Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
DEMOCRATIC REFORM.
How it is to be Brought About-The Peo-
pie VIII no Longer Accept Subter-
fuges-The Next Platform.

Editor Gazette.
| ] have read with much interest all that
| has appeared in your columns touching
| upon the political outlook, editorial or other
| wise. and if / may be permitted TO make an
| observation, it is that no suggestion has yet
| satisfactorily covered the case, as to the
| duty of the Democratic party to itself and
| the country in the next very critical presi-
| Dental campaign. Col. Culberson comes
| the nearest. and his late speech is an adj
| mirable Democratic text, but | would ell
| force his ideas in the most emphatic man
ner.
The time III my Judgment has come
when the great body OF the Democratic
party should take charge of the machine
and run it, not upon 4 line indicated by Mr..
Cleveland aud Mr.. Mills as Il one -ideaed con-
Germ, but upon platform broad enough to
comprehend the material welfare of the
country at large.
As Democrat believe have a right to
observe that the influence in shaping the
platforms and policy of the party by that
element in New York and New England
welded to policy subservient to their own
selfish interests either as manufacturers or
money changers, and which is destructive
of the interests of the people at large has
received vastly more consideration in our
national conventions than it should, and as
the result of an attempt to conciliate them
we have had too many platform
pledges that could be. read in our
light desired, but if | read the signs of the
times Alright the people will no longer ac-
cept subterfuges and blindly vote for the
nominee, and they are tired of the trick of
the time-Serving politician, who makes the
platform declare that we believe in so
and so. but will demand that they pledge
themselves, if placed in control of the gov
eminent, to lnau9urate a tariff policy. 4
fiscal policy and pension policy that will
t,la nf hn ht1p of fhn ARM
ment upon the shoulders of those who have
grown abnormally rich by virtue OF the
cruel and d1sgraceful robbery perpetrated
in their interest by the policy of the Re-
publican party in the fiscal and tariff legis-
lation and that the mailed hand of
the tariff taXgatherer shall be for d
time. to some extent. Withdrawn from
the pockets of the mechanic and the farmer,
that the one may be able to build himself a
house for his family and the other TO lift
the vampire-lille mortgage off his home and
farm. / am as much opposed to the Repub
lican tariff as Mr. Mills or Mr.. Cleveland,
but no one-ideaed policy can relieve the
country, and the next platform must be
broad enough and plain and honest enough
to comprehend fiscal policy Us well as a
tariff policy. / understand that our party
has always stood, IN its purity, for strict
construction of the grant of power to the
Federal government in the constitution, and
has opposed favoritism to any individual or
/ class at the expense of others; then
let the issues be formed on this
line, and let the burdens of the govern
ment be imposed in the light of equity and
justice and let the next platform pledge the
party. if placed in power, to repeal the
national bank act. At least withdraw from
them the power TO control the volume of
money as banks of issue
TO reduce the tariff to minimum
Scbpdula based mainly InOO l1NlIl.ipS
70 issue and put in circulation Il sufficient
volume of legal tender notes.
To restore the free coinage of silver, and
thus restore the relation of borrower and
lender to Il plane of equity and justice, by
giving TO the country the necessary supply
of money
To levy an income tax upon the enormous
fortunes that have been accumulated by
virtue of the criminal favoritiSm of the
government to supplement low tariff.
This would be the greatest eXpedient ever
devised to put stop to reckless appropria-
tons by congress-
To repeal all laws that lend to corpora
lions or individuals the license of the
Federal government to levy tribute upon
others. and to wipe out every feature of
paternalism. and restore the government
to its former purity Then the advocates
of the sub-treaSury and the equally undem-
ocratic scheme of loaning money to
DdlhtIS DIT per CtHt W Dt W
people at whatever they can eXtort-as is
now done-as proposed by Governor Gibbs,
would find but few adhereuts.
But what am | going to do with Mr..
Cleveland and those other Democrats who
draw their inspiration more from the at
moSrhere of the money changers than from
patriotic regard for the good of the greatest
number
Well, ] would first make an honest plat
form, stamped with truth, honesty and
justice. and in direct and plain language.
and then if they could not assent to it I
would let them do as they pleased. ] would
like for some ''eXpediencyn Democrat to
tell me the difference between monometal-
list, contractionist and high-protectionist
Democrat and Il Republican, anyway. But
how would | get the legal tenders in circu-
lation without Sub-treaSuries or Gibbs
banks2 If the money was issued it would
find its way 10 the people provided the ma
chinery of the government was in the hands
OF those who wished it so. They could buy
up the bonds outstanding with legal tenders,
and the bondhOlders would find some way
of using the money, and when he opened
his bank | would just as soon borrow his
money as that from Gibbs bank
In conclusion, hold that it is the logical
results of the Republican tariff and fiscal
policy for thirty Years that has produced
the alarm and distress among the masses
that popularizes the sub-treasury and other
schemes that promise relief. and the logical
remedy is simply to reverse that policy and
that can and must be done by the Democ-
racy. ID. $. MORAN.