Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-03
DEMOCRATIC CLUB SAYINGS.

DEMOCRATIC CLUB SAYINGS.
The BOYS at the forks of the creek say
| that the financial system has got in the
! grass and needs stirring at the roots. The
man with the hoe will proceed TO investi-
| gate. He may not know 4 great deal, but
| even pig knows when he is in crack,
| and the farmer knows that ''Whar the hen
| scratches thar be the bug Also
The people that never get interviewed,
/ but who read, say that Gibbs and the cam
paign of education still live, and if he
| is TO go for having and expressing an opin-
ion, that some of them will stand up to be
counted out with him. Perhaps the fel-
lows who want to do the reading out will
90 when the test comes. A majority will
rule In the convention.
Banks similar to the ones proposed by the
Gibbs bill, exist IN France and Switzerland,
and some of them are more than century
old, and the farmers only pay 4 per cent in
terest. This bill is better than the present
system and politicians and newspapers that
want to get rid of Gibbs and his bill and OF
the sub-treasury must offer something bet
ter or get swamped. The Democratic
masses are tired of the old anti-national
bank song and the bloody shirt If tine old
leaders won't get move on them there
will be found young men and active ones,
who will keep up with the procession. There
are monarchies where the people are vic
timized less than in this free republic.
The Democratic party won't get hurt by
4 campaign of education, but only those
Democrats who want TO rule or ruin and
keep the party in the rutS. These
select few will find out that they are not
the party, even in one Justices precinct in
Hopkins county. Some of the leaders who
don't want TO meet issues or do any sweat
ing before the people are mad because
Gibbs ooeyed orders and started cam
paign of education in the party. All OF
them put together can't stop it. The Dem
ocratic voters think if the Democratic party
has any mission on earth 1t IS TO reduce
taxes and expenses and reform the present
system of finance, and they propose 10
know on what plan.
CONGRESSMAN Mills has gone East, but
when he returns he will have to speak out
in meeting on this financial question, and
meet the issue with 4 specific proposition.
How to get the additional legal tender to
the people, is an issue that will be even
hotter in the dog-days. and wont die even
when we have killing frost. There is
hen on.
The women all over the country are up
in arms against the high tariff and got in
some good work last fail. They say that
this government has got TO let them have
hats, bonnetS and dresses cheaper or have
war. They have got it in for NIcKinley's
bill, and having 4 little campaign of educa-
ton among themselves They say that
either Mckinley is great rascal or their
husbands great liars.
Gibbs may not be bald with knowledge
of finance but he has got all Texas and
some of the other states to talking and
thinking, and the oldest political rat in the
10 ICrt1p r cd
or hunt his hole for good. These be peril
Gus times for the politician who doesn't
want to commit either himself or the party
TO anything i'll particular. The people of
the South and West are going TO know the
programme in advance or burst 4 trace
chain. II the Gibbs bill is all wrong, and
and the sub-treasury wont do, and the
national bank act must 60, then what is it
TO be? The man with the hoe is after the
politician with sharp stick, and wont lei
up until something draps.
If the citizen can't borrow from 4 foreign
loan company and our present financial con-
dition and system is continued the average
investor will have hard time of it. Per-
haps il would DE better to get on cash
basis, but with the present circulation il is
impossible.
If it is true that for more than a century
the republic of Switzerland has had finan-
y
cultural land could get money at per cent,
our politicians should investigate it. 1t is
claimed that under their system agricul-
tural interests have been preserved and no
money lost to the government. When men
have rich land, full barns and fat stock, and
can't get money 10 pay small debt or make
small investment, except Ut ruiuouS
rate Of interest, they will study about the
financial question. They will wonder what
their government is doing with its reserved
constitutional monopoly of issuing change.
They don't want any sub-treasury or any
unnecessary imitation but they want an
elastic system of finance with change
enough issued to do the legitimate business
of the country on lower interest rate.
Perhaps neither the farmer nor anyone
else should borrow money; yet they do and
will borrow, and our country should have a
system of finance that would not make it
necessary for its citizens to borrow from
foreign loan companies at high rate of in
terest. Under the constitution and de-
ciSions Of our courts, every dollar, whether
in coin or legal tender, must be issued by
the government. Whatever the rest Of the
country may do, the average Texas voter
has concluded TO take hand in the cam
paign of education. He will lay his crop by
and study politics and discuss the financial
and other questions in the country school
house The more of this that is done, the
better for the country and the Democratic
party. In multitude of counsel there is
safety
The average Democratic voter has got
his ear TO the ground. He is not listening
for the old TRADE against national banks
He wants to know, if the present system is
not all right, what You favor in its place
If you try to read him out of the party for
asking the question, he will point to the ma
tionaI platform and laugh at you. You
must. like Congressman Grain, say the
present system is all right or else suggest
what shall take its place. DEMOCRAT.