The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 44, November 17, 1894 Page: 4
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THE TEXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER
WALTER B. McADAMS, Editor.
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Single Copies 5C
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
Entered at the Post-Office in Thurber, Texas, as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Thurber, Texas, Saturday, November 17, 1894.
(hiñese nation, with the same blunders committed by their
rulers, would have asked them to commit hari kari. With this
the Cleveland badges of rags and patches became more unpleas-
antly visible; money in the savings banks, which had been saved
by our wage earners under the Republican policy, was drawn on
to the extent of over $50,000,000 to buy food and clothing;
tramps increased in the country so that armies of them formed
in different parts of the country to march to Washington to de-
mand relief. All this fully explains the great uprising of the peo-
ple in the recent elections.
WHY?
Come of our many readers may wonder at the universal up-
O rising of our people as shown by the result of the late elec-
tions, but if they had watched closely the trend of the times,
kept in touch with the people, it would be no enigma to them.'
Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States,
and the Democratic party placed in full command of the ship of
state for the first time in thirty-two years, and by one of those
unaccountable impulses of a majority of the voters of some of
the Northern states siding with the solid South. No sooner than
the election was over than a feeling of uneasiness began, first
among the manufacturers, that extended to the bankers, and
from them to the merchants, and then to permeate every class
of thinking people. The Democrats had control of Congress by
a large majority, and the men elected were a class of new, un-
tried men, the majority of them known to be men of very inferior
ability, and bound to leaders to carry out any plans made by
them, by the cohesive power of a desire to hold offices for them-
selves and friends. The leaders were also known to be mere
theorists, and without experience; and at the helm was a man
who, to put it very mildly, was as far away from being a states-
man, either by natural abilities, education or experience as was
the late President Andrew Johnson. These facts made thinking,
far-seeing men cautious; they knew that such a crew of men in
command would more than likely run the good ship of state on
the rocks of disaster; they knew that with incompetent, unskilled
pilots groping in a fog of inexperience the chances were alto-
gether against the prosperity the country had enjoyed, and they
began to "hedge," building of houses and manufactories was
very much limited, the building of machinery stopped almost en-
tirely, wage-earners were placed on half or three-quarter time,
when not entirely thrown out of work—that result came from
fear of what the men in power would do.
After Cleveland was inaugurated President, his utter incom-
petency, his astounding self-esteem added to his vagaries as to
the best policy for our government to pursue. What was a fore-
boding before became a reality, and panic spread over the land.
Then in haste he called his rump Congress together, and gave
out as a matter of supreme wisdom that if they repealed the
Sherman bill unconditionally, prosperity would return to our be-
loved country. Well, at the dictation of Grover Cleveland this
was done, and business undertakings drifted from bad to worse.
Then came the panacea of the Wilson tariff reform bill, and in
fighting over that, months and months of valuable time was
wasted, the country meanwhile was drifting along like an old
water-logged ship rolling in the waves. Finally the abortion
called the Gorman tariff bill was passed, which does nothing but
help foreign manufactures at the expense of our own, which in-
jures Texas sheep and cattle men, and benefits Mexican cattle
and sheep raisers, injures our growing sugar interests, raises the
price of sugar to our people. In short, the whole history of the
present Administration is a series of blunders which even the
UNAMERICAN POLICIES KILLED.
IjEMOCRATIC statesmen are busy giving reasons for the
J—> avalanche which overwhelmed their party on election day.
The reasons are as many and as diverse as the Democrats giving
them. It is true, reasons are not hard to find. The record of
the Democratic party since it assumed control of the Govern-
ment bristles with them. It has done nothing well, nor rightly,
nor promptly. It has been confronted with conditions and has
been unable to cope with them. It had theories, but it brought
to the execution of them men with purposes as varied and un-
certain as the languages spoken by the men working on the tower
of Babel. It lacked oneness of purpose. It had no cohesion.
It had neither fitness, competency nor experience. It had one
overwhelming desire, next to its desire to fill office, and that was
to tear down where the Republican party had built up.
Political misfeasance, malfeasance and non-feasance all along
the line brought the deluge. Cleveland blames Hill and Hill
blames Cleveland. Wilson accuses Gorman and Gorman ac-
cuses Wilson. The Miner wishes them to know that in the
eyes of the people who have been outraged—Cleveland and Hill,
Wilson and Gorman, Gresham and Blount, Breckenridge and
Owens, Croker and Sheehan, and every other Democrat who
tampered with the laws of a healthy, happy and contented body
politic, all contributed their share to Democratic demoralization.
The Hawaiian incident, the repeal of the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act, the passage of the Seigniorage bill and the veto
of it, the failure to pass the Wilson bill and the final passage of
it, the tax on sugar, coal, iron, lead, and the tax off wool; the
corruption in Tammany and the cold selfishness of the Adminis-
tration, the straddling of non-committal and two-faced platforms,
the failure to redeem pledges, all contributed to the revolution
on election day.
But the chief reason for the overthrow was the determination
of a patriotic people to put away from power a party which had
startled them by the introduction of an un-Americen policy which
brought desolation and want among a naturally prosperous and
happy citizenship.
While a grand and magnificent rebuke was administered to in-
competency, to insincerity, to selfishness and to corruption, it
was intended that un-Americanism should be killed and it was
killed.
The power of a good, live newspaper is nowhere more visible
than at Thurber. Heretofore the mines have been almost sol-
idly Democratic. 1 he Miner has been dishing out strong Re-
publican doctrine there for the past ten months, and last Tuesday
the Democrats only carried it by an astonishingly small majority.
This can be attributed more ty the hard political work of The
Miner than to and other source [Stephenville Empire.
We have received from the Gus V. Brecht Butchers' Supply
company, St. Louis, several copies of The Texas Miner, of
Thurber, Tex., and have found them entertaining, as well as in-
sfructive, on public as well as social questions. The editor is a
caustic writer, and the excellent essays on economic questions
are worthy of wide distribution—[Butchers' and Packers' Maga-
zine, St. Louis.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 44, November 17, 1894, newspaper, November 17, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200491/m1/4/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.