The farmers' union., August 02, 1894, Image 1

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

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MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1SM
Number r?3.
.Humphreys
Green Front.
j
0,000
Men,
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vsandiniiaien
v)
call at ray Store and examine my
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OF
lothmg
which I have just received,
and which has been pur
chased under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought tin
go iis away hows, the equal
lias never been known iu
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to cll you
00D GOODvS
- J
Kven below your own ex
peclatioli. Those
nis.
Caps,
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I'm M la j
IOCS.
Furnishing Mods.
AS IEII AS MY
tt lllllfl X. I 111 I
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Are all Freah, 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
expect to buy in the near
future, even lower than ever
if possible. Call early and
see me if vou wish to
J ATU I 1T T. V
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Remember, Old and Young
bailies Shoes and Slippers
a ft peel ally. 1 am yours as
ever.
M. llunipliiy.
Green Front.
nn mgi
Memphis, Mo.
Where Are We At ?
If men would only exercise tin
same judgment and com man sense iu
pontics inai mey uo in otner ousmess
affairs how different things would up-1
pear to them? VVc often hear a man
say he is a liepuhlican or a Democrat
who never thinks for a moment what
it means. What lie really does think
of is, that he votes that ticket. There
was a time when to be either a Dem-j
ocral or a liepuhlican mean, the ae-
I ceptance of a well detined political
creed. iSolh the Republican and
Democratic party had a great mission
I to perform. It was the necessity of
; reform that gave each of them an ex-
I isteuce. The Jettersonian creed, as
promulgated by that eminerd states-
I man and founder of the Demoeiatie
1 party, was plain and well detined. It I
) was the popular politics of his day as
I distinguished from the If ainiltonian
. theory of a more centralized govern-1
ment. Jefferson s idea ol govern-
I incut was that the people should keep
their hands directly on the throttle of
power. That all powers should erne-
mate from the 'people and all laws en-
.u.f 1 wit i t I.'! I- i-i iiisiml vii! m I .!,' .-
s11 ..... li
lamilton bjlonged to that school
i of polities t hat believed that the peo-
pie were not absolutely capable of
self-government that some checks
j should be thrown around them to
guide them through the tempestuous
' waves of political excitement. More
than a century of ex perienee lias prov-
i.m that Jefferson was right in his the-
i
lory of government thai it was saftr
I'm the hands of the people thati of a I
few men cho-en otherwise than hy
I popular vote.
. i
Then so far as t in- two oil p.r rties I
tire concerned, it is not what a man
helieves that constitutes him a Delll-
oerat or a liepuhlican. but the parly
he votes with. The creed of either !
party, if it can he truthfully said they
have a creed, is broad enough to take
in anybody hut a Populist. Rut the
strange part ot it is, that a man who
believes in ntire Jettersotiiau Democ-
racy is not eligible to member-hip in j
I I lie rinks of t lie Democratic nartv I
and the man wlu lielieves in AIh
j Lincoln liepublicanism is considered
too crankv to belong to the IJcpuhli I
.now. ii neiiuer o; iiiese panics
represenf any well detined economic
principles on which its mem hers
, .
agree, wiur do tiiey represent ami ot
what use are they? The answer is
plain. They represent and are eon-
trolled by a thoroughly equipped and
organized band of office-seekers and
pobtieal liosses, backed by trusts and j
corporations, whose bidding they are
willing to do for pay. and wtioe con-
burdened with ceo-
nomie (piestions involving the rights
of the people. No sane man can de-
ny ibis. American statesmanship
has gone to seed. Kach campaign is
one of boodle and misrepresentation, j
lue oojeci is iut u eiiucaie me peo-
pk'. but to deceive them. Edina In-!
depetuient.
The paid for editorials in the great
daily newspapem of the country bear
such a striking resemblance tha one
can readily disovei the influence di
reeling it all. Yes. outrageous as it
may seem the leading daily papersof
the couurrv an' selling their editoral
space to plutocratic knaves and their
henchmen, just as any pa per sella ad-
vertisiug good influence of the
pros, and the vast ponret for
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facts are that the editor of the averagi
eniiguienmein ui ic r.c. ,
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HMi paper io-o.iv inmiuuira un v a-
pahuities, and uiocks at Ins conscience
in an effort to poison the people's
minds with prejudice ami falsehood
i
instead of truth. Thesi
tli tors are
ithe hirelings ot wealthy corporations,
which have liecome so Mwerful as!
dictate Ui the daily pres, overawe
congress and mock at rhitnton
law. I'itstiehl. 111., idvocate.
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Laboring men, ve cannot serve two
masters at the same fine: cither
voting for corporation candidates or
aiiit oraanizinjc strike societies. Se-
I daiia Kuterpi iae,
A Word of Adv.ce.
let into 'he habit of thinkin
Dob
that a speech is the only campaign
work.
Don't rely on your leaders alone. :
Thev can t sieak all the time. :it all i
the places.
And it is not every speech that
wins votes.
Not bv a iug full,
The money which vou spend for a I
speaker would frequently do more j
good if laid out in pamphlet and re-
form papers.
Most of the votes we have made1
since the last campaign have been
made with ou: papers and books. i
The quiet, earnest Populist who
guards his tongue, and who uses his
mouth to speak tiie "soft ausw I
which turneth away wrath;" who car-
ries his Di mocatic neighbor a reform
paper an 1 urged him to read it; these ;
are the men who are building up our
party. !
It is all a mistake to lielieve that
you can kick people into line with us.
It jut can't be .tone,
It's all a mistake to believe you can
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It just can't Ik done.
Folks are human, wherever you find j
them, and there never was a time
when the wild talker and reckless
writer could do us more harm than
now i
Brother Populist, look around ou
ami see if there is not some work
your williic hands t do.
for
Is there not .some Democratic
friend to whom you could send a pa-
,er four months?
J there not some old army or
i
schxl eronv of yours who would read
a reform speech if you sent it to him?
Is tliere not some teneiit r cropper
or lalorer who would feel compliment-
ed if he knew vou felt enough in-
A in him to have a newsoaper oi
. . 1 1
i pamp.iiei sem uiree
,' In In m
Comrades, here is the work for you I ;
j is a tank you can do I.H?tter than ail
vmr lomlvrs mil tcieiher
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i a work which will beaf all the
I u.lii) .11 f ns imii iieiL-c
f every one of yon, nun and wo j
men, will look al it from a standing
iwiint and " to work on this line the
j harvest is our.-!
Less speaking ami more worn:
That's the plan to win on. leo
1 art I'aoei
' 1
At a monster mass meeting of ihe
or forces of Cfdcago. Monday eve
ning. ipiite a dramatic scene Uhjh
place, showing the intense earnest-j
cess of the working icople of that
city. M. II Madden, preshlent of
the Illinois federation 01 Latior,
made a stirring :;dd"- to the vas1
an lieiiee and urged upon ii the te-
cessityof repu liating the obi parties,
lie was followed in an eloquent ad
dress by Ittehanl I'.'tv a--, of the Sea-
men s I nion.
"aow, Leyciauucu .mi. iei- h.
Now," tiYcIaimcd Mr. 1 owers 111
concluding, -aU vou iu vv.-pjt tore-
nounce all other parties raise .mr
right minus.
Hundreds wf hands shot up.
N
your hands up and re
. , . ,.,
peai .11 iii inc.
,.W;t my h.,,u Uj,iifted," said Mr
iowcrs
WiUl my h.,n, UpHfted," respond
t ,j :,; hi audience,
An, fwJ ,u erer living Gm1 '
t.OIlUlUiH, llvs speaket. I rei.ouce the
0;(j p.U'.u.
Th (.ls ,nI, rtpeated the last word-
U4th a shout. and Mr. Powers stepped
back to gue the next speaker a
Trenicndous cheering and
al).)lause fonowvtl tili dramatic epi
am it was verai miimU.s i,0
,
to
meeting tiuiet-etl down again,
Uemovc the conditions that make it
accessary to do a certain thing and
vou remove the necessitv i;pd pie
the necessity spd pre-
vent the doin 4f that certain thing,
Setlali a Enterprise.
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The demtKTatic partv f av Mfreestl
et . do,-o
t iiv. i nen
IU deli
ixirats in the present congress vol
against a five silver bill? i'itstiiel
HI., Advocate.
Why They Were Not Called Out.
John Mettride. president of the
lTnited Mine. Workers, said recently I
that he believed tin- Chicago trout)le
was over for the i
simply because th
lesni, al least, nm.gress. counnes wei
leads of labor
organization of this country refused
to call out then- men.
L'Ve knew,"' he said, that to call
out 150.000 nun h Chicago and 1.-
000,000 elsewhere mean' a terrific
clash,civil war aiftl prehaps revolution,
We stayed our hands in the int
terests
of peace.
-1 think we are Hearing a social is-
lie condition when I he individual will
u- tin- charge of the State.
would not lie surprised to see be-
fore the next Presidential election
such a union between the American
Federation of Labor and other or-
ganizations and the People's party a
would lead to political siuc.'ss.
'-There never would have been any
stnke outside of Pullman had ' not
heeu for the action of the general
managers. Debs' idea ; t the outset
was to declare a lioycott on Pullman
ears and urge the public to keep out
. . (' t I i 'I'!... iii'iii.iiii.iv , I. r. , -i
wi iiniii. ii tii.ui.ti 1.1 ..I. i mi' ..j'.
war of extermination upon the Atuer-
iean Kailwav L'nion. and I he latter.
to maintain its existence, was oblig
ml to report to the strike."
Let no one sav again that Cleveland
is a blunt, honest, but misguided man.
His letter to Wilson on the tariff bid
shows him a dissembler. With ex
.....
press ions of regard for the interests
of the people he calls lor a tax on
.sugaf. Xow a tax on sugar will pip
millions in the Dockets of the sugar
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tiii-t iben after ail his pur's ha
-aid about the 'danl! barons," "job
tier manufacturers," &e., he urge.', free
coal and free iron oi-. )- what tin
inanufactur rs want. Kiee coal, free
wool and tree iron ore will shut mi!
. .
inns ol raves nil ne iiiatifil 2i1 liners
onto the people. Without discussing
the merits of in?e tnwTe or protection,
or inteiidiie:' in anv wav to helo keen
- i
up the "sham battle over the tariff',"'
we call t lie at ! en t ion of the Demo-
crats of the west and south to the
fact that their party is legislating in
the interests of the so-called "tariff
barms," by protecting the manufac-
inieo arucics ami giving i neiu iree
raw material uptn which they ("tariff
tiarous ) have been pa ing millions of
. .
tariff dijtjes to the government.
It
w as
llgtU'sod licit
tile
hatrwr u
f '-free taw material, the pro-
.1 act of ignorant hdwir and protected
manufactured good tin product ol
intelligent labor. Tins is tl.e wa
lie spited it. tin ugh probably not his
exart winds. :is we tpiote from rccol
lexrlion. it was at a Kepuhlicati iiH"et-
i tiir in the uditoriuui at Chicago in
jsss that IngerSoH, the Ifepubtican.
aunounced this diXitrme. it was a
night r two before the assembling of
the liepuhlican convention at that
olace that nominated Harrison the
jrst i:nie t was a Hepublican meet-
jug. lielegates to the convention
were ' Here.
And the seniUnent was
cheei'Ctl to the echo. Now we have
in the present tariff bill the embdi-
ment ot that sentiment.
d-'it c raw
11 m ! .'i ! I !!:.' iirniliicl if 1 1 1 w 11 1 1 i I I'i.
hor." Wool is raw material. Wwl
is nrouiiced on llie larm. en
there is no ditterence between the two
old parties, Missouri World.
Col. 11. ft. tiillespie of fener. who
won $20,000 by the election of the
I'opulist ticket in that State iu 1P2.
-a the same party will carry the
Mate by J',.n.m plurality this fal
v;u) three tickets ;;i the ueli
am
10,000 if the Republicans and heun
crats unite -e-ta!
I 'i IHC.
N 'ban twenty five perwms of
prominence in the !.tt few days have
left the two old parties and alliei
themselves with the I'opulist pa rt
Hurrah, boys, pa., altogether. -
Adair Co. Advocate.
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Tie.
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ver, does it: hy, theu dd 113 re
I publicans vote against a free silver
I bill? Pitsfield, 111.. Advocate.
James A Boyce Honored. '
Tli.- Populists of the First Indiana
District liave nominated James A
IU ee
t (
c
. f u eon- i
.1
repi eseut-
led. with a tota. of lM7 delegates
"here ere three candidates. I Joyce
a as chosen on the tirst ballot, reeeiv-
iug 148 votes. The nominee is at the
head of the Princeti u, lad. Norma!
School, is oo j ears of age, and of li
personal a
he platforu
adopted demands the unlimited com
; age "I silver and gold at Hie present
i rath' of 1! to 1 ami ;h t tin
cireulat
ing medium ie iiicreaseu bv tcgal
lender notes until there is a per capita
of o0. It imiounces the reserve of
a redemption fund for any mouev is
I sued by the government as a wrong
J upon the people. ll demands aj
j graduated income tax: demands that
railroads and telegraph lines he put
J up under government control. In
oroorations and
i ...
employes it demand-- that the govern
incut assume control until differences
ire settled,
Tu
o hundred farmers
fWy C'ouuU came to the eouven
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i.'iiim , i i . i .i ii' i 1 'in i
The man who imagines the demo-
eratie party is a free trade party has
either been a sleep or is dull of com
prehension. Pledg d to free trade
oy its platform of it has invited:
protected manufactures to appear be
fore its committees, a ia MeKiuiey. i Mempliis, - Missouri.
and give suggestion-. Cirntgiu lias
expressetl himself as satisshed with
the Wilson bill, as piotectiouists
shurely ougiit t tie. It enacted into j
law it ft'ili afford as high pioleetlou Ui j
manufacturers asauv law ever passel
j this uountry. the McKiuley bid not
j excepted. It gives the luauufae
t users free raw material, hut dn;s
ot eomjKd lliein to lower their prices
I"" uuisneo imvhiucis. i lie irust
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I KW'll imill oi OolUi" ntlsi;tss al
'he old stand and the people may as
I well staud up to liehled and oik pleas-
I ant; or if thev can't look nleasaut.
ant or if they can't look pleasaiit,
us plea-ant as they can! This i-j
tariff reform' and all vou fellow
who voted far tariff' reform must taste
had. tbod Dr. Cleveland knoivs
what's gotKl for von. Free Trader.
p,,,,,,,,,, ls t'tie Tnve,.u,r of the
I'ulltuan sleeping (air. it .v. is the idea !
of I '1 u ion ( recite, who died n linos: 1 i
. , , ,
I pauper and was buried, b, eharitv.
pauper ami was bqried, b, eharitv.
Tubman aud ijreeue were young men
together, ,.rceue got a patent ixi
, 1
die sleeping ear and I'ulbnan mil
; nold of it, Duliman soon became a
I millionaire, yet when the man lay lv
ing l-t who-, idea he owed his millions.
he rt fll-ed to giv
e one cent to buy
mm nourishment n Inch t he
so
sadly ne'e'l H ilisl "d sleep-
iMtay in .oi nnp t'ii coitl 1.
'.Ill f
rolling iu we alth and grander, unmov-
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hvciiesol Imager am- sutfering
which his selfishness has caused, he is j
'o-day taking his ease at Castle K ;st. I
I'ullman Island. nd ,d! heuusine he '
I-
i.l I
man palace
ar system. Journal of Imbistrv
he ItacklniiKM I Hie greatest rail
roa
1 -iiilie this counm has evci
!ni" 'i i .. !.i,.L...i I'll
j poran Kill ami so far as all n,
t tern
iiniear.iitics im e.-.ite ih'-i.-i. rm.tr. . 1
supreme iu hdior o.uarters. But tin
managei - . r
.... 1. .i.i.r ti-i...i
,oe Ing neo
'crme men who have never known
he iiangs of hunger nor suffere I the
humiliation an I remorse firoujrlit on
by hardship and penury, and out cm
t . 4 i t. ma Im
! ike i for reduced !'
the condi ion of the peons of Mexico
unless lucre is a most decided changi
m the near future. There is tint out
remed) rcmve the eau-e. Law
!.'m ss of the cm p. -r.it ions and trust'
ireeds lawlessness amon those the
oppress. 1 : .. o- stamp tint lh
disease and tin re will be no nior
-trtkes. Falmontli. I liui le.
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1 ! .m- .,; J.nnr arc VOlCllli
the seuliuieut ot ad the a-t army ;1
weaidi pr Mincers in priosing tha"
Cleveland lie impeached but. ot
cou se, the gang of pie eaters will
j never do it. Pitsfield UI,
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Guaranteed Equal to t- :Best
I'riif: very reasonable. OJ tr.ti theni
iioiu your l . I n ..l.'i-.m. u ake
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4 v t cwmm n l. w . ima , . , . - . a
BZLVIOERE, ILL,
p i rw -t py 1 Til
rAKJlliaj LaLH lAllEl
it. G. IT! KIN. J'k
A. !. t'JTK : .', Cashier.
PaiJ up CipXil. $25X90.
II. la. I'lTKIN,
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A I! tITKIN.
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IMOH'tors.
n
? a irein-r. inking iisin
sj-vtai anvatiou trlvfit it.u
i MK AMI SKK ri
ions.
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I t ..tin 'iti '..i ,. r Cul.il-
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Blacksmith,
SHOEING AND REPAIR SHOP.
WW My ilfill PffJIiUtiy DODC.
l make ,t specialty of
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Shop- Southeast fr. Scjare, old
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eikiu is M.aiio", Memphis. J
Mo.
J. M, Kloetzer,
I KM 111 IS, MO,
First Door west of the PiPx n's Bank
j building, invites the pubic to call
on turn wlieu wan
t- buy
HARNESS, SADDLES. frltCR
Bridles, Whips, &c.
Tlie sPek is ie-.v and tha lowest
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j fhe country tra lcesjetv.tl! solicited"
j .Mi,, nncu n?i -j.-im gOOOS
POSITIONS G'jaP iTEED
aute tea
vm ,tne roiia.i I.-..
E9t3paga
nff 1 it.
ta.ou Vi lli ezplatli v, u . w
J tWMl "M. i CoIlegC,
RASHVIUC UVi.
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uloKue.
, Br,;K teepmg, Shorttantf, -j-ni-i- iid Tele
I iraphy. We spen i iucr m t in. t i iterett of
ar employ njentDepp.rtuK at j u- i,r v Business
i 'e-.i.-ki ii..isr..;iir' . 4 v.nk 'y r method
eaehne book-kcenine is. t jnal f I w k bv ths
!d plan. 1 ieach rs, 6OO M" " year, no
I cation; cuter any eni. Cwti Boitf we have
! ect-uU' iJri' rt:i "T -; a ipted to
n. rrj 1 v ; trial. V.-'tie- -.a pv I exrlain
. : H -C
r
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J b-.ii. k
arhers,
11 same.
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