Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-07
TRUE DEMOCRACY.
CONGRESSMAN ABBOTT SPEAKS
AT GARLAND.
He Warns Against Legislation Inimical to
the Constitution-The Sub-Treasury
Scheme Touched Upon.
Specia! TO the Gazette.


GARLAND. DALLAS COUNTY. Tex, Sept.
6.-Hon. 10 Abbott spoke TO Il large audi
ence of ladies and gentlemen at the col
lege hall last night. 1t was his first speech
III Garland, and the people gave him good
audience and splendid attention.
The judge started out by showing that
the Democratic party had always held to Il
strict construction Of the constitution and
opposed any legislation that violated that
instrument, and warned his hearers against
any party that advocated legislation mimi
cal to the constitution, Quoting from Sen
ator German at a banquet in Baltimore, he
assured his audience that the infamous force
bill was not dead, only sleeping and that
the Republican party in the coming cam
paign would either directly or indirectly
make it an issue before the country.
He then took up the sub-treaSury plan
and showed that it was unconstitutional,
lmpracticable and would prove to be a Veri-
table boomerang to those who We're looking
to such plan for financial relief. He said
under the sub-treasury bill introduced in
congress, the officers were to be elected,
which was Il violation of the constitution
that provides that all such officers shall be
appointed, and if the bill should be
amended TO conform to the constitution we
would have appointees of the Federal gov
eminent by the hundreds saying what our
cotton is worth and paying US 50 per cent
Of its value, holding the cotton in pledge
for spectators to buy up certificates at
prices they would make by combinations,
so that the remaining 90 per cent would
never be realized by the farmer; that in
stead of placing more money in circulation,
1t would reduce the amount. because the
money that annually comes to Us &c move
the crops would not come II the govern
ment was furnishing money for the same
purpose, but as the government only paid
SO per cent of the value of the cotton we
would be short 20 per cent. He illustrated
this from the well-known fact that local
capitalists never furnish money TO move the
cotton crop with, but it always comes from
the Eastern money centeis, where they
have plenty of money all the time.
He then showed the amount of silver in
the country and said reasonable and
sensible way OF relief was to adopt free
coinage of silver, which would place in cir
culation annually about SS;5, ,U00 or about
81. 900 more than the present law would
permit, even if the secretary of the treas
ury would allow the utmost limit under the
present law.
The Judge closed his argument on the
tariff issue, showing that less taxation by
the Federal government was the most i'm
pOrtant of all, and that any other legisla-
ton might be checkmated by the infamous
tariff, which drains the South and West all
the time for the protection of the North
and East, and kept Us without money,
while it was boarded up in the North and
East. He implored the Democracy to
watch and encourage the coming of the
West to our views and join them in captur-
ing the robber Ia iff.
Turning to the ladies, he told them to
hold Their husbands, brothers and sweet
hearts in the Democratic party, and sat
down amidst storm of applause.