The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-07
cost 50 cents lees than Y

American manufactures ,4
ed at once; but to savs Ne
II added to the foreIrroe.
he Is just where the wcSs
fore the tax was imn,ss1
wool grower gets 80 csnss
ton against competition s,
must get an increased a..
toction. So. there are twn
woolen goods and togethoss W
more than 100 per cent
The tariff on wool ana
lures illustrates the tarif,
articles, raw anu finished. =
Now ~ the result is, first, Il.
keep millions of dolllv v,s,s
from coming TO this to,,nt,,
changed for farm products.
lessons the demand for co,ts,
lite price: third, It raises n. I.
taxed articles which the p,s,a
1ourth, AZ excludes our mani, !,
foreign markets and as 4 ".
Drives millions of our peoo,.
ment in making and tmn.
articles to market; fifth. 4
the wealth produced by M M
country into the hands az n
tens the coming OF the dav y.
can government will be imrs.',.!
continent. In my judgment ,S.s
lief to be obtained WHY
change of Federal taxation
The coinage Of all the NJ.
world would accomplish No nv
haustiye taxation is eating sss
Of the country day and nish;
ticn that is stopping the vxa3
dustry, keeping men out oi'ss3
fcrcing down tho prices 81 ~
forcing up the prices of ~
building UP a moneyed oris.
tearing down the pillars oftk
When l was first sent 10 y
your votes there were but ihru
Texas where Federal courts I,
Our people were dragged Min
nesses hundreds of miles Often /
false accusations and in MN.
stances were detained and den,s
order to compel them to NUM-
liberty which they would lsu
q fair trial by a jury of their ID
the county in which the alIecN
were charged to have been Con-
have labored assiduoGsly to ipcfu
courts and bring them nearerh
who may have business in then
twelve Federal courts in Texas
is still room for more. AS III
be done Justice should be carrx
mans door, and in the lanEu,
great charter. st should not Y
denied or sold"
When the civil war ended IN
States were subjected for seyeil
a lawless military dominaiiti
which troops were sent about
country as it was COMMENDED VI
authority to quell disorders. ID
and property, and preserve pea
polls. The democratic party ira
of the Onion arrayed itsG
this usurpation by the rnilltiE
tower that rightfully belonged n
arm CT the governments. In corr
the representatives OF my parry
that the military should
dinate to the civil power and thai
ple of every State and locality
left in the enjoyment Of self CF
These are the principles | haNt
and supported all through ny v
vice.
AS I am now permanently rtth
that service may be pardcnd
ferring to my services asa
Texas in the civil war. / entefc
fedrate army early in 1851, az
In it to the end. | fought asa
The ranks of the Third Texas y
Oak Mills in August, 1851. y
good fortune to command the IsM
infantry from 1862 to the END q
and often to command the pnsss
which it served. In his report y
lie of Chickamauga-the blooale
hat has been fought anysnss
earth in two centuries--Malo
jleburne says:
Colonel Mills is entitled 70 Y
,ered. Leading his men throgS
lie until the fall of the brlgaaa
Deshler), he was tnen
to command the o,'ean
lie did with gallantry ana la'a
AT the battle of Turner hM
1leburne's division against M
nemy, the Texas brigade pon
Il the battle, and suffered hea,
ire of artillery and infantry
o check the advancing collae.
,ur artillery was about 70 Z
ieneral Cleburne ordered ouf
barge. and the command w
'exas soldiers always exccute
( their chief. Regardless OF
hat confronted Them. "
Cleburne says IN ny
ort; In this charge Brlga
NTH and Colonel II. Q. MIN
everely wounded at the hsaS
len," and "of the eight stAns
hown by me TO have been e ssa,,.
fere presented to me by M
agiment." That one regiment s N,
aptured one half the coloT cap
hole division is evidence t1a,
he thiclsest of the fight aus
self as If under the eyes o. ~
oman and child In the S
was one of the representAus
cid. General Cleburne furtna
critical moment OF the hatns
I the bravest officers Of ny PEN
rigadier General James 4. I'll
the Texas brigade, IN
/. @. Mills, the same ofiice! 4
landed the brigade in the pals~
after General Desnie n
le battle OF Atlanta on s
rigadier General Smith in ~
,rt says. among tht seye!su ~
as Colonel r. @. Mills q
exas regiment. worthy 80
ficar VAC n u