The farmers' union., June 28, 1894, Image 1

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

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MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JUNIC 2S, lSt-I.
Number S3.
. Humphrey's
Green Front.
"T" A T3 ' I '
0,000
Men.
oysand Children
can at ray muic dim nam mj
II A 1 1 4 , ,1 . .tit) rt . Till
ammoth Stock
OP
1 4i
9
which 1 have just received,
and which lms been pur
chased under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought the
go .;s away noWN, the equal
has never been known in
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to sell yon
00D GOODS
Kven below your own ex
pectation Those
Caps,
Boots,
1 W VikiJ
Xiw iYhir
Furnishing Goods,
AS WELL AS IT
lotting Stock
Are all Fresh, New Goods,
and purchased under the re
cent decline in the eastern
market, and. positively, will
lu closed out to make room
for another stock, which I
txpect to buy in the near
future, even lower than ever
If possible. l"aU early and
see me if YOU wish to
Remember, Old and Young
Ladies1 Shoes and Slippers
a specialty. I am yours as
ever.
H. Humphry,
Green Front,
orth Side.
Ifiii11llic lift
JM.liipillJ)
HON. THOMAS L WATSON,
Delivered at DeGive's Opera House,
Ailanta, Georgia, May 10. 94.
(CONTIXI.'ED FROM ..-T WEEK.
The Wall street crowd cleaned out
-the whole gang. Without the
' Wit I .!... .';.,!
est respect to persons, the neh
man
lost his thousands, in
Central Hail-
road stock; the poor widow and or-
"hans lost their hundreds; and the
great Central Railroad -the pride of j
Georgia built with Georgia courage,
with Georgia labor, with Georgia cap
ital, strengthened by exemptions
which Georgia's Legislature had given
her was left a hopeless wreck, in hop
eless sea of commerce and still re
remains there. You tell me that
with the railroads once m politics you ;
would never get them out. Where
are they now? (Laughter and ap- came a law and it is now the law, but vve recently had the shameful sjx'cta
plause.) Tell me the railroads are uot ii has never I teen acted upon because cje ()f :i n-AUi u.i, Up while a Uuited
in politics. Where is the ufau that railroad influeuce has been en- States senator was uerinf for the
does not know they bribe legislatures? I allied to do as much in England as it j tramp's privilege of a ride without
Wht re is the man that does not know
they bribe Congress? Where is the
man that docs not know they bribe I
Judges? .Jay Gould gave the whole
thing away when he said befcre a New J
oik Legislative t oininuiee, imu uc
! did not take interest in politics, that !
! in a Republican District he was a Re ;
-. i - i j 1 i i
publican, in a Democratic district he ;
wasalwys a Democrat, and in a doubt- j
lul district he w.-is doubtful, hut
always and everywhere he was for the
Krie Railroad, Talk to me about the
railroads not being in politics. low
was it the Pacific Railroads ;4'. one
hundred and twenty-live million acres
of your laud? One railroad, 125,000,
ooo acers, Knougli to make two states
like Georgia ami to ctam in around
the eilgestwo more like RIkmIc Island
and Deleware. Yes, more than thai.
They give them Sixty million dollars
iu Government bonds. They have
paid for the railroads as interests on
these bonds sixty-nine million dollars.
Now the debt is something like one
hundred ami thirty million dollars,
and the question of settlement comes
lie fore this admistratiou.
Mr. Richard Ob-ey, railioad at
torney and a member of the cabinet
of this lovely Democratic adminis
i I 1 Q ..f ..'!'!,.. 1 t: I .
w.n.-M. .i..v ,
it,") proposes to lend that monev
again to those railroads at two per
cent interest for one hundred year-.
Would to !od that we were all rail
roads and could settle our debts that
way. (Laughter and applause.)
Von say the government can t run
j the railways; yet the govertment is
running about three-fifths of them to
uiirht. The government is running
rrr;rr,.:fx I!:z
cov
on
I Topeka & Santa Fe; the government
j is running the Pacific railways. But
von say the government is not doing
J it well. 1 grant it. but the govern
ment could run them better if the
i Federal judges and receivers who are
' tunning these railroads were not :ic
tully the paid agents of the eorporat
; ons. ( Applauses and cries of "(Jive
; it to to them. )
Who ever heard of a strike among
post office employees. ( Laughter and
applause.) Whoevtr heard of the
; post office in Atlanta being run with a
view to discriminate against the p.-st
' office in Macon. Whoever beard of
the post office lienig run in such a
wav as to dstrov Mr. I. Snook, or
that K. Van Winkle & Co. might st oop
.mi. cutH)K. itjauguiure aim ap
plause. Who is it that docs not see
that if von put the railroad service
right where the post office service is
you vvili get exactly the same re
sults. No man's business will tie destroyed
in the interest f another because th
motive to do so will be gone.
You take out the m tive for the
strike an I the strike ceases. Take
out and motive for discrimination and
discrimination ceases. Who ever
mi line wheather
in oil oi coal or sugar that didn't that mo
depend on the railroads to carry itfernment
,l'b (Cries of Now you are getting
i there, and laughter Put the rail
roads in the hands of the government
and the bottom is knocked from under
vour trust. (Cries of "'That's right.")
i'ou say that is all talk: the talk of
the wild man. (Voices from the au-
ilience, "We wish we had some more
ueh wild ones. (Laughter and ap-
plause and atneus.') If there is ;t
statesman who has the respect of the
entire English speaking world; I
may go further, has the respect of the
entire civilized world,
William K. Gladstone
that man is
of England.
Upon Ins grey head has been
uaee
the wreath of the world's praise and
approval. Do you know he stood
just where stand upon this question?
N you don't because your newspapers
won't tell it to you. (Applause.) Mr.
Gladstone when a member of Sir
Robert Peel's Cabiuet introduced a
bill that the government should 1
the English Railways. That bill be-
has been able to Io in America.
keep hack the hau ls on the clock of
civilization. Let us compare them.
I will take the (ierrnan Ktnpire, the
Austro-Hungarian Kmpire and then 1
t . . - . . t . . . i ... i i ... . i. ..ii.it.. i i.t ...... t i . . .
iaciu moiai. i.mpi.e. uj , -iiivr-
man, the Herman Kmpire is to-day ,
the mightiest civilized force, military, j
civilized educational, commercial, that j
this world ever saw. What have they
got there?
The government owns the railways,
and what is the result? In the United
States the average fare per mile is
more than two cents. In Germany
just a fraction above one cent per
mile. In Austro Hungary just a
fraction above one cent per mile, iu
India just one half cent pci mile. In
America they kill or wound one pas
seger out of every 181,000 carried.
In Germany they carried l.oOO.OOO
before they kill or wound a single
passenger. In Austin Hungary they i
carry 1 ,200,00l liefore they wound I
or kill u single one. In India they
carry nearly :00,000 liefore they kill
or wound a single one. In the United
States, out of every iiO employees one
:s killed or wounded every vear. In
(Jermany one out of L18, in Austro
Hungarv one out of . very 227; in
luJla ,,m. oul ()I uvcrv
'
I remember when this unworthy
citizen was a member of Congress ,
and thi
bill was introbuced to com
pel the railroads to protect
ie lives of
the breakemam and of other em-
plovees by putting on automatic car
i ou piers.
I recollect that previous t the ele
ction, the house pissed the bill with
out a dissenting voice; the Senate pas
sed t e bill with some amendments
which made it more favorable
to the
r ia ls. Then came the election and I cratic party. " This course was de
a trusting country threw itself into cided upon some six weeks ago at a
the amies of the lcm.Kracy, and the conference here in Washington and
Senate Bill came back to the house is being most vigoursly enforced. As
and it was almost impossible ! find predicted, the Atlanta Constitution
die Democrats who had voted for it.
Slahlman was there. The lobby was
.here. The Louisville A: Nashville
with their paid agents were then
They took up their quarters in our of
the Committee rxjm: they worked
niuht and day; they appeard to work
the ha i room for all it was worth.
( Cries of shame. I
1 remember a cold winter night
when that question hung between life
ami death: when its enemies seemed
to be defiant and sure of victory ami
its friends faint-hearted and discour
aged, and I shall always b proud
that whatever force of euthusiasm 1
have got in my nature I put in the
side of a reusing the friends of the
oil!, and we rallied our lines and
whipped the railroa Is lock, stock an 1
barrel. (Applause )
In German) they save lives because
they take .'are of their employes: not
only that, in tliis count r the railroads
tlr L 1 1 the unions The coriKtrations
fight the labor societies au
1 there i
I iermani .
it, the gov
cieties, an i
war all aloug the
In
ken oi
the so
ive being
ec.ei nirajxi
r those societies annually pay $3,500,
000 to the helpless men, women and
I children engaged in the government
railway service. Hut enough of that
The subject grows a little, does n't
it? (Laughter and applause. It don't
look so wild after all, does it? (Laugh
iter.) Who is there that does not
know that under our present system
one town is built up at the expenst
of another? Who is there that does
not know that one business is destroy-
ed in the interest of another? Who
does not know that the hig shipper
mjoys advantages which the little
shipper can t get? Who docs not
know that the policy of railroad man
agement is to favor the big men and
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"m - w
comoete in the bin cities and to mo-
nopolize at tbe wav station?
1 -
In (Jermauv, when the Kinperttr
i rave
he nays his wav like a gentle !
! The government railroad per
mits w !eadheadisin. In this state
pay. (Applause and cries f "Gor
don.') 1 make no war upon railroad
capital, or railroad president or rail
road operators. 1 say this: The sys
tem is wroug, and commerce free and
. i . .
unrestricteo tiemamis that the profr
solution should be applied; when that
is done it will help every class, every
seetiou. All persons, every man. wo-!
man and child, colored and white, has LCH ;L a bushel then he would have
aright to ite protected (Applause J $1480 more tlian under present con
and cr:es of 'Hurrah for Tom IVat- ditions. If his family numbers live
son- his tariff amounts to $15.15. He
If you had government ownership could pay his tariff out of $1480.00
what would you do? You would save aiM have left $144ei.S5 more than he
millions of dollars spent in lobby tug J will have under the present coudi-expeu-ies;
millions of dollars seut in lions.
famry salriesof presidents and officials
uo wo no hoik; ou wouiu stop uie
a i i i ... . .
palaee ear extravagance; you would
stop the free pass ev il: you would
stop the 4i watered sttx k" swindling;
and you would stop this eternal war ;
fare between the corporations and its
laborers. This is what they say is
the wildest plank iu the platform. I
I say it tallies with the principle of
me public Utguyav; with the public ,
river, with the belief and principles
and the system of the Kurooean
a
Statesmen, and 1 to-night beg you
to remember what old Bob Toombs
said in his last years. ' The time
has come, ' said lie "when the question
has gtto bcsettleil wheather the gov-
erntuent will own the railroads or the
raiuoatis own me govemmenr. i
.:l 1 . .i . i
am lutl lo oelieve that -the govern-
'"t is the biggest man around the
houe, and that the result will be that
he owns the roads,
CLEVELAND IS THE PARTY.
The edict has gone forth, - bow to
I
Cievelaud or get out of the Demo
tnd other kicking dailies have craw-
as the saying ir-. and are now
singing praises to (J rover Cievelaud.
Kven Democratic State convention
will endoree his Administration ami
every malcontent will he forced into
hue or ut oJ tne part v. Kn; Louis
exclaimed, " am the state." Presi
dent Cleveland declares, ' I am the
Democratic party. It is now either
a "fight or a foot race," and one caul
exacllh determine which. The p.
counter, the campaigu fund and aid
ui olh r directions from the Adminis
tration are held up against conscience
and independence. o the average
Democrat it is great odds. Il is sate
Lo gamble that iu a majority of cases
conscieuce w.il he hushed and iu
itepen lence will rule supreme.
Tite .est is being made and the
r1 "s
e wd: soon know the
results.
Wttioti
Watchman.
L st. Strayetl, or St
eu :
The
era
ii prosperm pr miseu upon me v
peal .d the Sherman purchasiug act.
Mi
mt.) Populist Tribune.
If you want England to continue to
rule America, keep on voting for the
old parties. Columbus (U I Populist
A BAD MISTAKE.
o!iu of the Populist senators ami
....
congressmen nave evidently forgotter
, . k , , , .
the O.naha declaration regarding the
... i . ... . .
-nam name on tarni. ror inev nave i
loa led their gnus and gone into the
sham tight.
If the tariff is the question then
these statesmen are in the wrong party
and should so declare and change pol
itics at once. That fact uecdsuoem
phasis.
N sooner had our men in congress
commenced to tinker with he tarii?
than the wheels of reform throughout
a. i i t. . i i t
me t lined ,ai"s uecouie eioiget ami
our reformers stopped to explain or
. . . ... . .
! i t ouo i as. e tuc tarni loiuiooicrt
L. ; . . .
, these meu or ilisoauu.
If there was relief in the tariff qu
if
lion for the o..tmm iuh nlo then there
- J !
AOUk 1k. sollu. L.XcUSt. for ,,!, action
hut tlun i f.o- neither hio-h t n irt
- - - rr" ,
or tree trade wi
i tn I in , 1 1-,. ii' . it n . v n
put tnoie il.oiltv in
;
circulation.
What thiseountn needs is olent v
ij miktii- iu ii rn i ii u in lit in i ; tv.nu t
i i
plentiful aad prices high and times
good. Give the people the money and
they will take care of the taritl.
Suppose a fanner raises 1000 hush
els of wheat this year. At present
U - lces he will get $520 for it. If there
was plenty of mouey iu circulation so
! that the nil., iron 1. 1 ..mnlove.I ..ml
times .rood to the extent Unit he wou'd
b:ist year the average working man j
. . ... .
nnnle aOotlt fltHI. II money in cer-
dilation had been plentiful so that
wages would have Ijeeii high he would
have realizetl almut $000. He could
i,ave paid the .McKinley tariff and had
$584. 85 left.
It takes monev to cure a financial
anie, not tariff. Hanks fail for want
of money, not for the want of taritl.
business linns sro to the wall for want
of monev. not for want of tariff.
I Working 1. 1. . ,,...i ,..,,rir...l .....l I.....
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gry for want of money to buy food
; and elothin ' not for want of linfl
i Mm i,.. ..r,. f.,r,.,.l,w,.l f...- .,,. i .o
nitwey, rot because of tariff. And
wlutt is true of tariff is also true of
free trade. Tariff nor free trade will
: .
not pay grocery bills or taxes, or sal-
anes, r buy machinery, or hardware,
I or clothing, or run factories, for it
j pikes money,
' Theu when a iVpuhst turns to talk
lug tariff he is beating the wind,
thrasliing straw (hat is as line as chaff,
and he does the reform movement
mote damage than a dozen old party
politicians.
Kvery day the F.tputists everv
where have the recent blunders of our
coiigi ess in an thrown into their faces.
Ihe itepubiicuus accuse of beiug a
free trade party aud the Democrats
say wc are a high tariff party and thai
oar men voted
i ui- ...i calls
for the sugar trust,
for explanation or d
uial and thus the public mind is
liiawu awa from the real issue, from
l In uioucy tpiestion.
Nothing is more plain than the fact
that the Populist party cannot take up
the oo-cailed lar.tf issue. In the lir.st
olace there i- nol.iitig in it: in the see
uid place it is old party property; in
the third place the Populists cannot
be harmonized m that issue.
It the old parlies succeed in forcing
Lhta so-ealied tariff ISaUe into the Pop
ultbt part3 it meaus certain defeat f,i
he reform movement and acoutiuua
Li.n of the oid parties, in power. We
trust our congressmen wdi see tins
point and hereafter '-Keep iu the mid
dle of the toa l.' Auburn, Indiana,
Times.
My sou, heed not the Democrats
that shall say unto thee. UI am for
free silver, " nor the Uepubliean that
s!all reoeat, -l am also." Verily 1
say unto you, that grapes do not gr
jon the cactus plant; neither do tigs
'grow on skunk weed.
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H. O. PITKIN, Preaideat.
A. H. PITKIN, Ctehfer.
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I'aitI up Capital, $25,000.
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SHOEING AM) REPAIR bOP.
Kcpjiriu.! Xcally and Ptcniif Em.
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: t S;"M' Southeast Cor. Square, old
Pet km's Stand. Memphis, Mo.
J. M. Kloetzer,
MEMPHIS. MO ,
; First Door west of the ('it zen's Hank
Iniilding. inv.tes the pubi c to call
on him when wanting to bat
HARNESS, SADDLES, Halters,
I
Bridles, Wbips, &c.
Tin stock is i.e.r and ili li,m.Dc
iMJMioie price asked fir good gotnls.
I 1 he country trade esp. iial! Botietted.
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