Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-10

.the foundation or this government II
q iact worth remembering, and one
Ia ~ man can successfully contra
dict, care not what his poiitical he
ilef may be, that under the ahie ad-
Ininistrations OF our Republican presi-
dents, and under the safe guidance ana
leadership of our Republican statesmen
and patriots, from the days OF that
grand old commoner. Abraham Lincoln.
down to BENJAMIN Harrison, who so
aoy managed the affairs OF the gov
eminent, the country has at ali times
enjoyed the greatest measure Of pros
perlty' It's watchword has always been
progress and It has never receded
from position nor abandoned a prin-
clple, until 1t was formulated into a
law on the statute books of our coun-
try. All the benefcent legislation. all
the advantageous reforms inaugurated
during the past thirty years, have been
the work Of the grand old Republican
party, founded on the eternal prin-
clple OF equal rights to all and spe-
cial privileges to none.
1t was the Republican party of this
nation which removed the chains and
shackles from four million humans and
clothed them with all the rights of
citizenship, and the formation OF
government of free and independent
people, without regard to race, color
or previous condition,
ITO the Republican party the nation
owes the enactment of lis laws, legis-
lating out of existence the abominable
state bank issues inaugurated by the
Democratic party. To the Republican
party the nation owes the great I'M
provement In the postal system giving
us fast mails and letter carrier deliv-
cries. To the Republican party the
nation owes the restoration OF the pro-
teetive tariff system, under which 1t
! hoa !. IL. ..
| facture our own goods, giving employ
ment TO our own people at the high
est wages paid by any nation on the
face of the earth. II has built thou
sands of factories, mills and furnaces
all over the land, and under Its bene-
hcent influences we attained a degree
Of prosperity, such as the world has
never seen before.
1T has been the means of building
up our splendid home market far
greater than that Of any other nation.
II has kept millions of people en-
| ployed at remunerative wages,
Protection has stimulated the
building of manufacturing Industries
| TO such an extent that competition
among them has brought the price OF
| goods down TO lower figures than they
were ever obtained at before--yet at
the same time 1t has kept foreign man
| ufacturers practically away from our
| shores, employed our own people and
| kept our money at home.
Democratic Misruic.
But, Mr.. President and fellow cit
liens, when we look at things as they
| have existed in this country during the
| past eighteen months, 1t shows very
| plainly that the Democratic party Is
not capable of conducting the affairs
| OF this government; that they have not
the confidence Of the people.
During the campaign of 1892 the
people of this country were deluded
into the idea that they must have free
trade, and In order to have free trade
they must vote the Democratic ticket
| that Notwithstanding the fact that
they We're doing well, workingmen en-
joying steady employment at remun-
eratiye wages, products of the farm
were selling at good prices, merchants
doing a prosperous business; In fact
all avenues of trade and commerce
were teeming with activity. They were
promised in the North II they would
vote the free trade ticket and elect II
that wheat would go to $3.50 per bushel
that corn would bring 40 cents pei
bushel, and other products in proper
ton. Thousands OF farmers in the
North and East, believing In this piece
OF sophistry. went to the polls ant
voted the Democratic ticket. The mer
III lne WORKSHOPS anu iilutS btlut
blinded by the same glitterlng prom
lses pumped in votes for the FREE
trade ticket, till the ballot boxes be
came top-heavy with Democratic votes
"They went all over the land cryinl
for free trade and the good old Demo
cratic times 'befoh' the wah'-and II
and behold through n series of mis-
representations and false pretenses ant
promises, Democracy's magic wand
backed by millions of money. contrib
uted by the sugar. the whisky an
other trusts and combines, succeeded
in capturing all branches of the gov
eminent from president down to con
stable ~
manufacturing and monled interests o
the country trembled when they begai
TO realize what a great mistake IN
people had made. The free trade or!
during the campaign now threatened
10 become n living reality; manutuc
turing Industries in which millions o
money had been invested ana whicl
employed hundreds OF thousands o
workmen, were now threatened Win
class of competition, in the event o
free trade. that they could not NEE
without reducing the wages OF thei
employees TO the pauper scale OF thei
competitors; they must either 90 ina
or close down
Capital began to pun IN us oar
business began TO drop Off, tactorle
began to close down, stocks and secur1
tics Of all kinds began to weaken an
depreciate, and were dumped on IN
markets by the hundreds of million
10 be sold at any price they woui
bring. And then came the great pam
of 1seS. one of the worst this countr
has ever known.
"Wheat, instead of going up, as pre-
dicted by congressional candidates
the north, 70 ~. 80 per bushel has gon
ms lo,s as rs co.'s. Cotton, owing
, the lack OF confidence in the Demo
cratic party and the consequent ciosln
, down OF mills, has been making LOVE
, prlce record nearly every day IN
iecrease in the value of farm product
, during 1898 reached the enormous SUI
Of over 1865, 100000. This is the resn
. Of the mispinced confidence on the pal
OF the people in the election OF lSsZ'
'YHe alarcs 81, rHitH4.
"Mr. President and Fellow Citizen
The money question is also one whle
is agitatlng the minds OF the poop
NJ this time about as much as an
other public question on the docke
in fact, / might say, 1t Is the most IN
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