The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 21, June 9, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS NUNER.
TAR!FF TALKS.
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NO. VII.
We will deviate for a little while from the direct course of our
discussion to see what great men say of the doctrine of Protection
and what excuse they give for holding the beliefs they do. Per-
haps we can learn as much about the doctrine in that way as in
any other, and thereby determine for ourselves whether we like
the theory or not.
Hon. B. W. Perkins, ex-Congressman from Kansas, says: "I
am a Protectionist because I am an American. We should have
free trade among ourselves because we honor one Mag and are
citizcns of a common country. But the man who builds no
houses here, who pays no taxes here, who employs no labor here,
who does nothing to contribute to our growth and to our pros-
perity, but who lives abroad, beyond the oceans, whence he de-
sires to bring his products, either farm or manufactured, into this
great American market in competition with ours, he should pay
ior the privilege; and when he has paid for the privilege we will
cover the money into the Treasury of the United States, and with
it we will cancel our obligations and carry on the concerns of
Government. And I would do this in the name of patriotism
and my country because I believe it right."
Hon. ]ustinS. Morrill, United States Senator from Vermont,
who is the oldest man in the Senate, both in point of years and
of service in that body, says: "I am a Protectionist for the fol-
lowing reasons: First, it brings together diversified interests
which never fail to vastly increase the personal intelligence, in-
dustry and wage-earnings of the people; second, it adds prodigi-
ously to the power of increasing, by machinery and steam and
water power, the necessaries of life and of advanced civilization,
and also greatly cheapens the cost of subsistence; third, it fur-
nishes an opportunity for every person to find the employment
best adapted to his or her genius or capacity, that will secure the
largest income or the greatest happiness; fourth, it creates a
home market, without which the cultivators of land in America
would be but a little better off than our aborigines; fifth, it is the
bulwark of national independence in peace or war."
Hon. Lyman R. Carey, United States Senator from North Da-
kota, says: "I am a Protectionist because protection steadily en-
larges the home market for farm products. England buys the
world's surplus of wheat. She demands a big loaf for tup-
pence.' Accordingly, she gluts her market from every source,
and usually is able to dictate unprofitable prices for American
grain. When our exportable surplus is large, prices are rarely
good; when small, always; so that strangely, a deficient yield is
good luck for the farmer. Well-paid wage earners are generous
consumers. Protection alone insures American labor against
European pauper wages. When, under protection. American
industries shall employ bread eaters sufficient to nearly consume
American cereals, then the farmer will no longer sell his grain at
cost of production 01* less. He will escape the competition of
the Ryot and the serf. His industry will be profitable—his call-
ing honored and truly independent."
Hon. John P. Doltiver, Congressman from Iowa, says:
"I am a Protectionist because the facts of our national expe-
rience thoroughly exemplify the truth of the doctrine. No great
American statesman, except the half-forgotton leaders of the
Slave Power, have disowned the Protective system. The Im-
porters' trust and Slave trust have been alone in their hostility to
that system, each for obvious reasons peculiar to themselves. If the
doctrine of Protection is not true, our people have blindly fol-
lowed a blind leadership. If the policy of Protection is not
wise, it indicates that the human race, outside of England, has
not sense enough to take care of itself. I will not thus disparage
the average common sense of our own country, nor thus dis-
credit the average common sense of mankind."
United States Senator Frye of Maine is a Protectionist ''be-
cause facts confront us, not theories. I have seen the wage-
earners of Great Britain and Continental Europe; know how they
live; that they are homeless and landless, as far as ownership is
concerned; that they are helpless and hopeless as to any brighter
future for themselves or their children; that in their scant wages
there is no margin for misfortune and sickness, pauperism being
their only refuge. I know that in this Republic the prudent,
temporate and industrious worker is sure of an abundant reward;
that his ambition to succeed seldom meets with failure; that he
owns land and a home; that luxuries to the European laborer are
necessities to the American. How then can we compete with
the former and maintain our superiority in these regards? Steam
and electricity have made of the world one neighborhood, elimi-
nating largely the protection once afforded by time, distance and
transportation. There is one way only of solving this problem—
legislate for our own. a Tariff Protection."
These are the reasons assigned by the leading statesmen of
the Republican party for their belief in Protection. Will you
believe as they do, if it can be shown that what they state is
true 2
HON. HEXRi WATTERSON of the Louisville Courier-Journal
says:
"AH the Courier-Journal's dark forebodings with respect to
tariff legislation have come to pass. The situation could not be
worse, the outlook darker, the act with whose passage we are
threatened more disreputable. Action of some sort is urgent!
Has the President the supreme courage to retire the Administra-
tion from all responsibility and concern as to the measure before
the Senate, by sending a message to Congress denouncing the
whole proceeding, calling the Democratic masses to his side,
and having the effect to stampede and adjourn the entire rotton
Rump concern ?"
FOLLOWING is an extract from a letter written by Senator
Vest concerning the action of President Cleveland:
'After the President gave me to distinctly understand that he
did not desire my advice in regard to appointments in Missouri
it was simply impossible for me. without forfeiting my self-re-
spect, to approach him upon that subject. 1 have no apologies
to make to any one for declining to ask favors from this Admin-
istration. and if you or any one else propose to ascribe motives
to me which do not exist I have no recourse other than to leave
the matter where it is.
' When Mr.Cleveland deliberately made appointments at Kan-
sas City which no one in our delegation had recomended, and
did so in the most offensive manner, I made up my mind to
leave public life rather than to sacrifice my self-respect by ap-
proaching him upon the subject of patronage. Very truly yours.
' GEORGE G. VEST."
THE RA!LWAYS.
WHAT THE RAILWAYS HAVE DONE FOR FORT WORTH.
Fort Worth is one of the examples of the good a railroad can
and will do for a community.
Up to 1876, when the Texas & Pacific road was built to Fort
Worth, that city was only a frontier village of scarcely 1200 in-
habitants, who were for the most part dependent on the fort and
the soldiers for the business they did.
Immediately on the opening of the Texas & Pacific immigra-
tion poured in. The fertile lands around the city were rapidly
taken up by a thrifty and intelligent class of people. The effect
was marked and the increase in wealth and population went
steadily forward, and in three years it had gained a population of
5000. The United States census gave it a population of 6663 in
1880 and 23.076 in 1890. Assessed values in 1880 were $1.-
992 891, while in the ensuing ten years they had increased to the
vast sum of $18 817.816, nearly 1000 per cent, increase in that
short space of time.
Fort Worth is a great railroad center. The following roads
form a junction there: Texas & Pacific St. Louis, Arkansas &
Texas, Fort Worth & Rio Grande. Fort Worth & Denver City,
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the
Fort Worth & New Orleans, Chicago. Rock Island and Texas.
The car shops of the Texas & Pacific, Fort Worth & Denver
City and Fort Worth & Rio Grande are situated there.
Compare the marvelous growth of that city w ith the growth of
any other city or town in the state not situated on a railroad, or
even at the junction of two or more roads. Is it not plain to see
that some great, yes gigantic, agency of good and prosperity has
been at work 111 that town?
Has the increase of population and wealth been due in any de-
gree to any other cause than the railroads centering there? Why
has not Abilene. Tex., a city as old as Fort Worth, grown as rap-
idly? It has all the climatic advantages, indeed more, as it is
situated m a higher altitude; it has even better advantages, as far
as being near the cattle grazing, farming and shipping points is
concerned. Simply because it is not a railroad center.
That is the secret of the wonderful advancement of Fort
Worth; that is the cause, and the sole cause, of it's greatness.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 21, June 9, 1894, newspaper, June 9, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200468/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.