Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1901 Page: 10 of 16
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SOUTHKJiN MERCURY
Thursday, September 12, 1901.
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crat is remorseless and conscienceless
in comparison with his Northern pro-
totype. The welfare of his employes,
their food, dwellings and clothing,
their sanitation and health are matters
of no concern to him whatever. He
no more regards the hardships of the
women and children in his mills than
he regards the mules who draw his
wagons. He Ik still dominated by the
old idea that his employes are his
slaves and (hat the "labor agitator"
is an emissary to "invite his slaves to
rise," to whom he has a right to say
"be gone!" and to kill him if he dares
to remain.
FAL8E HOPE.
So long as labor abjured politics
and employed no other remedy than
the strike, so long it has been and
will continue to be the victim of its
taskmaster.
It is gratifying to note the indica-
tion of a change of policy In the un-
ions in this respect. Mr. Brennan,
counsel for the Amalgamated Associa-
tion, In company with President Schaf-
fer, addressed a large audience of
strikers at Pittsburg on Labor Day.
"Mr. Brennan preceded Mr. Shaffer
in an address that wrought his hearers
up to a high pitch of enthusiasm.
He advised them to guard the ballot
as 'the ark of labor's covenant' and
told them that It was their ultimate
salvation. The old ways of fighting
by laboring men would be abandoned,
he said, and up-to-date methods em-
ployed. His remedy at present was:
'Enjoin and restrain the banks from
loaning your money to the trusts.'
"Giving a mass of statistics, he
said: 'Of the 0,107,000 depositors in
the banks, one-third of them at least
must be union men and friends of la-
bor. When labor commences to run
on the banks Mr. Morgan will know
that there is something to arbitrate.
Six billions of dollars can not be paid
with one billion of gold; $2,500,000,000
deposits can not be paid with $1,000,-
000,000 of gold; $2,300,000,000 of loans
can not be paid with $1,000,000,000 of
gold. Demand your money. Have ev-
ery friend of labor demand his. De-
prive the trust of its life—money. Be
united to a man and the trust will cry
for quarter within a week.' "
It is undoubtedly within the power
of union men and the friends of labor
to wreck the banks and to destroy the
trusts by that method if the banks
undertake, as the law requires, to pay
their depositors on demands. But the
banks will do nothing of the kind.
They are above and beyond the law
and are a law unto themselves. Time
and again they have defied the author-
ity of the law, and the administra-
tors of the law have sweetly bowed
their approvel. The banks will lose
no sleep over the threat of a run by
the labor depositors. They know that
they have held an umbilical grip on
labor ever since labor, in its folly, de-
posited its surplus earnings to be man-
aged at their discretion. To make a
run on the bankR labor would cut off
Its nose to spite its face, and jump
from the frying pan Into the Are. At
such a threat the banks give labor
the Mephlstophilian smile. "Make
your run, gentlemen," they say, "as
son as it suits your convenience; your
run will be a harvest for us. We will
close down, pay nothing, and lend your
deposits that we have yet on hand to
the trusts—of whom we arc which—
and you and other depositors may
whistle for your money. We shall then
have it all, instead of a part only as
now. We will say that the ruin and
panic has been caused by the agita-
tions of miserable demagogues and
the madness and folly of labor want-
ing to withdraw its deposits. We will
justify ourselves by this plea and we
will be believed."
So the banks will justify to the
public.
In trusting its money to the banks,
labor has voluntarily put its head in
the lion's month and It will not be
un easy thing to get it out. Labor
should, under present conditions, have
a co-operative deposit institution of
its own, where the money would be
kept in safety vaults and not loaned
out nor used in speculation. Of course
there would be no interest paid on
mese deposits and it would cost a
trifle to each depositor for the ex-
pense. But what is this compared to
the probable loss of all by depositing
in the banks?
LINCOLN ON LABOR AND CAP-
ITAL.
The following is an extract from
Abraham Lincoln's annual message,
read December 3, 1861. Read it and
when you have comprehended its full
meaning, read it to your neighbor:
"Monarchy itself is sometimes
hinted at as a refuge from the power
of the people. In my present position
1 could scarcely be justified were I to
omit raising a warning voice against
the approach of returning despotism.
"It is npt needed nor fitting here
that a general argument should be
made in l'avor of popular institutions;
but there is one point, with its con-
nections not so hackneyed as most
others, to which I ask brief attention.
It is assumed that labor is available
only in collection with capital- that
nobody labors unless somebody else
owning capital, somehow by the use
of it. induces him to labor.
"Labor is prior to and independent
of capital. Capital is only the fruit
of labor, and could never have existed
if labor had not first existed. Labor
is the superior of capital, and deserves
much the higher consideration. No man
living are more worthy to be trusted
than those who have toiled upward
from poverty; none less inclined to
take or touch aught, which they have
not earnestly earned. Let them be-
ware of surrendering a political pow-
er which they already possess, and
which, if surrendered, will surely be
used to close the door of advance-
ment against such as they, and to fix
new disabilities and burdens upon
them till all of liberty shall be lost"
Contrast these words of Lincoln
with the utterances of Mark Hanna.
the heod of the Republican party to-
day. and you will be able to get a line
on *he change in that party since the
days of Lincoln.
SEQUEL TO "FULL DINNER..
PAIL."
Four hundred thousand laborers on
a strike in the United States; forced
Into this by the unjust and tyrannical
treatment of the capitalists of the
country. Eighteen laboring men in
Tampa. Fla./ who refused to submit to
the dictates of capital have been
taken by force on the streets in broad
day light and put on a ship and sent
to sea, without law. and in fact in de-
fiance of all law. And the other
strikers there are told that if they do
not return to work at once that they
will be arretted as vagrants.
Here we see what rights are left to
the laboring people of the South.
Now,' with the courts of the North
issuing injunctions restraining almost
every right that the common people
have left, and absolutely denying the
right of free speech to the people, we
think this, should call forth all the
power and energy and influence of
every man in this country who has
any love of liberty or humanity.
You Populists know the only reme-
dies to apply to avert the horrible
conditions that are coming on us.
Will you sit still and let them come
upon us without an effort to prevent
them? Think of your wives and
children and country and make one
more effort to save them by putting
literature and our papers into the
hands of your neighbors. Please do
this now, or say by your act that you
are not worthy to be freemen.—S. J.
McKnight, in Dalton Herald.
PAN - AMERICAN
EXPOSITION
Buffalo New York
MAY 1st to NOV. 1st
The Wabash Route
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The Springfield (111.) Register can-
not become reconciled to the way the
present day girl clutches her gown.
"In the first place," it says, "the girl
has her dress made long. When ready
tc show herself and get out on the
street, she reaches her right arm
around her right side as far as she
can reach, and, after wishing that her
arm was longer, so that she could
reach farther, she clutches up the
loose folds in her gown. She then
pulls these loose folds around to the
right as far as she can until she leaves
no wrinkle or fold in her dress." The
thing that happens then is what causes
the Register to complain. "She pulls
the dress so tight around her body
and legs," it says, with shocking in-
delicacy. "that so far as the conceal-
ment of her form is concerned she may
as well have worn no dress at all. If
she would come down town in tights
she would not look worse than with
her skirts pulled so tightly about her
By wearing tights she would be able
to show her shape and not be burden-
ed with having to hold the skirts at
the same time while making the ex-
hibition." It seems to be next to Im-
possible for the girls to please every-
body, no matter how hard they may
try to do it.1
^rom ST. LOUrS to BUFFALO or
NIAGARA FALLS, is POSITIVELY
the SHORTEST, C^UICKEST and
BEST, and the ONLY LINE RUN-
NING SOLID TRAINS OVER THEIR
OWN TRACK. SERVICE UNEX-
CELLED, VESTIBULED TRAINS.
PALACE DINING CARS, SLEEPERS,
PARLOR, CAFE and PR EE RECLIN-
ING CHAIR CARS.
Consult your nearest Coupon Ticket
Agent, who will sell you round trip
tickets at great reduced rates, and
THROUGH SLEEPING CAR tickets
over the WABASH. For further In-
formation address
W. F. CONNER, S. W. P. A.,
Dallas Texas.
SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.
SUMMER RE80RTS.
• Old Dr. Drummond,
After years of patient study and ex-
periment, has given the world a prepa-
ration which Is an absolute and perma-
nent cure for every form of rheuma-
tism. The price Is $5. but it Is two large
bottles.enough for a month's treatment
and will relieve the worst case from
the first dose. Sent by express upon re-
ceipt of price, by Drummond Medicine
Co., New York, with full particulars
And testimonials of wonderful cures.
Many delightful summer resorts are
situated on and reached by the South-
ern Railway. Whether one desires the
seaside or the mountain, the fashiona-
ble hotels or country homes, they can
be reached via this magnificent high-
way of travel.
Ashville, N. C., Hot Springs, N. C.,
Hale Springs, Tenn., Roan Mountain,
Tenn., and the mountain resorts of
East Tennessee and North Carolina,
Tenn., Oliver Springs, Tenn., Lookout
Mountain, Tenn., Monte Sano, Hunts-
ville, Ala., Lithia Springs, Ga., and
various Virginia Springs; also the
seashore resorts are reached by tne
Southern Railway on convenient
schedules and very low rates.
The Southern Railway has Issued a
very handsome folder, entitled "Sum-
mer Homes and Resorts," descriptive
of nearly one thousand summer resort
hotels and boarding houses, Including
Information regarding rates for board
at the different places and raP-oad
rates to reach them. Write for a -.opy
of this folder.
C. A. BENSCOTER, A. G. P. \.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
M. H. BONE, W. P. A.,
Dallas, Tex a.
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