The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 36, September 22, 1894 Page: 4
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THE TEXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER.
WALTER B. McADAMS, Editor.
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Thurber, Texas, Saturday, September 22, 1894.
TEXAS TAKES A TASTE OF DEMOCRATIC MEDICINE.
MR. M. L. KAUFMAN of the E. O. Standard Milling com-
pany, in an interview with a Dallas News correspondent,
has this to say:
T he abrogation by Congress in its tariff bill of our commercial
treaty with Spain, and the resumption by the latter country of its
retaliatory and absolutely prohibitory tariff has lost to Texas a
growing and valuable market for its wheat product. We recently-
finished the shipment from Dallas to Havana of 1.000 barrels of
flour, and we expected to continue shipping heavily to that mar-
ket, but it is now closed against us unless the United States can
repair the damage it has done by the abrogation of its treaty.
The wool growers of Texas must also take their pill of free
wool. The farmer must c.ome in direct competition of low du-
ties on mules and horses with Mexico; our young sugar interest
will have a serious set-back; our coal mining also must take its
medicine in the taking off" of 35 cents a ton duty on coal. Tak-
ing these, in connection with Cleveland's pet theory of favoring
a single standard of money, we fail to see where our people have
been benefited by a Democratic Congress.
Many of the members of the last Congress are coming to us
and asking for a re-election, and now is our time to rebuke them.
In our own district we have the chance to choose next month
who shall represent us, and we should carefully scan the nomi-
nees.
When we know that a man has views that in effect are antago-
nistic'to our interests, it is our own fault if we give him a chance
to cast his vote against our material interests. We will not vote
for a man who is in accord with Cleveland's Administration; bet-
ter a Populist whom we do not know than a man whom we do
know favors and is in accord with the Cleveland Administration.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS.
IN a recent speech in Atlanta, Speaker Crisp recounts the work
of the late Democratic congress thus :
1. We have repealed the McKinley law.
2. We have greatly reduced taxation.
3. We have made living cheaper.
4. We have made all money taxable.
5. We have taxed surplus incomes.
6. We have restored freedom of elections.
7. We have reduced public expenditures.
8. We have declared undying hostility to all trusts and monop-
olies organized for the oppression of the people.
The above is so great a travesty on truth and fairness we
reproduce verbatum :
1. You repealed the McKinley law and gave us in its place a
crude, foolish tariff bill, which makes us pay two cents a pound
more for sugar, that every family in the land must use. You
took off the duty on wool and brought all the wool of the world's
production in competition with Texas wool. You reduced the
duty on horses and mules and brought Mexican raised stock in
direct competition with ours. You took away the bounty on our
rapidly growing sugar interests, and thereby crippled that interest.
\ ou reduced the duty on coal and thereby affected that growing
interest in this state. Your action repealed reciprocity with
other countries that was extremely advantageous to us. In short,
your whole action has been ruinous to the country.
2. You have "greatly reduced taxation;" that is really good of
you. You seem to have forgotton utterly about the sugar tax,
and we do not see that putting diamonds on the free list and
reducing the duties on silks, satins, woolens and fancy articles,
that only the rich can purchase, benefits our people.
3. " We have made living cheaper;" that is also good. Wheat
was low enough in all conscience, so was our cattle and sheep.
We do not happen to be able to buy choice foreign made cloths
and foreign made pottery, so we ain't much belter off for your
tariff.
5. " We have taxed surplus incomes." As we never have had
a surplus income that does not effect us and we " pass " on that.
7. " We have reduced public expenditures." How? By
not passing bills to pay the honestly contracted debts of the
country, by taking away a contract with our sugar producers that
was honestly entered into with our own people, which was increas-
ing our product at a rapid rate, and thus reducing the amount
of money we have to pay foreign countries for that necessity; by
not making appropriations for necessary improvements; thus
retarding the wheels of progress. But the last and most impudent
assertion of all deserves to be recorded as the most audacious
of any ever spoken by any public speaker, and that is, mark the
words: "We have declared undying hostility to all trusts."
There is no reading person but what knows that the " sugar trust "
controlled the action of the last session of congress, and you
know it, too, Mr. Crisp. It placed a tax on our people of
$ 12.000,000 annually. It has given the sugar trust an immediate
profit of $50,000,000. The agents of the sugar trust were "cheek
by jov\ 1 with the Democratic law makers, who were speculating
in sugar stock. Even your secretary of the treasury is strongly
suspected of being "in it," else why was he closeted with the
Havemyers in Washington? And when he went to New York
the sugar trust office was the first place he visited. The violent
fluctuations of sugar trust stock during the session of the last
congress is well known to have been from the speculations of
senators and members of congress. News from Washington
would start it up and the absence of news and orders would make
it go down. The wires between Washington and New York to
brokers in sugar stock were kept at times hot with orders to buy
and sell; but alas, they were all in cyphers. If that is the kind
of "undying hostility to trusts" by a congress that had an over-
whelming Democratic majority, " we want no more of it in ours."
DEMOCRATIC PARTY DISINTEGRATING IN THE SOUTH.
THERE are unmistakable signs that the "Solid South," as it
could very truthfully be called ever since the war, will soon be
divided on political lines as they are in the northern states. The
color scare can no longer be made effectual, the negro has
accepted the natural situation, politicians can no longer stir the
whole community by the scare that the negroes would dominate
the South if the people voted any other than the Democratic
ticket. When that feature of our elections is entirely blotted out.
then comes in the personal interest and natural judgment of the
value to themselves, their section and the country of the better
policy to persue in regard to our currency and a protective tariff,
for those two questions are really the only vital questions upon
which the opinions of our people are divided at this time. The
feeling that a tariff for protection is the better policy is making
rapid headway south of the Mason and Dixon line, for the reason
of the extremely rapid development of manufacturing and mining
interests, in which our people are making such wonderful progress,
in Virginia, West Virginia., South. Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 36, September 22, 1894, newspaper, September 22, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200483/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.