Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1899 Page: 13 of 16
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it. And alike are they ignorant of
the grave questions pressing for im-
mediate solution. They know not even
en that it is for such as they that
Christ, whose birth they celebrated by
devouring in their hungry but un-
couth way a "charity dinner," given to
them by a democratic politician in ex-
change for their votes, gave his life
freely, or that to the amelioration of
their hard conditions have the efforts
of ftll reformers in all ages been lent.
In one way only is their evil influence
most keenly felt; i. e, in negativing
at the ballot box the votes of good men
who really desire a change of con-
ditions, or to better the lot in lite of
their fellows in political misfortune.
Nor does this condition exist in New
York City only. A like condition pre-
vails in all large centers of our pou-
lation, North and South; all, except
on rare occasions, democratic strong
holds, and the places from which the
democratic party derives its greatest
strength.
To secure for themselves the support
of this element, all manner of appeals
are made by democratic politicians to
. their prejudices. They oppose "sumpt-
uary"legislation because it will inter-
fere with the voter's right to debaucii
and debase himself. The saloon is up-
held because the politicians fear its
great power, and appeals are made to
everything base and ndean in human
nature for votes. And where a party
is fed and exists on such corruption,
the only hope of reformng it is to wipe
it out of existence completely.
We will admit, to avoid additional
I argument, that Henry George did with-
V v draw from the lobor convention in
r 1887, at Cincinnati, to place his confi-
dence in "the insincere tariff profes-
f sions of Grover Cleveland. But the
Amarillo News will not deny that he
lived to regret exceedingly the folly
of this act. Henry George was the
greatest political economist that ever
er lived, but also the poorest politician
that ever lived. His largeness of heart,
his unbounded confidence in, and his
great sympathy for men led him to
make grave political mistakes which
he sought to retrieve in his campaign
against Crokerism in 1897 when he had
pitted against him in his canvas not
only the recognized leaders of the na-
tional democracy, but was forsaken,
very early in the contest, by that
shrewd politician and "man of the peo-
ple," Col. W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska.
What just right have the single tax-
ers to hope that the democratic party
in Texas, or elsewhere, will ever em-
brace single taxism. When or where
has the democratic party ever man-
ifested any such intention? Judging
- the present by its past acts, have they
a right to expect that the democratic
party will embrace their doctrine?
The party which effected and enforced
every compromise with chattel slavery
is surely not to be trusted to do such
a thing. It was the democratic party
that championed the extension of sla-
very. It was a democratic president
who vetoed the first homestead act
passed by congress. It was a demo-
crat that used the tariff as a false Is-
sue in 1892 to fasten the gold standard
on the country.
And what are the economics of the
' /tingle taxer, and in what measure does
the democratic party reach his ideal as
m reform party? The single taxer
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stands, first, for freedom in production
and for absolute freedom of exchange.
He is opposed to all forms of land mo-
nopoly; to all taxes on industry; and,
being a humanitarian and a believer In
the "parliament of man. the federa-
tion of the world," is oppoesd to big
standing armies and that new form of
Uyid-grabbing know as expansion. But
when and where has the democracy
declared for freedom of production and
exchange? Does it stand with the
single taxer in his efforts to abolish
overy custom house in the land? Does
a tariff on cotton and wool mean free
trade? And what says the Chicago
platform about freeing industry from
the burdens of taxat Ion, as
the word freedom is under-
stood by single taxers? Does t the
declaration of the Chicago platform,
that all tariffs levied for revenue shall
be uniform, and Culberson's and Bai-
ley's advocacy of a tariff on wool, and
Tillman's advocacy of tariff on cot-
ton, meet the views of the single tax-
ers on the tariff issue? Lousiana wants
her sugar interests protected, and she
gets them protected at the hands of
a democratic congress. Sugar Is a
forced crop in Louisiana ,and cotton
without a tariff could be raised to bet-
ted advantage and with profit to the
people as a whole, if not to the plant-
er; but with a tariff of two cents a
pound on sugar (Just half the market
price of cotton) there is more money
in raising sugar than there possibly
could be in raising cotton. Of course
the tariff has increased the price of
sugar to the consumer and incidental-
ly, as every single taxer knows, the
cost of production; but is this any
reason why single taxers should con-
tinue to support the democratic party,
and wait and hope and pray for the
day when this aggregation of economic
donkeys, which is original in nothing
that it advocates and is forever and
eternally picking up dead issues where
the republican party lays them
down, shall declare (a thing it
hase never yet done In Its
checkered and unsavory political car-
eer) for free trade.
Big party majorities are not good
for a state or for a nation that indulges
in this political luxury. They invariab-
ly induce and result in bad govern-
ment. The party which boasts such a
brutal majority as we have in Texas,
soon becomes recklessly and hopeless-
ly corrupt. Why should a party es-
pouse any political cause or minority
fad when it can boast of a majority of
150,000 votes? The fact that it posses-
ses such a majority is proof positive
that the people are fully satisfied with
its administration of affairs and that
the policies for which it stands meet
with their entire approval? Then why
should it take on its shoulders the
burden of Henry Georgeism, or any
other ism to gratify the wishes of a
few men already willing to co-operate
with it? The people do not demand it;
it will not add to its numerical
strength if it does; or detract from it
if it does not. The single taxer who
hopes in time to win the democracy
over to the single tax is chasing a po-
litical will 'o the wisp. It can never
be until the demorcratic party is no
more.
A Terrible Accident.
A FRIGHTENED TEAM OF HORSES
RUNSAWAY.
Dashes into a Preceding Conveyance in (he Road
and a Toung lady is Seriously Injured.
JV-om th* Advocate, Oettline, O.
Probably there is not a single incident re-
maining more vivid in the minds of the peo-
"e in this locality, than the accident which
fell Miss Fannie Thoman, a young lady
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nearly tweutv years old, residing about three
miles west of this city, while out riding one
day in May, 1894. In conversation with a
friend recently, Miss Thoman told the story
concerning this horrible affair and the results
from it.
She said: "I was working in a dressmak-
ing establishment in Galion, Ohio, and one
day while out riding with my friends, we
were overtaken by a team of runaway horses,
and the carriage in which I was riuing was
badly wrecked and I was thrown out, receiv-
ing a hard fall.
1 was taken to my home, and a physician
was called and upon examination told me
that my right kidney had been affected. He
Save me medicines whioh relieved me some,
ut which never helped me as they should.
" I was weak and whenever I attempted
to do light work about the house, I would
become prostrated. I was very dizzy and
frequently pains would dart through my
back in an indescribable manner. In fact,
my whole constitution was affected. I had
a very sallow complexion with seemingly no
color in my face at all.
" I remained in that condition for over two
years and nothing seemed to relieve me. I
happened to read in a paper how some peo-
Rle had been cured by tne use of Dr. Wil-
ams' Pink Pills tor Pale People. One case
described was similar to mine, and I called
the attention of the other members of the
family, and mamma suggested I should have
a box at once.
" Of course I was anxious to get well and
a box of these pills was secured and tried.
When I had taken the pills one week I
noticed an improvement in my condition.
A better color came in my face and lips, I
became stronger, had an increased appetite
aud the dizziness in my head was relieved.
" I had often read of these Dills but gave
no attention to them until the day I procured
my first box. Since then I have taken twelve
boxes and have been greatly relieved. My
blood is in a better condition, I have gained
in.flesh and my entire system has been built
up. I most certainly recommend Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills for rale People to any one
troubled with kidney complaint."
All the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves are contained, in a condensed form, in
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
They are an unfailing specific for such diseases
as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus'
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nerv-
ous headache, the after effects of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow com.
plexions, all forms of weakness either in male
or female, and all diseases resulting from viti-
ated humors in the blood. Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, 60 cents a box,
or six Iwxes for $2.50—(they are never sold in
bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr.Williams'
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
A report comes from Topeka that
a bill has been introduced into the
Kansas legislature compelling the gov-
ernor to sign the death warrants of
all persons convicted of murder of tne
first degree. The bill also provides for
the putting to death, within the period
of one year, of all convicts now in the
penitentiary on a death sentence.There
are fifty-nine such convicts. The num-
ber has increased from year to year, a
result of the present law relating to
capital punishment, which leaves the
signing of death warrants optional
with the governor. No Kansas gov-
ernor has ever seen fit to sign a death
warrant. The bill is the result of tne
recent trial and conviction of Jonn
Collins on the charge of having mur
dered his father, J. S. Collins, a Top-
eka capitalist, last fall. Governor-elect
Stanley recently declared that he would
not sign Collin's death warrant. The
passage of the bill would compel him
to do so or resign. Mr. Stanley says
that he will resign before he will sign
the death warrants of the convicted
murderers in the penitentiary. "I will
never permit myself to become a mur-
derer, even under the sanction of the
law," he declared.
Aside from the case of Collins, the
law, as it applies to the other fifty-
nine convicts, would seem to be an ex
poet facto law, and retrosctive in its
nature and effect, and would be un-
constitutional on this ground alone.
In short, it would be murder under the
form of law, and contrary to the prin-
ciples of free government The States
are prohibited from passing such by
the constitution of the United States.
The Mercury believes that no such
Mil was introduced In the Ksnsss leg-
islature, and that the report is a ma-
licious He, circulated by the plutocrattc
press to injure the People's party and
reflect discredit upon the legislature
which is largely populistlc.
COTTON BELT ROUTB.
No Interruption of train service to
the Southeast This line now operates
Double Dally train service betwsea
Texas and the Southeast via Cairo oa
the following schedule:*
Lsave Fort Worth 10:16 a. m., 10:It
p. m.; leave Dallas 11:00 a. m., 11:00
p. m.; leave Greenville 1:30 p. m., 1:01
a. m.; leave Sherman 10:40 a. m.;
leave Waco 7:10 a. m., 7:40 p. m.:
leave Corslcana 9:S0 a. m., 10:00 p. m.;
leave Tyler 12:65 p. m„ 12:45 a. m.;
leave Texarkana 7:46 p. m.,0:36 a. a j
leave Pine Bluff 1:40 a. m., 12:40 p. m.;
arrive at Cairo 1:16 p. m., x2:40 p. m.;
leave Cairo 2:10 p. m., 3:08 a. m.;
arrive at Nashville 10:00 p. m., 1:40 p.
m.; arrive at Chattanooga 8:08 a. m.,
9:36 p. m.; arrive at Atlanta 7:30 a. m.
Through Free Chair Cars, and Pull-
man Sleepers are run between Texas
and Cairo without change; also Pull-
man Sleepers and through coaches be-
tween Cairo and Nashville.
The "Cotton Belt" is now the
only line operating double dally train
service between Texas and the South-
east without any layover or Interrup-
tion or delay. If you want to go to
the "Old States" and don't want to be
delayed by quarantine restrictions,
purchase your ticket over the Cotton
Belt For rates and full particulars
see any Cotton Belt Agent or write
A. A. Ollsson,
T. P. A, Ft Worth, Tex.
0. 0. Warner,
O. P. * T. A, Tyler. Tmu
Our new Mercury Sewing Machine is
all that we could wish for it We would
not part with it for twice what we gave
for It, if we could not get another like
it—W. G. Bason, Leo, Texas.
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Park, Milton. Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1899, newspaper, January 12, 1899; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185785/m1/13/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .