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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

produced more oatmeal than it could
consume. II certain quantity was
imported, it was because of the differ
emit and perhaps superior quality, just
as We import in small quantities and
for special reasons Canadian or Euro
pean wheat, rye or barley or other
things Doubling the tariff won't keep
it out altogether, but it will enable, and
in fact has already enabled, the manufac-
turers of oatmeal to combine and de-
mand higher prices from home con-
sumers than they can get in foreign
markets. How much more profitable it
is to bleed the home market freely
than to sell extensively abroad
for a small profit. That is what
preserving the home market"
means, what it has always meant This
oatmeal duty is fine thing for the
manufacturers, but how does it help
the farmer? He does not make oat-
meal. He only raises oats which he
must sell to the combine. If the COM
bine, protected from outside COMPETE
ton by the tariff wall, can push up the
price of oatmeal at will, it can just as
easily pull down the price of oats. Its
power is no greater one way than it is
the other. So that the oatmeal tariff
can be made an instrument of oppres-
sion, of plumber and robbery to the man
who plants, reaps and gamers oats.
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worth remembering.

Senator PETER proposes that the govern
ment shall lend the people money, on ade-
guate security, at nominal rate of interest.
What does this mean9 The government Of
the United States is the people of the
United States 1t means that the people
lend some money to the left-hand pocket
this is what 1t means.
Or else it means that the people who
have money shall lend to the people who
have not. Voluntarily Mol not volun-
tarily. There is no law now against their
lending voluntarily at low interest or at no
interest at all. Senator PETER proposes,
either that all the people shall lend to ali
the people, that the right-hand pocket shall
lend to the left-hand pocket, or else he pro-
poses that the men who have saved their
earnings shall be compelled to lend to the
men who have not.
This Is confscation.
II the rich men have made their money
unjust.y and are not entitled to it, let US
say so frankly, and take it away from them.
But let US not call it a loan by the govern
ment to the people. The government is the
people.
This is worth remembering The gov
eminent is not an abstract entity with
plenty of surplus energy wherewith to do
things, and plenty of surplus money where
with to buy things. The government is the
fSNtA-' 40 iAAoASy ANsS go "SS.- e1.>@A 0-As
Of the pockets of the people. Under our
systems of taxation most Of its money
comes from the people of very moderate
means. Whenever it is proposed that the
government shall do something with its
money, it is proposed that we, the people,
shall do something with our money.
Shall the government subsidize steamship
ines9 That is, shall we, the people, pay
our money to the owners of steamship
lines. who take our money but pay US no
share Of the profits2
Shall the government pay 500, 900, 600 to
build Nicaragua canals That is, shall
every family in the United States pay $40
to the men who propose to build that canal
and let them own and operate it and take
the profits9
1t will help our readers to form better
Judgment as to the various plans for spend
ing the money of the government, if for the
word government" they will always sub
stitute the words ''the people"
Shall We, the people, build railroads for
other men to own, steamships for other men
to sail, canals for other men to operative
to pay the money, they to take the profits7
Shall we, the people, put our money into a
common fund to be loaned by the politicians
at nominal rate of interest to anyone who
has influence enough to get the loan'
What do you think OF it2
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
THE TEXAS COMMISSION.

The railroad men are taking much inter-
est in the commission and are on the look
out for its movements. Not one will
give an opinion on either the commission
or what it is expected to do. Several of the
officials intimate that they expect no radi-
cal changes in the present system of rail
reading, nor do they look for a policy
which will have tendency to seriously
embarrass the roads.-[Dallas News.
And yet the people of Texas were
told last year that, ''Hogg and COM
mission" would result in ruin to the
railroad interests OF the state.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
SADDLE THE RESPONSIBILITY.

The responsibility for the stringency in
money matters in Texas rests largely with
the radical political faction that has held a
threatening hand over large investments
of money in railroads and other great I'M
provementS In the state. While other por-
tons Of the country were suffering and
dragging along on very low wages and
little money, up to year or two ago Texas
had an abundance of cash to pay wages in
the towns and cities and along the railroads
sufficiently high to induce many Of the
farmers to leave their farms and move into
the towns. Even on the farms wages were
higher than in any Of the older states.
Much-needed railroads were being built,
and in the cities factories were being
started in order to make at home all the
necessaries of home consumption. Then
came furious clamor against the railroads
and other great investments which had
done so much to develop the state. This
clamor became part of the politics of the
state. In Texas, where railroad building
and all other legitimate Improvements had
been uniformly encouraged with such IA
vorable results, there was promulgated by
bold and highly talented band of politi-
clans doctrine SO. inimical to the capital
that had done for the state so much in the
past that such capital became alarmed, and
if none Of it has been withdrawn certainly
less of it is now coming into the state for
investment. The sooner the responsibility
for this condition of affairs is saddled upon
those who wrought the unfortunate change
the better for the state. The News has
never failed to raise its voice against a
sentiment and policy which is considered
most dangerous to the best interests of the
people of Texas. Now that the crusaders
are in power, the people have right to de-
mand that they proceed to redeem their
lofty promises, improve the railroad Situa-
ton, reassure capital and make better
times and more money, or acknowledge
that their promises meant nothing for the
people but political exploitation of popular
delusion. There is no conceivable reason
why Texas should not be easy and prosper
Gus to-day except that outside capitalists
are very deeply impressed with the idea
that the politics of the state is against
them.-[ Dallas News.
If the failure of the Earrings had not
precipitated panic, if the whole coun-
try was not suffering from this and the
Mckinley bill, whose operations were
anticipated by importers, thus necessi-
tating heavy expectations of gold, if
the people were driveling idiots, then
the Dallas News might hope to carry
its point and excite hostility to ''Hogg
and commission" The press of the
country is discussing the financial
situation, but of all the papers in the
Union from the st. Lawrence to the
Rio Grande and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, it is left to this Dallas
oracle to attribute the results of a
great financial panic to local causes in
Texas
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
THE TARIFF ON OATMEAL.

The Republican party has declared
its opposition to trusts in general
way, and specifically did all it could
indirectly to foster them.
The Mckinley bill, for example,
doubled the tariff on oatmeal. Why?
For no other purpose than to enable
the oatmeal manufacturers to put the
prices of oatmeal as high as they
please. It is shown that in 1890 the
imports of oatmeal were 2,372, LOG
pounds, and the exports q, 400, 80
pounds. The exports were more than
ten times greater than the imports,
proving, OF course. that the country
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
NEVER HAD COMPLETE CONTROL.

Editor Gazette.
l. Has the Democratic party had majority
in the United States senate since the war;
If so, in what year or years, and the size of
that majority2 2. Also, has the Democratic
party at any time since the war had ma
jority in both houses of congress at one and
the same timer Please answer through the
columns of The GAZETTE
F. B. BAILLIo, Alvarado.
l. Yes. The Democratic majority in
the senate from 1879 to 1881 was eleven,
and Senator Thurman was made
presiding officer. And for a few
months in 1883 the Democrats
had majority of one in the
senate. Senator Bayard was elected
president of the senate, leaving a tie
between the Democrats and Republic
ans on the floor Of the senate. Readers
of THE GAZETTE will probably recall
the very animated discussion that then
sprang up over the question of Mr..
Bayard's right to vote as a senator
from Delaware, and to vote again in
case Of a tie, as presiding officer OF the
senate.
2. The Forty-sixth congress had a
majority of Democrats at the same time
that the Democrats had majority in
the senate.
HAYES was then president, so that,
the Democrats had control of
both branches of congress, they could
put through no legislation that met the
decided opposition of the Republican
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

ground that was thought, three or four
years ago, to be a part of the Great Ameri-
can Desert and fit only for grazing. AT the
present rate. of settlement this will soon
prove to be only fraction Of the pro-
duct harvested in the Panhandle. The
sugar product of Northeast Texas IS in
creasing at such rate that there is call
for barrel factories, which will find still
more active employment if proposed salt
works be put into operation in Wood
county and thereabouts. Verify, with its
deep-water enterprises on the coast, its
constantly increasing crops of cotton, grain
and sugar, its cattle and its wool, its ex-
banding manufacturing interests, and its ar
tesian wells to keep away drouth, Texas
is fast approaching the time when it will be
not only the biggest but the, most populou
andproductive state in the Union.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

The Fort Worth GAZETTE and Barnet
Gibbs both appear 10 think no one has q
right to object to Gibbs land loan scheme
unless he can offer a better. Gibbs and
The GAZETTE should set the gait by Offering
something Democrats could afford to take
In the place Of what the party offers.
-[Alvarado Bulletin.
What does the party offer? 1t has
untiringly denounced the national
banking system, so it is not national
bank notes that the party offers. There
is not enough gold and silver in the
country to restrict the currency to
coinage OF those metals. Legal ten
iers are fat money, which is Green
hackism. If we are opposed to the ma
tional bank circulation, dare not COM
NIT ourselves TO the Greenback doc
trine of flooding the country with fiat
money, and have not enough gold and
Tilver to supply the needs of business, it
Is time for other Democrats. as well as
Gibbs and THE GAZETTE, to set their
wits to work for devising something
that will satisfy the people.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

FIFTY-TWo million dollars of ma
sional bonds mature in about seventy
i've days. II they are called in and
cancelled the national bank circulation
based on them must be retired, and the
money volume will be contracted to
that extent. They may be extended
for awhile, but at last they must be
paid, and the contraction will come.
There is Sl6S, 100000 of national bank
uotes in circulation, based on bonds.
In about eight years all these bonds
will have been paid and Cancelled, re-
iucing our circulation by cutting off
sl6S,0O0,000. Isn't it time to be looking
or substitute for the national banking
system as it now stands?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

TIE supplemented farmers are told by
Me organs of tariff spolation that by pro-
aibiting the importation of tinplate the
money" now sent to Wales for it would be
paid out IN this country, even though its
cost to American consumers should be
greater by S, 10000 or $4,000, 900 q year.
1t IS not money that goes to Wales for tin
plate, but wheat, corn, beef and pork, and
the interest of the farmers is to get as large
quantity us possible of tinplate and other
commodities in exchange for these pro.
ducts. 1t is asking altogether too much of
the patriotism of American farmers to re-
qulre them 10 pay ten bushels of wheat for
the same quantity of Pittsburg tinplate
that five bushels would buy them in Wales
but for the tariff extortion. The Pitts
burg manufacturer of tinplate does not nav
the Pennsylvania or Minnesota farmer /
cent bushel more for his wheat than he
could get for it from the Welsh working
man. Why should the farmer bear nearly all
the burdens and get none of the spoils of
The tariff system!-[ Philadelphia Record.
The supplemented farmer of Penn
sylvania and other states, North as well
hs South, seems to have had his eyes
opened at last to The iniquity of the
tariff tax and other Republican abom-
nations.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

Texas is great. But few people
realize the extent of her greatness. 1t
still IS one of the unexplained things
why farmers will buy land at $50 and
$40 an acre in climate where it is
necessary to feed stock six months in
year, when he could buy more produc-
tive land at from S3 to $40 an acre in
Texas where the cattle can all Craze all
the year around.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

J. NJ. Brown, Gregory, San Patricio
county, thus writes THE GAZETTE: 81
don't suppose it makes an editor mad
to praise his paper, for must in truth
say that am stuck on THE GAZETTE,
and regard it as the best paper in the
state. a single page of its Agricultural
Departments worth more to the farmer
Than the yearly subscription price,
aside from its other valuable features"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
CHICAGO INSTEAD OF NEW YORK.

The Abilene Tex.) Reporter believes the
time has come when the West and South
will have to change their place of buying
from New York to Chicago. The change
may be made slowly, but it must come, and
the recent financial depression has done
much to open the eyes of the Westerners to
the necessity therefor. 1t says Chicago is
the only city that has stood the tremendous
drain of money from the West to the East
and thence to Europe. This city has during
the last six months of stringency met every
demand for money by the East and every
request for extension and accommodation
to its Western and Southern trade, and its
bank reserves have actually grown steadily
through this period of extreme pressure for
funds.-lChicago Tribune.
What is there in the natural order of
things that should make New York
city the great clearing house of the
United States? New York does not
handle the wheat of the country, nor
the corn, nor the cattle. She does not
handle any considerable portion Of the
cotton crop, and naturally should han
die but little. The wool market is in
Boston and the iron market is any
where but in New York. In word,
New York does not deal in the real
wealth of the country. She is
not even in the position of
he middle man who buys
and sells for others. Her ascendancy
is due entirely to the acts of gamblers,
who, by their manipulations of stocks
and bonds, play sad havoc at times
with the prosperity Of the country. To-
day the country is prosperous in all ma
terial things as it has never been be-
fore, and yet sixty-five millions of peo-
pie are straining their eyes on New
York to see whether It will suit the
money kings and money manipulators
to permit trade to manage its affairs in
a legitimate manner, without being
crushed by the weight of the money
power. Money has its legitimate uses,
but it is not devoted to these uses in
New York city. Yet the national
clearing house is there. If man in
Texas would pay debt in Ohio or
Pennsylvania he buys New York ex-
change, although New York in no way,
even remotely, enters into the trans
action. 1t is Chicago that is to-day the
trade center of the country. It is
Chicago that handles the wheat, the
corn. the cattle and the hogs, and it is
Chicago that should handle the money.
The national clearing house should be
changed, and the sooner the better.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
Great Is Texas.
St. Louis Republic.

The Hon. Robert Porterhouse Porter
skipped lot of Texans while making his
Texas count, but he can't keep Texas from
pulling ahead all the time, even if he has
robbed the state Of one or two congressman
by his iuggle with the arithmetic, The
imam with the hoe" in increasing num-
bers, is still overrunning the COW pastures
of West and Northwest Texas and making
stalks of wheat, corn and cotton to grow
where only grass grew before. On road
going northwest from Fort Worth it is es-
timated that 10, 600 cars will be needed this
year to haul the wheat grown mostly upon
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
THE AUTHOR oErHEE EVIL

When congress was considering the
Mckinley bill, and had advanced far
enough in the discussion OF it to indi-
cate that it would be adopted, far
'ighted importers took steps to protect
themselves against it in some small
segree. Feeling certain that it would
cut I'D the tariff on all imported goods,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

THE Wisconsin Alliance is in favor
Of woman suffrage, and insists on ad-
mission to the Alliance of the wives
and daughters of the farmers, without
fees. But if women are to be put on
.evel with men, why should not they be
allowed to pay their way?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

THE South Carolinian can lay in
stock of revolvers at bottom prices. A
new law goes into effect on the first of
July, taxing dealers 5000 q year for the
sale of pistols. Allof the small dealers
IRE putting their stocks on the market
At a sacrifice.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

THE Russian oppression Of the Jews
5 increasing the emigration to Pales-
inc. One of the most striking events
1f history is this increasing emigration
Of the Jews to Palestine. The Chris
Ian governments of Europe and
America should buy Palestine and re-
store il TO the Jews.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

DR. MACUNE has been lecturing to
he people in Mississippi. He told
them that there were but S. per capita
IN circulation in this country. That is
but 1915, 000 000-not much more than
The farmers OF Texas lost through their
confidence in The Alliance exchange.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

EVERY evil in national legislation of
which American farmers have cause to
complain is due to Republican rule.
This fact should never be lost sight of
Dy the Alliance.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

EXCEPT Texas, every state shows
reduced acreage of wheat. Texas must
always be excepted when people begin
70 drop backward.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

THE population of the United States
Is increasing more rapidly than is its
circulating medium. This is contrac-
Eo,,
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scended into the lowest DEPTHS Of falsifca
ton. and have failed or refused to scknowl-
| edge their falsehoods when faced with tbs
truth farty lea -rship IL desperate when II
resorts to Misrepresentation calumnies and
vlifcations
Ihsve no doubt of the election Of the entire
Democratic State ticket by a cry large plur-
nlity The election Of Mr. Flower as Governor
" a. IRVING ARRrsTrp.
William q. Irving and Frank Pontossi were
arrested yesterday ON = warrant issued by
Iolice-Justice ADdr-w j. White, charging
ihem with illuminating voters.
Irving II the manager of the New York
State Pr yate Detective Association. Accord
ing TO his own statements he has had 300 pri-
Nate detectives at work for the Ostensii lie
purpose # preventing illegal registration in
the interests of the nepu bhcan party The
Worli asst Thurs lay pr ted an exposure OF
bis methods containing an aihuay which
IT. plIcated him in Republican colon zanon
scheme. Alexander Gil son. one Of bis detec-
q, e. swore tAat he was sent to the Bow cry
loding houses to induce men to register
fslsei,.
rving's operations. IL seems also extended
into liar EN-. According to the complaint
u on which 10 was arrested. be went 20 Har-
lem no inally 10 look ZIP cases of u eRal
among the residents OF Little
italy. but really 20 keep Italian Democratic
voters ava from the polls by threatening 10
have them arrested on the ground that they
We're illegally laturAlized.
Pc tossi. 1t Is alleged. merely acted as his
Interpreter.
The prisoners were taken TO the Twenty
ninth precinct station-house and released
jpoD bail. which was furnished by ek-AldeT-
nan George b. Brown.