Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1901 Page: 8 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY
Thursday, July 4, 1ML
WXIXIKZjY.
MILTON PARK • - -Managing Editor
Published Every Thum y. Subscription
Price, fl xear.
Entered *t the Dallas, Texas, postofflce
as mall matter of class second.
Receipts (or moneys can be given from
the Home Office only.
Office, 211-15 Commerce street (corner
Lamar), ~ alias, * exas.
The Rev. Dr. Patton, president of
Prnceton University, says: "It Is hard
to put your finger upon the conspicu-
ously great men living. There is no
Gladstone, no Tennyson, no Browning,
no Darwin, and no sign of any of them.
We are living upon the great concepts
that great men have given us."
The State Democratic Central Com-
mittee of Kansas, In session in Topeka,
last Tuesday, officially refused a prop-
osition made by the fusionists to unite
in forming a "Union" party to fight the
Republicans next year. The committee
declared for a straight ticket and urg-
ed everybody to come into the Demo-
cratic primaries.
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Prominent Republican leaders are
now urging that the Lovering bill and
others of the same kind, looking to the
retiring of the greenbacks and making
silver redeemable Jta gold, be not taken
up at the next Bession of Congress.
They have become converts to the Pop-
ulist contention that it is plenty of
money that makes prosperity, and not
the gold standard.
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The number of "laborers" carried on
the pay rolls of the Department at
Washington has doubled in the last
five years. In this way the Civil Ser-
vice law is violated by influential men
with the connivance of the Civil Ser-
vice Commission. Laborers are not
required to undergo an examination.
They are thus put in and then put to
clerical work at clerk's pay. The Com-
mission is a failure and ought to
be disorganized.
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The Memphis Appeal has two editor-
ials against the Third Party Movement
in its last issue, which shows that
the Appeal knows what to write about
Some very much lesser lights, who af-
fect to treat the movement with con-
tempt, succeed only in making them-
selves contemptible. The nominally
Democratic larger fry of Southern Jour-
nals who want the Democracy to Mrid
itself" of Bryan ism, resemble the tall
wanting to get rid of the dog.
Prof. Farquahar, of Columbia Univer-
sity, Washington, D. C., is trying to
prove that never from the "masses,"
but always from the "classes," have
reforms and advances been made in
human society. But it must be remem-
bered that a professor at Washington,
D. C., must earn hia living by saying
what he is employed to say, and that
he must keep himself before the eyes
of those who provide his bread and
butter, by saying just such things as
Mr. Farquahar says. And such pro-
fessors are not confined to Washing*
ton.
Miss Ruth Hanna and Miss Helen it is by no means certain that a "dark
Hay have both been Jumped into fame horse" will not finally carry off the
by a senile press gang; Miss Hanna as nomination.
a social queen, and Miss Hay as a
new literary star of the first magni- The indications are that shirt
tude. These young ladies ought to be waists will reign supreme during the
bright and intelligent, for they have Hummer on all occasions. Rev. J. C.
had every opportunity that money can Coggins, pastor of one of the most
afford. But. the objection i« made to fashionable churches in Decatur, 111.,
this fulsome flattery by editor# who appeared before his congregation last
expect a reward, just as colleges that Sunday rigged out in a fine white
bestow literary degrees upon mere dainty shirt waist with three plaits
money makers expect a donation. in the front and a like number in the
♦ back, a two-inch white canvas belt,
"Money," a financial publication, and a white tie. A pair of dark,
which advocates the abolition of sub- almost gray trousers, with a chalk-
treasuries and national banks, and like stripe, a gold watch chain and a
the adoption of the BngUsn sys- pair of patent leather shoes completed
tem, says that, in the 40 years his costume. When the benediction
preceding June 30th, 1900, the excess was over a number of his congrega-
of our exports over our imports tlon discussed with him the propriety
was over $3,000,000, and tnat in addi- 0f this innovation. Said he: "It is all
tion we sent over $1,000,000,000 in coin. owing to the way that people look at
And this was to pay back old debts, things, as to whether or not they are
The same publication estimates that proper. There is no reason against
we owe $2,50,000,000 yet. This accounts wearing shirt waists. Women are cool
for the fact that we are not yet getting an(l comfortable and handsome in
any gold for the balance of trade in them Ca8tom sayg that men 8hoal(J
our favor. To pay oil our foreign debt the same as wrap themselveB in blank.
ets. We are slaves to custom yet.
We are not a free people by a good
v deal. I haven't any idea that Jesus
Senator Foraker has opened the Re- Christ would wear a coat this hot
publican campaign in Ohio by sounding weather. At the night service his re-
a note which will be ejhoeti by every marks ba(j a marked effect, and it is
Republican State Convention and by predlcted that ln a Sunday or tw0 all
the next National Republican Conven- 0( the 300 or more men ln the churoh
tlon. Being Hanna's creature, he voices w,„ appear ,n „h|rt sIeeye8 or 8hlrt
Hanna's sentiments; prohibitory tariff, wajBtg
class legislation, sustaining the trusts,
ship subsidy, imperialism, etc. This
is the same supple Foraker, the hinges
of whose knees are so well oiled that
on January 3, 1900, he introduced sen-
it will take a balance in our favor of
$500,000,000 for five years to come.
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A CONFIDENCE MAN LOCATED.
To hold on to the free silver element
f the Republican party, the Republican
ate bill 2016, which made commerce he- National Convention of 1896, referring
tween Porto Rico and the mainland per-; to silver coinage, declared in favor
fectly free, and six days later, on Jan- of international limitation, and used
uary 9, introduced senate bill 2264, this language: "Which we pledge our-
whose revenue provisions were sub- selves to promote." These words were
stantlally those of the house bill, interlined in the concluding draft of
which was directly opposite and the platform; and a year ago, Senator
which, as amended, became a law.
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Chandler offered a reward of $100 for
the man who wrote the interlineation.
It turns out that Senator Lodge wrote
After a short but hotly contested ...
« ,. „ ^ TTT . # ... ,, the interlineation, and Mr. Chandler
fight, Hon. Dudley Wooten of this city , , _
nas sent his check for $100 with the
following letter:
"By reason of the premises you
should, without hesitancy, accept the
one hundred dollars as rightfully your
,« _ „ money. All wise men know that Mc-
the honor were Hon. W. A. Shaw mom- kln,ey and Hobart wou,d ^ haye be€n
ber of the Twenty-aeventh legislature electe<j „ tfce p,atform ha„ not whUe
from this city, and H. W Clark, a
prominent attorney of this city.
was declared the choice of the peo-
ple of Dallas county for nominoe for
Congress for the Sixth congressional
district to succeed Hon. R. E. Burke,
lately deceased. His competitors for
declaring opposition to the free coin-
age of silver, except as the result of
Wooten won out by a bare plurality of aQ lnternatl0Ilaj agreement, also do-
three votes. Not more than 26 per c|ared that the party fay
cent of the Democratic vote of the ored Buch an mternational agreement
county were polled in the primaries. lf lt could be seCured. If McKinley
It was a peculiar coincidence that
Wooten, a city man, received his great-
and Hobart had not been elected in 1896
Mr. McKinley would not 'have been
est vote in the county precincts, while re-elected in 1900.
Shaw, the supposed farmers' candidate, "Therefore those six words were of
got his largest vote in the city. The priceless value, and I trust that when
entire vote was strong evidence that all the facts are known my humble
a great deal of indifference or some- offering of one hundred dollars will be
thing else possessed the voters of the supplemented by such generous dona-
county. The convention is in session tionsi not only from many members of
at Meridian today and will determine the Republican party, but as well from
who will be Burke's successor. Bach Democrats who have so much trembled
of the seven counties In this district, at every prospect of the election of Mr.
except Bosque and Kouffman, has a Bryan as to adequately recognise the
candidal* Mon the convention, and sagacity and courage which led you not
merely to conceive, but to actually in-
sert into the platform of 1896 concern-
ing bimetallism the words 'which we
pledge ourselves to promote.'
"That immortal declaration twice
made Mr. McKinley president, and the
fidelity with which the pledge has been
fulfilled the world knows."
Upon which the Washington Times
remarks as follows:
"The peculiar significance and value
of this letter lies in the extreme prob-
ability that every statement contained
in it is literally true. That this pledge
was inserted to conciliate the silver
men in the Republican party and hold
them to the support of Mrr. McKinley
is beyond a question. That it was em-
ployed as an argument by Republican
orators and newspapers in every local-
ity where there was a substantial sil-
ver element in the party is one of the
best known facts of the campaign of
1896. That it influenced a sufficient
number of voters in the middle west and
the Pacific slope to be decisive in Mc-
Kinley's favor, is so extremely prob-
able as fairly to justify the declaration
that he owed his first election to the
promise to promote the free coinage of
silver by international agreement. That
there never was the slightest purpose
on the part of the Republican leaders
to carry out the pledge in good faith,
was even then apparent to those who
fully realized the extent to which tne
Republican party was dominated by the
great moneyed interests of the country.
It has since been proved with a certain-
ty, that amounts to a mathematical
demonstration."
Is not Lodge a swindler and a
mountebank? Then why not call him
down in plain English. The fact that
he is a United States Senator and mil-
lionaire does not set him up higher
than truth and honesty.
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GROWTH OF TRUSTS.
The present year will be a record
breaker in the organization of trusts if
the rate continues as it has since Jan.
1. New consolidations of capital have
been made since that date aggregatlg
considerably over $2,000,000,000. Here
is a short list of the most important
of them and their capitalization:
The steel trust $1,100,000,000
Accident insurance trust ..- 50,000,000
Trust companies
consolidation ' 50,000,000
Tin can trust 80,000,000
General machinery trust.. 50,000,000
Shipbuilding companies
combine 85,000,000
Cotton duck combine 50,000,000
A1 present indications make it prob-
able that the record of 1901 will far
surpass that of 1900 in the formation
of these huge industrial combines. Ne-
gotiations are now preparing the way
for another large batch, including a
combine of the great farming machine
firms and another of the leading watch-
making works, with capital stocks of
$76,000,000 each.
The Constitutional Convention of
Virginia, now in session in Richmond,
voted down a resolution to unite W.
J. Bryan to address the body when he
comes to Virginia as is expected in
a few days.
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