The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 39, October 13, 1894 Page: 4
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THE TEXAS MINER
THE TEXAS MINER
WALTER B. McADAMS, Editor.
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Entered at the Post-Office in Thurber. Texas, as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Thurber, Texas, Saturday, October 13, 1894.
TEXANS DON'T LIKE 44 DICTATION.
PURE, unadulterated selfishness induced Wall Street to
dictate
the single standard of money as the way to legally rob the peo-
ple. Wall Street
dictated
to Grover Cleveland and showed to him the way to make his
friends richer by monometalism. Grover Cleveland
dictated
to Roger Q. Mills that if he continued to receive " the drippings
of the sanctuary" what he must do, and that was to make the
Democrats of Texas indorse his goldbug views, regardless of the
fact that it was opposed to the financial interest of Texans.
Roger Q. Mills
dictated
to Hon. George Clark what must be the platform of the Dallas
convention. He took the cue and
dictated
to Clint Giddings the gold plank of that convention, and he wrote
it. Then he
dictated
to Culberson and Lanham that they must accept it. Then they
dictated
to their delegate, that it must be passed as written. Many of the
delegates murmered, but the nauseous dose went down their
throats, and now some of the candidates are
dictati rig
to Texas Democrats that they must gulp down the dose. It
tastes bitter, and hence some Independent Democrats are kicking
like the proverbial Texas steer. The Dallas News, with its well-
known fairness, once in a while gives us some of the rumblings
that is going on in Democratic stomachs. We quote from a
special correspondent in the News, as follows:
Austin, Tex., Oct. 2.—[Special correspondence.]—It begins
to look as if a row was brewing in the Democratic camp. The
much discussed silver question is the casus belli. It really looks
like the Democrats could not be induced to keep their hands off
the curie of each other just at this time, when the opposition is in
the saddle with a good chance of winning several rounds. '
Yesterday while several gentlemen from this city were return-
ing from Rockdale, where Governor Hogg had been speaking,
one of them, flushed with 16 to 1 enthusiasm, made the an-
nouncement to another gentleman that he had said to Thad
Thomson. Major Sayers' manager, that "he ought not to allow
George Clark to make any more speeches in Sayers' district;
that one more speech like the one he delivered at Bastrop would
defeat Major Sayers for Congress." This Democratic Sir Oracle
did not stop here. He just caught a long breath and said :
" Mills should also be stopped from speaking in the interest of
Democracy unless he advocates Democratic doctrine.'"' A little
later on the same gentleman suggested that " Mills would be
stopped after he made one or two more speeches."
Before election day we expect that the dissatisfaction will in-
crease, and it may culminate in the same kind of Waterloo that
made Grover Cleveland governor of New York state in 1882 by
a majority of 200,000. One hundred thousand Republicans
kicked against Autocrat Tom Piatt, and voted the Democratic
ticket, made Cleveland Governor, and that made him twice
President. That has puffed him up with self conceit and made
him think, as an old farmer told ex-Governor Foraker of Ohio,
that he thought he owned the " hull durned place," and it is
about time that Democrats should kick against the
dictation
that lowers the price of their land, makes their cotton sell at 4 1-2
cents a pound (with the prospect of going lower), for the purpose
of enriching Cleveland's Wall Street friends.
CONDITIONS VS. THEORY.
FROM 1888 to 1892 in this country there was abnormal pros-
perity, even for this prosperous country. Our manufacturers
had a demand for all they could produce, every wage earner that
wanted work could find it at good wages, and in the period of
these four years earned a very large amount of money, and of
these earnings a large amount was put by to meet rainy days.
The savings banks in New York city alone gained in deposits each
year from eight to sixteen millions of dollars. Manufacturers,
merchants and wage earners were prosperous, and all the rills
of trade were full to overflowing ; the income of the Government
was sufficient for the large demands made for internal improve-
ments and support of the Government. Railroad earnings were
large, earning their fixed charges and many of them dividends to
their stockholders. Houses and costly places of business were
erected. Confidence and a general feeling that good times were
to continue for an indefinite period induced capitalists to invest
their surplus money in buildings and new business undertakings.
This state of things all proceeded from the fact that our people
thought that the Government had a wise, stable policy, and that
at least the United States Senate was so constituted that this
policy could not be changed by any turn of the feelings of the
people politically. These were conditions, and continued down to
the election of Grover Cleveland President and an overwhelming
Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, and also,
by the election of Democratic and Populist Senators, which placed
the Republicans in the minority for the first time in a quarter of
a century. All departments of the Government fell into the
hands of the Democrats, and unfortunately, the President was a
man without education as a statesman or even a business educa-
tion, and more unfortunately had imbibed the idea that he was
the "only Moses" that could lead Americans into the promised
land of free trade and monometalism, and that if his theories that
he had become imbued with, without study and without experi-
ence, could be carried through this country would become a hive
of industry, manufacturing goods for foreign lands, and even if
we did give up the greatest market in the world (our own) to
foreign manufacturers, even if we did bring our wage earners in
active competion with the poorer paid labor of Europe, even if
foreign countries did control all the ocean transportation, even if
the history of this country did show that we had prospered the
most under a protective tariff and bimetalism. Yet that these
facts were all wrong, and that his c rude, untried theories were
right. It was simply a case of "big head." Either that or a
total disregard for the good of the country as a whole, and that
he influenced legislation to benefit himself and friends. His ad-
mirers may take either phase of the case they choose. Well, Mr.
Cleveland's theories have been tried, and at a fearful cost to the
country. It is estimated that the losses made under the short
time that has already elapsed is greater than the whole cost of
our civil war. We have seen banks fail by the hundreds, busi-
ness men and firms by tens of thousands. We have seen the
products of our farms, our mines and our manufactures sell at
lower prices than ever before known. Texans, you have seen
your cotton sell at 4 1-2 cents a pound and still tending down-
ward. We have seen our farms and homes depreciate in value,
and stagnation in some species of property until.it .seemed as is if
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 39, October 13, 1894, newspaper, October 13, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200486/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.