The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1894 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MEBCUBI,
APRILS. 1894.
the ponderous partition gate to be
opened, so that the deluded creatures
will think they are going to have a
change. If it be a republican pen
in which this state of affairs has been
going on, then the masses rush for the
democratic pen seeking relief, and find
none. At present we are in the demo-
cratic whirl. When we say we, we
mean the masses.
We, the populists, have cut a door in
the outer wall of each of these pens, so
that the people may go free, and all
that will avail themselves of the op-
portunity can do so.
In the beginning of the present dem-
ocratic whirl, it was said of the great
ring master, Grover, that he had a
"courage equal to his convictions,"
and he was going to do wonders for
the people. So do we believe his
satanic majesty has the courage equal
to his convictions, and "goes about
like a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour."
If we expect to be the foremost na-
tion on earth, we must not only intro*
duce reform among us, but compel all
other civilized nations to do so.
How can we expect to do this? you |
say. We say the way is possible and
simple. Let the masses adopt the
Omaha platform ot the people's party
in toto, and stop all immigration until
we educate our people thoroughly on
the labor problem. By stopping all
immigration it will serve a double pur-
pose, relieving us, while it stops Eu-
rope from using us as a safety valve for
its troubles, and compels her to study
her own industrial problem.
Upon a close examination the peo-
ple's party is Christianity in motion,
for its principles carry out the idea
that we are our brother's keeper. But
its opponents say, "If we should oarry
out your principles it would make the
government paternal." Let me ask
you, what have the two old parties
done but make it paternal? For whose
benefit was the fifty millions of bonds
lately issued? Will one dollar of it
reach the pockets of the producers or
toiling masses? That will depend on
the will of the banks, as the circulat-
ing medium is entirely under their
control. No nation that allows its
gold to canker, can be in a prosperous
condition. A few thousand may roll
in vast wealth, but its millions will
wallow in squalid poverty. Three
large cities on this continent form a
triumvirate and seek to divide the
spoils of every institution they can
make national and center within them-
selves. Those cities are New York,
Philadelphia, and Boston. Other
cities of less importance imitate their
example. They try to grab both
church and state. Every charitable or
beneficiary organization in the land
(and their name is legion) has a per
capita tax or fund of some kind, of the
people's money, to lock up. For what
purpose? Ministers of the gospel, and
Christianity in general, give them
their support, saying it is right be-
cause they are charitable institutions.
What is charity? We believe the
age has a mistaken idea as to what
constitutes charity. To aid the gener-
al welfare of the community, or a help
to self-help, is its proper definition.
Now, let us see if these Institutions do
this. Often a well-to-do man dies and
leaves his wife a large life insurance
policy to add to her stock of wealth.
But say it is a poor man's widow. How
many hundred men have paid in their
dues for ten, fifteen, or twenty years,
and when calamities come upon them,
which prevents them from paying dues
longer, they lose all they have paid
and more, a large amount of money is
taken out of the reach of the general
pnblic and hoarded up for the benefit
of the few. By the time you count up
the poverty and distress thereby it
will outweigh its charity.
Government should issue no charters
for such institutions, but encourage
the deposit of earnings in postal sav-
ings banks. But I hear some one say
what would become of your labor or
ganizations? If the government was
administered in behalf of the people,
or the general welfare considered, we
would 8 need no organizations to help
us. The only difference between such
institutions and the lottery system is,
the blanks and the prizes of the latter
are served .out at shorter notice. W e
have, as we have said before, a top-
heavy institution in the government
of the United States, where the north
and east aggrandize legislation for the
purpose of centering wealth into its
section. Soon the south and west will
outnumber them, and we will have the
balance of power for the next hundred
years, at least. When shall we prac-
tice their teachings? Shall we de-
vastate them, pin them to the union
by bayonets, coupled with iron and
lead and hall, then complete the
circle of acts by reconstructing their
sections.
Ah! no; poor and sad revenge that!
We would sooner go to work and build
up the waste places all over the union.
Eternal truths may be covered by the
clouds of war for a season, but when
the smoke has vanished and men cease
to be brutal, reason will again resume
its sway and discover that truth is
mighty and will prevail. We of the
people's party have no bosses to voice
our sentiments. We are the voice of a
mighty people standing upon the plat-
form of eternal truth, and as deep calls
unto deep, In the utmost recesses of
our hearts, we respond to the call. The
crater of our Vesuvius is full and the
lava of righteous indignation* is about
to be poured forth against the misrule
of the last thirty years. We are called
anarchists. If the despair of j ustlce be
anarchy, then that wall has gone up
all over this broad land. But never
was there a people more loyal to the
best interests of the whole country and
who love law and order better than we
of the people's party. Legitimate cap-
ital may fear no evil from us. It is
said of our leaders, they are broken-
down politicians, who seeing no chance
for position in the old parties, have
made a party of their own. We see fit
to believe otherwise. Many of them
we have known long and their voices
have ever been raised in behalf of the
people. These are they whom illegit-
imate capital has politically decapi-
tated for the sole purpose of silencing
their voices, knowing if they are al-
lowed to act, not merely speak, but act,
the people will again resume power in
the land. We will follow blind guides
no longer. The doctors of law and the
doctors of divinity both seem to be
corrupted with the poisonous breath of
the hour. From the beginning of our
late bankers' panio (and don't deceive
yourself, the panic isn't over yet),
through the reigns of our special
congress, one could step into our
well filled churches and hear
the expounders of truth dilating
upon the condition of the coun-
try, and speaking about God's poor be-
ing the first to feel these dire calami-
ties. But you meet them the next six
days upon,the commons and they are
talking in favor of the gold standard.
Strange anomally! One day in the
week speakiag in behalf of God's poor,
and six days for the destruction of the-
masses.
It is certainly time for these, like the
Roman governor, Pont us Pilate, to
ask of the great philosopher, "What
is truth?" Jesus Christ was called a
disturber of the public peace, for it was
said of him, "He sti *reth up the peo-
ple, teaching throughout all Jewry,
beginning from Galilee to this place."
It i^befitting just here to mention
the movement on foot to get the high-
est legislative body of this great nation
to insert in the preamble of our consti-
tution an acknowledgement of God and
Christ and the Divine law. The pro-
priety and fitness of such an acknowl-
edgment we will not question. But
some of the movers in this step had
better ask themselves a few questions
before hand. "Is it for His glory, or
theirs, or both?" "How do we know
that it would be pleasing to Almighty
God to have His name coupled with
such a dead letter instrument?" And
after we have placed his name there
who will be the interpreter of the kind
of God you place there? Will you have
him as narrow minded as yourselves?
Two words, if not allowed to remain a
dead letter in that instrument as it hai
for so long a time, would catch the ap-
proving smile of Deity, as it now stands
and they are, "General Welfare."
Make broad the phylacteries of the
constitution if you please, and bind its
frontletts with the name of Deity, or
write his name in every seventh line
of that document, from beginning to
end, and ignore the spirit and deep
meaning of those two words, and my
feeling is that God would wish to have
no lot or part with it. His constitution
for the race of man is written in Isra-
el's law; nor has the bright orb of day
ever witnessed among the nations of
earth a constitution that is its equal;
providing for the general welfare by
its years of Sabbaths and of jubilee, by
not allowing wealth to get or hold a
corner upon the industries of the land,
saying to it "thus far shalt thou go and
no farther," thereby making a safety
valve for the oppressed.
The republican party forced the gov-
ernment train upon the declivity of a
mountain and then started it down hill.
Wall street had already centered the
wealth of the nation in the republican
party; but to give us an object lesson,
it induced the democratic party to
jump aboard the train and catch it on
the fly down hill, knowing full well it
would be its destruction.!
Now look at the Wall street move.
The poor body politic horse
whose back had been galled by
the saddle of the republican harness
for years, expected some respite and a
chance for it? wounds to heal. But the
unfeeling group of John Shermans'
have gathered around the poor creat-
ure, and, with grim satisfaction, have
fastened a clamp upon Its nose for the
purpose of twisting It into submission,
creating greater pains, so that the
dumb animal will bear the old harness
it dreads. And when the hamestrings
are fastened, Wall Street & Co. expect
to get in and ride, perpetuating, if
possible, a perfect reign of terror.
Why (sleeps) the sword omnipotent
to save?"
The poor body politic has indeed
fallen among thieves, and the demo-
crats pass by on one side and the re-
publicans on the other; but the peo-
16 Boils at Once
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Wilmot, S. Dak.
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life.
BOUTS OF THE COMMONWEAL AXMY.
A Mercury reporter hands in the
following itinerary of the army of the
Commonweal. The route named re-
fers only to the main body of the army.
The detachments from various parts of
the country will join the line wherever
they overtake it. Mr. Coxey says he
expects to receive at least 18,000 re-
cruits in Pennsylvania. The towns
named are near where camps will be
struck on the dates mentioned:
April 5—Whitehall, Pa.
April 6—Finleyville, Pa.
April 7—Bentleyville, Pa.
April 8—Brownsville, Pa.
April 9—Uniontown, Pa.
April 10—Laurel Summit, Pa.
April 11—Somerfield, Pa.
April 12—Grantville, Md.
April 13—Frostburg, Md.
April 14—Cumberland, Md.
April 18—Hancock, Md.
April 19—Williamsport, Md.
April 20—Hagerstown, Md.
April 21—Boonsboro, Md.
April 22—Frederick, Md.
April 28—Rldgeville, Md.
April 24—Damascus, Md.
April 26—Atkinson's, Md.
April 26—Lotonsy, Md.
April 27—Olney, Md.
April 28—Rockville, Md.
May 1—Washington.
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Did you ever go within a mile of a
soap factory? If so, you know what
material they make soap of. Dobbins'
Electric Soap factory is as free from
odor as a chair factory, fry it once.
Ask your grocer for it. Take no imi-
tation.
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