The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1894 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MEBCURI.
AUG. 2, 1894.
My Lawyer Politics.
I never was in such a plight, I don't
know what to do.
I am shaky in my politics and in my
morals too.
I should be more contented and in a
better fix,
With my preactyer made religion and
my lawyer politics.
I 'spose I got my share cf brains when
nature fixed uiy route,
But I never used them very muoh to
think these matters out.
I kept on chopping cotton, plowing
corn from six to six,
With my preacher made religion and
my lawyer politics.
I used to thing the people all were hon-
est, brave and true,
In the days of circuit riders and when
lawyers were but few.
But now the world is full of rogues, and
we farmers still are sticks,
With our preacher made religion and
our lawyer politics.
I'm going to turn a leaf or two and try
to have a change,
I'll join the people's party club, the
Alliance and the grajge,
And read and think and study hard,
put in my hardest licks,
To get my own religion and reform my
politics.
—The Advance.
IT 18 ALL HOT!
g. b. harris.
All must admit that there is a con-
spiracy in existence on the part of the
mossback press and their masters to
try to confuse and divide the populists
and stop the landslide now going on
into their ranks by making the simul-
taneous assertions that the people's
party state convention at Waco elimi-
nated the sub-treasury plan in the
Omaha platform. This is proven by
the tenaoity with which they make the
assertion under double-leaded head-
lines.
There are some parties who claim to
be our friends joining in this hue and
cry. The trouble that confronts us to-
day is that people are coming to us in
enormous numbers who have never
studied reform principles or systemat-
ically analized our demands. They do
not understand how to defend them on
all parts of the ground,\ hence through
the manipulations of designing dema-
gogues the cause may suffer some con-
fusion.
Under such conditions every old re-
former shold be wide awake and see to
it that the Advance is placed in the
hands of their neighbors, for with it in
their hands it will be impossible for
all the demagogues in Texas to con-
fuse them. The plan of the enemy is
to try and make the new converts and
those leaning towards reform ideas be-
lieve that4'there is confusion of ideas
among us. henoe it is impossible for
the people's party to succeed, and even
if they were to succeed at the polls,
divided on the Omaha platform, they
could give the people no relief."
There is not a leading journal in the
nation that does not come regularly to
the Advance office (its managers have
subscribed for every one of them), and
every page of them is scanned and the
very moment any scheme developes it
will be exposed and exploded by the
Advance; hence the keeping of it in
the people's hands is indispensable to
sucoess.
No reform party ever went into pow
•r without a leading journal to keep its
principles before the people, to defend
them whenever attacked and to inter*
eept and explode thedeep^ald schemes
of its enemies. The Advance is to
the reform movement in Texas what
Horace Greeley's Now York Tribune
was to the republicans, and every re-
former can rely upon it sticking to the
Omaha demands—all of them—as long
as the people's party advocates them,
which will be until they they are crys-
talized into laws.
Our enemies are determined to throw
as many fire brands into our ranks as
they can and try to ignore the vital
questions at issu^ and run the cam-
paign on side issues, such as the tariff,
single tax, woman suffrage and so on.
It will bo the policy of the Advance
to keep the vital issues bafore the peo-
ple and furnish people's party speakers
with knock-dowrn¡arguments, statisti-
cal and other undeniable facts that will
enable them to defeat the mossbacks
on every stump.
People's party orators and debators
must not permit these deceivers and
enslavers of the people to dodge the
burning issues by leading them into a
wild goose chase after side issues not in
the platforms, or acts done by high of-
ficials in the respective parties. They
must hold their noses to the grind-
stone of living issues, simply because
any other course will do the cause of
reform more harm than good. The
success of reform defends upon the per-
fect unanimity of our speakers and
writers sticking to the people's party
platform, dissecting the platform of
our opponents and exposing the tyran-
ical and deceitful acts of their officials
in office, and defending the officials acts
of people's party congressmen and sen-
ators.
Every populist should recognize as
an enemy every one who attempts to-
oreate any confusion in reform ranks.
The labor organizations, after long
years of patient and analytical investi-
gation, met in St. Louis in 1892, and
unanimously adopted what. is now
known as the Omaha platform as their
plan of relief for all the people—their
plan of emancipating American labor
from under the brutalizing heel of au-
tocratic, grinding plutocracy. The
great truths they enunciated, the great
plan they formulated has silenced the
gups of plutocracy and driven them in-
to a bush-whacking warfare, and their
only hope to defeat the great and rap-
idly increasing reform army is to drive
a 44 Trojan horse" into our citadel.
Keep your eyes and ears open, be uni-
ted, determined and speak as of one
voice and victory is sure!
The people's party is the exponent
of the demands of seventeen of the
largest labor organizations in the
world and every patriot in every land
can rest assured that it will stand by
every one of these demands till they
are the law of the land.
••CJood" and "Hard" Times.
Middle aged people have not forgot-
ten the "good times" we had in this
country during the closing years of the
sixties. Col. R. G. Ingereoll, pretend-
ing to believe that he is not a green-
backer—once described those days of
peace and plenty and happiness in the
following language:
4'During these years every kind of
business was pressed to the very sky
line. The productive power of the
north was strained to the utmost. Ev-
ery wheel was in motion. There was
employment for every kind and descrip-
tion of labor. For every mechanic j
there was a constantly rising market.
Everybody worked for everybody. Ev-
erybody wanted to employ somebody
else. On every hand fortunes were be-
ing made. A wave of wealth swept
over the United States. Huts became
houses, houses became palaces. Tat-
ters became garments and garments
became robes. Walls were covered
with pictures, floors with carpets, and
for the first time in the history of the
world, the poor tasted of the luxuries
of wealth."
That was all caused by an inflation of
the currency— which fact is also ac-
knowledged by Col. Ingersol, though,
as we say, he denies beiDg a greenback-
er. He acknowledges a fact which
none but fools will deuy. It was an
abundance of money that gave us our
good times—and had it not been for
the republican party's infamous con-
traction policy our "good times" might
have continued till this time. And
what a paradise our country would
have been to-day!
But at the dictation of bondholders,
bankers and mortgage holders, there
must be a contraction of currency—in
order to double, and quadruple in some
cases the purchasing power of invested
money. The holder of the bond and
mortgage said: "Cut down prices and
the interest on my investment is pro-
portionately increased. One dollar per
bushel for wheat instead of two means
twice as much wheat for me."
Contraction meant reduction of
prices.
Reduction of prices meant adding to
the burdens of tax-payers and debtors.
Contraction policy was inaugurated.
A reduction of prices followed.
As money was withdrawn from circu-
lation "credit" was substituted.
A day of reckoning came.
In 1873 the "credit" bubble burst.
Then came the inevitable result.
John Sherman's policy had triumphed.
Sherman was making his millions, the
country was rushing headlong to ruin,
Again we let Col. Ingersoll tell what
followed contraction. Here it is:
"In 1878 came the crash, and all the
languages of the world cannot describe
the agonies suffered by the American
people frem 1873 to 1879. Thousands
and thousands supposed that they had
enough; enough for their declining
years, enough for wife and children,
and suddenly found themselves paupers
and vagrants. Business stood still,
the men stopped digging ore; they
stopped felling the forest. The fires
died out in the furnaces. Tbemen
who had stood in the glare of the forge
were in the gloom of despondency.
There was no employment for them.
The employer could not sell his pro-
duct. The great factories were closed,
the workmen were demoralized and
the roads of the United States were fill-
ed with tramps."—Chicago Sentinel.
Excelled by None
Our AKongrel Moutary System.
I am, as a democrat and a citizen,
forever opposed to using the taxing
power of the government to protect
monopolies of any kind. Yet, by di-
rect legislation, under authority of
congress to regulate the value of all
money, I should favor the suppression
of all bank circulation, and the issur-
ance of money in sulficient volume by
the general government.
There are now in our mongrel sys-
tem of money nine different kinds, as
shown in most any ordinary report
of the treasury. There should be
three, gold and silver freely coined at
the old ratio, and paper money issued
Mr. C. F. Kins
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celle
Be sure to get
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at a time. I was ad-
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by the government, and its volume in-
creased and established at a proper ra-
tio to the business demands and popu-
lation of the country, and thus the
monetary value of all money in circula-
tion be properly regulated.
Let me state again, and clearly, what
our authorities and monetary reform-
ers have failed'to state, that the proper
volume will be found and can be fixed
or maintained at that point where all
of the industrial and productive ener-
gies of our people shall be employed to
the best advantage.
When it is noticed that the debt in
the United States is $295.27 per capita,
and the annual interest is $17.71 per
capita and the total stock of gold
money is $2.51 per capita, and the an-
nual production of gold is 7i cents per
capita, it will be seen what a pyramid
of debt $295.27 with accumulating in-
terest is, standing inverted so to speak,
on an apex of 7^ cents. Does anyone
believe that with gold redemption for
all money, and gold standard for all
prices that this inverted pyramid can
stand with any permanency ¥
Let us then arise to the great oppor-
tunities that lie before us.
Let us without lamenting longer that
our country has by ignorance, in-
trigue, or servility been legislated into
this condition, go bravely to work to
repeal bad laws, and legislate our
country out of these unhappy and op-
pressive conditions.
Let us no longer mourn over the mis-
takes of the past, but turn our eyes and
those of the suffering millions who
trusted us with the legislative powers
we here possess toward the future and
the deliverance it may bring.
Let us become aggressive for good.
Let us no longer beg of the selfish pow-
ers that they be charitable to the poor,
but in the name of justice and fraternity
command that they get off the backs
of laboring humanity and permit the
will of heaven to come nearer to earth.
So shall we awaken hope and secure
deliverance to our people from the in-
tolorable despotism of money.
ANNOUCEMENT.
The Mercury is authorized to an-
nounce F. R. Foote as a candidate for
District Clerk, Dallas county Tex.
Election November 6 1894
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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/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .