The farmers' union., September 13, 1894, Image 1

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

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MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, Tll'UIlIA V, SPTMBfiR 13, 180.
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Men,
AMe-jmifhilrirpn
II v II 1 1 1 1 1 i I I
to call at my Store and examine my
ammom mock
OF-
Clothing,
which 1 have just received,
and which has been pur
chased under a prospect of
a low tariff and bought the
zooda away DOWN, the eo,ual
has never been known in
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to sell you
GOOD GOODS,
Even below your own ex
pectation. Those
Hats,
Caps,
Boots,
Shoes,
Neckwear,
Furnishing Goods,
a; well a my
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, which I
expect to buy in the near
future, even lower than ever
if possible. Call early ami
see me if you wish to
Save Money
Remember. Old and Young
Ladies' Shoes and Slippers
a specialty. 1 am yours as
ever.
M. Humphry,
Green Front,
lorth Side,
Memphis, Mo.
COST OF LIVING.
In reply to the theory that 1.10 a
day is plenty for a laboring man to
support a family on and live well, the
Auburn, Intl., Times, produces the
following faets ami figures:
We have long held that wages are
entirely too low ami to present this
Populist doctrine clearly we shall re
sort to figures.
There are about 300 working days
in the year. If :t man works every
day at $1.10 a day he would have
$:."0. Out of this he must live and
support his family. An average
family is five persons. Now let us
figure:
Living 12c a day each one year, $219 00
An ordinary house T per month. y4 00
Poll tax.... 2 00
Other taxes
One good suit of clothes
One cheap suit of clothes ....
2 00
. . . 15 00
8 00
One overcoat lfl (!"
One pair good shoes
One pair coarse shoes
One good hat
One common hat
: oo
1 50
2 50
I 00
25
1 2.')
One straw hat
Three cheeked shirts
Two wool shirts 2 00
Two white shirts
2 00
5 00
1 50
:j oo
2 50
1 50
1 50
Underclothing, hose, etc..
Collars, cuffs, neckties, etc,. . .
For wife:
One worsted dress
One pair line shoes
One pair coarse shoes
Two calico dresses
One hat 2,50
Underclothing
8 00
Fuel and light 40 00
Children's clothing 20 00
Five cents a week to preacher . . 2 60
Doctor bills 10 00
Lawyers nothing
Tobacco, cigars, etc, nothing
Hooks, papers, etc. nothing
Furniture, dishes, etc nothing
Circuses, shows, etc nothing
Visits to friends abroad nothing
Carpets, bedding, etc nothing
11. EL fare, lectures etc, nothing
Organ, music, etc, nothing
Luxuries nothing
Total 452 60
No one should say that this bill of
living is unreasonable, yet it amounts
to $122.00 more than a 'man earns,
providing he works every day, losing
none for bad weather, sickness, etc.
But our Republican friends who talk
so much of protecting the laboring
man think that $1.10 a day is plenty,
so we must go over the list and cut
it down.
The amount for food cannot be re
duced as it only allows of meat once
a day as it is. Rent and taxes cannot
be cut down. We will make the man
do without an overcoat. $10. One
white shirt must suffice, $1. He can
make one collar and one tie suffice,
75c. A hat for his wife worth $1.50
is good enough, $1. This has reduc
ed the amount $12.75, but the cost of
living is still $109.8; too much.
Well, it's got to be reduced. He can
stay at home from church ami save
the $2.00 paid to the preacher. He
has got to have the doctor, but he can
let the $10 go unpaid, as doctors are
good fellows and used to this way of
business. He can have a $10 suit in
stead of a $15 suit and thereby save
$5. A hat that costs $1.50 is good
enough for a laboring man on Sunday
and that saves $1. A workiugman's
wife does not need a worsted dress j
and that saves $3. The children can
go barefoot ami wear cheaper clothes
and that could thereby be reduced j
$0. This reduces the amount $27.00. 1
but is still $82.25 loo much.
Well, the bill must be reduced. His
bouse is none too good, but he must
get a poorer one. He gets a poor
house for $5. That saves $24. Well,
tbev must eat less and the other j
! $58.25 must be taken from the food
that costs 12 cents a day.
The above calculation is made lor
i a family of five parents, and three
children. Bat many families exceed
three children, then reader, figure out
for yourself the cost of their living.
j Now let us make another statement
I of the cost of living, which we believe
wi uld be just and light and from this !
i we will determiue the rate of wages a j
man should receive. Again we will
calculate for an average family
five:
Cost of living. 20c a day each. .
rood house, rent !:
Poll and oilier taxes 1
Doctor bills I
Children's clothing $20 each. ...
ne carpet each year 1
l.i uti
lit 09
lo on
5 OH
tin ;o
60 00
36 ( to
60 0l
25 4 i
New furniture
New bedding;
New dishes, tinware, ete,
Fuel and light
R. It. fare, carriage, lecture, ett
Books, papers, etc
Organ, music, pictures, ete
Donation to charities
Donation to church
Other tiling
I :
100
Total 1974 00
Man's wardn be:
Oie good suit cf clothes 8 20 00
One go d hat 3 00
One good pair shoes 3 50
Three white shirts 3 00
Collars, cuffs, ties, etc 3 00
Underclothing 5 00
One common hat 1 50
One straw hat 25
One coarse suil 10 00
Coarse shoes I 50
Common shirts, etc 5 00
Barber bill 6 20
Other things 10 00
Total
Wife's wardrobe:
One good dress. . . .
Five calico dresses .
Three worsted dresi
Two good pairs of s
ti '.)
11 00
12 00
(i 00
ses
hue
Two pairs of common sho
Overshoes and stockings .
Two hats
Winter wrap
Spring wrap
Corsets, undorwear, etc,. .
Other things
00 1
5 10
8 oo
15 001
8 00 1
5 oo i
10 OO
I
$105 50 i
1
!7 I 0J
Total
Family expenses
Husband's wardrobe
Wife's wardrobe
71 :
lo."
Total
This shows that the
would be a little les
month. We think I'm
cost ol living
i than $100 a
is a moderate
estimate for a good living. T!
tor and dental hills may averagi
ten dollars. One new carpe
year is ?oi small an estimate,
of furniture will be more th
i. ...
above
each
Wear
n ten
dollars a vear.
Fi e dollar-, a month
for shows, lecture-, railroad fare, car
riage hire, amusements, 'te., may be
plenty but not too much. Hie esti
mate is moderate.
Now a man should accumulate
something above a living. He should
store away something for old age, for
misfortunes and adversity. Say he
saved one dollar for each working day
that would be $,'100 a year. Then in
round figures a man should have $1,-
500 a vear, $1,200 for expen
ami
$300 for savings. Divide that by
300 working days and get $5 a day.
That looks like big wages, but it takes
that much to live that well.
If that estimate i- too hi
reduce it one-half n an
The living cannot be reduce
:u iei us
average.
me hal f .
I he taxes, rent, doctor Lulls, ami some-
.i,i
other items cannot be reduced one
half. Some other items, such as mu
sic, amusements, contributions to
church and charities may be reduced
three fourths and that will average it
to one-half throughout. A man then
supports a family on half as much
and saves $15o a year. This woul 1
require just half the wages. just
$2.50 a day.
So, anyone who will take the trouble
to figure it out will see thai $1.10 a
day is not enough. Neither is $1.50
enough. People exist on such wages
but the do not live, ah tuis prat
ing about protection ! American la
bor is a hollow sham. For every five
dollars of wealth created, tr.r goes
iuto the pockets ot the rich, while the
poor eke out an existence ( n th
other dollar. It costs $200 a day to
feed the president in the White House.
I Asitr ggures the cost of living at
, about $200 a day for a family in New
j York Thousand of families sj en
j from ten to one hundred dollars a day
hut the workingman who creates th
j wealth is supposed to support a fam
i llv on less than ninety cents.
..li
on such injustice.
It
is fight between dividends am
I humanity. Irish World,
T LE H NT
Th
eral millions of law
n'tkis country who are
h tin- doings of those
ns
m n sausut
who comp;
The are 1
better pla
i and prepa
) wi
lie t ;i
1 political parties.
iking for some new and
to camp while thinking
uring their ballots. These
jlt citizens do not take kind-
j law-au
ly to an
and disi
lists or
if carrie
an c
ment that mcits to not
raru oi law. it me ropu-
law.
I i LI ftC
d by
i thus
I . t Ik
v cause that
non-law-abid-
c ii no : . aim inns :uui io me work
w UU ii
must i
will not
.1: W-
ion
x-pa ing people
iuse of reform
i ue
forward on anv ol the lines
i ,
wl
h are handled by those who des-
troy proper
pt and legit
ness and Hf
i ii i?" pan of
intefcre with the prom
mate transaction of busi
. To jump out of the fry
anie into t he ashes of in-
t rnecine disorder and mob violence
is not I i be thought f by that great
and b tter element which seeks faith
fully 1 correct evils bv the ballot
removes
ie new.
his hot
uaiting
the
and
brings
alk in defiance of law
if ; in i e who defy law
and
and
the
thOi
.,!!'(
Set
law
dienisi lv s up as higher than
is ou a par with the acts of
rough which all the financial
in this count ry came. But
lOl
ne vv iiv oi m
am
! too often
unken agitator in Colorado the
present year, men of money enough
to !
e in:
a thousand miles of rail
created a greater demand
would have been there ere
housari Is now out of steady
cv-m; king employ would
and prospering.
State of Pennsylvania, ac
) the official reports, there
three labor stnekes during
I SI) !. and uot one of them
- is. The railway Union
lor i
this.
and
be
1 1
am
in
; cor ung
i were Sft
the e u
j was a si
by ;v 1 1 i c
!e
loped to come to the
to ail other unions,
Initcd Slates Union,
ike on the part of iis
tself to oe other than
: front as dicta!
. including the
j has by one mi
j fficcrs prove
f i i : 1 1 is neede
(leu, i lien
ire rt iser and
aoier men iu tne laoor associations ol
this couutry than Debs. Men who
have kepi out of jail and out of the
clutches ol the law. Men who can
carry on a great Work without appeal
ing to the meddlesome and the un
ruly. h u who love law and lawful
methods, and w ho would proceed by
Use ballot to displace the old. and
properly aud respectably place the
new,
The man with one idea, and that
one to light and kill, may be a good
man in a canse, but he is not. the man
to be entrusted to the position as
leader. While there is
ich a thing
as courage', there is al
crction. The mouth
o need foi dis
t hal is always
r
en is sometimes very uanuerous to
its owner, especially wnen it comes to
a place where the least said is tin-
so- -ne
vancc
t mcnueu
Though.
fomerov s
A-
i i a man tells you he ;
Lincoln Republican taki
an Abraham
him bv the
hand an 1 tell 1
im that he is Populist,
and t.v comparing notes he will admit
that he is. Again, if a man tells you
he is a Jefferson ian Democrat, you will
una ue
in prin
a true
O le
party man
t know it.
uie. omv ue
en should vt
i ii i
populist
iionesth
;! I iii UU sO Ii iiie
their sentime
nu, and mean to
:, en-iet,-,! :efr. !
iff.-
-In-
News. Jacksou, Mi
At
ii Alabama
P
t- carried f
ur congres
ii nai
.in
ne county o
henerv an
this means four
traight
i.
nulit
mgi essmen from
Alabama. The democrats can steal
the state
by conn ting the negro cotin-
lies, hut they can t manage t.'c?e lour
it
tricl s. ...r.o mtormisl.
The U
with Democratic J
Iver in 1573. The
heio. demonetized silver in 173. The
rWurtrtr-fntia with Rpmihlircin beta re
& m
peated the
dose in lSi'3. Which is
i which? llentou, Kansas, Tribune.
5 I ITT
POPULIST STATE NLWS.
The Farm Record of Ava, Douglass,
county, has repudiated democracy
and is Hying the people s party ticket.
The populist of St. Clair county,
are making a vigorous light and ex
pect to win.
J. Ii. Follett, of St. Louis, a mem
ber of the state executive committee,
informs us that organization is going
forward and the people's party in
creasing rapidly iu that city.
Texas county populists recently
held a two days' camp-meeting at
Houston and nominated a strong
ticket,
G. H. HitTner of,Atherton, member
of the State Committee from the Fifth
district, sends a very encouraging re
port regarding the outlook in his dis
trict and in Jackson county. John S.
Crosby is likely to be elected to con
gress down there and Jackson county
will elect a portion of the People's
ticket.
Dallas countv has a full "middle of
the road" county ticket in the field
with a lighting chance of electing it.
Dade county populists have their
war paint on and expect to elect their
ticket in November,
Speakers are in demand in many
counties, but there is no money with
which to pay them.
(I. T. Deraaree has moved his "Com
monwealth ' from Lamar to Clinton.
The populists of Carroll county
held their nominating convention at
Carrolltown, August 28, and put out
a strong ticket.
Douglass county populists nominat
ed a straight ticket on the 28th of Au
gust. Tarkio Indepinkent.
Would Not Demonetize Anything.
Letters come to us every day in
which t..c writers ask if we should ad
vise the demonetization of gold and
silver, the substitution of full legal
tender paper moniy therefor.
Certainly not.
The Government has no moral
right to demonetize anything it has
once decreed and issued as legal
tender.
The man who buys from the tJov
eminent or from any person anything
that is legal tender for a debt is buy
ing that much of the cream of all
wealth, so far ag relates to business
purposes, and has the. right to have
that creation kept alive iu its official
position as money till he uses it in the
payment of debts, and thus passes it
to the next
This is the only purpose for which
the law creates legal tender, and
whenever the act of demonetization
strikes the legal tender quality from
that coin or creation law, it robs the
person in whose possession the lega
tender was when in was demonetized
I of the very power he paid for, am
J leaves it dead on his hands so far as
using it for the original purpose is
concerned.
We w ould not demonetize any kind
of legal tender, any more than we
would by law declare the letter carry
ing quality of a postagestamp io be
wrested therefrom, and this at a loss
to every one who had one or more in
his possession. Let all coins remain
mc loorol ImuW nt their face value till
;
' lhL'v wer out and disappcai, and let
paper money be an addition to the
useful creations of the Government
under the law as legal tender.-
-Pom-
l eroy's Advance Thought.
Domo-Hepubltcan presidential tick-
maiorities rannu"det for 189: or president, Grover
ious; Thev have I Cleveland, of Buzzard s Bay ; for iee
., , . . . , t- e election president, Benjamin Harrison, cor-
1 poration attorney
Platform, "down
with labor and up with the army."
Chairman national committee, John
Sherman; advisory board, the sugar,
: whisky aud several other trusts; re-
turning board, United States circuit
courts. Nonconformist.
j -i iove me principles oi iiue ue-
. -v B . 1
- ! mocracv." Lone Fisherman's last
letter. So did Benedict Arnold love
his country. Nonconformist.
JONES BOLTS THE TRACES
The Evening Washington, D. C.
Star says:
To-day furnished a genuine sensa
tion in political circles by the state
ment that Senator John P, Jones, of
Nevad , who lu.s represented his
State in the United States Senate for
over twentv-one years, has formally
renounced his allegiance to the Re
publican party and cast his lot
with t lie Populists. Senator Jones has
written a letter to his constituency,
which will be published in Nevada to
tmorrow, and will be the first inti ma
ion to the people of that State
that he has doffed the political gar
ment that he has worn with such dis-
tinsion for so many years, and will
don the garb of thejthird party. His
intentions have been kept secret from
all but his most intimate associates,
and it was his intention to have the
first public announcement of his ae-
tiou made in the letter which will be
published in his political home. With
this end in view Senator Jones de
clined to-day'of speak to the contents
of his letter, but it is understood that
lis change of policy is based almost
entirel) upon the question of silver.
Senator Jones left Washington to-
lay for New York. His holt makes
the Nevada Congressional delegation
solidly Populist, Senator Stewart
laving left the Republican party
sometime ago and Represenative
Newlands having been elected as a
silverite.
POPULISTS
should at once organize" in every
school district iu this country. Meet
ud elect a president, vice-president.
secretary and treasurer of the Popu-
ist Club in that district. Invite all
voters to assemble at least once a
week, to discuss the present terrible
financial condition of the countrv.
Invite those who do not understand
what is meat by the Populist move
ment, those who are opposed to it, and
present facts in proof that people
have as much right to move on and
from new parties as to sit still and be
robbed, year after yeai. Have pic
nics, lectures, entertainments of
various kinds to lighten the exercise,
and see how people will come into
this movement once they understand
what is to be accomplished by this
one more New Departure, as New De
partures are always in order. Have
reading matter always haudy to hand
to those who can and will read, and in
vite the wives and children to attend
these meetings, as they are al affect
ed by the laws and the way they are
administered, even if they do not
have the right to vote. Pomeroy 's
Advance Thought,
Labor papers, so-called, are blam
ing the law. How woul J it sound for
a shoemaker who made for himself a
shoe, to blame the shoe because it
did not fit him or his foot. The law
is a senseless thing, which is just as
it is made. If the law does not fit, or
pinches too much here und is too l ose
there, maks it over. You have the
ballot as the thing created for this
very purpose, But for God's sake
and man's sake aud the sake of the
country, honor the law while it is a
law. All the financial evils now
swarming over this mortgage-covered
country are the result of mistake in
the use of our ballots. Don t blame
the law, which could not Iks what it is
were the farmers and laborers, busi
ness men, and all' who are cramped
bv it, exeept that they had made ii so.
Let us begin by voting a new style of
men 'aud thought into Congress. That
is the place where the snake's eggs
are laid-Poineroy's Advance Thought
The Journal, at Excelsior Springs,
in the Staie of Missouri, is Demo
cratic, even if it says that the party
now in power has done nothing these
three years or so, exeept jam wind
and draw salaries.
If yon create wealth should you not
enjoy it? If not, continue voting
with Carnegia, Pullman & Co. Nonconformist.