The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1894 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURÍ.
Fib, 8,1894.
commerce on our borders. May our
green hills bo seen whittening over
with flocks and herds, many smiling
meadows and green wheat fields gently
waving in the morning breeze, and
thousands of happy families living all
around. May our husbandmen sow
their fields and reap the golden grain
without restraint, build their houses
and enjoy their firesides in peace, sur-
rounded by lovely companions, happy
children and smiling babes. May God
send his protecting angels down to
preside over our councils and delibera-
tions, and may our country prosper un-
til it reaches the zenith of greatness,
grandeur and glory, amidst the family
of nations. May! our example extend
not only to France and Hungary, but
to the ends of the earth. May we cul-
tivate the tree of liberty until its
branches reach the sky, and spread
from continent to continent, and from
ocean to ocean.
Mr. President, I have been a voter
for fifty-eight years, and have always
supported measures that I believed
would best subserve the general good
of my country, and I am here for that
purpose today. But my race is run,
my task is done. I must soon fold my
arms and be gathered to my fathers,
but I will die better satisfied if I can
be of some benefit to mankind. I know
this world will not cease when I do,
but will be a bright world still. The
sun, moon and stars will shine as
brightly, the birds will sing as sweetly,
and the lamb will skip over the lawn
as playfully when I sleep beneath the
clod of the valley as formerly; and the
boy yet unborn will emerge from the
cradle of boyhood, and from that to
manhood, with as much gleo, and will
gaze upon this bright world with as
much pleasure as we did in days of
yore when we sported along those sil-
ver streams near the home of our child,
hood and in the land of our nativity.
One word to the young men and 1
am done. Let honor be your polar
star in every transaction in life. Make
industry, economy, cheerfulness and
contentment your cardinal points and
you will be prosperous and happy.
And Pope's beautiful words—
What conscience dictates to bo done,
Or warns me not to do,
This, teach me more than hell to shun,
That, more than heaven pursue.
O God, if I am right, thy grace impart,
Still in the right to stay,
If I am wrong, Oh! teach my heart
To find that botter way.
Mr. Presldont, ladios and gentlemen,
accept my thanks for the honor and
respect shown me on this occasion.
World's Fair Portfolios Free!
To bring our through car line run-
ning between St. Louis, Louisville,
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York
with ¡its superb service of vestibuled
trains, Pullman dining, parlor and
drawing room sleeping cars, before the
traveling public, we have prepared an
elegant portfolio of World's Fair views,
taken from the official government pho-
tographs.
These portfolios will be issued week-
ly until the volume of twenty numbers
is completed.
Size of portfolio, 11x13 inches, six-
teen views in each, three hundred and
twenty in all, and will be sent free to
any address on receipt of ten cents each
in coin or postage stamps, to cover cost
of mailing. Upon receipt of full sub-
scription, $2.00, each number will be
mailed as fast as issued. Sample copies
can be seen at the office ot this paper.
Cut this out, state you saw the adver-
tisement in the Mercury, and forward
to O. P. McCarty, General Passenger
Agent, Baltimore and Ohio Southwest-
ern R'y, "Portfolio Department," St.
Louis, Mo.
the italy of axkbiga,
Last May I wrote you a descriptive
letter of this section of the coast coun-
try of southwest Texas, offering to give
what information I could to inquiring
friends, as a result of which I have re-
ceived a great many inquiries clearly
proving that the Southern Mercury
has a large family of readers both in
and out of the Empire of Texas, and
also that the people are interested in
the wonderful history, growth and de-
velopment of this remote corner of this
great Lone Star state, and every loyal
Texan, whose heart is as big as his
state, is always glad to know of the de-
velopment and prosperity of every nook
and corner of Texas.
While the year past has been an un-
usually dry one, and the crop has not
been more than about half of a lull
crop, still Bee county has grown in
population of the better and more sub-
stantial sort and good fair crops have
been made any way. As evidence, we
note that Beeviile will ship of this past
'93 crop just about 6,000 bales of cotton
against 3,370 of the '92 crop; almost
double, and our crop this year only av-
eraged from one quarter to one half
bale per acre, when of a good season it
averages almost double that. But ow-
ing to the new lands put in, there was
a good deal larger acreage this year
than the one before. As an instance,
at Quincv, a new settlement in Bee
county, where they only ginned 168
bales of the '92 crop, they have ginned
500 bales of the '93 crop. In fact, the
whole settlement was a pasture two
years ago, where now they have seven-
ty-five families; and there are other
similar instances in Bee county and
other adjoining counties in the Bee-
viile region. Cotton is the leading
farm crop, especially adapted to this
country, because of the long growing
season. Our corn crop was also fair,
but we have a better cotton than corn
country, although we can raise corn
enough to do us.
Our winter has been a most delight-
ful one so far, and our winter climate is
simply grand. At the present writing,
roses are blooming in the open yards,
our gardens are full of fine vegetables,
our prairies are green as May, our or-
ange trees are full of the golden hued
fruit and we have been having fine fla-
vored ripe strawberries since Christ-
mas. Surely, we have the new Cali-
fornia, the Italy of America. While it
is true that the fall and winter has
been unusually dry, and the best fruits
and vegetables have been watered by
wind mills and tanks, still good gar-
dens have been grown without any ir-
rigation. A great many of our farm-
ers have most of their plowing done
now and everything indicates a big
crop this year, a3 a result of which this
whole section of country promises to
bud and blossom as the rose.
Even the stockmen are beginning to
realize that this is a great cotton, win-
ter vegetable and fruit county, as a re-
sult of which, some of the large past-
ures are being cut up into small farms
and sold to settlers on easy terms, of-
fering good inducements to home hunt-
ers. Other more advanced pasturemen
are putting a good deal of land into cul-
tivation, for they find cotton growing
a good deal more profitable than long
horns.
The cutting up of the big pastures is
the salvation of the country. It gives
the man with the hoe a show that he
has never had before. He is now given
a warm welcome and a good show as a
result of which this country is just now
entering upon an era of rapid growth
and development. Then our air is so
dry and pure, and climate so healthy
that many people come here just for
their health and get a new lease on
life. Northern people are perfectly
carried away with our country and cli-
mate.
The town of Beevile is keeping pace
with tne solid growth and development
of the country. A $20,000 free school
building is under construction, also a
Holly system of water works and some
good brick business hou&es.
H. M. Stringfellow, the great pear
and fruit raiser of Hitchcock, Texas,
has bought and is improving land near
Beeviile, for grapes, pears and straw-
berries, and is very enthusiastic over
this country for fruits and winter veg-
etables; and especially grapes. He
thinks we will excel California, because
we are so much earlier and nearer the
market. Results, so far, are simply
surprising. Information will be gladly
given to any who may desire.
J. W. Magill.
Beeviile, Texas.
the pabty abut.
During the civil war great armies
marched through the country and en-
camped upon the mountain sides.
They were so large that days would be
required in passing a given point. The
people, unaccustomed to see large
bodies of men, were amazed, and look-
ed upon the moving mass of humanity
with astonishment.
These armies were no doubt magni-
flcient in proportions, but there is
a much greater army engaged in the
campaign of poverty. By the side of
this army, the hosts that Gen. Grant
led at .Pittsburg landing pale into in-
to insignificance. The New York
Press gives the subjoined brief descrip-
tion of the army:
"Crushed, beaten, sore and wounded
is the poverty army of New York.
Never were undone rebel troops, after
a failure in the civil war, a more hope-
less look of utter, dire defeat, than is
written on the faces of these baffled
battlers with hunger, want and cold.
Scarcely more miserable were Wash-
ington's weary men during that awful
winter at Valley Forge than is a large
part of the 115,000 of the unemployed
during this awful winter in New York.
Never were men marched out to theWil-
derness to kill each other in a war like
animals, treated with so little consid-
eration as is this monstrous army of
unwilling conscripts whose battle is on-
ly for bread and shelter, and whose
harmless fight is carried quietly: along
in the midst of this richest and great-
est community in this most generous of
nations. The history of these battlers
shows no spectacle so melancholy as
every night reyeals in New York City.
Hunger sounds the trumpet calls.
Cold gives the marching orders.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, shuffle, shuffle,
shuffle, slide, slip and slop through
the snow and slush, over the polished
ice and bare cold stones, the army
makes its weary way all day. But in
it is no inspiration of patriotic motive
to keep it firm; no determination of a
definite object to cheer it ocward. To
go nowhere, to do nothing but keep
moving is its task. Its foes, intangi-
ble and dreadful, are not to be assailed;
are not to. be escaped. This army can-
not fight; this army cannot run away—
it can only endure!"
a dollar—what is it !
w. w. haupt.
I have seen no explanation of a dol-
lar that seems correct. There is no
such thing in nature as a dollar, hence
it is arbitrary and conventional, and it
consists of no certain material, but may
be of any material that satisfies the
demands of trade, and hence a certain
weight of gold or silver is no more a
dollar than a piece of paper with "one
dollar" written on it. Then to say, as
Cleveland did, that one kind of a dol-
lar has an intrinsic value over another,
is nonsense. A paper dollar issued by
the government, with a proper limit as
to quantity, is as good as any other
kind of dollar, and to say it needs a
metal dollar behind it, as security, is a
falacy, as there is no need of redemp-
tion; and gold and silver should both
be demonetized, which would be oil on
water for the whole money question.
The final redemption of any money is
in some article of trade, and as the
government owns nothing of the sort,
it is powerless to redeem it. Then
there is no such thing as a good or
"honest" dollar, or a bad dollar; for if
it is better than a dollar, or less than a
dollar, it is not a dollar. To say that a
dollar is a dollar because it contains
100 cents, is a want of sense; for any
substance, as an apple can be divided
into one hundred parts, representing
onlv one hundredth part of the mate-
rial of value of the unit. Why not say
a dollar is so because it has 1,000 mills.
The value of the parts depend solely
on the value of the unit.
the gbeat american eagle,
t. m'kinny.
What a great bird she was! Look at
her now, with her financial beak and
talons clipt close! She looks like a
goose, does'nt she ? Hear her squeak-
ing tariff, while her progeny are being
plucked daily by the six billions of dol-
lars foreign investment holders scat-
tered over the country.
The interest upon these vast sums is
gathered together by the New York
banks and paraded before the people
as an evidence of plenty of money in
the country. Yet Mr. Carlisle wants
congress to let him issue $200,000,000
more bonds. He says he has the law
to do it anyhow, but out of courtesy
he'll give congress the privilege of say-
ing yes. I wonder if he could find it
in his perjured soul to thus strain a
point in the interest of the people! It
might interfere with his bank account
or possibly the social status of the Car-
lisles!
Oh, for a Clay, or a Jackson, to sup-
plement the work of Senator Stewart
in his bold defense of the American
people, while all the little curs, who
padlock their consciences for a consid-
eration, yelp and bark at his heels!
What is the matter with the people
anyhow? Are they cowards as well as
victims? No! They are not cowards!
I know they have the pluck, but have
they the intelligence to come together
in a party to rehabilitate their famous
eagle, their dollar unit of value?
The ^true inwardness of that most
stealthy act of 1873, when sacriligious
hands were laid upon the most sacred,
as well as the most powerful institution
of our country, is not yet before the
popular mind. It stands today a ques-
tion of pluck, absolutely a question of
courage, between the bulldozing con-
spirators and the American people.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1894, newspaper, February 8, 1894; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185547/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .