The farmers' union., August 23, 1894, Image 1

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

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THE
HON.
Volume IY.
MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, ISM.
Number 31.
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Humphrey's
Green Front.
Stuck on a Parity.
This gush of gab from the Presi-
10,000
Men,
Bovsand Children
to call at my Store and examine my
Mammoth Stock
OF-
Clothing
which I have just received,
sad which has been pur
chased under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought the
40 nis away DOWN, the equal
has never been known in
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to sell you
GOOD GOODS,
Kven below your own ex
pectation. Those
Hate,
Caps,
Boots,
Shoes,
Furnishing Goods
AS WELL AS MY
Clothing Stock
Arc all Fresh, New Goods,
aud purchased under the re
cent decline in the eastern
market, and, positively, will
be dosed out to make room
for another stock, which 1
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.
dent, and all along the line of sugar
tailed cuckooes, to the editor or orator
who don't know what is ment by pari
ty, makes the man of even average
intelligence tired.
Cleveland was greatly perplexed
over the llalpin question in Buffalo,
but in time saw his way out and out he
popped.
Now he is worrying his massive
intelecl over the parity question, as re
late to gold and silver!
He says he is now ready to favor
and to use influence for silver as
money, if any one can show how to
maintain the parity of gold with sil
ver.
As there has never been and proba
cy never will be a parity between
gold and silver, any more than be
tween chewing gum and vile corks
(though, on a pinch, each can be put to
the same use), we concede that he
means their parity as money.
Perhaps we can explain so the great
jrabbererat can understand.
At our home in the city of New
York are four little children of the
editor hereof and his wife three
gins and one boy. The eldest girl,
now attending school and taking banjo
lessons, has just entered her teens
The boy is nine years old and is al
ready our partner! We supply the
money and he spends it, at times, in
seeing the sights aud studying the
lessons of the citv. as he is to ue a
printer and editor, some of these days
Next on the family lisns a promising
bundle of girls, full life, skipping hop
inir Mod sinirini:. reioieinsj that she
has lately passed her seventh birth
day in good shape. Next on the list
is the little girl baby, now six months
old, and about as jolly as the jolliest
Hazel by name.
Those four children are strickly
legitimate, all of the same family and
all of a parity, because they are all
treated alike and recognized at their
face and heart value whenever they
come home. Now, should we declare
that one or more, or all, of the chil
dren were illegitmate, they would be
demonetized, and sve should not ex
pect the neighbors all aruoud, who now
welcome the little ones to their hearts
and homes, to give them any wel
eome on their parents' account. They
would stand on their commercial
value, as it were.
Created and legitimate, they prove
the creative power, and reflect credit
thereon.
To declare either one of them ille
gitimate would be a dirty, cowardly
act. aud one which should cost us
the friendship of all our friends and
lose to us the respect of all our ac
quaintances. To divide the family
estate between the ones who were
not demonetized, or declared illegiti
mate, would benefit them; but the
robbery of the one set apart to be de
spoiled would be treason to the family ;
onee beginning, no one could tell
where it might end.
Again, Before us are two postage
stamos. each created by our Govern
ment. Each is a two-cent stamp.
One in a sort of Columbus brown or
purple color, and is twice the size of
its bright-red brother. The Govern
ment says that it is equally as potent
as the other. That size, coloring, pic
luring or shape has nothing to do for
or against the efficiency of each of
these two creations of law. So long
as each is legal tender for letter carry
ing service of the same class, they are
at a parity with each other. Created
as equals, as they were an.l are all
that is to be done to preserve their
pari iv is simply to hands off and let
them alone. Protect ibenn from the
touch of Congressional action at the
dictation of fashion makers and
main as they were created, and the
parity is not only established but
maintained. See?
The Government is the one to de-
nl nt udiut nriot it will nnrt with its 1
iviv v . . fe v , r . i a - ..... wm
sses, or dollars. Those who are in
debt aud requiring legal tender will
get just as much good from a paper
dollar as from a silver dollar or a
jold dollar, world without end, if you
will only let the paper dollar or the
silver dollar alone, and permit it to
to among men for the only purpose
for which money is created legal
tender for debt. Here its mission
ends.
Once iu a while some otherwise
bright man says that we must have
gold dollars for the benefit of foreign
ers. Never mind the foreigners.
They are sharp enough to care for
themselves.
Why can t men see this which is so
plain? Pomroy's
INDORSED TILLMAN.
South Carolina Reform Democrats
Convention.
in
Advance Thought.
J
Nonconformist Eye-Oneners.
Cleveland's administration is made
famous by its two bs bonds and
bullets.
If the working boys will vote as
they strike they will soon settle all
their troubles.
Farmer, how did you vote two
years ago for high or low tariff?
Suppose you change your tactics and
vote a while for high wheat, low
taxes, etc.
The country has five cents in gold
with which to redeem each dollar
that is redeemable. If Lombard and
Wall streets succeed in shipping this
five cents abroad, then what? Go to
thinking!
industry is naralvzed. trade is
stagnated and the people in general
impoverished simply because a eer
tain number of men have been al
lowed to corner the nation's volume
of money.
There are now in the United States
treasury 53,000,000 almighty gold
dollars with which to redeem $346,
000,000 iu greenbacks and over $500,-
000 in silver! Please bear in mind
that the nation has resumed specie
payments.
Ler:y Templeton spent Sunday
nighi in the county jail. He was
placed there without having commit
ted any offense by republican offi
ciuls, and prominent in the outrage
was a negro man. In 184S. when
still a boy, Mr. Templeton had a
taste of this same kind of treatment
at the hands of pro-slavery tools. He
belonged to an abolition family and
was driving a candidate of that faith
from place to place. At one point he
was set upon, denounced as an aboli
tionist and kicked out of the house.
Some eleven years later he was a sol
dier fighting to free the slave, in which
service he spent three years. He had
Memphis College,
Special to The Republic.
Columbia, S. C, Aug. Hi. -The re
form faction of the State Democratic
party held its convention here to-day.
The :J5 counties of the State were all
represented by the 300 delegates pre
sent. The nominees of this conven
tion are to be submitted to the gen
eral primaries, which is to be held on
September 28, which in turn, will be
ratified bv the State Democratic Con
vention, to be held later.
As the straight-out Democrats are
making no opposition to the reformers
in.n .1 11 1
or iiumaniies, as iney are caueo
this year, the nominees of this con
convention will become the Demo
cratic nominees, and .s the Republi
cans never put out a State ticket, they
will be elected to the positions to
hich they are nominated, in Nov
ember elections.
W. D, Evens, the president of the
State Alliance, was one of the dele
gates, and the first thing that the con
vention did was to adopt to a set of
resolutions embodying the Ocala de
mands submitted by Mr. Evens, as
the platform of the convention. Sli
ver was indorsed at a raito of 10 to 1,
and, though Governor Tillman has
opposed the Sub-treasury scheme
throughout the campaign, the conven
tion to-day adopted it as one of the
planks in its platform.
Last night the sentiment expressed
by the delegates in favor of nominat
ing a full Slate ticket, but under the
advice of Governor Tillman and can
didate for Governor, John Gray
Evens, this was not done to-day. Un
questionably the nomination of a full
ticket would have brought out con
siderable disstisticction among the de
feated candidates and their friends,
which might have been dangerous to
John Gray Evens m the general pri
maries, and even to Tillman in his
race for the United States Senate.
So ouly the candidate for Governor
and Lieutenant Governor were nomi
nated. John Gray Evens received
2G2 votes for Governor, the present
Comptroller General, W. H. Ellerbe,
44, and the present Secretary of State,
J. E. Tindall, 14.
lr. 1 imraerman of hdgeneid was
unanimously nominated for Lieuten
ant Governor.
Johu Gray Evens, in his speech of
acceptance, promised to enforce all
the laws of the State, especially the
dispensary law, which he declared to
No Better School in
the Land
-FOE
Short Practical Courses of Study.
Twelve Departments:
Preparatory, Normal, Scientific, Literature,
Elocution, Commercial, Actual Business
Practice, Penmanship. Stenography,
Typewriting, Pen Art and Con
servatory of Music.
Opens Sept. 11th,. 1894.
TTXTXTCOSr BATES.
$10.00 in advance pays tuition for one term of 10 weeks, except music.
$30.00 in advance pays tuition for one year of 40 weeks.
zmztxsio a?TTiTionsr.
All lessons private except Harmony.
Single lesson $ 7,"
One lesson each week, ten weeks 6 ,"0
Two lessons each week, ten weeks. V 00
The people of Memphis Lave kindly opened their homes to the students
of Memphis College and will accommodate thein with the best of rooms,
nicely and neatly furnished, and board at the exceeding low price of $2.50
per week. For particulars and catalogue, address,
J. W. BENCE, M. S., A. M., Pres.,
Memphis, Mo.
An
WANTED,
unlimited nan? her
of male
human being called "men" by the
superficial, who are willing to march
thorugh mud, sleet and snow, and
break one another's heads. Must be
poor and have mortgaged homes and
farms. Unemployed also desired.
Must be well trained to talk about the
tariff. Must understand the great
benefits of our national banking sys
tem, aud must stand steadfast for a
money of intrinisic value that will
be good in Europe. No persons who
uses his biains for the purpose of
thinking will be admitted. Brains
were made for the use of brigands
and cutthoals only. Upon the accept
ance of applicants they will be di
vided into two hostile camps labed
' democrat' aud "republicans," and
while their wives bend over the wash
tub and their babies cry for bread
they will be fighting one another,
when they are not searching for work.
FARMERS' EXCHANGE
or
Memphis, - Missouri.
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H. i. PITKIN, Pvefthtettt.
A. H. PITKIN. CMMer.
o
ap Capital, $25,000.
H. G. PlTKlJC.
A. Simon,
A. H. I'lTKIN,
Wai. IIkkkhmivk,
J.S. I'lTKlV.
Director.
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Doea n general imrikitr business.
Buys irooii mrtiulil piiii-.
Special attention rlrea tit oolleetkMM.
rw-v- rMK A NO 8KB IS.
w KortkeeBt Comer Public Square.
or when not engaged in picking the
be acceptable to 97 per cent of tl scraps from the slop barrels. Address
white people of the Mate. He pre- j ull applicants to Demo Etepo. Kxc
dieted a union of the South and West jelJtive Committee, Wall St., New
in 18, and the touting of the powers j yor.
of the East.
The convention indorsed Governor
JAMES E. PULLIAM,
Blacksmith.
7
AND REPAIR SHOP.
supposed that one of the results of I Tillman for the United States Senate.
-Searchlight,
. -
Reform Cleanings.
Repairing Neatly and Promotiy Done
I make a specialty of
HIORSESIIOI 1ST
sacrifices was secure freedom of per
son and speech to every human being
in this county. But he was mistaken.
Republican officials, led by a negro,
airest Mr. Templeton for being pres-
In his speech of thanks, Governor
Tillman said thai he could say, sober
ly and seriously, that the National De
mocratic party would be iguominously
defeated iu 1890: that it been be-
Vi ihin't it mil' rif tlw ih mi wvu f !....!....' t 1 . .
" - ' --iiiii ? ouuiu, .Memphis.
having any platform
don't stick to it.
Square, old
at all. The
Mo.
J. M. Kloetzer,
ent at a political meeting, hustle him i traved by IX base? unscrupulous and
about insultingly and rudely, and lock
him up in a dungeon. In old age he
finds himself fighting the same old
tight. Formerly it was to free the
black man from jemocrats Now
it is to free white men from both re
publicans and democrats. The con
ditions now are worse than they were
when forty-six years ago, he was
beaten for advocating free speech and
free men.
thoroughly corrupt set of leaders:
that when he went to Washington he
would punch the fat sides of Cleve
land with a political pitchfork, and
would do anyone else the same way
that tried to defeat the will of the peo
ple. G vernor Tillman was cheered to
the echo by the convention.
The taritf farce is ended. The
democratic party promised every-
1. Humphry,
Green Front,
North Side,
Memphis, Mo.
money changers.
Olney draws a salary from the peo- body forty acres aud a mule " and
pie, and a greater one from the trusts, general prosperity as soon as they
He serves tlie trusts ouly. When we jr0t the tariff fixed. Walk u gentle-
So with the silver dollar, the gold
dollar, the paper dollar, or any ether
form or style of dollar. The stamp
ami the dollar are each the creation of
law, the material and color being of
no account. It is the ' dollar' that is
created. Give to each the same legal-tender
power or quality, let them re
hear a man talk of the pairiosm of
G rover Cleveland, after he has ap
pointed this villain to office, it make;
us feel like giving up the fight and ad
mitting that the American people
have not sense enough for self gov
ernment. Pitsfield, 111 . Advocate.
men get your slice of prosperity -Let
the mule go until next spring.
It will cost Uk much to keep him
through winter. Glen wood, Iowa,
Times.
Gold is still leaving the country
and it will soon be in order to issue
more bonds.
If government has the sole power j First Door west of the Citjz mi's B ., k
to issue money, why should it sell! building, invites the ntibl to ii
bonds for the mone ?
I
The leaders of the two old parlies i
have fused. Is there any reason
why the rank and tile should not do
so? It seems as if it is just the
right time to break party slates and ,
, kick out the bosses. For the voters
l then to act independently ?a.nd put
men in office capable of doing their
duty, but who don't know enough of
politics to form rings and com
binations. It is time for the voters to combine
! and form the riug. The lawyers and
i the boodlers and the political bosses
j have beeu doing this long enough.
MEMPHIS, MO ,
on him when wanting to buy
HARNESS, SADDLES, Halters,
Bridles, Whips, 4c.
The stock is new and the lowest
possible price asked for pood gds.
The country trade especially solicited
FEMALE PILLS.
"" If. liirltTOralHCkm
MXiA. Beware flaltatlMa. Kuu
men
AcUr
What says you? Sedalia Enterprise, gold by Brown & Dawson. Mernphi
m m m
The Populists of Wisconsin held
Gatling guns in the hands of U. S.
m m m ! deputy thugs, and courts iu the hands magnificent convention on the 4th at
Just when the affinity bettveen an of such villainous trusts attorneys as Milwaukee, and nominated a splendid
old party leader and the devil begins ; Olney, have received the endorsmenl ! ticket, headed by Dr. D. H. Powell,
has not yet been settled. The sur- J of the democratic and republican j Great enthusiasm prevailed and a
veyor has not vet determined. Glen- press of tue country. All things have large vote is expected. National
wood, Iowa, Times. 'an end. Pitsfield, III., Advocate. i Watchman.
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