Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-01

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| termine which shall control.
| g. Public attention should be called to tn
| fact that the expenditures of the Fedora
| government have grown from SO, 00o, GOO il
| 1860 to 500, 600, 900 in 1890, being sever
times greater now than they were thirty
| years back. The people cannot stand such
| a drain on their resources without impover
| ishmeCt, and the Democracy should insist
| on great reduction of the enormous eX
| penditures which have grown up under the
| policy of the Republican party.
Z. The policy of the Republican party fol
| the past twenty odd years has produced {
large brood of millionaIres, concentrating the
larger part of the wealth of the country il
the hands of few hundred rich men anG
the corporations. This in turn has pro-
duced a vast mum Der of paupers and tramps
and made it difficult for persons of the mid
die walks of life to 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 a graduated tax
upon incomes; the tax to be lower on small
incomes, and to be increased with the in
creased amount of the incomes.
have not time to elaborate these propo-
sitions. Very truly and respectfully,
JOHN II. REAGAN.
A letter was read from that stalwart
Democrat,
EX-GOVERNOR GRAY OF INDIANA.
INDIANAPOLIS. IND, Sept. 12, 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 to be present at Spokane
on the 23rd and 9th of this month, to attend
the second annual meeting of the Demo
cratic Society of Washington.
| am gratified to hear that the Democrats
OF Washington are taking steps looking to
the strengthening of the organization of the
party there. Washington, in 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 to further the eff
fort to pla ce her there.
Surely the people of Washington do not
desire to lndorse by their ballots party
that has within the short space of two and
ope-half years so recklessly managed the
administration of national affairs that it has
not only squandered the great surplus
which was on hand when it came into
power, but also presents to the country
the humiliating spectacle Of a coming
deficit in the face of annual re-
ceipts amounting to nearly $500, 900
and prospective expenditure during the
coming fiscal year 7 of more than $500, co.,
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
I 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 eX-
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
tosliscriminate against us in the purchase
of farm products.
Well may Mr. Blaine say that the McKin-
ley bill does not contain section or a
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
and as it has stood since the
war, a tariff which Mr.. Blaine
supported during the whole time that he
was in congress, and which he so eloquently
championed during many presidential cam
paigns, including the last one, never dld,
and does not now, contain a section or
line that secures or facilitates the sale of a
single barrel of American pork or buSiel of
wheat.
Mr.. Blaine, in talking thus, is simply run
ming to cover for protection from the COM
ing storm. The Republican party, as
party, cannot adopt that mode of escape.
With the trusts and combines on one side,
and rapidly growing sentiment among
the farmers and laboring classes that they
have been the victims of 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 tie ballot box. To accomplish
that end the party fruitlessly endeavored
to enact law establishing Federal super
vision and bayonet rule at congressional
elections, hoping to be able to stamp out
that right Of local self government which
the people have exercised in selecting their
in congress since the forma-
ton of the government.
l do not believe that the people Of Wash
ington. possessing a state of such wonderful
resources, the development of which has
scarcely been begun, state traversed by
the grandest inland sea in the world,
affording almost unequal facilities for
internal and external commerce, a
state peopled with an active and
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
and adopting the policy of the
party in power. Very respectfully yours,
ISAAC p. GRAY.
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