The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1894 Page: 3 of 16
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OCT. 4,1894.
SOUTHERN MERCUK:
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FACTS, NOT THEORIES.
In these days oí trusts and colsolida-
tiona, strikes and cut-downs between
labor and railroads, it may be inter-
esting to note what has been done and
oan be done to remedy these evils. We
never hear of any strikes or labor
troubles on the railroads of Australia,
and why? Baoause the government
owns and operates them in the interest
of the people.
In Australia you can ride a distance
of 1000 mile 3 aoross the country for
$6 50, first-class, too, while working-
men can ride six miles for 2 cents,
twelve miles for 4 cents, thirty miles
for 10 cents, etc., and railroad men re-
ceive 25 to 30 per cent more wages for
eight hours of labor than they are paid
in this country for ten hours of toil.
In Victoria, where the above rates
prevail, the net income from the roads
last year was sufficient to pay all the
federal taxes.
In Hungary, where the roads are
state owned, you can ride six miles for
a cent, and since the government
bought the roads, wages have doubled.
Belgium tells the same story—fares
and freight rates cut down one-half and
wages doubled.
Yet the roads pay a yearly revenue
to the government of $4,000,000.
In Germany you can xide four miles
for a cent on the government owned
lines. Yet wages are ov6r 120 per cent
higher than they were when the cor-
porations owned them, and during the
last ten years the net profits have in-
creased 41 per cent. Last year the
roads paid the German government a
net profit of $25,000,000' Worklngmen
and farmers, if you like such rates as
these, vote the people's party ticket.
If our government owned the rail
roads we could go from San FranciEco
to Boston for $10. Look at the proof:
Uncle Sam pays the railroads not
quite $275 to transport a loaded postal
car from Boston to San Francisco. A
passenger car will carry fifty passen
gers, which, at $10 each,would be $500,
or a clean profit of $225 a car, and this,
too, after paying 54 per cent on watered
stock, which is fully 100 per cent on
the cost of the roads.
To show how our railroads have wa
tered their stock, look at the New
York Central & Hudson River rail-
road, which, when the Vanderbilts
obtained control In 1869, was capital-
ized at $49,000,000 They at once wa-
tered it up to $90,000,000. More water
has been added, until the present cap-
ital stock is $146,000,000—all but $45,-
flOO,000 being water.
Government ownership would save
the people the gigantic sum of $1,000,
OOO.OGO a year and bring shorter hours
and better pay to the 703,000 railroad
employes.—Chicago News
THE FORT WORTH LABOR CONVENTION
The proceedings of the recent state
convention of labor organizations
held In Fort Worth, at published In
the News, shows that It eudorsed the
people's party as emphatically as the
fundamental laws of their several or-
ganizations permitted. The condemna
tion of Grover Cleveland, his policy,
and the democratic state platform, cou
pled with its appeal to all union men
to unite in defeating all candidates
running on such platform, or endorsing
Cleveland, was as strong endorsement
of the populist ticket as any body of
men could have framed.
Qiite a number of delegates to that
convention called at the Mebcury
office the day after the convention
closed, and united in saying that the
Fort Worth Gazette's report of the pro-
ceedings emlnated from the only
delegate who created any confusion, or
tried to create any contention.
All can now rest assured that those
who Uva by the sweat of their face are
as a unit in the support of the populist
ticket. The outcome of this conven-
tion shows tbat mossback boodle has
ceased to decoy organized laboring
peo pie from performing their whole
duty politically.
Hogg said: "Elect democrats who
will construe the ninth and tenth
planks in the Dallas platform to the
benefit of labor." We elected free sil-
ver democrats and they construed the
silver plank in the national platform
to mean the gold standard. No more
of that for us. We populist trusted
Hogg, but we won't trust the Clark-
Culberson combine, even though they
are good Hogg catohers.—Texas Union
Workman.
Yes, the day is past when dema-
gogues can lead the masses around by
the nose and make them vote chains
on their limbs. The voters of Texas
are finding out that the Culberson-
Glddlngs deal meant that the gold bugs
were to make to make the platform,
and dictate Culberson's policy In case
of his election. In short, if Culberson
is elected Clint Glddlngs will be his
prime minister.
Judge Clark says In his Bastrop
speech in relation to the silver coinage
question:
"The discussion of this question now
is premature, for any legislation upon
this line is impossible before 1898. Mr.
Cleveland will remain president until
Maroh 4, 1897, 0and so long as he is
president the country need indulge no
apprehension that the free and unlim-
ited coinage of silver will be entered
upon in the absence of positive safe-
guards insuring its parity."
We have here Judge Clark's word for
It that Mr. Cleveland will veto any free
coinage law that congress may pass, by
no matter what majority. But there
is a way to pass a law over the presi-
dent's veto, judge; so the discussion of
this question may not be premature
after all.
Nearly one thousand millions of dol-
lars a year is lost to the United States
and gained by Great Britain on three
American products, apart from silver,
by demonetizing that metal! Here we
have the most comprehensive motive
of all, for the mission of Ernest Seyd to
the land of our Troy-Saint of the
Whlted Sepulchre, John Sherman.
Banks are useful Institutions, and
bankers are useful men. But they
should not be permitted to ride and
crush with double interest, and with
the monopoly of all monopolies—the
exclusive right to furnish and regulate
the medium of our exchanges.
FARM FOR SALE.
650 acres, Brazos botu>m, 225 acres
in cultivation, ail tillable; 2 miles from
Kimble, In Bosque county, Tex. Price,
$12 50 per acre,one-tblrd trade, balance
to suit purchaser.
KIRKPATRICK ft SKI LES, Dallas, Tex.
The Mercury was honored on last
Tuesday by "Yours Truly," a semi-
monthly journal, edited, published and
printed by two young ladies (mutes) of
this city. The number before us, No.
1, Vol. 2, is spicy, breezy, and uniqe,
and indicates that these young ladies
have vim and tact, which insures suc-
cess*
A DREAM OP PAIR WOMBN.
We dreamed of bliss.
But never knew
The bliss of having
Dreams come true,
Until, for very pity's sake,
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The BAIN
THE KING OF ALL
WAGONS
For nearly half a
century this Cele-
brated Wagon ban
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people, and has
solely upon its su-
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n the world.
Tbs factory Is lo-
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reach of the best
| markets for pro-
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the choicest stock
enters Into Itn con-
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1894, newspaper, October 4, 1894; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185581/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .