The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1896 Page: 4 of 16
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
—PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY-
SOUTHERN MERCURY PUB. CO.
MILTON PARK,
MANAGING CÓITOR AND GCNL MGR.
TEXAS POPULIST 8TATB PAPEB
AND
OlIKelal Journal Farmers' State Alliance if Texas
Entered at the Dallas, Texan, poet office as
mail matter of the second class.
Office, 196 Main St., OppeslteTnst Bonding.
This Is the year for populists to be
orthodox.
Such a splitting up of old parties
never was seen.
The people's party will carry Texas
by 52,000 majority.
Candidate McKinley has opened
the boodle campaign.
California pops hold their state
convention on May 12.
The road to success lies right in the
middle of the highway. _
An American president goes to
church guarded by police.
The Mercury I* going to shoot hot
shot during this campaign.
Who is responsible for rub-locking
the people's party of Texas?
Cut loose from business voters, and
for once cast the vote of a fieeman.
In selecting congressional candi-
dates, give the farmers a fair repre-
sentation.
The laboring and producing people
are In the majority, and^they are go-
ing to rule.
The next state convention of popu-
lists should relegate the rub-lockers
to the rear.
Never mind the late state conven-
tion, but push the campaign as though
a ticket was In the field.
Senator Mills has defined himself
on Cuba, but his views on finances are
still obscured from view.
The recent republican convention
held at Austin should be illustrated
or converted into a "pup" show.
During the past thirteen years 100,-
000 farmers of Minnesota have been
robbed of their homes by the money
grabbers.
The grandest humbuggery of the
present century is the cry "for sound
money' coming up from the two rot-
tenest parties that ever existed in
this country.
Hoke Smith says there is more
money now than there was in 1873.
He forgets to tell the people that
there are double the number of peo-
ple to use it.
No difference how the republican
delegates from the south stand now;
they are subject to "fluence" and will
no doubt be demoralised when they
reach St. Louis.
There is going to be a splitting up
of the old parties this year, and the
solidity of the people's party for prin-
ple is the cause of it. This is the
year for the people's party to stand
squarely on the Omaha platform and
keep io the middle of the road.
Circulate the Mercury red hot spec-
ial edition. It is a solid shot convin-
cer.
Grover Cleveland has consented to
permit Mr. Carlisle to be a candidate
before the national convention with
the understanding that in case har-
mony is needed he will permit his
name to be used.
The Mercury can carry the state of
Texas for the people's party if the
friends of reform will place it where
it can convince the voters. Give the
Mercury a chance and It will do a
good work.
Chairman Grant was pretty roughly
roughly handled at the late black and
tan convention. Good enough for
him. White trash should not he so
"fresh" as to push themselves in
where they are not wanted.
Mr. Reed may as well retire from
the presidential race. The people
have had enough of the fat man pres-
ident. No fat man can be elected
president until the people forget the
crimes of the present obese incumb-
ent.
Count von Holtxschuhecr of Ottum-
wa, Iowa, has recently Invented a per-
petual motion machine, This Iowa
Dutchman is too late. Secretary Car-
lisle has had a perpetual motion in
operation in the United States treas-
ury for three years.
Business houses and banks continue
to suspend operations under Grover's
"sound money" policy and amid the
democratic revival of business that is
prevailing. Probably if the country
had a few million "fifty cent" dollars
business might move off more glibly.
The people's party has just reached
the political elevation that enables
the masses to look over in the prom-
ised land. Will the July convention
do so unwise an act as to pull the par-
ty back out of sight of the good
things in store for the party of prin-
ciple. It it drops the Omaha plat-
form the party will never again view
the land of promise.
If the republican convention of
Texas is a little miniature of what
the national convention at St. Louis
is to be, Gen. Miles should concen-
trate his Chicago army in the vicin-
ity of the convention and the secre-
tary of the navy might adopt a rea-
sonable precaution by sending a por-
tion of the white squadron up the
Mississippi river.
The republican state conventions
will hereafter go begging for loca-
tions. They are too inflamable and
explosive for the safety of a city. To
avoid all danger, a wigwam should be
erected out on the prairie or some
place a safe distance from habitation.
A black and tan republican conven-
tion in Texas is equal to a Kansas
cyclone.
The people's party cannot afford to
endorse any one, no matter who he is,
unless he is sound on the questions,
that the party rests upon. The great-
est care should be exercised by state,
county and club organizations as to
what and who they endorse. The
people's party of Texas is going to
stay right in the middle of the road,
for the masses of the party so de-
clare. Let communities and conven?
tions take warning that they cannot
throttle an uprising of the people,
1Ü
The lower House of Congress spends
most of its time talking nonsense and
bandying jokes. This is enough to
disgust the country with a million la
boring men idle and millions of chil-
dren starving and half clad resulting
from this condition of disordered bus-
iness. This is not such a condition of
the people as to inspire mirth in the
law-making body.
The delegates from the south and
west to the people's party national
convention should demand the Omaha
platform—nothing more and nothing
less. The party has grown rapidly
on this platform, and it is well to let
well enough alone. If the free silver
people desire to unite with the re-
former on that platform, then let the
jubilee begin.
The financial question is a night-
mare to thc^ old parties. They are
afraid of it. They hate it, and if it
were possible would not mention it in
their political 'platforms. As they
are forced by the conditions to say
something on finances, they made
that something just as incomprehen-
sible as possible. Especially is this
so in the western and southern states.
In the east the old parties come right
out and declare for gold standard,but
in the west and south such a course
would be [suicidal. The financial
ghost will not down, but is destined
to plague the old parties to their
graves.
Congress has provided for four more
big battle ships. What on earth
Uncle Sam wants with these battle
ships is not plain. Certainly he has
no surplus of money that he need seek
worthless investments for, $27,000,000
which they will cost must come from
the poor ones who must dig it out
What a sight of land digging it will
take to produce these millions. Then
to think of the cost of maintaining
these battle ships. Our navy will soon
be expensive enough to absorb all the
wealth the nation can produce.
Mr, Cleveland's goldbug financial
policy is taking the government along
at a rapid rate towards bankruptcy.
For the month of March the deficit
reaches $1,500,000 and for the past nine
months $78,819,708. Don't forget that
during this time bonds to the amount
of nearly $200,000,000 have been is-
sued. Oh "sound money" is just the
thing! Everybody should throw up
their hats for "sound money."
LET'IT 00!
The Dallas N^ws, in a recent issue,
says:
"The clamor of the fiatlsts has run
out of this country millions of dollars
In gold already. Make fiatism a fact
and the withdrawal of gold will con-
tinue until all the money of this kind
leaves the country."
For heaven's sake, let it go, and
the sooner it gets out of this country
the better. It has cost $262,000,000 to
keep the $100,000,000 in the treasury
during the past two years, and half
of the time less than the $100,000,000
was in the treasury. In fact, this
country cannot afford to maintain a
gold standard, It will utterly bank-
rupt the nation. Spain has been try-
ing it, and the people of that country
have a per capita debt now of $73 on
every man, woman and child. Let
the clamor go on if it will clean the
Sold humbug out of this country.
80Ü1D MOIST. .
Everybody wants "sound money."
Sound money is essential to sound
commercial conditions.
Then it is necessary to know what
sound money really is.
Money must be based on something
and a sound basis is necessary to
sound monev.
The goldbugs cry aloud, On the cor-
ners of the streets, for sound money
idle hypocritical Pharisees.
They say they are the only sound
money people just the same as the
republicans during the war said they
were the only union men.
But to show that the sound money
howlers are hypocrites and do not
mean sound money, it is only neces-
sary to consider their money basis.
The goldbugs propose to base the
circulation on gold, but as there is
not one-tenth enough of gold to base
it on, they are forced to admit that
they propose to base it on debt or
bonds, which is the same thing.
Now it is evident to a fool that
money cannot be sound based on
debts. That proposition is so self-
evident that it needs no further
treatment.
The people's party favors basing
money on credit. Such money must
remain sound as long as the govern-
ment is sound, and when a govern-
ment goes down its money is worth-
less any way.
The difference between the two
parties is, the .goldbugs base their
currency on debt and the populists
base their currency on credit. Which
is the soundest foundation, debt or
credit? '
A POP DICTATOR.
Mr. Taubeneck, chairman of the
national executive committee of the
people's party, in a recent interview
speaking of the platform action of
people's party national committee,
said:
"While our declaration of party
principles will involve an expression
on other issues, the financial plank
will form the broadest and biggest
part of our platform."
How does Mr. Taubeneck know
what "our declaration of party prin-
ciples" will be at St. Louis? Does he
carry the future platforms of the
party in his pocket? It strikes a Texas
pop that the delegates to the St.
Louis convention will have something
to say about what "declaration of
principles" will be made at the na-
tional convention. Our chairman is
not only talking too much with his
mouth, but he is assuming dictatorial
airs. A party of the people will cer-
tainly not tolerate a dictator longer
than it takes the wool hat boys to cut
his head off.
• .
ÉIM ■ ;
The X rays are destined to revolu-
tionize the sciences. Surgery is tobe
given a bound forward and the treat-
ment of diseases is to be lifted clean
out of the old ruts. Mr. Edison has
already discovered the system of look-
ing into things by means of the X rays
that heretofore have been forbidden
visionary penetration. He can see
through a two inch plank and look at
a man's inward machinery with ease.
In the future a man with the consump-
tion can have his lungs examined by
the doctor and if he sees anything
wrong with them they can be repaired
in a few minutes while he waits.
The Mercury is the organ of the
common people and is proud of it.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1896, newspaper, April 9, 1896; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185654/m1/4/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .