The farmers' union., August 09, 1894, Image 1

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

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THE FARMERS' UNION.
Volume IY.
MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, AUGUST O,
Number 2i.
M.Humphreys
Green Front.
10,000
Men,
Boys and Children
to call at ray Store and examine my
Mammoth Stock
OIP
Clothing
which I have just received,
and which lias been pur
chased under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought the
go. ids away down, the equal
has never been known in
Northeast Missouri. 1 am
prepared to sell you
GOOD GOODS,
Kven below your own ex
pectation. Those
Hats,
Caps,
Boots,
Shoes,
Furnishing Goods,
AS WELL AS 11
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, winch I
expect to buy in the near
future, even lower than ever
if possible. Call early and
see me if you wish to
a
1Y
Remember, Old and Young
Ladies' Shoes and Slipper?
a specialty. 1 am yours as
ever.
M. Humphry,
Green Front.
SAVE
iVlulN
Mh Side
Memphis, Mo.
Food for Reflection.
I A banker by the name of J, 11.!
Walsb, president of the Chicago Na-
tionaJ Bank, owns the controlling in-
1 terest in both Cue Inter-Ocean and the
Chicago Herald. One is a rabid Ke-
publican protection paper and the
other a rabid Democratic paper. One
supports Cleveland and the other on account of the tariff.
Harrison, Vet these papers l.oth lie- The meat monopoly is an on ac
: long to the same man. E. V. Debs i count of the tariff
made a sworn affidavit that the Her
ald offered to champion the cause of
the railway union if they would de
posit their money in the bank of J.
K. Walsh, the owner of the Herald.
This the railway union refused to do
and the paper fought the union very
bitterly.
There was evidently a "niggar m
the woodpile'' somewhere. The de
positing of the union money in the
bank of Walsh was no great gain so
far as the use of the money was con
cerned. There was some motive be
hind it. Perhaps the railway corpor
ations wanted to final out how much
financial backing the railway union
had.
If the railway union was right the
Herald should have defended them
and if it was wrong it should have op
posed them. lint it proposed to do
cither for the boodle. This shows
how much confident
peoj
i!e shouh
put in that sheet.
Again, if Iebs had accepted the
fleiald's proposition would the Inter
Ucean also defend the railway union?
One paper advocates high tarifl and
the other low tariff, one Republican
ism and the other Deuiocracv. In all
probability one paper would have de
fended the strike and the other op
posed it. This Janus-faced banker i
evidently trying to follow the injunc
tion of being ail things to all men
for boodle.
both the inter Ocean and the Her
ald fought the railway union Intterlv.
Both patted Cleveland on the back.
I Both cartooned the strikers like thugs
and politicians. Moth called them
; anarchists. Both upheld the railway
combination. Both defended I'ull-
I man. Moth lied like thieves to make
the strikers as bad as possible and
the Pullman company a hand of wing
less angels. Yet many Democrats
think that Walsh's Herald is the
epitome of Democratic principles;
and the Republicans believe Walsh's
Inter-Ocean tc be the Bible of Repub
licanism. Once a friend in America visited
Mr. Carlisle at bis home in Knglaiid.
In the course of their conversation
I Carlisle was asked regarding the oop-l
1 .- j
ulalion. "It is thirty millions. " be
replied, "mostly fools, mostly fools."
To the philosophic mind the number
in America exceeds that in England
and while the fact is unpleasant i! is
extremely true. Auburn, Indiana,
Times.
National bank notes are based on
bonds. Bonds are based on the wealth
of a nation, and have commanded a
premium of 24 cents. If the wealth
of the country can make bonds worth
more than their face value what will
hinder treasury notes, based on the
same security, from being worth their
face value? It is only this infamous
advantage of robbing the people, bv
the present banking system, that
brings to its support the hired papers
of the laud. The money power is
lighting a system that would give to
the people money at low rates of in
interest, and deprive the banker cf his
legalized robbery. Pittsllehl, 111.,
Advocate.
ti rover the I. king of the American
suburb of Great Britain, who resides
at Washington when not Gshiug, after
tackling and subduing congress, feels
an anxiety to tackle a 'near, and is
nteinplrting a trip to the mountains
of I olorado. e feel
it he wii
find the climate of the eastern states
much more pleasant for one of his
temperament than the bracing atmos
phere of the mining districts.- -1'itts-field,
III., Advocate.
I.ii-UL Tabuics cure dizziness.
All no Account of the Tan'?.
The panic of 1873 waa all on
ac
count of the tariff.
The- ban krupticies since were all on
account of the tariff.
The panic under Harrison,
all on account of the tariff,
The sugar and coffee trust
It w:
ire all '
The national bank laws are all on
account of the tariff.
The monopoly in money is all on
accouut of the tariff
The bribery of legislatures is all on
account of the tariff.
The bribery of congress !s all on
account of the tariff.
The bribery of courts is all on ac
count of the tariff.
The 9,000,000 mortgaged homes are
ail on ac count of the tariff
The concentration of railroads is all
on account of the tariff.
The gambling in stocks is all on ac
count of the tariff.
The increase of crime and ins.-.inty.
is all on account of the tariff.
The millions of men idle is all on
account of the tariff
The low price of labor is all on ac
count of of the tariff.
The low price of wheat is all on ac
count of the tariff.
The English of all our factories and tion and distribution was conduct
roads is all on account of the tariff 1 y the people through their gov
The millions spent for a navy is all eminent, who would there be todo the
on account of the tariff
The increase in the militia is all on
account of the tariff
The increase of local and state tax
is all on account of the tariff
The new bond issue is all on ac
count of the tariff.
The millions of acres owned by
foreigners is all cm account of the
tariff
The millions of acres given to rail
roads is all on account of the tariff.
The millions of money given to rail
roads is all on account of the tariff.
The franchises worth millions given
to monopolies is all on account of the
' tariff.
I The issue of boi ds on railroads is
all on account of the tariff.
j The three cent fare u railroads
are all on account of the tariff.
The high freight rates on railroads
is all on account of the tariff.
Keep er up, boys. Believe all the
lies tli.' monopolists owned press tells
you. They are feeding you tariff
soup. Never imagine anything is
wrong except something about the
tariff. For thirty years you have been
the dupes of tariff. Aint you got
nougb vet. Don't read anything
about money or land. When the rich
pull the string, dance and yell all on
account of the tariff F. and L. U.
1 he Situation.
It is very doubtful if there is a well
informed man in this country to
day who has any love or respect for
our government.
The sugar trust has purchased the
legislators elected by the people.
The President does the bidding of
corporations or idles away his time
fishing.
The Attorney General is the paid
attorney of law breakers.
The Secretary of the Treasury is
earring out a policy wUicb be know
1 ; i,,,.t
is impoverishing the people upon the
other h ind the bankers an.l corpora
tions can have no respect for their
servile tools who constitute the gov
ei nment.
What is to be the result of ali this?
t pou the one hand millions of idle
and imporvished people who are just
learning that unjust laws are the
cause of their poverty.
Upon the other hand the idle rich
with neither fear of law, respect for
courts or intention to permit justice
to prevail. Peninsula Md.. Fanner
Gootl-bve, solid South. We part
with no regrets on our side. You
could not stand the teachings of the
Alliance or the propaganda of reform
newspapers. urganiZeu ignorance
i .,,,. i,, j , ,,i
has nad it ita . ana consequently
your time lias come.
1 tiotiai Watchman.
c-: e.
Nu.
Reason foi a Change. j
tinder a free government, when :
conditions become intolerable to a
Tge n ajority of the people they will '
be changed.
The following questions can be
answered roughly by any man of ordi-1
nary intelligence without the aid of the ;
statistician. ( Russia, or in the board of directors of
Should the ability to get and keep the Standard Oil, gas, water, or rail
wealth dominate all other talents? 1 road companies, uncontroled by tie
What proportion of the la.vs are public, tree competition in laige un
made solelj for the protection of j dertakings has grown into the mono
wealth, and how much labor is de- polistic trust, syndicate, or combine.
: voted to keening account of and guard-1 Tllis evolutionary development is
ing it?
! To what extent is wealth successful
, in evading laws which conflict with its ;
I .
interests?
Lu return for ail its privileges, does
wealth seeks to conserve the principle :
that "All men are created equal" or
to separate societ y into castes, by
Miming that the unwealtby are
as. '
in
ferior beings? ance from private ownership will
Are the miwealthv sensible of their j l'4':l The bittr aters of tne M:U:,h
inferiority? J wu"' grow sweet. There i no middle
course. The people must assume
In snort, is there not something . , . ,, .,
, . . ' j sovereignty industrially as well as
revolting in the conduct ot the rich ,. . ,. " ....
politically. With Lincoln s einanci
towards the poor? . ' , .... . ...
; pation proclanitiou political equality
Is not corruption in public life I 11 throughout the laud;
due totheconivanceof public officials imlustriai equality, or equal oppor
and private contractors? j UUty for al, js yet to lw, socUr0(L
If all work of production, trausporta-1 One is the complement of the other.
ci irrupting
Would not the assurance of com
fortable living for ourselves and chil
dren in return for willing labor, free
ing the mind from thoughts of mere
physical necessities, lend toward
greater individuality ?
To all who stop to think, it is evi-
dent that the pprotunitics to rise
out of the servitude to wealth, are be-
coming less. Comptition grows sharp-
er ami more unscrupulous. nnrewu -
ncssand hustling enterprese, supplant
honesty and ability. Business in its
mad rush for existence decern! to low
er and lower levels.
And how will t end?
With a change so radical that no
trace of the old disease will remain, so
sudden that no black scoria of war.
famine and crime will mark tin; transi-!
tion. A change foreshadowed in the I
i 1 :.. f f. .11 1
ilWilhl'UCU COIISCICIICC Ol U1C lOIIOMCJS
of the great teacher, and made actual
by suffrage, in the bands of a free,
intelligent and determined people.
Progressive Farmer.
Competition and Wage Syatem
Dying;.
The cooch of competition and the
wage system is dying; cooperative ef
fort, in sonic form or other, is press
ing forward to supersede them, de- j only salvation of the government,
spite all opposition. Manifold signs Scarcely a day passes, that does not
of world-wide change are palpable on see some prominent man, who refuses
every hand: a change in what Virgil longer to follow the lead of corruption
calls "the order of the ages."" Pro- and oppression, come boldly out on
found Unrest premeats the entire civi- tlie people's side. From away down
lized world. Men feci the presence cast, the home of the conservative,
of a new and mighty force heaving news comes of tickets being noniina
and swaying the ocean of humanity, ted, where, heretofore Populists were
Tories and Bourbons, as their pro- not known. The vicious and villain
totypes of old. stand ready to resist Jous assaults on labor, by Republican
any change which a bridges their pnvi- and Democrat papers, under the dis-
leges. crying out that all is well with
the world. They point to the bless
ings which their wealth confers on it,
ami preach patriotism in purple and
fine linen, and well fed stomachs.
But the agitation increases amoung
lhe working masses. They fail to see
the blessinss of monopoly. A sense
of bitter injury has taki n prossession
of them. The forces for a conflict at
the ballot box or elsewhere are being
rapidly mobilized. Men are taking
-ides. The exploiters and the ex
I ploited stand face to face. Donahoe's
Magazine.
Mr. Democrat, your party lied !
you about lhe tariff, didn't it? And
about the silver question, too? And
abou' dollar wheat.'' Now another
question: Are you going to be
blooded and wheedled into voting
, ,, . , . ..
the old ticket -just once more, or
J
I uae ou enougu oi ine tnmg eaiiea
democracy ? Free Trader.
Industrial Equality,
Monooolv in private hands has
proved injurious politically, iudus- I
trial! v. and ethically. The essential
feature of despotism everywhere is
power without responsibility to the
people, wheathe' it be found in the
bureaucracy of the sovereign, as in
; logical, but it is also equally logical
and in the proper order of things that
,lu' people alone should exercise ex-
I . 1 I ! II . 4. .t."
elusive control in an maners relating
" general interest in city, state, or
nation.
Every private monopoly must be
transformed into a public one. then
the curses which flow in such abund-
One cannot long exist without the
other. Such is the history of all past
ages. There is no affinity between
plutocracy and democracy. We must
bring the republic into cur industrial
life The p ople must trust them
selves. -Donahoe's Magazine
-m .
From all over the country comes
encouraging reports t f the great num
bers who are flocking to the fold of
the People s party. In the past it
uas ,H.CI1 a ebangeafrom ouc old party
j to lhe other blindly striving to better
their condition, but in each attempt
1 the I)COI,,. , f , that their hones
i were futile. During the late labor
disturbances the line has been so
clearly drawn between labor and la
ho is oppressors, that those hereto
fore blind could plainly see who were
the laborers friends. They saw all
the leading Democratic and Republi
can dailies, save here and there a lone
sentinel like the Chicago Times, try
ing to crush labor, and they find the
country press, which takes its cue
from the villainous daily press, utter-
.1 f M
; nig ttie same sentiments, this is
j driving the country laborers, as well
' as the city laborers, into the People's
I party by the thousand. The slump
I from the old parties :s not confined to
; the labor organizations and the farms,
1 but congressmen, judges, ministers
Mid editors are speaking out boldly,
declaiming the People's party to he
1 .
guise of -law and order. is building
up a part that will wipe out oppres
siou. Ptttsfield, 111., Advocate
The financiers, lat summer, said:
1st. llopeai the Sherman law. and
gold would stop Sowing out of the
country.
2d Repeal the Sherman law and
confidence would return and with it
prosperity
'.' I. lb-peal the Sherman law and
busiuess would pick up. money be no
locked, labor he employed ami the
gen ral depression checked.
None of these things happei e 1 a
they said they would. Sedalia En
terprise. It is uo v settieil that the hypocriti
cal republican party will make a tight
for free silver coinage in the next
campaign. Lamar Union
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: As intelligence increases, the demo-
cratic uml republican parties grow
' smaller. Fittstield. 111.. Advocate.
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Paid up Capital, $25,000.
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lit cs :i cinTiil banking business.
Buys fi.oi Rptfotialite paper.
Special attention given t Mrtlwetlnns.
t oSIK AMI SEK I S.
E9T"Xort beast turner Public Sttuare.
JAMES E. PULL1AM,
Blacksmith,
SHOEING AND REPAIR SHOP.
Repairing Neatly and Promoliy Done
1 make a specialty of
Shop Southeast Cor. Square, old
Perkm's Stand, Memphis, Mo.
J. M. Kioetzer,
MEMPHIS, MO.,
First I)or west of the Citiz. n's Bank
building, invites the publ c to call
on him wlu-u wanting to bay
HARNESS, SADDLES, Halters,
Bridles, Whips, k.
The stock is ne sad the tamest
possible price asked for good poods.
The country trade especially solicited.
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