The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1896 Page: 3 of 16
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THE TOCSIN OP WA
A. P. Welchman.
When the ruling "powers that bb,"
Whether president or king,
Wish to hood-wink you or me,
While they do a dirty think;—
They will sound the bugle far,
They will beat the molsy drum,
They will loudly talk of war
That will "quickly, surely oome."
When the banks would corner in
The silver and the gold,
That their selfish schemes did win,
From a people badly sold;—
Oh, they sound the bugle ftir
And they beat he noisy drum
While they loudly talk of war
That will "quickly, surely oome."
When a nation's to be bought
By foreign money lords
How the people can be caught (?)
By the sound of martial words;
By the sound of bugle far,
By the beat of noisy drum,
By the loud-mouthed talk of war
That will "quickly, surely come."
When pressed, the thief cries 'loud
"Stop thief," and joins pursuit
With the madly surging crowd,
As fleet as they on foot;—
Like the sound of bugle far,
Like the sound of noisy drum,
Like the loud-mombhed talk of war
That will "quickly, surely come."
Pot—"The war will surely come,"
And—"Stop thief," are the same;
'Tis_the bugle sound amd drum,
Of the gold-bug at his game.
Whether sneak thief on the street,
Lord, president or king,
Their cry, I must repeat,
Has the "stop-thief" knavish ring.
Grover, Wyoming.
THOUSANDS LIKE THIS ONE.
T. J. Russell.
I write to let you know that your
course in regard to maintaining the
Omaha platform is heartily appreciat-
ed in Southeast Texas. As to the sil-
verites, or one-plank men, hit them
hard; "Lay on McDuff, and dammed
be he who first cries hold, enough."
That is the only way to treat wi£h
thean on that kind of a fusion. If the
silver, one-plank, men mean what they
say, let them join the populists and
fight for free silver 16 to 1, and all of
the other, good principles for the ame-
lioration of mankind, with a party that
is able to do something.
The free coinage of silver at 16 to
1 will not relieve the people and bus-
iness and trade of the present depres-
sion and low prices. It is only one of
many of the remedies that must be ap-
plied to the existing conditions of bus-
iness. Tbe lower rate of railroad
transportation of the products of one
part of the country to the consumers
in another part, is of equal importance
with the money question. And even
the silver question will never effect
much of itself alone, unless the law
is changed so that the greenbacks and
treasury not©3 will no longer be re-
deemable in gold or silver, or in coin.
This class of money should not be re-
deemable in anything except taxes,
and then reissued the same as gold and
silver coin, and the whole system of
national banks of issue be destroyed;
and no money be issued except by the
federal government.
All of these issues on the money ques-
tion are contained in the financial
plank of the peoples' party platform.
And the one-ideaed silver plank elim-
inates «I) Pt the above from the pres-
t..• ; ... . .
ent platform, and leaves only
free silver.
Can't the people get their eyes open
to the Wall street trick of these dem-
ocratic and republican silverites in
eliminating all of the platform except
free silver? It is a virtual endorse-
ment of the Cleveland plan, except
coining silver dollars. The government
can, with free silver, go ahead and re-
deem silver certificates and green-
backs, etc., in gold, and when the gold
gives out then issue more bonds, paya-
ble in coin, to get more gold to pay
out again, just as Cleveland has been
doing. The Omaha platform, if car-
ried out will put a stop to all that; but
the silverite ene-plank only coins sli-
ver, and lets all else go ahead as it is
now. The conduct of the silver men
who still cling to the old parties is
just as hypocritical and dishonest as
the "man who stole the livery of Heav-
en to serve the devil in;" and they are
playing the same old trick, and don't
you forget it. And don't let your
neighbor forget it, either; and see to it
that all of the delegates who go to St.
Louis on July 22, next, don't forget the
trick of the Wall street—national
bankers—silverite one-plank platform.
This is the nigger in the wioodpile—
the bug under the chip of the whole
one-plank metn. May Heaven smite
them with the fate of Sodom and Go-
morrow. .
The purported interview between a
St Louis reporter and one of the exec-
utive committee about the plans of
the men to eliminate the Omaha plat-
form, and adopt the silver one-plank,
whether true or false, is a fortunate
circumstance for the good of the par-
ty. In this "to be forewarned is to be
forearmed." We are now forewarned
in plain and explicit language of the
intentions of the silver men of the old
party, in asking us to abandon our de-
claration of independence for the mon-
grel bantling of one plank. The trick
of the Wall street one-plank silver
men is fully exposed.
The poulists of this part of the state
favor Col. H. L. Bently for governor,
as first choice. Yours for the Omaha
platform.
Beaumont, Texas.
Some of the Wall streat bankers
sent greenbacks to pay for the bonds.
Carlisle sent them to another window,
redeemed them in gold, took the gold
and delivered the bonds. There is no
fit illustration of the assinine stupid-
ity of such a performance, except the
jackass that would stay in a party that
would do such things.—Nebraska In-
dependent.
JEFFERSON AND SUB-TREASURY.
The fact that Jefferson advocated a
system of sub-treasury goes to show
even as early as his day that he saw the
ultimate necessity for equalizing the
producing masses with the classes. He
expresses his ideas on the subject in
volume 6, pages 199 to 201, of his com-
plete works.
In a letter dated September 11, 1813,
he says: "Bank paper must be sup-
pressed, and the circulating medium
must be restored to the nation, to
whom it belongs. It is the only fund
on which they can rely for loans; it is
the only recourse which can never fail
them, and is an abundant one for ev-
ery necessary purpose. Treasury bills,
bottomed on taxes, as may be found
necessary, thrown Into circulation,
will take the place of. so muoh gold
and silver."
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1896, newspaper, March 12, 1896; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185650/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .