The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1892 Page: 3 of 16
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Aug. 18 1892.
SOUTHERN MERCURY.
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NUGENT IN ELLIS COUNTY.
The "collar crowd" have been
"doing up" the towns and cities for
the past three months, thinking
that the boys from the "forks of
the creek" were not interested in
the discussions of the great issues
now before the people of Texas.
We doubt if a more enthusiastic
or large audience has greeted Gov-
ernor Hogg or Hon. George Clark
during the campaign than that
which listened to the banner bearer
of the reformers, Hon. Thomas L.
Nugent, at Carroll's school house
in Ellis county on Friday last.
There was about 5000 people pres-
ent. We clip the following report
from the "people's paper," the Dal-
las News:
Judge Nugent spoke in an ar-
bor. His appearance was the sig-
nal for universal applaure. By
simple clapping of hands and tap-
ping on the benches was he wel-
comed. He discused national pol-
itics entirely. He took up the
democratic platforms formulated
before the war, which declared for
free trade or a tariff for revenue
only, and the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. Then he came
to the platform adopted by the na-
tional democratic convention in
1876, at St. Louis when Tilden was
nominated, which declared for a
tariff for revenue only, but said
nothing about the free coinage of
silver. He said he came next to
G rover Cleveland, whom Mr. Dana
called "the stuffed prophet," and
about the only thing he had been
stuffed with was tariff' reform.
The democracy having been beaten
in 1880, even though that brave
soldier, Gen. Hancock, headed the
ticket on a reiteration of the tariff'
plank in the platform of 1876, the
convention of 1884. committed the
democratic party for all time to
come to the policy of raising the
revenues of the government by
tariff*taxation. The plank of 1884
irrevocably committed the demo-
cratic party to incidental protec-
tion. It expressly said that no in-
terest depending upon legislation
for its existence should suffer at
the hands of the democratic party.
What else did it say? It said that
enough revenue must be raised to
keep the faith of the government
with its creditors and pensioners.
He had thought from what the
democratic orators had said when
they are going around charging the
vftjlwefg Hf
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest
of all in leavening strength.—Latest United
States Government Food Report.
Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall St., N.Y.
ale's party with wanting to pay
e union soldiers the difference
between the wages they received
and gold, that the very word pen-
sioner was an abomination to the
democratic heart and yet in the
platform it occupied a conspicuous
place and the faith of the party
was pledged to the present system.
Still there was not a word of free
coinage in the democratic platforms
and thus the party had completely
receded from the position taken
before the war and was not a dem
ocratic party any longer. Their
platforms, instead of expressing
the convictions of the party on
public questions, were intended
merely to catch votes and when
that end had been accomplished
the platform had served its pur-
pose well. As to the free coinage
of silver, there could be no excuse
for the attitude of the democratic
party. In 1879, when the demo-
crats had a majority in both branch
es of congress, the house passed the
Warner bill and enough democratic
senators allied with the republicans
to beat the bill. In this congress,
when enough republican senators
had allied themselves with the dem-
ocrats to pass a free coinage bill, a
democratic house had failed of its
duty. Twenty-nine states in their
democratic platforms last year had
demanded the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and yet the rep
resentatives went on to Washing
ton and voted against the bill in
the'interest of Wall street and
against the wishes of their people.
This time they come before the
people with a declaration on the
silver question that meant absolute-
ly nothing If the democratic party
wanted a tariff' for revenue only
and the free coinage of silver, let
them nominate a man who has the
embodiment of both these issues
and whose election meant that those
issues would triumph instead of
putting up a man who embodied no
issue. The democratic orators in
congress were sending out as a
part of the Congressional Record,
Henry George's book on protection
and free trade and trying to adopt
it as their slogan, but they could
not iool the people as easily as that.
Henry George, who did not write
for office, but as a statesman and a
philosopher pointed out the very
dangers that lay in the way of
adopting a tariff for revenue only.
Judge Nugent read several chap-
ters from Henry George's book to
sustain this position. The people's
party, he said comes before you
with a square declaration on all
issues. We declare for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver.
We declare that wealth belongs to
him who creates it. Some people
have so misconstrued this declara-
tion that they say we want to give
all the money to the day laborers
of the country. There were three
great factors in the production of
wealth—land, labor and capital. If
you were to go out into the desert
without any money or without any
implements you would not be a
great producer of wealth. If you
were to raise a bale of cotton and
keep it in a room you would have
produced no wealth. But having
grown it and picked it you carry it
to the man who has put his land,
labor and capital into a gin and he
gins it and prepares it for market.
The people's party platform de-
clares that every dollar taken from
the man who creates wealth with-
out an equivalent is robbery. It
is just as much robbery as if a man
were to steal your corn irom your
crib without giving you some
equivalent for it. And it is just
as much robbery to take money
from a railroad without giving it
some equivalent as it is to take
your horses when you are asleep.
A railroad is a great industrial en-
terprise. It combines all the
wealth producing factors—land,
labor and capital. It is one of the
necessities of civilization and a
benefit to society. The democratic
party of Texas invited these rail-
roads to come here. It held up its
hands and said we have a great
state, an undeveloped state and
likely to produce enormous ton-
nage. Come in here and help build
it up and we will treat you right.
The democratic party of Texas
even wanted railroads so badly that
it went to the extent of giving the
companies great bodies of the pub-
lic domain in order to induce them
to come in and help develop the
state. These roads were entitled to
the same protection as the farmer
and taking money from them was
just as much robbery as taking the
farmer's money from him.
Col. Mills, who is a great man in
his own estimation, is now going
about the state saying that the free
coinage of silver would only in-
crease the circulating medium
about $15,000,000 and would not
be any great relief to the people
after all. Mr. Cleveland's letter of
acceptance distinctly pitched the
lines of the campaign upon the
tariff'and the threat that the repub-
licans would pass a torce bill if they
got in power, and Mr. Mills is as-
siduously following out that line of
political action. Col. Mills said
the only way to get an equal dis-
tribution of wealth was by reduc-
tion of|tariff* taxes. That is a fallacy.
Take England, where they say they
have free trade, and the rich have
been getting richer and the poor
poorer all the time, just as they
are in this country. As to the
force bill, the same republican sen-
ators who voted against it before
are still in the senate and will vote
against it again. The democrats
are committed against it, the peo-
ple's party are squarely committed
against it, so the chances of the
republicans getting a force bill en-
acted are very remote.
Judge Nugent at length went
into the question of taxation, hold-
ing that every man ought to be
taxed in proportion to the amount
of property owned. He also
touched lightly upon the question
of government ownership of rail-
roads as the only solution of the
railroad problem, and merely re-
ferred to the sub-treasury.
The reception of the speeches
was refreshing to one who has been
nauseated by yelling and howling
and the deafening efforts of brass
bands. There was no big bass
drum to beat or cymbals to clash
whenever the drummer thought
the speaker made a hit. There
was no jumping-up-and-knocking-
your-heels-together-sty le-of- enthu-
iasm. All the speakers were list-
ened to with intense interest. Men
and women bent forward eagerly
to catch every word. Every eve
spoke the intense thirst of the
owner for knowledge, the desire to
hear it all. Whenever there was
applause it was quiet but deep
During Judge Nugent's speech
there were frequent utterances,
such as (,Thats so," "Now you are
hitting them." Judge Nugent's
reference to Mr. Mills, quoted
above, brought out the heartiest
applause of the day.
ft 4 ——— ft «
Exactly So.
The People's Party of America
has rnade*unqualiiied declarations
of itself in national politics. It is
a party of the whole people, dedi-
cated to maintain the proposition
that this republic shall continue
to be as the fathers designed it—a
government oí the people, by the
people, and for the people. It is
pledged to honest and just govern-
ment, and desires an improved or-
der of society that shall bring the
gratest good to the gratest number.
The people's party is in no sense
radical or revolutionary, and only
asks changes through legislation
that will give living effect to the
constitution of the United States
and the Declaration of Independ-
ence. It has no leveling or confis«
cation schemes- It respects the
rights of property honestly earned
and not used to the detriment of
the community.
The^people's party is the enemy
of all robbery, public and private.
Tt seeks solely after the welfare of
the citizens, individually and col-
lectively. It welcomes to its ranks
all honest men, no matter how rich
they may be, who do not desire to
pile up wealth by pilfering from
their fellows.
The people's party aííirms that
conscience and morality must be
basic principles oí a political or-
ganization that is worthy to be
trusted with the government either
of the nation, state or municipali-
ty'
All good citizens, regardless of
race, creed, occupation, or past po-
litical affiliations, are warmly invit-
ed to join the people's party—
which desires the city as well as
the country to be ruled righteous -
ly and not viciously.—Chicago
Vanguard.
Just think of it! Judge Nugent,
the people's party candidate tor
governor, has been on the stump
several weeks, and not a word has
been uttered against his past ante-
cedents. He must indeed be an
extraordinary pure man, worthy of
all honor at the hands of the peo-
ple or he would have been violent-
ly assailed ere this. He would
make a modle governor and reflect
additional lustre upon the great
commonwealth ot Texas.—Sulph-
ur Springs Vindicator.
Japan's theology has eight hells.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1892, newspaper, August 18, 1892; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185478/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .