The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1898 Page: 2 of 16
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THE SOUTHERN MERCURY.
March IT, 1898.
Great fortunes are accumulated by
usury, and then used to further op-
press and rob the people. The usurer,
cursed by God and despised by all
honest men, Is exalted to high places
in the government. Interest and usury
are identical. Interest being only a
softer term. The first Christian na-
tion to sanction usury was England
under the brutal Henry VIII. The
first priest or preacher to endorse it
was John Calvin, the man who burned
Servetus at the stake for differing with
him in matters of religious doctrine.
All through the ages prior to the days
of these men the usurer was consid-
ered no better than a thief. Recently
the Salt Lake Tribune, the leading free
silver advocate* of the inter-mountain
country, made a strong argument for
silve ron the ground that it would
raise rates of interest! Our silver
friends do not seem to understand that
interest is devouring the sub-
stance of the people. Can a successful
fight be waged against plutocracy un-
der the leadership of men who advo-
cate silver for the unholy reason that
It will fatten the usurer? Never while
God reigns.
Much is said about silver raising the
<,price of products. The products of
•labor are divided into two shares. One
share goes to the capitalist for rent,
interest and profit; the other to the
worker. Now Carroll D. Wright .United
States Commissioner of labor and an
eminent statistician, says that the cap-
italist now receives on an average 83
per cent of all products and the worker
17 per cent. We will suppose that the
worker produces $4 worth of products
a day. This would give the worker—
who is the only producer, for capital
never did and never can produce one
attom—68 cents a day and the capital-
ist would get the rest. Now with free
silver, admitting that it would double
the price of products, the worker would
get $1.36 per day while the capitalist
would get the other $6.64. This would
soon double the powers of plutocracy.
Would it not be the better plan to
double the per cent which the worker
receeives by reducing the share of the
capitalist that much and leave the
prices where they are? Would not this
reduce the powers of plutocracy and
benefit the producers as much as free
silver? It is not so important that the
producer should have high prices for
his products as it is that he should not
be forced to give up four-fifths of them
to the capitalist. The worker can in-
crease his share of his productions
only by the destruction, partial or
complete, of capitalism. The fight of
to-day is between the plutocracy, rapa-
cious, organized and aggressive, and
the divided, deluded and despoiled
common people. If plutocracy is van-
quished a stronger weapon than free
silver will have to be used. Also a
stronger bond must be found to bind
the people together for the great strug-
gle against the rule of the very rich.
There are many other iljls which af-
flict the people that free silver will not
cure, but time and space forbids my
naming them here. Many thousands of
the people understand the situation
and favor more drastic measures than
free silver. They know there is but
little in it, and it is extremely doubtful
If they will unite in a movement that
has but one aim and that freee silver.
Unless all who are now classed as re-
formers, and these are the only hope
of the nation, unite, no victory is pos-
sible, and the rule of plutocracy will
continue. It is just as easy to win a
victory which will insure the people
a full and complete deliverance from
the power of concentrated wealth as it
is to win a barren one. Why not, then
all unite, inscribe on our banner,
"Death to the Rule of Plutocracy,"
and fight under it till the victory is
won? | i
The abolitionists were not comprom-
isers. Every compromise was a vic-
tory for the slave power and every one
who favored compromises was an enemy
to the cause of human liberty. Lin-
coln was a radical abolitionist and de-
clared that this nation could not live
half slave and half free. Every re-
former in the history of the world who
accomplished anything was an extrem-
est. Every compromise has been a fail-
ure ; every one made in the future will
also bo a failure. Free silver is but a
compromise and will prove as miser-
able a failure as any compromise in
the past has proven.
It is time that something was done
towards uniting and the basis of the
union is surely a matter for discus-
sion. Let there be neither bitterness
nor personalities in the discussion but
an honest, intelligent effort made to
unite all who are opposed to the rule
of plutocracy. With this done the fight
is easy and the victory sure.
The stifling grip of the rent lord can
only be brboken by nationalizing the
land. This wil linclude the mines,
and if the mines were the property of
the people no more would be heard of
free silver. The plundering of the rail-
roads can only be stopped by national
ownership. The telegraph must also
be nationalized. Usury should be made
a crime* The issuing of money is the
function of the nation, and not of the
banks, therefore all banks of issue
should be suppressed. The tools of the
trusts who now occupy the benches of
the Federal courts and menace the lib-
erties of the people should be legisla-
ted out of office and their successors
elected by the people. This would end
government by injunction. The veto
power should be taken from all execu-
tive officials, and given back to the
people. Public ownership of all pub-
lic utilities should be made the para-
mount issue. A union of forces along
these lines can be effected and a vic-
tory won which will dethrone plutoc-
racy forever and usher in the reign of
the people.
coton tax payer, and the wild and
woolly cow puncher wish he had never
been born. The seven plagues that af-
flicted Egypt are as nothing compared
to this plague of Democratic tax eaters
which threatens to consume what little
substance of the tax payers, the bank-
ers, trusts and corporations have over-
looked. The disgraceful scramble of
Texas Democrats to get to the state pie
counter is only equaled by the fight
among Texas Republicans for federal
pie.
"From Thos. Jefferson to Boss Crok-
er; from Sam Houston to Cholly Culber-
son. Oh! what a fall, My countrymen!
"Texas seems to be more sorely af-
flicted than any other state in the union
with a class of chronic office seekers
who never let go of a public teat when
once they get hold.
"There is "Pap" Reagan who used to
sition the poop of Noah's Ark and fish
for suckers, has been on the official pen-
sion list for so long that the mind of
man runneth not to the contrary. And,
then, there is "Old Dave" Culberson, an
antediluvian, who came over as a steer-
age passenger with Christopher Cólum-
)us, and at once oommenced shelling the
woods for office. Jester, Crane, Sayers,
and Wynn,e,, four 2x4 lawyers, self
constituted candidates, have inflicted
themselves thus early upon a peacable,
patient and long-suffering people, as
candidates for the Democratic nomina-
tion for governor. The election of either
will cause the people to wish that it
had been one of the others.
Crane will no doubt secure the noml
nation as he belongs to the Austin gang
and, being attorney general, can justly
claim right of way, to the gubernatorial
pie counter, as it has become a settled
principle of law in the Democratic party
of this state, that a nomination for gov-
ernor, to be "regular" must be via. the
atorney general's office. This is the
Hogg and Culberson narrow guage
route. Each of these four self-appointed
candidates for the governorship has se-
lected a campaign head-pusher to man-
ipulate the wires necessary for a nom-
ination. In the meantime, while this
swarm of Democratic office hunters and
tax eaters from senatorial down to the
precinct pie counter, are beating their
tom-toms, and making life a bore to all
sensible, self-respecting people, the five-
cent cotton raisers and discouraged tax
payers, generally, are trying to solve
the problem of how to pay debts and
taxes, and at the same time save enough
for a skinny sort of living. "Whom the
Lord loveth, He chasteneth."
Worse Than The Plagues of Egypt.
One would think that possibly in the
sparcely settled districts of the pan-
handle of Texas, office-hunters would be
scarce, but-such is not the jcase. The
Real Republic, of Amarillo, in agony,
cries out as follows: "The pie-eating
office-seeking horde of Texas Democracy
is already swarming all over the state
like a plague of Egyptian locusts, or
swarm of Kansas grass-hoppers, and are
equally as voracious. They threaten to
devour all the official pie in the state,
from governor down to dog pelter.
There is not an office in sight, big or
little, that has not a score or more hun-
gry, yelping pie hunters hot on its trail.
It is absolutely disgusting and dis-
graceful, and makes the poor, five-cent
A Veteran's Voice
Gives High Praise to Hood's
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Tobacco Habit Cured.
Many a veteran of the war, whose
health was wrecked by wounds, ex-
posure and privation, has found in
Hood's Sar8aparilla just the tonic and
blood reviving1 effects he needed. The
following is one out of hundreds of
of letters from G. A. R. boys prais-
ing Hood's Sarsaparilla for health re-
stored and strength renewed in de-
clining years.
" C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.:
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benefit Hood's Sarsaparilla has been to
me, I gladly write this, that others simi-
larly afflicted may learn of the success of
the medicine in my case and a positive
cure for them. I had been
A Physical Wreck
since 1864, and had also been a constant
smoker for 35 years. My wife purchased
the first bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and
( commenced to take it more to please her
than anything else. One bottle after
another was taken with increasing benefit.
The effect was ol a strenghening nature,
toning up my whole system. After I had
been taking the medicine a short time, I
laid away my pipe and have not had any
desire for the use of tobacco since. Hood's
Sarsaparilla has thoroughly pusifled my
blood and driven all poison out of my
system, xc has also done me
A Power of Good
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different times to stop smoking, and to
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complish the former, so that my attempt
for the latter was each time a failure. I
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Ex-Commander Ness Post, No. 81, G. A.
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N. B. If you decide to take Hood's Sar-
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Cr\ LACRESCBNT
vrfUDDers minn..u.s. a
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
under date of March 9, says that the
farcical trial of Sheriff Martin and his
deputies, who shot and murdered some
forty or more unarmed miners on the
public highway near Latimer, Pa., last
September, has just been concluded.
The unanimous verdict of the jury is
that Sheriff Martin and his deputies
are not guilty. This verdict is just what
was predicted months ago. Plutocratic
hirelings, invested with the authority of
the State, wantonly murdered a number
of inoffensive citizens, and a jury
picked and packed by the cowardly
tools of the oppressors of labor, says
that no guilt attaches to these murder-
ers! Highhanded, brutal murder on the
public highway! Tet no redress at law!
O shame, where is thy blush!
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1898, newspaper, March 17, 1898; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185746/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .