San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06


except sheep skins without wool on u
cents per pound"
Under these provisions hides were to be
put back upon the protective list by proc
lamatiOn of the President, unless includ-
ed IN q reciprocity treaty made between
the United States and those countries
| coming in competition with our country.
But even this wise and StateSmanlike leg
! lSIauon was swept away by a Dem
! Ocrauc Congress without a word Of
! protest from single Texas con-
! gresham. by this provision our
| people would either have received an
equal benefit for admitting hides free, or
a tariff would have been placed on each
| pound, that would have more than doub-
| led their value to our cattle raiSers.
| Our cattle ralSerS have paid dearly for
| their fealty to the Democratic party: il
| has cost them millions of dollars: ali the
| Democratic congressman elected between
| now and the crack of doom could not re-
| pay them for the loss they have sustained
in the past ten years.
! The Democratic party is the party Of
free trade; the Republican party is the
party Of protection. The Republican
party can be relied on to restore protec-
tion where it is needed; it has never been
| afraid to grant relief to the American
people from Main to Texas.
Free hides only benefited the leather
| makers of the north-nether the conSum-
| er or producer has felt any relief in the
way of lower prices for leather goods. A
large and profitable Industry in our state
has been seriously crippled. There is but
one way of relief offered to our cattle
| raiSerS, who are now threatened with
| still lower prices for their beef product
| by the present law that submits them to
| competition from Canada on the north and
| Mexico on the south.
| 1t Is about time every man directly or
| indirectly interested in the stock business
| took business view Of politics and voted
in favor OF themselves and not in favor Of
| a candidate labelled Democrat but
properly labelled free trade and de-
| StructiOn."
Cattle were low enough, beef and NUT
| ton We're low enough, without the repeal
| OF the Mckinley tariff on cattle, horses
and sheep. Did the stock men ask for
| this repeal?
! Restoration, must be the watchword.
Restoration can only be accomplished by
| going to the shop that deals in the ar
| tic'e OF protection first hand-the cattle
men will not go TO the political pawn
| broke, to get second hand article
in the shape of Gus Houston
! who endorses the Wilson bill.
| Nor will our cattle men bee aught again
! by the ''oldhat' story: the Tin bucket"
poetry, the cheap clothing racket. Once
good steer hide would buy a pair of
| boots, or coffee and provisions enough to
| do camp for week, now it amt WORTH
skinning. Our cattle raiserS have here
tofOre believed everything told them
about the beauties OF free trade. 1t is
unnecessary now to take anybody's wor,
for it-every corral in the district is full
of facts.
But you will be told that hides are OF
the free list now and it can't be helped
| and you should not make yourself NOR
unhappy by voting against the regular
nominee OF the Democratic party; some
OF these DAYS when we are all dead and
| gone the beautiful theories of Demo-
cratic free trade will be thoroughly vim
dicated-by the cowboy taking the place
OF the COW and living on prickley pear
and "wahea."
More important than anything else that
Gus said at New Brannfels was his ut
| teraDce upon the tariff issue: 1T has
been charged that | am protectionist,
here on this platform and before this
audience | denounce this as a campaign
lie gotten up by Republicans"
The Express is the Republican who has
gotten up this campaign lie, and the peo'
pie all over this district will note this
fact. SHORT Stops
WHERE DOES HE sTAND-'HE MUST FISH
OR CUT BAIT"
From the Texas Stockmau:
In recent speech delivered by Hon. A.
w. Houston, candidate for Congress in
this, the Twelfth Congressional district
of Texas he is reported as follows:
"He CMr HOnstOn) dPnOun ced az a cam
paign lie the story that he was in favor OF
ht.n INIT cd
that II he had been in Congress during
the tendency of the Wilson bill he would
at least have labOred for an eouita BILE tar
if, one that would not sacrifice the sheep
man for the benefit of the wooden man.
ufacturer He would have made fight
within the party ranks, but at the last
would have joined shield to shield with
his people for the great principles of the
party.
II Mr.. Houston had been correctly re-
ported he now goes on record as being an
enemy TO the policy of protection. Mr..
Houston made his campaign for nomina-
tiOn on the theory that If nominated and
elected he would stand up first, last and
all the time for protection for the wool
and cattle interests of West Texas. 1t
was these ante convention statements
that secured for him the nomination for
Congress. Now that Mr.. Houston has
been nominated IL is apparent that he
has forgotten his ante convention prom
Use.
1t will not do for Mr. Houston to talk
freetrade in one section of the district and
pose as a protectiOnist in another. To use
a slang phrase, be must either fish or
cut bait. The people of West Texas
want to know in uneQuivocal language
just where Mr.. Houston stands as regards
the tariff. They want to know IL he is for
free trade or protection. There is no mid
die ground which he can occupy with
safety, no matter how we'll satisfied he is
that he is big enough and broad enough
to straddle this question.
From the tenor OF Mr.. Houstoa's
speeches we are to infer that he will make
fight for the protection of the wool and
live stock industries of West TeYaS wit hin :