The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 23, 1894, Page 3

_ esthetic =item a ADVICE FOR THE FARMER. ;you are playing tail to their kite. ply commercial paper. These Pop-| They looked over to New England ulists say that Rome fell because the | and saw that the manu‘acturer was money crop gave out. Now is it not protected to the extent of 60 per! with the dragons ail over it, and huntiog, funny that Gibbon and the other cent and left it to the Populists to find | Mollie Gibson mine has taken out a out? |great many millions of dollars ata Even if this were true it would cost of 10 cents on the dollar; the not apply to this age, when 97 per) Creede wines a great many willions er for their produce aud the laborer by that seignorage bill business; if cent of the business is done with, at 20 cents, and the Virginia City commercial paper, and not with met-|mines have taken out $350,000.000 al money. rom one hillside at a cost of 26 cents the | on the dollar—equal to seven Texas If | cotton crops, and The vext argument is that government can create money. that is so the goverment that has | remember, is whol ¢ the most printing presses and th | the United States. Low grade mines biggest stock of paper and ink can|must be abandoned. Machinery bas have most taoney. It is just a grand | cheapened the production of race to see who can make the most /a8 it has everything else IT money. When you were a boy you | duction of silver iu the Uuited read about Aladdin and his lamp,|bas doubled every ten yeu. whil and how he could rub it and make|the population bas vot increased bat gold and silver gome and make genii| 25 per cent. I say, help the farme:: came out of tae earth to eerve he needs ita long way wore tha: Now, if the the bulliouaire mine owns. If they United States could make mouey | bave free and unlimited silver, why that way Aladdin and his lamp is a|not have free and unlimited corn at back number. You hear these Pop Why ulists spouting figures like un arte-| free and unlimited cotton at 10 c nts sian well spouts water—regulating|a pound? Why not have free and the finances of the country. You|uulimited wheat at $1 a bushel? You have men among you regulating the|have just as wuch right to call on finances of this country that were) the government to hold up the price never able to regulate more than/| of your products as the mine owner one n hiw. government of the 75 cents a bushel? not have $2.50 into their own pockets at auy|bas. Money is like water, except one time, handling millions and bill-| that the water runs to the lowest ions like a pet bear would a club,| point, money to the highest. If we when they can’t get credit at a groc-| ery store for a bar of soap to take a undertake to lift silver from 50 cents to $1 we have to raise itin India bath. What would you think of ajund all oyer tho world. There is man who had always made a failure | about $4,000,400,000 of silver in the in farming sitting on the fence and|world. This statement does not telling you how to farm? Yet you|convey any definite idea to your listen in amazement to them when | minds. Let us load it on wagons and they come to you spouting figures. They say the government cau make money because it is backed by all the capital in the land. How it bicked? How is the government going to pledge anything that it does not own? The government does not own the land, cattle,horses, or anything else that goes to make up the wealth of the country. When Jefferson, Hamilton and Morgan fix- ed the ratio at 15 to 1 they went back to the Roman empire and ex- amiued every nook and corner where gold and silver had associated to- gether. They were trying to find} out the relative value of the two and put govenment certificate on it. The see how much there is of it. If all the silver in the world were piled here in Sherman and you were to start it off in wagons carrying 2,000 pounds each, and standing thirty feet apart in line, the head of that wagon train would reach Galveston, from there to San Antonia and stick out 100 miles toward El Paso before the last wagon was loaded here at Sherman. And that is the load they want you to put your shoulder to for the sole and separate use and benefit of the bullionaire mine own- er. That wagon train would reach from here to St. Louis and half way across the State of Illinois. If the silver in the Treasury vault of the is United States was so loaded on wa- gons the would reach from to Axahachie. If the silver purchased by the government under the Bland and § at 60 cents an ounce, the present result was they undervalued gold, and gold left the country. Under) the Gresham law it left the country | for forty years. In 1834, during | Andrew Jackson's administration, | the ratio was changed from 15 to 1 tol6tol. Silver was undervalued, and the dollar of the left $188,000.000. What the country until 1878. magnificent present to the silver If the undervaluation of gold | millionaires and English stockhold- quarter or a half a cent sent it out of | crs of these silver mines. Free and train here rman act was sold price of it, Uncle Sam would come daddies out loser the country for forty years, and the | unlimited coinage must go hand in/is that the price of labor bas never | Su undervaluation of silver to the same | hand with free and unlimited credit extent drove it out of the country, | and obligation. If you young ladies what would the undervaluation of | were to distribute free and unlimited gold to the extent of 50 per cent do? | kisses, they would not be © orth 10 It is the simple rule of three. You | eents on the dollar. I knew a board have heard the gold much about g ing house woman who made free and bugs Every gold dollar would | unlimited coffee by tying a grain of spread its little saffron wings and} coffee tu a duck’s tail and lettin: it sail across the blue waters. Gold | swim across a pond Were you ever and silver are very sensitive and /at a log rolling? Twenty men got on easily offended, and neither of them]each side of a big log. One smart will stay where it is not appreciated. | Alee thinks the log is not being car You and I are the same way. If you | ried high enough, and undertakes to have a neighbor who thinks you are | Straighten up. The result is he either a fool you don’t associate with him, | breaks bis back or breaks his hand-} but you go over to the one who/spike. So it would be with Uncle thinks you are a great man and will) Sam if he should undertake to tell you about ghten up under $4,000,000,000 while. They say if we will get on a of silver. Ihave some free aud un- silver basis we will have the trade of| limited money with me Mexico South America. We! Mexican dollar (exhibits the coin). don’t want it, because it is agricul Tt has more silver in it than Uncle tural; they raise the same things we | Sam's dollar- It is worth 50 cents do. It would bea great thing for|on the dollar in the United States, the New England people, who could | England, and all over Europe. Dar- swap manufactured goods for their it every once in aj str Here is a and jig the press excursion to Mexico, a agricultural products,aud you would | Georgia editor of a free silver paper be left out of the deal. We don’t ate a 50 cent breakfast at Monterey want that trede. We want the trade | and handed the proprietor an Ameri- of Europe and the enlightened peo-/ can dollar, and the proprietor handed ple of the world. We want to swap him back a Mexican dollar in change. them our products for their manu-) fhis cured the editor and he went factured goods. The free and ‘back home and changed the polities limited silver nations of the earth of the paper. He isa good Cleve- do 15 per cent of the world’s busi |land Democrat now. Here is a Hon- ness Shall do business with durous dollar, worth 50 cents all over these people and throw away our trade with those who do 85 per cent of the business of the world! Here you are tearing your shirts about silver, and you are not interested 1 | it is only worth 50 cents. Here is cent in the proposition. The only |the Peruvian dollar. This is just as people interested are the bullionaires | and stockholders in the mining cor- porations whose stock is held in un- we the world. Here is a Guatemala dol- lar, also worth 50 cents. This is their dollar with as much ver init as Uncle Sam's, and still much silver in it and still that is |orly worth 50 cents. Here is the Q | Then ubout labor, Thorold Rogers, = = Europe. Without a dollar's interest | dollar of Cholo; just as much money | are 15 cents and \in it as Uncle Sam's and yet you can, buy that dollar anywhere for 50 cents. Here is the Japanese dollar’ They want the same thing, that is worth only 50 cents. Thus a bear upa tree and he moseyed liberty. historians never made that discovery but do they need it? Why sir, the it isin those countries where they around that tree for an hour or so! faror of it. jhave free and unlimited coinage of | silver. In money just like that do ithey want to pay the American farm- jin this country for his muscle. Now here is Uncle Sam's dollars. There is the old American eagle upon it,! and the Goddess of Liberty. That! ist dollar is worth a dollar at the Bank/ the seiguorage.” ner of jof England, in Constantinople, aud ‘tor who had been out all night snd ing the pension army without au in jin fact all over the world. And why? | | Because Grover Cleveland and Uncle | | Saw say thar by the eternal gods it | shall be rhadollur. (Deafening applause ) They protect it by refus ing to tlow linited coinage of i jand whenever ruey ae unable to do that then the silver in your dollar |drops tots market value and is not | j worth wny more than it is in Mexico !or South America (Deafening ap- Sam stands under that dollar and makes it worth 100} cents by refusing to allow the free; and unlimited coinage of silver. I read in this morning’s paper that there was $7,000,000 of gold taken out of the Treasury this week and! that there are only $60,000,000 in the Treasury. Seven million dollars | gone to Europe this week, and yet, you are cursing him because he pro-| tected that gold reserve and because he issued $50,000,000 in bonds to | keep that gold reserve intact. There ure just two men in this country that cannot stand the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Who are they? The farmer is one and the wage earner is the other. Cotton raising farmer I mean. The price of your cotton is fixed in Liverpool. You cau not get 2 cotton buyer to bid on your cotton until he can get the price of cotton in Liverpool. Liverpool fixes plause.) Unele the price of your cotton on a gold basis; it has been doing it for fifty years; will do it for fifty years more. Now, how would it be if you had free and unlimited coinage of silver? The prices, ex-} cept for cotton, will be inflated 100 per cent. The speculator and real estate broker will dispose of all his} property at inflated prices, but the he alone the| He brings his cotton to town | poor farmer stands loser. and sells it for 35 a bale, and the! prices are doubled on him all around. | | He takes home for that $35 just half as much as he dues now at present | | prices. old comes in: “Aguinst stu- | pidity the very gods adage attle in vatu. \ jin his history of labor in England | for the last 500 yerrs, shows that |there 13 one peculiar fact, and jbeen affected by the corruption of ithe money or the inflation of prices. | | 3 jT am building a residence in Dallas | jand the apest mechanic on the |job gets $2.50 per day and tbe brick | jtaasons get Iam paying the laborer just as high a} price as when Dallas was booming | jand away $4.50 per day. yin the clouds t the poor $150 a day The re-| who 1 = al he gets it} }sult is tha tellow | works for jiu the free and unlimited coinage of il rer, will only be actu getting | cents a day for his work But they say that Grover Cleve-| jland should not have vetoed jthe seignorage bill; that that} was the unpardonable sin. Why fellow citizens, that seignorage bus- | jiness is the biggest sham every per-| | petrated in the world. I have shown | | you that if the goxernment sold all} | the silver purchased under the Blaud | jand Sherman bills at 60 cents an }ounce, the value of it today, she! | would come out $18,000,000 joser. | |Seignorage means profit Now. | | where is the seignorage? A com-) mences buying cotton when it is sel- | |ling at 10 cents a pound. He buy it and stores it in the cotton yard. The next day it was worth 93 cents. The next day 8 cents. The cotton buyer keeps storing his cotton <I! the time. but the prices keep going down. Where would the seignorage ne in? Silver has been going own ever since Uncle Sam bas been buying it Now, where is the seign orage? Itisa sham a fraud. Of course there is a nominal seignorage but no actual seignorage. It is likea/ fool fellow that I knew at Gilmer. [/ met him in Tyler and he was as drunk as a lord. I said to him, “What on earth is the matter with jyou?” Hereplied, “Why, I make! big as Uncle Sam's dollar, juet as|money faster than I ever did in my | tobacco, life.”” I asked him howand he r6-| i plied, “Why over in Gilmer drinks fold man ~ jas bad as they did George Washing If you can not see that, the} : business. | Another is that it discourages enter-, bread and fat bacon all his life: E ce here they are sell ‘ment at all. A man wight haves ing at lit cents, so I am making 5 million dollars income and yet not ¢.nte on every drink.” That is some pay a cent to the government A thing like Uncle Sam's seignorage. man ought to contribute to the gen I koew a man once that went out eral government something for tl Late oue evening he saw protection of his property, hfe That is an argument Now I say this 18 trying to geta shot at that bear Democratic party finds itself between aud finally he found out there was Scyalla and Charybdis: on one side uo bear there, he ouly had a bug on is the tariff and on the other is the his eyelash. Youiclks are fuoled giaud army of pension raiders, aud it ¢ not steer between these two there Is no seignorage there. It is rocks without an income tax, w I 4 shaw, wade up by Congressmen say pose it I pin my political in order that they might come home faith to Grover Cleveland, and if he and teil you boys that “balf a loaf a the Democrats up there who are better than uo loaf at all; we saved | not Populist Democrats It is hke the d is y that we can not reduce the tariff while feed- c I when be came back Lis wife asked come tax, I say amen; impose it. him how Le came out. He said, ;say all honor to the brave followers ~Well,the womav died and the child of Grant, Sherman, Hancock and died, but by the eternal I saved the |Meade But what was the They want to come home | saving the old American eagle i aud tell you that they saved the old jare going to cut bim up into h an. }and eat him? If a man were to save! The people do not curse him hal y life | would feel grateful to him, a but if hs stood at my tront gate aud tenia his day. I have seen some|told me about it three times » day of th: journals of his time wod|and called on me to feed him for life, Washington was vilified worse] after awhile I might conclude the than Grover Cleyeland ever was,and /it would have been better to let me/ some of you old men can remember | aie that Andrew Jackson was vilified; In the eighth plawk they demand | worse than Grover Cleveland an economical adminis Those men stand out as colossal figures iu vernment the history of the past, and I tell| the democrat part you that 100 years from now the |bave beeu clamoring for this for a figure of Grover Clevelaud will | hundred years. stand out on the canvass of this| Wecome now to the niuth plank country along with that of Washi ton, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln y Lee They tell you that he has sold cut to Wall street. The people of Buffalo took him up and made bim sheriff because he had honesty and integrity; then they made Lim Mayor because he was incorruptible; then they made him Governor and he smashed all the corrupt rings of New York. Then the government took hold of him, audon bisadinin istration}there has not been a blot or blur as big as the point of a cam- bric needle, and during Harrison's administration, when the whole couptry had gone crazy over the ai! ver question, he wrote a letter that everybody suid would doom him to oblivion forever You talk about his being bought by Wall street. Why,the man who breasts the storms of ignorance aud prejudice and stands out against them all like a granite promontory, that man can not be bought. I tell you he has a backbone on him us big as the butt cut of a saw log, and I tell you there is not money euough oa Wall street to buy his little finger. Ube sixth plank is: -*We demnnud that the amount of the circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita,’ O, yes! You hear every little fellow squealiug about “per capita.’ There was aman by the name or Colonel Morrison down here at Hearne. His mother used to take him around visiting when he was a little boy and s that when he was visiting he s got hungry ani always asked for something to eat and his mother We demand that postal saving bank be established? What for? Y bave the finest banking system ia | the world today. Last year over 250 national banks failed, yet scarce- ly a single depositor lost a cent. It jis true the stockholders lost but che depositors did not. 1 know it is farhionable in this country to curse out the banks. Last year in the darkest hour, when the New York banks could not pay their owu de- positors aud were bending under the great financial storm that was sweeping across the country aud had to resort to the clearing house cer tificates, those bauks with the mag uauiuity unparalleled in the history of the world, sent out $50,000,000 to the southern bauks to keep them from ruin and disaster. Now com pare that with the action of the Farmer's Alliance in some of tue counties below here when it cdvised the members to withdraw their de- posits so that they might burst the bavks and let all go down in w com mon wreck. Herr Most's advice to blow up the country with dyuawite while more cruel, was uot cruel in effect. The tenth plank is a repetition of the third. In the eleventh plank they say: The telegraph aud telephoue, hike the post office system, bemg a ueces sity for the transmission, should be owned and operated by the govern ment in the interest of the people I will say that there is one man who more hip burrab! and that is the Czar ot Russia, that is just the kind of a whipped lim. The next time he|government he runs. He « went Visiting he went spying around | all the wires and and came back and what kind of and when and news uiedges to none jaod will indorse tbat plank with a hip} ee en ey ernor of this great state and attested by the seal of the state. This is a solemn contract between the state of Texas and the patentee that you and you li own that land until Gabriel blows Lis Lorn unless you sell it. These populist orators talk about Thomas Je dsay he said this and that Thomas Jefferson lived a long time snd wrote all his life, hved with a pen in his hand, be wrote more letters than any wap. Bat most of them he did not intend for pubheation; and if you take such a Vast amount of letters and take a Sentence here and there cant prove anything on earth They search Thomas Jeflererson just like a buzzard searches the earth; he will sail over 200 miles of beautiful land- scape and he never sees anything of it but the carcas of a dead dog brightens his eye and thrills his sto- ach. He preached equal and exact justice to all men and special priv Now how would he stand on the silver dollar scheme and this sub-treasury scheme? What would he say about this government al Juggernaut, the populists, who are trying to run over this country to erush ont the liberty and indepen- dence of the people? They want to make us all peons to the general government; they want the govern- to own all the land, with his officers heirs sha you ‘riding around with bull whips to | hoop you up This is an authoritive document of the populist party in Texas,(hold- ing up a paper.) You all du know this paper. It is the ‘Advance, the ‘official organ of the pooulist party in Texas. I told you they were so- cialistie. Here is the list of books that they recommend and say that ought to be read by everybody and they give among that list “Progress poverty,” by Henry George, which advocates government owner- ship of land; Bellamy’s “T.ooking Backward,” which advocates govern- ment ownership of everything in- cluding the people Bellamy says that the people would work for the government the sume asthey fought for it. When the wartial airs are played by the band and a man’s martial ardor is nvoused he will face a musket without flinching, but if they show him a hoe belve be would wilt down as though his backhone was a dishrag. They want a gov ernment that wil own all the land, that will own all the property that will own all the railroade; they want the government to own everything, to take charge of everything, aud you know I think they to would hke to put the government to grinding coffee, milking cows and toting out slop Up in St. Louis they were in favor of paying about ¥2,000,000 to the federal soldiers, the difference between gold and greenbacks paid them during the w They also had) woiwas suffrage in that platform. I don't remember whether they bad spiritualism and cold water cure in it or vot, but they had everything that they thought would scoop votes. Now, I want to say to you farmers who have fol lowed these Populista off that you are in the camp of your enemy, and I say, come back to the old demo- leratic fold that has been the farm- plenty of good bread and here.but itis nothing to me is the same way with over ut Issue per capita,” what is it to you? How are you going to ? Do you suppose the government is go shall be transmitted butter wit Now we come to the last plank: Li you lows. | * ud including all the uatura rees of wealth is the heri all the people.” Is that so? to call a platforma lieto its face but in all honesty thatisa lie. That is ing to express it to you and prepay | the very language copied from old the charges on it? | Henry George, who says that Do you know that we Lave more|your land ought to be ta per capita than any nation of any| from under you; put all the expe magnitude on the of the earth j of the government on the land \s did ie B50 | { | ad jexcept F 2? France. leaving off | thereby tax from under you the cents, has $40 per capita, Eng | That is the language o: the French land $18, Germany $18, Italy $&8,}and Germain socialis and I have Russia Spain 317 and the United | read w s of ne Hoof them States We stand next to head. | Now if the land is ritage of Well. now, I forgot Central America. |all the people, upon the idea that There they get along about as well! God made this ball upon which we as we do and they hyve just 84 cents | stand and that the men own the ball per capita—j enough to buy aj/then you cau draw no hnes. ‘The good breakf: | Chinaman can come, the African can The next p “We demand a! come, the It lank is: Itallian can come and all graduated income tax.” Why do you! the hordes of Europe can come 1i want it graduated? If the na great sea, and take possession of whese income is $10,000 pays ten the country They have as mach times as much income tax as the|right to it as you and you can not man whose income is $1,900, why, jsay it is the heritage of the United that ought to satisfy anyone. But/ States, but must apply the proposi they want a graduated income tax/tion to all men to be logical. Land becuase they are against everybody |is not the heritage of all men. It is that bas money or wears clean|the heritage of the children of the clothes. I will give you the argu | man who paid for it, whether he ment on both sides of the question. ; paid for it with his life blood at the In the first place it is inquisitorial. | Alamo, at Goliad or at San Jacinto | It is poking its noseiuto everybody's or with money. Here is an o!d man It is exposing a man’s that has slaved and stunted himself business to his neighbor and rival. all his hfe, he has lived on coro he has worn old clothes so that he got old and feeble he wou a b for his wife and children And here comes Henry George and these Popnlists and say ‘No, old man, this is not your heritage; divide up with all k in the country.” Talk about the land of this country—the farmers land being taken away from him and being divided out among all the bums of this country. No, he will never stan We fought four years for slave property, and by the etternal gods, we will fight drink whisky or wear any forty years for our homes. Run imported clothes he need not pay! back up your chain of titles and you anything as revenue to the govern-| will find a patent signed by thegor- rise and thrift. There are argu- ents in favor of it. Ino the first place: it is not double taxation that we sometimes hear. If a State were to impose an income tax it would be double taxation and an cause we pay au the things out is made. It is not so with the eral government. The gover tax is simply a voluntary tax. It is like the fellow that kisses his rickel and eays good by to it when he puts it in the hat at church. If a man oes not smoke any cigars, chew outrage, be valorem ch the ine the t T hate | ers friend and the friend of every jhouest man for a hundred years. | Deafeniag ».) [say it in all | kindness, that farmer who has more than would come to him on a ‘general divide up with all the tramps jand bams in the country who fol- \low tbat party off, is a traitor to the fe of bis bosom and the children jul loins I tell you that there is nothing in that for you farmers. A man wes driving a cow and young calf and they got mixed with other rattle. T calf mistook an old sr for its mother. The steer broke ay and the calf strayed with him. The old man ran himself nearly to death trying to seperate them, and {then stopped and exelgimed: “Go fit, you durned little fool. but you | will see Low it will be when sucking itime comes.” I say to you farmers that you will wake up some day and find you are following the wrong w | ‘crowd. I was raised a farmer and I have their interest at heart. I say there is nothing in this party for you You have in the Indian Territory a an property in land. clear across and not You can ride see a white house or well improved farra. As I came up yesterday eve- uing from Dallas I looked out of the car window upon as bright a picture as mortal eyes ever feasted on. ‘saw sixty miles of it. There was | the deep dark green of cotton fields There was the yellow grain fanned by the evening breeze, that looked like waves of gold There was ele- gant farm houses as far as the eye could see. There were orchards laden with delicious fruit, melodious with the songs of birds and the laughter of children. There were comodious barns and the lowing of the kine made music sweet as the hunters horn at the break of d andI said to myceif “Is all this vis- ‘ion of lovliness and contentment to | be transferred to a barren waste to accommodate a lot of tramps, cranks and communionists’” And from my | inmost sou! went up a prayer to him | who holds usall in the hollow of his hand: “Forbid it, Almighty God, for- bid it.