Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-27

try in the country, would the edged tools be
cheaperi Why should not the government
do it,
Turning towards the West, do you SEQ
those pens and stalls and cribs? They are
turning corn to beef. The stock is 50, Geo
bushels OF corn worth 20 cents per bushel.
| The owner Is paying ten per cent on his
| stock and 10 per cent. on his plant TO that
| some outlaw. Should the government pur-
| chase his stock and issue money in paw
| ment and by so doing reduce the interest on
| his plant and and on all the plants of indus
try to 8 per cent. and all the results should
De for the good OF all, why should not the
government do itl
Do you see that starrart channel moving
from the southwest toward the main chan
mel! That is the Texas contribution 10 the
river Of human industry. The green scum
OF disordered finance, like tie trail OF 4
serpent IS over it all" Do YOU see that in
duStrious wagonmdker' Do you See how
slow he moves! Do you see what tremen.
dous energy it takes for him TO move at aul
After paying, under compUlsion of tvrant
law, S per cent above the real value Of tina
tools he uses, he pays, TO the same outlaw
we have mentioned, 10 per cent upon his
; STOCK aud IL per cent. on al his plant.
These burthenS press him to
the knees in financial slime and
retard every motion Of his hand and every
action OF his brain. Should the government
purchase his stock on conditions safe 10
itself and convenient to ham, and issue
money in payment therefor. and, by doing
so, reduce the interest on his plant and on
all the plants of industry in Texas to three
per cent, would the wagons be the cheaper
thereby?
Texans, look into this matter. We would
not stir your blood. but we would reach
your Judgment and would drive it into
action with the energy of Gettys burg,
why should YOU permit this useless outlaw
to Cypress your industrieSi Why should
you pay such tribute to that greedy traitor
10 the interests of his race and country
the protectioniStR The remedy for both i,
evils Is the same. \ threa per cent money |
would kill protection without jar or jangl6, |
by creating energies which can not be pent /
IN It's Smothering bushel /
For the present we assume that the avail |
able resources of the sub-treasury scheme ,
are suiiicIen; to produce any required rasu.t, |
and hence there is no adequate reason why |
there should be other money than coin and
Sub-treaSury notes.
The first article Of the act under consid-
GRAFTON provides that when the provisions
Of the act are fully consummatet. the lawful!
money of the United States shall be gold
and silver coin and sub-trelSury notes |
1t provides for TIE free and unlimited coin
age of silver, and for the prudent
md gradual retirement of all currency now
III circulation, before the outhOwlng vol |
lme OF sub-treasury notes. AS internal
rade will largely prefer suo-treasury notes
o coin, it provides for the mutual exchange
u com and SuD-;reaSury notes at al sub
without cost to the holder, and
Without reference to the color of the coin,
md ii provides for the transfer of superb
'undant coin to the safer vaults at Wash
ngton, or to those points where external
rade or other cause may require coin.
J. a. SULLIVAN.
Christian, Tex, Aug 16, 1897