The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1898 Page: 11 of 16
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^ Yankee muscle and sacrifice to corporations have been strong
e parliament of develop it and foreign residents reap enough notonlytokeepourshoddy rail-
until the fifteenth the profit. On the side of wrong we
find 250,000
road commission from publishing the
grog shops, destroying list, but also to prevent a Texas leg-
power is closing in upon *^'^0 lives annually, and filling pau- islature of Democrats from passing a
vols consolidating its forces at per houses> insane asylums and pris- law against it The political pension-
* financial centers. What are we going ons' demons of men and sac- ers who can't show a wound, and who
to do about it? Debs goes to jail and riflces of women and children, and all draw from the workers the most of the
Pullman goes in a special car to dedi- under government permission and pro- one hundred and fifty milions per an-
nate a church. In New York "fourteen tection. On the side of wrong we find nura pensions, have been strong
people sleep in one bedroom without t^ie £°vernment issuing bonds to the
light or air, 17,000 people are crowded bankers in time of peace and abun-
on thirty acres of land, and j.5,000 dauce and making the people pay for
children and 60,000 men and women, them. On the side of wrong we find
'the government making wicked dis-
crimination between its own author-
ized currency. We find silver demone-
without homes, wander in the streets
by clay and sleep in them by night un-
der any shelter they can find." while
in the same city, a daughter of capital tized and gold at a premium, all in the
sits upon a $2000 piano stool, plays interest the money power. On the
upon a $15,000 piano, lives an eternal side of wronS we find banks borrowing world up to July 1, 1897, according to
all the money they can from the peo-
ple at low rates, or none at all, and
guaranteeing no security for its safety.
On the side of wrong we find the peo-
ple borrowing from banks at usurious
interest, in advance, and furnishing
their homes in security. On the side of
wrong we find that during a financial
panic or season of business depression
which gave birth to liberty to them, there is no certainty of any money in earth, and the United States leads
the cry which gave in answer, out of bank for the people upon any terms. North America with 181,717 miles; and
bloodshed and sacrifice, a free repub-. * * * On the side of wrong we it only falls short about 8000 miles of
lie. To-day, above the agonizing voice ^nd thousands of intelligent, virtuous having more than all Europe, Asia and
of hunger, debt, vice, drunkenness, sui- women citizens with no "special priv- Africa combined, which is not bad for
summer within a $4,000,000 palace, sur-
rounded by brick and iron walls, upon
the outside walls of which is the mili-
tia of the United States for its protec-
tion! Our gold goes to Europe, and
Europe's paupers and criminals come
to us in return. The cry of our fathers
was: "Millions for defence, but not one
cent for tribute." That was the cry
cide and murder, we hear the slave's
cry of: "Millions for tribute to Lom-
bard street bankers and Wall street
• brokers, but not one cent for the de-
fense of home and child and liberty!"
♦ * ♦ * *
The people's ballots can give a sys-
. tern of government that will remove
these differences between men—a gov-
ernment recognizing a common hu-
manity and granting liberty to all.
When a man reads nothing but the
newspapers of his party—listens to
none other than his party orators, and
persistently, continually votes his par-
ty ticket, simply because it is the ticket
of his party—that party may become
rotten to the core and he will not be
able to smell it. It may disintegrate
and be ready to fall to pieces and he
will not perceive it. Be no longer
slaves under the lash of the party
bosses, or cease your complaining un-
der oppressive industrial conditions!
Don't strike, don't complain of those
things which you can with your bal-
lots remedy. Don't resort to lawless
methods to resist evils due to law.
Don't petition for those things which
are yours by right. Don't mark a
weary march to Washington city with
bloody footprints, but arbitrate like
freemen through the power of your
citizenship. Arbitrate, not for party,
but for better government. Arbitrate
for liberty, arbitrate for fraternity, ar-
bitrate for humanity's sake at the bal-
lot box and live!
iles" save to pay taxes, support hus-
bands, support churches and endure
wrongs.
On the side of wrong we find mil-
lions of professed followers of the lov-
ing Christ "in fellowship with the
throne of iniquity and framing mis-
chief by law."
On the side of wrong we find "high
protection" of plutocracy and "free
trade" in the bodies and souls of the
people.
"The night is long, the darkness thick,
and millions yet are slaves;
And hearts in pain look up to him that
heaped the Red Sea waves.
But oe'r the plains where wronged and
weak and bleeding feet have trod,
Behind the fire-tipp'd hills keep watch
the sleepless eyes of God."
It is said that Olive Schreiner and
her brother, in their home in South
Africa, played for years with a stone
of flashing brilliancy, which they call-
ed a candle stone. They did not know
until years after it was lost to them
that it was a remarkable diamond of
wondrous worth. The precious gem
of greatest value in the world is the
idea of the brotherhood of all men. We
are simply playing with this great idea
now, in ignorance of its priceless value.
When agitating the current questions
of the hour, we are only rolling this
diamond idea hither and thither. All
thoughts upon themes sociologic, and
all events which are the results from
such thinking, will trouble and agitate
a young and growing country that
didn't have a mile of track seventy
years ago.
"The ratio of railway to area is
greatest in Africa, which has only
81G9 miles to 11,514,000 square miles of
territory, or about one mile of tracy to
1400 square miles of territory. Asia,
with 14,710,000 miles of area, has 26,-
800 miles of track, or ome mile to 544
of area; Europe has a mile of track to
284 of territory; Australasia 237 miles
of area in one mile of track and North
America has a mile of track to 32
miles of territory. The United State3
beats them all with one mile of track
to every 1G miles of territory.
"In the ratio of road to population
the United States gives a mile of track
to every 400 persons; Europe makes a
ratio of one mile to 245 persons; Africa
can give only one mile of track to ev-
ery 15,593 persons, and Asia is by far
and beyond the greatest railway field
on earth, with only a mile of track to
every 31,610 persons. The place for
the railway boomer to go and grow up
with the country is Asia. To sum up,
there is a total area in the world of
51,238,000 square miles occupied by
about 1,500,000,000 people, which would
give one mile of railway to every 119
miles of territory, and the same to ev-
ery 3424 persons, which may be taken
as an indication that the demand for
new railways will continue for some
time yet."
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enough to prevent exposure of the list.
The political bosses who want to use
all government appointees, men and
women, as chattels, do not favor either
civil serivce, or election of these ser-
vants by the people.
SOME RAILROAD STATISTICS.
The total railway mileage in the
oflieial statistics gathered by the de-
partment at Washington, aggregates
433,953 miles, divided up as follows:
Europe, 155,281 miles; Africa, 8169
miles: Australasia, 13,188 miles; North
America, 205,696 miles; South Ameri-
ca, 24,026 miles; Asia, 26,890 miles. Of
course, North America leads, with
nearly half of all the railways on
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CLARY L. BOYD, D.D.S.
DENTIST.
Dallas, - Texas.
Cor, Main & Murphy Sts, Over Palace
Drug Store.
RUPTURElPILES
PIIDCn Without the KNIFE or
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future
Do this or die, and die quickly, the -will even disintegrate and divide, un-
inglorious death of the slave in the til this pearl of greatest price human
land of the free! brotherhood—is recognized. When we
understand the full worth of this burn-
We have never commenced a new jng flashing candle stone, now tossed
The man who aided the fusion farce
of '90, by working for a late conven-
tion, and advising Taubeneck to hang
on to his place as chairman after we
exposed his treachery, is in no very
country, powerful in its people and
wealth, to have so much of poverty and
ignorance, of slavery and inhumanity
in its midst.
day what to do when we are battling
with the same gang of pirates that
scuttled the ship before.—Chicago Ex-
press.
year under such portentous conditions, aside, buried in the sands or trodden Eooá position to advise Populiststo-
nor yet under such propitious ones. unfler {oot> then wH1 we feel that an
On the side of wrong we find the |njury t,0 one js an injury to all, and
railroads of this country, that are the ^ js a shame, yes, a crime, for a
carriers of the people and for the peo-
ple, owned and controlled by private
Individuals and possessing over 200,-
000,800 acres of the people's land, do-
nated by the government. On the side
of wrong we find about 30,000,000 acres
of *ur best land owned by aliens, and
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_ A «erre lia beantlftsl kHUlasiejrtor- ^
assistant editor.
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