Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-17

STATE.
Two carloads Of unemployed came into
! Columbus lately,
| The P0pullst Advocate, published at
| Jewett, has just appeared.
The Advance comes out with a new
| head. Quite attractive.
! The Texas Constitution is a new Popu'
| list paper just started at Temple.
Wheat has declined in market value
/ 60 per cent in the last twenty years.
| Fifty-nipe new snb-alliances have been
| organized in Texas since last January
"a Democratic Populist" is what the
| Voice Of the People calls Congressman
| Bailey.
The New Argus is live reform paper
! just started ut Breckenridge Stephens
county.
Between April $ and August o., this
| year the railway companies oil leNhs
/ issued over S25,O00,0OO Of new bonds.
A general revival Of the Alliance is.
I in progress over the country. The story
Of good meetings COMES from avery sec
/ ton.
The Advance Is offering a 50 grecn6ack
for the best article of 500 words or less
/ on how to make up the deficiency IN our
| United States treasury.
Galveston lbOrcrs are more thorough
ly organized that they are IN most places.
The various labor unions are united IN
aim and purpose to remarkable degree
The Advance Of Dallas solicits CORE.
| spondcnce from county anthofliles ana
land owners In Texas with view tc
establishing a colony of progressive
| farmers.
The world produces two bushels less
Of wheat than II did twenty years ego,
yet the gold bugs are Still trying TO make
us believe that OycrprOluction is tie
cause of our troubles
How much OF the spirit Of Chrs5.ianiiy
is woven into a system where urn, wO-
men and children 90 cold anu hungry
through the long winter months wliie
great piles Of coal clothing All food are
unconsumCuf
The supply Of food, clothing and coal
was never more abundant than At tue
present time, yet thousands If people
are suffering for want of these very
commodities aud uccessaries of Iie.
Strange isn't ~
Dear money" means "Scarcc money,
and scarce money mems low prices low
wages. and enforced idleness Plenty OF
| monty menus good times, good prices.
everybody employed, good clothes, plenty
To eat, and an AL round good time. w.
Mercury
Every time Wall Street has called up.
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with Nlucrity, Now the farmers ana
lnboring classes. comprising more than "a
per cent Of our population, arc calling
and the answer Is that-our relations
with Brazil, China, Chill. Hawaii aud
especially England are all .. K. Very
comforting.
Dallas county Populists at their recent
meeting said, In their address TO tho
people of the county, tue demoncizing OF
silver by the last congress in the teeth
of the most destructive money famine
The world has had To endure" Increased
the debts of the people - per cent. de-
pressing the prices Of all labor They de
cidod to put II man In the field TO "cntei
upon house to house cnmpaign,' telling
: | the people of tho situation and scattering
reform literature. Harvey Tracy wa,
: chairman Of the meeting.
st. Joseph, Mo-, has tho reputation o.
being one Of the soundest cities IN tn,
country financially. SHE stems ever,
panic with wonderful ability. Her score
j. this, SHE does not issue bonds for puh
I lie improvements, going deeper aud dcpp
2 ar IN debt. She issues CITY scrip viii
Q which she pays for all public improve
Z meuis, official salaries. etc. She roc i've
the same in payment of taxes, fines
o licenses, etc This scrip Is never shave
g or discounted We commend tho stud,
9 Of her system to the cities OF Texas Il
such tight times rs We are passinl
; through.
, The Texas Independent says "In 1S1
:, the South produce d2,NTA,O0D bales O
4 cotton, for which 1t received S2tG. TsdOOl
- The present crop is estimated At 900 90
h bales, and at an average Of cents
r. pound the farmers will get S24j.OlupO
/ for Il. Thus. while they raj. "a NOR
4 than twice what they did in 1871 the
y will receive Sl.7SO,OOO less for IL tnaI
. they did then" Yet for Justly complain
{ ing Of this gigantic swnllc they rr
@ called "calamlty howlers," "grumDlars
Il and ''pcssimisis,' And il they snrk
L partial remedy IN the demonstration q
N silver or an increase of tho rurrcucy
q even To whnt It was In 1871 they ar
y called "rvpudiniors" Of an "unsonpd cci
i roncy.' Calling hard names VIII no
IA cure these cyks,