Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-25

peal of the present protective tariff law and
the enactment of q law providing for tar
if for revenue only.
+ We should provide by state and Fed
erai legislation. within their respective
spheres. to subordinate the great corpora
tons of the country, and especially the rail-
road corporations, to the political authority.
Either the people or the corporations viii
be the master. and sthe American people
cannot avoid the conflict which is 10 de-
termine which shall control
Is. Public attention should be called to the
fact that the expenditures of the Federal
government have grown from SO, 600. 600 in
1850 to $500. 900. 600 in 1870, being seven
times greater now than they We're thirty
years back. The people cannot stand such
drain on their resources without impOVer-
ishmert. and the Democracy should insist
on great reduction of the enormous eX-
penditureS which have grown up under the
policy of the Republican party.
:. The policy of the Republican party for
the past twenty odd years has produced 4
large brood of millionalreS, concentrating the
larger part of the wealth of the country in
the hands of Il few hundred rich men and
the corporations This in turn has pro-
duce6 a vast number of pauperS and tramps,
and made il difficult for persons OF the mid
die walks of life 10 earn :; decent support.
This must be corrected by law. or it cannot
fail TO end in most direful consequences.
The first and most important step towards
its correction should be Il graduated tax
upon incomes: the tax TO be lower on small
incomes. and to he increased with the in
creased amount of the incomes.
have not time 10 elaborate these propo-
sitions. Very truly and respectfully,
.ToHN II. REAGAN.
\ letter was read from that staIwart
Democrat,
EX-GOVERNOR GRAY OF INDIANA.
IHpIANApoIIs. IND. Sept. II 1891.
To Hon. Henry Drum, President. and George
Hazard. Secretary. OF the Democratic So
ciety OF Washington:
DEAR SIRS-I am in receipt of your kind
favor inviting me 10 he present at Spokane
ON the 23rd and 9th of this month, to attend
the second annual meeting of the Demo
cratic Society of Washington.
J am gratified TO hear tina; the Democrats
of Washington are taking steps looking 10
the strengthening of the organization of the
party there. Washington. i'll my Judgment,
is the coming giant of the Pacific North
west. and her proper political position is in
the column of Democratic states. and GER
tainly no more propitiOus time than the
present could be selected 10 further the eff
fort to pla &c her there
Surely the people of Washington DO not
desire to lndorSe by their ballots Il party
that has within the short space of two and
one-half years so rcckleSSly managed the
administration of national affairs that II has
not only squandered the great surplus
which was on hand when il came into
power but also presents to the country
the humiliating spectacle of coming
deficit in the face of annual re-
ceiptS amounting to nearly $500, OO0OO
and prospective expenditure during the
coming fiscal year Eof more than S50O.o0O,-
000-a party that for partisan purpose
adopted rules in the popular branch of con-
gress which clothed the speaker with an
arbitrary power which was used TO prevent
u fair and proper consideration of
measures of great Importance to the
people and in the exercise of which
to obtain party advantage every rule of
right and justice was overridden. This
same arbitrary power was used TO pass
the Mckinley bill TO increase the
cruel burdens of the war tarif-a system
of taxation enacted and maintained solely
for the benefit of certain idle class of
persons who. in payment for the special
privileges thereby granted, and expected
to furnish the Republican campaign man
ayers with money to defray election en-
penses. a system of taxation that has de-
Stroyed our commerce. Expresses the labor
ing classes by increasing the cost of living
and is impoverishing our farmers by forcing
the great commercial nations of the world
to discriminate against US in the purchase
of farm products.
Well may Mr.. Blaine say that the Mcliin-
ley bill does not contain a section or Il
line that will open a market for another
bushel OF wheat or barrel of pork: = and Mr..
Blaine could as truly have said and with
equal force that The tariff, as it now stands
war, Il tariff which Mr. Blaine
supported during the whole time that he
was i'll congress. and which he so eloquently
championed during many presidential cam
paigns, including the last one, never did,
and does rot now. contain Il section or
line that secures or facilitates the sale of Il
single barrel of American pork or buSLel of
wheat.
Mr.. Blaine, in talking thus is simply run
ming to cover for protection from the com
ing storm. The Republican party, as a
party, cannot adopt that mode of escape
With the trusts and combines on one side.
and a rapidly growing sentiment among
the farmers and laboring classes that they
have been the victims of Il system
of taxation that has robbed them
for the benefit of trusts on the
other side, leaves the Republican party
without hope of being continued in con-
troll of the government unless it can
throttle the ballot box. To accomplish
that end the party fruitlessy endeavored
to enact law establishing Federal super
vision and bayonet rule at congressional
that right of local self government which
the people have exercised in selecting their
representatives in congress since the orm;-
tion of tine government.
do not believe that the people Of Wash
in9ton, possessing u state of such wonderful
resources, the development of which has
scarcely been begun, a state traversed by
the grandest inland sea in tne world.
affording almost unequal facilities for
internal and external commerce, Il
state peopied with az active and
energetic population representing every
state in the Union, cannot afford to stay her
mighty progress, cripple her commerce and
paralyze the best energies of her people By
indorsing and adopting the policy of the
party in power Very respectfully yours,
ISAAC p. GRAY.
Letters were also received from many
other prominent Democrats.
3 General Fight.