The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1893 Page: 3 of 16
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March 30, 1898.
SOÜTUÉftN MEitCUftV.
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SOME DEMOCRATIC HISTORY.
There is nothing so unpalatable
to our nide-bound, concreted.jaun-
diced Texas democracy as a pre-
sentation of their record. Por the
benefit of our reform brethren we
present a succinct, correct histori-
cal symposium of this great "friend
of the people," taken from the
Southern Toiler:
The history of the democratic
party from its inception in the
United States up to the adoption
of the Chicago platform in 1892,
on the currency and bank question,
coo&tit ites an interesting and in-
structive chapter in our national
politics. That the present attitude
of that party, as contrasted with
its earlier teachings on this ques
tion,is in antagonism and hostility
one with the other cannot be intel-
ligently denied. The party has
moved away from its base. It is
now out of sight ot its old land-
marks. All the vital parts have
been abandoned and nothing but
the name is retained. The life,
the spirit, the voice, the manhood,
the honesty and truth of the old
and first lessons are all gone and
only the old hull remains. That
party now teaches new doctrines;
falls down and worships new gods;
it has new altars, and sings new
songs. The old teachings of our
fathers have been passed to the
rear and are no more forever.
When this party, for the first
time in its history, assembled in
convention, in 1840, in the city of
Baltimore, and formulated its
political faith and principles into a
written declaration, one of the
boldest principles announced was
aB follows:
"That congress has no power to
charter a United States bank, that
we believe such an institution one
of deadly hostility to the best in-
terest of the country—dangerous to
our republican institutions and the
liberties of th« people, and calcu
lated to place the business of the
country within the control of a
concentrated money power and
above the laws and will of the peo-
ple."
Go back fifty-two years and
contrast the present with it, and
no prophet, divine or human, ever
gave utterance to a sublimer truth,
or foretold the coming of events or
conditions with more accuracy and
certiinty. In 1844 this same dem-
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ministering
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of Cod Liver Oil. It is
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that children are heir to
PwpawdbySooii A Bow—.NT. ABdwwIlfc
ocratio party assembled again in
Baltimore, and in national conven-
tion reaffirmed and readopted this
same declaration of principles with-
out a single alteration. James K.
Polk was at the Bame time, and in
the same convention, nominated
for president, while Martin Van
Buren was nominated in the first
convention of 1840. We find fur-
ther, that in 1848 this same party
assembled in national convention
in the same city of Baltimore and
again reaffirmed and adopted that
same declaration of principle,with-
out the crossing of a t or dotting ot
an i, and in this convention Lewis
Cass was nominated for president.
In 1852 the party met again in
the city of Baltimore. The same
identical oosition was enunciated
and reaffirmed and Pierce was
nominated and elected president.
In 1856 the same party assembled
in national convention in Cincin
nati, and without altering a letter
or a line, again reaffirmed and re-
adopted this same declaration of
principle, and here it was that
James P. Buchanan was nominat-
ed and elected president.
In 1860 the democratic party
held two conventions, after having
first assembled in the city of
Charleston, and made the mem-
orable split over th<* secession
question. On the reassembling of
the party, in June, 1860, in Balti-
more, each element or faction held
its own convention and one nomi-
nated Douglass and the other
Breckinridge. They were both
defeated, and Lincoln was elected
president. The Douglass wing of
the party incorporated the same
words in its platform, not chang-
ing a single sentence that the for-
mer contained—not a word on the
bank question. The Breckinridge
wing did not refer to it.
In 1864 the party assembled
again in national convention in
Chicago, adopted a platform and
did not mention the currency ques-
tion. McClellan was nominated
for president but defeated.
It again assembled in national
convention in 1868, but ignored
the bank and cusrency question.
It nominated Seymour for presi-
dent and he was defeated.
In 1872 it assembled on the 9th
of July, in Baltimore, and adopted
and ratified the platform and nom-
ination of the liberal republicans,
which met in Cincinnati on the 1st
of May, 1872, and nominated Gree-
ley for president, Greeljy was
defeated. No reference whatever
was made to the bank and curren-
cy question.
Another element of the demo-
cratic party met in Louisville on
Sept. 3, 1872, and nominated
G'Conner for president, who was
defeated, but not a word was said
about banks and currency.
Again the party met in St. Louis
in 1876, and nominated Tilden,but
said nothing on the bank and cur-
rency question. Tilden was elect-
ed but counted out.
In 1880 it assembled in conven-
tion in Cincinnati and nominated
Hancock for president who was
defeated. No mention was made
of the bank question, but it de-
clared for honest money, consist-
ing of gold and silver and paper
money, convertable into coin on
demand.
In 1884 this party again met in
convention at Chicago, nominated
Cleveland for president, who was
elected. It said nothing about
banks, but declared "for honest
money, the gold and silver coin-
age or the constitution and a circu-
lating medium convertable into
such money without loss."
Four years later, 1888, it again
met in St. Louis and nominated
Cleveland again for president, who
was defeated. It re-adopted its
position on the currency question
as declared in 1884, but said noth-
ing about banks.
In 1892 it met for the last time
in Chicago and nominated Cleve-
land again and he was elected. It
changed its former position, taken
in 1888, on the currency question,
but still no word on banks. In
this last convention it declared for
the use of gold and silver as the
standard money of the country,
but the dollar unit of coinage must
be fixed or adjusted through in-
ternational agreement, etc.
The reader must study the ques
tion as presented, and he will find
much food lor reflection. The re
suit is: A gold basis is to be the
standard What a chapter of in-
famy have parties reached ? Step
by step the democratic party is
now forging the very onains of
slavery it warned us against a few
years ago.
NO PROSPERITY VISIBLE.
The great prosperity in the
south and west, that we read so
much oi in the democratic and re-
publican journals, is misleading.
As a matter of fact it does not ex-
ist. All admit that the prosperity
of these sections is wholly depend-
ent upon agrioulture, and the ag
i culturalists in these sections are
on the down grade.
In traveling through the couu-
tr7, here and there, evidences o"
prosperity may be seen, but for
every example of prosperity, ten
will be seen that indioate increas-
ing poverty. Dilapidated dwell-
ings, barns, outhouses, fences, all
indicate that the holders are on
the down grade. Close investiga-
tion into county records develop
that seven out of ten of these new
houseB, improved barns, and other
improvements, have been put up
on credit, or by a retired business
man, or for a country residence by
some professional or business man,
or the builder has sold property
or raised money to pay for them
outside of the regular product ot
the farm, upon which the improve-
ments are erected.
All this indicates anything but
prosperity. Statistics, authentic
and reliable, tell the tale. Three-
fourths of the farms in these sec-
tions are mortgaged past redemp-
tion. This is proven by the fact
that these mortgages are increas-
ing in size, in the face of phenom-
enal production, and exemplary
economy. If it were possible ever
to pay them they would l\ave been
reduced during the last six years.
The only road leading to inde-
pendence is in increaeing the vol-
ume of money and reducing taxa-
tion. Until this is done general
prosperity is out of the question.
Many Persons are broken
down from overwork or household caret.
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INDIGE8TION,
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TORPID LIVER,
DYSPEPSIA.
.«"Observe the following symptoms result-
ing from Disotse of the Digestive Organs:
constipation, Inward Piles, Kullaess of the
Blood lu the Head, Aclditv of the Stomach,
Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Fo.xl, Fullness
of Weight in the Stomach, Sour Bruetatioas,
Sinking or Fluttering of the Hear), Choking or
Suffocating Sensations wben in a lying posture
Dimness or Vision. Dots or w«i a before the
Sight, Kever and Dull Pain in the Head, Defi-
ciency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin
and Eyes, ''ain In the Side, Ches I, Limbs, and
Sudden Plushes of Beat, Burning in the Flesh
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the system of all the above nam jd disorders.
Price 25 cents per box. Sold by all druggists
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boxes for One Dollar.
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WHO WILL ANSWER 1
We submit a few questions to
those who advocate diversification
of crops as a panacea for the evils
that now afflict the farmers, with
the request that they candidly and
fully consider them and make an-
swer.
1st. How can a farmer in the
south, who raises seven bushels of
wheat to the acre, successfully
compete with the northern farmer
who harvests sixteen bushels to
the acre; especially when the
freignts and legitimate charges for
hauling is less that 20 oents per
bushel ?
2d. How can a southern farmer,
who harvests thirteen bushels of
corn per acre, compete with his
northern brotner who raises thir-
ty-two bushels per acre, when the
freight is less than 15 cents per
bushel ?
3d. Why should a farmer in the
south grow corn that returns him
$6.50 per acre, or wheat that
brings him only $7 per acre, when
the same land and labor in cotton
will produce $14.60 per acre?
4th. How can the southern far-
mer sell his cotton unless he ac-
cepts the northern farmer's pro-
duce in exchange ?
5th. Doesn't civilization begin
and end with the plow ?
6th. Why should newspapers
whose legitimate mission is to
show the people bow to perfect
and increase civilization (com-
merce) advise the people to return
barbarism, because a lot of selfish
political shysters advocate it, bo
as to serve their masters and re-
tain fat jobB ?
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1893, newspaper, March 30, 1893; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185510/m1/3/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .