The farmers' union., July 05, 1894, Image 1

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

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MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JUIY 5. 1894.
Number 724
M. Humphrey's
Green Front.
10,000
Men,
BoysandChildren
to call at my Store and examine my
Mammoth Stock
' OIF1-
Clothing,
which 1 have just received,
nd which has been pur
chased under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought the
goods away down, the equal
bus never been known in
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to sell you
GOOD GOODS,
Kven below your own ex
pectation. Those
Boots,
Shoes,
Ncckrar,
1?1irni Chilli) iAA
i 111 IllMllIlt) UUUUJ,
AS WELL AS MY
Clothing Stock
Are all Kresh, New Hoods,
and purchased under the re
cent decline in the eastern
market, and, 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. Call early and
see me if you wish to
Save Money
Remember, Old and Young
Ladies" Shoes and Slippers
a specialty. I am yours as
ever.
N. Humphry,
Green Front,
Mil Side,
Memphis, Mo.
HON. THOMAS L WATM,
Delivered at DeGive's Opera House;
Atlanta, Georgia, May 19. '94.
(CONTINUED FROM AST WEEK.
Now Jet us talk a little about fi-
nance. I believe we arc substantially
agreed with the democrats if you turn
back about one or two years. I do
not pretend to sav where they are
to-night because I have been busy all ;
day and have not read the papers.
(Great applause.)
The thing that bothers me now is,
where to hit a democrat 1 would
rather try to draw a heed on a didap
per (Great applause; or catch a hum
ming bird with a Texas cowboy's
lasso.
God knows 1 would not persecute
Hoke Smith much about his record
(Laughter and applause) but here is
the Atlanta Journal of January 2d,
1894, and as it is short me'ter. I will
read you a few line?. The great
question was (hen up as to whether
David 1. Hill or Groyer Cleveland
was the most perfect patriot: that
question is still unsettled. (Laughter
ami applause.) The probabilities are
that it would take inspiration from
one on high to tell which was the
most perfect patriot, David or Grover.
Hut the Atlanta Constitution which is
familiar with all ways because it has
traveled them all ( Laughter and ap
plause) as trying to prove to the
people of Georgia that David II. Hill
was about the only friend free silver
had in all this country, and therefore
ought to be president, and in that
honest endeavor. 1 believe it was as
sisted by lion. Ii F. Livingston of
aromatid memory. (Laughter, ap
plause and cries of ' Hit him again.'")
The Atlanta Journal believed then.1
as it does not believe now, that'GfOV
er Cleveland was the friend of silver,
and everything that wa$ pure -and
good, including good snipe hunting.
(Laughter.) The Atlanta JJonstitu
tion. claiming that Hill was in favor
of free silver, the Atlanta Journal
combatted that claim, and said that
Cleveland was a better friend of si!
ver than David 11. Hill was. Now let
me read this:
"Mr. Cleveland," says the Atlanta
Journal, ' i in favor of letting alone
for the present the present silver act
which provides for the coinage of $."!.
000,000.00 per year.'' That is iU
language. They pledged the people
i of Georgia that Mr. Cleveland was in
favor of maintaining the Sherman
mat wbleb nil ridlftsot 1 fnnr milli in miri
! a half ounces of
stiver
per month.
which, according to the Atlanta dour-
al gave us fifty odd million dollars
of silver per year: while they said anarchists who hate tne because I live
David B. III! t only wanted t IK Blaud ha :1 pleasant home, and would take
act which gave us $24,000,000.00 of j umt tiW tcar mv r i if-live t i pi eces,
I silver per ear, Cleveland, they said, j ti,row iay wife and children h nneless
i was in favor of letting the Sherman i oa tue :iK rcie of the world, is a wick
i law alone; was in favor of gi ing ou ed m:u, Vyhoni societv must crush but,
the same amount of silver that
yu"
were then getting, anu to prove that
j the Journal was correct. Cleveland
j strikes a bee line for the hite House,
called an extra session of Congress
for August, 18i3 and repealed ihe
law in which Hoke Smith said he was
in favor of keeping there. (Laughter
and cries of that's Hoke, vou bet,'")
They had the right to repeal that (Loud aud prolonged applause.)
law; they ought to have done it any-; I say that our president, chief ma
how. But was il right to repeal that gistrate, has violated the law of Ihe
law ami give r.s nothicg better in land: ler. he violated the law by
its stead? What was our currency-law: giving to Wall street the option t
what had it been: what has our fore- take silver or gold when the law said
fathers
placed upon the
itute
books? Thev said, let us have gold
coin; let us have silver coin; and then
iet c.s have ireasurv notes wueuever
business r qu res it.
M-nev is made u, the governmen!
it does not grow on tree
it does not
wrow in the ground and is not made
lv tiie Alwise Father. Many a man
&eems to thick that tlotl Almightv
made monev. With all due reverence,
w
! s:.v he no more made money than
iie made ten penny n.uls. no more
makes monev than he makes four by
mx se;
uitling; no more makes money
than he makes brogan shots. Nat
urc supplies the materials, but the
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government oreatu into-tue materials
the breath of financial life and says: I
This is a dollar.' and she goes!
wherever the flag Hots and so long as j
the government lives. (Great ap
plause and cries
of "That's right! H
yM tell me the gold dollar is worth
a ""ar. mowoojou know; taw
tue stamP of government off if,
anJ wuat il worth? Take your
U,d watcI,J how mucU is lt wortil as
.ill. . . . m i
i ii if i i . o r. l
:l i payiug comutouuj r oio
old fiin vour enld lire:ist in- who !
. . . .. .
wants u as money: ix may nave me
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ou.1. .iiivt ivi ui ytL ii ivi uv itai . imv
. .t ntii K'i nr 7 iii ii irii i . I . . i . i l" .111 '
the man to whom you owe a debt
wauls the dollar and does not want
the breast pin. You take the gold
dollar and put under the wheel of an
engine and let it be' driven into the
shape of a hkic leaf of gold, and
where is the thing you called a dollar?
Throw it into the pot and melt it: you
take :t.out. the same weight of gold
is there: the same amount is in it; the
image on it is gone; the life which the
Urovernment nv.-it u-d into it is "one.
3 '
and you have got a commodity which
you have got to bargain about as
you would any other commodity, but
yu have not got a legal tender dollar
which walks the royal highways of
law and kills every debt which it at
tacts. You toll me you despise a
silver dollar because it has only got
58 cents worth of silver in it. You
may despise it, but do you despise it
not enough to take it? Mr. Merchant,
do you close your doors because you
have two many of them? Mr. Farmer,
have you let the dog-feunei and black-
jacks and old field pines take your
farm because you have to many silver
dollars? Has a single factory closed
and thrown its laborers into the streets
because it had so many silver dollars
that the factory hands wouldn't take Uj
them? Have the colord people left
the farm because they got sick of gett
ing so much silver money? (Cries of
"No, no? from the audieaec, ) U rover
Cleveland says they did: virtually
say y.i. He and Mr. Carlisle says
you have got more monev than you
use, and Mr. Carlisle w ints to make
his bunds small enough for all these
colored people to buy with the money
they have no use for. Think of tin
sarcasm of it; thinkofthe injustice of
it? Think of the cruelty of it? Think
of the financial veins, shivcied and
i shrinking, because not tided with the
life-giving thing we call money; of
his telling these people that they have
Lr(t to much money
ind therefore
j thev will close the mints to thecoinagt
of money.
I say down with the anarchists
down with the anarchists ( Aillause.
j mt down .villi the hi- one as well as !
(Utle one. (Great applause.) Tue!
the ruler of 00,000.000 of eople who
i violate the law he has sworn to cam-
out, and thus brings terror a d di-
may. wreckage aud ruin through even
city, town village, hamlet and farm
iu all the broad confines of the re
public, is an anarchist more deadh
and dangerous than the wretched
bomb-thrower who wrecks my liouje.
that option beioi
ged to the govern-
j ment and ought to I
ie exercise 1 1
iu
he
re
iv
iv.-
the interests o! th
aole. -1 !.
violated tue law nv SbOiiping me
i.
base o
f silver under the Sh rman
before it was repealed wht
the
said he should continue to purchase,
I. he violated the law by refusing to
to coin silver and put it iu circulation,
so that the people could get monev
do business with, when the law aiil
he should coin that silver. I say 4th,
j he vioiatid the law by issuing homl?
i when the onlv law which authorized
bonds said the money derived from
- ! the i
me of bonds .should be used t;:
retire greenbacks, and a subsequent!
' i i -i.i . . . r 1
law nau saut inai me retirement 01
greenbacks should stop, j
That is the accusation, that is the J
indictment I prove it by the public ;
records, and I ask your how cau you
defend this auarehist before the peo-
phtf (G:eat applause.)
1 sav this, the oeonle need more
' & a
money to transact business with, and
that instead of increasing the volume
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of monev as the population increase j
, ,m . I
shd as business increases, Mr. Cieve-
land has aided those who wanted to'
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esiauusu a monev lrusi ami mua
; ..ii- , : t i .i "
U a money
-bull " lie price of money and bear'"
the price of commodities. Now let
me prove it. When the Democratic
administration went into ollL-e. they
said the prices would jump up. up.
until we would hint our necks in
look ng up to follow the rise of prices,
bu' instead of going up as they said
they would, they have gone down, un
til now we have get to break our
backs looking down to see where they
have gone to. Why ? Because of the
money trust. You are familiar with
the jute bagging trust, with the oil
trust, with the sugar trusts, with cof
fee trusts, with flour trusts, and you
know that when a trust is formed of
all, or a controlling portion, of that
particular commodity, the price goes
up ami it takes more money to buy
more of that commodity. How do
you break that trust? lt never is
Stroken until the trust goes as far as
it thinks it safely can, or a new crop
of wheat comes on breaking the flour
Musi; or a new crop cf cotton break
ing the cotton trusi; or a new crop of
coffee breaking Ihe coffee trust; and
thus new supplies bleak the corner
and open the market. They have
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mail
1 money trusi. now: i
shutting oil' the supply !' gold, thtre
iii'' no material increase of gold
inoney. after on allow for that used
in the arts and sciences. They have
shut off the increased supply of silver
money, and also the increased supply
of paper inoney - and now Wall street
has made a money trust, and it will
never be broken until the govern
ment puts in new supplies of money!
As long as that trust exists prices are
bound to go down: wreckage and. tnis-
erv are bound to come. nv: l eo
a mi. t
i
a
mmodit.es are
pie are increasing; co
1 increasing. The amount of money
being coniered, that in circulation get
ting relatively less, cotton has to take
less because tuere is less to lake:
wheat has to take less because there
is less to take; labor has to take less
because there is less for it to get.
The price of money goes up and up!
and the prosperity of the people goes
down and dtvwn: (Cries of -'True.
true." That's it.)
You telT ine that is alt right; that
is true, hut now what is vour rented ?
Vuii say, 1 agree with yon altout ail
that, hut let us lKmoeruts of the
south and west get together. That
what the Democratic bosses tell us
Where are the Democrats f t!i west
for vou to get together with? What
western state can you UeuuM-rat?
count on? Is it Kansas? No. lii
Nevada? No. Is it California? N.
ii it Lowa? No. s it Montana?
No. Then where is it? Where i
vour western slate for Georgia to
unite with? Give me the name. (A
voice in the audience: "Alabama
aid Texas."')
You 'o il ine the interests of th
east and the north are naturady the
same aud thee will o together. I
say so loo.
section: thev
Tiiey are manufacturing
are commercial sections
tL
ev are capitalistic sections, pure
jud simple; therefore they stand for
those extreme ideas and thev stand
together. You used to think that a
northern Democrat was just like vou,
but that ain't so, (Laughter.) You
used to think that an eastern Detno-
erat was a Simese twin linked to vou.
i but you know now it atnt so. You
know now if vou never did before
hut an eastern Detm erat is as much
like a
ii eastern 11 "publican as
a uuz-
zard is like a turkey buzzard. (Loud
fr.nd prolonged applause.) Yon were
j a little slow about bnding it oqt but
-.m got there at las
Laughter.)
You know that the Xorth ami East ;
a. i . .....
are agriusi ou neeause uieirs is a
commercial' section and yours is ag-
ricultural.
Vour prosperity is linked to ours;
Vour stre has its foundation on my
"Uil,s llu ,uu"
are the mountain streams tliut feed
tlic rivars OI Atlanta s prosperity.
(Applause aud cries of -You r
!'ght .
Woe to the man who sows seeds .
discord betw'eeu you and as. I need
your heip i r my farm, and you need
the products of ra v
farm to prosper
.
your store. ell me
Mr. Merehart,
if you destroy the' prosperity of my
farm where will you get vour custom
era? Therefore the South, being
agricultural, its cities have the same
interests as its farms, and the We si
being, agricultural, has the same
interests as the South.
lu the electorial college you have
111 voles; necessary to a choice for
the election of president 22d votes.
Of that amount the South furnishes
lTili votes. Therefore the South
furnishes over sixty percent of the
majority that names your president
Hut what? Can you write a line iu
y our pJatforn? No. Why? In your
National conventions, the South is in
a hopeless minority. Does Maine go
democratic? No Hoes Vermont? No.
Does Massachusetts? No. But when
comes to making your platform they
have their full vole just like Georgia,
is always democratic, owing to the
circumstances which I need to pause
to explain. (Laughter). Theiefore
what? When it comes to making the
platform .the South is powerless; the
North and Kast dictates the platform
is made and the nominees have been
dictated to you, the South has come
up with her 150 voles, and furnish
more than half of the number which
elects the president. You cultivate
the crop with hard work and the
North and Kast does all the reaping.
That is the fact: just chew ti tip
gradually. ( Laughter.)
You tell me that the west aud south
ought to act together. 1 say so loo.
Hut the west is Republican and the
south Democratic, upon old party
lines. Would you ever join the Re
publican party? No. Would they
i ever join the Democratic part ? No,
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h f I he same reasons that keeps
you from ever being a Republican
will keep the western Republican from
' ever being a Democrat. Therefore,
! what? You have got to found a new
party which neither has been educat
ed to hate; which neither does hate: a
new party which both helped to ' r:n
and to dedicate to the grand old def
feraouian doctrine of eqi'al ami i:-
; ArT jrsT,rK T0 ALL 5
VILEes to ose
T Jt'STICK TO All. M K N A N I SPECIAL
N ov. llier- is juv. auother uestioti
before I chise. That ia Ihis color
HUctlion. We have heeu scared l
death atioul the tie gro question. We
itave Imjcu letl lo believe if we did not
v ote ihe 1 einov i at ie ticket some ne
gro won. i Latch us before we got
uotne. The color questiou has been
die instiuutellt of our political en
slavemeuL Tue north uses it to coin
icl the south to accept economic uaki
nines we abhor. The northeru Hem
er.it is as ready to tinea tell ou with
negro domination as a northern lie
publican. I was preseut in congress
ivheti ou were thrcatenetl if u vol
-d for tree s I.er ut would losetheii I
itcly iu keeping negrt domiuatiot I
from the south.
Let us settle this negro question, '
rhere is no su!jec upon which yon
nave ueeu more miareureseate.; m
than this, and there is none iu which
l have been more misrepresented,
and there is none in which 1 h..ve en
deavoretl to be moic reasonable, more
conservative and more sottuJ.
Whv should there lie conflict he-1
th v
.otiiij.
tween the two color- in
h should not the southern blacks
look upon the Suuthein whites :
their best friends. (Cries of t-we t!o
from the colored people present.)
j These people are here and thev are
I lu"re 10 st?r' The :ire etel with
cenati nguis wn weiuv tad nest
(coxcutded o e:::!Tii paoe )
Order Of Publication.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
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In th,- i "treult Court of Seotioad county,
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Attest :
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Memphis, - Missouri.
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H. G. IMTKI.N, President.
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?-I"' kiI attention irieea tu cvdtecth ns
tAortheaat t urner Public Square.
JAMS E. PULIIAM,
Blacksmith,
XC AXI) REPAIR SHOP.
iy and Presrctfr Dorr.
I make a ppet ialiv of
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Shop Southeast Cor. Square, old
i Peikm s Stand. Memphis. Mo.
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fa M IvlOCtXOl
MEMPHIS, MO.,
! 1 TU,i,r WOfelf he Citizen's lit.nk
building, invites the pid.i to call
on him when wauling to bu
HARNESS, SADDLES, Halters,
Bridles, WMps, k.
The ttock is ne.v and the lowest
p NtsUiie price naked for food poocb.
Ihe country trade especiaih s.ol.cdtd.
... j. , uiU .., uoMnwf-si fourth L'1 ot tha
at quarter '. , ot See;io,.'Vl ,
nto n ;!, sixty flvo rM,rth or tic U:
:.'! elve ,12. a"? ?, .
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V.I,, X'-:.,M,,.,'1'''- before the tl.i.o av
. in
i;ii i nut atiear ui i-. ... i 1 vneoai
land, aiat that i bel? ur' u' MV." ' ' dd
cent tram snj.i V,:'.' J derived by de-
Win bs liroitmV. m VAo';' f ,MI,1 ba vte?ln
rendercil in i s , . . . I1 lhu ' pree Im
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