The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1896 Page: 3 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
has a big secret behind it, and that it
■will very soon blossom into one of the
strongest plans ever developed in the
labor world.
Mr. Hughes would not admit it, but
it is known to those actively engaged
in the movement here that Eugene Y.
Debs, the A. R. U. president, has been
consulted, and that Hughes is in this
country with his knowledge and con-
sent. More than this, one of the strong-
est dock organizers told me this morn-
ing this story:
"As soon as Hughes has got the
work of organization among the long-
shoremen of America completed Debs
will follow with a movement to ce-
ment the railway employes, especially
of all the grades below locomotive en-
gineers and firemen, into a confeder-
ated body with the shop, dock and riv-
er workers. From this point Gompers
and his colleagues will carry the move-
ment into all other trades, and by June
next we will have an organization that
can demand justice with the knowl-
edge that there is power at hand to
enforce it."
It is plain that this great movement
is to organize the unorganized branch-
es of labor and to link such organiza-
tion with all trade union in a mighty
federation that will be invincible
Some labor leaders here credit the
whole movement to the brain of Debs.
It is known that for some time he has
been apparently inactive, but all the
while he has been secretly at work.
The international feature is peculiarly
his, and one man said:
"Debs learned in the strikes of 1894
that he must have the co-operation of
the ship, dock and river workers in or-
der to make the A. R. U. effective."
The election returns continue to
come in. Though forty days have
elapsed since the election, full official
figures are in from only 217 organized
counties. This count gives Bryan aind
Sewall 288,795, McKinley and Hobart
162,593, Bryan and Watson 80,517, Pal-
mer and Buckner 5,030, Johnson and
Levering 1,792; Culberson 297,974
Kearby 230,999, Clark (prohibition)
1,802. Of course these figures are fur-
nished by the "machine" and are sub
ject to much modification to arrive at
the truth.
It is possible that all property own
ers in the area bounded by State street
North avenue, Chicago river and Lake
Michigan, in Chicago, may lose their
titles. It appears that this land was
originally government property,
against which scrip has been filed. The
present owners of this scrip are trying
to get titles' to the land. The beauti
ful Lake Shore drive, along which are
the residences of Potter Palmer and
other millionaires, is included in this
area. Great excitement prevails over
the possible outcome.
A GOOD MOVE.
The management of the Santa Fe
Route, appreciating the vast impor
tance of developing local business en
terprises in the territory traversed by
its lines, has created an industrial de
partment, in charge of an experienced
and competent commissioner, whose
sole concern it will be to assist in such
development by acting as a means of
communication between would-be in
ves tors seeking profitable employment
of capital on the one hand and the in
numerable opportunities for such in
vestment in western territory upon
the other. The third vice-president
of the Santa Fe has accordingly ad
dressed a communication on this sub-
ject to the general freight agents of
the entire system, a copy of which
communication we give below. The
significance of this beneficent policy
to communities richer in opportunity
than in capital will at once be appar-
ent, and it will doubtless meet with
hearty co-operation everywhere. The
Santa Fe owns and operates 958 miles
of road, which passes through much of
the best country in Texas. With prop-
er encouragement a number oí paying
institutions could be developed along
this road.
Chicago, November 20, 1896.
Gentlemen—In pursuance with the
policy we have already talked about, of
assisting in every way we Consistently
can in locating new enterprises and at
the same time fostering industries al-
ready located on our line of road, we
have established an Industrial Depart-
ment.
Mr. J. A. Davis has been placed in
charge of this department, with the
title of Industrial Commissioner, with
headquarters at Chicago.
This department will, so far as it
seems compatible with propriety, take
a paternal interest in the development
of the towns and territory served by
our company, and will respond
promptly to all calls for co-operation
in the establishment of factories, loca-
tion of mills and the development of
any and all resources that may be dis-
covered.
It will endeavor, where necessary, to
place produce in toudh with markets,
and in a general way it will undertake
to bring about improved conditions all
over our system.
It will not attempt to boom any one
town as against another; in fact, it
will not in any way favor booms, but
will proceed on the theory that a solid
continuous growth is better than c
boom, and its efforts will be in that di-
rection.
It will not take any financial interest
in proposed industries, as it will have
no money to invest nor cash to con-
tribute.
The Industrial Department will not
assist in the location of creameries
where there are no cows, nor rolling
mills in a country without either iron
ore, fuel or coke, nor in any way will it
knowingly lend its support to a prop-
osition that seems wrong, either
geographically, commercially or finan
cially.
Manufactories that consume native
raw materials will be encouraged
For example, in the corn belt there
does not appear to be any reason why
hominy mills, glucose, syrup, sugar
and starch factories, if properly man
aged, should not thrive.
These factories should all begin in a
small way. The capital invested
should not all be put into working
plants. It takes money to operate a
factory after it is built, and the pri-
mary essential is good management
Nothing succeeds with poor manage-
ment.
I write you quite at length on this
subject, because it seems very impor
tant to me that everybody along our
line ought to know how we feel about
this matter. We want to be in touch
with the people we serve, and we want
them to know that we appreciate that
anything we do towards building up
and enriching the towns and country
we traverse builds up and enriches
this company.
Mr. Davis will be glad, at any time
to hoar from boards of trade, com-
mercial clubs, farmers' alliances* or
any organized bodies, as well as firms
and individuals, and will make it his
business to visit and advise with any
community "wishing to' establish manu-
factories or in any way desiring to im-
prove their condition.
Circular announcing Mr. Davis* ap-
pointment wil be issued to-day, and I
think it would be vrell for you to ad-
vise all your swoordinate officers as to
what we desire to accomplish, in order
that we may get the greatest results
from the Industrial Department.—Paul
Morton, Third Vice-President.
A dangerous counterfeit silver dollar
is passing into the circulating medium
of Texas cities. Seven of them were
received yesterday at the sub-
treasury in Washington and
two of the were such perfect
imitations *of government coin as to
defy detection by any but experts.
The piece is excellently molded and
has a good color, but is deficient in
weight. Those examined yesterday by
Assistant Treasurer Small fell from
60 to 90 grains short of standard weight
and this lightness in weight may en-
able the public to distinguish the spu-
rious coin,.
Other defects are in the milling, the
edges being rough as compared with
the good dollar. There is also a
marked difference in thickness, the
good coins being at least 50 per cent
thinner than their counterfeit present-
ment.
The counterfeiters have chosen Tex-
as as their field of operations, and all
of the bogus coin thus far received at
the subtreasury came through banks
in Dallas.
Treasurer Small regards the new
counterfeit as particularly dangerous,
and cautions the public to carefully
scrutinize the silver dollars that may
be tendered them.
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Indigestion,
Dyspepsia,
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AII Disorders of the LIVER
Observe the following symptoms, resulting fiom
diseases of the digestive organs: Constipation,
inward piles, fullness of blood in the head, acidity
of the stomach, nausea, heartburn, digestof food,
fullness of weight of the stomach, sour eructations,
sinking or fluttering of the heart, choking or suf-
focating sensations when in a lying posture, dim
"ore tn
and dull pain in the head, deficiency of perspira-
tion, yellowness of the skin and eyes, pain in the
side, chest, liuibs and sudden Hushes of heat
WHAT THE LEXICOGRAPHERS SAY.
The following arc the definitions
of the word "socialism" as given by
the leading authorities.
Webster.—A theory of society which
advocates a more precise, orderly and
harmonious arrangement of the social
relations of mankind than that which
has hitherto prevailed. *
Worcester.—The science of recon-
structing society entirely new bases,
by submitting the principle of associa-
tion for that of competition in every
branch of human industry.
The Standard.—A theory of civil
polity that aims to secure the recon
struction of society, increase of wealth,
and a more equal distribution of the
products of labor through the public
collective ownership of land and cap-
ital (as distinguished from property)
and the public collective management
of all industries. Its motto is, "Every
one according to his deeds."
The Century.—Any theory or system
of social organization which would
abolish entirely, or in great part, the
individual effort and competition on
which modern society rests, and sub
stitute co-operation; would introduce a
more perfect and equal distribution of
the products of labor, and would make
land and capital, as the instruments of
porduction, the joint possession of the
members of the community.
burning in the llesh.
A few doses of Railway's Pills will free the sys-
tem of all of the above named disorders.
Price 85ctB. per box. Sold by druggists or
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1896, newspaper, December 10, 1896; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185689/m1/3/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .