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

% consult together and this naturally
lea to the formation OF alliances; labor
assemblies, unions to talk over the
wrongs and remedies for them. They
saw wealth was not accommodating IN
me hands OF tho man who produced II.
nut IN The hands 81 those who toilod
not, neither 90 they spin, ana vet Solo
man in all his glory was not arrayed
like ono Of these. These people have
oAf wealth. How do they get IL out Of
our handsg The lahorers can't keep IT,
Ihen came lot Of biblical Quota
lions, The Laborer Is Worthy OF His
Hire, etc, 70 show that 1t was q di-
vine nat that the laborcr should have
tne products OF his own labor. "The
aivine mind Is on our side.N More al
nances were formed and tho discussion
grow IN earnestness. II am now talk
ing to the sectors on the outside for
our people understand these things. L
am talking to those who call YOU hay
seeds, anarchigts, communists, etc The
people who are unwilling we should
assemble peacefully 70 discuss our
wrongs, and yet that Is all we wanted
70 DO or did do. Aud we have wrongs.
wrongs that our ancestors would have
righted with arms in their hands. In
deed, your ancestors Ia revolutionary
times took up arms for causes
lhah compared with what you
suiIer now were very trivial
IN their nature.' All these wrongs
could be redressed at the ballot box,
ana then the wrongs would be redress
ed Tho speaker thou took up the law
yers, who he said had not a monopoly
oil q knowledge of constitutional law,
ior the farmers bad taught them some
thlng. lie knew for he was u reformed
lawyer himself. The part OF the CON
Hutuuonnl law to which the speaker
referred, was that congress shall have
power 10 regulate commerce between
the states, foreign nations and Indian
tribes, The part with which his hear
ers were most concerned was the inter-
state commerce, which congress alone
had power TO control, and this commerce.
between the states meant not only trans
pOrtation butalso buying and selling, for
these were essential parts OF commerce.
Congress has the power 10 regulate
THE INSTRUMENTS, or COMMERCE.,
and these were three, money, transpor-
tation and the transmission OF intelli-
genes, He called attention to the mys-
teal character Of three aud seven. n
feature that ran through all the uni
verse, as for instance, i've have two
hands and one mouth, and the two
hands can always feed that one mouth
II the labor OF the hands is untram-
meled and here we again have COM
bination VI thrco.n
Money was the first instrument Of
commerce., useful indeed, for commerce
was impossible without money.
You farmers are lnquiring how the
money gets out Of your hands, for you
produce what sells for money and yot
you have no money, II Is because
congress has not done It's duty by you,
for that is the only money-making
powor, Statos and individuals can't
make money. III any Of US mude
money the government would be down
on us for counterfoiting.n Congress
has not done It's duty and this was said
without any criticism on any particu-
lar party for this discussion was ON
the labor question, not u fight on any
particular party.
Congress has f1rmed cut the money
making pO werpl tho govOrnmdnt 10 a
few favoron individuals and the speaker
then gave Che story from his stand
point OF the organization Of national
bank, the charter. the deposit Of bonds,
the Issuance Of circulation, etc., etc,
the conclusion Of the speaker being
that the 90 per cent for circulation was
really the peoples money loaned to IA
favored few at per cent per year
THE RAILROAD QUESTION
was then taken up and the government
condemned for permitting a few favored
individuals 10 usurp the rights OF the
people 20 own and control the public
highways. He then reviewed some OF
tho phases of the Interstate commerce.
bill that was particularly the product
OF tho brain OF the Gallant Reagan OF
Texas and held up for derision tho
long and short haul section which he
read In rapid sing-song. Suppose
for illustration, the Ten Command
ments had come down u ms, thou shalt
not kill, thou shalt not coyet, etc, ex-
oept COntomp0raneously and under
substantially similar conditions, what
would have been the moral condition
of the world to-day. And yet this is
what tho long and short haul clause
provides for, that no more shall DO
charged for short than u long haul OF
freight moving in the same direction
etc.
He thought this clause should have
boon, railroads shall not charge as
much for short haul as for a long
haul, without any reference to condf-
tions. No one could understand that
clause, but II WIS so worded and con-
stried as 10 give tho railroads the first
guess at Its meaning, and then The
guess Of other party came, and n he was
wrong his only redress was in d court
1900 miles away, and but few farmers
could afford 10 60 that far to court He
said he meant the interstate commerce
commission sat 30 far away He alleged
the railways were making more out Of
the cotton than the farmers whose labor
produced IL, and more than they made
before tho interstate commerce law
went into effect
NATIONAL BANKS SUB TREASURES.
He suddenly switched back 10 the
money question and styled tho national
banks a sub-treasllry scheme and then
proceeded TO tell the people how these
banks got the money out Of the pockets
Of the people into the Golfers Of the
banks. The process Of organization
was again gone over. The speaker
thought the national bank money was
national government money; the peO-
pie wore the national government and
therefore II was the peoples own
money, No power can make money