The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1897 Page: 10 of 16
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SOÜTHJflBJS MJflHCÜBY,
ONLY WAITINO.
We are waiting—only waiting—
For the promised days to some—
For they said when birds were mat-
ing
We would hear the busy hum
Of machinery put in motion,
And the shuttle and the loom
Would dispel all doubtful notion
Of McKinley's business boom.
Louisville Dispatch.
'Tis true we now are waiting
For the promised days to come;
'Tis true, as you are statin?,
That in business there's no hum;
But in answer to your cackle
We reiterate our guess,
That prosperity joj'11 tackle
In a twelvemonth more or less—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
There are buds that long for bloom-
ing,
Yet whose leaves fail to expand;
There are ships love sends a-sailing,
That oft never reach the land:
O'er the songs sweet hope sings to us
Come the minor tones of woe—
And to guess or play the prophet
Is not wise unless you know.
—Philadelphia Times.
Only waiting 'till the shadows
Are a little longer grown;
Only waiting 'till the goldbugs
Every blessed thing shall own;
Then they'll point with great elation
To the ruin they have wrought,
And the only "hum" they'll leave us
It the humbug they have brought.
—Chicago Dispatch.
The (,waiting" will soon be over,
Er'e the swallows nest again
And the the din of gathering thou-
ands
Will echo over the plain,
Revolution fierce and gory
Is ripening fast apace;
Statesmen, scholars, iudges, rulers,
Should utilize this day of grace.
NOT DONE YET!
The regular session of the 25th leg-
islature was adjourned sine die on
Saturday, May 22nd after a continu-
ous session of over four months.
Though assembled with a groat flour-
ish of trumpets, and weighted down
with promises made durlug the re-
cent campain, It stands out on the
records of the state as tne most un-
faithful set of law makers that ever
put their fe.t under the mahogany
In the state capital, the notorious
13th legislature not excepted. To at-
tempt to enumerate their short-com-
ings would exhaust the patience of
onr readers.
Tbe promise* and pledges set forth
in the platform adopted at Ft. Worth
last year, upon which they were
elected, seem to have been an etern
al nightmare to them,worrying them
night and day. Having stolen every
principle worth advocating from the
populists, they refused to the last to
even give them the semblance of con
sideration, lest they might be charg-
ed with having endorsed populism.
The tew honest men, in that body,
tried to carry out tne pledges made,
but the preponderance of pie-hunters
backed by an influential lobby made
these attempts totally ineffectual.
Even the young christian governor
could not check them in their wild
.v..rv- • áPÁt
and woolly course. One by one, as
the party *pl cges were presented,
they were consigned to the legisla-
tive junk pile, none of them passing
the enfilade of the freebooters except
the pledge made to the "colored con
tingent"—100,000 acres of "choice
lands" in the canyonf of Presidio
county set aside by the legisla-
tive enactment for the "colored uni -
versity, lands which on tbe market
to-day would not net 25 cents per
acre—but It Is land all the same, and
meets the platform demand. Th<
more Intelligent colored voters de-
clare It an Insult to Texas negroe¡^
and spurn the proffered gift with con
tempt.
Before the solons could gather theii
laundry and have their free passe;-
punched, the governor fired an ( rdi r
in on them commanding them to re-
convene on the following day, Satut
day, May 22nd, at 12 m., to especlall-
consider such matters as he shoulc
present to them in his official rote-
sage.
The democratic sena ors at Austin
are calling the house members cattU
and court houss jurors, who, when at
home, hang around for court hous
jobs. The Post at Houston, a thicl-
and thin organ, advises the legisla
ture to go home, as they are dolnj;
nothing and have lost the respect of
the state. The platform repudiators
are not disturbed, as they are gettinc
two dollars per day and lobby fixings
and rely on the official fee system
and the negro vote for further pro-
motion. Get up your school house
clubs.
The Alliances will be revived and
re-vigorated all along the line by the
discussion of home industry and trans
portation as affecting Texas. The
present burdens on the people will in-
duce the sub-Alliances to greater
work. The open, shameful repud a-
tioi of platform pledges by the pres-
ent legislature show that it has come
to a fight to the finish between an
unscrupulous official, syndicate and
the people who pay the freight.
Thou^ndsof honest democrats will
revolt when they get on to the
scheme,
The York New Financial Record
(not a populist paper) discusses the
monev question as follows:
The total amount of money in cir-
culation in the United States as re-
ported by the secretary of the treas-
ury, is $1,6(16,500,383. This would
m«ke the nominal amount per capita
$22.93.
Deducting the quantity of money
destroyed and likely out of use, the
amounts held as a reserve and not
available, and a fair estimate of
available money in circulation will
not exceed $12 per capita. Possibly
there never was a period in the his-
tory of the country when there was
so much need for aa increase io the
currency. The financial Ills, the gen-
eral business depression are largely
If not entirely due to the contraction
of the currency. France has over
four times as much currency as the
United States; still there is every
reason why our nation should be more
fully supplied. We have so much
larger territory to be covered, trans-
act proportionately more business
and should, when in a healthy condi-
tion, be able to use a greater amount
of actual money.
. sfc fas* , >
Harvester and
claims.
Binder.
That's
When I Saw
—your advertisement
I thought that it was probably like the announce-
ments of many other makers of harvesting machinery
—big blow and little show; but I'm ready to surren-
der; go ahead gentlemen, you're all right; I bought
one of your binders last season and it is equal to any
claim you ever made for it."
This is the condensed essence of what Mr. Thomas
Carney, of Washington Court House, Ohio, has to
say about the McCormick Right Hand Open Elevator
The claims made for McCormick Machines are
because
The ma-
reason that
the "end you'll be
1 glad you paid the difference, because there's nothing cheaper than the best.
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Chicago
The Light-Running McCormick Open Elevator Harvester,
The Light-Running McCormick New 4 Steel Mower,
The Light-Running McCormick Vertical Corn Binder and
The Light-Runniug McCormick Daisy Reaper, for sale everywhere.
The famous
Bine Ribbon
Line
Vehicles
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Built of the very best mateiiaia and strictly first-class rhrougnout.
Spepcial features In painting and trimming.
Special «styles—Favorites with Young Men—other conveniences for
Old People.
Cheapest lines for the money on the market Address,
TEXAS I0LINE PLOW CO., DaUis, Tern
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WANTED—Young mea and momea So leara the Business End of Business. That's what wo
eh. The same methods in baying and selling a* are employed by tbe leading business house .
Only school in the city holding medal from State* Fair for best Business College. Speoial Sum*
For catalogue address TBS KING BUSINESS OOL.LUGE, 342 Kim Sk, Dallas. Tsfc.
°PO¿/7ASV
A nd School of Shorthand. The Great Model Bnsi
aass Training School of the south. Experienced
teachers, thorough course of study, and finest equip-
ments. Shorthand department in charge of court re-
porter. We guarantee the best fadlties in the state.
Catalogue free. Address, mentioning this paper.
GILLESPIE A LAWRENCE, Dallas, Texas
00 well trained bust
The business man In search of ah assistantwant
one who is familiar with the practical side of tus
neos life. That Hill's Business Colleges turns ou
this sort of graduates is shown by the fact tha
they are now filling positions averaging f om }40 t
WOO a month. Five hundred student annual ly
d for catalogue. Its bee. Address
I, H. HILL, President, Waco, Texas.
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