Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1892 Page: 2 of 4
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. D SPORIBR,
President.
Cl LOVING,
Vice-President.
D. L. KNOX,
•Cashier.
THE
ItafioiRj Bank,
JACKSBORO, TEXAS.
Woven
WIRE
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RABBIT AND POULTRY
NETTING.
CAPITAL,.....- - - $50,000.
SURPLUS,.....$10,000.
'Transacts a general banking business. Accounts of business men
. and others solicited. All favors consistent with
conservative banking cheerfully granted.
Iff- SEND FOB FUKTHEB INFOBMATION.
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Attention Farmers!
TAKE YOTJE. COTTON TO BOWIE
Where you can get from
$2.00 to $4-00
Per bale more than at any other point or place and save
a wagon haul of 10 miles; and buy your
Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, BarbWire,
ETC., FROM
Cribble Co.
They have a large and well selected
Stock of Dry Lumber on hand.
SEE THEM BEFORE YOU BUY.
Have on hand for the summer and
fall trade a full line of
CUTAWAY HARROWS
AND SEEDERS,
John Deere Plows, Mitchell
Wagons, and
W ood Mowers and Bakes.
We are also prepared to furnish you
on short notice, and at the lowest price,
your choice off Buggies or Carts.
A BIG FLOP,
PRESIDENT GARFIELD’S
ATTORNEY-GENERA L
FOR CLEVELAND.
JACKSBORO GAZETTE.
rtTBklSHSD BVBBY THUKSDAY BY
J. N. ROGERS & COMPANY.
Entered at the Poet-Office at Jacksboro, Texas,
as second-class mail matter.
Business Office on Northeast Ceraer of Public
Square, Jacksboro, Texas.
Hogg Literature.
We have 1000 four-page seven-
column supplements, sent to us
by the state Democratic executive
committee, which have been re-
jected by Postmaster Crawford.
This class of matter has been
passed through mails for many
years, however, Mr. Crawford
called our attention to the matter
some months ago, wherein he
doubted whether such supple-
ments were mailable with a reg-
ular newspaper. Now it is
ruled out. We will submit it to
the Post Office Department for a
special rnling.
In the mean time if all who want
the state and national Democratic
platforms, the state Democratic
executive committee’s circular,
Gen. Weaver’s senatorial and war
record, much of which we have
time and again been asked to pub-
lish, but could not for want of
room, will come, we will give them
a 7-colnmn four page supplement
of Democratic literature.
Weaver Came and Went.
The Nashville American in
speaking of Weaver’s recent visit
to Pulaski, says : “ His visit to
Pulaski was uneventful. Receiv-
ed by a small aggregation of third
partyites, he was heard by a mixed
assemblage, which, including cu-
rious Democrats, co-operatiDg
Republicans and negroes, did not
exceed 300. The good citizens
of Pulaski behaved as was ex-
pected of them. Many of them
had personal grievances, which
under different conditions would
have awarded the cowhide
to -the shoulders of the
scoundrel who was their author,
but they remained silent. The
visit of Weaver was generally re-
garded as a wanton insult to t§e
proud people in whose midst he
came, but these—courageous as
they are known to be—sacrificed
the pleasure which his chastise-
ment would have given to the
good of their country. Weaver
was allowed the privilege of abso-
lutely free speech. He was al-
lowed to perpetrate his denial
and to leave the town unpunished.
“ But Democrats were not with-
out their reply. After the Weav-
er speaking they assembled in
the court-house yard and by one
of the most brilliant of all of
Tennessee’s gifted orators, Mr. E.
W. Carmack, was entertained
with a remarkable speech. It
was intensely Democratic and in
tensely aggressive. His arraign-
ment of Weaver captured the im
mense assemblage andwas cheered
to the echo. After his speech a
meeting of citizens was had and
Mr. Thomas M. Spofford, a pop-
ular exponent of the anti-Weaver
sentiment, introduced resolutions
reaffirming the proven statement
against Weaver. Mr. Spoffortl’s
resolutions were adopted unani
mously and enthusiastically and
going out to the country wilj ef-
fectually close the ear of public
toleration to a man who is as un-
scrupulous in his peace utterances
as he was in his war conduct. The
visit to Pnlaski will be worth
much to the Democracy of Tenn-
essee and to the country. It will
establish the truth of the charges
which have been sent abroad. It
will show that the Southern peo-
ple, whatever their personal griev-
ances, can curb their passions in
the presence of a national crisis.
Wherever Weaver has gone in
the South he has made Demo-
cratic votes. It is safe to sav that
never by any public act or pri
vate effort has he given as great
impetus to the coming Democrat
ic groundswell as at Pulaski Sat
unlay.”
*FALLi«!lLfII}TEEl
P. L. PEYTON & 00.,
The Leadinig Clothiers, Gents’ Furnishers
AND HATTERS,
NORTH MAIN STREET, WEATHERFORD TEXAS.
He Writes a Strong Letter, De-
fining His Position, and
Giving His Reasons
For Joining the
Democratic
Party.
Ex-attorney-General Wayne Mc-
Veagh has written the- following
letter to the Massachusetts Re-
form club:
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 4,1892.
John W. Carter, Esq., Secretary
of the Massachusetts Reform
club.
Your cordial invitation to ad-
dress the citizens of Boston on
the issues of the canvass happens
to reach me just when profession-
al engagements prevent my nam
ing a time when I can do so, but
you are quite right in concluding
that I intend to vote for Mr.
Cleveland.
Entertaining the convictions I
do, no other course is open to me,
and I cheerfully accord to the
supporters of President Harrison
the same sense of public duty by
which I claim to be actuated. As
both parties have presented un-
exceptionable candidates there
no reason why the differences
which exist upofi. questions of
public policy should be discusser
otherwise than in good humor,
and with entire respect for each
other’s opinions.
In the present campaign, what
may fairly be called the false
alarms of the canvass will prove
of little value, because of the gen-
eral confidence in the safe and
conservative character of both
candidates. The average voter
knows that free trade is impossi-
ble in this country, for the con-
clusive reason that the vast rev-
enues now required to meet the
expenses of the government will
necessarily afford for a higher de-
gree of protection to our estab-
lished and prosperous manufac-
tures than either Alexander Ham
ilton or Henry Clay thought
desirable in the infancy of our
weak and struggling industries.
The average voter also knows
that the irredeemable paper cur-
rency in use before the war can
never reappear. On the other
hand, he knows as well that no
system of duties on imports, how-
ever inequitable, can prevent our
continued growth in wealth, in
manufactures and in population
a growth due to the incomparable
gifts of Providence, the intelli-
gence and energy of the people
and the blessings of free institu-
tions.
While I am more than ever re-
solved to hold duty to country far
above any ties of party, I find my-
self at present in general accord
with the Democratic, party, and
willing to trust its course in the
future. The insight, the courage
and the patriotism the masses of
the party exhibited in compelling
the nomination of Mr. Cleveland
when he was without a single of-
fice-holder to support his candi
dacy seem to me to demand that
I should meet them in the same
spirit and act with them as long
as they maintain that high stand-
ard of policy and of administra-
tion. It is the more easy to do so
because the Republican party,
securing its return to power four
years ago by promising to preserve
matters as they were, at once em
barked upon what I regard as a
reckless and revolutionary policy,
even overturning all the safe-
guards of legislation in the house
of representatives in their haste
to pass the force bill and the Mc-
Kinley bill, both, to my mind, un-
necessary and unwise measures.
The opposition to the force bill,
is not only sure to create far
greater evils than it could cure,
j but as also subversive of the happen to
rights of the states, has become
so earnest and wide spread that
it is said to have been abandon-
ed ; but it must not be forgotten
that only two years ago such a
measure was warmly advocated
by President Harrison, earnestly
supported by the Republican
party, and very narrowly escaped
becoming a law.
Thereis no pretense, however,
that the McKinley bill is abandon-
ed. On the contrary, our express
approval of it is demanded. No
doubt that bill, which I cannot
but think was an uncalled for dis-
turbance of the then existing
tariff, greatly benefited a few in-
terests, but certainly it greatly
oppressed many others. Of the
protected industries themselves,
many were then, as now, in far
more urgent need of free raw
materials than of higher protec-
tion ; but with raw materials on
the free list, the bill could not
have passed, for those having
such materials for sale controlled
enough votes to defeat it, and
they were very likely to do so if
their bounties were discontinued.
The manufacturers needing free
raw materials were, therefore,
obliged to join in the objection-
able process of increasing prices
by restricting production, thus
adding to the number of trusts by
which the price of the necessities
of life is placed at the mercy of
unlawful combinations of capital.
It is not surprising that labor, be-
lieving itself to be oppressed,
soon rose in revolt, and civil war
has actually raged this summer in
four different sections of the
country. And, of course, the far-
mers, paying more for what they
buy and getting less for what they
sell, grow poorer day by day, and
excellent farms in some of the
most fertile sections of this most
highly protected state will hardly
bring the cost of the building up-
on them.
But the economic evils, how-
ever great, of the McKinley bill
and the unreasonable system of
protection it represents, are of far
less importance to my mind than
the moral evils which follow in
their wake. In deciding for what
purposes the masses of the peo-
ple may properly be taxed, it must
not be forgotten that taxes have a
wonderful capacity for filtering
through all intervening obstacles
till they reach the bowed back of
toil and resting there; and there-
fore the giving of bounties, under
any form of taxation, is mainly
the giving away of the wages of
^abor. The sad truth that the
curse of the poor is their poverty
is illustrated in nothing more
than the undue share they suffer
of the burdens of taxation.
But apart from this considera-
tion, ought not taxes only to be
imposed as required for public
purposes, or may they also be im-
posed for the pecuniary advan-
tage of such persons or classes as
are able to control congressional
action in their favor f It seems to
me like a travesty on taxation to
require, as the McKinley bill does,
the farmer who grows corn in In-
diana to pay a bounty to the far-
mer who produces cane sugar in
Louisiana, or to require the far-
mer who grows wheat in Pennsyl-
vania to pay a boimty to the far-
mer who produces maple sugar
in Vermont; but it is nearer
tragedy than travesty to tax the
masses of the people to increase
the wealth of the very wealthy
owners of most of our protected
industries.
But even such inequality and
injustice are the least of its evils,
while such a system endures, po-
litical corruption is absolutely
sure to increase, as such a sys-
tem not only invites, but it re-
quires the corrupt use of money,
aoth at the polls and in congress.
It is of its yery essence that “ fat ”
shall be “ fried ” out of it its ben-
eficiaries. Who shall happen to
do the “frying” or who shall
upon any particular occasion is
mere matter of detail; but while
that system lasts both will con-
tinue to be done by somebody.
And the evils of a system of
legislative bounties, so far from
stopping, only begins with those
bounties secured to the industries
protected by the tariff. The dis-
astrous course of the Republican
party on the silver question is an
apt illustration of this truth. It
ought to be an honest money par-
ty, and it would be if it could, but
while it demanded increased
bounties for its favorite manufact-
urers it could not refuse increased
bounties to the silver producers,
as the votes they control were
probably necessary to the pas-
sage of the McKinley bill. So
situated the Republican party had
no alternative but to pass the
silver law of 1890, doubling the
purchases of silver and requiring
the building of more warehouses
in which to store the useless
metal. The total purchases made
by the government amount to
hundreds of millions of dollars,
and would not realize, if resold,
one-half their cost, while the IPERf
poison of a debased currency,
whose work, however slow, is
sure, is making itself daily more
and more felt in every channel of
business and finance, and is inev-
itably driving gold out of the
country and leading'us to all the
evils of a fluctuating and there-
fore dishonest currency based
upon silver alone. The Republi-
can party cannot take any effect-
to
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MEDICINES,
BOOKS,
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The Largest Stock in the County.
EE P AND SELL EVERYTHING IN THE DROG LINE.
1Ve foerPthl0Xfr Zn^rfvlrv I Quantity the Largest, Quality the Best, Prices the Lowest.
bill, for the silver men are very
likely if their bounty is stopped
to so vote that the bounties of
the McKinley bill will stop also.
The abuses of the pension sys-
tem furnish another apt illustra-
tion of the evils sure to follow
such a system of legislation. If
congress was to levy taxes upon
the people to confer bounties
upon certain classes of manufact-
urers it was very natural that the
pension agents should also join
hands to increase their fees by an
indiscriminate granting of pen-
sions. The result is that nearly
a generation after the close of the
war there is a steady increase of
the vast sums passing through
the pension agents’ hands until
now the total amount staggers
belief, and has become of itself a
very serious burden upon the
treasury. From the day of Lee’s
surrender until now no single ^
voice has ever been raised against
the most generous provision for
every person who had any just
claim upon the gratitude of the
country; but surely there is neith-
er reason’or justice in legislation
which destroys all distinction
between the discharge of duty
and the shirking of it, between
loyal service and desertion of the
colors, between wounds'reeeivec
in battle and diseases contracted
in the pursuits of peace.
There is still another great and
increasing evil, chiefly traceable,
in my opinion, to the maintenance
of an excessive tariff since the
war, and the constant meddling
with it to make it higher; and
that is the bringing to our shores
of vast swarms of undesirable
immigrants, who degrade Ameri-
can labor by their competition
and threaten the stability of insti-
tutions based upon an intelligent
love of country. Just as the du-
ties upon imported merchandise
have been increased, so has the
grade of imported labor been
lowered, until no^, under the Mc-
Kinley bill, there are coming here
every month many thousands of
more ignorant, and therefore less
‘desirable laborers than ever be-
fore. It is not easy to exaggerate
the moral evils they are likely to
inflict upon our social order and
upon our national life.
As the Republican party is now
definitely committed to the policy
of taxing the people for the pur-
pose of giving bounties to such
persons or interests as can secure
the necessary votes in congress,
so the Democratic party is now
as definitely committed to the
policy of restricting taxation to
the needs of the government for
public purposes alone. The gulf
fixed between these two policies
of taxation is as wide and deep as
can well exist between political
parties; and I am also convinced
that the other causes in which I
am interested canuot hope for
success until the avowed policy
of the Republican party on this
subject is overthrown.
Until then the right of each
state to control elections within
its borders will not be secure.
Until then there is no prospect
of our enjoying the single and
stable standard of value which
other civilized and commercial
nations possess. Until then there
is no hope of placing either our
pension system or the regulation
of immigration upon a just and
proper basis. Until then the pu-
rification of our politics will con-
tinue “the iridescent dream”
which high Republican authority
has declared it
'Compounding of Prescriptions a Specialty.'
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NOTARY PUBLIC,
Fire, Life and Accident
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AND PROSECUTED.
A Share of Notarial Work Solicited.
JACKSBORO; TEXAS.
m1-
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WEATHERFORD, TEXAS.
CHARTERED UNDER THE LAW OF TEXAS.
■
Fully 95 per cent, of our graduates have good positions. Author
of Stuart’s New System of BoQkkeeping.
The only school in existence that will guarantee to teach you Book-
keeping or refund your money and pay railroad fares home.
Stort-M, Tyje-writins, an j Telepaply. BooHaaw anfl Baakiit.
Students allowed to review the course at any time free of charge.
Twelve Years’ Experience as a practical Book-keeper gives
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SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
mast always re-
main. Until then any pretended
,, ... , ■ reform of the civil service must
distribute the fat prove, has proven .fiese last four
years, a delusion and a snare.
And until then every ballot re-
form, the best help yet discovered
to honest elections and already
threatened with overthrow by the
Republican managers in Maine,
^ ermont and Indiana, mast share
the same fate of betrayal in the
house of its pretended friends.
All these good causes are, in the
very nature of things, the relent-
less foes of a system of govern-
ment by bounties to favored in-
terests, and such a system is their
relentless foe.
As I believe, for. the reasons I
have given, that the true welfare
of the country would be promoted
by Mr. Cleveland’s election, ft is
my duty to vote for him ; and as
I recall the capacity, the fidelity
and the courage with which he
has heretofore discharged every
public trust committed tq
the duty becomes a pleasure.
Sincerely yours,
Wayne Mo Yeagh.
The Homeliest Man In
Jacksboro as well as the hand-
somest, and others are invited to
call on any druggist and get free
a trial bottle of Kemp’s Balsam for
the throat and lungs, a remedy
that is guaranteed to relieve and
cure all chronic and acute coughs,
asthma, bronchitis .and consump-
tion. Large bottles 50c and $1.
Letter List.
Following is a list of uncalled for letters re-
maining in the postoffice at .Jacksboro, Texas,
Oct. 20th, 1892. Parties calling for these letters
will please say “advertised,” and pay one cent
forpostage. J. S. Chawfobi., P. M.
Ball, Col. Thomas Wilkins, Mr. A. H.
Ball, Thomas West, Mr. S. E
Barney, Mr. Jacob Shocklev, Mrs L
Campbell, Xlr. J. S.
Gash for Wheat.
The Jacksboro Mill will pay
him, cash for sound wheat. tf
Fine Job Work solicited at
the GAZETTE Office.
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Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1892, newspaper, October 20, 1892; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth730485/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.