Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1902 Page: 3 of 16
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Thursday, January 28,1102.
SOUTHERN MERCURY
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to the necessary expenses of the gov-
ernment, economically and honestly
administered.
Transportation being a means of ex-
change and public necessity, the gov-
ernment should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
postoffice system, being a necessity for
the transmission of news, should be
owned and operated by the govern-
ment in the interest of the people.
The land, including all the natural
sources of wealth, is the heritage of
the people, and should not be monopo-
lized for speculative purposes, and
alien ownership of land should be pro-
hibited. All land now held by railroad
an% other corporations In excess of
their natural needs, and all lands now
owned by aliens, should be reclaimed
by the government and held for actual
settlers only.
UNPUNISHED CRIMES.
Under the above title a daily ex-
change inveighs largely and at length
against "pistol totin'." Now, it is a
fact that the constitution of the United
States declares that the right of the
citizen to keep and bear arms shall not
be infringed, and it is further true that
pistols were carried in the pocket or
"concealed" when the constitution
was adopted. But this is not the point
we are making. It is our purpose to
note here a few of the "unpunished
crimes" not mentioned by our contem-
porary. And the petty offense that
moves the ponde ous thunder of our
exchange is a v ry small particle of
dust compared with the colossal mass
of unpunished crime passed over by
this journal. We mention a few of
these crimes, which so far from having
been punished have been condoned
and approved by the plutocratic press
and in all plutocratic circles. Among
these are the following.
1. Judges Gary, Grinnell and Royce,
and their accomplices and co-conspir-
ators, who murdered Spies, Engel,
Fisher and Parsons, under the pre-
text that they were the ring leaders
of the Haymarket riot in Chicago,
have not yet been made to expiate
their crime by a judicial sentence.
2. The judges who have perverted
the law to grant injunctions against
working men at the instance of the cor-
porations have not been impeached for
corruption in office.
3. The three New York judges who
twisted a statute against an indecent
exposure of person into a meaning
under which they vainly hoped to
send Johann Most to the penitentiary,
are still unwhipt of justice.
4. The Pinkertons who have mur-
dered innocent working men on nu-
merous occasions have never been
even arrested.
5. The deputies hired to shoot down
strikers while peaceably walking on
the highway have received the enco-
miums of the corporation press.
6. Tom Scott, president of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company, told Gov.
Hartranft that he wanted the militia
"to give rifle diet to the strikers for a
few days and see how they liked that
kind of bread." Scott died highly hon-
ored as a member of the Democratic
party.
7. The Chicago Times said, at the
time of the sailors' strike: "Hand
grenades should be thrown among
those union sailors who are striving to
obtain higher wages and less hours."
There was no objection made by "re-
spectable" citizens to this incitement
to murder and assassination.
8. The Chicago Tribune said that
tramps should be given strychnine
with the food that was given them,
and this sentiment was applauded by
the pillars of society, and there was
no talk about incendiary language.
9. The Pinkerton men who blew up
the street cars in St. Louis in order to
charge it upon the strikers have re-
mained unmolested.
10. The assassins hired by the rail-
way pool who shot to death seven men
and one woman walking peacefully
along the railroad track In East St
Louis were sent home after their mur-
derous deed with pay and honor.
11. The conspiracy to arrest and
hang, for political purposes, innocent
men and women for complicity in the
assassination of McKinley has never
been brought to the attention of a
grand jury by any State's attorney.
12. The offer by a government offi-
cial of the bribe of his liberty to Czol-
gosz if he would accuse innocent blood
of complicity in his crime, has not been
noticed, and the foiled would-be
briber still holds his official position.
13. The desperate efforts made by
the plutocratic press to stir up a mob
to kill Mr. Hearst and dynamite his
newspaper plants by charging him
with being in a conspiracy to assassi-
nate McKinley have been approved by
"all good citizens."
14. An ex-President, judges and
members of Congress many, have ta-
ken bribes and robbed with impunity.
15. More than ten thousand million-
aires and corporators swear lies annu-
ally to escape just taxation and none
of them are sent to the penitentiary.
These are a few (and only a few) of
the enormous crimes leveled at the
existence of society itself yhich should
be classed as "unpunished."
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab-
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails te cure. E. W. Grove's sig-
nature is on each box. 2oc.
tioned. The Star says:
"The Times to-day of all days begins
a series of articles on the offensive
Uerman caricatures. Every newspaper
has long been aware of these carica-
tures, but the responsible journals have
not advertised these insults, simply be-
cause nothing could be done by setting
the German and British people by the
ears. The Times ought to hesitate be-
fore it deliberately flogs the passion of
the people. Are our publicists dead?
Can not they see the abyss toward
which (they are hounding this nation?"
The Times article, which is two col-
umns long, says:
" 'These papers are not gutter sheets,
but are sold everywhere, at the stations
of the state railroads, even at Pots-
dam station, where the Emperor is
constantly traveling. He was finally
obliged to personally order their re-
moval. Never are these papers anony-
mous. One of the most infamous of
all, entitled "The Boer War," bears on
the title pages the names of persons
distinguished in the literary and artist-
ic world of Germany.
" 'From a purely technical standpoint
the paper is an art production; but it
is difficult to find words to convey a
notion of the filth which its cultured
artists and writers venture to lay be-
fore its cultured German readers. Brit-
ish soldiers are represented as robbing
the dead. Mr. Chamberlain's state
coach is depicted as a cart laden
with skeletons, and King Edward is
shown dead drunk in his bedroom, re-
ceiving the news of Cronje's surrender.
'"But the crowning piece is a cartoon
entitled "Hero Worship." The then
Princess of Wales with Queen Victoria,
the Prince of Wales and the young
Princesses by her side is decorating a
youthful soldier. The legend under-
neath reads, textually: "An English
Princess decorating the youngest sol-
dier in the British Army with the Vic-
toria Cross, because, although only 13,
he has already outraged eight Boer
women."
" 'This obscenity, sold in respectable
shops, was eagerly bought by the pub-
lic and lies on fashionable drawing-
room tables.'"'
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Jacques Loeb at the fourteenth aanual
meeting of the American Physiological
Society at the University of Chicago to-
night.
During the past summer the noted sci-
entist has been continuing his series of
experiments with the eggs of the lower
marine animals, especially those of the
sea urchin, and tonight he told a group
of the foremost physiologists In America
that by means of observation of the ef-
fects of certain chemicals upon these
minute bits of protoplasm he was ready
to make a tentative definition of the here-
tofore unknown nature of death.
Death, Prof. Loeb affirmed, was not
a negative process, a simple breaking
down of tissues, as it has been regarded
up to this time, but an active agent born
with the birth of the egg and destined,
if not checked, to gain the upper hand of
the life instinct and then bring about ex-
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covery of this death agent in all life sub-
stance is Prof. Loeb's announcement that
he has been able to check It in the eggs
of the sea urchin by means of chemical
agents. This, It is claimed, means noth-
ing less than on n minute scale the se-
cret of eternal life is in the power of man-
kind.
The experiments, Prof. Loeb says, were
simple. Unfertilized eggs of the sea ur-
chin were placed in a weak solution of
potassium cyanide for several days. In
ordinary conditions an unfertilized egg
dies in a few hours, destroyed by the
death agents born with it. At the end of
several days the eggs were again exam-
ined and found to be capable of fertil-
ization and of producing healthy ani-
mals.
In explaining the results. Prof. Loeb
said "mortiferous processes" were due to
the actions of certain ferments of an un-
known nature, whose destructive tenden-
cy was counteracted by the potassium
salts.
FERRY'S
A SET-BACK FOR AMERICAN CAR-
TOONS.
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If American cartoonists think they
excel the balance of the world, they
are sadly mistaken. When they come
into competition with our German
brothers, they are simply not in it.
nead the following late cablegram from
London, and be convinced:
"A remarkable article appears in
to-day's Times, under the caption of
"Literature of German Anglophobia,"
recounting the character of the anti-
British cartoons which have appeared
in the German newspapers which, the
Times says, "in coarseness, obscenity
and venom are without a parallel in
modern times."
The wisdom of the publication of the
article at this juncture is much ques-
Representative Kerr, of Ohio, one
of the executors of the will of the late
John Sherman, is writing the biogda-
phy of that distinguished statesman.
There will be two volumes of 600 pages
each.
We venture the statement that in
all those 600 pages not one letter or
line will be found about that dark and
damnable conspiracy which he engin-
eered which resulted in robbing the
people of billions of dollars. This
hired biographer, no doubt, will paint
him as fit associate of Thomas Jeffer-
son, Abraham Lincoln and men of na-
tional reputation and character.
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