Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-20


Ercss. II has federal courts every
where 20 try everything. federal
Judge has Jurisdiction 81 everything.
| from operating 5000 milea Of railroad 70
! them has enough portcrs and criers and
| deputy mHrHhals TO work the biggest
| farm in. Dallasc ounty. This govern
| ment was run on Sbn.oOo,VOp per an
nun IN 1868 and 1860; now consreas AZ
one session uppropflates SlVlVVpp.plp'
and each year consumes by Itself s6.VeV,-
| 600 Everything else Is on ANAL mar
| gins. but the number OF officers have
| Increased and their salaries doubled,
from president down. We have got .
| rich government and hard times don't
| work. the men who have n null on the
government. when corn was 81. whent
/ 81 rs per hushel ia Maryland the presl.
I dent Of the United states only feceiNed
I son. 900 per nnnum salary. Now Il Is
1 $4,000 per nnnum. and NVnpp per hn-
I mum contingent fund. $4,000 per annuin
/ FOR secretaries and the finest house Va
4 the land to live In, refurnished as often
/ as he likes, and still u Frows Con-
I greEamcn Who are glad TO work harder
in Texas for
Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars.
| 90 up there and In railwaymlleage, con-
| tiugent fund. secretary, salary etc.
get over seven thousand per annum
and play hockey as often as they IKE
at public expense and the reports show
II costs from one 20 ten thousand dol
| lara OF the peoples money Ia pay rum
| eral egpenscs. and from ten to htitfn
/ high-priced congrcss1eu ana senator's
| from Ave 10 fifteen days TO plant him,
! md the dead congressman ana the
/ country both going To he'll at the same
| time Then h. may be buried IN Texas
| or California, but for fear that poster
| IT'S Will FORGET him, they actually mark
! him on n grave and put him M lomp
| In the Washington city cemetery. Ihey
| never plant him In that grave for they
! know that the devil gets his own there,
/ without waiting the formAlity OF lndE-
/ mpnt day. N recently took aNuVO To-
| pay the funeral expenses Ut senator
/ Hearst OF California, famous Tor ms
| wealth and race horses; and you icl-
/ lows with mulea paid the money. II
| cost over $4,000 Of your money 10
bury CongreBamnn Sleicher. and $4,000
| OF II was for flowcrg nom a Washing
] ton city florist when your govern
/ ment owned aud operated million
I dollar hot house right mt the foot OF
! the capitol steps Ia Furnish members
l OF congress button hole boquct6 In
! FOR Hponuaris water went part
\ OF the way with the mournera and
| never In my lie iSas as long on cham
| pnHnc and nH short ON water They
say these are small thingH, little abuses
that grow up under thirty years nt re-
| publican rule You people that pay for
those things win be buried IN a pine
box with no flowers ON your grave but
| tiinpson weeds THAT park ! told you
i about eight years uwu has had over
I 52.0oD.OD0 more put iu ~ since then,
/ and the records show g. Grant aud
| Garfield who knew more nbout the war
/ than anybody else said S25.00QO0V
per nnnum would pay every deserving
| pnBlou Now the pension ll8t is $780,
100000 per auuum, n We arc going TO
have more snlurlca and bisgcr salaries,
more pensions and bigger PENSIONS
who IA going 90 pny thom ana where Ia
the money coming FROM We have
Cdxcy'H army. the army Of office hold
crs and office seekers, the tariff hhroht
rptAinrra the pensioners and all Other
kinds NJ armies In Washington want
ing more OF the tax payers money u
make lie go caster with these admir-
cra OF tue government
omce-noIhInE nation.
We have built W nation OF onlcc
holders and pensioners The govern.
mont pays more Tor the same serv'
lsca than a man can earn in private
lie. houce every man wants an office
The hundpods VI millions We have
taxed ourselves Tor public education
Z
is at such premium as vurluu, gov
inontg put On II 10y their yniarlra The
salaries are so high that the ofiic'
never gets q c'slnee to seek the man
Public officials should not hr the high
eat paid people. for their work ~ no
the hnrdeat and they got honor eh'
emuluuhuW not pertaining 10 uthe
employ ticuts. This government j
hnuluuptiug and domorallalug les CHI
gems aud whatever the aggregate
wealth may be- VS. getting the indlyll
ual citizen in the Same NIX that th
Egyptians We're I'm when Tint rlcl
{ | government had TO build tho pryamid
TO keen its pouple from starving. Lc
| the government take from The cltiEen
| l (who ia wiling tn work for hl4 Naiul
and the governments tpol only pa niue
/ AA is needed for am honest. ncouonlcu
administration, and There viii Away
br enough guns Ia the hands OF pa
! diBturhcrs uf ita peace NJ any con
grosaunn IS fool enough 90 believe thu
/ any government Va safe when dopcu
q dent upon ita hired otiicrra and lts per
Y sionerH for protection let him read IA
I decline and fan OF tho Roman Iimpir,
Q or Of amy other government TINT "a
+ riohcd the fcw at the expense OF M
n many. a poor government with poe
~ people. Ike the Swiss government an
o many nthors has been defended an
l. preserved by the patriotism of n
/, people but let these politicians WI
y believe that aalnfivs can't be too hlgl
Il point TO "a rich government Very lon
"a preserved by poor people You ca
% tax the patrlotism out OF people an
h. feed thpir substance to office holder
IL and pensioners, hut when you dc the
NJ Va an evil day not far on or histoi
II ~ living lie II this EpVernmcl
NJ could DO administered Tor twenty-ii,
10 years 10y the same character OF M,
Il aa those who controlled lta destiat
4, FOR the urat half century or it's axis
Al cnco, we would he ~ happy and PRO
=. porous people For the last thir
N ! years this government has made
Z, self a partner with Individual aynrlC
X it has made los patriotic citizens h,
~ at hiEh-priccs from its protected man
~ facturers, II has allowed those +
Vorod tow 20 import great hOrdca
non-fnglish speaking pcoplc TO III
e Their Increase hy cheap labor thpir n
N natural profits. II has Tolerated
~ powers OF taxation 10 corpNra Hons
&c the name ~ gratitude II has pc
OF stoned tho rich and the strong pt 4
"a expense uf the poor aud the weak
u has taxed the daily bread and DO
I'd raiment 81 the masscs aud left II
ne touched tho princely Incomes OF 4
u favored few, In time OF peace II n
~ repeatedly issued Interest boarl
'l- bonds, 1t has kept up armies and n
or Vies that never light. simply TO mn 4
ny pocket OF faVnrite contractors