
can't escape the issue. The Democratic
masses are on the bridge and you can't butt
them OFF. They will know specifically what
you are in favor Of before you pass over the
bridge that leads to Washington, the city
of pie, mint iuleps and fat salaries.
Mr.. Cleveland estimates that this govern
ment is receiving in taxes and annually ex-
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