Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-12

Witness my hand and Official seal
DAVID GORE.
Auditor or Psnilc Accounts"
VIM you not admit, Mr.. Cleveland,
TINT these Chicago "expcrta" have
shown the expert shrewdntsa natural
20 their class In their forcing the fos7n-
err OF Cook county to pay not only
their own share OF taxes. but nlout
ninetecn-lwentieths OF that Of these
"cxperts?"
And does It not make you blush, Mr.
Cleveland. to learn that these experts,
upon whose testimony you would have
the people TO 50 Implicitly rely. have
faid presumably under oath, tool that
In all the hundreds OF banks and other
financial institutions OF the great city
OF Chicago with ita two millions OF
people. and Its hundreds OF millions OF
wealth, there nrc only little over
forty million dollars In money!
You cannot too quickly recall and act
upon the old Latin adage-A Solics
Moscitur.
. Last spring, as con attest q gem
ticmnn In company with an 1cnglish-
man. visited on business large legal
firm on Wall street. New York. One
expert OF the first water) twitted the
Engllshman upon hts country's having
an income tax. while our supreme
court had Just decided that our country
could not have one. The Engllahmnn
replied: Yes, we make the wealth
OF our country pay It's taxes. while you
make tho poor pny them" tAlluding
10 the tariff taxes as wen as the
supreme court decision) The lawyer
quickly rctortcd: "Thcy ought to pay
them. They have their children etiu-
Gated by the wealth OF the country;
they have high wages paid them BY
the wealth. etc"
d "a III. a..
psychological inquiry to ascertain
whether this particular expert" has
not already reached the stage when he
is ready 10 assert the divine right"
OF lnw-created wealth to plumber the
poor
3 when you were about 10 put upon
the properly OF the people a hundred
million mortgage last winter. acting
upon your advice to the Iyopig. you
called into your councils certain Eek
perts." Messrs. Morgan Belmont. Roth
childs & Co.. to advise you. You ace
ccpted this advice Owe are bound IN the
absence OF proof to the contrary, to ad-
nit honestly. even II we are forced
TO do so at the expense OF your sanity.
and they pocketed about eleven mill
lions OF the peoples money as the price
OF their expert" advice.
4. When about to put upon the peo-
pie another mortgage a few weeks since
you called to your councils one OF these
same experts" MIR. j. Pierpont Nor
gan, and the newspapers OF New York
say he has ON file In your oilicc two
letters, one advising You TO sell bonds
ut 1ef and another Offering himself TO
buy these same bonds. In competition.
at about seven millions more than he
advised you to take.
6. II was under the advIsp OF Tex
perts' that our government issued her
81.
perts' for greenbaclSs deprecated to 40
cents on the dollar and afterwards, in
stead OF paying them IN the same kind
OF currency with which they were
bought. they were made by expert"
advised law payabie In cole In viola
ton of their contract with the tax
payers and at their expense. by this
one act. these experts" plundcrcd the
people OF about six hundred millions OF
dollars and when the people complain
they are denounced us thieves and dis-
honest knavea, who would rob their
credHors
6. Not satisfied with the amount OF
plumber these Same "experls' procured
the establishment OF the national bank
ing system. under which ono OF these
"experts'' with $4,000 In gold could
purchase 100000 worth Of bonds. re-
ceive G per cent. interest In gold on
them and have donated TO him 800, 600
OF currency by the government to be
loaned out on his own private ac-
count, thus increasing his wealth aT5
per cent, not by honest toll. but by
expert Legislation.
Z. II was under the advice OF these
same exports" and by means of the
same kind of corrlpt law that they ar
forwards again doubled their wealth
by curiailinR the supply OF metallic
money by one-half in 1873, thus Increase
inr their wealth $50 per cent. BY sheer
legislation from 1861 TO 1919
s. Experts" who are 70 fruitful OF
excuses. calmly tell the people that the
existing condition Of low prices and APP
preciating money and debts are the re-
suit of over-production
or course. We must admit that "ex-
perts" really believe this, for they are
accustomed to believe anything, how
ever false or foolish, which Ia to their
interests to believe, But the census re-
ports brand this as another faisehood.
In the state OF Illinois alone the
farmers and laborers have suffered a
loss during the last decade OF an
amount equal TO the growth OF her
cities plus s5o.ooo.eo0, and during the
last year. from 1898 to 1891. OF se4, 10000
n total Ioss OF $1,000 900.
And tell you that this means thnt
they are unable to purchase or consume
goods by this large amount in one sin
gle state. II you curtail demand you
necessarily curtail supply. for nobody
viii produce n they cannot sell. II you
curtail supply you necessarily curtail
labor and machinery engaged in maxi
ing this supply SO your Coxey armies
Of tramps and your smokeless facto-
rics are the logical, necessary. inovit-
able result Of the "expert' legislation
OF the past twenty-five yearn
Have ever king. CLERGY and nobility
OF Europe or the Orient plundercd
people more ruthleasly however much
more extensively under the gulse OF
law. than our own "cxperts' 10 whose
tender care you 80 considerably com
mend the American pecple7
MIR. Cleveland. You and your "cx-
pert" associates labor under the mis-
take that you can fool the people all
the time" Your mistake Would be ludi-
crous II II were not pregnant with such
OWL portent--a portent forbear 10 dis
cuss because shudder TO contemplate.
But Mr. Cleveland. a parting word OF
admonitlon. You and the holders or
these stolen miiiions--none the less
stolen because wrunR from n patient
people under the forms OF law-would
do well not 70 forget that lesson OF his
tory. 'sWhom the Gods Wish to destroy
they first make mad" I am, with great
respect for your office,
W. NJ. BTSHBACK.
Fort Smith. Ark.