The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1895 Page: 4 of 16
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SOUTHERN MEBCUBY.
OCT. 17 , 1895.
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
—PUBLISHED WEEKLY-
MILTON PARK,
MANAGING EDITOR AND GENL MNGR.
TEXAS POPULIST STATE PAPER
AND
Official Journal Farmers' State Alliance of Texas
Entered at the Dallas, Texas, post office a«
mail matter of the second class.
Office, 192 Main St., Opposite Trust Building,
Advertisers, agencies and transportation
Unes will please take notice that Ed. L. Wood,
on* late traveling advertising solicitor, is no
longer in our employ. Milton Pahk,
Jtine 1,1895. General Manager.
UNPRECEDENTED OFFER.
The Mercury makes an unprece-
dented offer of a ticket to the Texas
State Fair and Dallas Exposition to
every new cash subscriber to the
Mercury from now until the close of
the exhibition. Only a week and a
half in which to secure the benefit of
this offer. Come arunnin'!
FreE Americans first; then help the
Cubans.
Let ballot rogues go with the prize
fight thugs.
Tom Watson was counted out again.
He will contest.
Gov. Altgeld will be renominated
and re-elected.
The future contest is between the
trusts and the people.
Wages the same, but necessaries
are advancing in price.
Push ,th? educational campaign
during the winter months.
Farmers should organize; build up
the Alliance everywhere.
Be it known that Texas is not an
asylum for toughs hereafter.
The next president will serve the
people more and trusts less.
The liberty bell is in Atlanta, Ga.
It should be draped in mourning.
The increase in the price of neces-
sities is a democratic business re-
vivals. >
By combines wages are reduced and
by combining labor can maintain
wages.
Talk of Grover interfering with
English robbery in Venezuela! It is
all bosh.
Don't fail to read Major Jerome
C. Kearby's speech in this issue of the
Mercury.
If practical politics is old party
methods, then the peoples party
wants none of it.
All necessaries are advancing in
price save and except the Mercury.
It is still $1 per year.
The liberty bell is being hauled
about the country to notify the peo-
ple that liberty is dead.
It would be as reasonable to expect
free trade from the republican party
as free silver from the democratic
The péople's party is a party with-
out candidates. It is a party that
goes out and hunts the candidates
instead of the candidates hunting the
party. If a man announces himself
as a candidate for the people's party
¿lis goose is cooked.
GoLD&ügs say the government can
not make money. If so, why not cut
off the expensive mint service?
The national capitol should be
moved to Texas. Thieves and toughs
are prohibited from walking on Texas
grass. ^
The dollar worth a dollar demand
of the money power is certain to re
suit in fiat money if persisted in by
the goldbugs.
If a dollar of money should be
worth a dollar, either as money or
commodity, then a nickel should be
worth a nickel.
Short communications on the sub-
juct of an early national convention
by the peoples' party will be given
space by the Mercury.
There is an over production of
corn this year, but thousands would
rejoice if they had corn bread to eat.
This is a direct result of plutocratic
rule.
Secretary of the Navy Herbert
has earned his free steamship pass to
Europe, as he has made several
speeches for goldbuggery in Alabama
recently.
By the way the brainy men of Tex-
as are joining the people's party the
democrats of the state will be short
on gray matter by the time the 1896
campaign commences.
If a dollar must be composed of
some substance worth a dollar, the
question is, how is the dollar tobe
maintained at the dollar value when
subject to fluctuation, as it must be,
under this condition?
The people's party does not want
accessions bad enough to urge profes-
sional politicians to join it. The pro?
fessional politician should remain in
the ranks of the old parties, as he
would not find the people's party con-
genial.
When the old parties get together
it will be necessary for Texas to elect
one republican senator unless Roger
Q. Mills is satisfactory to the money
bosses of the combined parties. Mills
is as good a republican as John Sher-
man.
When organized labor can grasp
the idea that they are being pauper-
ized and degraded by the old parties,
then the labor vote will be cast intel-
ligently. A laboring man who votes
for either one of the old parties is,
voting the comforts out of his home
and his family into charity subjects
The silver democrats of Ohio are
supporting Mr. Campbell and not sup-
porting the party. They let Mr.
Campbell slide, but have it in for
Brice. The modern Ohio idea is free
silver, one foot on the party platform
and the other on chaos.
There will never be prosperous
times in this country until the dicta-
tion of the English money gang is
ended. The money gamblers do not
thrive on the prosperity of the mass-
es, but on the oppression of the peo-
ple. As long as the money power
rules the people will mourn.
The talk about candidates for office
don't go in the people's party. If
there is a man in the state who dare
announce himself as a candidate for
governor or for congress on the peo*
pie's party he will be pretty sure not
to get the nomination. The people's
party proposes tQ set down on the
office-seekers.
The last special session of the Tex/
as legislature Was democratic in an
emergency, as it voted mileage to all
of its members with passes in their
pockets, and even voted mileage to
the members not In attendance. One
of the members having died since the
adjournment of the regular session,
mileage was voted to his heirs. Dem*
ocratic statesmen will have their pay
and all the perquisites in reach if it
is necessary to steal them.
Evidently the eastern democrats
are placing too much reliance in Sen-
ator Mills' ability to control Texas
politics. A recent dispatch from
Texas to a Chicago paper says: "Sen-
ator Mills is depended upon to swing
the Texas delegation in line for a
sound money democrat." Senator Mills
hasn't very much of a swing in Texas
at present, but still he may be able to
swing the cuckoos. An order from
Wall street is all that is necessary to
swing them into line.
THE TEXAS STATE FAIR.
The people of Texas should remem-
ber that the Texas State Fair and
Dallas Exposition opens on Saturday
of this week. The indications are
that the fair this year will be one of
the best ever held in the state and
the exhibits far beyond any former
year. The board is laboring diligent-
ly for the success of the coming ex-
hibition. The speed ring will be a
very prominent feature of the fair, as
the premiums offered have brought
some of the most noted horses of the
country to the state. Every depart-
ment is filling up, and all that is need-
ed is for the people of Texas to show
their appreciation of the efforts oí
the management by attending from'
all sections of the state.
SILVER RULES THE MARKETS.
The assertion by the reform ele-
ment that the price of silver affected
commodities has been poopooed by
the goldbug press. They declared
that the silver decline was in no way
responsible for the gradual fall of
commodities, beginning almost at the
date of the demonetization of the
white metal in this country.
The fact that the recent rise in the
price of silver bullion has caused a
corresponding rise in commodities
has, however, tended to fortify the
claim of the reformers that silver is
the great regulator. This fact is ad-
mitted by the market bulletins issued
this month. We have before us a cot-
ton exchange bulletin from New Or-
leans, in which the following is found:
"New Orleans, La., Oct. 10, 1895.—
Liverpool opened 1 to 2.62 higher,
but towards the close rapidly lost.
We know, however, that spots were
advanced l-16d, with sales of 12,000
bales, a healthy symptom, especially
when taken in conjunction with the
late rapid rise in silver."
A wheat bulletin from Chicago of
Oct. 9 says: "We are inclined to think
that if silver continues to advance
that both wheat and cotton will show
great strength. This is a new factor
in the market and wants to be
watched."
Thus it will be seen that the recent
rise of cotton and wheat is in sym-
pathy with the advance in the price
of silver bullion, sustaining the claim
that every commodity produced by
this country has fallen in price cor-
responding with the fall of silver
since its demonetization.
THE HOHEST DOLLAR KflOOKED OUT.
Recently a number of Chicago
bankers came to Mr. Carlisle's relief
And forwarded to the national treas-
ury a lot of gold to be exchanged for
greenbacks. The treasury authori-
ties weighed this money and found a
large number of the pieces light, and
after stamping an "L" on them, re-
turned them to the Chicago bankers.
The Chicago patriots are indignant
at this action, becanse the letter
stamped on the gold pieces depreci-
ates their value and interferes with
their circulation. For the kindness
of these Chicago bankers the treasu-
ry returns a portion of this honsst (?)
money with a brand of Cain upon it
showing that it is dishonest.
The Chicago Voice says one of the
bankers says the refusal of the gov-
ernment to take its own money is ev-
idence of the unsoundness of the
money. The Voice should understand
that this is the policy to be adopted
by the money gamblers. It is by and
through their dictation that the gov-
ernment does this. It forces the
light weight money back into the
mints for recoinage, and is a denial
of the power of the government flat.
This treatment of the gold sent to
the treasury by the Chicago bankers
should place every man on his guard.
There is no assurance that a piece of
gold will pay a government debt un-
less it is placed on the scales and is
found to be full weight. The facts
are that one-half of the gold money
now in circulation is light weight,and
therefore will be refused by the gov-
ernment, and this custom is, by the
action of the government, forced
onto^he banks. Bankers hereafter
will weigh their gold money instead
of counting its units. Under this rul-
ing, it would appear to be useless for
the government to stamp gold, as
chunks of metal in the bullion form
would do just as well as though stamp-
ed by the government mints.
Every gold piece over two years old
is light weight, and will not pass at
its face value hereafter. This is the
honest (?) dollar the cuckoos have
been talking about. Remember that
Grover and Carlisle have decided that
all other money is redeemable in this
doubtful gold currency. Honest dol-
lar, thy name is humbuggery!
OF SUCH IS THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.
A strong letter from Hon. George
W. Glasscock will be found in this
issue of the Mercury. He bids fare-
well to the cuckoo democracy and
; oins the people's party.
Mr. Glasscock has been a prominent
member of the democratic party in
the past, having represented his dis-
trict in the state senate in the twen-
ty-second and twenty-third legisla-
tures. Mr. Glasscock is welcomed to
the ranks of the people's party. He
will find less practical political heresy
but a sight more of the honest varie-
ty. The better elements of the old
parties are gradually leaving them,
and of such can a party true to the
people be formed.
The democrats of Georgia are re-
; oicing over the success of the demo-
cratic machine in counting out Tom
Watson in the tenth district. With
a governor that will call a special
election in the midst of the cotton
picking season and the modern demo-
cratic election machinery in active
operation, % democratic victory (?) is
certain.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1895, newspaper, October 17, 1895; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185629/m1/4/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .