Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1900 Page: 4 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY
Thursday June 21, 1900.
THE MAN WITH THE PULL.
Bowed with the weight of luxury, ho
lean*
Upon his friends, and gazes on the
ground,
The craftiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of his
spoils.
What made hkn dead to honor and to
worth?
A thing that toils not and that never
spins,
Oily and sleek, a brother to the snake?
What loosened and relaxed those smil-
ing lips
WhoM) was the hard hand that came
down with the stuff?
What was it that closed the mouth of
inquiry?
Is this the thing the Lord God made*
and gave
To have domain over bird and beast;
To win from earth and wring from
oeean depths
In sweat and blood, the merited re-
ward?
Is this the dream He dreamed who
shaped the plan
Of government and pillowed it on
truth?
Down all the steeps of crime to its last
gulf
There is no cheat more unctuous than
this—
More flexible, more sly, more plaus-
able—
More filled with wind and sophistry—
More fraught with menance to human-
ity.
What gulfs between him and the pat-
riot,
Slave of the wheel of fortune,
him
Are Warren, Henry, Franklin, Wash-
ington ?
What the grand swell of freedom's
song sublime,
The vice of truth, the light of liberty
Through this puffed shape of sordid
ages look.
Man's fall is mirrored in that cring-
ing bow,
Humanity by this foul varlet stripped.
Plundered, profaned an disinherited,
Cries protest to the spirit of the times
A protest that is also prophecy.
O, masters, lords and rulers of our land.
Is this the handiwork of politics,
This pampered thing, degraded and
soul quenched?
How will you straighten out its crook-
edness,
Give back the upward look of inno-
cence,
Rebuild it in the music and the dream,
Grace it again with manly dignity,
Explain its unforgotten infamies,
Perfidious deeds, unsufferable crimes?
O, masters, and manipulators all,
How will the future reckon with this
man?
How will you answer for him in that
hour
When whirlwinds of resentment shake
the land?
-How will it be with grafters and with
grafts—
With all the. purlent horde of cun-
Jurers—
When the whole people's dander is
aroused, ' u
After a silence, even now too long?
—R. W. Morrow, in Chicago Public.
CURRENT COMMENT.
It looks as if we were going to have
stormy times in the political world this
year.—Representative.
It looks that way. It will take noth-
ing less than a flood to clean "the
political world."
will be such that its success would in
turn assure Direct Legislation."
Now, inasmuch as Socialists will not
get any "assurances of the Democratic
party" that its success would in turn
assure direct legislation," why not let
the Socialists vote the Populist ticket
when it success would make direct leg-
islation absolutely certain?
Prof. Jacob Gould Sehurman, presi-
dent of the McKinley Philippine com-
mission, and also president of Cornell
university, in an address last fall, said:
"I recommend that the United Stales
do not remain passive in China. The
Chinese are quick to imitate, and they
may by reason of foreign invasion be-
come the manufacturers >f the world.
The opening of China to the commerce
of the world would be a benefit today,
but our grandchildren might curse us
Workingmen should cultivate a spir-
it of resignation and learn to be con
tented with things as they are, know-
ing that so God has ordained them to
be.—F. R. Hays in Zion City Guar-
dian.
NOTE:—Mr. Hays should have lived
fifty years ago then his doctrine might
have been sfallowed by -workingmen.
Working men are not fools and have
no use for such rot as Hays gets off
above.
Oh, God! why should so hard work-
ers and so generous a people, on whom
the world depends for bread, be com-
pelled to todl from 16 to 18 hours a day
to eke out a miserable existence, while
those who set the price on the staff
of life that the termers raise, live in
luxury on the fruits of the labor of the
toiling masses.—M. P. Moran, Minn.
NOTE:—Dont blame God for what
the old parties have done. God has
never done one thing yet to make any
of His people miserable.
The fusionists are sliding into ob-
scurity while the Populists are advanc-
on Washington from every state
in the union. If the Fusionists go out
of their locality they assume the Dem-
ocratic niaime for protection. The true
Populists have the courage of their
convictions and they have unfurled
their own flag and are going to keep it
to the breeze and none but Populists
will be put on guard hereafter, we
hope—Representative,
At the meeting of the Kansas Bank-
ers' Assocation, recently, one of the
delegates read a paper in which, among
other things, he reviewed the growth of
trusts. He said that "40 per cent of
the capital stock of such companies is
actual value; the rest is water." Con-
tinuing, he said: "This contest has
reached the point where absolute su-
premacy or the annihilation of mo-
nopoly in whatever garment it may be
clothed, is a foregone conclusion. We
are rushing to that point in our his-
tory when by proper legislation, we
must control these great engines of
modern existence; otherwise, the alter-
native of State Socialism will become
an imperative choice."
Judging from the following in The
Coming Nation, the Socialists are get-
ting Bhakey and are disposed to vote
the Democratic ticket this year:
"Our correspondent leaves us to in-
fer that from his standpoint this
would be a wise course to pursue and
there are probably very many other
Socialists of the same opinion, if the
assurances of the. Democratic party
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