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PALO
VOL. I.
PALO PINTO, TEXAS, JTJ$DAY, 3IAY 31, 1895,
NO. 12.
STAND TO YOUR GUNS.
THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETER-
NAL VIGILANCE.
Satyr, Modern Democracy, lias Changed
His Composition, Being Formerly Half
Man Half Heast, In Now Conglomerate,
Half Gold and Half Silver.
Hon. William M. Walton of Austin,
familiarly known aa "Buck," writes
the Southern Mercury the following
timely article:
The price of liberty is eternal vigi-
lance, but even that will not guard
its life safely unless vigilance is com-
bined with intelligent organization
and fidelity of action. Vigilance may
bo argus-eyed and sleepless, but if
the alarm be not given when dangers
approach, or if the dangers be not
met and hurled back by those to
whom the alarm is given, the senti-
nels on the watch-tower had as well
be wrapped in the death-like folds of
drunken slumber.
The alarm has beon given. Dan-
gers have not only approached, but
are in u deathly hand-to-hand con-
flict with the friends, the defenders
of liberty, prosperity and peace.
How goes the lisrhr-P Is every man
doing his duty? Has ho sunk self in
his country's cause, or does there
lurk in the hearts of some, of many,
of any the hellish bane of selfish am-
bition, greed of gain, private advan-
tage, or hope of individual profit?
Do some, many, or any search as to
how the fight can be avoided, praying
that the blows may cease, hoping for
a smile of approval from the ene-
my, who has his brother by the
throat? Are there some, many, or
any, who grow pale at the intensity,
fierceness and heat of the battle?
whose knees tremble, and hearts
stop still at the carnage around
them? If such there be, it will be a
large element of strength to the true
of faith, and of unwavering bravery,
for them to retire. Wo are but on
the skirmish line—the battle has not
yet opened- 1'h® lo U>r«i. hope- is
breeching the wail—the assault, by.
column is yet to be made! Is this a
time to look to the rear? Is this the
moment when the enemy may hope
for hesitancy and vacilllatlon in our
ranks? Clod forbid! No! in tones of
thunder; a thousand times no! and
lot the resountfings reach the skies,
and echo through the world, for the
fight is a world's fight! but the stand-
ard to bear the colors high aloft is in
the hands of the People's party of
Texas at this momentous hour, big
with the fate of nations and of peo-
ples. We should realize this fact, and
realizing it, to devote ourselves on
the altar of our country. One
resolve should animate the heart of
every true man, and that is, "I will
do my duty, lot others do as they
may; as for me, I will march, and
weary though I be, I will march on!
I will light, and though worn and
wounded, my blows shall never
oease!" Let that spirit of devoted-
ness take possession of us, and move
us to consecrate ourselves, heart and
soul, mind and body, day and night,
through sunshine and storm, to tho
cause of our country; and there ex-
ists no party that will not go down
before our solid front! Unity! unity!
unity!! devotion and integrity will
prevail over all opposition! God of
heaven! give us these qualities, and
the country will bo saved from the
disaster and ruin that hangs over her
in dark and threatening clouds, that
are ready to burst, aye, that are
bursting.
,Satyr, modern Democracy, has
changed his composition. Aforetime
he was half man and half beast. Ho
is now conglomerate, half gold and
half silver, half protective tariff and
half tariff for revenue only, half bonds
and half no bonds, but with all that
ho is not without his harp, whoso
dulcet tones lure patriots from thoir
post of duty, and blind them into
joining in tho debaucheries in which
only the wrockless, tho desperate and
tho personally selfish can engage.
Corruption breeds disintegration,
and disintegration ripens into chaos,
and chaos revels with ruin. It may
be a hard thing to say, and it is said
with regret, but it is a maudlin senti-
ment and cowardly act to ignore that
which stands in bold and shameless
view to all who do not criminally
closo their eyes. For more than
twenty-live years the Democratic
party has gone before the peoplo pro-
fessing certain cardinal doctrines,
which the people belie^vo essential to
good government, and*further believ-
ed that when Democracy was on-
trusted with power, these certain car-
dinal doctrines would be put in prac-
tical operation as measures of govern-
ment. At last power was gained—at
last house, senate and president were
united in Democratic hands. It was
at tho will of a Democratic govern-
ment >to put these certain cardinal
principles—free sliver, low tax and
local self government, Into operative
effect. The promise was outstand-
ing. The hearts of the people puls-
ated with joyful anticipation. Good
government was within reach! Tho
result: The repeal of the last ves-
tige of statutory law that was at all
ameliatory t the people, (the pur-
chase clause of silver) the practical
adoption of a high protective tariff,
and last, oh! fatal stab! the burial of
silver coinage, faco downwards!
And this was tho performance of the
promises solemly made by the Dem-
ocracy to the people, and this the ex-
ecution of the trusts confided to them.
The acts were baso and damnably
cruel, and should forever closo the
door of trusts in th&t party by any-
body, at any time, or for any-
thing. Tho query is a pl. n one.
llavo the people, tft> their
hurt and well nigh ruin,
been deceived? Who so shameless
and full of falsehood as to deny it?
They wero deceived. Who deceived
them? The Democratic party. Where?
In convention assembled. How? By
placing false, lying, deceiving planks
in their platform and championing
them from one ond of the country to
the other, and gaining thereby and
thoreon possession of the government,
and then proving recreant and dam-
nably false to every one!
Is It possible that Populists, how-
over good natured, obliging and cred-
ulous they may be, can again trust a
Democratic promise, however plain
its terms, and however solemnly
made?.
liight is right, justice is justice and
sense is sense!
Men of tho People's party, stand to
your guns! All true men will come
to you.
About Sound Money.
Editor Post: Replying to your ed-
itorial inquiries of to-day under the
beg to submit:
1 Sound money is that which rests
upon a foundation strong and broad
enough to warrant and inspire im-
plicit confidence among its users.
2. Honest money is that which is
at all times and continuously an
equitable common denominator
of values, that will honestly
act as a standard for de-
ferred payments, and that may
not become the play thing of specula-
tors; tho unite of which shall remain
absolutely changeless in its purchas-
ing power or command over commod-
ities.
3. There can bo "sound" money
which does not rest on a gold founda-
tion; furthermore, money that rests
on a gold foundation is inevitably un-
sound. This is true, also, as to
silver, or a combination of gold and
silver; with this difference, that tho
use of two metals broadens tho foun-
dation, and to that extent increases
tho stability of the monetary struc-
ture.
4. A dollar that will grow either
greater or less in general purchasing
power with the lapse of .time is dis-
honest and unsound. No "commodi-
ty" dollar can be otherwise.
5. Gold is not, never was, and can
never be a "measure of values."
Science truly asserts that a moasure
must be homogeneous with the thing
measured." How then can gold
"measure" pig iron or corned beef?
0. Value is a ratio or relation exis-
ting between two powers or objects.
Being,a ratio it can bo expressed only
by figures, which aro immaterial and
deal with quantities; never by sub-
stances which are material and deal
with qualities, l-'urther, values or
ratios can be expressed, but never
"measured." Again, value being a
ratio between things it can never bo
possessed by any one thing; honco,
tho theory of intrinsic or inherent
valuo has now been discarded by
practically all economists,
7. It is clear, therefore, that the
so-called "standard ot value" is not
only an absurdity, but a nonentity,
whether it be assumed to be of gold
or silver, or both.
8. What we call a "gold standard"
is merely au arbitary arrangement
whereby we attempt to conform tho
exchange value of our dollar of ac-
count—i. e., its purchasing power—
to the ratio of exchange currently
existing between the world's gold
bullion and the general commodity
mass, which ratio is constantly shift-
ing, and with it our dollar of
account. By this unnatural com-
plication we not only do not
secure for ourselves thiQ first grand
requisite of a sound andjVmest cur-
rency—a changeless ;< oetary unit
—but we actually m- ] monetary
stability impossible. Prof. Je-
von's figures for pre'dd Between
1789 and 1§09 the rety Jo value of
gold fell 4(3 per cent,; am 1809 to
1849 it rose 145 per oe u , from 1849
to 1874 it fell 20 per c<b, and since
1874 it has appreciated Jt less than
25 per cent. Could any' ing be more
absurd than to speak of "standard"
subject to such fluctuate is? A rubber
tape-lino would be eqr lly reliable.
9. "Free silver" of (be Stewart-
Sibley variety would amply mean
silver monometallism unU such time
as the immutable laws of supply and
demand should restore tie two metals I
to a natural parity of 10 to 1. Bl- j
metalllsm means, in fatt, alternate
eras of monometallism, r the con-
tinuous single use of whichever metal <
may remain the cheaper. Practically j
free silver would add to he soundness i
of our present Inflated gtld currency ;
by broadening Its base, and to this '
extent would restore contdence, raise i
prices, and thereby stimulate trade, j
10. Secretary Morton lays in your i
interview: "That 'ir.oney is tho
soundest for which throughout the \
commerce of the civilized world there I
is tho most universal demand." The '
honorable gentleman here falls into '
tho common error of confounding the
monetary function with its physical
existence, just as the idol worshipper
of tho east associates a wooden imago
with tho occulent power it is thought
to represent. The secretary ignores
tho fact that money is a national, not
an international creation. When ho
says "money" he undoubtedly mean3
"gold," and In grains (commodity)
not in the dollars. If so, ho is quite
right. The grain of gold is the cur-
rent international medium of ex-
change, but not so as money; it may
remain so forever, and will unless
some international money system
shall bo hereafter adopted. Gold Is,
perhaps of all commodities the best
adapted to the settlement of interna-
tional balances; br.t jald Is not
HISTOKY REPEATING.
SOME CONTRASTS WORTHY OF
_ SERIOUS THOUGHT.
Rome and the Romans, and Bow the
Republic Fell—Their Faults and Mis-
takes Should Be a Warning to Us Be-
fore It Is Too Late.
money any more thi^i
--'f *- l^i int ! ! ■Ailtb 1
iUU.
One of the mischievous results of
the slave system In the Komaq re-
public was that while it turned the
poor among the free populace of
Rome loose to become depredators
upon the public, to sink lower and
lower In crime of all kinds, because
deprived by circumstances, as land
monopolies, money monopollos and
labor monopolios, from obtaining a
support It brought about such a
condition of affairs that out of theso
misfortunes tho rich were growing
richer all the time and tho
poor were becoming poorer. It was
but a few years, after this condition
of affairs was brought about, before
tho middle classes were gone and
there were only two classes left, the
extremely rich and the extremely
poor. Laws were made oppressing
labor, forbidding tho right of assem-
bly, denying aud refusing the right
of appeal or any kind of redress.
Tho elections became matters of bar-
ter and salo, and oflices were filled,
not because the incumbent was
capable, but because he had
a heavier purse than did his
competitor, and monopoly jifdges
gave unjust decrees and juries gave
corrupt verdicts. So well had the
millionaire slave owners managed af-
fairs, that by 200 B. C. tho free labor
of Rome found itself utterly unable to
compete with the slave labor that was
continually piling up wealth,' which
was used by its owners to build pal-
aces in.the cities, castles in the coun-
try and pleasant places by the soa,
'and parks and gardens and vast retin-
ues of servants every where, and
there was never no longer an aristoc-
racy of .virtue or birth, but it all
use .ror
coinage, and In this respect paper is
Its equal. Gold can never be a
"measure" or a "ssandard" of values,
nor can it be "moaey" except with-
in the jurisdiction indicated by the
stamp it bears and even then it is the
stamp and not tho bullion that en-
dows it with tho monetary function.
11. Finally that money is the most
sound and hosest (1) which most per-
fectly and equitably performs the
monetary function of facilitating ex-
changes; (2) which represents
not in its substance, but
in its basis or foundation,
actual wealth so great that its pur-
chasing power remains undiminished
and Its Its Integrity unquestioned; (3)
which being divorced from commodi-
ty, shall be freed from the laws gov-
erning commodity, and (4) the supply
of which shall be automatically regu-
lated by the commercial needs there-
for.
With all our theories and "isms"
wo have yet to learn, as a people, the
rudimentary laws of financial science.
Blundering along tho lines ot tho old
"standard of valuo" fallacy, mone-
tary reform will never be satisfactor-
ily accomplished.—J. W. Morton, Jr.,
in Washington Post.
The Colored Vot«r«
According to population statistics
the colored vote in this state should
be about 90,000; of this total it may
bo assorted that 30 per cent is not
accounted for. It has boon custom-
ary to credit this important voting
element to tho Republican party, it
being considered that the colored
man is naturally a Republican.
Election results prove that the col-
ored man i3 a Democratic voter, how-
ever much ho may claim to bo a Re-
publican in politics. In the last state'
election there is no doubt that the
Democratic state ticket was largely
aided by tho colored vote; in fact, in
sovoral congressional districts It was
the colored vote that saved the Demo-
cratic nominees. This has been
openly acknowledged, even in dis-
tricts where regular Hepublican can-
didates were in the field San An-
tonio Express (Dem).
No, >'o Krinoiv
There Is no good reason why a
political party should live a day after
it has fought out and settled the issue
out of which it grew.—Dallas News.
Just so; and as we have contended
all along. There is ino doubt thai
the Republican and Democratic par-
ties should die. Their mission, the
destruction of American liberty and
the overthrow of the Republic, seems
to be about accomplished.
until the reins of the government
was grasped by the Imperial hand ql
Caesar and the liberties of the peoplq
was gone for ever.
History is worth nothing to a peo$
pie unlets they profit by the lessoij
It teaches. If there Is one less®
taught the laboring people ot tbl|
country above another, by the hlstqr
of Rome, It Is that the power of co3
centrated wealth, no matter what itl
shape, must l?e controlled In the In
terost of all classes. Hero is whei
Rome fell, and here Is where the gov
ernment founded by our fathers aril!
fall. R. W. Robekson.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
ever so corrupt a manuoi.
Naturally'enough, tho popuiatlonT5
the poor of Rome, deprived of every
means of support, shut out by vicious
legislation, by corrupt courts, by tho
gradual gathering into their hands of
all money and property by the al-
ready rich, became riotous, aud
indulged in many outbreaks.
There wero many serious con-
flicts between capital and labor,
and many times the streets of Rome
were dyed with the blood of her citi-
zens, spilled in theso sanguinary con-
flicts.
The next step in the progress of
this nation was to solve, if possible,
this question of capital and labor.
Some laws were passed dividing up
these vast landed estates Into small
tracts, but nothing practical resulted
from them. Efforts wero mado
to regulate trade and com-
merce, to arbitrate differences and
provide means and work by which
the people could be sustained and the
peace maintained. But they all fail-
ed. Greed had seized every availablo
means, and intrenched itself behind
laws and precedents and when every
other means failed to quiet the popu-
lace in their frantic efforts to redress
their wrongs, the aid of the military
arm of the government was iuvoked
to quell the strikers and rioters, who
had become riotous because it is very
easy to persuade people that some-
times the good things of this world
aro very unevenly divided, especially
when a long course of oppression and
vicious legislature left such a condi-
tion affairs tho exact truth.
The first step in tho overthrow of
any government, especially one whore
tho people aro tho source of power, is
to pauperize and crush tho midulo
classes, and, then when there are only
two classes left,the rich and the poor;
then the next step is to invoke the
aid of tho military to complete tho
work of crushing out with the force
of arms tho expiring efforts of the
peoplo made by violence, when every
other means of redress has failed.
But behind the army conies the mon-
archy. So it was in Rome, and so it
will be in tho United States.
Assaults upon property and upon
people, made by thoso rendered des-
perato by oppression, came every-
where in rapid outbreaks, not in any
organized war, except such as wero
brought by labor organizations in
different cities, only to be quelled by
tho free use of the army. Breaking
away from natural restraints, tho
people had to be restrained by a
power outside of themselves, and
thus the transition from a republic
was ea9y, and it was but a little whllo
Gold money Is the kind every moo;
archy of Europo uses to rob thelc
working people Coming Nation.
The Populists have spiked the tariff
guns of the two old parties and go(
them split wido opon on the silveB
question Comanche Exponent.
A platform declaring for the inda-
pendence of the United States froi^
the mother country might prove pop-
ular for a party basis Southern
Mercury.
* *
Running in debt to keep your credit}
good Is a queer business proposition,
and one that will result in ruin if con-
tinued.—Nashville (Tenn.) Current
Voice.
None but an enemy could desira
that Mr. Cleveland should be choseA
to face tho cyclonic storm of populap
wrath which awaits the Democratic
nominee in 1896.—New York Tribune.
If greenbacks, silver and national
bank notes rest upon a gold basis,and|
tho gold Is purchase with 30 or 5fl|
year 5 per cent gold bonds, on what,'
for heaven's eako, do the bonds!
rest?—Minneapolis (Minn.) Union.
Cleveland's idea of tho American)
Monroo doctrine is tho same as hla
idea about tho American money doc-
trine—that we can't make itftgo um
less England agrees to fix a ratio fopj
it,—New York Recorder.
As long as our capitalists contlnua
t import■■ doUar-*-we«k. labor trow
J£u*oBo pr Awa.ti«,4«ttarAUzatiflB, ,<j| .
labor hero will continue, and ootk the
employers and tho country will hava
to suffer for their sins of fatuou3 cu-
pidity.—^Chicago Journal.
Mr. Cleveland refusod to reraovfl
Republicans who abused Democrats,
reviled Democratic principles and ein^
ployed every energy to defeat tha
Democratic party which elected him
president, and yet members of his
own party are warned that "decency'1'
and "good breeding" require servllg
approval of all that ho doos.—Omaha
World-Herald.
President Cleveland's letter to
Gov. Stono of Mississippi proves cleard
ly enougli that the writer's hand haa
lost none of Its cunning In the difficult
art of subterfuge and evasion. Histo^
ry will recognize Mr. Cleveland as th$
American statesman who could writaj
more letters on tariff and currenc;
without uttering a positive opinio;
on either of thoso subjects than an
other man of his time New Yorfi
Tribune.
Either bimetallism is a scientific!
and safe monetary principle to boi
sustained at all times, or it is not.,
Anything loss than bimetallism—tha
free and unlimited coinage of gold'
and silver at the established ratio—
anything less is gold monometallism.
There is absolutely no room for com-
promise. Talk of yielding to tha
gold men! Why, everything is yield-
ed to them already since gold has
tho right of unlimited free coinage.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Senator Brice has notified his con-
stituents that ho and Democracy part
company when the latter is identified
with free silver, and before many
days havo passed others will probably
bo heard from. This is tho lino of
tho president's policy of scaring tha
Populist wing into submission. It i3
too late, however. The Populist alli-
ance made to pass the tariff bill has
provod tho ruin of the Democratic
party; tho ally is stronger than tha
party—New York Advertiser.
True a< Go*pel.
So long as the opponents of tho ro-
monetization of silver propose no
practical remedy for present evils,
tho peoplo are justified in classing
them as gold monometallists. If tha
efforts which they are making against
silver are successful the result will bo,
the perpetuation of the single gold
standaft* and the furthor degradation
of the producers and wage earners of
this country as tho serf9 of the east-
ern and Europuot. shyloeKs—Atlant^
Constitution.
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