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JULIAN,
'Government of the People, by the People, for the People.'
PROPRIETOR.
VOL. IV.
SAN MARCOS, HAYS CO., TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1896.
NO. 22.
Tmm Pe@&&ess .
ALL HOME PRINT.
POINTERS FOR ADVERTISERS.
Claims of the People’s Era on Tlielr
Attention.
We would invite your attention to The
People’s Era as a medium for your adver-
tising favors, in the light of the following
facts:
Its editor and publisher is by far the
oldest in the business in San Marcos and
Hays county, having conducted the San
Marcos Free Press continuously from Sep-
tember 1873 to August 1-890, during which
.period it was for the most part the only
and always the leading paper, having also a
considerable outside circulation. The Eba
began publication in September, 1892, is
kindred in character and scope to the Free
Press, and bids fair to surpass it in circula-
tion and standing among the best class of
well-to-do farmers and business men. The
People’s party of which it is here the only
representative, as shown by the election re-
turns of November, 1894, more than
doubled its vote in Hays county in the two
years preceding, having now, aside from
the floating vote, a clear majority of the
voters, and of course of the people of
Hays county, While they are thus repre-
sented by only ONE newspaper, the Demo-
cratic minority divide th6ir pa ronage
among FOUR organs of its faith in the
county. Comment for intelligent advertis-
ers isn endless.
Furthermore, The Eba is not merely a
county paper, but circulates also in the ad-
joining counties of Caldwell, Guadalupe
and Blanco, and others of this senatorial
and representative district, as well as at
a greater distance.
Rates, reasonable. Terms on application.
Correspondence solicited.
Siam National Bank
OF SAN MARCOS*
Capital Paid Up,
Surplus, - -
authorized Capital,
I 60,004
15,000
150,006
A general banking business transacted. Ac*
counts of merchants, farmers and
others solicited. Safe deposit
boxes furnished customers.
DIRECTORS,
W. D. Wood, D. A. Glover, Jj. H. Browne,
W. O. Hutchison, Geo. T. McGehee,
G. W. Donalsoa.
If. 0. WOOD, Pres. W. 0. HUTCHISON, Viet Pfan
E. L THOMAS; Cashier.
«r. o. HUTCHISON.
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Hulchison & Franklin,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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{^Prompt attention paid to collecting
Examining land titles a specialty.
MRS, MARY MAN LOVE,
•INSURANCE - AGENT,•
SAN MARCOS, TEX.,
Represents a large number of the best com-
panies, home and foreign; among other*
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
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CONGRESSMAN—8TB DISTRICT:
—OTH DISTRICT:
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Ijho office C 8BNAT0ft-25TH DISTRICT:
irell, of Guadalupe County.
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METHODIST.—Preaching at the Methodist Church
very Sabbath at 11 a. in. and 7-30 p. in. Kev. J.
I. Alexander Pastor. Sunday School at 9:30 a. m.
BAPTIST—Servioes In the Baptist Church every
unday. Bev. J. A.Shackelford pastor. Sunday 3chool
t 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. aad 8 pm.
PRE3BYTER1 AH.—Proaohloft every Sabbath at
1 a. m. and 7.30 p. m Sabbath School at 9 .30 a.
t Prayer mealing Wednesday evening at 7.30.
lev. () B. Caldwell, pastor. Cumberland
’resbyterlan, services 1st and 2nd Sabbaths. Kev.
. VV. George, pastor.
CHRISTIAN—Rev. T. M. Jones, pastor; services
ypry Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:15 p. m. Sunday
School every Sunday at 9:30 a. ni. Prayermeeting
very Thursday evening. Church on San Antonio St.
PROTEST A NT it PISCO P A L.-Kev. G. Hinson,
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CATHOLIC,—servi -e 4th Sunday iu each month,
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STRIKE FOR THE PRESENT.
Old legends tell of a golden age,
When earth was guiltless^-gods the
guests of men;
Ere sin had dimmed the heart’s illumined
page.
And prophet voices say ’twill come again.
O! happy age, when loye shall rule the
heart,
And time to live shall be the poor man’s
dower;
When martyrs bleed no more, nor exiles
smart
Mind is the only diadem of power;
People, it ripens now 1 Awake and strike
the hour.
Hearts high and mighty gather In our
cause;
Bless, bless, oh, God, and crown their
earnest labor,
Who dauntless fight to win us equal laws,
With mental armor and with spirit saber.
Bless, biass, oh God, the great intelligence
That now is dawning on the people’s
forehead,
Humanity springs from them like incense.
The future bursts upon them—countless
—starred.
They shed repentant tears that they so long
have tarried.
—Gerald Massey.
MANHOOD.
Not till life’s heat has cooled,
The headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace,
And every purblind passion that has
ruled
Our noisier years, at last
Spurs us in vain, and weary of the race,
We care no more who loses or who wins—
Ah! not till all the best of life seems past
The best of life begins.
To toil for only fame,
Hand-clapping and the fitful gusts of praise
For plaoe or power, or gold to guild a
name
Above the grave whereto
All paths will bring us, were to lose our
days,
We, on whose ears youth’s passing bells
have tolled,
In blowing bubbles, even as children do,
Forgettiug we grow old.
But the world widens when
Such hope of trivial gain that ruled us lies
Broken among our childhood’s toys, for
then
We win to self-control!
And mail ourselves in manhood, and there
rises
Upon us from the vast aud windless height
Those cleaver thoughts that are unto the
soul
What stars are to the night.
— —Anon.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Covers Debs’ Case.
Washington, Feb. 4.—Senator
Hill, from the senate committee on
judiciary, today reported from the
committee a substitute for the reso-
lution to inquire into the imprison-
ment cf Eugene Y. Debs. The sub-
stitute directs the judiciary commit-
tee to make the investigation, but
makes it general. The committee is
to investigate the law upon the whole
subject of contempt, of court, as en
forced by the Federal courts, and re
port to the senate whether additional
legislation is necessary for the pro-
tection of the rights of the citizens
and, if so, to report such legislation.
TEXAS BRIEFS.
Dallas has nearly 400 more school
children than this time last year.
Seventeen thousand dollars in
stock subscribed for an oil mill at
Tyler.
The State oratorical contest will be
at Sherman late in April or early in
May.
McLennan county educators will
bave a two days’ convention at Waco,
Feb. 28-29.
An eagle measuring nine feet from
tip to tip was killed near Garden
Yalley, Smith county.
The Mexican people at Laredo,
Feb. 7, celebrated the '39 anniversary
of the signing of the constitution of
Mexico.
The State association of colored
teachers will meet in Corsicana, June
23. The executive committee pub-
lish an attractive program.
Federal officials at Paris, Tex., are
notified of the killing in the Indian
Territory of Ed Thurio while on duty
as a deputy United States marshal.
Farmers of Lnmar county, at in-
stance of Board of Trade, met at
Paris and organized a potato grow-
ers’ association, agreeing to raise
Irish potatoes for the Northern mar-
ket.
Nat Edmondson, J. S. Kerr, J. Yv\
Stewart, Jr., A. Miller, D. H. Dumas
and O. F. VVyrick have called a meet-
ing of all interested, in Sherman,
Feb. 15, to organize a swine breed-
ers' association for Grayson county.
Hon. J. M. Carlisle, State Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, was
married at Hillsboro, Feb. 12, to
Mrs. Sturgiss. Their bridal tour
will b9 to Jacksonville, Fla., where
Mr. C. will mix business with his
pleasure by being present at the con-
vention of superintendents of the Na-
tional Educational Association.
RUNS. UP THE POPULIST BANNER.
the
A private deposit of $75,000,000
in foreign couutries is said to repre-
sent Abdul Hamid’s provision for a
rainy day, and bis idea of what is
best calculated to console a sultan
out of a job.—Globe-Democrat.
That money was robbed at
point of the bayonet from his s
ing subjects, but he would hei
-ed with open arms by-the plu
of those other countries an
booty protected. Like other
arehs and monopolists, he robs under
the law, and has not the honor or
bravery of a.Capfc. Kid, a Rob Roy or
even a Jesse James.—Appeal to Rea
son.
The Utah Democrat Gives Convincing; Rea-
son For Such a Coarse.
The proposed silver party promises
nothing but free silver. They have
no organization; they have no press
save a few sheets that have sprung
up in Utah. These obstacles are all
overcome in the People’s Party. They
have an. organization, national and most
perfect, with more than 2,000,000 vot-
ers at the 1894 election. They have an
army of over 8,000 newspapers that are
valiantly fighting (every one of them)
for free silver and other mnch needed
reforms. Besides this, the party is fast
growing. While in every state that held
an election this fall the total vote was
from 10 per cent to 20 per cent less than
the congressional election, of 1894, still
the People’s Party made clear gains in
every state. They gained in Nebraska
7.000 votes, in Iowa 20,000 votes, in
Ohio 5,000 votes, in Kentuoky 15,000
votes, in Kansas we have not the total
vote, but they gained 24 county officers;
in the city of Denver alone they gained
7.000 votes, and in Utah they gained
more than 1,000 votes. Looking things
squarely in the face, we believe it better
policy to be able to be a part of the
great young party of the nation than to
simply b8 a tail to the People’s Party
kite. That is all the silver party could
hope to be—as after the People’s Party
have held their convention it would be
suicidal for a silver party to put a
ticket in the field in opposition to them.
It would be the very thing tho Repub-
lican party would want to see done.
Farther than this, the People’s Party
deals with the railroad question and the
land monopoly question. Surely both of
these questions are vital questions for
Utah. We are being most unmercifully
fleeced in this valley in the matter of
freight rates, and land monopolies are
fast gobbling up the public domain, and
our small farms are fast passing into
the hands of the usurer. After looking
at these questions from every side we
have concluded to unfurl the People’s
Party banner, nail to our masthead,
Finance, Transportation, Land, Free
Silver and Death to Interest Bearing
Bonds, and abide by the result—Utah
Democrat, Ogden.
A VOICE FROM THE EAST.
Fatal Prize Fight.
Philadelphia, Pa , Feb. 10.—As a
result of the prize fight in this city
Saturday night Frederick Sohlechter,
one of the principals, died today, nnd
ex-Policeraan Henry Piuckenfolder,
the other principal, is in jail charged
with the murder. Scblechter was
knocked down and his lead hit ou
the floor so hard his skull was fract-
ured.
Old on Skates.
It is said William J. Weeks, of
Yuplinnk, L. I, is n pretty lively man
for his years, which are 73. He nn
nnally issues a challenge to skaters,
and with the new year he has one out
now. He will skate any person over
70 years old from 50 to 500 miles for
any amount of money, and he a’so
will skate with any fancy skater in
the world. He makes a specialty of
writing on the ice with his skates,
and is willing to write 1000 words
with any other man. When a gay
old man, as old as Weeks, feels as
strong and acts as gay as he does,
and offers to cut np on ice for money,
the most his parents c;.n do is to let
him slide.
Farmers’ Alliance.
Washington. D. C., Feb. 6.—The
National Farmers’ Alliance and In-
duetr a! Union which has been in
session here three days adjourned
_ j this afternoon. Important action
was taken during the closing session.
The sub-treasury plan to which the
Alliance has been committed for a
number of year nnd a demand for an
increase of the circulating medium to
$50 per capita, was elimnated from
the platform. Resolutions were
adopted opposing the refunding of
the Pacific Railroad debt and agree-
ing to meet next year at Dallas, Tex.,
if the city will make suitable offers.
A committee was appointed this
morning to appear before the proper
Congressional committee to compla:n
of alleged outrages and murders on
the Maxwell land grant in New Mexi-
co and in Colorado, the Des Moines
River grant in Iowa and the Sierra
forest grunt in California.
Alliance members who lived on
these grants had complained to the
National organization that they were
illegally evicted in favor of the cor-
porations and the Alliance now pro-
poses to call the attention of the
Congress to these cases.
France has a prodigy in the person
of Jules Zostat, of La Rochelle, who,
it is said, knows by heart oil the
verses of the Bible. He has such a
marvelous memory that when asked
at random any verse, no matter if it
begins a sentence or is a continuation
of the preceding verse, he will recite
the lines,.—Ex,
If the People's party sacrifice nny
of the Omaha platform, it will sacri-
fice some of its best workers and
leaders. If the silver men cannot
stand on the Omaha platform with
the referendum added, they can hard-
ly expect the public ownership ele-
ment to stand with them on a money
platform. I had just as soon either
old party were iu power as men who
think all the country needs is free
coinage. The grasp of monopolies
must be torn from the throat ct the
people, nnd money is ouly one ol
hundreds.—Appeal to Reason.
I wonder if the capitalist class
imagine they cun always go on get-
ting richer and richer forever? I
wonder if they ever think there will
be a point at which there will be no
more in the hand of the producers
for them„to get? And when the mil-
lions are reduced to pauperism I
wonder what they think these pau-
pers will do? Men go on squeezing
wealth out of their vocation and
never seem to think that what they
gain somebody else must lose. They
neither think nor care, but the com-
mon people are thinking and caring
and the nation is rushing pell-mell to
an abyss that is terrible to tbink of.
In sackcloth and ashes will the
wealth robbers repent of their greed
when it is too late. The end is not
far in the future. The unrest of the
masses gives warning, if greed had
not made its devotees deaf, dumb
and blind. Then they will realize
ihut when a man gets a thousand
dollars without by his own hands
creating a thousand dollars’ of wealth
to exchange, somebody loses that
thousand dollars. To take without
giving an equivalent is robbery. If
one gives an equivalent be never gets
richer,—Appeal to Rea-on.
Clear, black coffee diluted with
water and containing a little ammo-
nia will cle^n, and restore black
clothes.
A Deading Boston Journal’s Criticism of
Secretary Carlisle’s Utterances.
The following is taken from an edi-
torial in the Boston Courier devoted to
one of Seoretary Carlisle’s New York
chamber of commerce speeches:
The slogan set up by Mr. Carlisle to
divert attention from the ugly but vital
fact that for the past two years the ex-
uses of the government have exceeded
.sdapome is that “the government must
[gat* tiie banking business.” Very
' “ .f Unit Uliana that the government
' j issue no more notes payable on de-
SflSi’d for use as money, then it certain-
ly cannot by parity of reasoning secure
the promises to pay of thousands of
banks scattered all over' the country by
its own promises to pay instead in an ex-
igency. If the former can be called go-
ing into the banking business, much
more may the latter be so called. But
the mere issue of promises to pay by the
government to be used as money is not
banking in any rightful sense. It was
never so thought of when greenbacks
first made their appearance and never,
in fact, until this combined manifesta-
tion of a purpose to get them out of the
way for another scheme. A treasury
note of the United States ought by this
time to b9 held as good for actual money
as the Bank of England notes the world
over or the notes of the Bank of France,
not to speak of the issues of the other
European governments. The issues of
legal tender are just as much money as
is the coining of metallic money. It is
the government promise and certification
printed on the one and stamped on the
other that give to each their distinctive
value as money. So that this attempted
raid on the sovereignty of the govern-
ment over the issue of money will not
work out its design according to tho
original plan. A secretary of the treas-
ury is expected to know better than to
say that “the proposition that a promise
of the government to pay money is mon-
ey is as absurd as the proposition that
the promise to deliver a horse is a
horse.” The applause that greeted such
an assertion is no flattery to the intelli-
gence of the audience bestowing it.
Cooper on Money In 1876.
The government should issue all the
currency that is used by the people,
whether it be gold, silver or paper, and
it should be made a legal tender for all
debts, public and private.
All surplus currency now in the treas-
ury should be used-to cancel bonds and
thus stop interest on the same.
Government paper money should be
substituted for national bank notes.
The government should give the same
volume of money with which to pay
debts that was in circulation when those
debts were contracted.
The increase in the established vol-
ume of the currency should be put in
circulation by employing labor on pub-
lic works or used to cancel the public
debt, whereby all the people are benefit-
ed, iustead of giving it to bankers to
loan to the people at high rates of inter-
est and to increase the publio debt as is
now being done.—Peter Cooper.
Dow Labor Is Oppressed.
Nothing has prevented or now pre-
vents the full employment and adequate
compensation of labor but the monopoly,
of money and unjust rates of interest.
Our producers are continually endeav-i
oring to overcome their poverty by their1
industry, but while our present rates of
interest prevail capital will continue to.
take their surplus earnings and leave,
them poor.
When any nation shall adopt a just
monetary system, the abundant supply
of comforts aud the good will, peace andi
happiness which will ensue will form'
snob a contrast to the present condition
of society as to astonish the world.—
^dward Kellogg.
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There are special departments for the farm-
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Hand in your subscription at once.
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor, who,
died his way into Congress am
into the executive chair of
of Tennessee, in a late chars
speech in Washington had t]|
on the silver question: “Wf
practically out of politics, I ai
a patriot, taking as keen,
in the affairs of governnj
And while I have alvvrj
vor of the double stf
tional Axicnic.jr*l pi*
travels over this cot
business experience and"
of the needs and desires'
pie have impressed me
ever that the enormous outrs
1873 should be as speedily
the statute books and the
ing both gold and silver at t|
of 16 to 1 be enacted vvithoux
to international agreement.1
Mort-gage. Mort means death;
gage means grip—death-grip. Bond-
age oomes from the word bond.
There can be no bondige except there
be a bond ; nor can there be a bond
without some one being in bondage.
—Appeal to Reason.
Indorsement from Tillman’s Bailiwick.
ColumUa, S. C., Jan. 30.—In the
House of Representatives to-day Mr.
Godfrey Fowler, of Union, introduc-
ed (he following resolution, which
was referred to the Committee on
Federal Relations:
“Resolved, by the House of Repre-
sentatives, the Senate concurring,
That we have heard with pleasure
and interest the eloquent and patriot-
ic speech of our junior Senator in the
United States Senate, Hon. B. R.
Tillman, ou the 29ih of January, and
we desire to say that by all we are
and hope to be we will sacrifice our
lives if necessary in resisting tyran-
ny and oppresion, believing, as we
do, that resistance to tyranny is obe-
dience to God.’’
Southern Journalist Dead.
New Orleanp, Feb. 4.—George
Nicholson, proprietor of the Pica-
yune, died suddenly today of conges-
tion of the lungs He was born in
Yorkshire, England, 75 years ago, of
good Scotch ancestry. He came to
America when a young man and be-
came an employe of the Picayune,
working his way from mail clerk to
business manager before the war.
He acquired an interest in the Pica-
yune in 1876 and later ou married
Mrs. E. J. Nicholson, the principal
owner. He was one of the best
known figures in Southern journal-
ism and was a man of fine business
capacity, intellectual attainments and
enterprising public spirit.
-O-
The government is paying Carne7
gie $600 to $720 a ton for armor
plate that costs about $40 a ton to
make, writes an iron expert in the
New York World. This is a govern-
ment of, by and for the people—aud
Carnegie seems to be the people. It
would ruin the government, people,
nation and the whole copoodle for
the nation to own its own iron works
nnd make its own iron and ships!
That would not leave any way to put
millions into the hands of the Curue-
gies and that would cut off ihe bar-
rel from the democratic and republi-
can election committee. See?—Ap-
peal to Rt as j .
EXECUTIVE C03IMITTEE
Of the People’s Party of Hays County.
Preet. 1, C. M. Breeding, Sau Marcos;
“ 2. H. B. Forter,.............Kyle.,
“ 8. Mark Deck............'....Huaca.,
“ 4. M. M. Echols......Diittw.oodi
“ 5. W. T. Acklin.............Buda.
“ 6. ....................yell
I. H. Julian, Geo W. Knight,
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Julian, Isaac H. The People's Era (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1896, newspaper, February 20, 1896; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth614749/m1/1/?q=Houston+County+Times+: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State University.