The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1893 Page: 4 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
Febkcakv 16 1898
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BEAD EVEBT WORD CAREFULLY
If a few of the so-called reform
papers would devote their energies
to the discussion of the reforms de-
manded by the organization they
assume to represent, instead of
cumbering their columns with in-
sinuations and vague rumors as to
the loyalty or disloyalty of this or
that one, they would be better em-
ployed and reforms would succeed
much better.
Every organization has laws
governing it, and officers to exe-
cute them, it is the duty of every
member to be governed by those
laws. If he knows of any mem-
ber violating any of them, it is his
duty to bring the matter before the
proper tribunal. If he fails to do
so, he becomes an accomplice "af-
ter the act" by his silence, and is
culpable with the wrong doer. If
he circulates reports calculated to
injure the character of a member
he is thrice gui.'ty. There is not
an organization in existence, out-
side of that of a political party,
that would not expel any member
that traduced the character of an-
other member publicly. No per-
son, who has any regard for his
reputation, will join or remain in
an organisation that permits its
members to mangle the characters
of each other. The dearest thing
to an honorable man is his charac-
ter; it's even dearer than life with
three out of five of them. No one
who has a speck of honor in him
would any more traduce the char-
acter of another than he would
waylay and assassinate him.
Outsiders recognize the standing
of any organization by the way the
members speak or write about each
other, in fact they have little else
to judge from, especially it it is a
secret organization like the Farm-
ers Alliance and Knights of Labor.
The very central idea of these or-
ganizations is to construe words
and acts in their most favorable
light, because in following that
policy is th« only hope of inducing
sufficient numbers to enter these
organizations to make their power
for good available.
A reformer is not a person who
quits maligning one organization
and begins maligning another, but
is a man who enters an organiza-
tion to obey its laws and require-
ments, expressed or implied. This
is why the masonic organization,
the church, and other organizations
have stood the test of centuries
and blessed mankind all the time.
Any one who reads the declaration
of purposes of the Knights of La-
bor and Farmers Alliance cannot
help endorsing them and in time
i'oin them, if the members will
ive up to their requirements,even
approximately.
These organizations in the be-
ginning were hooted at because of
the poverty and low estate of those
composing them; like the church,
they have outlived all that, and
now the only thing their enemies
can say of them is, "They are
fighting among themselves, hence
are no place ior an honorable and
peace loving man, and a house di-
vided against itself cannot stand."
Of course this is not true, but the
lit we do «Bee and hear oi it, our ene-
mies exagerate. This should all
stop and the way to stop it is for each
member to do his part. If perfect
i nis par
harmony prevailed in these organi j with ice forty-days.
zations, two years from today their
power would be felt even in Texas
Otherwise, it will not. If there is
any one spoiling for a fight there are
about 150,000 partisans in Texas
that he can tackle. Pitch into
them, and go for them, but let
those on the inside alone and fight
thos* only who are fighting these
organizations.
Men who have joined labor or-
ganizations are generally made of
that kind of stuff that can't be oo
erced, nor does the principles of
the order permit it. Organized
against bulldozing and intolerance,
it would be ridiculous to practice
themselves what they denounce in
others.
The readers of the Mercury
will bear witness that the present
management has never permitted
its columns to be used for one to
vent his spite on another, nor for
its employes to defend them-
selves when attacked We have
been forced, as the official mouth-
piece of the Alliance, to publish
many official documents that we
very much regretted, but through
it all our efforts have been
to discuss the principles of the
order. We conceive the mission
of the Mercury is to discuss the
principles of the F. A. and K. of
L., and not the character of its
members. We are proud to say
every letter received sustains the
Mercury's position, besides we
are glad to announce that there is
now more unity in these organiza-
tions in Texas than ever before.
Y ears of study has brought about
the hoped for unity, so indispensa-
ble to success. If the members will
now make one concerted effort to
secure recruits the power of these or
ders will be invincible in 1894 even
in Texas. This our enemies real-
ize and this is what they are strain-
ing every nerve to prevent.
One county Alliance, in the
smallest county in the state, at
its January, '93 meeting appro-
priated money, appointed a com-
mittee, instructed them to select
72 names of non-subscribers to
send to Mercury. The Mercury
is promptly mailed as directed. Al-
ready many letters have been re-
ceived, thanking those who paid
for the Mercury, endorsing its ut-
terances and saying they have been
induced to join the Alliance by
reading the Mercury.
If the members of the Farmers
Alliance in Texas will take hold of
this matter as they should, they
will double the membership by
January 1, 1894.
The way to make sure and
brilliant success is for some brother
at the next meeting of his sub-Al-
liance to read this article, and
after a full and free discussion of
the matter, do as the brethren did
in Rockwall county. Brethren,
let us hear from you all along the
line.
• • —•
Attorney General Culberson
rules that a lady can hold the po-
sition of deputy county clerk, and
is eligible to discharge tho duties
of notary public.
Norvin Green, president of the
Western Union Telegraph Co., is
dead.
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Independent News An'n Dispatch.
The republican party is in rapid
process of absorption into the one
great Cleveland legion of plutocra-
cy. Harrison even appoints a
democrat to the supreme judge-
ship. Radical republicans are
howling, crazy mad I Papers will
not give one-tenth oi the sulphur-
ous eruption. Lest it be sup-
pressed we send a copy of J. S.
Clarkson's telegram to Houk:
Hon. John C. Houk—Harrison's
betrayal of republican principles
and abandonment of the helpless
republicans of the south by the ap-
pointment of Jackson to the su-
preme bench is an outrage that n>
self respecting republican can ei-
ther endorse or forgive. I have
sent protest to Senator Cullom,one
erf the old time republican leaders.
Please see it. J S. Clarkson.
Houk, a southern republican,re-
sponds in even stronger language.
But it is of no use to protest. It
was fixed up in New York, with
the lull knowledge of. Grover
Cleveland, and both the military
centralization in this, country and
the silver brick case, entered into
consideration, and party interests
did not. The proof of this will ap-
pear before Cleveland's first three
months are over. It is plutocracy
or the people—and Cleveland is
plutocracy. "Siva" published
truths in his prophecies of Cleve*
land and Empire, six years ago
Cleveland and Carlisle talked jack-
son before Harrison did, and Wall
street played the game.
The New York Financier this
week heads an article, "Still Pil-
ing Up Surplus Funds." It speaks
of eastern banks, and says: "Mon-
ey is still coming to this center at
a remarkably lively gait,and keeps
accumulating here notwithstanding
the heavy drafts for gold." A
banking expert told us that in the
three cities of New York, Philadel-
phia and Boston there were $400,-
000,000 of accumulated money cry-
ing for investments, but that debts
were already saddled upon all
available properties. When every
dollar in existence draws four in-
terests what else could happen?
Turn from the New York Finan-
cier to the Wall Street Market Re-
port, same day:
"The street was simply stunned
again by the gold shipments which
are to occur tomorrow. It had
been calculated that the decline in
sterling exchange below the profit
point of shipping would act as a
check. But France and Austria
offer premiums on gold" ! ! Think
of that, meditate.
The Independent News Associa-
tion positively asserts that at this
very hour, France, a sil ver-$60 a-
head nation, is paying interest in
transit to draw in gold, while the
trained idiots across the ocean kill
silver, have $10-a-head money,and
—lose their gold !
The silver war has begun in
congress. Cleveland has reiterat-
ed the declaration: "Repeal the
Sherman act or have an extra ses-
sion !"
It is claimed that the anti-op-
tion bill will be filibustered to
death in the house. Such devilish
things are done there continually.
An analysis of the senate vote
thereon makes monstrous interest-
ing reading for hopeful democrats:
Dems.—10 yeas and 19 nays.
Reps.—27 yeas and 9 nays.
Populists both yea.
Where is Cleveland and reform?
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Another cut in prices has been
ordered in one of the largest of the
Carnegie steel plants. Mr. Carne-
gie returned just in the nick of
time. The great strike had its
back broken and was crawling back
asking for work. There could be
no objection to a further reduction,
and it was made.—Texas Farm
and Ranch.
The cut in prices means in En-
glish a reduction of wages of those
employed in Mr. Carnegie's workst
It was very kind in Mr. Carnegie
to leave his baronial castles in
Scotland and return to the United
States and cut down the wages of
his American slaves, who were
driven by cold and hunger to
"crawl back" and beg their Scot-
tish maeter for the privilege of
working for a crust on American
soil.
T resistence oflered by these
Ame i Mn citizens must be expiat-
ed by • rawling back to Mr. Carne-
gie aii>i surrendering uncondition-
ally, and submitting to reduced
wages, and in this way remunerate
Carnegie for any pecuniary loss he
may have been at in the premises.
After having "crawled back"
and accepted any terms their En-
glish master was willing to give, of
course nothing romained but to
cut their wages, put them to work,
while their master pockets the re-
sults.
• « ~—mrn— • •
Direct legislation is the only
method whereby the people can
have just such laws as they need
and not be troubled with the nu-
merous, foolish and unfair laws
which now burden them.—The
Unionist, (Tenn.)
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1893, newspaper, February 16, 1893; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185504/m1/4/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .