The farmers' union., September 06, 1894, Image 1

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

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THE FARMERS' UNION.
Volume IY.
MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER G,
Number 33!
M. Humphrey's
Green Front.
10,000
Men.,
BoysandChildren
to call at my Store and examine my
Mammoth Stock
OF-
Clothing
which 1 have just received,
and which has been pur
chased under a prospect of
:i low tariff and bought the
go ds AWAY now N, the equal
has never been known in
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to sell you
GOOD GOODS
Kven
below your
own ex-
peetation
Those
Boots,
Shoes,
Furnishing
A3 WELL A MY
Goods,
lothiog 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
expect to buy in the near
future, even lower than ever
if possible. Call early and
see me if vou wish to
Save Money
Remember. Old and Young
Ladies' Shoes and Slippers
a specialty,
ever.
I am yours as
M. Humphry;
Green Front,
North Side,
Caps
Memphis, Mo.
Logan's Prophetic Prediction.
Senator John A. Logan, like all tin
early pa.tr tots, 'stood with the people
Read careful U and note the wonder
ful prediction that he made as what
would be the result of our financial
legislation. An inspired prophet
could not, have told with greater ac
curacy the dire effects of our 1111
wholessome laws. He said:
I ' I. or one, can see benefit only to
: the money holders and those who re
j ceive interest and have fixed incomes.
W JB . 1 1
I can see. as a result 01 toe legisla
tion, our business operat ions crippled
and wages for labor reduced to a
mere pittance. 1 can see the beauti
ful priaries of my own State and of
the great West, which are blooming
as gardens, with cheerful homes ris
ing like white towers along the path
way of improvement, again sinking
back to idleness. 1 can see mort
gage fiends at their hellish work. I
can see the hopes of the industrious
farmers blasted as they burn.corn for
fuel, because its price will not pay
the cost of transportation and divi
dends on millions of dollars, of ficti
tious railway stock and bonds. I can
see our people of the West groaning
and burdened under taxation to pay
debts cf.States, counties and cities,
incurred when money was abundant
and bright hopes of the future were
held out to lead them on. I "can see
the people of our Western States, who
producers, reduced to the condition of
serfs to pay interest on public and
private debts to the money sharks of
Wall street, New York, ami of Thread
needle street in London, Kngland.
And this will be accomplished by
withdrawing the treasury notes from
circulation and destroying them un
til tin; banks can control the entire
volume of money, and then compel
the people to use personal checks in
lieu of money-checks passing through
the clearing house, which the banks
will establish in all the larger cities,
to enable them to make a fictitious
showing of prosperity and fool the
people with the great volume of busi
ness, which they will cause to publish
in the daily and weekly newspap-
ers. lsut remember, checks are not
money."
How true this prediction has been
fulfilled! The statements of the clear
ing houses are published in the news
papers as an evidence of prosperity.
The treasury notes were destroyed
ami the volume of money went into
the control of the banks. The mort
gage Sends are abroad in the
land, the hopes of the industrious
farmers blasted and the West groan
ing under a burden of debt." Business
operations crippled, wages reduced
and idleness enforced. All this was
predicted twenty years ago by that
gieat republican leader and the cause
he pointed out as a contraction of the
currency, lint the pewees and Hers
of to-day, who c 11 themselves repub
licans, say it is all because Cleveland
was elected. These fellows are not
republicans, the are camp followers,
and they would not know a genuine
republican if thev met him in the
i road, And were the Logans and Lin
; coins living to-day these flesh-pot
scrapers wauid call them tiat fools
and populist crank.
Wall street seems to have come to
the conclusion that the farce of keep
ing up two parties could not be con
tinued much longer to advantage.
ller.ee Cleveland was elected to kill
the Democratic organization in hopes
that in the break-up the Republicans
would sectfre a return to power, and ;
before the dissatisfied people could
! unite and take ttie "power in their own
: h:uds plutocracy could be so en
trenched behind the courts and milli
tarv that its poSrtton would be im
pregnable. On this theory alone can
Mr. Cleveland's policy bo explained.'
The deliberate assassinatiou of his
party would seem to indicate that his
plutocratic masters propose to change
; their tactics, and in future palce
themselves in a position that will en-
, able them to bold their grip no mat-
i roteB"Uct
VOICES FROM THF CELLS.
; . atessers, A. II. Chisolnf & Co., bank-
Barred gentleman gjve thefr opinions of L"rs anj brokers, ;i Broadway. N. V..
cur Senate. ! jss ., , - business circular. In
The following published in Town j their sne for May 29, 1893, we find
Topics, one of the orgaius of Wall the following:
Street. shows in what contempt We note that Right Ion. air. Lid
the Senate of the U. S. is held by the derdale of the bank of Kngland agrees
very men they sold out to: with our views, so often expressed
Xo. t;S4 Tier :i. Main Prison, j during the past ten years in our
Sing Sins An elegant job. When I market Setters, that this country needs
me and Sim Clancy, known as dance j more legal tenders. France, a station
the Kid, tunneled through a bakery arv country, has $60 per capita. The
and a bowling-alley in the Bowery J Directors of the Mint places -the per
and stepped into the back of the j capita m the states at $22, but $200,
bank safe. T said wed done the best I 000,000 of gold have disapeared and
work since One-Eared Solomen took
a hundred thousand out of the Butte
National Bank. But. me boy, we'se
is amatoors. The tariff duck's in
Washington is Al crooks, and no mis
take.' I suppose Byrnes has got their
mugs on his wall in Mulbury street.
No. 1 bit:' Tier L Main Prison,
Sing Sing I bet my old pal, Bliuksy
der Pug, is in der Sennit t, No udder
crook on top ei dis cart' cud do such
fine work as wot "dose ta frier has
done with dat Tarriff bill. Say, fine i owc' tueir depositors nearly two thous
out if a feller with red evewinkers an" ! and millions of money, and yet thev
no nose is 111 uor ftennitt. will vei
rV
If dere is, dat's Bliuksy. But 1 an'
no one but a Bliuksy cud work dat
graft in Washington.
No. 943-Tier 3. Main Prison, An-1
burn If vou ask my opinion as an
expert criminal on the job at Wash-;
i
ington, I can only say it myself, 1 ;
have had great sii'jees in it. Possi
bly I should nave made a good Sena
tor, but my skill as a lorger would
not necessarily make me adept as
that kind of a crook. I am, however,
able to admire a line piece of work,
and at lirst glance I should say a first
class man was at work in the Senate.
Still there may be a boomerang in it.
Vou never know where you are in
this business until all the detectives
are dead.
No. 1970 TierS. Risrht Wimr.
Auburn It don't interest me. Pin
a bank burglar, and these lower forms
of business I can't notice. Those
tellers :n Washington are not 111 my
class. 1 don't believe Byrnes will
bother with em. They're to small.
No. f01 Tier 2, Main Prison.
Sing Sing I'm a protectionist, I be
lieve in us fellers bein' protected
against the police. There ought to be
high tariff on stolen goods, and the
only raw material that ought to be
free is . me self. But that was a
smoothe game in Washington, all the
same, (live my regards to my friends
in the Senate. 1 like to see the
thoroughbreds get oh. 1 hear the
head of the gang is Spike Feeny, of
East New York. Spike always was
neat. Tell him to chase the can in
my name and blow some of the froth
up the river. I never thought he'd
get to Congress.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of
of "Uncle Tom's Cabin,' one morning
walked into the garden where Sambo
was hoeing the cabbages. ' Sambo.''
she said "we women helped yen color
ed men to gain your freedom." ''Yes,
massa." responded Sambo. "And.
Sambo, we women aided you to obtain
the ballot '' "Now, Sambo, don't
vou think that you colored men ought
to help us women to secure the right
to vote?" "Load a massa! Why
massa Stowe! Does you womens
knows enough to vote?'" The peo-
, pie's party of Indiana believes that
Mrs. Stowe does know enough to vote
and declares for wom an's
Nonconformist.
surtVae.
the sugar
In the investigation of
trusts before the Senate commitiee
Haven meyer stated that the trust con
tributed to the democratic party in
democratic states and to the rcpubli -
can party i republican states but
never to a minority. Capitalists ware
no party collars and get what they
rant and the two old partes are their
friends - Auburn. Indiana. Times.
Yjhi must chose between vour own
and family's welfare and the old
party. On which side will you be
found? Missouri World.
A Banker Admits It.
no estimate is made of paper and coin
during the past twenty-five years. It
is known that silver wears out and is
renewed once in thirty years. We
claim that, deducting amounts in
United States Treasury and banks
held as reserves and losses in paper
currency and coins, gold exports and
hoardings, this country is down to the
actual famine circulation of less than
$6 per capita, counting our population
at 65,00J,000. The national banks
arc in favor of further contraction.
The municipal, state, county and in
dividual debts of the United States
exceed the legal tender, coin and pap-
er twenty times over. The
men who could not make
business
a better
showing would be considered broke
and yet our bankers want the expan
sion of the Sherman bill cut otf.
The foregoing published one vear
asjo makes good reading. These gent
leman who are considered good au
thority on financial matters declared
that the country was down to an "ac
tual famine circulation of less than
$6 per capita." They continually re
peated that what this country needed
was more legal tenders and they said
that the repeal of the Sherman law
wauld not bring relief. They were
ri2ht. Senator Logan once declared
that the panic of lST.'t was a money
famine and nothing else. This is true
of the panic of 1893.
Populist State News.
Holt county populists will hold
their nominating convention at Mound
City on the 12th of September.
The Bates County Populist is a
new reform paper just started at
Hill. It has the right ring "and will
be of great service to our friends in
Bates.
The people's party of Buchanan
eouniy held a grand picnic at Easton,
Aug 31. Addresses were delivered by
Son. O. D. Jones, Hon. W. S. Messe
mer and J. W. L5ng.
The populists down in Vernon
county are making a red-hot fight
with prospects of winning.
M. V. Carroll, ex-chairman of the
; state committee, is leading the fight
I ; .llos county, for the people's
; nartv with pvprv nrnaneet of siicwss
. 7 I 1
There is no more effective orjani7.er
or worker in the state than M. V. Car
roll. Reports of great gains to the peo
ple's part- come from every quarter
in the state and our vote will be
daobled and trebled over that of two
years ago.
The outlook of a populist victory
in Dade coun'y all along the line is
good.
The trades and labor unions of SL
i Louis have given the people's' party
s their unequivocal endorsmenf. which
means manv thousands of an increase
I in ur vote there
Independent.
this vear. Tarkio
Had Cleveland signed the tariff bill
when it was sent to him he would
1 have saved a large sum for the govern-
meat He knew just what it was and
I knew that he was goinfr to let it
, come a law. While the ten s
were expiring the whisky trust paid
j taxes under the old law and the so -
xr trust impo" ted sugar free. In hold j
incr the tariff bill ten davs. President
i
; Cleveland aided two wicked trusts in
j defrading the government out of a
' vast 9um of mooew Missouri World.
Memphis
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Twelve Departments :
Preparatory, Normal, Scientific, Literature,
Elocution, Cqmniercial, Actual Business
Practice, Pe'nnianship. Stenography,
Typewriting, Pen Art and Con
servatory of Music.
Opens Sept. 11th, 1804.
TXJITIOlN" EATES.
$10.00 in advance pays tuition for one term of in weeks, except music;
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ZMZTXBIC TTJTTXCOSr.
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Mitgle lesson
One lesson each week, ten weeks.
Two lessons each week, ten weeks
IBo-Sud ieoi Students.
The people of Memphis Lave kindly opened their homes to the students
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nicely and neatly furnished, and board at the exceeding low price of $2 50
per week. For particulars and catalogue, address,
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Memphis, Ho.
THE TIMES ON ROSEWATER.
The Chicago Times in speaking of
Mr. Rosewater's bolt of the Nebraska
ticket on account of its railroadism,
yery pertinently says:
But Mr. Rose water is inconsistent
when he attempts to dlstunguish be
tween the elements dominating the re
publican party in Nebraska and the
party elsewhere. Even" where that
tarty is under conrol of the trusts the
railroads, the privileged corporations
of every kind. The roster of the re
publican national committee reails
like a corporation directory. Mere in
sistence Upon the? policy of protection
weds the republican party to such cor
porations as the sngar trust, the Stan
dard Oil company and, the Carneige
concern. The rules of these gigentic j
corporations are also influential m j
railroad management, either by being
actually directors or because of the
tariff they control. Mr. Rosewater
might as t weir struggle against the!
force OTgraveity as try to divorce the j
republican party from its affilicotins.
No party can be free from domina
tion of corporate influences which for
a moment admits the justice of using
the taxing power of, the countn for
the enrichment of . individuals. !
m m
Both the old parties, according to
their own admission, are controlled
by the trusts. They made the Mc
kinley law and they passed the Me
ibomian bill. As long as either .of
these corrupt old machines is kept in
power this will be a government of
trusts, by trusts and for trusts. The
only .hope of reform lies in the utter
extinction of both along with their
misshapen progeny which bestride
the whole Union like a nightmare
with nine foal. --Nonconformist.
Thirty per cept of the families who
live on their own farms enjoy life nn-
der a mortgage' Twenty-nine percent
! of the families owing their own home
also live under a dark cloud.
j still the voters of these families per
aist in voting for mortgages. Non
conformist.
There is no more reason for a man
, Demoemt or Kq,uhiican be
j cau8e bU father was or tSj than there
; is in followmsr a single sll0vel plow
WBen he can have a cultiratoc. Keep
; QQ with lQe proccssion: ncw ideas are
1 . hj frontMissotfri World.
i Mr. Merchant, the national banker
'obtains money for his use atone per
cent Wliat do you pay?
formist -Noncon-
College
except Harmony,
4 a
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H. (1. PITKIN, l1
1'ITKIN, ru-uw
PJLii up Jpilal, $25,000.
H.C.. INtkin.
A. Simon.
A. II. Pitkin.
Wm. liiSKK.m.ovr,
.1. S. I'lTKIN.
Directors.
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Io's a general banking business,
lluys r(,ni negotiable paper.
Special attention given ell' i ions.
fXIMK AND 88B I s.
JrT"xrthcast Corner Public Square.
JAMES E. PDLLIAM,
Blacksmith.
Repiirins Neatly and Proraoliy Dane
1 make a specialty of
XEEoiRSIESZXOIEISr Gr
i Miop ooutneast ( or. Square, old
; Perkin s Stand, Memphis, Mo.
J. M. Kloeter,
MEMPHIS. MO ,
First Door west of the Citizen's Bank
building, invites the pubi c to call
on him when wanting to bu y
HARNESS, SADDLES, Halters,
Bridles, Whips, &c.
The stock is ne.v and the lowest
possible price asked for good DOORS.
i The country trade especially solicited.
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