Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-24

Hogg attempts To- reverse the will q, I
the Almighty-he attempts TO rep,llnta /
the price oil a commodity. 1t is 40 orr
dained by a higher power than Hoo,
mat all material things are subject In |
the law OF supply aud demand.
hcre the speaker went into an az.
haustlvo explanation Of the silver ana
god problem, the fuctuation of their
relative values, the act OF 1873, the de.
monetlzation OF silver by llngland
Germany, France aud tho latin union
and the adoption Of the gold standard
concluding as follows: "rhe Infamous
sherman act of 1890, which reouires
the government 10 purchase four and
one-hall millions OF silver per month.
Is sample of the worst sort of class
legislation, its object and intent being
TO hold up the value Of silver In the III.
terest OF the mine-owners.
The United States now has four
thousand millions OF silver In its vaults
and IT lies there piled up. they can't
Keep it in circulation. Though they
send it out free OF cost OF carriage il
drifts back in the form Of revenues and
tariff charges.
SiNiy-one millions Is the highest
amount of silver ever in circulation. Ii
Is all that is necessary TO supply the
wants Of the people for silver circulat-
ing medium.
Then why do we want free and unlim.
tied coinage OF silver unless we intend
TO purchase the silver Of the worldy An
ounce OF silver will now make about
Sl.2o. The government pays about So
cents Tor an ounce OF silver, nnd it Is
claimed that the government has made
a profit ON its coinage OF silver to date
OF about seventy-hve millions Now, II
we had free and unlimited coinage OF
silver, as the Hogg people want, it
would bankrupt this government
The national platform demands such
legislation as shall insure the maiute-
nance OF the parity OF gold and silver
and the equal purchasing power OF any
silver dollar at all times, In It's market
aud the payment OF debts. The Hogg
& Co. platform demands the free and
unlimited coinage OF silver at It's pres
emit ratio, which is about sixteen to one.
And yet they say the plauks are sub
stantially the same. Anybody that will
take this statement must have mind
that is at least 30 per cent iat--it can't
be standard.
There is nothing in name The
Third party people claim TO be pure
Jciiersouian Democrats and they have
as much right to that title as Hogg. l
shall vote the national Democratic
ticket as long US live. stand upon
the national platform and l stand upon
the Turner hall platform. I defy Hogg.
Weaver Chiffon x Co. to point out one
line in that platform that is undemo-
| cratic
And then the graduated income tax,
No Democrat can swallow that. No
Democratic platform ever contained a
plank that advocated it. have searched
Democratic platforms from the founda-
ton OF the party and have failed to find
one that advocated graduated income
| tax. | find that an income tax was ad-
yOcated by the enemies OF Democracy,
| Ii was "a war measure aud was bad, hui
| even that was not was not "a graduated
income tax. IL was fought BY Samuel
j, Tilden; it was fought by other lead
ers OF Democracy.
When would the graduation begin in
case We had a graduated income tax
| ! suppose that some of them who advo
cate this tax, who have been in the
habit OF receiving an income from tn,
| government, would start ii just a little
| above their salary. Say per cent or
| the first $4,000 and per cent on eBcb
additional $1,000 1t would be an unjust
| and intolerable burden. ltwould breed
an army of spies and informers. II
would encourage lying and perjury. IT
would place an unjust and unequal tax
on industry and would foster laziness.
| No matter what may have been
! HOpos intentions when he attacked
| the land titles OF the state, it has been
disastrous. He started out TO get up q
boom on mans natural cupidiiy
said he was going TO make the rail
roads disgorge. Its elect has been
felt in the old world. S. NJ. Swenson
writes that he has Just returned from
his native country lSweden), and thai
the Swedish peasants who intended
coming to Texas had been informed
that ii was not safe 10 purchase home.
here, because they were liable TO be
confscated by the state.
Bad news travels fast, you know, and
the good news that the courts have
knocked Hogg's pet measure int
smithereens hasn't reached Sweden
The reelection OF Hogg will be al
endorsement by the people OF Texas OF
all his communistic ideas.
The railway commission law advo'
Gated by Hogg has had the stutfing
Knocked out Of it, whether by two
by-four" court or not, and Hogg claimed
TO have dotted every / and crossed
every { in that law, and Hogg Is to-day
responsible TO the people OF Texas iOl
the fact that the state has no legal rail
way commission law.
Corporations are necessary, and IL is
also proper and necessary that tho peo'
,le regulate them 10 reasonable eN'
tent, To do without corporations is e
roll bacl, civilization forty years. That
il Hoqgism. 10 make a ranch OF youi
whole state and raise cattle. have
bsen here nearly forty years. Texas
has crown some since / came, but II
does not grow fast enough. Lot the
cornorations come and develop tho
country and make 1t blossom as The
nose. No capital will come here L
make investments and no Immigrant
win mako their homes with US and
holm build up the country II Hogg con
tinues in office. l say anybody TO beai
Hogg. .,,. m,
come up for your consideration ano
vonr decision on that day will say e
the capitalists whether or not they car
mako investments here. II will say e
ii,s.,,esa,l-ers from all the civilized