The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1893 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MEBCUKÍ.
Nov. 9, 1898
not be through skill in the culinary
art to find the soft spot in her
husband's stomach, but through
the teaching of science will she
earnestly search for she path of
life in which to plant the foot steps
of her baby. Parentage to man is
an incident in his career. Not so
with woman, and ¿no man should
have it in his power to thrust un-
welcome maternity upon her, legal-
ly or illegally. The free woman
of the future, will not curse with
existence the unwelcome child.
To her, motherhood will be a great
boon, to be sought only when (he
can do full justice to the little one
that has blessed her life. To this
woman of the future, unwilling
motherhood will be as much a bar-
barism of the past as chattle sla-
very is to the present. Men are
dreaming of a more just distribu-
tion of Jabor and reward, and
women have caught the spirit of
the vision and are applying it to
their own needs A dream enter-
tained by an entire generation is
prophetic of its realization in the
next.
The question of temperance con-
vulsing this age, dominated as it
is by masculine ideas, will settle
itself in the next; for, into the
queenly presence of the woman of
the future, no drunken man will
dare to reel, and the world will
realize that freedom means not deg-
redation to her but elevation to
man. Man will realize he must
be wise, kind, just and true, to
have and hold this large souled,
womanly woman of the future.
SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT!
The masses do not understand
the advantages which accrue to
bankers in consequence of the va-
rious kinds of money now circu-
lating under legal authority. The
harvest bankers reap are different
kinds. To illustrate: Suppose
copper coins are made a legal ten-
der for fifty cents, nickles for
one dollar, dimes for two dollars,
quarters for five dollars, halves for
ten dollars, silver for twenty
dollars and gold and paper money
for any amount.
Gold and paper money thereby
become the money of account in
the banks, while the small ooin is
the money of account with the peo
gle. The merchant who retails
is wares for these different coins
goes to the bank to make his de-
posits or buy exchange and finds the
Dank discounts them; hence he
fortifies himself by adding to the
price of his wares the bank dis-
counts.
The consequence is that the la-
borer, small farmer and rural peo-
ple generally, have these coins
pushed on them by those who buy
their produce or employ them.
Most of this change is deposited
in bank weekly, because retailers
are always pushed to keep their
accounts covered. The banks pay
it out at par, pocketing the differ-
ence* In London the banks make
at least 4 per cent a month on
such transactions, and our banks
will do the same if they are per
mitted.
Human nature is the same the
world over, consequently to per-
mit those whose main object in
life is to accumulate fortunes
through the manipulation of money
to dictate our financial legislation
is about as sensible a* to permit
the manufacturers of gunpowder to
declare war. To prevent the tyr-
any sure to grow out of such per-
mission, congress passed a resolu-
tion in 1792 that no banker or
stockholder in a bank ehould be
eligible to a seat in congress; this
resolution was signed and ap-
proved by Washington, then pres-
ident of the United States
If it was sound democracy in
1792 for the great plain people of
this country to dictate the finan
cial policy of the republic; why is
it not sound democracy today? If
those who waded through seas of
blood and bore untold privations to
establish the republic deemed it nec
essary to preclude bankers from
occupying seats in congress, why
should those who now advocate
the same policy be denounced as
"calamity howlers," "cranks,"
"anarchists" and "fit subjeots for
a rope's end?"
QUBBY ABOUT SILVER.
1. What is free and unlimited
coinage of silver ?
2. How much silver bullion does
the United States coin monthly,and
purchase ?
3. Was the purchase of silver,
prior to 1873, limited ?
4. Has congress passed a law or
favored a bill in behalf of the far-
mer this session?
R. E. Shugart,
Augusta, Tex.
Free and unlimited coinage
means for tke government to add
the alloy, as has always been done,
which pays the expense of coin-
age, and coin all the gold and sil-
ver that is brought to the govern-
ment mints to be coined.
The Sherman law, which is the
only law providing for the coinage
of silver, allows the secretary of
the treasury to buy, at the market
price, and coin, not exceeding
4,500,000 ounces a month. But
he has refused, so reports say, to
coin hardly any since July 1,1893
In buying the Bilver he issues sil-
ver certificates in payment, and
Cleveland demands that these sil-
ver certificates be paid in gold
when presented. Hence, the de-
mand for gold must be met by the
government when the certificates
are presented, and the speculators
in Europe, who must have gold,
only have to present their certifi-
cates to the government, and it
must furnish them the gold, no
matter at what price or sacrifice.
Prior to 1873 the government
coined all the gold and silver that
came lor coinage, just as we ask
the government to do now. This
is what all the people who are
called free silver men want.
The present and all prior con-
gresses since 1865 have killed ev-
ery bill introduced in the interest
of the people, and passed every
one demanded by the united pluto-
crats.
WAS KB A PROPHET 1
[Extract from a sermon delivered in the
Presbyterian obnrcb of Columbia, 3. O., jnet
before the secession of Boat1* Carolina, by the
Rev. James H. Thorn well, D. D.]
"That the non-slave-holding
states will have to eventually or-
ganize labor, and introduce some-
thing so like slavery that it will be
hard to disciminate between them
or to suffer from the most violent
and disastrous insurrections against
the system which ere-tes and per-
petuates their m sery, seems to be
as certain as the extremr s of pov-
erty and wealth. We do not envy
them their social condition* With
sanctimonious complacency they
may affect to despise us, and to
shun our society as they would
shun the infection of a plagu°.
They may say to us, "Stand by,
we are holier than thou,'* but the
d*y of reckoning must come. So
long as ihe demand for labor tran-
scends the supply, all is well;
capital and lab r are mutual
friends, and the country grows
with mushroon rapidity. But,
when it is no longer capital ask-
ing for labor, but labor asking for
capital, when it is no longer work
seeking men. but men seeking
work, then, the tables are turned
and unemployed labor and selfish
capital stand facets face in dead-
ly hostility. We desire to see no
such state of affairs among u^, and
we accept as ag od and merciful
constitution the organization of
labor which Provide nee has given
us in slavery. Like every hunoan
arrangement, it is liable to abuse,
but in its ultimate influence upon
the Fooial Bys^m it is wise and
beneficent. We see in it a secu-
rity for the rights of property, and
a safe-guard against pauperism and
idleness, which our traduce s may
yet live to wish had been engraft-
ed upon their own institutions
Human being* canftot be expect-
ed to starve. There is a point,
at which tney will rise in desper-
ation against a social order which
dooms them to nakedness and
famine, while their lordly neigh-
bor is clothed in purple and fine
linen and faring Bumptiously
every day. Tbey will scorn the
logic, whirh makes it their duty
to perish in the midst of plenty.
Bread they must have, and bread
they will have, though all the dis-
tinctions of property have to be
abolished to provide it."
Wendell Phillips said in 1861,
"The opening struggle wi'l be but
child's play comp red to theore
th«t must come later on in this
country in whi'h capital, arrogant
capital, will be arraigned agúnst
the robbed and outraged masses."—
Editor.
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Breeches" has a printed guarantee
in the pocket. If you need a pair
of Jeans Pants insist on seeing
them. They fit better, look bet-
ter and wear better than' other
makes.
Tired, Weak, Nervous
"I was In a discouraging condition, my
health and strength almost gone. I had that
tired feeling frequently,
and had rheumatism so
severely that I had to
walk with a cane. I felt
tired of life and was a
burden to others. Ner-
vous spells and dizziness
added to my suff e r i n g s
and greatly reduced my
strength. I began to take
Hood's Sarsaparilla and soon was so much bet-
ter that I kept on until I felt like a different
person. I owe my present good health to Hood's
Hood's5^ Cures
Sarsaparilla and cordially recommend It as a
good all-round medicine." Mrs. Mart C. Cby-
dsbmax, La Fontaine, Kansas.
N. B. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills, Bilious-
ness. Jaundice. Indigestion, Sick Headache.
NO FURTHER REASON FOR DOUBT.
The developments cf the last
four months show that the bankers,
usuers and spoliators have formu-
lated Cleveland's policy. Senator
Coke, in a speech delivered on
April 26, 1892, in the United States
senate, charged that these classes
were then making a concerted ef-
fort to secure Cleveland's nomina-
tion. Henry Watterson stated
publicly while the Chicago con-
vention was in session, that cer-
tain men were then in the conven-
tion loaded down with Wall street
and Standard oil money, forcing
him (Cleveland) on the conven-
tion.
During the last two months,
Senators Morgan, Ransom, Pugh,
Vest, Coke and others have stated
that Cleveland's policy was dicta-
ted by a combination of alien and
domestic bankers.
#Can any man who believes in
tbe principles taught by Jefferson,
Franklin, Madison, Monroe, Cal-
houn. Jackson or Lincoln longer
remain in the democratic party or-
ganization? So arrogant have the
Cleveland senators become that
they publicly deplore the fact that
the common people in this coun-
try have any power to influence
financial legislation, assuming the
position that it is a calamity for
them to be permitted to tamper
with such questions.
Inch by inch the people are be-
ing pounded into subjection to the
plutocrats; robbed of their earn-
ings and driven into a condition of
desperation.
WATTEB80N'S WAIL.
Henry Wattereon is out in a
long, vindictive article denouncing
the south generally, and Senators
Morgan and Vest especially, for
standing for free silver coinage.
His last editorial utterance is more
malignant than anything Ingalls
ever uttered, or Halstead ever
wrote, against the south. The
leading statesmen from the south
have stood by the emphatic poli-
cies and traditions of the demo-
cratic party, in spite of the efforts
of Grover Cleveland and the army
of bankers, usurers, and spoliators,
foreign and domestic, to fasten up-
on the people the principles and
policies of incipient monarchy.
Every thrust Wattereon makes
at Morgan, Vest, or the south, but
blackens his own record. It shows
how arrogant, vindictive, malig-
nant, a traitor may become to-
ward thos * who refuse to join in
in his treachery. The raids of
Benedict Arnold upon his old com-
patriots, after he had Bold his coun-
try and his soul, were conducted
with more heartless cruelty than
the savage Indians. Henry Wat-
terson's tirade against his old
friends for refusing to become trai-
tors to their constituents, is a par-
allel to Benedict Arnold's, and
marks Watterson as a traitor and
ingrate.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1893, newspaper, November 9, 1893; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185538/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .