The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1892 Page: 10 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
May 19, 1892.
SECOND DECLARATION OF
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
Platform Adopted by the Confeder-
ated Industrial Organizations at St.
Louis, Mo., Feb. 22-24, 1892.
The Mercury, in common with other
papers, made a mistake in publishing
the St. Louis demands. The correct,
verbatim document, as it came from the
hands of of the committee on platform,
is as follows:
NATIONAL PLATFORM,
riNAIfCH.
First—We demand a national curronoy,«afo
sound, and (taxable. Issued by the general
government only, a full legal tender for all
debts, nubile and private, and that without tho
use of banking corporations, ajuflfc equitable
and efficient means of circulation, direct to tho
people at a tax not to oxceed 2 per cent, bo
provided, as set forth In the sub-treasury plan
of the Farmors A Illanco or somo better system;
also by payment in discharge of its obligations
for public improvements.
a. We demand tho free and unlimited coin-
age of silver.
b. Wedomand that tho amount of tho circu-
lating medium bo speodily Increased to not
less than $90 per oapita.
c. We demand a graduated income tax.
d. We believe that tho money of tho
country should be kept as much as possible in
the bands of the people, and hence we demand
that all national and state revenuo shall be
limited to the necessary expenses of tho gov-
ernment, economically and honestly adminis-
tered.
e. Wedomand that postal savings hanks bo
established by the government for the safe de-
posit of tho earnings of tho people, and to
facilitate exchange.
land,
Second—Tho land, including all tho natural
resourcos of woalth, 18 tho horitage of tho peo-
ple and should not be monopolized for specula-
tive purposes, and alien ownership of land
poi
irn
should ho prohibited. All land now hold by
railroads and other corporations in excoss of
their aetual needs and all lands now owned by
aliens should be ruolalmod by the gonernmcnt
and held forSactual settlers only.
transportation.
Third—Transportation boing a moans of ex-
change and a public necessity, the government
should own and oporate the railroads In the In-
terests of the pooplo.
a. The telegraph and telephone, like tho
ost-offlco system, being a ndbosslty for tho
ransmission of nows, should bo owned and
oporatod by tho govornmont in tho interest of
the people.
STATE PLATFOHM.
First—Wo favor reform in all departments
In our state government and demand that ex-
penses be reduced to tho lowest point compa-
tible with effloiont administration.
Second—We favor a railway commission
that will insure equal and exact justice to the
people and to tho railways. The commission
io bo composed of throo qualified citizens of
the stato, oleetod'bv tho peoplo in the samo
manner its other officers.
Third—Wo favor an alien land law that will
protoet the citizens of our state against tho en-
croachment of foreign land syndicates, and
prohiMKalicit ownership of lands within the
limits of Che state.
ABOUT THE HOUSE.
Do not shear a sheep and then
expose it to the hot sun.
It is best not to feed sheep too
early in the morning nor too late at
night.
Do not arrange the nests so tho
hens will have to jump down into
them.
Zinnias are among the most
showy and easily grown of all
flowers.
If a flock of hens get into the
habit of eating eggs, make the
nests dark.
Verbenas should be planted at
least three feet apart each way to
give them a chance to grow.
The uew sections of phlox are
very beautiful and showy They
are oí the easiest cultiuation.
Grapes may be grown from the
seeds but the fruit of seedlings is
not like that of the parent vine.
It is claimed by some that black
bees cap their honey cells better
than any other variety. Have
any of our readers ever noticed
any differenoe?
Pure water is the most essential
thing in a poultry yard, and should
be supplied in abundance.
Pear blight seems to be disap-
pearing in many parts of the coun-
try. It is to be hoped that it will
die out.
Beekeepers can nearly always
create a market for their honey by
putting it up in attractive pack-
ages.
Debt makes the plow harder to
hold and causes the victuals to be
less palatable. Keep out of debt
just as far as possible.
White wash on buildings and
fences not only give a bright clean
appearance to things, but it is pre-
servative of the wood.
Dairying brings money in stead-
ily. But if it brings much there
must be good cows and they must
have good care and feed.
Extracted honey if oft' color can
be sold for many purposes, w^iile
it left in the comb it is hard to sell
at a pricc that will give a profit.
We don't like to say it, but the
truth compels us to say that one
of the most successful beekeepers
we know of, so far as having his
colonies do well, keeps his bees in
sections of hollow trees.
We know more than one farm-
er's wife who makes a very neat
sum of pocket money by caring for
a few colonies of bees.
The horse that works six davs
in the week has earned the right
to rest on the seventh, and it will
pay the owner to grant the right,
too.
Health is worth more than
moaey. Kememher this when
risking health by overtaxing your
power of endnrance in search of
wealth.
Make your butter just as you
please so long as you make it for
your own table. When you make
it for the market make it as other
people want it made.
The National Debt.
The old parties have truly advo-
cated the theory that wealth must
be produced by labor and not legis-
lation. The national debt, both
principal and interest is paid by
laboror the products of labor.
The national debt in 1866 was
$2,783,000,000.
We have paid up to 1890.
Principal - $1,599,665,312
Interest - 2,540,726,049
Commissions - - 58,540,000
Total
t, 198,931,361
Notwithstanding the fact that
the debt had been paid twice over,
in 1890 it would have taken more
labor, more wheat corn, cotton,
pork or beef to pay the remainder
of the debt than it would have
taken in 1866 to have paid the
whole debt.—Kokomo Ind. Union.
We do not know why
Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver
oil is so useful in those simple
but varied conditions which
you know as " having a
cough." We cannot explain
it : we only know the fact
from experience.
It may be due to the com-
bination of tonic effects of
cod-liver oil and the hypo-
phosphites ; it may be partly
due to the glycerine. There
are many effects in medical
practice the causes of which
ippear to be plain, but how
those causes produce those
< ffects we do not know at all.
scott & bowne, Chemists, 132 South 5th Avenue,
Mew York.
Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver
oil—all druggists everywhere do. $1.
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having stood thirty-five years.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1892, newspaper, May 19, 1892; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185465/m1/10/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .