The farmers' union., July 26, 1894, Image 1

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

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THE
FAiiMERS UNION.
s
Volume IV.
MEMPHIS, MISSOURI. THURSDxlY, JUI.Y 1894.
Number 2
M. Humphrey's
Green Front.
10,000
Men,
Boysand Children
to call at ray Store and examine ray
;
Mammoth Stock
-OIF1
Clothing
whtcli I bavc just received,
and which has been pur
chased under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought the
go cs away hows, the equal
has never been known in
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to sell you
Hven below your own ex
pectation. Those
Mats,
Caps,
my a
IjOOIV j
Shoos,
Fnmkhino frtn(k
1 111 llljlUU UUUUJ.
AS WELL AS MY
- . . r j 1
I I AT ll 1 tl () XlAl II
V I V tiling vjivvii
Are all Fresh, Sew 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
peet to buy in the near
future, even lower than ever
if possible. Call early and
see me if ou wish lo
Save Money
Remember, Old and Young
Ladies1 Shoes and Slippers
a specialty. 1 am yours as
ever.
M. Humphry,
Green Front.
Memphis, Mo.
GOOD G00DS,i
m Side
Leaves the Democrat. c Party.
A. I,. Hall, heretofore one of th
leading Democrats of Callawav coun
ty, writes the following letter to the
Missouri v oriti, wiinurawing iromone
wing of the John Sherman-Grovei
Cleveland part. Kvery Democrat in
Scotland county h n i-! read the let- '
tei and tints find out where thev an-
at:"
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1 I i . I V ' ' '11 II V illt 111. I '1 111' 1 .t I i '
ticket straight for over twenty years,
but I am done with the party now. 1
will "IVf :t fcW I'l'MSDlK W 1 1 V I M'Vt'!'
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mv cuuueciiuu wmi sain iai.. in
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the first place the leaders are giantf
to make promises but the smallest of
pigmies when it comes to redeeming
, those pledges. They are say-alls and
do nothings. Congress lias been in
session for eight months of t
most
distressing time the American people
have ever known in time of peace,
with an overwhelming majority in the
house, a majority in the senate and
the president, and have done nothing.
Yes, I might say, worse than nothing.
j They have kept the. country in a state
of su-pes.se and failed to pass even
oue good measure. Professed friends
J of the poor and laboring class. t he
5 have not listened to a single appeal ol
! the distressed, but in their tarifl bill
I they have taken bountiful care of the
old Scotchman Carnegie and other
Knglish manufacturers. All the
j trusts and combines are well taken j
i care oi . i lie m n
f. The ooor farmers, llian
I whom there are few harder laboring
men. have their wool put on the free
lis) while they have the consoling
privilege of pay tug from bo to an j.ei
cent, tariff on all wolleii gooils they
bavc to buy. Is not that more iucoii
si-ten! than the McKinley bill itself?
The lleinoeratie )latform declared
for tariff for revenue only and gives
Carnegie a prohibitory tariff on sled
rails, when Carnegie pay 4 the starva
tion wages of eigh y cents a day for
unskilled labor thus giving untold
millions to the old Scotchman who is
grinding to the last extremity tie
poor laboring man. Yet Democrats
.hat say one thing and do another, you
have disgusted me. I can have no
more confidence m n ou.
Tell Hie. Will sou. while you are
taking sugar from the poor children
of the country, how many millions
are you giving to the sugar trust? Tin
OHM tiunil tin
prepare a few
hi I thing the poor mothers have to
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. ,. . ,
'.usuries for their loved
ones, vou put a tariff on, and ii seems
tome not so much for the revenue
as to taUe mtmev out of the poor
i la! coring man's pot ket and give it to
1 the st gar trust, as theie is likely to be
enough sugar imported to last two
! ,,si 1 iv u,e uiriff takes 1
i .lJt as soon as it Joes take effect the
i trust will begin to collect the tariff off
of the poo. laboring class you have
ignored. The Republicans did have
a tender spot for they did aim to give
the ioor laboring man's children
cheao sugar, and you take that away
5 and give the trust millions of dear
gold. Here is another specimen of
your kindness to the (altering class: effective ally. Therefore their motto
i You tax the clothes he and his family is K lucate. educate.
wear 30 to 50 per cent, while you tax ' 'find ti:i. governmeni ownership oi
(precious stones the rich alone can transportation liues: that the gov
wear, 10 to SO per cent. Necessities j eminent control the currency of the
I high; luxuries low. The poor man's country; that the destruction of th
necessities high tariff; the ra h man's ationa! banking system, and a cm
fine thing- low tariff. Talk is cheap. pietc cessation of t ha issue of iuterest
Vou talked in favor of the working hearing bonds by the government are
men and legislated in favor of the amoung the very first requisites to a
money power. ?ucn legislation ami
administration
tins will relieve 1 1
ie
1 moue power of auv tears ol future
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1 legislation in favor of the laboring
classes and it will become domineer
ing and insolent which will lea i to
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str. i;es ami iioKisueu. ine mouej
power spend iv rue sums to shape
legislation, then etl' wages to make
that back and drop tin reased earnings
in their eoflcrs. They e ire not how
much privatitm and distress thev en
i tail upon the men and distress their
families that have made theii mil-
lions, so they are em.hu- to pile up the
muitng goltl
1 will give a little circumstance to
;,
o show how the Democrati party
Iocs things. The sugar trust gave'
: liberally to the Democratic campaign!
I : tin. I. ihe Uetnoeratie part ha?
j taken millions from the poor laboring
lass, through their sugar leglslatioi !
md given it to the trust It was s
shameful an affair there was an in
estimation and likley the whitewash
brush was freely used.
Now. I will speak of home politics
the platform gotten up at Kansas
City. The silver plank. Bland says,
means 16 to I. It' it does, why nt
have said so plainly? It certainly is
' gotten up to deceive somebod De-
eeptiou is an odan.s thing after oui
1 o
,
last experienci
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con what a platforn
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the party interprets it.
says and how
It may have been a.s plain as Bland
can make anything appear, lit- was !
chairman of the platform commute .
After all these
see wtiat th" pre
get up of the seigniorage bill:
Tin
entire bill is most unfortunately con
structed. Xearlj every sentence pre
sents uncertainty and invites eon-
tent.'
1 think the language the president
uses about Bland's seigniorage bill
will apply to Bland's platform, lb
seems to declare for free silver. Then
conn s :i growing endorsemeat of the
administration and the energy that
struck the dtath blow lo silver.
Will the people of this district
send a man to congress that, after till
tiiese years experience in cougress.
an uol get up a bill as smart a man :
die president could understand? Oi
1
a platform that don't contridict itself?
'
I do hope not. I wen t be a party to
such folly any more. X. L. II.
Populists Believe.
That the KopIc, not corporations
hould run the government of this
great republic.
That to keep il long a republic the
people must control the gocemment.
That this is, or should be a gov
crnuKiil of the people, for the people.
the pe iple
riial the democracy of Jefferson
md Jackson i-. the democracy upon
which the nrinciples of the K'ojde s
partv ai e founded.
eat the populist party i-
lie lege
limate outgrowth of the desire of the
people for a purer and befer govern
incut.
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Liiai ooiii uie oui ijoimeai :i i ics
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nave, through tlu exercise ot a power
derived from corporate influence, lie
come corn. it. and are unfit mediums
or agencies tlnouidi which the masses
can no longer look with confidence for
relief from the business depression
which ell ct s I he e :i:!t ry.
Ihat the people's party is the only
lrty wlrch can be depended upon
io extricate the government from its
dilemna, and to adjust its affairs in
Mne with the interests oi the rich and
j the poor alike.
That ignorance is
greatest
power against which their party must
do battle, and knowledge is their mosl
, r harmonious nml
peaceful harmonious aad satisfactory
adjustment of national affairs, v in
sure contentment an
' among the people.
pr ;
perity
i a
I them, as a party will, in time, I
eorporated in our government
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and
ut ii mat b
ii! he
Ue, and not
I i.i a gov
unt
then, wdi the o;
ernment
by lie
re a. ie.
Hasten
tl.r
Adair
County Advocate.
Our animated bunch of fat.
s,.at acting as president of the rutted
Hates, has a yearning to kid a bear
and arrangements are therefore I
j made for a hunting trip in Colorado,
Glen wood Iowa, Times.
STRIKE A i THE BALLOT-BOX.
Fhe nlv solution for the present
ihor troubles is to put the unem
jiioyi
age?
to work at remumerative
Justsolongas three million
people are unemployed, and ten mil
lions more lie down each night with
empty stomaches will there be strikes,
riots and lawlessness. These people
know such conditions are unnatural
and not in act- nUvith reason or even
an imperfect sense of justice. In
this they meet on common ground
with the best thdught and most en-:
lightened sentiment of the world.
But, in their abject poverty and
1 ,
necessity thev cannot wait the slow
process of economic evolution in their
behalf. The demands of nature are
imperative and will not permit delay,
hence the strike and its blind struggle j
i
i tin i i j i i ; 1 1 . . ' .11-1 l.n iiuau i
result. The oppression and tyranny
against whieh they contend are found
ed upon and maintained by legislation.
Kvery avenue through which any
possible good might ie derived is
;lose!y guarded by the ourts. In
2 . . . . T . I r . . . 1 .i
i iiiei a siriKe an i us a.ienm ill iaw
; less ue s are always made use of by
the press and plutocracy to disgrace
and bring into dispute all other efforts
1 in behalf of labor reform. There are
j but two methods through which pres
; cut coui lions can be charged, one is
1 hv the ballot and the other by resolu
tion. The first is possible only
through education, and th
secoiMi
idv through superior force. No naif
t
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a measure in either case will avail
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A liapua.arl, ilesultorv, ualr-ueartel
allempt to clucate the people up lo
iit.kiKg point will no ...ore change
-j conditions than ill-alvised, hastily
i
considered strikes. The olacc to strike
is at Uie ballot box. and the way to
make it a perfect and lasting success
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urou
gh creful, earnest and per j
sistance
education. If ime-thous
i.i . e 4 1 i i
anilth pari of the money expended in
trikes and boycotts had been ex-
pended 111 a thorough iropaganda ol
reform education the laboring eople
of ; day would be the dictator of ail
legislation in this country. Uetter
Limes ;md happier conditions can and
will come only through the iutelii
gance of the p.-ople, Urute force will
never accomplish such ends.
Whil the sympathy of all re
formers go out to all who are strug
gliug, no matter hew blind! , for a
'
, ., , . ,
redress o! their wrong, the sad re
fleet ion remains thai a little edu
cation and common-sense consider
ation would cliunge futile efforts to
certain and lasting results. L iws. 1
however bad. must be obeyed, sine
none save iheuuw-seor revolutionist
will seek to set them at defianc
But he who suffers such laws to rem an
' m t
it ute book
and m ikes no
efftir( for their repeal through a change
of law makers is unworthy of sym
,r;i;iv or consideration, no matter how
much he may suffer on ace. mat
unfair
"gislation.
place to
i at t he bull t Ixrx, am
the
couse for which the time and uionci
ihoul 1 he expended is that : e
ration -National Watchman.
WHY NOT DO IT.
f Congress will mt et at its reguLo
is .ir on Monday next, and pass a joiui
resolution to issue 500,(HH).tJMU ol
legal temler Treasury notes to meet
current expenses an i pay the bonds
now due, aud open the mints to the
free coinage of silver at the present
ito. every trike would be sp
ri
al once, evei y one
me uuemotoye
wouhl be furnished u t h work im
me uateiv, crime
woulti tustantiy
become a raritv.
lessen, tramps won
jails and workhouses wouhl empty,
and debt an I distress woulti soon
case in our h.tel. Whv ctn't this be
done Because tie victims of tie
pi es -nt nppressn n have not the seuse
to stand together. This is the one
and only" reason. National Watch
man.
'm
. rnrougn our votes, we put sa i
i; iin"i on oui ttacfes an
spurs on the
feet of parasites, can they be blainei
for rid iug us? Thornton's Monitor.
Ineyitabie Government Ownership of
Railroads.
I Rev. I'homas Dixon, Jr., who finds
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tho eventa ot tne preceding week.
Poached in Association Hall, New
ork, Julv i. ili. on the strike. This
real "Posing of the lalwi tug classes,
whieh bai cost l!,t' Luntr3 $10,000,-!
000 likcl-V l Lst it $5,000,
000 uaore' had its oriSiu ' ' a Sreat ;'
jsti perpetrated by somebody. !
was P05' to imagiue the labor-;
ioS eIass!S1 aftr enduring the
uin
eru's enseijuent ou the ttepression ot
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tue Past 3 ear, leaving their workshops
Lnlm tl W9S i,,i,,sti
unless there was miustice somewhere
Three lessons, howevt-r, had been
taught by the strike: First, that the
rai!road managers were utterly inca
Pabie Lo l,alKUe tue railroads the mo
niiint . ttiv':.i nr.ic i .f....! i i t ...1 .
oad, that mob violence and disorder
would under no circumstances be tol
crated by the American people: third,
that the national ov, nonen, al
has the power to break such a strike
and raise the railroad blockade, from
winch follows the logical conclusion
that the national government should
e,vn Uie railroad-. t t he country.
The railroads. Lo said, were built !
u ott
stiii-uy ior the accommoilatio
public, and neither labor leaders nor
railroad managers should have tin
power or be permitted to interfere
with the public rights. If the na
tional government owned the railroads
II W V. Ill IK
. lit
high treason for anyone
to dare do such a thing.
The strike had made inevitable tin
government ownership of railroads n
the near future had not their at ism an
agctuent by the corporations already
hrought the matter h the notice o
the country. Then the cost of iratth
will be half what it is at present, am
4U ' TOUU"3 never again oc par
. Ml . r i
! "'' " " ' s
oas t week
1
Christian Anarchists.
Rev. Myron Ueed delivered an ad
iM'r-s be'ore a large meeting held itu
I.-! the auspices of the A. It. U . Den
I v'1'- CoU., July i.'t. in which he dt
dared he was an anarchist.
He continued by sa ing:
Jesii
Christ was not onl, an anarchist, but
VV:ts killed by the representatives oi
;h' law, the church and state, fordar
,ng to practice humanitv. Jesu-
.
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mist wa an anarcuist and a social
'!- hut I never read of his being :
deputy sheriff (Cheers.) Nothing
has liscourasEet me so much in tie
tast few weeks as t-
see so many men
uixious to lake a nun end oiler to
ut an i sh ; their felttw men f.i
the mere pittance of per dai
look at t ,1 - etl rt now being made U
I uch men as I'ulliiiau as
effort to
break up ail orguniz itiouof laboring
men, so that they can deal with tin
workuigmaii one by one and gradual
! get idem dowu to auperism an
serfdom. I have been criticised for
taxing that au man had the light t
kke his labor aw i from any employ.
er. but had not the right to iuterferi
with any other man for taking his
place. 1 ay now that he h is a right
io interfere it he docs it in a peacea
ble way. It is right and jut !oi
even mm to protect his wages and
his iob. I also
V that a man wl o
does not belong to u union and stui ls
ready to take at. oilier man's place at
.ess :iies i- :i ellelll ", :i sp and an
oiistructor aiui ouifhl m wme peace-
ua to he removed.
II prctiictetl Hi it unless SOtnetl.iofi
Was sjn ei,i (lOUC fol" l jahorill"
lasses te:s country would he pluusgeti
into one of the greatest revoiuttoi s
I he worid has ever seen.
The late strike lias fully ileiuonslrat
o the fact that labor taa never ub
tin its rights !y striking. There is
nlv -ne sure met ho I the ballot box.
-Glenwood, Iowa. Times.
- 'W recruits are joining the IVo- j
oie s rwrtv in ti is eounv rluilt '
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'P ndent
The onlv erinii" in I hia mnnln- nnn
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Ia poxertj - National W atchm an
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$ , VtjKg
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A strictly liiir'-si"".l- Keiitilv S iug
i.i.ic n iii' all Ui Octant
i mi in ai
lujiniuTrr'n Cnijr TJI TUC QroT
! CtO tjJM I 0 TnL BEbT
s ry reasonable. Ol lain them
iV.iui your lo. iil dealef :e..i i.i.i'...'
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FARMERS1 EXCHANGE
Memphis, - Missouri.
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Paid up Capital, $25,0051.
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Does a tteral laiiktn;r lutiiMfSs.
It.i itcmh! ii irot iiittk' (ihiht.
SHtil intention ui.-ii i.i i '! 'Ctiotis.
IJIMB A NO SF.K I -I
W Xert ln-ii-t for in i Public i ee.re
JAMES E. PUIJJAM,
Blacksmith,
SHOEING AND REPAIR SHOP.
Repairiig Ncally and 'icniDliy Done.
I make a specialty of
Shop Southeast Cor. Square, old
Perkin's Stand. Memphis, Mo.
J. M. Kioetzer,
MEMPHIS, MO.,
Prrsl Dotr west ol She Citizen's 1: i k
build ing. invite- the publ c t call
on him when wanting to bu y
rIARMSS, SADDLES, Halters,
Bi idlcr Whips, &c.
The
is lie.v titui ! hi- mCSt
Kissible p
rice asKt
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he ei n ii ! rv I 1 a-
ciall solicit '
POSITIONS GUARANTEED
BfitSer msrtnabte cooditioos. Our FREE 96 pag
catalogue mil explain why we can afford it.
Drauguon's Practical Business College,
NASHVILLE, T L N . Write lor t:alocue.
I Book-keeping, Shorthand, renrr.nth;p srd Tele-
i grapfiy. we tpeaa mare n:c:i in w- tutmmm or
' wKinpioyMMtatDepartmeiM than half the BaaiawM
J toll -p.es !lcf in ns tnitioa. 4 weeks b) our lr.cthcd
wsefcinc book-kpinK is eqal to 12 ceka by dM
i ildrilnn. 1 1 teachers. E00 s-udems pi year, no
i fcadoir enter any time. Cwtar Bimm. We bave
eceiaiy prepared books eseci..;:y cu. pud lo
HCWE STUDY.
1 nt on r.O i '-s trial. Wri-ot.s at-. it erptahi
i 'your wants." N B We p .y S3. -sli t- ; llv-
i ilnr:es stocS keerer. Menojpraher, -m
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Sold I v Brown ic lwson, Memphis
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