Year: 1873

THE FORMATION OF ORANGES.


In our issue of yesterday we endeaNl
ored to show how the administration OF
our government was carried on between
corrupt Legislators and capitalists, and
how they had bnilt up great monopo-
lies, which were draining the country
of its substance through the unright-
eous medium of the national bonds.
Illustrative of our position in this mat
ter, we will simply cite the fact that
with the United States bonds to attract
the investment of capital, where II
enjoys an undisturbcd freedom from
taxation, the rich man becomes the
constant beneficiary of the poor mans
labor, and under circumstances that
are by no means just or equitable. The
poor mechanic who labors for twelve
months, and by hard licks and close
economy, saves from his earnings as
much as Il thousand or fifteen hundred
dollars, is glad to invest this income i'll
a house and lot for his family, which
is taxable as soon as he gets it. His
employer, whose income is fifty thou
sand dollars, converts this money into
non-taxable bonds, and draws his in
tercst in gold every six months. In
this-instance it will be seen how the
poor man, on his little property, pur-
chased by the sweat of his brow,
earned in honest labor, paysa u greater
tax Oh his savings than the rich man,
who realizes ten times as much from
the fruits of his capital.


This is it not fair, it is not just,
because part of the taxes paid by the
laborer and the greater part too, Is
absorbed by the government for the
purpose of pacifying theclaims OF those
who hold its bonds. The dress worn
by his wife, the scanty clothing of his
innocent children, the leather apron he
wears while bending over his forges,
the food that he eats, and the tools that
he uses in his trade are all subject to
taxation by the government, and the
money thus realized it divides between
its officers and its bondholders, who are
required to pay nothing into the com
mon treasury for the protection affords
them. This method of legislation and
of administration practically and SIM
ply means, that the rich own the poor,
and that the government is run in
their interest and against the in
terest of the poor man, thus max
ing "the rich richer and the poor
poorer" Now, how can oranges affect
any desirable changes in remcdymg
these evils? We beg to suggest that
by combination, and hearty co-opere-
ton among our farmers most desir-
able and advantageous change i'll the
routine of trade established by the gov
ernment can be effected, and they are
the very class who should commence
the movement in this State, because
they constitute not only the bone and
muscle of Texas, but its wealth as well.
Let the societies leave politics out OF
their deliberations, and trust their
political protection to the Democratic
party which has always been the poor
mans. friends as well as that of the
rich. Where they organize let them
devise some plan whereby the mighty
men of the East may find themselves
without buyers for their fabrics, and
without contributors to the enlarge
ment of their money power ana lnilu-
cnce. Let our farmers come together,
and on the altar of common cause
swear fealty- to their rights, and then
yindicate them.


In Texas we have hides, wheat corn
cotton, wool, coal, lead, copper, iron
and all the materials necessary to
make-it the finest manufacturing dis
trict OH the continent. Let the agri-
culturalists not say that they are too
poor to erect the factories which would
be requisite for the fabrication OF all
the products we produce. AT an insig-
nificant expense, the farmers OF Dal-
las county can erect mills sufficient
this year to grind all the wheat they
will raise. Ifthey have not the mon
ey to invest in these works, let them
give so many bushels OF wheat which
shall represent so many shares in the
works when established. There, is old
wheat enough left over from last years
crop in this county, to build a magnifi-
cent mill, with capacity for turning
out thousand barrels of -four per day.
Let all this grain be put into COM
mon fund and those who own it sell or
hypothecate it, and with the money
thus realized they can build and own
among themselves the factories with
which their crops would be manufact-
ured, thus saving in the end the mar
gin buyers enjoy in purchasing, or the
toll they are compelled to pay to those
who are now engaged, in a limited
way, in the Touring business.


In the same manner cotton and wool
en- factories, tannerics, and all the 9TH
er various interests we are one day to
have fiourishing in our midst, could be
erected. By giving these sort of enter-
prises their attention, and by laboring
to effect contamination of the crude
plans we have suggested, we think that
oranges can do our countrya great deal
of good, and we trust that our farmers
will consider what We have writtenl
and will deliberate upon it when they
get their associations organized. When
they get our domestic system of enter
prises at work, and get themselves or
ganized, then they should demand of
their representatives TO impose a tax
nron fna interest realized spmi-anuu-