The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1893 Page: 4 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
Noy. 9,1898
I
LATEST TROU WMHMOTOK.
Special Mercury Correspondence.
Since the adjournment of the
special session of congress, Wash-
ington has been invaded by anoth-
er grade of cranks, and the auto
orat of the big white building is be-
ing guarded by a detachment of
ununiformed police. It is a nice
condition of things, most assured-
ly, when the chief executive of a
government of the people has to
resort to armed protection from the
people.
Senator Mills, of your state, is
getting a reputation here as a good
office getter. He works harder,
and sits up nights later, to get a
friend in office than he did to save
the country from the clutches of
the Sherman bill. From this end
of the line it looks as though the
Mills of Texas had better grind
out a little more zeal for the inter-
est of the masses of Texas, or his
own office will only be six years
long.
In due course of legislative dili-
atoriness, Utah is to be admitted
into statehood, as the committee
on territories has reported favora-
ble on that subject.
As the house refused to concur
in the defioiary clause of the sen-
ate, making an appropriation of
several thousand dollars to pay
committee clerks back in the 51st
congrcss, that measure failed to
pass. These poor clerks only ask
for $180 per month, and ought to
have it, as their woik is much
harder, any one knows, than that
performed by the farm hand who
gets $27 and washing.
Probably the business boom
started here by the repeal of the
Sherman law has not reached Tex-
as yet, but it is on the way and
will get there if it don't get held
up in transit.
Cleveland is said to be in a very
happy frr me of mind over the suc-
cessful whipping he gave congress.
To the committee of the house who
called on him, to inform him that
that body was ready to adjourn, he
said he wished them a happy jour-
ney and by a twinkle in his eye
expressed a desire that they stay
there and not meddle with his pre-
rogative of running the government
any farther.
The committee from Georgia
called on the stuffed prophet a few
days ago to invite his dictatorship
to exhibit his belly at the Augusta,
Ga., fair. If he thinks the cranks
wont get him he may go.
The senate rejeoted the nomina-
tion of Henry C. Atwood, of New
York, to be United States consul
at Calais, France. A senate tbat
could confirm the English dude,
Van Alen, should not strangle on
an Atwood. Mr. Hornblower was
also left to Cleveland's clemency
by the adjournment of the senate,
but he can blow his own horn and
is all right.
The bill giving the Chinese six
months longer to register, put their
outer garments in their pants, and
cut off their pigtails,has been signed
by the president so, despite the
panic that is prevailing, the
"washe, washe" business will not
be interfered with for the present.
The populists have issued an ad-
dress to the people, urging them
to take up the silver cause. The
populists have great hopes now of
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a favorable consideration of their
cause by the people. Some party
should take the government helm
that is in sympathy with the toil-
ing millions.
The most important thing the
executive has done since the ad-
journment of congress is to go
squirrel hunting. Grover got his
little gun the other day and took
his pointer dog, Gresham, along
and went out in a little patch of
timber near Woodley, his (suburb-
an residence, and shot "a squirrel
to make some broth for Ruth and
Esther. Grover is getting so Eng-
lish that he will recommend porch-
ing laws in his next message.
Recent pensions for Texas are
as follows: Texas-Mexican war
survivors, increase: George Ce-
mann, Fredericksburg; G. F. Was-
son, Tioga; John A. River, Sierett.
Reissue: John Griffin, Pilot
Grove. Original, Albert Uhlig,
Denison; Davis Redfield, Cisco;
Mexican war survivor, increase,
Moses D. Arledge, Beaukiss, Wil-
liamson county; widow Indian war,
Nancy Hubbard, Stephenville;
Moses S. Powers, Burrs. Mexican
war survivors, increase, Henry C.
Dueber, Wortham; Wm. G. Can-
non, San Antonio; Isaac C. Chan-
dain, Gainesville; Wm. W. Moon,
San Marcos; Morris B May, Bur-
net; Bernard M. Patterson, Paris.
The following financial state-
ment is sent out: The amount of
paper currency outstanding Oct. 31
was $1,143,117,570, of which
$341,681,016 was in United States
notes, $125,735,188 in treasury
notes, $208,826,693 in national
bank notes, $79,005,160 in gold
certificates, $333,444,535 in silver
certificates and $22,425,000 in cur-
rency certificates.
The president proposes to issue
temporary commissions good until
the next meeting of congress to all
of his appointees who failed of
confirmation. Ordinarily when
an appointee fails to be confirmed
by the senate at a session he is
considered rejected, but that is a
relic of the times when presidents
were servants of the people and
not czars.
Mr. Cooper, of Indiana, expects
to press his bill, at the. next ses-
sion, to authorize the states to tax
national bank notes. When Coop-
er gets a bill passed and signed by
the president authorizing the states
to tax national banks the roses will
have bloomed again several times.
The people of the west can now
rest content. Grover is running
things here for the present. He
would like to adjourn the regular
session of congress if he could, as
he, Walter Q , and John G. can
run the machine. Long live Gro-
ver!
Walter Baker & Co., Dorohes-
ter, Mass., have received from the
judges of the World's Columbian
Exposition one of the highest
awards on each of the following
named articles contained in their
exhibits: Breakfast Cocoa, No. 1
Chocolate, German Sweet Choeo
late, Vanilla Chocolate, Cocoa
Butter. The judges state in their
report that these products are
characterized by excellent flavor,
purity of material employed, and
uniform even composition, indicat-
ing great care in point of meohan-
ical preparation.
TO THE UNnrrOBXSD.
Object, Aims and Purposes of the Farmers'
Alliance.
For the information of those who
only occasionally read a copy of the
Mercury, but who are uninformed
as to the object, intent and origin
of the Alliance, we publish the
following from one our ex-
changes :
The Farmers' Alliance or Union
is an organization of farmers, in
which no person is admited un-
less he (or she, for ladies are ad-
mitted to full membership) be
over sixteen years of age, and be
either a farmer or a farm laborer,
a mechanic, a country doctor,
country preacher, or a country
school teacher, and believes in
the existence of a Supreme Being
who rules and governs the universe.
Persons engaged in any of the
following occupations are exclud-
ed from membership : Merchants,
bankers, commission merchants,
cotton, grain and produce buyers,
lawyers, city doctors, preachers
and school teachers, land agents,
book agents, canvassers, peddlers,
livery stable keepers, and saw
mill men, all dealers, speculators
and gamblers, and any others
whose greatest interest do not har-
monize with farming.
The National Farmers' Alliance
and Industrial Union as a national
organization, dates from the first
day of October, 1889, at which
time it was formed by a procla-
mation of consolidation of two
orders, one of which was the
Farmers' Alliance and Co-oper-
ative Union of America, and the
other was the National Agricultu-
ral Wheel. This consolidation
had been provided for in Decem-
ber, 1888, by a joint meeting of
the two national bodies, at which
a national constitution had been
agreed upon, and that same should
be submitted to the orders in the
various states for ratification, and
when three-fourths oi the state
organizations should ratify, it was
made the duty of the president of
the two organizations to issue
proolimations dissolving the two
old organizations as then existing,
and consolidating them under the
name of the Farmers' and
Laborers' Union of America. All
this was properly done, and the
Farmers' and Laborer's Union
held ,their first regular meeting
in St. Louis, Mo., in December
1889, and changed its name to the
National Farmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union.
The Farmers' Alliance was first
started in 1869, in Texas, the
Agricultural Wheel a few years
latter, and the Farmers' Union in
1885. The Alliance started in
New York, spread westward and
as a non-secret organization, and
took on a period of organization,
and took on a period of rapid
growth and development about the
year 1884 or 1885, which has re-
sulted in a very strong organiza-
tion north of the Ohio river and
west of Pennsylvania. The Alli-
ance started in Texas, was char-
tered as a benevolent association
by the state in 1880, and as a se-
cret organisation it took on its
period of rapid growth and deve!
opment about the year 1883. In
1887 it contained a membership
in Texas numbering over one
hundred thousand, and in New
York state a larger number. The
National'Farmers' Alliance and In-
dustrial Union was chartered as a
national organization immediate-
ly after the consolidation at St.
Louis convention in 1889.
The prime object of this asso-
ciation is to better the condition of
the farmers of America, mentally,
morally and financially; to sup-
press personal, sectional and na-
tional prejudice, all unhealthful
rivalry and selfish ambition; to re-
turn to the principles on which this
government was founded, by ad-
hering to the doctrine of equal
rights and equal chances to all and
special privileges to none; to ed-
ucate and commingle with those
ot the same calling to the end that
country life may become less lone-
ly and more social; to assist the
weak with the strength oi the
strong, therby rendering the whole
body more able to resist, and to
bequeath to prosperity conditions
that will enable them aB honest,
intelligent, industrious producers
to cope successfully with the ex-
ploiting class of middlemen.
The methods oí this association
are of three kind«, social, business
and political. The social methods
are such as may be secured by
meeting together and becoming
better acquainted with neighbors,
and a friendly exchange of ideas
as to the practical detail of farm
work. The business methods take
a wider range and depend upon co-
operation in county and state
business eforts, to secure the high-
est price for the produced raised
for sale, and the lowest price on
the commodities that must be
purchased. The political methods
are strictly non-partisan, andjmust
ever remain so, because every
candidate before taking the pledge,
is assured that it will in no way
conflict with their political or re-
ligious views. All political parties
are represented in its ranks and
all are expected to work in their
respective spheres for the rights of
the farmer. The motto of the
order is: "In things essential
unity, in all things charity." All
questions in political economy
will be thoroughly discussed, and
when the order can agree on a re-
form as necessary they will de-
mand it of the government, and of
every political party, and if the de-
mand goes unheeded they will de-
vise ways to enforce it. The most
essential reforms must come from
legislation, but that does not nec-
essarily compel the responsibility
of choosing candidates and filling
the offices. Such a course may be-
come necessary, but will not be
resorted to, under ordinary cir-
cumstances.
It has accomplished much dar-
ing its short existence, as the far-
mers in all the organized states
will testily. They are enabled to
purchase machinery and commod-
ities at wholesale prioes, and it as-
sists them in the sale of their pro-
duce. These efforts, besides the
actual saving they are to those
who trade with them, save farm-
ers millions of dollars every year
by the effect they have in reduo-
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