The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1895 Page: 4 of 16
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SIX MONTHS, BOC. THREE MONTHS, SSC
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
mtlton pars,
managing kw1tor and gen*l manager.
The Texas Populist State Paper.
Official Journal Farmers' State Alliance of Texas.
Entered at tbe Dallas, Texas post-office as
mall matter of the second class.
Office, 192 Main St., opp. Trust B'ld'g.
Advertisers, agencies and transportation
lines will please take notice that Ed. L. Wood,
our late traveling advertising solicitor, is to
longer in our employ. Milton Panic,
General Manager.
It is now Roger Q. Milla' turn to de-
cline.
With Daba in jail, no American is a
freeman.
Shall Dallas ba known as a prize
fig hting town?
Carlisle's Kentucky campa'gn got
lost in the hills.
Grover's last discovery is Attorney
General Harmon.
Senator Palmer should also de-
cline a re-election.
Carlisle will soon be as obnoxious
as John Sherman.
Only Texas is largo enough for the
populist convention.
Stand by the Farmers' Allianco! It
is the best educator.
Senator Brick don't declino. He
simply buys the legislature.
Providence is smiling upan the
people, yet thoy are in rags.
Mr. Cleveland thinks the Sab-
bath was designed as a day for fishing.
Gold buggery, hum buggery and
robbery aro tho three Cleveland graces.
Next year senator Urico will have
to buy the samo Ohio pooplo over
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Come to Dallas good people, and lo-
cate. It is headquarters for prize
tights and prize rlner bums.
The Memphis silver convention was
a monster gathering. It completely
eclipsed the Carlisle goldbug alTair o'
a few weeks ago.
Atlanta people are going to invito
Grover to be present at the opening of
the Cotton States exposition noxt Sep-
tember. Why not invito the queen of
Eagland also?
The big silver convention at Mem
phis shows that Mr. Carlisle did not
root out the free silver fallacy in the
south by a large majority.
The New York reform (?) club offers
$200 to any man who will, write an an-
swer to Coin's Financial School. About
a dozen books have been written, but
not ono answer.
The talk of a rovlval of business is
nonsense. What docs a revival of
trade on borrowed cipltal amount to?
This parceled out business revival will
only continue as long as the money
sharks desire it, and then the snares
will be set again, and the little the
people may have accumulated by a
partial revival of business, will be tak-
en from them.
A Washington dispatch speaks of
Mr. Cleveland changing his foreign
policy. If he had a foreign policy the
fact has not tesóme generally known.
There is no more disgusting eight
than the farmer or laboring man, who
has barely a meal ahead, talking about
"honest money." It makes a person
very weary.
A Certain amount of good order is
essential to attract immigration. Ea-
couraging prizo fights and discourag-
ing conviction of criminals don't be-
long to good order.
The Memphis free silver convention
was not only big, but it was brainy.
Moro brains occupied the stage than
there was in tho whole of the Carlisle
convention of a few weeks ago.
Reports from London are to tho
ell'jct that Mr. Carlisle's sou has ar-
rived and delivered the United Statc3
bonds into tbe band of tho Rothschilds.
Now look out for the endloss chain to
start.
Col. Watterson has not yet made
up his mind whether he will support
the democratic party or the republican
party of Kentucky. He is on a trip to
Europe to arrange his political bear-
ings. _______
Mr. Carlisle has ordered the coin-
age of silver dollars discontinue:!. If
the nosing, meddling cross roads poli-
ticians of Texas, with rotten egg prin-
ciples, don't believe this, lot them write
tho mint for information.
A burial casket hardware trust is
now being formed. Thus it will be
seen the trust cannot be shaken oil' by
death. Even after a man is dead the
trust robs his remains. Anti-monopoly
is a bigger issue to-day than free silver*
The delivery of John Sherman's
speeches by John G. Carlisle in the
south does not appear to drive out the
silver fallacy that is running riot
throughout Dixie. Sherman literature
never was very popular on this side of
tho line.
The question that should concern
the people of Texas is, shall this state
open her gates to prize fights and tho
corrupt following of such exhibits of
brutality? Texas needs to be more
strict in enforcing law rather than
thus to Blacken tho ropes.
Gold only for tho bondholders, but
you farmers and laboring men who
produce all wealth and who defend
the country in time of war, are only
mud sills. Any sort of rag money or
unsoucd 50-cent dollars are good
enough for you.
As the money plank of the Chicago
democratic platform is almost word for
word with that of the late republican
convontion of Ohio, It is but natural to
conclude that they both have ono and
the same author, John Sherman
wrote tho Ohio platform.
Judson Harmon of Ohio has been
appointed to fill Olney's place as attor-
ney general. Mr. Harmon is of course
a railroad and trust lawyer, as no other
could receive the position under Mr.
Cleveland. The combines are always
on the alert, and see that their inter-
ests are guarded.
The Texas democrats are afraid to
join in the free silver hurrah for fear
the populists will receive some advan-
tage. The democrats of Georgia are
in the same box. It does not make any
difference; the populists of both these
states will win at the very next elec-
tion.
What a proud position it is to be an
American citizen! A citizen of this
country is a slave, but a foreign money
gambler is a lord. Foreign money
lenders are paid only gold, but you
citizans must take any grade of cheap
depreciated dollars that may bo laying
around. Greit is America!
Senator Gordon of Georgia is said
to have declared his intention to retire
from politics at the end of his senato-
rial term. The people having first
decided to retire him, Gordon thought
he might as well decide to retire. Sev-
eral other cuckoo senators may as well
decide to rotire also.
Nature ia doing its part to supply
fully the wants of man, as the pros-
pects are favorable for an abundant
crop this year. A bountiful harvest
does not mean bounty any longer. The
more bountiful the harvest, the less
prosperity results. This is one of the
natural lawj that has been reversed by
the gold standard.
The goldbug democrats cry "popu-
lism" to Reare the free silver demo-
crats. The free silver democrats of
Georgia and Texas are so afraid of the
populists that they dare not meet in
state convontion. Don't be afraid,
gentlemen. The populists won't hurt
you. All they want is power to ad-
minister the government in tho inter-
est of the people, and that they are
going to have.
The recent reported massacre of
American missionaries in China is but
another evidence that the Celestial
does not take kindly to our sugges-
tions relative to the God he shall wor-
ship and the manner in which he shall
worship him. As the Chinese system
of religion has no devil in it, this may
be the reason the Celestials oppose our
system. They prefer to take their re-
ligion without any devil. No one can
blame them.
TO CONTRIBUTORS.
Because articles contributed to the
Mercury do not appear in its columns
is no evidence that they are not con-
sidered meritorious. Many articles,
full of good things, are necessarily ex-
cluded for either lack of space or be-
cause others already in type cover the
ground. We would gladly publish more
of the articles coming to this offiee,
showing1 evidence of much thought in
their preparation, but for tho above
reason. We deem this explanation
due to many whose articles, while pos-
sessing merit, have not appeared in
the Mercury.
COINAGE OF SILVER DOLLARS.
Tho assertions of the Me rcury as
to the coinage of silver dollars at this
time having been disputed, the super-
intendent of the mint at Philadelphia,
where about all the silver is coined,
was addressed, and a reply from him is
at hand.
It is noted In his reply that a few
silver dollars were coined, as the
Mbrgury has stated, just before the
election in 1894. This coinage took
plaoe in August, September and Octo-
ber. In November following i there
were no silver dollars coined. In De-
cember there were 311 silver dollars
coined. In January, 1895, no silver
dollars were coined, and none in Feb-
ruary. In March our grand and glo-
rious government of the people coined
290 silver dollars! Just think of it! In
April there were none coined, but in
May the coinage mill started up again
and ground out 180 silver dollars! Thus
the people can see how many silver
dollars are being coined. There
are practically no dollar pieces
being coined, as the Mercury has
frequently asserted, there being no au-
thority of law for coining silver dol-
lars.
Our information comes direct from
Dr. Eugene Townsend, superintend-
ent of the Philadelphia mint, and his
letter and figures are in the posses-
sion of the Mercury. Sinco the re-
ceipt of the letter from Dr. Townsend,
the secretary of the treasury has or-
dered the coinage of silver dollars dis-
continued. So this ends the silver dol-
lar coinage question.
STOP THE PRIZE FIGHT!
The authorities of Texas will do the
people but justice and save the credit
of the Lone Star state if they will
promptly squelch this proposed Cor-
bett-Fitzsimmons prize fight, announc-
ed to be held in Dallas during the
State Fair and Dallas Exposition.
The Mercury is in favor of the
largest liberty to the greatest number,
but law, order and decency must be
maintained if the license to even a
questionable grade of amusement must
be cut off. Because the policy of Texas
has been to permit a larger degree of
personal liberty than other states, is
no reason vhy this disposition to be
conservative and anti-fanatical should
be abused, and discredit brought upon
the state. We therefore enter our
protest against tho prize ring exibi-
tion billed for Dallas, and trust the
state authorities will take steps to
prevent it.
The reputation of Texas among the
states east is not on the top round
now, and much of this bad odor is not
desrved or merited, but if it is to be in
the future a free field for prize fights,
the moral, social and educational
standard of the state is doomed to take
a much lower level If these eastern
bullies want to test their brute force, let
them do it at their homes, and not come
to Texas, bringing with them grand
aggregation of thugs and thieves that
follow in the train of such perform-
ances. Texas people want none of it.
and especially the fathers and mothers
of Texas. They must have a horror
of the example it will place before
their boys If the state authorities
will not act in the matter, the people,
en masse, should meet and declare,
that while the gates of Texas are open
to aU good people, they are closed
against an invasion by the thugs and
thieves of New York, New Orleans,
Chicago, and other modern Sodoms.
Let this pestilence be met at the bor-
der and informed that ju ct that far it
can come and no farther! It is in or-
der for the public to begin now to
speak out on this subject. If the
churches and societies of a similar na-
ture have any salt in them, they will
take hold of this matter. As a repre-
sentative of the populists of Teras, the
Mercury protests, in the name of
all who believe in the brotherhood of
man and the fatherhood of God,against
this proposed desecration of our state*
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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/m1/4/: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .