The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1894 Page: 16 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERC UK*.
AUG 2, 1894.
The Man.
The man who wields the plane or plow,
With honest will for human weal.
Though bent his form and bronzed his
brow,
Or though his palms bo mailed in
steel,
Is worthy a higher meed of praise
Than all the sceptered knights of yore,
Who've drenched the earth with hu-
man gore,
Since the old primeval days.
The man who toils from day to day,
From year to year, from youth to
asre,
Who loiters not upon the way,
Blends the hero with the sage;
And though he knows no Sabbath rest,
Nor sits within a gilded pew,
By blessing others is doubly blessed.
With heaven's choicest blessings,
too.
The man who neither spins nor weaves,
Who neither plows nor sows the
•fields,
But gathers up the golden sheaves
That mother earth so kindly yields
To all her faithful sons of toil,
Who place their trust beneath her soil,
Should bear this brand upon her face,
"A traitor to the human race."
The man who sits on a velvet seat,
Compounding his interest night and
day,
Though he pays the priest in the pul-
pit neat,
To point the heathen the narrow
way,
Will find that his camel is hard to ride
Through the needle's eye with a cou-
pon guide;
It will pilot him swift to the nether
shore,
And a warmer welcome than he's met
before.
To all labor wrought for human good
Is due an equal meed of fame—
Between miking laws and sawing
wood,
The only difference is in the name —
Who robs it of its hard earned pelf
By a cunning trick or legal role,
Will in the end but rob himself—
He may cheat the ogallows, but not
the goal.
—M. E. Pleas.
Silver to the Front.
Whatever the motive, It appears to
be the fact that the administration has
been compelled to order a resumption
of the coinage of silver dollars. If, as
is possible, the secretary of the treasu-
ry has come to the conclusion that he
must coin the seignorage, In order to
meet, with good, hard sliver dollars,
the obligations that are pressing upon
his department; or whether, as is
probably, a cold-blooded attempt be-
ing made to bunco the voters of the
south, and, by the exhibition of silver
dollars coined in 1894, check 0the de-
sertions from democracy to populism,
it still remains a significant fact that
President Cleveland, either in obedi-
ence to financial necessity or to satisfy
popular demand at the south, has or-
dered the coinage of silver dollars.
This is a concession not at all to be ex-
pected from President .Cleveland's ad-
ministration.
If thU order has been issued as a last
financial resort, it is suggestive of a
greater distress in the treasury than is
indicated by the published statements.
It shows that the government must
have more money, and that the treas-
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
World's Pair Highest Award.
ury has got to such desperate straits
that it is willing to coin and pay out
the much despised silver dollar. Evi-
dently also that another gold bond is
sue has been abandoned, for the pres-
ent at least, out of deference to the
public sentiment and the fear of the
effects of such an issue on the pending
congressional elections.
If this order has been issued merely
to bunco the south, it is a recognition
of the force and extent of the free coin-
age sentiment in the cotton states.
There has been a wonderful change
going on in the politics of the south
since cotton has been sliding down to
gold-standard prices. The intelligent
planters of these states have studied
the relations which exist between sil-
ver and staple products, and have dis-
covered that, as silver has gone down
the sca'e, so have cotton and wheat.
Hence they associate the prevailing
era of low and unremunerative prices
with the demonetization of si ver, and
naturally they demand the restoration
of the white metal to the coinage. Be-
cause of the pronounced gold-standard
views and policy of the administration
the southern people have been desert-
ing the democratic party and Hocking
to the populist ranks. It Is to check
this movement that 1894 dollars are be-
ing circulated in the south.
The best hope for silver is in the
fact that even President Cleveland rec«
ogni/es this free coinage sentiment
and deigns to take steps to check it. It
means that if the people remain true
to their convictions, there will be a
free coinage majority in the next con
gress—a majority that will not be brow-
beaten by administration threats, or
purchased by administration pie.—
Ilocky Mountain News.
Mr. Pullman's Generosity.
Where is the man who dares to say
that George Millionaire Pullman has
not reserved a warm spot in 1 his heart
for the people? Where is the carper
who would deny to the duke of car-
works a place among philanthropists?
Where is the sniveling, whining,
blubbering detractor of greatness who
says the boss of berths Is not a public-
spirited citizen.
Trot them out and inform them of
the latest act of generosity of this pub-
lic benefactor! Grab the clarion and
blow the blast of appreciation to the
four corners of the earth! Let the
world be apprised of the crowning
achievement of munificence of the fa-
tigued occupant of Castle Rest!
While the business of the country is
ripped up the back; while selfish mo-
tives burn in the breast of the people;
while thoughts of men turn to self-pro-
tection, Pullman, the largest-hearted,
Pullman the philanthropist, sends
greeting to the State Historical so-
ciety of Illinois and begs leave to pre-
sent them a chunk of the historic Cot-
tonwood tree.
What matters It that the tree suc-
cumbed to wind and was dragged into
the Pullman premises by a Pullman
hireling? What matters it that the
tree reared its ancient form-on public
ground? These are questions which
cannot detract from the generous in-
pulse which prompted the gift. Mr.Pull-
man's heart occupies tüe entire left
side of his well-fed corporoslty; Jits left
flank rests on the armpit, its right
against the sternum and its center just
abaft the fifth rib. From and from it
only could spring the motive which re-
sulted in the Historical society's price-
less acquisition—priceless to the so*
ciety and priceless to Mr. Pullman.
Pessimists may howl until the cows
come home about the sordid selfishness
of human nature. But Mr. Pullman is
a living, though tired, refutation of the
charge.—Chicago Dispatch.
ADVERTISERS—THINK OVER IT t
In one thing especially some business
men demonstrates their bitterness and
short-sightedness in refusing to adver-
tize in a paper whose political views
they oppose.
No merchant asks a man his poli
tics when he enters his store to make
purchases, therefore they should re-
member that every widely circulated
paper has its friends and that those
friends trade as a rule with those who
run ads, in their favorite paper. If
some merchant in Dallas are perplexed
to know why it is their trade has fallen
off so rapidly within the last year, they
may find the principal cause in
their refusing to advertise in the Mer-
cury and Advance. There is not a
weekly journal published in Dallas, that
goes to as many homes in Dallas, Co.,
as the Advance.
Who Saved The Country ?
Who saved the country in the civil
war ?
Was it the banker to whose ear the
clink of gold is music of the sphers ?
Was it the merchant whose ambition
is to buy things cheap and sell them
dear ?
Was it the lawyer who fattens on the
quarrels of fellowmen ?
No! a thousand times no !
It was the farmer's boy who left his
plow in the unfinished furrow.
It was the mechanic who flung his
unwiped tools upon his bench.
It was the laborer who dropped his
shovel in the sewer.
Whose blood crimsoned the fields of
Bull Run, Antietam, South Mountain,
Fredericksburg, the slimy swamps of
Chickahominy, the peninsula before
Petersburg, the trenches in front of
Vicksburg, the fair farms of famous
Gettysburg, the bloody road to Rich-
mond, when the nation stood with
bathed breath and heard, or thought
it heard, the crash of cannon, the
shock of steel, the hissing, hurtling,
shreiking shell, which tore through
the canopied curtain of night, dealing
death on every hand,?
When day was night and night was
day;
When battle blazoned all Its hellish
horrors on the crimsoned calendar of
history ;
When unforgotten Thomas tore re-
luctant laurels from a frightened na-
tion at Nashville;
When men laid down their lives that
our own and matchless Mississippi
might run unvexed, untrammelled to
the sea;
When on sun-kissed Lookout immor-
tal heroes stepped from her summit to
the sky ?—Representative.
On the Mountain's Top.
Hon. Grover Cleveland and his body
guard have now attained the summit
of absurdity, and are visible. Mr.
Cleveland Is the leader undisputed.
The letter to Hon. William L. Wilson,
in its schoolboy awkwardness, its pat-
ent medicine bombast, and its almost
guileless attempt to sneak away from
the author's former position on the in-
come tax, now evidently regarded as
undesirable, proves that it comes fresh
from the unaided Cleveland hand.—
New York Sun.
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In this column we will insert free of chai ge
to any subscriber, one tim* any notice ) e
latlng to wante or exchange. Notices must i o
exceed five lines.
Refer to Southern Mercury when you write.
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FOR SALE — The only boarding
house in Pecan Gap. Terms easy
and cheap. For information call at
Pecan Gap, Delta county, or address
R. E. MILLER, Nevada, Tex.
Refer to Southern Mercury when you write.
TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES.—If you
want a teacher, write us describ-
ing teacher desired, length of school,
salary paid, etc. No charge to trustees
for our services. Let us help you to
secure a good teacher. Address.
TEXAS TEACHERS' BUREAU,
Palestine, Tex,
Refer to Southern Mercury when you write.
llfANTED—A physician bearing
*" best testimonials desires a loca-
tion in soutn-west Texas. Ten years
experience. Address, H. T. LITTLE,
M. D., Coopwood, Miss.
Refer to Southern Mercury when you write.
\\7ANTED—A young man, a prac-
' * tical printer, 18 years old, desires
position on populist paper as editor or
foreman. Address Payne Findley,
Ozona, Texas.
Refer to Southern Mercury when you write.
rpOR SALE, A well established pop-
* ulist paper in a town of 4000 inhab-
itants. Official party paper of 2 coun-
ties. A bargain is offered. Reason for
selling—engaged in other "business.
Has good advertising patronage and
can be increased. Populist, (Advance
office.) Dallas, Texas.
Refer to Southern Mercury when you write.
\1TANTED—A good location for
* * Blacksmith, wood-work and re-
pair shop by a first class workman.
Location in country preferred. Ad-
dress, P. KERSTEN, Commerce, Tex-
as.
Reier to Southern Mercury when you write.
WANTED—By a populist editor ot
experience and ability, a position
in charge of a populist paper. Best of
references given. B. J. S. Advance
office Dallas. Texas
liefer to Southern Mercury when you write.
Get in Line!!
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That is what the people are do-
ing now, and they are sending 25
CENTS for the FARMER S TRIB-
UNE, Gen. Weaver's paper to Jan.
1, 1895. You better join the "pro-
cesh" and get on the list at once,
and the paper is red hot and still a
heating during these campaign
times. Its reports from the en-
tire field are complete, and its
weekly round up of the old fossil-
ized parties should be read by ev-
ery Populist in America. At four
times this price you could not af-
ft rd to be without this valuable pa-
per, but now that the price has
been cut to 25 cents, of course you
will take advantage of it. Don't
wait one moment, but as soon
as vou read this send in your
name, with the two bits, and get
the leading reform paper of the
United States. Tell your uncon-
verted neighbor about it, and all
send. Address.
FARMER'S TRIBUNE,
Des Moines, Iowa.
TO TEXAS REFORM PAPERS.
The name of the people's party nom-
inee for state superintendent of public
instruction is E. P. Alsbury and not
lE. P. Alsberry," as some have it.
Please revise your tickets and oblige
the nominee and the party in Texas.
Yours fraternally,
John H. Boyd,
Secretary People's Party Executive
Committee of Texas.
Every true Allianceman should read
Southern Mercury.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1894, newspaper, August 2, 1894; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185572/m1/16/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .