Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-04

NNIH so lNE hAhAih hllAA AhNANNN y Q -.
mental action or by wise and careful
laws, that no one eau be deluded as to
the certainty and stability OF It's value
very dollar put into the hands OF the
people should be Of the same intrinsic
u.lue or purchasing power
II the HOgg platform oollides with
that Of the national Democracy, It's
brains are knocked OUT If II collides
with Mr.. Clevelands letter OF accept
1nce 1t loses its soul. Surely IL is be-
lwcen the devil and the deep sea. On
the one hand the devil burns 1t, and on
The other the sea swallows up and,
browns. Truly my friends, IL would not
be sinful TO worship this nondescript,
Tor on earth, ia the heavens above nor
under the earth is there aught like 1t.
In It's own sublimity Of folly and greed
Tor votes IT stands alone.
is IL possible to understand
PLAIN, SIMPLE, ENGLISH WORDS?
The Democratic platform, and Mr..
Cleveland say, that Democracy holds a
dollar Of one hundred cents 70 be dol
lar, not cent less. HOgg, his bunch
and their platform say that dollar OF
sixty-four cents and the fraction OF a
cent is a dollar Of one hundred cents.
Was such folly ever before uttered?
DO they think the people are absolute
fools, and that they can blind and
deceive them as they please,
even with the ease and grace
that n Tyler milkmuid can twist a
ribbon about her milky fingers?
Too long, too long, oh you people have
you trusted your dearest rights in the
hands and keeping OF CON
sCionceless politicians and strut
ting, deceiying, pitiless, selfish
demagogues, Stand up like men, who,
knowing their rights, dare maintain
them. This is a aght by the political
demagogues against the people The
war is on. There is no retreat You
dare not surrender Strike for your
homes and your iircsides, freedom Of
yourselves and liberty Of your children.
There is another base and enticing,
but fraudulent here,y propounded by
the Car-stable platform. IL is thrown
out that those who are governed by
selfish cupidity may seize II and vote
for the bidder. refer to the gradu.
aled income tax plank. II there is one
principle more absolutely automatic
In Democracy than another. it Is
that all laws shall DO general
and impartially bear on all alike,
or, in other words, that there
shall be no class legislation. We Dem
ocruts cry out very loudly In opposition
tO "A protective tariff, aud Justly so, but
Why Because the tariff duties 20 into
the pockets Of the manufacturing bar
ous Of the East, ana Is paid by the con.
sumcrs, the people. This we claim Il
be unjust, and 1t is unjust. But my
friends, would not the graduated income
tax if put into practice be equally in
famous and unjust rs is the tariff extor
ton? Let me explain Il moment. a
has an income Of SlOOOan b one Of 5000
and the tax is | per cent for the frs
thousand, for the second, 3 for the
third, 1 for the fourth and 100 for the
hundredth for that matter. A In the illus
tratiOu, would pay $40, 3 for his first
Thousand $50 and for his second 800 his
third $50, his fourth $40, his fifth $50 and
50 on up, until the income amounts TO
100000, and the tax would be as much
as the income. You may illustrate the
same lesson by acres Of land, number Of
horses, cattle or other taxable COM
modify The principle is monstrnus
II is direct and unqualified communism.
IL Is actual contisCatiOn. No Democrat
has heretofore had the uublushing
tcmerity 10 Offer such doctrine 10 n
Democratic people. Tho income tax
Is OF itself an outrage, inquisitorial in
character, u peace and home disturber.
and never resorted to save in times OF
extreme public danger, as did the
United States during the last war.
When peace came that was the first
OF of the extreme and demonstrations
al war measures TO raise money that
was repealed. IL is n law that Is
odious, and has ever been and viii ever
be odious, to free people. When YOU
add to such a law the graduated feature
II becomes douhly Odious and infamous.
because that feature is unqualihedly
Unconstitutional and undemocrutic, a
very robbery and an undisgulsed CON
ilscatjOn
There Is stlll another plank in that
remarkable prOduction-''s Stolen from
tho Populists TO catch votes by the
use Of artificial bait.p Reference is made
to the state banks plank. This idea
was resurrected from the almost for
gotten grave of the past-by the wan
dGring distressed eye Of the populists,
VINO hardly knew TO what use they
would put it-but the glazing eagle
combined eye Of Hogg, Reagan and
Coke, detected the ''innOccnts abroad'
with the dead idea, and at once bv
force, fraud and partisan necessity.
seized ON to 1t and erected It into a vote
incubator and they now tako Il turn
about setting ON II aud keeping il
warm 7
Tho idea OF state banks, that Is banks
OF issue was exploded years aud yonrs
ago m the handling or exchange of
commercial values and Is not known i'm
modern political economy, or In tho
commercial world. II Is now brought
forward In its tattered grave clothes
Tor the admiration aud caresses of Tho
Democracy Of Texas, when their n,yn
from 1896 when we first 40.
capped by heroic revolution from tbc
Mexican tyranny down to the present
gvuu hour, have in tones not to be
iinIls,unuerstood, condemned and prohib- |
llted these .bankupting, poverty max
ing, suffering producing, shin plaster
institutions. Whom the gods desire 10
destroy they first mako mad. II tbo
car stable platform makers are not a.
voted to destruction, 1t is not because
thev have not been made mad. Mad ~
ever was King Lear when he gayn ali |
o. ms property to his children before be |
Our friends OF the car manger hoyo
another brightidea, and that "A absoute |
ueNoVon, without variation or shadn,, |