Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-07

espoused that side, returning home singing
The Watch on the Rhine -; as the family
were all opposed to this l changed my con-
viction, and the Marsellaise was thumped
on the piano, and tried to make 1t sound
dignified on the banjo After that took a
positive Democratic stand.
woMAN'S IDEA OF PROTECTION.
Now, by the advice of some man, who
thought that Il woman ought to know some
thing, have been reading about the tariff
question, and ] don't know what l am.
don't know whether / am a believer in pro-
lection, or whether am a free trader.
like the name protection much better than
l like that of free trade. because protection
suggests that of some one taking care of
you, which the other don't. But if you
could get things in without having to pay
any duty on them, you lose the pleasure of
smuggling; though, if the duty were too
high, and you were caught, you would have
TO give up all your duds. l know what I do
believe in-I believe in home industries, and
ii we American women had half the feeling
on that subject that the English women
have, we would be making the finest fabrics
in the world here. When the engagement
of that unhappy Princess Victoria was an
nounced, Immediately the Countess of Zet-
land began to take up u subscription in Ire
land to buy her wedding present. Was
that subscription going to buy her piece
of jewelry in London or PariS2 Certainly
not 1t was to be spent in Ireland; it was
to buy for her the finest piece of Irish lace
that the Irish lace makers could weave.
Another subscription, taken up either in
Manchester or Birmingham, was to buy her
brocade for one of her wedding gowns, the
design to be drawn by an English artist,
and the silk to be woven by English weav-
ers. Now, that IS what l call patriotism,
and that is what l call encouraging home
industry.
BAB WAKES PATRIOTIC.
Do you want to know what ruined Ire
land! Absenteeism. All their rich people
went to London and spent their money, and
the shops and manufactures at home suf-
fered. Every summer millions of dollars
are spent by Americans in England and
France, to the detriment of the industries
in this country, and, if they don't look out,
We'll suffer as Ireland has. I do believe
that, with proper encouragement, every
thing made in the world could be made just
as well here, unless, perhaps, it is the beer
brewed in Dublin, which is said to be better
because of the water put in it; however,
we could bottle up a little river like that
and bring it over here. As nation we can
do anything we want and l think we are
awful fools not to want; 1t is proper and
right to be ambitious in the right direction.
and to long to be better and have things
around you better.
WHAT A WOMAN WANTS.
Iwant to have it settled in my mind just
what 1 am in a political sense You want,
if you have the right to opinions, to stick
to them.
want to meet an honest politician. You
want if you know one, to herald his fame
far and wide.
want to see all the miserable gambling
holes and dreadful places where our young
boys go suppressed, either by hanging or by
fire. You want, if you have got any infigsf
ence, TO use it for this purpose. -
want the weather clerk conferred fssth
so that we may have regularly clean
weather. You want, if he is an acquain-
tance of yours, to tell him this.
1 want-but there, 1 want so much md i.
you, you'll just sit and smile. and saF itS
one more woman talking, and .giSRfher
what she wants. Will she get it, There
was very pretty song sung here some
time ago and the line at the end of each
verse will answer that question. It is,
maybe will, but doubt it. BAB.