The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1895 Page: 2 of 16
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AMERICA—1895.
Our country, His for thee,
Land where once all were free,
We take our stand.
We once had liberty,
Peace and prosperity,
Now want and mleery,
All through the land.
Silver demonetized,
Business all paralyzed,
By a thieving clao;
Bankers' and railroad pools,
Brokers and money took,
Protection and tariff fools
Robbing Uncle Sim.
Tramps Une our public way,
Men starving tvor day,
How just, how grand!
Laws made by plutocrats,
And mugwump democrats,
All owned by autocrats
From a foreign land.
Something must eoon be done;
Hard times grind every one
Down to hard pan.
People are all in debt,
Money they cannot get,
Mortgages not paid yet
Will take their land.
You should vote away
Your right to have your say;
Hark, now, hear me!
You should not cringe and crawl
To men with cheek and gall;
Demand for each and all
Perfect liberty!
—C. J. Graham in Labor Journal.
WHITHER IS TEXAS DRIFTING ?
J. F. MYERS.
For years past the legislation of the
country has been on the side of civili-
zation and progressive Christianity,
except here and there where John
Sherman and his goldbug conspirators
get in their work on the side of the
deyil. Enactments are recorded upon
our statute books against crime of ev-
ery conceivable nature. Lotteries have
had to go, hydra-headed trusts aud
combines have had their locks shorn,
the age of "consent" has been changed
and many other reforms broached that
will ultimately become laws. Indeed,
there is a spirit of reform abroad in
tho land, and the people will not rest
eatistiod until they are adopted. Inv-
olutions rarely, if ever, retrograde.
This being tho case, how does the
approaching brutal listlculY at Dallas
between Corbott and Fitzsimmons
strike you? Noarlv ovrry state in the
union has pronounccd severe and strin-
gent penalties against this barbaric
practice, and now tho "sports" and
gamblers must needs fasten tholr ro-
morseless talons upon the brightening
civilization of the Lono Star «tato in
order that tholr coffers might be plo-
thorizod with the people's money.
We are told in flashing and flaming
headlines in the great dallies of the
sfate that "Dallas has it," or in words
of like import.
Has what? A reform in municipal
affairs? A revival in religion? A case
of smallpox or the yellow fever? No;
neither of these seems to be disturbing
the placid serenity of that onwarnd
and upward city. What then has she
contracted? Nothing more nor less
than a fist fight on a mammoth scale!
The consummation of this evont will
remain a blot upon her escutcheon for
¿he next quarter of a century. And
Mrhere Is this exhibition of brutality to
.take place? Wby, at the great state
(air, & place where the honest yoeman
ry—the farmers of the state—will ex
Mbit specimens of their daughters
hand i work >nd the; products of their
now waiving fields—a place where the
dignified matrons of Texas will con-
gregate with their sons and daughters
to commingle with tholr neighbor*,
and where It was hoped no impressions
would be made upon the minds of tho
young that In after years might lead
tbem into crime and consequent sin.
But alae! and alack-adayl The love of
money in the hearts of the few is to
change this fair picture, and in order
to put money in their pockets, one of
the worst crimes of the age is about to
be santioned by the fair management!
Can such thiñera be and overcome us
like a summer cloud without one spe-
cial wonder?
Sports and gamblors tell us that it is
innocent amusement, and endeavor to
dignify the ruilUn combat by calling
It a scientific (?) contest of manly pow-
ers. Yt-s. it is manl¿; manly aud mur-
der.jub enough to split open John L.
Sullivan's nose at New Orleans, and to
send to his grave ono of Fituimmon's
late antagonists. Everything is scien-
tific these days that is wicked; that
which is not is teithotlc, and the fistic
science of Corbett is about on a par
with the .'ostheticism of Oscar Wilde,
and the time Is coming whon It will be
equally as obnoxious.
Some years ago a crowd of strapped
gamblers conceived the idea of "rais-
ing the wind" without working, and
inaugurated a plan for having a series
of Mexican bull fights at the Macon
(Ga.) fair. They started out cautious-
ly by hiring a few newspapers to dilate
upon the beauties of tho sport; but
bless your soul, as soon as the honest
farmers discovered that their great
agricultural fair was to botranemagnU
Bed into a Roman amphitheatre for
the causeless spilling of Innocent blood
thoy had to crawl into their holes and
pull their holes in after them.
That was to have been a bull fi ht.
This is to be a men's light, and that of
the most brutal kind, as both men are
giants, and dangerously mad at each
other.
The s'ate of Illinois has recently de-
clared that such brutal exhibitions
shall not bo tolerated within her lim-
its, the ministers and newspapers of
Florida and Gaorgia have put an end
to tho debasing practice in thos?
states. Do the ministers and papers of
Texas mean to give assent to the event
here by their silence? Heaven forbid!
It is queer how easy a city can raise
$41,000 to givo In exchange for an or-
dinary fist and skull fight, and cannot
a day not—maintain a souphouse for
destitute women and children. "By
their fruits yo shall know them."
Alvord, Tex., June 0.
FACE THE FACTS.
Thomas Jefferson and his campv-
forced, after being once
tho party, to withdraw
triots wore
defeated In
from tho federalist party and to organ-
izo a new political party before they
could crystallz? Into law tho reforms
they advocated. Andrew Jackson and
his associates, after being defeated In
the republican party in 1826, withdrew
from that party and organized the
democratic party in order to secure
control of the government.
The members of tho people's party
exhausted every effort to secure the
reforms they demanded inside their
respective oar ties. Meeting with the
inevitable, they too were driven to
withdraw and organize the people's
party. These stay-in-the-party free
eilver advocates will ba driven to adopt
the same policy, cor be crushed into
JL •
obedient silence under the power of
the party lash.
It is worse than silly for these free
silver coinage state conventions to as-
sert that they are defining the position
of their party on the silver or any oth-
er question. This iarce was played to
a disgraceful finish in 1876 8. Both
the democratic and republican parties
are on record, in congress and in their
national conventions, as emphatically
opposed to the free and unlimited coin-
age cf silver at any ratio, and nothing
but a future congress or national con-
vention ¡can change that policy.
These free silver coinage advocates
can no more change their party lead-
ers than a leopard can change Its spots,
hence there Is no earthly hope that
they can secure their demands through
the InstrunreafaMty cf these parties.
History records no instance of an old
political party turning and becoming a
reform party. They always fossilize
and become more aud more corrupt.
When the greenback party assumed
disturbing^ proportions in 1876, these
same free silver coinage leaders then
raised the same free silver howl that
they are raising now. It ia true they
did not demand the free and unlimited
silver coinage at 16 to 1, but they did
demand not only free silver coinage,
but they demanded the continued cir-
culation of the greenbacks. State con-
ventions wera held in every southern
and western state, at which these de-
mands were vociferously adopted. Even
the state convention of O'aio joined in
this crusade.
As a result the free coinage advo-
cates secured a large majority in both
houses of the forty-sixth congress.
What was the resut? Instead of en-
acting a free silver coinage law, the
plutocrats that then, as now, controlled
tho party machinery forced these free
silver advocates into the infamous com-
promise known as the Bland-Allison
law, which gave the people no substan-
tial relief.
Notwithstanding twenty-nine state
conventions demanded the free and un-
limited coinage of silver, tho national
conventions of both the democratic
and republican parties flatly refused
to insert any such plank in their plat-
forms, but kept right on paving the
way to the final adoption of the single
gold standard during a democratic ad-
ministration that controlled every
branch of tho government.
Nothing more was heard of free sil-
ver till tho people's party developed
such phonomlnal strength in 1804.
Then the stay-in-the-party free silver
coinage advocates began the rehearsa
of the same old 1876-8 farce. In the
face of these undeniable facts how can
any oue place any confidence whatever
in the pledges of these free silver coin-
age leaders?
f |The facts of the whole matter is that
all who are in their senses must admit
that these free silver coinage stay-in
the-party advocates are playing into
the hands of the goldbugs, as they did
in 1876 8, and for the purpose of de-
feating the people's party, and in this
way perpetuating the slavery of the
masses and the ultimate subversion of
the republic.
Bro. E. A. Daniel has bsen commis-
sioned by State Organizer J. H. Per-
due as organizer for the Alliance Aid
for Dallas county. The Alliance Aid
is the life insurance feature of the AllL
anee and furnishes sound life inaur
ance at a rate that enables farmers and
laborers to protect themselves.
Jttafc id. 1895.
Mra. Louisa Matlock
Could Not Be Cured
So They Said and So I Thought
But Hood's Sarsaparilla Dir! Cure.
" For 7 long years I was a coii.-aant uf-
ferer with indigestion, and I t rie pre-
scriptions and remedies until I became so
low that I had given up all hopes of recov-
ery, and my friends thought also that 1
could not be cured. The poison in my blood
had Bet in deeply, and my limbs were a
Solid Mass of Sores.
I was confined to the house and to my bed
most of the time. I happened to read an
advertisement of Hood's Sarsaparilla in
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much good that I kept using it until I had
taken twelve bottles and now I am entirely
cured. I am a well and hearty woman and
can do my work with all ease and comfort."
Mrs. Louisa Matlock, Bonita, Texas.
Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, ancl do
not purge, pain or gripe. Sold by all druggists.
Mention Southern Mercury when you write.
HIS MOTHER'S BREAD,
He says, was always
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there is a "knack" in making it, but
don't forget the kind of stove used
makes a difference.
Home - Made Bread
is Delicious
When properly baked. It is easy
enough to bake it to perfection in the
oyen of a
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And the Charter Oak is noted for
doing the work not only perfectly, but
with smallest possible amount of fuel.
EXCELSIOR
MF6. CO.,
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no.
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Kefer to Southern Mercury when ron writ*.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1895, newspaper, June 20, 1895; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185616/m1/2/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .