Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-06

as his father did in old frontier times in
a bureau drawer.
BANKING BROUGHT INTO noME LIFE.
Now my son Abe, nue fellow six
feet and "A half high. comes 70 me and
says: Father, / want Sl,0O0. Tor
which l offer YOU rs security FIRST
mortgage bonds Of tho Texas aud Pa
ciiiic railway let him hav0 It at
per cent a month. Later my daughter
Ruth comes to me and wants TO borrow
some money aud | ask her for hor Sc
curity. Wen, she has no bonds but
emo has 100 acres OF the best land ia
Iowa, in good cultivation and with
barns and granarics stocked with farm
products, oh, no, daughter, / cannot
take that as security and to hcr in
curry OF why not | answer; because
mcst have bonds She objected that
mad loaned Abe money and wanted to
know az what rate told her / per
cont ana che thought u very siaange
that Abe should ave the money when
she could not get II, that he could bor-
row money from their common
iather NJ pcr cent and vet
when n short time before
she had got IN a financial pinch, the
brother would not loan that same
money 70 her for lees than 10 ner cent,
and finally sho could not understand
why her own father would aeuept Aba's
railway bond as security whilo tho sub
stantial wealth that She had, and really
the basis OF the credit OF the railway
bonds. was not good security for a loan
Of only one-quartor as much, II 1
should treat my children IA that way
yon would think 1 was unworthy the
name Of a man,
He held that this was practically
what the people had done, though Tor
over a quarter Of century they had
loaned the banks 500, 900 at per
cent and borrow Il from thom at 10,
aud that was why the money had left
the pockets of the people and gone into
the pockets OF tho bankers. "And thus
these people have skinned you and
robbed you of the products OF your
labor
tine VAST ACCUMULATION or CAPITAL
Quoting Thomas ca Shemman tho
speaker said 1000 persons owned half
OF the wealth OF tine United States, c-ti-
mated at s3l,0OO, 600, 600 Now he could
not tell them how much this WIS, but
you could get some idea II YOU took II
in this way; The daily Expenditure
during the war were three millions for
the t'oGerals, and possibly the same sum
for the COnledorntos, The war lasted
1860 days These %, 900 mon could have
paid all the expenses Of tho war with
less than ono-third Of their nccumuln-
lions. and this enormous sum was ac-
quired in less than thirty years. hy
means OF laws iayoring favored class.
This money was really the money Of
the laborer, and yet it was In the hands
OF men who never struck a lick Of work.
THE VALUE OF ADAMS LABOR.
Vanderbilt died few years ago and
left S220,O00,OO0. He could moi tell
how much that was, but ha could show
emulation OF wealth. II Adam, who
was the first alliance man, had lived 10
this timeand had saved 81 per day 10 the
time Vanderbilt died, he would have
saved s., 100000, A body OF a supposed
prehistoric man had boon found supposed
20 antedute Adam about 800 900 yonrs.
Iiud he worked the saml way Adam
Is supposed 10 have workal, he would
hive accumulated only $4,000, 900, or
Vanderbilt could have paid this claim
and had u million dollars 10 bride the
Texas and Observation-Disclosures "And
these are the men who dare sooi at
you, Oh, for a whip 70 whip every
such scoundrel TO tho end OF tho
carth.n
He was bitter IN his condemnation Of
those who scoiiod at the lahorng peo-
plo who peacefully met 90 discuss the
ways 10 remedy these great wrongs.
He dreaded 20 contemplate what
the result of continuation OF those
wrongs would bring Ia the next ten
years. The United States were travel
Ing on the same road to slavery that
othor nations had trod, and these
enormous fortunes must boabolishod or
revolution would come, for the people
would not be- slaves.
He thought the union Of tho blue md
grey like lac saw before him was an
Irresistible combination that would in
sure the success OF labor's movement
for freedom.
ONLY POLICE POWERS LEFT.
He said the government had dele
gated all it, power 70 favored few,
except the police power, and this was
ulod 70 Cypress the people still further
Chat power Is used 30 keep you In
subjectiOn, while monopoly rObs your
pockets Then he touched up Car
negio ia his most approved style, and
it was first-class roast
MARION MARTIN SPEAKS.
After General Weayers address was
ended MIR, Ashby called the chairmcn
OF the various districts 10 meet ~ tho
court house az soon as they could got
there, and NJ the same time inviting all
the faithful 10 meet with them. II WIS
o secret meeting for party consultation
and held with barred doors
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor
Marion Martin was called up, but no
would not trust himself 10 speak,
for his feelings were TOO much enlisted
He felt too deeply on the subject OF the
day, the conflict Of labor with capital
He condemned the congressman who as
agents Of the people had turned the
Affairs Of thepcople oycrt0afew monop-
Olists He wanted the people 10 send AZ
servants 10 nstinand Washington those
whom they could trust, He made 40
impassioned appeal 10 tho voters not 20
let the blood Of tho mhriyis at
Homestead b. spilled in vain.
"Can we submit 10 a government By
standing armyY and what vas this
blood shed fory But ] dare mes trust
myself 10 speak Of these tbings.n
Tho time had then come for General