The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1892 Page: 14 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
Aug. 11. 1892
REFORM THOUGHT.
Sedalia (Mo.) Truth: Thirty years of
wrong and oppression is forcing this re-
form movement to success.
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Wichita (Kan.) Commoner: Falling
prices, misery and destitution are insepa-
rable companions.
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Harrold (Texas) Press: No bloody
shirt racket in ours, we want more peace,
more money and less blood.
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Lamar (Mo.) Union: The "sacred"
rights of the dollar as against the right
of man, is going to be settled, and that
soon.
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Cincinnati (O.) People's Aid. hazy
men are the most positive; they too lazy
to inform themselves, or to change their
minds.
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Cincinnati (O.) People's Aid: The lazy
man is usually an ideal man, for he lives
on theory, sleeps in hope, and dies in
dispair.
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Winnemucca(Nev.) Silver State: The
ripe fruits of demonetization and gold
bug methods—anarchists and Pinkerton
assassins.
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St. Paul (Minn.) (treat. West: Congress
was without a quorum for ten days—but
the country was paying for a quorum
"alio saniee."
Atlanta (Qa.) People's Party Paper:
God pity the people and keep them pa-
tient—for indeed the cup of provocation
is well nigh full!
Or A*
Lexington (Neb.) Clipper: Which do
you prefer, government ownership of
railroads or railroad ownership of of the
government.
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Clarendon (Texas) Traveler: Free sil-
ver means more and cheaper money.
More money means better prices for labor
and products.
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Montrose (Col.) Union: At last the
weather prediction is meeting some stiff
competition from its formidable rival, the
campaign lie.
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Dallas (Texas) News: There is one of
the rights of property which has never
been disputed, and that is the right to
pay taxes to the tax-eaters
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San Antonio (Texas) Stockman and
Farmer: Shall the corporations or the
people rule America? Now is u good
time to settle the question.
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Raleigh (N. C.) Farmer: "Thewicked
tlee when no man pursueth." Those
force bill calamity howlers must be th(
fellows for whom that was intended.
Lansing (Mich.) Statesman: The in-
debtedness of the United States in 18(5-1
was $4,500,000,000; in 1800 it was $27,
000,000,000. Does this look like prosper-
ity?
Sherman (Texas) Courier: Set your
stakes straight, aim high, drive straight-
forward and with plenty of energy and
integrity you will have afortuno in vour-
self.
Dallas (Texas) Farm and Ranch: The
carving on the handle of W. II. Vander-
bilt's buggy whip cost money enough to
feed a hundred orphan children for a
whole year.
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lndiauapolis (Iud.) Nonconformist: If
it requires 8,000 militia to run the Car-
negie mills, how many will it take to
hold down 6,000,000 members of organiz-
ed labor?
Temple (Texas) Forum: An intelligent
ballot is the only power that can emanci-
pate the industrial classes from the awful
conditions into which they have been
plunged.
Rockwall (Me.) People's Cause: The
census records of 1890 show that there
are on record in the United States 9,-
000,000 mortgages aggregating f5,000,-
000,000.
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Ozark (Ala.) Banner: Congressmen are
allowed 20 cents per mile for traveling
expenses. First-class fare is oniy from 3
to cents. But then, the people pay the
freight.
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Columbus (O.) Union: More than a
fourth of the gold and more than a third
of the silver produced throughout the
world in the year 1891 was mined in the
United States.
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Dallas (Texas) Courier: He who is in
possession of the truth needs not to em-
ploy ridicule or abuse in support of his
position. Abuse is the confession of
conscience weakness.
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Omaha (Neb.) Public: We need not
expect to secure any legislation in the in-
terest of labor so long as we continue to
send national bankers aud railroad law-
yers to Washington to make our laws.
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Mound City (Kan.) Torch of Liberty:
If the silver dollar has only 68 cents
worth of "intrinsic" value in it, then the
other 32 cents is f-i-a-t! Laws a-massey !
how they do bulge out at the mention of
that word!
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Fort Scott (Kan.)Lantern: It is now a
life and death struggle against class su-
premacy and it is useless to attempt to
draw the minds of the people away 1'rom
the principles they have determined to
establish.
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Chillicothc (Mo.) World: "The great
crime of 1873," as democrats called it
for seventeen years—and it was a crime
and a terrible one—has been condoned by
the big democratic house, by its defeat of
the silver bill.
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Otdcn (Texas) Reformer: A little more
money power, a little class legislation, a
little more slumbering on the part of the
part of the people and Mexican Peons
will occupy a more enviable position than
our laboring people.
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Huron (S. D.) Ruralist: The amount
of money based on gold is left to chance
to determine the amount of circulation.
The people's party demands that law
shall regulate the volume and that it
shall be tixed at $50 per capita.
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Chillicothc (Mo.) World: Anarchists
should be suppressed at all hazards.
They are traitors to the nation, conspira-
tors against government and should be
promptly tried and given the punishment
provided for high treason.
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Columbus (O.) Farmer's Union: One
of the western senators at Washington
pays $1,800 a month for board and lodg-
ing for himself, wife aud one servant at
one of the hotels at the capital; and a
middle state congressman pays $1,200 a
month for himself and wife alone.
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Mcadvillc (Pa.) Farmer:—The people
were taxed to accumulate a surplus.
With that surplus bonds not due were
purchased at a premium. Premium up
to that time had amounted to $60,000,000.
Interest paid on bonds to that date $2,-
548,756,094. Total prolit to bondholders
18.274,178,715.
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Raleigh (N. C.) Farmer: "The passage
of sixty-four peusion bills by the House
means more taxes for the Southern tax-
payer," says the Wilmington Messenger.
Yes, it means more tax. But where is
the democratic party? Ain't it opposed
to pensions? Why don't you censure
your 148 democratic majority?
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Des Moines (Iowa) Tribune: Trusts
follow trusts daily, and it will be but a
short time if present conditions continue
until every considerable industry of the
csuntry is in the control of a combination
which will not only fix the price at
which it will sell its products but the
price at which it will purchase its raw
raw materials and employ its labor.
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