The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-24


tnat III was not good for the man
to be alone" and certainly He never
intended that nation should live
a'one. If He had He would have
30 ordained 1t for He could just as
easily have created the world with
the same temperature and climate
from pole to pole and thereby have
enabled each nation to minister to
all its own wants, to be entirely
neig hborless and absolutely indie
pendent of all other peoples, kind
reds and tongues. But He did not
do it. In His infinite love for us
He made every nation dependent
upon every other for something,
thereby forcing them into friend.
ship and commercial relations with
each other.
Everything tends toward that
desirable and philanlhropic end.
All the wonderful inventions of
human genius are but instruments
of fulfilling the predestined plan.
The mariners compass, the steam
ship, the railroad, the telegraph,
the telephone, the printing press
and all the glorious achievements of
our race are breaking down the old
walls of partition and contributing
to the universal brotherhood of
man. Amid all the multiplying
evidences of the approaching com
mercial nuptials of the nations the
hoarse and angry voice of the pam
pered protectlonist is heard, high
above the rush and roar of the
world hurrying to better day,
shouting 81 forbid the bans. l
forbid the bans!.' He is public
nuisar ce and should be abated.
He is an obstacle to human pro
gress and should be removed. He
is the big beggarman fattenlng
upon the peoples bounty, and he
} should be choked from the public
crib.
TIRED OF FALSE PHILOSOPHY.
We have tried long enough to lift
ourselves over the fence by tugging
at our own boot straps. We have
had a surfeit Of that false theory
that the foreigner pays the tax. W.
are sick unto death Of the astound
ing philosophy which teaches tina
we may grow rich by piling up thu
taxes upon ourselves, like Pellol
upon Ossa. Let us return to tn
ways of sanity and prosperity
"Whom the gods would destro.
they first make mad" is a sayin!
consecrated by time and full of wis
, dom. commend it to the careful
J nsideration of the tariff baron
l and their retainers. You are un
, Willingly doing more to build ~
3 radical free trade sentiment in thl
a country than all the Henry Georg
4 propagandists between the tw'
j. oceans. You dec,y philosophers
e theorists and political economists
s because, with clear vision ant
r unfaltering hearts. they stan'
= for truth and right AM
t Justice. The gentleman from
r Iowa (Dollive') was PARTICULAR,
n rough on them. But you, by CIV
a ing practical demonstration of th
r. outrages of a protective tariff, COZ
tribute more to your own undoin
than all the political economists VIII
have lived since Adam Smith LITE
% the world to a higher plane b
., writing "The Wealth of Nations.
Of In time of profound peace 20
e refuse to give up any of the rlc
m largesses wrung from the tollln
gs millions amid disasters and necess
I'd ties of the greatest civil war th'
IN ever drenched the earth IN huma
UT blood.
es On the contrary, your gree
We growing with what it feeds on. yo
y have increased these, extortlops u
ne til the in:quity cbiss to heave1
Upon you rests tn course place
to upon those who gfiar lc'ae faces
no the poor. You relluab me JUST VI 7
or auctions of the Mor4o.on bill. "
ng enacted the Infamous law of 1873
You rejected the Mills bill wi
I'm contumely and scorn. In the pie