The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 36, September 22, 1894 Page: 7
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THE TEXAS MINER.
the sugar interest should not be crippled by change in the tariff.
Then when the tariff bill was to be amended, there was a definite
promise to our senators that the bounty should be continued this
year, '"'he crops of this year were started on that understanding,
investments have been made on that basis; yet the party to which
the state has given its undivided support enacts a bill that will
drive many of its prosperous men to bankruptcy.
■'The Republicans on the other hand have enacted legislation
under which the sugar industries have prospered. The Repub-
licans in this cjng;es5 hive vo:el for the su^ar b mnty on all
occasions and I think I have done so consistently. So have the
Louisiana Democrats for that matter."
'WE CANNOT HAVE A DOUBLE STANDARD UNLESS
ENGLAND DOES THE SAME."
WE hear the above words often spoken by men who, parrot
like, quote goldbug talk. We quote from an article by
A. J. Warner on the different conditions existing in the two coun-
tries:
The relative conditions of the United States and England, as
nations, in the matter of maintaining the gold standard may be
seen in the one fact that the income of England from interest on
investments in other countries is not less than $500,000,000 an-
nually, and is probably more. This is more than the equivalent
of the value of the entire wheat crop and cotton crop of the
United States for 1893. That is, if. instead of her interests
abroad, England had handed over to her our entire wheat and
cotton crops she would be no better off than she is now with her
foreign investments.
On the other hand, the United States is required to pay, on
her debt to England, interest equal to more than the value of our
entire cotton crop. Are these two countries, then, as nations,
equally interested in maintaining the gold standard? And yet,to
our shame, we subject our financial policy to the dictation of for-
eign interests.
The blind followers in this state of Grover Cleveland's theories
have placed the Democratic party on a platform of monometal-
ism, which will injure the interests of nearly all our people, and
they are striving to get the people of Texas to vote in favor of
measures that are absolutely ruinous to them. Let's call a halt,
and show them we are not such egregrious fools in regard to our
own interests as they seem to think we are. Let's throw over-
board every mother's son of the members of Congress who are in
the present Congress. We can't do worse; we might do a great
deal better.
LETTER OF JUDGE MEEK OF FORT WORTH.
WE ARE permitted to publish a letter of Judge Meek to
the Republican State Executive committee. We publish
it at this late day because it is a model for other Republicans to
follow. If all the men who believe in Republican doctrine would
show the same unselfish spirit and patriotism it would be better
for the party of progress and reform.
Des Moines, Iowa, August 23, 1894.
Hon. X. B. Moore, Chairman Republican State Executive Committee, Eort
Worth, Texas.
Dear Sir : Several Republican County conventions and
many friends having done me- the honor to propose my name as
a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. I deem
it but fair to announce to them, through you, that for business
reasons which cannot be ignored, I am unable to comply with
their wishes, much as it would gratify and honor me to do so. I
expect, however, to take part, as it is the duty of every Republican
to do, in the approaching campaign, and I do not hesitate to
declare my faith in the ultimate usefulness of the Republican
party in Texas.
I believe the day is near when our people as a whole, will unite
and divide politically on business and patriotic lines without
regard to race or color. The welfare of Texas, long suffering for
the want of close rivalry between the two great political parties
demands it, and the people will not long be heedless of this their
greatest need. When the barriers are broken down, the Repub-
lican party of Texas, affiliating with the Republican party of the
Nation, will work infinite good to every Texas interest, and the
ills of many years devoted to prejudice and unimpeded Demo-
cratic rule will disappear.
I hope the coming Republican convention will open wide the
party doors and bid a hearty welcome to all who seek the deliv-
erence of the State from single party rule; bid them come in, and
the race question, and the question of party organization, will
quickly settle themselves. I venture to hope that in your con-
vention a spirit of compromise may be born that will adjust
existing differences, so that a united, and hence a stronger party,
may oppose the Democratic party in the coming campaign.
PROTECTION.
THE best Protectionists we know of are our enterprising friends
at Dallas. We copy a resolution passed by an association
called the "Trades Council."
Resolved, That the policy of reciprocal patronage among mer-
chants, manufacturers or all citizens in any place is well recognized
as one of the chief elements of growth and prosperity. The
employment of home labor, the retaining of the wages, profits,
etc., in the community is an advantage so obvious as to require
no argument to secure its recognition. Few. if any, public spir-
ited. wideawake citizens will send abroad for any article which
can be procured, of the same quality and like cost, in their home
city. And if this policy be sound in regard to the dealings of
individuals and firms it ought to be an invincible rule, strenuously
insisted upon, in regard to the expenditure of public moneys by
public officials. For any public official, city or county, to take
the money collected in taxes and send it away for articles which
are manufactured or dealt in, of like quality and cost, by the very
people who pay the taxes, is conduct that should not be tolerated,
and presistence in which should lead to the immediate and per-
manent retirement of the official so offending. In view of the
idle workmen in all branches of labor in this city it is self-evident
that the wage workers of Dallas are particularly interested in this
question, and should express themselves in unmistakable terms
in regard to it.
The above is right down pure business and common sense, and
if our Dallas friends would only apply the same sound horse sense
in the matter of a protective tariff for our country, Dallas would
be a model protection town.
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC TARIFF.
¿ 6 IT OW do the Democratic cattlemen of Arizona like the new
il tariff on cattle?" inquires the Phenix Herald. "Under
the new tariff law Mexican cattle can be brought in costing $2.50
per head in Mexico, the 20 per cent, being no bar to their un-
limited importation, and as a result the California and other mar-
kets are glutted with this stock, thus completely destroying the
stock market in Arizona. The sheep and wool business has al-
ready been destroye dabsolutely."
Lord Beresford, who has large cattle interests in the northern
portion of Chihuahua, will bring over 1,000 head of cattle to this
point and ship to eastern markets within a week or so. Several
other cattlemen are making arrangements to take advantage of
the new tariff law and bring their stock across the line.—[Dem-
ing Headlight.
That is exceedingly interesting to New Mexico cattlemen—to
have a tariff formed so as to let in the cattle of English lords who
invest their money in Mexico, and who use peon labor.—[Eddy
Argus.
And we ask our Texas friends, "How do you like it?" Mexi-
can cattle, horses, mules and sheep, under this lovely Democravic
tariff, competes with our people. Your wool must compete with
the world. But we have the supreme satisfaction of knowing
that, if it injures our own people, it gladdens the hearts of for-
eigners, and Democratic free traders love foreigners so much
more than our own citizens that we must put up with it.
The fight for supremacy between the Evening Mail and
Evening Telegram of Fort Worth is now at an end, the Telegram
succumbing to the inevitable, leaving the evening newspaper field
to the Mail, and from last Monday the latter paper comes to us
hyphenated—The Mail-Telegram. The Mail has had many
similar fights, and in all, as in the last, has been victorious, win-
ning on its merits as the best evening newspaper published in
Texas.
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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/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.