The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1893 Page: 12 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
Noy. , 18
DUUKJTOBY.
National Farmers Alliance and In-
dustrial Union.
H. L. Louck, President, South Dakota.
Marion Butler, Vice-President, North
Carolina.
D. P. Duncan, Sec-Treas., Columbia,
South Carolina.
Ben Terrell, Lecturer, Seguln, Texas.
executive board.
H. L. Louck, Chairman; L. Leonard,
Missouri; Mann Page, Virginia; I. E.
Dean, New York; R. C. Deming, Penn-
sylvania.
judiciary department.
P. A, Sonthworth, A. E. Cole, R. W.
Beck, M. D. Davie.
legislative committee.
L. P. Featherston, Mann Page, W.
P. Gwynne.
The Secretary and Chairman of Ex-
ecutive Board are located at 239 North
Capital street, Washington, D. C.
The President's office is 344 D street,
Washington, D. C.
State Officers.
R. A. High, President, Blooming
Grove, Texas.
S. C. Granbury, Vice-President, Aus-
tin, Texas.
Miss Fannie Moss, Sec-Treas., Cle-
burne, Texas.
H. S. P. Ashby, Lecturer, Smlthfield,
Texas.
executive committee.
W. P. Martin, Chairman, Kilgore,
Texas; C. A. McMeans, Shiloh, Texas;
Thomas Gaines, Comanche, Texas.
judiciary committee.
J. J. Waldrip, Staples Store, Texas;
J. M. Perdue, West Mountain, Texas;
Geo. L. Clark, Huckaby, Texas.
delegates to national alliance.
Henry E. McCulloch, Seguin, Tex.
J. M. Perdue, West Mountain, Texas.
official journal.
Southern Mercury, Milton Park,
General Manager, Dallas, Texas.
ALLIANCE DEMANDS.
Adopted at Ooala and Beafflraed at Indian-
apolis and Memphis.
1. (a) We demand the abolition of
national banks.
(b) We demand that the government
shall establish sub-treasuries in the
several states which shall issue money
direct to the people at a low rate of tax,
not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, on
non-perishable farm products and also
upon real estate, with proper limita-
tions upon the quantity of land and
and amount of money.
(c) We demand that the amount of
the circulating medium be speedily in-
creased to not less than $50 per capita.
2. We demand that congress shall
pass such laws as will effectually pre-
vent the dealing in futures of all agri-
cultural and mechanical productions;
providing a stringent system of proced-
ure in trials that will secure prompt
conviction and imposing such penalties
as shall secure the most perfect com-
pliance with the law.
3. We condemn the sil ver bill recent-
ly passed by congress, and demand in
lieu thereof the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
4. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land;
and that congress take prompt action
to devise some plan to obtain all lands
now owned by aliens and foreign syn-
dicates, and that all lands now held by
railroads and other corporations in ex-
cess of such as are actually used and
needed by them, be reclaimed by the
government and held for actual settlers
only.
6. Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, we demand—
(a) That our national legislation
shall be so framed in the future as not
to buld up one industry at the expense
of another.
(b) We further demand a removal
of the existing heavy tariff tax from
the necessities of life, that the poor of
our land must have.
(c) We further demand a just and
equitable system of graduated tax on
incomes.
(d) We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as pos-
sible in the hands of the people, and
hence we demand that all national and
state revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the government
economically and honestly administer-
ed.
6. We demand the most rigid, honest
and just state and national governmen-
tal control and supervision of the means
of public communication and transpor-
tation, and if this control and supervis-
ion does not remove the abuses now ex-
isting, we demand the government
ownership of such means of communi-
cation and transportation.
7. We demand that the congress of
the United States submit an amend-
ment to the constitution providing for
the election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people of each
state.
finance.
First. We demand a national cur-
rency, safe, sound and flexible, issued
by the general government only, a full
legal tender for all debts, public and
private, and that without the use of
banking corporations, a just, equitable
and efficient means of distribution di-
rect to the people, at a tax not to ex-
ceed 2 per cent per annum, to be pro-
vided as set forth in the sub-treasury
plan of the Farmers Alliance, or a bet-
ter system, also by payments in dis-
charge of its obligations for public im-
provements.
We demand free and unlimited coin-
age of silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of 16 to 1.
We demand that the amount of cir-
culating medium be speedily increased
to not less than $50 per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the
country shonld be kept as much as pos-
sible in the hands of the people, and
hence we demand all state and nation-
al revenue shall be limited to the nec-
essary expenses of the government
economically administered.
We demand that postal savings banks
be established by the government for
the safe deposit of the earnings of the
people, and to facilitate exchange.
transportation.
Second. Transportation being a
means of exchange and a public neces-
sity, the government 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 government
In the Interest of the people.
land.
Third. The land, Including all the
natural sources of wealth, Is the herit-
age of the people and should not be
monopolized for speculative purposes
and alien ownership of land should be
prohibited.
All land now held by railroads and
other corporations, in excess of their
actual needs, and all lands now owned
by aliens, should be reclaimed by the
government and held for actualsettlers
only,
LB0TUBBB8' APPOINTMENTS.
W. H. H. DAVIS.
Jonah Nov. 9
Prairie Springs " 10
Mount Prospect " 11
HABBY TBAOT.
Sulphur Springs, Nov. 10th, 2 p.m.
Mt. Vernon, Nov. 11th, 2 p.m.
BEN T EBB ELL.
Piano Nov. 15, 2 p
Von Alafirrio lii '*
Van Alstyne
Sherman..
McKlnney
Bonham ..,
Clarksville
Blossom...
Paris
Ladonia...
Wolf City
m
16,
17,
18,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
27,
29,
30,
Corsicana Dec. 2,
Sulphur Springs.
Wills Point
Terrell
PBED KEHLEB.
Fayetteville..Nov. 11, 2 p.m.—1
P/\iirirlfnn " 19 ** i
Roundtop
Hog Creek...
Waldeck
Winchester..
LaGrange
Cedar
Swiss Alp...
Ammanville..
Schulenburg.
12,
13, 7 "
14, 44
15, 3 44
16, 7 "
17, "
18, 44
19, 2 14
20, 7 p.m.
-German.
-German.
-German.
-English.
Caldwell Dec
Second Creek "
Lyons 44
Merle 44
Post Oaks 44
Cooks Point 44
Covington Prairie 44
Fraimville 44
Yellow Prairie 44
Jones Schoolhouse 44
Porter Chapel 44
Dean ville 44
Merricks Mill 44
—German.
—German.
—German.
,—English.
12, 1 p.m
12, 8
13, 10 a.m
13, 8 p.m
14, 10 a.m
14, 8 p.m
15, 10 a.m
15, 8 p.m
16, 2
18, 10 a.m
18, 8 p.m
19, 2
19, 8
H. S. P. ASHBY, STATE LECTVBEB.
Longview, Gregg Nov.
Cleburne 44
Meridian 44
Caldwell 44
Richmond ,4
Columbus 44
Weimar ,4
Fayette county 44
City of Houston 44
Beaumont 44
Saratoga Dec.
West Chapei 44
Liberty county 44
Montgomery 44
Willis 44
San Jacinto Co., 44
Walker 44 44
Madison 44 44
Leon 44 44
Brazos 44 44
Grimes 44 44
Waller 44 44
DR. J. V. GÜRLEY,1
THE PAINLESS
DENTIST.
264 eim St. Dal/at, Texat.
Fills Teeth Without Pain.
Extracts Teeth Without Pain.
Artificial teeth made
without plate*.
Gold crowns, only Ifi
Teeth extracted with-
out pain, |1
Teeth extracted with
pain, 00 cents,
20 yean experience
and graduate of two
flrot-claM colleges.
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County presidents will select the
places in their respective counties, and
publish in local papers: also in Mer-
cury.
R. A. High, Pres.,
F. S. A. of Texas.
INSTBUCTIONS TO OBOANIZEBS OF THE
AID DEOBEE.
Read up carefully. Post yourself
thoroughly on everything pertaining
to the Aid and the Alliance. If you
are an insurance subject, show that
you have confidence in the Aid by tak-
ing a certificate yourself. Then you
are prepared to inspire confidence in
others,
Real general instructions to organ-
izers until you have it fully memorized.
You need not go to the doctor with ap-
plicant. Fill out the application and
have the applicant sign it and sign it
yourself as organizer. Furnish appli-
cant with envelope properly addressed.
Collect membership fee, or take his
note for amount payable in thirty days,
Then send him to the medical examin-
er, who will fill out his part of the re-
port. The applicant can then enclose
in in the envelope and drop it in the
postoffice.
If the applicant is received into the
Aid he will be drawn upon for annual
dues and advance assessment from
headquarters. If applicant is rejected,
note or money will be returned to him.
If received, note is due and collectable.
Applicant pays medical examiner's
fee. This is usually $1. In filling out
an application always use ink. Never
fill out with pencil and write over in
ink. Mail all applications to Alonzo
Wardall, Alliance Aid, Huron, S. D.
Do all you can to extend the circula-
tion of Alliance and reform newspapers
friendly to the Aid.
A CALL TO ACTION.
By authority vested in me by the
people's party in Kaufman county, I
hereby call a mass meeting of all those
who are dissatisfied with present con-
ditions and desire reforms, irrespec-
tive of previous party affiliation, to
to meet in the town of Kaufman, on
Friday, Nov. 10, 1893, at 10 a. m. Em-
inent speakers will be present, and
living issues discussed from a patriotic
standpoint. N. L. Bowles.
Ch'm P. P. of Kaufman Co.
J. H. (CYCLONE) DAVIS.
Sulphur Springs Nov. 10, 1 p. m
Mt. Vernon.
Omaha
Belden
Bryan's Mill
Cuseta
O'Farrell
Rock Springs
Unity
Atlanta
Texarkana
Park (T. C. Junction)...
Boston C. H
Boston C. H
Sand Hill
Hubbard's Chapel
Detroit
Fulbrlght
Mt. Pleasant
11,
13, 44
14, 44
15, 44
15, 7 a. m
16, 1 p. m
17, 44
18, 44
18, 7 44
20, 8 44
21,10a.m
22,10 a.m
22, 8 p. m
23,10 a.m
23, 8 p. m
24,1
25,
27,
J. W. BIABD.
Will speak at Denton on Nov. 4, and
at Kaufman, Nov. 10. Everybody invi-
ted.
STB.00 *o $250.00 SSSrffir*
working for B. Í, JOHNSON A CO., Bioh
mond, Vi,
NOTICE TO AGENTS.
All those having certificates of
agency for Texas Advance or South-
ern Mercury are hereby appointed
agents for Cyclone Davis' great book.
A Politcal Revelation"and are author-
ized to accept subscriptions for same at
$1.25, when delivered in lots or five or
more; by express or by mail at $1.35.
All orders taken by agents should be
sent In at leas«t once a week for regis-
tration.
FBOM THE PEOPLE.
Have our national officers of the Al-
liance sold out to the New York Mu-
tual Life insurance company? The
people are viewing the late endorse-
ment as commanding a price as no such
endorsement of this robbing outfit
could have * never got gratuitously.
We were preparing to push the Alli-
ance Aid, but this has thrown cold
water on the Alliance effort. Let the
Mercury take the lead In denouncing
this sell out of the national officers.—
S. J. Hampton, Bonham, Texas.
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