Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-16

old debts or renewed or refused debts,
or new debts contracted to pay old
uebts, or debts the people have been
forced TO contract by reason OF the
continued decline in prices The own
ers OF products must now give up twice
rs much property to pay their taxes
ms In 1873, Seventeen thousand bushels
of wheat would have paid the presl-
dents salary OF $4,000 IN 1873. and 1t
now requires 100000 bushels OF wheat
to pay your annual salary Of $4,000
We have constantly pointed TO tho
people Of the ever increasing inter-
changeable value of the creditors dol
lar and 10 the reason why II ~ inorods-
ing, but the influence uf these credit
ors have dominated your ujministra-
toin and you insist on such currency
as they have established as q sound
currency II means the COnhscdtlun Of
the property OF the people by the sale
of property under mortgages 1udg-
mcnts and executions. IL arCAna that
fixed Incomes will wipe out the interest
of stockholders In our railways and
corporations. II 1t is an Injustice to
restore prices 90 that tho people can
exchange their property Tor sum
Client number OF dollars In pay their
debts and bring happiness and pros
perlty to our land again, II was greHt-
en- injustice to destroy the value OF
property and enhance the value OF
money by dcmonCtlzal ton of silver and
TIE establishment of a single dollar
standard So that when you call the
attention OF the farmer and wage
Garner 10 the fact that rising prices
viii make him pay more for what he
buys, you should at the same time
cal, his attention to the fact that 1t
would enable him to pay his debt, frfe
him from bondage In which he has
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him the owner OF a home and a free
and Independent citizen.
We might say further TO him that
rising prices causes money TO seek In
vestment and would thus open up the
channels of commerce and trade and
give employment 20 the millions now
idle. II Is not money we want TO bor-
row, but to pny on what we already
owe. The more we borrow the more
we must pay, and the annual interest
on our public and private debts ~ now
more than profits OF business and pro-
ductlon. Where will 1t end7 our
forcfnthers fled from Europe and estab-
llshed government here thst might
be free from the class legislation Of
those nations whore the masses ire
hcwers OF wood and drawers OF water
for the few; countries that we justly
term piutOcratic, and yet 1t is becoming
seriously insisted upon that we must
adopt and continue the most pcrniclous
class legislation that the monarchlea
OF Europe have ever fastened upon
their helpless people. BY adopting
their policy we have increased the de-
inand for gold and Its eNchGngecble
value and money based thereon with
all other property. We have aided
them IN the adpotion Of Il single metal
for primary money that they can con-
troll and corner. that they have cor
nnred, aud forced you 20 get It ut their
own price and sustai nthe credit OF
this great nation.
1--WE submit that this policy should
be abandoned ana our minis again
thrown open TO silver las they arc now
10 gold and our stock OF primary mon
ey Increased thereby. The gentle
men who visited you and who petliionod
you represent only one class OF our
people; we respectfully submit that Il
was safer that all the people should
do the thinking for II than any other
one class should do II for them. Selfish
Interests predominant TO promote sell
FISH Interest when one class does the
thinking for all Broad Views Justly
to promote the common welfare can
best be secured by a census OF the
views OF all the people.
1--WE agree with you that II 10 tina
for tho people TO reason together. and
10 that end we respectfully ask YOU
that you make II possible for them to
get printed copies OF the act OF 1902
on which our forefathers baEed our
financial System and all subsequent
aota. together with tho act OF 1919 that