The farmers' union., July 12, 1894, Image 1

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

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THE
FARMEiiS UNION.
Volume IY.
MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JUIY 12, 1894,
Number 25,
U Humphrey's
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VH JL VV11 M. A V A A V
10,000
Men,
BoysandChildren
to call at my Store and examine my
Mammotli Stocl
OP1-
Clothing,
which I have just received,
and which has been pur
chuscd under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought tin'
411 -.s w.v Hows, the equal
has never known in
Northeast Missouri. 1 am
prepared to sell yotl
GOOD GOODS,
Kven below your own ex-
pectation.
Th
ose
Hats.
.Caps,
Boots,
Shoes,
a
TV..TInllrf fvAln
rulHIMllllR bUUUi,
AS WELL AS MY
Clothing Stock
Are all Fresh, New Goods,
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
i xpect to buy in the near
future, even lower than ever
if possible. Call early and
see me if you wish to
J
Save Money
Remember, Old and Young
Ladies' Shoes and Slippers
a spec
ever.
ialtv
am yours as
M.
Humphry,
Green Front,
M Side.
Memphis, Mo.
Neckwear
SERMON OF PULLMAN, i
The Man a Greed Hyprocrite, the
Town a Hollow Sham.
A Methodist Clergynryan, who is Familiar
With all th Facts, h as the Courage
to Speak his Mind and Tear
the Mask from the Face
of S;r Georpre.
Rev. W. H. Cawardine, of the Pull-
uian .Melliouist cnurcn to .i tor ins
lex i on ounuay evemnt; JjIikc x. i . i
i
The laborer is worthy of his hire."
-
The Chicago Herald furnishes the fol
lowing report of t!i'. seruoon:
After refering to the strike among
tin' workmen as the one question of
the hour Mr. Cawardine said it was
his duty as a minister of the gospel
to look the .situation squarley in the
face without equivocation, -his cons
cience not. permitting him to keep
silent. He wished Rev. lb. Oggle,
who preached the Sunday before, a
pleasant journey to - the land where
strikes are unknown and the poor
alwavs submit to the lords df the soil"
and begged him to think of us o -
casionullv while we eat the half loaf
that is bettar than no 1 iad.
Con-! ,
Untieing, Mr. Cawardine said:
"My conscience is ch ar. My cdn
gregatiou has assured me of it-
hearty sympathy,
any other position.
dare
not take Li
I
i 1 . i
cannot Keep
1
sllll lllil sill! it llr til V. I - 1 1 I r -1 I
,. ,
1 on need not tear that the company'
, ,
will retaliate noon us as a cnurcii
... . ,
loranytning I may s..y. 11 iiarc not
in the face of public opinion. And.
let uw add, it the fears of scune of oil
should ever be realized, better a thou-
1 sand times that our church lie dis
organized b) the company than tliat
we truckle to them, forego the liod
given and American right to free
! speech, smother our convictions, muz- j
zle our mouths, fawn beneath the
smiles .! a inn man or corporal ion.
Better to die for the truth than be
surfeited by a line.
"Suffer a word regarding Mr, Pull
man himself. I have nothing to sa of
him that savors of fulsome eulogy or
nauseating praise. I will not speak of
him as a philanthropist, for 1 have nev
er seen nor heaid of any evidence of
this. I will not speak of his services
to his age, because 1 know of none.
I will not refer to his services to his
country, as history is silent thereon."
After referring to Mr. Pullman's
admitted abililv as a business men.
j raising himself from a poor boy in a
! country town to bis present position
as head of a great manufacturing in
dustry, Mr. Cawardine said:
I "In this age of rapidly increasing
! fortunes, when men become rich in a
.b;
lay by specultiim. tearing a fabric of
success upon the ruin of others, 1 am
willing to accord him all honor, but
when Mr. Pullman as a public man
stands before the world and demands
or us mat we regard nun as a Dene-
factor to his race, as a true philan-
thropist, as one who regards bis em-
plovecs with the love of a father for
his children, and would have us class-
ify him with such men as (ieorge
Peabody, Peter Cooper and George VV.
Ch:Ids, 1 confess, as a minister of the
gospel, delivering my message in the
shallow of these descried shops I fail
tiueiM oi sic wie uoiui. i ue laeis
are not in accordan ic
w itli
iite as
Si-rt ions made.
If he is all this, then let m
ask
him a question or two:
I am not a tinaucer, but 1 believe I
knnw i-itrlit frmr. wrnim hv does not
Mr. Pullman stand before his direct-
ors and demand of them, upon the
basis of morality and right, th.nt, in
! stead of declaring a quarteiy divid
end of 1' per cent in th se terribly de
presseti limes, they be content with
1 1 oer cent and place
si 14,000 re
presenting the otuer oue-uan pereeu
lo the creitit of the nay roll?
"Again, whv does u ti Mi
I'ullman,
when he deman Is a
of 1 : p
cent and more iu the wages of his em
ployees, which on a careful investi -
gat'ou be would have found would re-
duee them t severe hardships and
many to the verge of starvation- why.
1 111,1 001 tbe
rents
and
water taxes
le ied
upon
tnese employees.
"Again, when he reduces the wa
es I
of his employees, why does be not re
duee his own salary and those of his
h.gber officials, the local management
and town Officials heads of depart
uunts. formen and straw bosses?
And when he cuts the price of labor
in bis gn at freight ear shop from $14
a ear. with one inspecter. to s7 a ear
I and three inspectors, why does he not
get along with two fewer inspectors
and spread their wages over his si
ready reduced pay roll?
'-Why does Mr. Pullman, in the
j midst of a hard and vigorous winter.
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iwiru uie iiours o. wora were i ew aim
the wages at their I nvert ebb; when
whole famlies were in waul; when the
churches, burdened with their heavs
rents, were seeking to relieve the
poor, and that noble organization, the
Woman's union which we were not
allowed to call the '-Relief" union fos
I fear of hurting Mr. Pullman's pride
! was doing all it could to help the
I destitute why was it our cry for
help was uaheede !. and no large
amount was -.riven bv Mr. Pullman oi
by the company?
Why did be permit one of his offi
cials to publish a statement that there
was no destitution in Pull 211:111 :tnd
inai mere could net ue as lone- as
. .,
s i "JO
,000 was deoosited in the
aiik
to the credit o! the laboring tuen-
.. , . .
statement which I have reason to i
A
..
heve was in effect false and intslca;
mg :
Why does not Mr. Pullman do
something foi the moral and educat
ional devlopement of this place?
Why does he extort such exorbitant
rents from the churches of this com
munity? Why does he not assist the
Voung Men's Christian association
just a little? Why does he not give
us an emergency hospital, of which
we stand -o much in need? And last,
not least, why. let me ask. dot s be
not, as a man of flesh and blood like
ourselves, hring himself into a little
closer contact with the public life of
ou. wn, .nee, ins employees wnu
I. : t.. 1 1 1 i it . . I
t I . t i ,i
nis i.iiiieiis jilt si uce ami allow me ;
callouseil band of labor occasionly to
grasp tin' hand of the man who pro
fesses to be so interested in our wel
fare? j
"Never until (ieorge M. I'ullman j
can give a satisfactory answer to these
questions will I account him a bene-
factor to his race, a lover of his kind.
a philanthropist or one who has done
:nv thing for posterity which will I who own the mines, the militia is
cause mankind, when his dust slumb- j called out to suppress them. Keo
ers beneath the sod. to rise up and : kuk Motor.
ea
Thou eternal Hod
what poison has
crent into human nature a ml thenirii
,,f ml(. democratic simplicity that can
cause this man. who himself was once
lv pocr mechanic at the bench but
wao js now a pampered millionaire, in-
i
j trenched behind his gold, to deny
tlu se just requests of those whose
j hands have made him rich, and to
,eod not the tears of wives and child
j reu wno uave been simply existing
upon the crumbs which fall from the
rich man s table?
am told that the average wages
paid bv the company are$l.S7 a day.
doubt it much. It is claimed that
,.. ,..,, ..... ,.,,f ,.,.,.,,, stirvnl ,n
ie men are not receiving
wages.' 1 know many of which tir.s
is true, but thev are the exception
and not the rule. 1 know a man who
has after paying $14.50 rent for four
small rooms and 71 cents foi
water
feed
rent, UUt 4 U CCUtS a UaV iert n let
i
aRtl otbe bis wife and ehildrer.
When we remember that this is un
average case, that it is on the basis
of full time, then, in the name of ail
that is just and right. I sav i k! help
that man it' his dependents be
mauv or if sickness iuvane his home.
And I cry 'shame' upon the copora
tion that dares to insult the American
workingman with
uch a w ae as that
No, no; it is wrong eternal
dt is man's lot to labor.
wrong
ind tbi
1 chimneys of great factories rise
steeples of churches and call us
tl '
the battle for life. But all
these
temples of labor will be turned into
the slaughter houses of anarchy and
anvil become discordant with the
raging elemeuts of infuriated con
diets if. in the days to come, justice
is not meted out u the laborer
capital ceases to be tyrannical.
and
"The great trouble with this whole
Pullman system is that it is not what
it pretends to be. To a casual v isitor
it is a veritable paridise. but it is a
hollow mockery, a sham, an institu
tion girdled with red tape, ami as a
solution of the labor problem most
unsatisfactory,
The great trouble with the town of
1 ui.man. viewed from the standpoint ;
1 1
of ail industrial experiment, is that its
defieieuces ovcrbalence all its beau
ties. It is the most uu American
town in all America. It belongs to
the map of Kurope. It is a civilized
relic of old world serfdom. To-da
we heboid the latin utable and logical
outcome of the whole system."
Mr. Cawardine went exhaustively
into the trauses of the strike am' held
the otliei ils of the company to be
culpably negligent is perm i ting only
a particl investigation of grievances
to be ma !e an 1 in allowing members
of the committee from tin
to be discharged.
workmen I
i
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moment of my life that I could say a
wort! oi comtort at Luis crisis ami
;
.t ... i i. . i . !.: . .
if comfort at this crisis and
taue uij autuu oese.e mo, i iuis,
and apparently u:.e,p.-d contest. '
If it i- necessary to redeem all otb
er kinds of money tu gold, to lrii;;;
prosperil ,' to the masses, we ought to
be more prosperous to-day than eve;
in our history for we are enjoying the
luxury of a single gold standard.
!ut instead of prosperity we have
strikes, pauperism and crimes every
where. Tarkio Independent.
It has been some time since we
mentioned it. bai that McKiuiey tariff
is still rolibing the peoph.- at the rate
of $13,000,000 a week, after sixteen
months of democrat ic rule
' ease i
.nentiou this io vour democratic voter '
"
lv, ,,.,:,,, VVI1 Vl..11. !
... ... . , j -
ed to see his party have a chance.''
Keokuk Motor.
i aiu Willi ou io l ie euu, ia ,:1 ... ;.. ii. i l . .. ,.i
will maintain the melals m c:rcula
saii m closing. "I hope you will get j -
your j 1 1 t demands- ! shall alwavs tu 't-u ;. n i t i . c i-.
J ! litis is all tii.it John huei in m. ro-
the future count it as the proudest ,, nn...-j .. i r ;i .. ... i
1 i' I n ' e i !i I ll : 111 si reel a in I t ie
When the railroad companies vio- tllis shsM bt. -The precis,- ra-
late the law as they are constantly tj,n" s.,vs should be 1 of gold to
doing to increase their protits thelrjj (,f silver for this is tiie relative
the people grin and hear it. But price of tUe metai.s iu the markets of
when miners strike against starvation ,u. "
wages set by the railroad companies. ! Thus Mr. Bland in consenting to
The People's party is making rapid
! iiains iu everv section of the country
au' all the lies of the old party press
: aild politicians cannot check its pro-
Ucss. The voters have reached a
point where they propose to have a
change for the
pendent.
U Iter. -Tarkio 1 nth
Men who whooped it up for the
dear dollars good in Kurojie. during
lie
at campaign.
arc t ic-i n ii' sold out
In tie
ritf. The poor fools
ma
learn m time, thai cheaper ami easier
dollar-, to get, is what thev need.
Tarkio Independent.
i lie
best medicines are Ilumub
ery's Specifics. They cure surely;
they cure quickly; they cure econom
ically. Every pellet i. worth its
weight in gold as a curative agent.
por 5... 0y druggists,
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Two years from this time both old
parties will vote one ticket. T.tis will
be the last year they will u-e separate
tickets and in many places they will
vote only one this year. Lamar I n
ion.
If wc have not the money now and
ue b uds to get it. what will we dt
when pay day comes? Will tliere be
any way but to issue more bonds?
Lamar I uion.
If ou have t
n. ike 10,000 pauper
to ma&e one mtinonaire,
low m an v
j paupers uatre Cleveland and Harrison
ma le. Lunar L uion.
Sixteen to one.
VVheu Richard ';'. Bland, throng!
the late state Democratic convention
indorsed the following sentence, he
betrayed the cause of tree silver:
We declare that we are not in fa
vor of gold monometalism, or silver
monometalism, but thai both should
he coined at such rates as will main
tain the two metal? in circulation,"
says the platform.
This is not the first time th u Mi
Bland bus consented tostrike a blow
at silver. It was in 1S7S, when t!u
people demanded in no uucertaiu
. ,
lone
the restoration of silver, at si
ratio of hi to 1, that Mr. Blaud cam
to the fiont as the then recognize!
champion cf free silver, and couseut
ed to the mfauu us compromise ol
coiuiug but $2,000,000 per mouth.
And now
in
when the Sher-
mans and Bayards are becoming
alarmed, and are ipiakiug with fear,
at the rumbling of the coming storm,
they turn to their old friend. Mr.
Bland, who hastily leaves his seat in
Washington, and comes to Missouri
and succeeds in securing another com
promise a compromise tviticu oe
maa(is ..,!;lt oU, am siJve
i tit ,
suouiu oe couieo at sueu a ratio as
leveiaui
I Slivlocks of London, are demanding.
ti: ; , . 1! i :
l nis is anal luey mean liy in erna-
lionj bi tm-talism'
is Uu. ,V,,,I1Z .a ,,.
John Sherman
tier of "iuterna
in this count rv.
iionai oi-me atism
lie has the i
itbleuce of the -old-
hugs of Kuroj
md America. He
sinker the littie bed, and at once th
.. 1 ..i t I,.. 1
cuckoos ' in the Democratic and lie
publican ctuivcntions come out and
pipe "that sliver shall lie coined at
such ratio as wib maintain the two
metals iu circulation."
My opinion
avs Mr. Sherman,
who voice J the sentiment of Marnier
son. Hoar. Lodge. Hawley, Murphy
Vrotrhees and dill, th::
to lie recoguized at on
i-
as a fact
ilial is apparent, mat oil account ol I
.... .
the vast increase of the production of
silver, the ratio should be based noon
-- -- --i
the present market value of silver and
'gold."
i Mr. Sherman further tells ns what
"such a ratio as will maintain the
two metals," fully indorses John Sher
man, who say there is no division of
sentiment among conservative i.eo-
pie as to Ine nect
-si i v oi re
me ;
silver, as one ..f
,.i ..i i.t I'.-
i.e." monies ol the 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . .
Iu fact, Mr. liiand. the Missouri
Democratic convention, John Sbei
tuan, and other international bimetal
ists ure perfectly willing to chauge j
the American silver dollar into a oh!
c ut piece to the 25 cent pi ce in val
lie
This would make the price of an j
ounce in silver for all lime at i
cei ts. instead oi
Would be Wo!'! h :
S1.2'J the price it
wouni u wm ai a ratio oi in to i.
This would fix the price of wheat in
our ci tits at 7 cents a pound. The
present low prices of wool, and of
horses and mules would lie maintain
ed, the average price of farm lands
would fail 50 percent, what thev com
manded a few vears ago aud there
thev would remain unless foreign wars
arose io al van e them, i will not at -
tempt to point out the calamities that
ai e in store u i us ii mis t;
uccomp-
lished. We are having plenty at
sent but
half, iu such an event.
m not he foreseen.
Let the Shermans and Blaads work
' IU.V.UH.IVUUI .111111... tltS.il iS
they are doing, but all true frien !sof
silver must never consent to anything
tor -niTirniti.n..l t mi.talium '
u.s t ian the free coiuage of goal and
silver at the ratio of 1; t. I. lasb
on the liht for the old ratio. Tne
free silver sentiment is growing. A
settlement of the silver question on
the American ratio of j ounces of
silver to 1 of cold, will if are nr
faith'ul, soon crown our etfort-.
Slate
In
on.
Order of Publication.
STATE OF MISSOFltr. I
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.! Woods, Marion Stafford, WU
. ttl, Ik'tijamiu U. Stafford, Grant
mS Israel, Hem A. Isntei. -.
Mice Israel, K. c. Nr;n i, KlU
;. . Altwri Atamertnan, James
Israel. Sarah A. Israel, Jobn U.
v i and the unknown Heirs
ceastHl, hetendants.
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n.,t, Mndd .v atnter, and tile
' avit, alletrtngr, amotiK
tl leiidanus, Xano .1 .
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Stafford, u
ton J. Is:;
beth Am
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, Stafford, s
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thai i.i.-uiiaa lias e-:. mtiwed .t suit airainst
r hem In this court, w herein he alteuites that
lie is the ow ner and in possession d the lol
i u.f.i r -a l estate, situated in lh
eMintj ot Scotland nd stateol Missouri, to
witt: Pile uortlicast toiirth , j ot the north
east I'uartcr i i;! Sectiim m'Vcm I uiut
lotiniHi ni utiiijieutjoii
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Attest :
ion.
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MIM'V. Circuit Clerk.
Order of Publication.
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Memphis, - Missouri.
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H. G. PITKIX, Iw sident.
A. H.
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PITKIX, CabJer.
Paid up Capital, (25,090.
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Sjaeial attention erfven to Ofillectittn
- . x- MK AXii SEE i s.
- orl !n ai i 'imer Public Souore
JAMES E. PULLIAM,
Blacksmith,
SHOEING AND REPAIR SHOP.
ucpaifBM mil)- aad ProffiDii? Docc.
I make a specialty of
rsc'--i'-; r-s-ri -e '
1
Shop Southeast Cor. Sooat. rd.l
i ei kin's Stand. Memphis. Mo.
J.
M. Kloetzer,
MEMPHIS, MO..
1 ;r' Dotr west of the Citizen's Bai.k
building, invites the pubic to eat
o lu,,u)
HARNESS, SADDLES, Halters,
Bridles, Whips, &c.
The stock is new and the lowest
possible price asked for good goods,
i The country trade especially solicited.
FARMERS
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