Alliance Standard. (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 11, 1893 Page: 2 of 3
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J' W. TBWW, Idltcr and Zroprlstor
At last there i» an admission upon
the part of the great moguls that
aomethiug is wrong, »o mighty wrong
that congress must be called together
In consider the situation and devise
means of relief, hut the indications
are that they only intend to strength-
en the rich ; those who are really in
need, will scarcely bethought of.
The Special Congress which meets.
August the 7th. will he the most mo-
mentous. in some respects, of any
thai ever met in the United Stales,
cts will go far towards datermin-
her the struggle for equal
> end iu bloody revolution.
■tisn at even this crisis
«
i confidence, but the peo-
,ok no more foolishness.
* Special Congress.
.'be natiou is passing through the
realest cricia of its history, and there
>ver was suoli a lack of statesmen.
e minds of the rank ami a majority
•e file, have become so besoted
*eed that they are blind to the
dilion of the country, much
■Mine and the remedy. How
e expect any good of them ?
watub the special congress.
he County Union,
v met at Lively's Chapel
■ according to appoinU
roibor Jeff I). Boon did us
of taking us up in his hug-
re we mot a large concourse
pie, most of whom were '‘In the
■, of the road," Wo failed to
'ic presence of any speakers of
iau” style, so it devolved
er Harrison ami ye Editor
he needful, which, of
,c did with the best grace im-
dc, and from the way the sub-
roiled in for the Standard,
sure no harm was done,
executive sessions cf the body
'cresting and earnest. Sever-
. important resolutions were
ed, but as the delegates will
/ their assemblies and as it is no
else* business we will not pub.
mi. In a buttle of any kind,
.test way to fail is to tell the ene-
jll your plans, and wc don't in-
tend to fail. Piny drove Assembly,
4 miles west of Atlanta, was chosen
as the place for the next meeting.
Time, Thursday before the 1st Sunday
in October.
The hospitality of the Lively’s
Cbupel community is proverbial, and
they w, rc fully equal to the occasion
of providing fur and taking eye of the
people, and did ti in a fashion to
make all feel welcome.
to allow no
meetings.
more of
A (•real Financial Criwis
The Silver Act of '90 mast be. Re-
plied.
Ovrira or HARVEY FISK A SONS,
Dealers in United States Bonds,
No. 24 Nassau Street.
New York, June 30th, 1893
Our country is threatened with one ol
the greatest disasters since the Civil
War. Its institutions arc*being sha-
ken to their very found ations. The
demoo Distrust 1b stalking about thq
land, from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
leaving In his trail the countless
wrecks of the work of thousands of its
honorable citizens.
The standard of value by which the
money of the poor man and the rich
man is measured, is being trodden in
the dust. Instead of twelve inches to
the foot, we are forced to accept six
or a lutle over. The actual intrinsic
value of our present silver dollar is
but 63 seats, and growing less each
day. Stitt Ibis great American nation
ie obliged to calmly iuue inevitable
ruin—the sweeping sway of far more
<a*aKb tboo was involved lathe great
The Lemonade stands proved
great nuisance and.the body reaolvqflcootro||e(] by them, when the law de-
war between the North and the South,
simply Localise its Representatives
are not oalled together luaccoruaoce
with the authority vested iu its Chief
Executive, and forced to remove from
the Statute Books the law which ia eat-
ing away the vitals of Americao cred-
it, and easting into a great abyss a
century of financial honor.
■WEAL THE SILVER ACT OF 1890.
Every dty’e delay means untold ruin
and heartrending distress. Our great
United Stales is fast becoming a fi-
nancial outcast among the nations of
the world. The people of the United
Stales are booeat. yet our honesty is
impugned.
We have made a mistake. We
know it. it is the will of the people
that ibis grave mistake ehall be imme-
diately corrected. Let tbe President
conveue Congress at once ami then
let tbe people in all parts of tbe land
rise up and with righteous indigna-
tion demand that this law be immedi-
ately repealed.
This is “a Government of the peo-
ple. for the people, and by the peo-
ple.” Let every officer of every fi-
nancial institution, let every merchant,
let all business and professional men,
let every workingman, telegraph or
write to the President of these our be-
loved United States, and demand that
without another day’s delay he shall
exercise ihc right given him, aud im-
mediately convene Congress in extra
session.
Let there be no doubt left that at
last every thinking man in this great
country demands tbe protection which
the honest dollar” brings.
Very truly,
IlAItVEY FISK & SONS.
Never, since the money' power got
tbe two old parties by the throat, was
there written a more cold blooded,
hypocritical cant that the a have cicu>
lar, sent out uy Harvey Fisk & Sons,
dealers in U. S. Bonds.
Yea! The country ia threatened by
great disasters, but who, save these as I think
pirates and their kind have brought reputation,
these conditions upon us ? They, in tacked mo i
their efforts to force everything to a tries telaak
gold basis, Succeeded once in demone-
tizing silver. Tbe people, in their in-
dignation, forced them to remouelize
it. At length they passed the Sher-
man hill of 1808. This Sherinan bill
was a robber hill; it was passed in tbe
interest of gamblers in gold, but it
afforded some relief and though con-
domed by the people, they demanded
its repeal only upon the condition that
free coinage take its place. These
same thieves—Harvey Fisk & Son*
have persistently fought the operations
of the law, so as to keep the silver
locked up in the vaults of the Treasu-
ry and demanded that silver certifi-
cates be redeemed in gold, and the
Sect, of tbe treasury has always been
From King* Farm.
Editor Standard:
I regret very much
that my last was disjointed and a
part not published at all. The part
that failed to get into print was caused
by my hurry in the first place and an
unintentional error of Standard in
the last. Errors of this kind are not
criminal and will tend to make us
more careful in future. I am truly
sorry that tbe dm y cf replying to a
personal attack in newspapers has
been laid upon me again. But how-
ever onerous tbe duties of life may be
I shall always meet them with cour-
age oommeosurale with my ability,
ever trying to be just, rememitenog
the injunction of Paul: “If it be posi
ble for ae much as lietb in you live
peacahly with all men,” and recog-
nizing the grand truth of the father-
hood of God and the brotherhood of
man this doty, becomes onerous. The
language wbicb calls forth this com.
municalion is found in the Journal of
May 25th and reads thus: "If they
all attcud the meetings advertised by
their gods and keep it up by the next
election there will be a great maoy
more of them in the same condition as
the wild man of beat 3, unable to buy
tbeir wives a calico dress.” Read my
last in Standard aud see why I have
taken up tbe guaiitlet. This fellow
subscribes himself “Reporter,*’—a
noodeplume once used by a gentle-
man—out bis brsy betrays him. This is
tbe same one that attacked me under
another name last year. The readers of
the Standard know that I dealt very
kindly with him then, that I refrained
as much as possilde from rough lau-
guage; hoping thereby to got him to
see the wrong of which he was guilty
—that of slander—and to “restore
biui iu the spirit of meekness." But,
my hopes <9<i "»• —\eriahze. It was
like “cast before swine.”
He row, I adds insult to
injury. 1 w stick means
er and myself lies under the soil ami The democrats are in'fuvor of taxiog
there is no one perhaps to correct it, tbe luxuries sad not the necessities
some vile human "Reporter," (ailiaa j of life. We answer it is both a eeces-
-like) will say, when some one ! sity and a luxury, but agreater necea-
shall speak well of them—“Yes that itv than all other articles combined,
ia a nice young man or lady but bia or j The lawyers uecd it iu their busi ness.,
her mother bad good property and hit I The medical fraternity cm»t keep their
them at Heir Glares they may be paid In allver coin
Now that the gold supply ia exhausted
^nd they are likely to be forced to
take silver, unless they can force con-
gress issue bonds to get gold, they
raise agrest clamor over the injustice
of tbeirown law, and blantantly rant
about tbe silver dollar being worth
but 53cts, when they themselves de
predated it. Before the raid was
made upon silver, the amount of sil-
ver in tbe dollar was worth 103cta in
gold. But it was too much money.
They waoted the basis narrowed so
they could keep it under control and
thus complete the enslavement of la-
bor
They now, under a plea of sympa-
thy for the people; (a plea as false as
hell) demand, in substance, tbe abso-
lute demonetization of silver—tbe
thing for wbjch they have all the time
been working. And they will succeed
as the money power baa always suc-
ceeded,-until the people were fully
aroused and in their might crushed
the destroyer.
The above circular came to our of-
fice, as wc suppose it went to every
printing office as well as every tv
ness office in the land. We *
that our readers may und<-
sebemes of their enc
they come doth*- '
fivendehip.
defense cf my
it that he st-
ile Days, or
oelieve that 1
said in my first article to the Stan-
dard last year that my wife coul4 get
only one calico dress a year. I have
the article refered to, and were it not
for taking up unnecessary space
would ask the Stands!d to republish it.
if he would culy sign bis true name
to his articles it would bo unnecessary
for uie or auy one else to notion his
slanderous insults* *
Remember sir, that:
Good name Id intui sod vtinn, dear my lord,
Ulbh Immediate JuWitl of their toals;
Whofctcalfl my parse steal* trash; ’tis some-
thing, nothing.
Twee mine, 'tis his, ami haa been slave to
thousands.
Bnt be that filch us from me my good^famc,
Bobs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor Indeed »'—Shakespeare.
I say wky was it that be attacked me
in this way? Because in tbe first place
my opinio at on |>olilical matters were
not his, aud I dared to express them
publicly; and in tbe second place be
could not meet them in argument;
aud next be knew I had been raised
on the farm and bad had but few edu-
cational opportunities.
But at this juncture I esn inform
him tlmt there are many today plow-
ing and praying for their daily bread
that have got more sense (of the right
sort) in their heel* than ho has in his
bead and more religion in their bear-
toes that they have stumped against a
grub than he has in his heart. And
again, he did it because he is working
for his master, the devil, and is under
bis dominion. Like the stealthy dago
that in tbe darkness plunges his stii-
letto in the hick of his fellow man be-
cause he wont aid him in his nefsreous
dealings. So also does this fellow "At-
tempt to slay my rdputat’
acter. The condiii'-* 9
such that every t>
on its own *
trifling, lazy, indifferent father spent
it and could not buy dresses for her
to wear.** Now, by tbe goodness and
mercy of God, we have five children
alive; two girls sod three boys, sod
by His grace and mercy we expect to
raise them right; and by the powers
he has given us we will defend and
protect them and ourselves.
“Reiiorter’’ I say to you in the lan-
guage of Goethe, that “A mans name
is not like a mantle wh'cb merely
haDgs about him and which perchance,
may be safely twitched and pulled ;
but is a perfectly fitting gmrmeut
which has grown over and over him
mullein lea from souring without it.
Science would perish if it was annihi-
lated. The farmer who plpds from
early morn till ruddy night would feel
very lonesome without it. The wo-
men could uot make cam >hor without
j it; aud last hut not least the demo,
crats could not buy voles without ft.
“It makes a man forget his love and
debts and mind his griefs no more.'*
The question is open for discussion
and as Dr. Oliver would say, are you
for it or against it? As to my part I
am willing for it to remain iu statu
quo for in the future I expect to drink
butler milk and vole the F. F. ticket
like the very skin, at which one may 1 from alpha to omega.
not rake and scrape without wounding
tbe man himself.” I have borne with
this slander until forbearance has
ceased to be a virtue, oud until fur-
ther inaction and silence would be
criminal. Therefore presuming to
“tote my own skillet,"with the Revis-
ed Statute in my possession, knowing
somtliing of its contents, and asserting
that I am every whit responsible for
what I say and do. I say that this
statement that I can only buy my wife
one calico nress a year is an infamous
slanderous lie, the author of it in
lieguc with the powers of darkness
and in unison anu communion with
tlie father of lies.
If any of the readers of the Stand-
ard think that I Imve erred in what 1
have said 1 beg of you to consider cir-
cumstances os near ns you con make
application to yourself and spread tile
mantle of charitv over iny faults and
remember:
4 4 All men ate liable to trip sad fill:
The itronKeel can uot always trawl straight;
And some bare not the oomprehcoHlve fate
That brings the help when net-1 begins to rail.
And Aom* bear weights too heavy for tbeir part:
It la not every one can find the grace
To do the right thing in the proper placet
Bnt want of judgment ia uot want of heart.
i or in the mental balance always set.
UpAn an even beam, so the least jar
M*y dull tho fine edge of t he hearing bar,
And make the man his level self forget.
J. H. Frost.
From Writ mil
Ed. Standard :
The crop prospers have
Improved at least twenty per cent
since my last letter, ami farmers have
utilized well the last ten days of sun
shine in putting their crops in tine fix. not seen to, know where he is at.
Talk about fishing. Yon may bet
your hoots we have had some fish anil
a great deal of fun up here at the-
forks of the creek '.his season. We-
have caught all the species of fislt.
that livo in the east fork known as
Henderson’s creek and Hie west fork
known as Lambert's creek and we
have been gradually following down
said creeks until we have now made a,
landing at the forks, and
Thera is not in litis wide oourld a
valley so sweet,
As the vale in whose b< kcib these
little creeks meet.
Here it wae, while we were fishing
for mud cat a few days ago, that a
monlrnus large cat jumped up within
three feet of me and made a terrible-
commotion iu the water, He seemed
to be about 2} feet long aud a bea I
on him as hig as i blue bucket.
We are now engaged, (like the
democrats on the silver question)rin
devising ways anil means to see nliout
hia cals’,lips claims in this country and
when wc have anchored him safely on
dryland from his watery home we
will give you a iu -e minute discrip-
liou of his length, breadth aud thick-
ness All sorts ol surmises are made
ns to how cam • him here and where
from, but Kurus Sander’s theory of
ilie way these large cat. gel so high-,
up stream is the must pliiusahU-. lie-
sais they come up in lilne of high wa-
ter and when the water goes down
they are not able to make the rittte
back. ,Jo lie is here and like the
democrats on the silver question does
It is surprising to see the change, par-
ticular in corn. Some corn ill this
neighborhood looked as though it
would not make five bushels per acre
ten days ago now bid fair to make
tweenty or twenty-five bushels per
acre. The cotton is looking greasy
similar to the bacon used at 16 cents
par pound in its p>eduction. Irish
potatoes are simply emmense. My
old friend Major J. H. Graaberry ot
Douglasiille tells me thal he made
twenty-five bushels of them on one
twelfth of an acre, which would be
300 bushels pec acre.
Talk about starving! Nobody is
going to starve in this country, and if
they will all vote right they will begin
to wear better clothes and have more
of the comforts of life than they have
been used to in tbe last ten years.
At least they would be able to take
along a little anto dote to snake bites
when they went fishing. The lamen-
ted William Trimbletoe had plenty in
his day and time and there is no rea-
son why his friends and admirers
should be deprived of a nip now and
then, .Sam Jones to the contrary not-
withstanding. moreover—as it now
stands wc have to pay 90 eta per gal-
on for the privilige.
That infernal internal revenue law
should be repealed at all bazzards. If
it is auch a great sin as Bro. Jones
represents it, the U. S- should not
licence itsitalic. What does Thomas
Jefferson say on this subject? We
appeal to the sages of democracy to
rise and explain Our old friend
and fellow comrade in the late
Billie Bossfege haa answered the qu
i# lie ,
tto« propsHjndcri above. .Says
w»r,
They like the cat fish got on the high.-
tide and went so high up the silver
s.reain that they are now floundering
and flouncing in the silver stream
that Frcsident Cleveland and Ids al-
lies are ingaged in runnii-g down and
really they don’t know where they are-
al. The leaders of tbe democratic
party draw a long breath when talk-
ing about England's, action in India
on the silver question and- say free-
coinage is doomed ! Ail such, talk Is
mere rot and does not deserve the
consideration of any intelligent per-
son Wnal has England got to do
with the free coinage of silver in tl.ii
country? Why, my dear sir if every
ounce of silver on the universal globe
—as Andrew Bateman used to say —
was dumped in North America we
would be one of the happiest people
in the world. Why? Because then
every body that bad any “git up and
git” about him would have plenty of
money; and nothiug makes a uian
so happy as plenty of money.
The sweet little dingle,
Ot silver’s little gingle,
Makes our little hearts tingle.
Is there no balm in gilead to save,
the dollar of our dadies? The rich
man's solace and the poor man °
friend.
We do not know who signs' *il8
name reporter of Linden for l*le
Journal; but if it ia tbe pers)n I
think he is he would he noticed
if he would communicate witt H**
long ears of bis kind ; I am euri ***■
could get on inure intimate me”®
with them than la» could with v,
Joaiab Cr* ♦
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Erwin, J. W. Alliance Standard. (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 11, 1893, newspaper, July 11, 1893; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth523222/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.