The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1894 Page: 4 of 16
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SOUTHERN" MEBCUBY.
NOV. 22. 1804
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Official Journal Fanners' State Alliance of Texas.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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MANAGING EDITOR and GEN1 L MANAGER
The Texas Populist State Paper.
Entered at the Dallas. Texas post-offloe as
mall matter of the second class.
Office, 102 Main St., opp. Trust B'ld'g.
Fusion Is cod fusion.
Tils populist gains in Texas are phe-
nominal.
This is about the time to eubscrbe
for the Mercury.
Solomon Rothschild eaid wig-wag,
and we chumps all wig-wagged.
Texas can muster 2u0,000 populists,
active, earnest.and red-headed in the
fight.
The season for opening the pluto-
cratic free soup houses will soon be
here.
It is very apparent that Eager Q
Mills' senatorial usefulness is about
ended.
To maintain Mr. Cleveland's gold re-
serve, will maintain the people's cold
poverty.
Hill says it was the income tax that
hit New York. What hit the balance
of the states?
The populists propose to organize
Texas as she should be during the
next campaign.
The bankers have concluded that
another issue of fifty million gold
bonds is necessary.
The Best way to keep Texas in line
for the reform moyement is to circu-
late the Mercury.
If Colorado people favor free coinage
of silver, they have a very peculiar
way of expressing themselves.
Imitate Balaam's ass,Mr. Mills,open
your mouth,and tell the people who hit
Billy Patterson, and what for.
As the election is over, and General
Casslus M. Clay is married, let the
campaign of eduoation proceed.
The best jjke of the campaign is the
eleotlon of the republican candidates
on a free silver platform up in Colora-
do.
Colorado is opposed to free silver
coinage, if the election returns from
that atate are to be looked upon as an
expression of the views of the Colorado
people.
The populist vote in Oaio was 51,-
000. One year ago it was only 15,000
K tnsas grasshoppers laid eggs in Ohio,
als).
The populist VJie of Texas can safe-
ly be plaoed at 200,000. By 1896 fifty
thousand will be added to these fig-
ures.
Where was the Deuver Silver
League, and the BUmetallo League,
when the silver oandle went out in Col-
orado?
The only objeot the people had in
view, as shown by the eleotlon re-
turns, wm to skin Cleveland. He is
skunl
THe people of Colorado endorsed ev
erything the old parties have done, in
oluding the tarring and feathering of
Oen. Tarsney.
Cotton is now selling in Dal'as at
3} cents per pound. One more old
party victory, and the producers cant
give it away.
Congress should establish a provis
ional government for Alabama until
the people can organize a state govern
ment, republican in form.
News comes from Chicago that the
bankers in that city favor the bond is
sue. Very likely. The bankers of
Dallas, doubtless, favor it also.
The report of the commission ap-
pointed to investigate the railroad
strikes in Chicago, will be found on the
first page of this issue of the Mercu-
ry.
Silver Dick Bland of Missouri
was carried down with the cataract.
Mr. Bland made a hobby of silver coin-
age. Many people believe him to have
been insincere in his advocacy of free
silver.
Objector Holman of Indiana is re-
tired from congress. The republicans
in the next congress can pass all the
pension law 8 they please and no one
will object.
A national conference of the lead-
ers of the people's party will doubtless
be held soon. Why not hold It in Dal-
las? Texas is the leading populist
state now, remember.
Why did Mr. Cleveland wait until
after the election to sell fifty million
more bonds, if such an act was neces-
sary and right? Deception and fraud
will not win in the end.
Colorado people say. "The way to
secure free silver coinage is to elect
and continue a party in power that has
never failed to denounce silver coinage
on every and all occasions."
The populisms of Texas propose to
contest every box where evidence of
fraud exists. If Alabama methods are
to prevail in Texas the people want to
know it and get their guns.
Hon. Jerome C. Kearby does not
admit his defeat for congress in the
sixth district of this state. He claims
his election by the honest vote of the
people, and he will oontend for it.
The people have impeached Mr.
Cleveland, and, if congress does its du-
ty, it will do likewise. It is time the
servants of the people were taught
that they oannot run riot with the
rights and liberties of the people.
Some Colorado republican, well up in
political history, will please state an
Instance where the republican majori-
ty of congress voted for free silver
coinage, or for ooinlag silver, free or
otherwise. Just give us one instance.
Democrats were claiming, before
the election, that Coxey would cut no
figure as a congressional oandidate in
Ohio. He did not cut muoh of a fig-
ure, but he ran ahead of his brother
democratic oandidate. Anybody oould
have done that, this Cleveland year.
The Bland act and its substitute, the
Sherman law, provided for a monthly
increase of the circulation. Those acts
have been repealed by old party legis-
lation . There is now no law authoriz-
ing a dollar's increase of circulation.
With a rapidly increasing population
and no increase of circulation there is
little hope for a revival of trade or a
return of good^times. Panic and hard
times, falling prices and business stag-
nation will continue.
Congress should repeal the old law
under which Mr. Carlisle claims the
right to issue bonds. It is to conven
lent for the bankers.
Texas is now ¿he leading populist
state. The reformers of the Lone Star
State must maintain the position won
by the votes a the last election. Hence-
forward Texas leads the reform army.
Elsewhere in the Mercury will
be found a graphic description of the
election methods practicted by the
democrats of Alabama. The same
methods were resorted to in many
counties in Texis, by democrats.
An opinion of the cause of the recent
calamity to the democratic party from
Roger Q. Mills is in order. Come out
of your shell, Roger Q., and enlighten
an anxious public. You are a dead
cuckoo every one knows, but you might
comfort the sorrowing.
It took a throw out of four boxes in
Cass county to elect the democratic
ticket. That is democratic methods.
If the vote is against the party the
leaders reverse the decision of the peo-
ple by throwing out votes. Do the
people of Texas sanction such methods?
Mr. Cleveland sells Wall street
fifty million gold five per cent bonds in
order to furnish these gold gamblers
safe and profitable investment. There
is no other excuse on earth for this
bond sale, because there is $55,000,000
in silver bullion lying idle in the treas-
ury, and not a dollar of paper issue
standing against it. Can any one give
common sense reason for creating a
debt by borrowing money when the
material to coin into money is lying
idle in the treasury? Such crimes as
this are the cause of democratic de-
feat.
IT WILLWILL NOT DIE !
The people's party was not born to
die!
It is the party of the people, and as
long as the people live it will live.
All who rejoice over what they
olalm Is the death of the people's par-
ty, are "waking" a live corpse.
The vote of the people's party on
Nov. 6 last was fully double the vote of
the same party two years ago.
There are no evidences of decline or
decay of the people's party in the elec-
tion returns.
It was defeated in Kansas and Colo-
rado, but in both those states it polled
more votes this year than it did two
years ago.
The success of the party in Colorado
and Kansas was affected through fu-
sion. The victory meant nothing.
Hereafter a populist victory will mean
victory.
Tbe populists of Texas polled about
85,000 more votes this year than it did
in 1892. Oae half that increase in the
next two years, and Texas is populist
by a good majority.
Will the party In Texas make that
inorease at the election in 1896? If
work and effective organisation can
accomplish the result, Texas will go
populist two years henoe.
Hard times will continue. There is
no possibility of an improvement In
trade. Prices will continue to decline.
Business oannot revive under gold
standard policy of the present doml-
uant parties.
The reform movement must and will
go on. It is the only hope for the
county. The people's party is the on-
ly friend that stands between the peo-
ple and plutocratic slavery. The peo-
ple cannot afford to let the people's
party die. Tbey will not let it die. It
is the rainbow of hope and promise for
the masses of the people.
PUSH THE ALLIANCE WORK.
A proclamation from the president
of the Texas State Alliance will be
found elsewhere in this issue.
Special attention is called to this ap-
peal to the people from President
Jones, as it is in the right line. There
never was a time when the influence of
the Farmers' Alliance was more sorely
needed than now. Tbe farmers and
producers of the land must organize if
they propose to maintain their status
with other classes. It is a necessity
persoaally to the agricultural classes.
Their safety ¿depends upon organiza-
tion.
Upon the farmers rest the responsi-
bility, to a large degree, for the future
of the country. They have the power,
if it is aggregated, to lead the people
out of the wilderness of error that en-
gulfs them at ¿¡present. Our political
system must be reformed, and that re-
form must be brought about by the
common people. Such is the history
of all reforms. Capitalists, men of
money, bankers and money loaners
never inaugurate reform movement.
Men who reap profits from trusts and
combines never initiate reforms. They
always originate amoag the laboring
and producing classes.
Reform must come in this country
or comes revolution. If the farmers
are well organized, acting In unison
with organized labor of all Kinds, will
push the matter of educating the peo-
pie that Impending calamity may be
averted.
Outside of the benefits that organiza-
tion will bring to the farmers as a
class, great good can be accomp lished
to the public weal by a thor ough or-
ganization of the farmers In every state
In the union. They can then work in
harmony, aid any move or measure
they champion can be given an impetus
that will insure it considerate recogni-
tion.
Now is the time, during the leisure
season, for the work of reorganizing
the Alliance to be done. Every sus-
pended Alliance should be reorganized
and new ones established in every
available field. If the proper work is
done the Alliance can number millions
of members by two years hence. Such
an aggregation of voters working
unitedly and intelligently for the cause
of right would certainly remove the
chains of slavery that now manacle the
laboring and producing classes. The
Mercury urges on the farmers the
Importance of pushing the Alliance
work. Great benefits have resulted
from this organization, but if the or-
ganization was as complete as It should
be there is no estimating the power
for good it would wield. Organize and
reorganise Alliances everywhere and
send a report of your work to the Mer-
cu by. It will do all in its power to
aid the Alliance people at all times,
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1894, newspaper, November 22, 1894; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185588/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .