The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 27, July 21, 1894 Page: 4
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THE TEXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER.
WALTER B. McADAMS, EDITOR.
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Thurber, Texas, Saturday, July 21, 1894.
Uncle Sam, he licked the Rebs in '64,
Uncle Sam, he licked yonny: Debs in '94,
Uncle Sam will spank the Democrats
And turn out all the other rats
That send and keep prosperity from our door.
Let's have another change—shall we?
Dipsomania is paralysis of the nervous system; Debsomania is
paralysis of the railroad system.
By the way, has any United States senator been punished for
his connection with the sugar trust scandal?
The conference committee would be more appropriately
named were it called the difference committee.
The Prince of Wales is more successful at yacht racing than
at becoming king of England. He don't hanker after "waiting
taces."
The United States government will declare a "tie-up" on
some of the rebellious leaders of the recent trouble and enforce
it on the end of a gallows.
The man Debs is a graduate of a Keely institute which he
entered a year ago a mental and physical wreck. [N. Y. World.
How many poor unfortunates has he made mental, physical
and financial wrecks by his wild incoherent vagaries?
For the first time in thirty years the regulars have been called
upon to fire on citizens of the United States and defend the Con-
stitution from the attacks of rebellious conspirators. A great
many things have occured "for the first time in thirty years,"
We are fast reaching another event that will foretell the result
of next November's election. Alabama holds her state election
early next month. A sweeping victory for the Protectionist-Pop-
ulists is an assured fact if an honest count is made of the ballots
cast.
Grover: "Oh great aristides, tell your humble petitioner
how to be a Democrat, a mugwump, a chumpulist, a Populist,
an anarchist, a labor sympathizer and a chum to capitalists at
once. I have honestly endeavored and am indeed sorely tried
oh Great One."
Anarchy is bad enough, but Debsomania is worse. The
former attacks the rich while pretending friendship for the poor;
the latter attacks the poor while pretending to defend them. To
anarchy then Debsomania adds the unspeakably low and mean
element of hypocracy and deceit, to say nothing of ingratitude.
The Miner does not wish to be considered an enemy of or
opposed to labor organizations, but we are opposed to and are
an arch enemy of any person or organization which attempts to
redress a wrong, either actual or fancied, in any way other than
that provided by the laws of the land. A wrong can only be
righted by recourse to legal proceedings or other peaceful means,
not by riot, bloodshed and arson. It is the last three things The
Miner condemns, and that is why we oppose bitterly the acts
not only sanctioned, but encouraged by Mr. Debs and his co-
conspirators.
The one redeeming feature of the history of the present
x\dministration is the fearless attitude assumed toward anarchy
and socialism. "Give the devil his due" is an old but safe adage,
So we say the thanks of the country are due President Cleveland,
even if he is engaged in smiting the creatures of his own making.
LET US TALK BUSINESS.
Mf HY is it that as soon as the Republicans were succeeded
by a Democratic administration that fear and doubt be-
gan to prevail, and property of all kinds began rapidly to de-
preciate ? Why is it that money became scarce, and money
lenders began to exact a larger amount of security ? Why is it
that apathy struck the business world that has continued to the
present time, and is yet continuing ? Why is it that instead of
wage earners being in demand, and that every one who wanted
work could find it a good rate of wages, that now scores of
thousands of people who are willing to work at a reduced rate of
wages cannot find work to do ?
That these things are so every one knows, and it is not hard
to answer the foregoing questions if we will only examine with
unbiased feelings—the facts.
Well, we will tell you our views, and if our readers will only
think over the facts as stated, we think they will arrive at the
same conclusion that we have.
1 st. The Democratic party has views as to the tariff and
finance in direct opposition to those of the Republican party,
and those which have made this country for the last quarter of
a century the most prosperous nation in the civilized world. It
seems to us that whatever may conduce to the best material in-
terests of England under entirely different conditions from ours,
that a protective tariff, that results in giving labor to our own
people instead of giving employment to artesans living in Europe,
must be for our best interests as a whole, if our money that is
paid for manufactured goods is paid to wage earners who live in
this country, to those who live in our houses, who consume our
farm products, who help to support the thousand and one differ-
ent lines of labor that is necessary in a community, that it must
be ol more benefit to our country than buying our manufactured
goods from Europe and supporting the wage earners in Europe
—this to us is so self evident that it would seem that all thought-
ful. unprejudiced ni'a would arrive at the san- conclusion.
Now the fact that free traders, hold to different conclusions, and
the Democratic party came into power on the cry of tariff reform,
which means to get as near free trade as the conditions of the
support of the government would allow, very naturally alarmed
our people, and they were afraid that "a theory" that when put
in practice had always in our history brought trouble and hard
times, would bring the same results, that said theory would again,
and therefore the banker began to draw in his loans, the manu-
facturer to reduce his output and discharge his laborers, and
foreboding tears took the place of confidence, retrenchment was
the order of the day, and from the highest to the lowest came
feeling of insecurity of what the future would bring forth. I11
addition to that we had elected as President Grover Cleveland,
who was a confirmed monometalist, that is that we should only
use gold as a medium of exchange, and that metal should be
the only legal tender for the payment of debts. This was a
radical departure from what had been the policy of this country
since the birth of the nation, it meant the reduction of the legal
tender money of the country, and the enhancement of the value
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 27, July 21, 1894, newspaper, July 21, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200474/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.