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THE FARMERS' HON.
Volume IY.
MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MAY 180.
Number 18.
M. Humphrey's
Green Front.
10,000
Men,
Boysand Children
to call at my Store and examine my
Mammoth Stock
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Clothing
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winch I have just received,
and which lms been pur-'
chased under :i prospect of
u low tariff and bought the
jjoods away nowx, the equal
has never been known in
Northeast Missouri. 1 ain
prepared to sell you
GOOD GOODS
Kvcn below your own ex
pectation. Those
Hats,
S
100
J
Shoes,
I
1
p i . vrl
rUrQlSOlDg llOOflS.
AS WEIL AS 11
Clothing Stock
1
Are all Fresh, New Goods,
and purchased under the re
cent decline in the eastern
market, and, positively, will
be closed Ottt to make room
for another stock, which I
txpect t boy in the near
future, even lower than ever
if possible, ('all early ami
see me if you wish to
Save Money
Remember. Old and Young
Ladies' Shoes and Slippers
a specialty. 1 am yours as
ever.
11. Humphry,
Green Front,
Uorth Side,
Memphis, Mo.
A PORTENTOUS OUTLOOK.
The Signs of the Times are Un
mistakable. Friends, do falling prices, falling
I wanes, increasing hours of toil, in-
I creasing debts, increasing mortgages
j and mortgage foreclosures, increasing
i taxes, increasing rents, increasing
ejectments, increasing suicides, in
creasing crimes mean nothing to you?
Does the righteous demand for work
by unemployed men, does the fam
ished mother's entreaty to earn bread
for her hungry little ones, does the
pale, pinched careworn countiaenance
of the child toiler in the factory be
token "-all is well" for our industrial
system? Does it bode no evil to the
existing order of things that labor
is observant and sullen, that armies
of men are marching and demanding,
that there is an impenetrable dark
ness of lowering discontent oe'r
spreading our land? Do you read
naught that is ominous in the signs
of the times? Do you see no re
flection of the past history of dead
nations in the atsmosphere of the
present? Does the agitation, the
speech making and pamphleteering
of the present mean no repetition of
the awful past of an ancient civili
zation? Do you not divine the
the awful consequences of the future
as foreshadowed by the present?
Are you familiar with the rise and
decay of Kgypt's once glorious civili
zation? Her mighty pyramids are
among the grandest monuments of
human hist ory. Her science and
and her astronomy were remarkable.
Hut what of Egypt now? She is a
vertable old fossil. No progress, no
enlightment any longer possible.
And why not? Because of her op
pression of God's workers, through
their impoverishment For while
wealth piled heap upon heap moun
tain high, the laborers of Kgypt were
forced in consequence to work so
cheap as three cents per day. When
Kgypt died one percent of the people
owned all the lands. No nation can
remain great, no nation can progress,
no nation can long exist in the midst
of such criminal inequalties amongst
its people. Have you sttldred the
history of Babylon's greatness, of
Hatty Ion s sin against God's toilers,
of Babvlou's decline and fall in eon-
I sequence? Have you thought that
J Medo-Persia followed with the same
' train of evils, to the same inevitable
ruin and decay of her civilization?
j Of the people of Medo Persia Plato
i says: " So great was the distance
' between the prince and subjects that
the latter were looked upon as slaves.
j "Idle the king was looked upon not
! only as their soverign, their absolute
lord and master, but as i king of a
divinity. ' In a word, the peculiar
character of Asiatic nations was servi
tude and slavery. Luxury to mad
ness on one side and wretched pov
erty ami abject servitude on the other.
When Medo-Persia died, one per cent
of the people owned all the land and
; !''. per cent were tennants, serfs ami
slaves. Although the law of Medes
! and Persians, written in blood were
' suppose ! to change not. yet even
this immutability did not save Medo
j Persia from the disasterous mutations
i which reckless doings is sure to bring.
Have you never wondered that
Greece, pride of the world iu intel
; lectual attainment, center shining
i light of literary acquisition among
old world countries. too de
caved. The following explains it:
-The Greeks fell blindly into the
; snare which gave the mortal blow u
j their liberty. The principal canst
were disseminating among themselves
i sectional strife. The Persians who
uad laarued the power of the Greek?,
resorted to their gold, and the policy
of bribery. There were G reeks, who
! secret lv took these bribes and eon
i veyed into the hands of foreigners the
substance of Greece and her liberty
was lost. Do we see any likeness
; here between Grecians turning their
' wealth to foreigners ami our eou-
gressmen through bribes tinning our
I wealth to foreigners.
Four per cent
of the Grecian population owned all
the land and 96 per cent owned none
wl:en Grece died. Gave you studied
the remarkable likeness of the causes
which led to the decline and fall of
Rome and the causes which are opera-
ting m this country today, in
Rome's most gala days 85 per cent of
her people owned lands. To the evil
of land monopoly or rather as a
cause or it, there was a decline in the
money volume of the Roman Empire
from $1,800,000,000 at the Christian
era, to the end of the fif tenth eenturv
when it had shrunk to $200,000,000.
Property values and laborer's wages
declined proportionately. The his
torian declares of the conditions is
Rome during this period, that popu
lation dwindled, and commerce, arts,
wealth and freedom all dissapeared."
The people were reduced to pov
erty and misery of the most degrad
ing character. Serfdom and slavery
with their attending evil consequences
pointed society. We are told that
there were 100,000,000 of human
beings in the Roman Empire in the
time of Augustus, more than half of
whom were in a condition of slavery.
Augustus was able to boast of Rome
tied he found it brick and left it
marble. Rut how was he able t do
it? By enslaving and surely robbing
and enslaving the masses of the toil
inn millions of Rome. When Rome
finally declined and ceased to be a
great nation, 2.000 men owned the
whole of the Roman Empire. Have
you noticed the striking parallelism
between causes, conditions and un
mistakable signs prior to the French
Revolution and causes, conditions
and unmistakable signs confronting
the American people to-day? Said
bonis of Prance as he lay upon his
death bed, - After me tiie deluge."
The deluge of which he prophesied
came. It was thii great bloody
French Revolution. perhaps the
bloodiest revolution ever known to
history. Fiance had "sown to the
wind and was now to reap a whirl-
... mi t 1 11.
wtnn. I ne lust century ami a nan
of French history had been enacted
as a tragedy. It was here as in every
such tragedy, there is always a re
turn of the deed upon the doer. The
French peasants came to realize the
injustice of the oppression resulting
mm
from the few accumulating to them
selves all the wealth, and supporting
none of the burdens of state. While
23,000,000 of brother serfs, posses
sing comparatively none of the vast
wealth of tin1 country yet supported
all of the burdens of state. It was
in France, as in Rome, and as. here,
agriculture became un remunerative,
farm homes had to be abandoned,
and a sure and rapid decline of prices
stead illy continued to the end. IJlti
matelv, retrib'ition followed. Tin
oppressed arose, as might have been
anticipated and pulled tiie burdensome
rotten, loathsom structure down upon
! hem selves. When oppression be
comes intolerable, there always comes
a time in which maddened despoil
refuses to be dictated lo h reason.
D we refuse to be warned by tin
suicide of Rome? Do we find m
lesson of moderation from the fate of
France? Are we prepared to avert
the awful calamity visited upon tin
nobility and the money power o
France? Were the oppressed oi
France less tolerant and more trucu
lent than the oppressed of this eouu
try under the same criminal goading?
Are our oppressed more sycophantic
nan the oppressed oi fraree
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tocrats, be not deceived by labor .
patient delay. Pitsfied, 111.. Advo
cate. Coxev.s "On lo Mshington" mov
ment, is a literal fulfillment of the oi.
adage that"chickeus will come hom
to roost." These "chicks wen
hitched in the encubator at Washing
ton known as the Congress of tin
United Slates, and it is safe lo s: y
mat no incuoaior nas ever vet net n
placed on the market and offered for
s ile as this ciie has, can come within
gunshot of it for the purpoa for
which it was intended hatching pau
pers. Peoples Advocate, R pley,
Tenn,
What do They Offer.
What have the Republicans to
offer the laboring class, as an in
ducement to secure then- suffrage?
Nothing, unless it might be the hard
cash, eoutribut d by the plutocracy
to keep tin industrial class in abject
slavery. What folly for a laboring
man about bettering his condition by
voting the Republican ticket. He
would be worse than throwing his
vote away. Does any sane man be
lieve that times could be made better
b) restoring that party to power which
is more responsible for the condition
of the country to-dav than anv other?
The Republican party is the fathei
of contraction and a gold bassis.
Republican administration has fos
tered and favored every class of
capitalistic combinations that curse
our land today. That party is re-
sptnsible for the magnanimous grants
of our public lauds to thieving rail
road corporations. It is responsible
for the favoritism shown to eastern
monopolists ami manufacturers,
though a high protective tariff. It is
responsible, primarily for the de
struction of silver coinage and foist
ing upon the people, the infamous
national banking system. It is re
sponsible for our present bonded
debt. It; is responsible for the cor
rupt rings and cliques of favored in
dividuals, who feed and fatten off of
the people. The leaders are schem
ing agents for the great money power
of the world, devoid of patriotism
and deaf to the entreaties that go
up from the poor for justice and
equal 1 1 3-. The Republican party in
going out of power, left the countrx
on the very verge of bankruptcy and
tiie Democratic parly by coutinaeing
he same policy, completed the wreck
already begun. And it is for carry
ing out the Republican program
that the Democratic party should
be most severely condemned.
The Republican party is the labor
ing man's greatest enemy. While
crying "protection" to American
labor, the leaders nave imported the
very cheapest labor of Europe to
compete with native workmen, and
today scarcely one American can be
found in our mines or mills. When
ever and wherever labor is forced to
strike to secure its just demands the
Republican press and leaders are
arrayed almost solidly on the side of
capital and their minions are found
hurling the most insulting epithts.
ucli as tramp ? -anarchist" "crank"'
caliuity howler--' etc.. at the ven
class they ask for suffrage. Tin
Republican party is a rich man'
party. It is opposed to free coinage.
It is opposed to the govern tneni
ownership or control of railroads
It favors land monopoly and even
other monopoly and the laboring man
who hopes to better his condition In
voting with that party will be woe
fully deceived. The Democrats
party is bad. hut the Republican
party is much worse. The onl
sensible thing for laboring men t
do. is to vote with that party whicl
advocates their cause the People
party. Tarkio Independent.
We witness to-day the mightiest
movement the world has known it
two I ho. sand years, which is sending
out the gladdest message to oppresses
humanity that the world has hear
sinee John the Baptist came preach
ing in the wilderness that the world':
j lieileemer was coming to relieve the
world's misery. We witness tin
most stupendous and won lerful up
rising of the common people that tin
world has known since Peter the
Hermit led the armies of the east t
tattle against the S-traeens io the boll
I ? nd. K d i na Independent.
The Populisi sta'e conventions oi
south Dakota and Kansas, will b
held June 15th. The committee ii
Minnesota have decided to call the
late convention not later than Jon
10th. The Illinois stae committee
iil meet at Springfield, May 29, i d
a conference of all tabor and farm or
ganization's will he held' at the sane
place on the 18th.
Bankers' Circulars.
This one was issued by New York
oanKers to tne national nanas in
1878:
"Dkar Sir It is advisable to do
all in your power to sustain such
prominent daily and weekly newspa
pers, especially the agricultural and
religious press, as will appose the
issuiug of greenback paper inone.
and that you also withold patronag
or favors from all applicants who are
not willing to oppose the government
issue of money. Let the government
issue the coin and the banks issue the
paper money of the couutrv. for then
we can better protect each other. To
t'tiirfit tn hinr ri t : nr nn t ii tun I It-nil-
4 . . . .
nnlos or to I'tifttiVP In iit'i-iilmoti the '
.., . . .,v. .x, i . .w..
government issue of money will be to S
provide the people with money, and
will therefore seriously affect your in
dividual profit as bankers and lend
ers. See your Congressman at once,
and engage him to support our inter
ests that we may control legislation.''
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This one was issued March 12. 1893,
by the Rankers' Association to all un
tional banks:
"Dear Sir The interests of na
tional bankers require immediate
financial legislation by Congress. Sil
ver, silver certificates and Treasury
notes must be retired and the nation
al bank notes, upon a gold basis,
made the only money. This will re
quire the authorisation of from $500,
000,000 to $1,000,000,000 of new
bonds as a basis of circulation. You
will at once retire out -third of your
circulation ami call iu one-half of your
loans. Re careful to make a money
stringency felt among your patrons,
especially among influential business
men. Advocate an extra session of
Congress for the repeal of the pur
chase clause of the Sherman law and
act with the other banks of your city
in securing a petition to Congress for
its unconditional repeal, per accom
panying form. Use personal influ
ence with Congressmen anil par'icu
larlv let your wishes be known to
your Senators. The future life of na
tioual banks as fixed and safe invest
meats depends upon immediate ac
tion, as there is an increasing senti
ment in favor of government legal
tender notes and silver coinage.
Who is Resoonsible ?
No intelligent person will deny that
the present conditions of this country
are deplorable. It is the fault of
those who have the right to vote for
they have neglected to inform them
selves on the economic questions of
the day. and have allowed the repre
sentatives of money changers to run
the politics of the United States in
the interest of the money power of
Europe and America, and now when
it is almost too late the wealth pro
ducers are ready to resort to force to
secure their rights when they are at
fault in not looking after their inter
ests at the ballot box. The reform
press of the country has been plead
ing with the great mass of tli2 people
to unite and assert their rights with
the ballot before it was too late. We
hope the present situation of affairs
will wake up the industrial people to
a sense of their duty and that in fu
ture they will unite and hurl from
power the enemies of progress and
humanity. National View.
Great is Democracy! The Demo
crats of Missouri in their state con-
ventiontion at Kansas city Wedues-
lay, adopted a plank for the fret
coinage of silver an J opposing tbt
issue of bonds and then showed their
onsisteucy (?) by endorsing and
e dog zing that open and avowed
neuiv of the while metal Grover
Cleveland, and follow it up b itn
prudently asking "the continued sup
port of the party thai has redeemei
il' its pledges."' Whew! isn't that
lovely! Bevier Appeal.
mum
The banks nave plenty of money"
is the wort old chestnut going, and
vet men will repeat it when the fact
ia not one of them, if called u on,
could pav their deposits. Farmers'
Tribune.
THE REGISTERED
PESHBRON S STALLI0D
TiLUEIC I
(No. 10744.)
DKSOKll'TlON. Tauric is 3 mn nM
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wcil; woiiuus. ll Ofvs lilRt'K en ill'
anu an tine draft horse in every
Pedigree. Tourloe was bred bv r
I. Joikkm & Son. of Klvaston. Illinois.
Got by Oston 9852; (18708): he by Ver
mouth (548T); he by Picador 1st (73901;
no by if ay anl d4!.;: he by Kstrada 1ST.
("tttb: he by son of Jeanleblane 7;tl).
Dam. Idalbque 7982(117881: bv l'icailoi-
2nd (5806): he bv tfavani ftttflnh hiv t.,
Kstruba. 1ST. (798k he bv a son of Jean-
lablane .'ttb: 2d dam. Burebe (5794k bv
Mucuwl iUJU". .! A 1J .1. . "
"V' V " uani, iKillliHic lie.
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THE OLDENBIRG COACH STALLION.
No. 124 (1382.)
Description. Orfcaa js a beautiful
bay, with black points, 18 hands high,
weighs 1509 pounds, lias the lin..i .if
style and the best of knee action.
PEiuuHEE. Oi-kan was bred by If.
Menke, Oberhammelwardcn, Olden
burg, Germany. Imported by p. J. .0.
idon & Son. Klvaston, 111. sire. Aug
ust ( 1 144): he by Ardo. I IU00) out of Ple
qudame (844); by Emigrant itii.). out of
Nansika (818), by liraf Weael itiil L out
of Oliva (875), Nelson (319).
Emigrant (925), by Norm tTI.Vi: out off
Miss Pratt, by Consul (594), Graf Wedel
(4nl), by Young Bormditl (428), Ardo
(1099), by Agemeneoa (P80), bv Jeltoe
hlch (40!l), out of Zenebog (591). Dam
Oldenburg Mare. '
Tauric and Orkan were both ariaa
winners at the St. Louis Fair. 1U.
Tauric and OSKAN will make tho
season of 18!4 at my stable. 2 miles west
of Arbela and 6 miles east of Memphis,
and in Arbela on S iturdays.
Terms.-Orkan 18; Tau lc $. to in
sure oolt to .tanu and suck. All fees
due and payable when colt stands and
sucks. Care taken to prevent accidents
ouiwinnoi be responsible should am
ikcpiir
R. ii Dickerson.
FARMERS' EXCHANGE
Memphis, - Missouri.
H. Ci. PITKIN, PivsMent.
A. If. PITKIN, OMfcter.
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Paid up Capital, $25,000.
H.(i. IMtkin.
A. Simon.
A. II. I'll kin.
W'M. KnmcBMnru,
J. s. Pmtiv.
IMit'ctorx.
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Doea n general hankiiiv buaineM.
Iluys ircixi n. jrntinl.lc paper.
Special attention given to colUvtfon.
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HrNortheust Comer Public Squure.
J. M. Kloetzer,
MEMPHIS, MO ,
First Door west of Ihe Citizen's Rjink
building, invites the pubi c to call
on him wbeu wanting to hu
HARNESS, SADDLES, Halters,
Bridles, Whips, &c.
The stock is ne and the lowest
possible price asked for good goods.
Tbe country trade especially solicited.
JAMES L FULLIAM,
Blacksmith,
SBOEINC AND REPAIR SHOP.
Repairing Neatly aid PtoodUj Doie.
I make a specialty of
Shop Southeast Cor. Square, old
Perkin s Stand, Memphis, Mo.
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