The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1894 Page: 3 of 16
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MAR. 1,1894.
SOUTHERN MERCURY,
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PLUTOCBAT8 AT WORK.
A large meeting was held reeently
in Boston, composed exclusively of
leading bankers, railway presidents,
usurers and their legal advisers, and
agents of foreign money lenders, for
the ostensible purpose of pushing the
coinage of silver. After much discus-
sion a resolution was adopted, advoca-
ing the calling of an international
monetary conference, as the quickest
way to secure silver coinage.
While this movement appears to
be in the interest of silver, it is, in
fact, the very opposite. The class of
men who composed this meeting have
deceived and robbed the masses so of-
ten and so successfully, that they look
upon the plain people as legitimate
victims.
The object is to work up a sentiment
favoring an international monetary
conference; then appoint gold bugs to
represent the United States, who in
league with European plutocrats who
will make an international treaty,
make gold the only thing that can
pay a debt, either domestic or foreign.
Let us see what effect such a policy
would have on the United States. The
national, state, county, municipal and
corporate debts owed by the people of
this country to aliens, aggregate $1
000,000,000, twice as much gold as
there are in the world; the annual in-
terest on which is $450,000,000 at the
very least. To undertake to pay that
amount in gold is simply ridiculous;
hence it must be paid in American pro-
ductions.
The gold bug policy of the United
States has already run cotton down to
$30 per bale, or 6 cents per pound
wheat to 50 cents per bushel; clover to
30 cents, oats to 25 cents, and tobacco
to 40 cents per pound; and if Carlisle
succeeds in withdrawing all of our sil-
ver certificates from circulation, which
he is now doing, the prices of these
products are bound to go lower; but for
the sake of showing the condition we
are now in, let us see how much of our
products must annually goto Europe to
pay this enormous interest.
At present prices it will take 5,000,-
000 bales of cotton, 250,000,000 bushels
of wheat, 300,000,000 bushels of corn,
300,000,000 bushels of oats and 250,000,-
000 pounds of tobacco, to meet this ob-
ligation. No man will pretend that
American farmers can spare this much
of their annual products and live, hence
it must be made up on some other pro"
duct.
No one can look at these astound-
The Marked Success
of Scott's Emulsion in consump-
tion, scrofula and other forms of
hereditary disease is due to its
powerful food properties.
Scott's Emulsion
rapidly creates healthy flesh—
proper weight. Hereditary
taints develop only when the
system becomes weakened.
Nothing in the world
of medicine has been
so successful in dis-
eases that are most
menacing to life. Phy-
sicians everywhere
prescribe it.
Prepared by Soott k Bowne, If. V. All di
ing figures without saying to them-
selves, "If these figures are true, the
American pro lucera are slaves already,
and if someting is not done, posterity
is bound in a more galling slavery than
were the negroes before the war."
Every one who is 'posted knows
that old England and European aris-
tocrats have accomplished the enslav-
ing of the American producers through
the agency of New England. New
England was induced to engage in this
inff.mous business in order to perpet-
uate New England's supremacy in the
carrying, shipping and manufacturing
business, through the use of Euro-
pean capital, New England has con-
structed the railway system so as to
force the products of the south and
west through the gates, and all for-
eign commerce comes the same way.
Every since the Hamiltonian theory
of government was rejected bv the
framers of the constitution New Eng-
land has been plotting against the
United States.
Lincoln saw their plans and warned
the American people of the returning
depotism. It was the ruling classes
in this section that he heard say "the
republic is a failure; a monarchy is the
proper thing." His great heart was
bursting with sorrow for the future of
the people of the United States when
he uttered these notes of warning.
Lincoln was a patriot. Having been
raised and educated in the west, he had
no idea of the greed of New England,
and her desire to estalish a monarchy,
till be became president and came into
direct contact with these schemes to
enslave and overthrow the republic.
The sharp, shrewd, unprincipled
New England plotters knew that the
people of the United States would nev-
er submit to a man being crowned kingt
and to circumvent them they set to
work to have a thing crowned and to
give it absolute power. They selected
gold and have made it king of kings
and lord of lords.
As a matter of fact, gold today is
king, and demands more obedience and
larger tribute than any crowned king
on the globe. Rothschilds and his as-
sociates rule the world; they dictate
the financial policy of every civilized
nation.
Thomas Jefferson said, "Were it left
to me to decide to have no government
and plenty of newspapers, or a full
equipped government and no newspa
pers, I would hesitate one moment in
deciding in favor of no government
and plenty of newspapers. But," said
he, "I would compel the newspapers to
continually discuss fundamental prin-
ciples of government, on their merits,
and have those newspapers in every
man's house."
The result is the only hope left the
plain people to regain their lost free-
dom, and bring the government again
under their control, is to establish a
patriotic press that will tell the truth
and expose the schemes of those who
daily tighten the chains about their
limb9. If there is enough independent
manhood and patriotism left among the
plain people in these United States to
build up such a party they will soon
awaken the spirit of 1776 and Ameri-
cans will yet be freemen.
Fruit Trees! Fruit Trees!
Southern Gem Nurseries, Dallas,
Texas, grows the largest and most com-
plete stock of fruit trees, berries, ever-
Í reens, shrubs, and vines in the state,
fe will save money for the planter to
submit a list of his wants to these nur-
series. Prices of stock very reasonable
and In keeping with the hard times.
HUTS 'FOB WORKXVeXXW TO CKAOX.
The New York Times, the leading
republican paper in the United States,
says: "There seems to be but one
remedy, and it must come. A change
of ownership of the soil and a creation
of a class of land owners on the one
hand, and of tenant farmers on the
other, similar to what has long existed
in the older countries of Europe."
(Ireland and Scotland for instance.)
The New York World, tho demo-
cratic Rothschild organ, says: "The
American laborer must make up his
mind henceforth, not to be so much
better off than the European laborer.
Men must be contented to work for
less. In this way the workingmen will
be nearer to that station of life to
which it has pleased God to call them."
(How cheering to the starving thous-
ands!)
The .Indianapolis News (dem) says:
"If the workingmen had no vote, they
would be more amendable to the teach-
ings of hard times." (Straws show
which way the wind blows.)
The New York Tribune, republican,
says: "The times are near when the
banks will find themselves compelled
to act strongly. The machinery is
now furnished by which, in any emer-
gency, the financial corporations of the
east can act together, at a single day's
notice, with such power that no act of
congress can overcome or resist their
decisions."
The key to the above statements can
be found in a little work called the
"Seven financial Conspiracies."
Joseph Cook said: "Under military
necessity, even here in the United
States, we must get rid c of universal
suffrage, and we shall. (This is cheer-
ing.)
Senator Sharon, the infamous mil
lionaire libertine of Califorina, said
in his paper: "We need a stronger
government. The wealth of?the nation
bears the expense of the government."
And in the same sentence calls the
workingmen that creates his wealth
paupers. The paupers are apparent,
but his other assertions are false, for
bond-holders pay no taxes on their
bonded wealth.
Workingmen, your grand old parties
tell 3ou just what they propose to do
with you. First, to rob you of what
you have. Which they have nearly
accomplished already. Then you are
to be disfranchised; and the peculiar
ieature of this last stroke of business
is, that they propose to have you do it
by your own votes. Failing in that,
the strong arm of the military power
of this great and glorious government
of the United States is to be invoked to
complete your everlasting bondage and
disgrace, and make you serfs and
slaves.
Rally round the flag, boys—before
its stars are obliberated by traitors,
and replaced by the emblems of mon-
archy and despotism. Its coming.
"Dinnaye hear the slogan?"
G. W. Herring.
Redding, Cal.
Mrs. Eva Blackman, secretary of the
Leavenworth, Kansas, police board, be-
lieves that "to the victors belong the
spoils," hence has concluded to remove
all the democrats on the c'ty police
force and supply their places with pop-
ulists. Gov. Lewelling's experience
with Mrs. Lease has taught him that it
is wise not to interfere in the matter,
although he has been strongly ap-
pealed to by the democratic setfasts.
It is evident that our Kansas sisters
know something of practical polities.
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YOU CLOD HOPPERS HOT IV IT.
You hard working farmers who earn
about 13 cents per day by producing 6
cent cotton and 30 cent corn, should
ponder over the way your public ser-
vants live. Here is one specimen of
American royality you can read after
a hard 13 cent days work, and after
the family prayer of thanksgiving for
your daily bread.
"A landau, a barouche, a coupe and
a buggy constitute the livery equip-
ment of a member of the cabinet. The
vehicles are bought with government
money, as well as the horses which draw
them. The stables are maintained at
government expense.1 The buildings oc-
cupied are rented at $600 a year, which
the government pays. The men who
havejeharge of the stables are carried on
the government pay-roll as an inspector
of something or other. The secretary
has the equipment mentioned above,
and besides, each one of his assistants
has a carriage and a horse, bought and
maintained by the government.
Whenever these official horses show
signs of giving way they are condemn
and sold. Others are bought at an
average of obout $300 a piece. Six
months is often as long as a $600 team
will stand the wear and tear of office
life. Nowhere in the appropriation
bills is there mention made of "car-
riages," yot not only Cabinet secreta-
ries, but their assistants, have them at
government expense. The drivers are
carried on the rolls as laborers. The
same report says that these luxuries
are not peculiar to this administration.
The Chicago Express.
There is a growing inclination among
southern populists to take papers advo-
cating our cause published in the
north, and thousands of our southern
papers flow north regularly. To meet
this demand the Mercury in pleased
to offer a club rate to its readers where-
by they can Becure the Chicago Ex.
press (now edited by Henry Vincent,
formerly of the Nonconformist) at a re-
duced rate of $1.60 for the two, or $2.00
for the Express, Mercury and Ad-
vance. The Express alone is $1.00,
hence jou see the advantage of our
offer. The Express is the hardest hit*
ter of them all, and if you have a pas-
sion for straight talk you get it there.
Remember the price, only $1.60 for the
two, or $2.00 for the three.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1894, newspaper, March 1, 1894; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185550/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .