The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 1892 Page: 8 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
July 21,1898
OFFICIAL (JOURNAL.
fexaa Farmer* Alliance and Industrial Union
N. R. P. A.
Published Every Thursday by the
FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE PUB. CO,
MILTON PARK,
Managing Editor, and General Manager.
Office: Second floor Alliance Exchange Build-
ing. Entrance: 152 Wood Street
Entered at the poatofflce, Dallas,
■eoond-olau mall matter.
Texas, as
FARMERS ALLIANCE PLATFORM.
[Adopted at Ocala, Fla., Dec., 1890.]
1. We demand the abolition of national
banks: we demand that the government shall
establish sub-treasuries or depositories in the
several states which shall issue money direct
to the people at a low rate of tax, not to ex-
ceed 2 per cent per annum, on non-perishable
farm products and upon real estate, with prop-
er limitations upon the quautity of land and
amount of money; we demand that the amount
of the circulating medium be speedily increas-
ed to ftot less than 850 per capita.
2. We demand that congress shall pass such
laws as will effectually prevent the dealing in
futures of all agricultural and mechanical pro-
ductions; preserving a stringent system of pro-
cedure in trial such that will secure the
prompt conviction and imposing such penal-
ties as shall socurcthe most perfectcomplhince
WÍth til© lftW«
!). We condemn the silver bill recently pass-
ed by congress, and demand in lieu thereof
the ¿roe and unlimited coinage of silver
4. We demand the passage of laws prohibit-
ing alien ownership of land, and that congress
take prompt action to devise some plan to ob-
tain all lands now owned by aliens and foreign
syndicates, and that all lands now held by rail-
roads and other corporations in oxcess of such
as are actually used and needed by them be re-
claimed by the government and held for ac-
tual settlers only.
5. Believe In the doctrine of "equal rights
to all and special privileges to none." wo de-
mand that our national legislation shall bo so
framed in the future as not to build up one
industry at the expense of another. We fur-
ther demand a removal of the existing heavy
tariff tax from the necessities of life that the
poor of our land must have. We further de-
mand a just and equitable system of graduated
tax on Incomes. We believe that the money
of the country should be kept as much as pos-
sible in the hands of the people, and hence we
demand that all national and stato revenues
shall be limited to the necessary oxponses of
the government economically and honestly
administered. . ,
6. We demand the most rigid, honest and
Just state and national governmental control
and supervision of the means of public com-
munication and transportation, and if this
oontrol and supervision does not removo the
abuse now existing, wo demand tho govern-
ment ownorship of such means of communi-
oating and transportlon.
7. We demand that tho congress of the
United States submit an amendment to the
constitution providing for the olccticn of
United States senators by dircct vote of the
people of each stato.
Happy is as happy does.
Liberty without wisdom and vir-
tue is sham.
Generalities do not always
ter, neither does gold.
glit-
Faithis the lamp that lights our
pathway, and hope urges us on.
And this great retorm move-
ment grows .stronger and stronger,
dav by day.
After the Houston convention
adjourns, the fur will fly. It may
be "root Hogg or die."
Without disparaging any, the
Mercury is foremost among re
form publications, and first in the
hearts of its readers.
The Omaha and Dallas platforms
are the essence of reform, and the
men on both tickets are sincere and
able.
Right has sign boards up all
along the road of life, but a great
many people are prejudice blind,
won't read and are lost.
The platform of principles upon
which Weaver and Field stands
are dear to the people and will be
forced to the front-
If someoi the plutocratic editors
continue as at present, their readers
will not believe them when they
do write a truthful paragraph.
Let the graud old educator, the
Alliance, go right on as from the
begining, in its work of educating
the people from a non-partisan
standpoint.
We have before us, the premi-
um list of the fourth annual ex-
hibit of the Texas State Grange
Fair, to be held at McGregor, Tex-
as October 6th to 13th inclusive,
1892. The premium list is very
liberal, an we wish the fair suc-
cess.
The Democratic House has done
it again. It has killed the senate
bill providing for the free coinage
of silver. The vote for the bill
stood Democrats 118, Reformers 10
and Republicans 8—total 136.
Against it, Democrats 94, and Re-
publicans 50, total 144. Thus the
Democrats refuse silver legislation
again. The only hope of the peo
pie for reform or favorable | duty in the South. Turn where
them they have discovered all the
weak places in the lines of their
opponents.. One point of weak-
nesss is the Southern fear of the
"foroe bill," and they have decreed
that it shall be used in the South
as the Persians used the cat. The
"force bill" is dead, but they have
stuffed and mounted their "force
bill cat," and are making it do
is
The Texas campaign liar
busy. In Dallas he is sneaking
around telling it that Gen. J. B.
Weaver was the nominee of the
prohibition party once, and down
in Wortham he tells it, that when
Weaver was in Congress he favor-
ed the "force bill." Both the as-
sertions are false and cowardly.
The "force bill" is a species of
political slight of hand or legerde-
maine proposed by Eastern Demo-
crats (?] through Eastern Repuli-
cans, in the interest of the money
power. It won't work. The peo-
ple of the West and North West
pledged the South at Omaha that
it shall never become law.
In reading what thirty-four of the
daily papers of the United States
say of the Omaha platform and
its nominees,not one has a single ar-
gument all ridicule--and assertions
made in a spirit of levity. They
assume that the people are weak
and can be ridiculed into a deser-
tion of their principles. We do
not believe it.
The Texas Democratic hypno-
tizers seems to have lost their cun>
ning. The people are much stron-
ger in political education than
formerly.
If the People's party can poll a
plurality of votes in any state,
they capture the electoral vote of
such state. This will occur in
California, Oregon, Colorado, Ne-
vada, Nebraska, Iowa, Washing-
ton, Texas, Michigan, Kansas,
Minnesota, Georgia, North Dako-
ta, North Carolina, South Dako-
ta, Idaho, West Virginia and Vir-
ginia; and with another Pinkei
ton war in Pennsylvania,
state also.
legislation is in voting the Peo-
ples party ticket. The vote was
taken July 13.
PICNIC
At Lancaster, Saturday, July 30,
1892. Moj. J. C. Kearby, the
People's candidate for congress,
and other prominent speakers will
be present and address the peole.
Everybody invited to attend, and
bring well filled baskets.—Com-
mittee of Arrngement.
you will, you are confronted by
one of their soldiers holding this
stuffed and rehabilitated "force bill
cat" in your face, while he dilates
upon the horrible things this image
can do.
County Convention of the People's Party to
Nominate Legislative and County
Candidates,
Mr. W. R. Cole, chairman of the
executive committee of the Peo-
ple's party in Dallas county, has
issued the following ca-11:
In accordance with instructions
from the executive committee of
the People's party of Dallas coun-
ty, I hereby call a convention to
meet at the city hall in Dallas on
the 10th day of August 1892, at
11 a. m., for the purpose of nomi-
nating a candidate for state sena-
tor, three candidates for state rep-
resentatives and candidates for all
county offices. The primaries will
meet Aug. 6 at 2 p. m. in the
country, and 8 p. m. in the city.
All who indorse the Omaha and
Dallas platforms are entitled to and
are in invited to take part in the
primaries.
that
THEIR CAT.
During a war between Persia
and Egypt, the Persians learned
that the Egyptians held the cat as
a sacred animal, and that the
Egyptians in their superstition
were in mortal dread of that little
animal. The Persian generals, be-
ing wily politicians as well as able
commanders, determined to take
advantage of their knowledge and
decreed that each of their soldiers
should procure for himself a cat.
On the day of the battle these wily
Persians compelled their soldiers
to divest themselves of their arms
and in their place take up his cat.
The Egyptians seeing their toes
without arms, iushed forward at
first, but being confronted on every
sidé with a cat they turned and
fled.
The commanders of the money
power of this country are as wily
as the Persians of old, and like
LET THE ALLIANCE CONTINUE AS HERE-
TOFORE.
The Farmers Alliance as an or-
ganization has done more to edu-
cate the masses of this country on
political economy than any simlar
organization, or, than all the par-
tizan political organization for the
last thirty years. This has been
accomplished by discussion in our
subordinate Alliances, and also by
provoking opposition and investi-
gation by those who oppose us. In
this way, the transmission of know-
ledge has been very rapid. The
advance in political knowledge
among the members of our order,
is so pronounced that even our
enemies conceede it.
Brethren, our work has just be-
gun. In our organization, this
.
is~~<
educational feature, especially in
political economy, is more essential
if possible, than ever. The ten-
dency of all branches of indus-
try, from the present period will
be to perfect and hold together
their present incomplete organiza-
tion. We, as the most numerous
and conservative of them all, can-
not with safety relinguish our ef-
forts. As long as we are watchful
of the interests of our organiza-
tion, just so long will we be true
to oujr best interests as citizens, or
as officers, state or national. It is
tojtnat broad and liberal demand
taught in our first declaration of
principles alone, that we can look
with perfect certainty for the per-
petuity of an independant patri-
otic ballot.
Let us not loose sight of our ob-
ligations as citizens, and knowing
our duty as such, we should at all
times fearlessly discharge it at the
ballot box; not forgetting that
"eternal vigilence is the price of
liberty," but in our organized ca-
pacity, as an Alliance, continue to
discuss principles, and measures,
in the same non-partiaan spirit,
estimating at its full value the
absolute importance of a thorough-
ly organized Alliance of agricul-
tural interests.
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