The farmers' union., September 27, 1894, Image 1

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THE FARMERS' UNION.
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Volume lV.
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M. Humphrey's
Green Front.
10,000
Men,
BoysandCMldren
to call at my JJ ore and examine my
Mammoth Stock
OF-
Clothing
which I have just received,
anil which has been pur
chased under a prospect of
: low tariff and bought the
goods away down, the equal
has never been known in
Northeast Missouri. I am
prepared to sell you
GOOD GOODS,
Even below your own ex
pecta :on. Those
Hats,
Caps,
Shoes,
Neckwear.
Furnishing Goods
AS WELL A MY
Clothing Stock
Are all Fresh, New Goods,
aud purchased under the re
cent decline in the eastern
market, and, positively, will
be closed out to make room
for another stock, which 1
expect to buy in the near
future, eveu lower than ever
if possible. Call early and
sec me if you wish to
Save Money !
Remember, Old and Young
Ladies' Shoes and Slippers
a specialty. 1 am yours as
ever.
M. mpnry,
Green Front,
orth Side,
Memphis, Ho.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
The Two Old Parties Are Companions
in Crime.
Conventions of the two old parties
which have been held up to date unite
in reaffirming their platforms of 1892,
without any attempt on their part at
defining what either of those verbose
literary productions will be held to
mean when constructed by members
of their respective parties, should the
people decide to gie either of them
the power in congress to crystal ize
their meaning into law. Recent ex
periences furnish abundant evidence
that when the democratic party of
1892 set forth in their national
platform a demand for an immediate
and substantial reduction of duties
thev meant only the shifting of
schedules and changing from ad val
orem to specific, and vice versa, tak
ing the duty off the goods and placing
it on the boxes the goods come in.
Again, while in their platform of 1892
they demanded free coinage of silver.
the votes of their representatives in
congress have demonstrated their
meaning to have been pracitical demo
netization by ceasing the coinage al
together. Again while their platform of 1892
demanded the repeal of the bank tax,
their congressmen after the people ele
ected them gave us another object les
son by voting no on a resolution to re
peal it. Verily it is indeed an unsoph
isticated intelligence, auda confiding
nature that could be again inveigled
into trusting further pledges from such
a source.
As to the meaning of that other
confusion of terms, which the various
republican conventions are reaiHring
with such unanimity, and dignified
by the title of a national platform,
contrived by bankers and trust mani
pulators in 1892, and repudiated by
thepeople at the polls in the follow
ing election, it is only necessary to
state that it would be interesting to
have them explain just how an in
crease in duties and consequent far
ther restriction of imports, can re
lieve America's wage earners or busi
ness men, when it is considered that
our imports were very materially less
the past year than our exports. The
fact ia our merchants could not sell
either foreign or domestic goods for
the reason that their patrons the con
sumers could not dispose of their
products or labor in sufficient quanti
ty, or at such prices as would enable
them to purchase. This inability to
sell on the part of the consumer was
in turn caused by the inability of the
employers of labor to obtain money
to carry on their various enterprises
encept such terms as would make
final bankruptcy the outcome of their
efforts, No ranker or moic villainous
sophism ever emanated from the
brains of clown or knave in all the
ages that the buy-without-selling-lift-yourself-over-the-fence-by
-your- boot
straps logic by the aid of which Sher
man, Aldnch, Reed and McKinley are
attempting to again ride into power.
Regarding their mouthings about
money they prove but a hollow mock
ery. When it is understood that the
! enormous losses suffered by the com
mercial interests of the people of this
nation for the last year were made
possible only by the votes of John
Sherman and 20 republicans in the
United States senate, when they re
pealed the purchase clause of the sil
ver coinage act of 1890. without sub
stituting free coinage therefor their
efforts to "turn state's evidence''
against their partners in crime. Cleve-
land. ooruees Ac to., must prove
I abortive for in 1872-3 with congress
! ami the executive, did uot the republi
! caus le i by John Sherman demonetize
i the white metal, by making no provi
sion fur the coinage thereof? In fact
I ought not recent developements
I to convince the dullest and satisfy
I the most sceptical that there is ab
j solutely no issue between the two old
j parties except the officers. That por
tion of 1 he republican press owned or
control by America's oligarchy is
viug with Chicago Herald and other
it i :. 5peclacl
cause mourning i
in li 1 when w
Lincoln, Pi
tv
coi 1 upt : i 11 i dang ion
democratic party. !
God and humani; a .
our ancestors lefi the
their shoeless feel on
Valley Forge? W:
Ihnt tha hi -.1 hbwid , f
American utb v. :. -hundred
battle fields?
t - I ! ! in ' 1 he I lo ' 1 of
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the
th:-
Li iii olo v shed aud to-day r Luain
a silent wilne-s insparable. from the
escutcheons of the nation and the
lintels of her people? '-Watchman,
what of the night?"
C. H Barnes.
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ing Popultsi ? V,' : ; !l 01 it it i
means. The old hoys in bin ai
patriotic; not of the spread eagh
fourth of July kind, but the son that
faced the music of war for the old
tlag. They fought for justice and
equality, and they joined the republi
can party because in those days that
party seemed to be and in fact was
the exponent of what they were fight
ing for. Now these old soldiers are
rapidly learning that the republican
party has stayed far from he faith
of the fathers of republicanism, and
has gone off after strange gods. As
rapidly as they learn this they seek a
new political home. They turn to
the democrats and hud them no bet
ter. Then thev turn to the Populist
ind find in their platform genuine
Abaraham Lincoln republicanism, and
Jeffersonian democracy, which are
alike; as both taught "Equal rights
to all and special privileges to none.
Justice and equality, and the greatest
good to all." Here the soldier patriot
feels at home, and to the camp of
Populism the old soldiers are Hocking
by the thousands. New York Char
ter.
What the Democratic Party has Donf.
By consulting our market reports
our readers will see that sugar has
mounted another round of the Demo
cratic ladder of promised prosperity.
The price has been advanced another
quarter of a cent per pound. This is
the second advance, and within less
tha one week after the taritl bill has
become a law the people must pay a
half cent extra for every pound of
sugar they consume for the luyury of
having a Democratic administration.
This is about the only tangible re
sult the people will discover of what
the Democratic party has dune for
them. Of the articles placed on the
free list or on which the tariff sched
ule has been reduced, the ot im
portant are on raw ma ial. and the
protection in favor of the manufac
tured articles being retained, the peo
ple will receive no piactical benefit
from the reduction made, which will
be almost wholly consumed by the
manufacturing capitalists. But the
advance of sugar will fall with cruel
foree on the working people.
This tax was put on. not because
of the necessities of the government,
but to satisfy the rapacity of the su
gar trust, People s Paper.
That anarchist who uses the dyna
mite bomb instead of the ballot box
is a mean contemptible cur but he
cannot, be any meaner than the other
anarchist who uses the Winchesters
and the gatling guns to defend their
practical raids on the people Farm
ers Advocate.
The fewer the property owners in
Maine the larger the republican maj
ority . Nonconformist,
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v v .. . (hi the money
io.i, ou the labor, and even on
Lue i iiitl question there is practically
110 difference between the leading
spirits of the old parties. On the
strike question I notice that Senator
Davis, of Minnesota, and Gorman, of
Maryland, one a strong republican and
a Union man during the war, and the
ther a democrat and a secessionist,
agree perfectly in upholding Cleve
land in sending federal troops into
Chicago to help Pullman and the rail
roads. On all important questions I find
the democrats and republicans too
near together to make it worth my
while to remain in the republican par
ty simply to tight the democrats. In
the People's party I find the only op
position there is to the fast increas
ing power of monopoly, and I notice
that the gn at democratic and repub
lican newspapers spend more time in
fighting the Populists than they do in
lighting each other. This lias opened
my eves and it has opened the eyes
of others, too.
Will it do any good to put the Pop
ulists in power? We can't tell until
we try. It will certainly be no worse
and there's a chance that it will be
better, and this chance is worth fight
ing for, and for one I have decided to
renounce my allegiance to the repub
lican party and join hands with the
Populists in an effort, feeble though
it may be. to change conditions and
make the lot of the farmer easier and
l etter. The republican party of this
country is in the hands of a ring. In
the state it is in the hands of Petti
grew. In the nation it is controlled
by such men a Sherman and Depew,
who are in sympathy with monopoly
interests. It is ti. e, therefore, for
the people to wake up aud do some
thing for themselves. The politicans
and monopolies have had our services
long enough.
Respectfully Yours,
W. M. Gilchrist,
Wkonda, Clay county. 8. D.
deny Simpson showed U9 just be
fore he left for home a 5 b: 11 of the
issue of 1861. It was an old ale
maud note" that remained at par with
gold simply because it performed all
j the functions of money. Jerry de
j dared it was a specimen that had es-
caped from the hands of John Sher
' man. National Watchman.
The promised - pick-up ' in business
of which we have heard so much. and
' which was billed to appear upon the
passage of the sugar bill, doesn t
seem to pick up. Nonconformist.
j Broken pledge and republican poli-
! cies have nigh well done the grand
old Democratic party. Liberty Searchlight.
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neons SiroWin Oil, UC IS msl Ullh
relegated to the infant class until the
accident has been repaired. As a
rule, the service required of the appli
cant is perfunctory, everything being
kindly cut and before hand, and,
machine like, he does as he is bed, no
matter wheather the moss is go.ving
fast or slow. Brains don't count; in
telligence cuts no figures, for the
whole thing is a question of moss. If
one's grandfather was a moss-grown
Democrat, it is put down as a good
sign. If one's father was a moss
covered Democrat also that is still
better, but so far as the applicant in
dividually is concerned, nothing save
home-grown moss will carry him
through.
For these reasons thousands of our
brainy young men of the country are
flocking to the People's party. None
are turned away because of their
youth or social position. The front
ranks aud the high places are open to
all who prove themselves worthy.
Such conditions make effort a pleas
ure and study a passtime, and brings
togather the good and true, earnest
and desiring, where each can obtain
the reward which his services deserve.
Moral: young men, joiu the People's
party and grow up with its principles
and prospects. National Watchman.
How foolish is the thought on the
part of republican silverites that their
patty will eventually restore silver to
its old-time position. What evidence
is there foi this hope? What action
has the g. o. p. taken that justifies such
a belief ? What says the party's record
ou the question? Here it is. Let it
speak for itself: Demonetized silver
i in 1S73; defeated a coinage bill two
years later: defeated the Bland free
coinage bill and passed a compromise
measure in 1878: defeated a coinage
; bill in the house in 18CG; guilty of
i same action in 1888; forced, as a com
promise measjre, the Sherman law of
; 1890; tlefeated, in the house, a coin
! age bill in 1882; voted, in the house,
j almost solidly to repeal the Sherman
j purchasing clause; aided in defeating
j the seigniorage bill. Glorious record!
Such evidence of friendly feeling for
i silver should fill every free coinage
I republican with joy. There is yet hope
I for him, he is told by republican lead-
) era. Tom Reed tells him so; so does
' McKinlev aud Harrison and-of course
I
j John Sherman tells him not to lose
; hope. John would tell him anything
i to induce him to continue playing in
the role of a fool and help the repub-
1 lican party to again get held of the
i reins of government, Yes, certainly;
j the republican party is for silver just
! as the slave power was for abolishing
; slavery. Nonconformist
Mere appeals to the master never
strike the shackles from the slave.
As industrial slaves the wage earners
! have a weapon much more effective
than is an appeal. oie on tne chains:
Nonconformist
A Political Straw.
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...o stated. He intended, he de
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ed, to pledge the party to this
policy in all of his speeches on the
ia:no. K would place him where
the pai ty would either enable him to
poiut to the accomnlishmeiit of his
I
promises, or leave him no alternative
exeent to cast his lot with tha. mtlv
nartV that is avowed v fnr froo coin.
age at that ratio. The statement was
made to newspaper men with the
knowledge that it would find its way
into print. National Watchman.
ANOTHER SOLDIER FALLEN.
The greatest labor paper ever is
sued was John Swintou's paper. It
perished for lack of patronage. In
1892 The New Forum was started at
St. Louis. It was a splendid paper
but died for lack ol support. In liS9.'l
The Vanguard of Chicago, the best
of the reform paper was forced to
suspend. The Cincinnati Herald
which I always read through also
went under. Now the Virginia Suu,
the organ of the Farmers Alliance of
Virginia and West Virginia and the
people party of those two states, has
suspended for lack of support. This
was one of our best papers, ranking
as one of the best ten among all the
reform press.
The old party papers often get en
ough in county printing to pay for
runuing a paper. The pcopic pay this
in taxes. Reformers must see to it
that their papers are supported. They
must get subscribers for them or they
must see man' others go down which
they must surely do if expected to
succeed unaided by those interest they
are conducted. Peninsular Farmer.
Expense in Making Fine Wines.
Mr. Speer, the original wine man of
this country, says:
Nothing is too much trouble or ex
pensive for us in improving our vine
yards and the quality of the grape,
and more particularly in improying
and perfecting the high standard of
our wines. The right kind of grape,
just the right fertilizer, in the right
soil, makes the right wine; then the
right kind of cellar, with proper ven
tilation, proper care and handling for
several years before offering for sale,
is the right way of improving and
perfecting the wine; such is Speer's
Wine, of Passaic. N. J.
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Six good men, Jefferson, Madison,
Gallatin, Dallas, Calhoun and Jack
son, all favored the government issu
ing the paper money direct to the
people, and opposed banks of issue.
The position of the Populists exactly'.
Liberty Searchlight
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S. G. Tuttle, of Rhiuelander, Wis.,
a life-long Republican and a man of
wide influence, has changed his polit
ical faith and is now a Populist. In
the circles of organized labor, Mr.
Tuttle is one of the best known men
in northern Wisconsin.
The sugar trust contributes to the
campaign funds of the committee of
both old parties, and y 011-well, but
say, neighbor, are you gwine wid de
ole party again! Be you de sngah
trust's friend! Nonconformist
Dr. Price's
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