The farmers' union., June 07, 1894, Image 1

About The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895

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THE FAR1U' HON
e
Volume IV.
MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JUNE 1y ltfi-i.
Number HO.
SI Humphrey's
Green Front.
10,000
Men,
Boysand Children
to call at my Store and examine my
Mammoth Stock
OP1-
Clothing
which 1 have just received,
and which has been pur
chased under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought the
goods away DOWN, the equal
Raj never been known in
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to sell you
GOOD GOODS,
Kven below your own ex
pect alum. Those
Boots,
Shoes,
Furnishing Goods,
AS WELL AS 11
Clothing Stock
Are all Flesb, New floods,
and purchased under the re
cent decline in the eastern
market, ami, positively, will
be closed out to make room
for another stock, which I
expect to buy in the near
future, even lower than ever
if possible, fall early ami
see me if yon wish to
Save Money
Remember, Old and Young
Ladies' Shoes and Slippers
a specialty. 1 am yours as
ever.
1. Humphry,
Green Front,
Mb Side,
Memphis, Mo.
Neckwear
Government Railroads.
In these days of trusts aiil eousoli- Did the reader ever stop to ttiink
dation, strikes and eittdowns between 1 that times are harder now than tnev
labor and railroad, it mav le interest-! have been for thirty years or more? 1
ing to note what has been and what If not. sit down if you have time and
eaa be done to remedy these evils, go back for thirty-three years and 10
We never hear of any strikes, eat- eate a single month during that en
downs or labor troubles on the rail- lire period when times were so hard
roads of Australia, and why? Be-J as at the present. Wheat and cotton
cause the government owns and ope-;
rates them in the interest of the peo-
I pie. ;
I In Australia you can ride a distance I
of 1.000 miles across the country for!80 pwry paid as at the present time
$.50, first-class, too, while working I during the past one-third of a cen
mpi. cr.ii ride six miles for '1 ecu's. 12 ! tury. There never was in the history
miles for 4 cents. 30 miles for 10. etc..
and railroad men receive 2" to :J0 per
cent inoie wages for 8 hours work
than they are paid in this country for
10 hours toil.
In Victoria, where the above rates
prevails, the net income from the
roads last year was sufficient to pay
all the federal taxes.
In Hungary, where the roads are
state owned, you can ride 0 miles for
1 cent, and since the government has
bought the roads, wages have doubled.
Belgium tells the same story, fares
and freight rates cut down one-half
and wages doubled.
Yet the roads pay a yearly revenue
to the government of $4,000,000.
In Germany, you can ride four miles
for 1 cent on the government owned
lines. Yet wages are over 120 per
cent higher than when the private
corporations owned them, and during
the last ten years the net profits have
increased 41 per cent. Last year the
roads paid the German government a
net profit of $25,000,000.
If our government owned the rail
roads we could go to San Francisco
from Boston for $10. Look at the
proof.
Uncle Sam pays the railroads not
quite $-75 to transport a loaded pos
tal car from Boston to San Francisco.
A passenger car will carry fifty pas
sengers, which, at $10 each, would !
$500, or a clear profit of $225 a car.
and this too, after paying .V, per cent
on watered stock, which is fully 100
per cent on the cost of tiie roads.
To show how our roads have water
ed their stock. I point to the New
York Central A: Hudson lliver rail
road, which, when Yauderbilt obtain
ed control in 1800, was capitalized at
$ 49, 000.000, more watered stock h:n
been added until the present capital
stock is $1 10.000.000 all but $15.
0410,000 being watered.
Government ownership would save
people the gigantic sum of $ 10, 000.
000.000 a year and bring shorter hours
and better pay to the 700.000 railroad
employees. -The Alturian.
Wheat and Republicanism
Thirty years of the most prosperous
j times the world ever saw under Re
publican rule is a standing boas' of
Republican orators.
t'liicauo prices were as follows:
t " a
1872 wheat per bushel
1874
1S75
1S77
1870
1881
1883
1885
1887
1888 "
1801
JStM
$1 47
1.42
111'
1 1
1.07
1.11
1.07
.87
.00
.83
.85
.0:1
57
never been in
j 1804
The Democrats have
control of the government till 1803.
If politics have anything to do with
j 'he matter, then the Republicans are
; responsible for the drop of 81 cents
j per bushel from 1872 to 180.:, that is
from 11.47 to 63 cents per bushel. If
j such a constant and heavy fall in the
' price of our principal commodity is
i prosperity, then may the good Lord
j deliver us from adversity.
While our wheat has declined in
I this manner, the Republicans in both'
j state and nation have increased our
! taxation enormously.
Our president still gets 50. 000 a
j year; our congressmen and senators,
j our judges, legislators, governors ami
county officials draw as large salaries 1
as formerly, many of thaw greater.
Interest rates are higher; all owing
to the tariff, to lack of confidence, or
of money, that is if vou li.vir an old
par'v stirt tell it.
; What a lot of chumps we have
been!
We have got our eves open this
time ;,nd do not intend to be fed 1 n
j chart anv longer. We mean business.
I Oregon Populist
Wanted.
j An active agent eaeh u maty in the
1 United States to solicit subseriptioos
for the twiee-a-peek Republic. A lib
eral eommisson will be paid to hustler.
; Address, Superintendent Circulation,
The Republic, St. Louis, Mo.
Times are Growing Harder.
were never so cheap as they now are,
and this holds good through every
line of agricultural production. La-
x a 11 lts branches has never been
ot our country so little demand tor
la!or as now, which is conclusively
shown by the unemployed that are
seen on every hanu. 1 he question
is, Will times get better? We an
swer, 2so; most emphatically no.
j There is no legislation p nding in
Congress calculated to bring about
I such a result. The tariff bill now be
i ing discussed will not do it, or in any
j way assist in that direction. When
it is over the people will ami tUe re
sult is a juggle among schedules, with
not a particle of relief in the entire
bill. The tax will be, for example,
taken from pins and placed on need
les, which is simply shifting the bur-
P ! ibui fi'.kin twin w i 1. ti 1 1 1 L. r t. .iii.ifli.i
The same $500,000,000 will be taken
from the people annually, but in a lit
tle different form. The income tax
will be defeated, and the poor of tin
land will be called upon to donate
from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000 to
the sugar trust in its place. The cur
rency of the country meanwhile is
growing less by being sent ojt of the
country, and through the action ot
national banks in retiring their circu
lation. Such conditions means less
money ami lower prices, and all the
distress ami disasters incident to such
a situation. There is no hope of re
lief from the present congress. It
will only come through revolution or
a change of law-makers. Just which
it will be no one can tell. But come
it will, and that too in the near fu
ture. National Watchman.
Organize.
1 he laboring .people of ( rest on
laboring .people
held a rousing meeting Monda
night and organized an "Industrial
Union." Tin; object of the Union is
to advain-e the interests of the work
ing classes and a similar organization
should be formed in each city, village
and voting preciuct of the United
States.
The working people in America
hold the balance of power and the
hour that finds them organized ami
voting solidly in a common cause
marks the downfall of the supremacy
and of Knglish-America aristocracy.
No matter under what nam.' you
enlist so long as the object is to bet
ter the condition of the poorer class
es. 011r society will tiud a place in
the ranks of the Populist party and a
home in the heart of every honest
son of toil.
The time to act is now. Organize
everywhere ami whui the smoke of
November's battle rolls :iwav it mil
1... f. ..... 1 I..: 1. .. . ........... 1. ...1
iiaiii iii.ti i.iimm iiaa i 1 11 ill f m 11 I
over money and that the American
workingmaii is free.
bganize! ( Organize!! 1 J leu wood.
Iowa. Times.
John Sherman. Grover Cleveland
and John Carlisle want to issue hun
dreds of million of interest hearing
bonds, payable principle and interest
in gold and non taxable, sell them to
the rich men of the world, and let
labor pay the interest on them forever.
One of them i president, and is sur
rounded by every luxury that motie
can buy. one is secretary of the treas
ury, gets a big salary, an I is surround
ed by fawning sycophants who pan
der to his slightest wish. The olitei
is a millionaire senator, and is tin
great leader of the Republican party.
Mr. J. 8. Coxey wants to issue hun
dreds of millions of bonds bearing m
interest, employ poor starving labor
iiiil men put them to work, put it in
their power to earn something to feed
and clothe their poor hungry wive?
and children, whose wails are this day
assenting to heaven because of their
homeless starving condition. He is
lying in a prison cell in the Nation's
Capitol. The only crime ever allege 1
against him was that he plead for the
cause of labor, and walked on the
grass, that (4od caused to grow out oi
the ground. He represents labor, and
languishes among cri initials. The
other three represents capitol, and no
three men are better provided for in
the world than then are. and that at
tin- expense ot" lab r. Great God.
Lamar Union.
Humphrejs'
iiuei)sia. int
Specifie No 10 cures
liuestion an. I weak
stomach. A small buttle of pleasant It rover on a three year fl uum ex
uellets iust tits vour vest Docket 23 1 cursion at the North lolcf It wouhi
cents. li by alt druggists.
More Bonds.
The reserve now in the treasury is
down lower than ever and gold keeps
ugoin ' abroad. The next thing will
be another issue of gold bonds to
make up the reserve.
Then the fellows who style them
selves financiers will draw it out again
and create another deficiency and de
mand another issue of gold bonds.
Then it will be drawn down again.
Then another issue of gold ponds.
The gold going abroad.
The nation owing 2500 millions of
gold with less than 500 millions to
pay and less than 80 millions in its
vaults continues to issue more gold
obliuations to the tune of 50 millions
at a time.
Buiu, disaster, bankruptcy!
The men who do it are either
knaves or fools.
An equal number of Democrats and
Republicans in the present cougress
repealed the Sherman law and thereby
cut off 30 millions of money a year.
The promised confidence and pros
perity and good times, but they have
not come.
Democratic and Republican ecu
uresstnen defeated free coinage of
silver that would have given us sev
eral hundred millions of good money.
Cleveland vetoed a bill that would
have coined 55 millions of idle silver
bullion that lies useless in the treas
ury. That veto was sustained in con
gress by the entire uepubiican vole
under the leadership of Reed.
' Mene, ineae, tekel upharson!
The hand writing is on the wall.
They are weighed 111 the balance
and found wanting.
Their kingdom shall be taken away
and given to another.
The golden calf shall be ilcstioye:!
and the golden rule shall be estab
lished. The men who tread upon the grass
shall have an equal chance with those
who tread upon the hearts of human
it v.- Auburn. Ind., Times.
Pooulist Outlook.
We are in receipt of letters from
all over the country daily, and are in
lose communication with the nation
al executive committee, and from all
we can learn the Populist cause is
gaining rapidly. In the south even
ihing looks bright. A vigorous cam
paign is being made in Alabama
which will no doubt terminate in the
defeat of the Democratic party.
While that contest in some respects
is not just the sort of a middle-of-the-road-Populist
would have, yet the
Populists of that state are doing a
grand work. In Georgia, a campaign
is being inaugurated that delights the
heart ami gives courage to every true
reformer. 1 11 Oregon the battle is on
and we believe the Populists will win
The appeal of Chairman Tauheneck
to nominate tickets everywhere is be
ing general I v accomplished, and will
be productive of much good. The
reform press is doing a noble work
and standing squarely to the mark.
Hundreds of these papers come to our
desk filled with matter that would do
honor to the great metropolitan dai
lies. Herein lies the power of the
movement, An intelligent newspa
per service well supported is an irrist
able power. National Watchman.
The Santa Fe railroad is 111 the
hands of receivers supposed to be un
der the control of the federal govern
ment for the benefit of all the stock
holders. Yet when the hotel men
held a convention at Denver, a solid
train was put at their disposal scott
free. When poor eoinuionwe dei
want to ride in ealtie ears free, gov
eminent marshals pounce down on
the p r wretches and rake them in
Nice government, thi of ours. L 1
mar Union.
C01121 t'ssin ni Bryan, of Nebraska,
lius refused Lite n 'ruination of the
Democrats f r another term. He
says that if Ihe Democratic party are
iinint; to carry 'iit the Republican
policies tin task might just as well be
left to Republican. He a.hises tie
ilver Demerats to j i ti the Popu
lists, the only party that promises re.
form in the United State. Auburn,
nil.. Times.
We hear the question frequently
asked, why ore men leiuoerats or Re
publicans. We give it up, wo do not
believe there is :i man in the world
outside of a hoodler or an office-seeker
that can answer the question. La
mar Union.
Let every laborer remember that
the Wilson hill put- a tax upon ui:ir
amounting to $50,000,000, and that
the rich use no more sugar as a rule
Shan the poor. National Watchman.
Why does not
I ncle Sam send
be a relief. Audi
irh, Ind.. T mes.
D. SECORD,
MEN'S and BOY'S CLOTHING
Boots, Shoes,
Memphis, - Missouri.
O
Preside.
A. H.
O
li. i. PITKIN,
IMTKIX, Cashier.
Paid up Capital, $25,000.
Mi
ll. i
Pitkin.
A. Simon.
A. II. Pitkin,
Wm. Uhkkiu.ovk.
J. S. Pitkin.
IMrectors.
o-
Does u general banking business.
Huys iftrtttl negotiable paper.
Special attention given t collections.
I'dM R AND SKK I S.
;" ; ni t hen si Corner Public Square.
HUMPHREYS
VETERINARY SPECIFICS
For Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Hogs,
AND POULTRY.
800 Page Book on Treatment of Animal
and Chart Stent Free.
cities Fevcrs.f ongest iona. luflammatloa
A.A.c Spinal .Ueulngltls, OTHa fever.
H.H. Strains, sameness, Kaeamati
CC.mnteint.cr, Nasal Discharges
!.. Hot or truDH, worms.
K.K.Conghs. Heaves, Pneamaala
F.F. Colie or di ripen, Bellyache.
IUU1 Iscarriage, Hemorrhages.
H.H. I'rinary and Kidney Diseases
1. 1. Eruptive Iieaes Blunge.
4.K.. Diaeaaes of Digestlsa, Pai
ralysls
Single Bottle over 50 closest
Stable
Case, with Specifics. Manual. . I
:erliiary( ur Oil andMedkator. 7.0O
!?S'iew'i","fc"4to"
tKV8,iB0.iu,iiiiitmaauat.,afh, !
Veterinary
Jar eteria
Said fey InnUit
HTuTtiRKYH'
istjim:fbbs7S9
HOMEOPATHIC flff
SPECIFIC No GO
in use 30 yean. The only tncosaaf al nmody for
Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness,
and Prostration , from ovar-work or other can wis.
1 per vil, or S viala and lanta vial powder, tor SI
s,.;d i. liiitiiii. 'i tun waMi Wi Its oi .rr.
Ill " KM ' SKO. CO.. 1 1 1 I IS WUKh SU. tnt-k
be Bs'ebrated French Gore,
'SSSf " APHRODITINE "
s Ts SOLTJ on a
Cij&H POSITIVE
w rure my i 'rm oi
nervnis illhea'ts or
any riiKordimf the
geuerHiive organs
of either lei.
t t-hc;l)or arifinjr
froni Ihpovpiimivii
BEFORE use of stimuianta. AFTER
r baccoorOpiBin, or through yuuihful iiuliaere
lion ovc inaul-ince. &c.,auch as Ia of Brain
Posrer, Wakcfuines, Hearing down Poiua in the
Da-c, Seminal WeakneB, II ytcrio. Nervous Pros
tration, Nocturnal Emission, Ix-u'-orrhu-a, Dlx
rAne b, wenk Memory, Los1" of 1'ower ard Impo
n r, which if r cKecteil ofton If-ad to premature
ol 1 1 and insanity. Price 11 00 a box. 6 U-xee
for pi "). Pont mall on -ecei, t of price.
A WRITTEN GUARANTEE la given for everr
B.O onler received, to refund the money if a
in rwon?it cure is not effectel. We have thou-
aanda of testimonials from oil and youne. of
IS
join n?xcs. wno nav-- oe-n pf rmationtly
by the iisf Aphroditinc. '''in-nlar fe A
THK ArHRO MEIHiK '
Western Branch. l:ox 27. Pootlad, Ob.
For Sale lv Hi own & I)avon.
Henry Courtney,
Watchmaker Jewelry,
outb of s. E. Corner Square.
Memphis, Mo.
Watt-lies and clocks repaired on short no
ice. All kinds of jewelry neatly mended ana
work warranted. A full stock of
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
onstatlyon hand at reasonable prices. A
ilfera! hre ,f the public patronage Is eo
citetid. Give him a call before b vinr.
FEMALE PILLS.
new fiiseavnrr. arvrt rant
A uew.rtiiib.e ui.i asts rcdef Ef is
BMaaaaaeeaaM .5-auivor ilnfalaaea
fctnu.ua. uw uwC tir over MySH
iaCict aasaaay. lurtiroratea tliiai
orna. psatass af littstlssa Ttasa
pap-r ti per box. or trial box !. Scat
(1 2
oaiea la piua wripjer. mm te IB
Matasa tor patOealaa. HaiS b 1 warn
11 m ' ' I 0
FARMERS' EXCWGEj
Wats, C aps,
ks, &c.,&c
o-
he largest and UOM cowl leu stcl it t h
city, Including-at tae latest tytet.si
BOTTOM PRICES
0.
D. SEGORD,
WEST SIDE OF TIIK SQUARE
Laundry Queen
GTEAM
-O-
SEAMAN BROS., HTs.
East $ it Sqn e, - Kemptis, Ho.
f' A ' "Th 1
I 11 Ix 111
vlliiiiii w JciilIt
WkstSiue ur Pca4.it Syi Aiu..
Paid in Capital, $50,000.
Surplus, $16,000. -
Oppics: Hours peom 1) a. ml to 4 p. m.
J. K.PAIUUSJI.presiuViit.
C. K. JOMIIS, Vlct!-Prcldt tit.
N. V. LESLIE. Cashier.
MILO cowan. Assistant Cashier.
Iirkctohs:-J. E. Parish, N. V. Leslie. J.J.
I lownsend, V. J. Milter, C. K. Coastal. Uaartes
I talker. T. H. Wairatr, H. II. Pairate. Joseajb
j Matlick, K. M.Thoau m. .1. U. Bkhlasore, Mlto
j Uowen and U. E. Leslie.
JAMES E. PULL1AM.
Blacksmith,
SHOEIXC AND REPAIR SHOP.
Repairing Neatly and Promotiy tone.
1 make a special tv of
)I5SESHC
s rL
-LN
Shop Soolneaal Cor. Sfj'mro, old
IVrkin s Stand. Memphis. Mr.
I t
J. M. Kloetzer,
M KM 111 IS, MO.,
First Door west of the Citiuen s Bank
building, invites the pirbl c to call
on him when wanting to buy
HARNESS, SADDLES, nalters,
Bridles, Whips, &c.
The stock is ne and the fnwest
possible price asked for jomI i:Kd.c.
I The country trade espcA-iai! sid cited.
valises. Tri-oJ