The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1893 Page: 8 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
Nov. 9, 189
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL
FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
•IX MONTH , BOC. THRCK MOWTH«^26C.
Published every Thursday bv
THE FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE PDB'G CO.,
Incorporated under the laws of Texas.
nncpri:
MILTON PARK,
MANAGING EDITOR and GEN* L MANAGER.
Entered at the Dallas, Texas post-office as
mall matter of the second class.
The first English tea party was
held in Boston; the sccond will be
held out west.
Something should be done to
preserve a parity between the
crank and the people.
Mr. Cleveland says, "Ho gives
twice who gives quickly." Then
he has given twice, .as ho has giv-
en up the tariff issue presto.
The Dallas News says "we must
have a western Cleveland for
1896." An utter impossibility;
Clevelands don't grow in the west.
There is not an unjust law on
our statute books, nor an unjust
condition among our people, that
cannot be traced to sectional hate
and partisan prejudice.
The democratic party courts the
vote of the liquor influence and the
republican party bids liberally for
the negro vote, while the people
go and vote the reform ticket.
When Grover hears from the
next congressional election his big
toe will pain him so he will find it
necessary to go to Buzzard's Bay
and have another operation per-
formed.
County secretaries should for-
ward their quarterly reports to
Bro. Wm. P. Martin, Kilgore,
Texas, as he is chairman of the
executive committee of the Farm-
ers State Alliance.
The money power is a veritable
king. It prorogues congress when
it has completed its bidding. Af-
ter congress establishes the gold
standard the money power tells it
to get out, and it goes.
Sherman's financial views, why
should he not dismiss Carlisle and
put John in his place? One secre
tary of the treasury is enough.
Congressman Bryan says "the
man who wants the people to de-
stroy the government is called an
anarchist, but the man who wants
the government to destroy the
people is a friend to sound curren-
cy."
Cleveland has only been able,
by his goldbug policy, to reduce
wheat 12 cents and corn 4 cents
per bushel the first year of his ser-
vice. He will do better when he
gets his hand in. Stick to him,
farmers !
How silly it is for any one, after
reading a great truth, to inquiie
into the character of the person
who wrote it. Many people are
guilty of this folly, insensible of
the fact that they are man worship-
ers instead of truth seekers.
An eminent Washington city
physician says the craving for
drink is a "pathological perversion
of physiological cell action." If
the drunkards knew they had any-
thing like that the matter with
them they would stop drinking.
Wayne MacVeagh is said to bo
desirous of withdrawing his last
year's campaign speeches. Anum
ber of democratic members of con-
gress will wish they could with
draw their votes in the special ses-
sion before this time next year.
What makes a business man
have a lack of confidence ? A fall-
ing market and unsettled condition
of trade. What produces these
results? The practical operation
of the gold standard system, which
reduces the circulating medium.
When the next senatorial con-
test opens in Indiana, Dan Voor-
hees will wish his brother-in-law
had died in his youth instead of
having been spared to receive an
appointment from Cleveland.
A New England paper suggests
that a monument of gold should be
orccted to the memory of John
Sherman when he goes hence. He
should have a monument,certainly,
but it should bo away down near
the ceuter of the earth, instead of
upon it.
As Mr. Cleveland is forcing Sec-
retary Carlisle to carry out John
Temper the public mind by
wholesome laws; let every man
who toils for bread have choice
thereof; provide our working peo-
ple with comfortable homes; put
down saloons; give our people re-
munerative employment, and we
sha 1 have a lessening of crime.
The banks are said to be full of
money, and the farmers' bi ns are
full of grain, but neither one can
be checked out while the masses
are poorly fed and clothed. Will
somebody kick the man who says
overproduction has produced this
condition?
More money, more work for
honest men, more equal distribu-
tion of the products of labor, few-
er tramps, no millionaires, no sa-
loons, no houses of prostitution,
should be the dominant thoughts
of «very honest man. Lot us work
to secure these.
Don't be a lawyer, a doctor,
preacher, actor, merchant, or me-
chanic; these professions are all
crowded; is the advice given every
day. Be a farmer. That is right.
Plenty of room to be a farmer, and
always will be, as long as wheat is
50 cents per bushel and coiton 6
cents per pound.
Not until we* educate a genera-
tion can we hope for freedom from
wage and financial slavery. Phys-
ical revolutions cause more ills
than they cure. The heroes of
1776 would have secured their
freedom by the ballot had they
been allowed to use it. They
adopted the only remedy in their
reach.
We caution our readers to be
careful and not be caught by the
deceptive statements and offers
being made by some of our "big"
dailies in regard to the encyclope-
dia offer. If you want the genu-
ine article, at least possible cost,
write the publishers and don't al-
low a cheap reprint to be palmed
oft on you at "10 cents a day" for
two years.
The action of France in extend-
ing national hospitality to the Rus-
sian fleet is criticised because it is
a republic paying high honors to a
despotic government. It is not as
.bad for a republic to treat a des-
potic government with common re-
spect as it is for a republic to let a
limited monarchy dictate its finan-
cial policy and pauperize its peo-
ple.
NO BEACON ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP.
The policy that causes hope to
fade from the human heart is a
dangerous one for a government
to pursue. Man is peaceful, hap-
py, and contented, and a loyal
subject, susceptible to moral and
religious, social and rolitical influ-
ences when the spark of hope is
aglow. Blot out that spark and
he is a demon.
Under our present system of
government what incentive is there
for the farmer, merchant, or me
chanic—and this class comprise the
major portion of the American peo-
ple—to go forth, fight the battles
of life, practice the golden rule,
and with loyal hearts champion the
public weal ? Does the future bid
them come ? Is there a rainbow
of promise? Can a light in the
window be seen to urge the pil-
grim forward ? Is there a morn-
ing star fading amid the glories of
the eastern dawn ? Can the eye
discern the beacon on the moun-
tain top ? Is there a land of prom-
ise, such as Moses viewed from the
heights, teeming with earth's rich-
ests fruits and flowing with milk
and honey ? Is there aught in the
future, under the existing condi-
tion of things, to urge the young
man to run with patience life's race
and build the sacred temple of a
happy home and contented house-
hold, where devotion and love for
his country is enthroned ? On the
contrary, ahead is a great cloud,
and those who push forward are
engulfed in midnight.
Such a condition of things breeds
discontent, disorder disloyalty,and
anarchy. No country can expect
loyal subjects with hope dead with-
in them. Tho future is all there is
to strive for. Who cares to turn
to the charnel house of the past ?
It is the jewels visible, decking the
brow of the future, that gives hope
and inspires the human neart to
march forward day by day. Blot
out that jewelled crown with a
black shroud and the halt comes,
the hosts loiter on the way, be-
come discouraged and disorgan-
ized, like a church without the di-
vine spirit to guide, or an army
with no one to command.
Truly, it is a sad condition of
things in a government of the peo-
ple. It is a condition that contra-
dicts the assertion that our gov-
ernment is one of the people. What
interest do the people now have in
the government ? What rights
can they exercise ? What has be-
come of the inheritance left them
by their fathers ? All the people
now hive is faith, as defined by the
scriptures, viz: "The substance of
things hoped for, and the evidence
of things not seen," with the evi-
dence unsubstantiated and the
hope deferred.
A change must come, or comes
revolution. Something must be
done to dispel the mists. Some
one with a brave heart, self-sacri-
ficing, beneficent, guided only by
devotion to country, must lead the
way. A commander must develop
out of the disorganized forces, who
will rally the straggling army, put
the ship of state before the wind.
Hope must be reinstated in the
hearts of the American people or
our social system will fall, patriot-
ism be no longer an inspiration,
and our government a rope of
sand.
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