The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-01-04
Take Your Medicine.

w lat are YOU WOrknlnS men grumO-
ling about? Why do you not take
your medicine like little men and
say nothing even though it does run
against the grain, or else get out of
the run that you are in? You said
last fall by your vote that wanted
good dollar, a "big" dollar. an
"honest" dollar, a dollar s'that would
buy a dollars worth" etc, No mat
ter which old party ticket you vote
YOU voted it. You said it By your
vote for that was what both Harrison
and Cleveland advocated and what
the campaign orators talked OF SO
much. They said there was plenty of
money and you by yout vote said
'amen!' They said they wanted
money on gold standard and you
said by your vote ''th.t's what"
They denounced the Populist party
for wanting more money anu you
said by your vote "that's right
They called the reformers, "fanactics,
"calamity howlers,' 'indationists,"
"fools.' "wild eyed yawpers," and
all such names and you said by your
vote "h,t 'em ag'in." Now you got
what you voted for. You said there
was plenty of money and the govern
ment cut of the issue of four millions
4 month by repeating the purchase
clause. Who is to blame? You said
by your vote that there was plenty Of
money and they took il for granted
that YOU were not joking and stopped
the issue because II there was plenty
any more money would be too much.
You were afraid there would be too
much money, that the country would
be flooded with it and that it would
be so plentiful that people would
have to carry it ar und in baskets
and farmers would have to haul it in
two-horse wagons. The papers you
take and pay for told YOU there was
great danger of a silver aood 50
you voted for the gold standard and
got it,
The dollar Is now on the gold
standard. 1t will buy nearly two
bushels of good wheat. Is that not
good enough for the working man?
The dollar will buy twenty yards Of
calico and that is ample for two
dresses Cor your wife. The dollar
will buy twenty pounds OF sugar while
it used to buy only eight.
The dollar viii! buy three bushels
of corn and that will bread q poor
mans family for q month il they
will be economical. The dollar vii
buy twenty pounds Of rice; IL will
pay for a paper a year; it will bu,
more than It ever did before. Mer
used to get dollar for chopping 8
cord OF wood but now q dollar vii
buy a cord Of wood already chopped
split, seasoned and hawlcd to your
door.
| Never in the time of history wa
the dollar SO good as it is now
Every body wants it. Banks hcart
it. Workmen Aght for a chance L
work for it. Men are murdered TO
it. Trans, banks and individual
are daily robbed for it. Oh, its {
good ore! Its q honey! Hundred.
of thousands suffer because they lacl
it. Men of brain and men q
strength are driven to madness q
seeing their families suffer becaus
they have not the dollar and canno
get it. 1t is "yood" dollar and
is the working mans dollar for !,
ma1c II COOL and keeps it good b.
his vote.
OF course, the dollar will not pa
anv more taxes than it use.l t1.
will not pay any more debts, an
more public salaries but it will bu
more products. The Popalists us
you to vote to a larger volume {
money but you objected. You sal
n there was plenty and was afraid {
$ having too much. You said 20
J. didn't want ''c',eap' dollars althoug
i they run factories, and railroads, "a
! ried on business. paid salaries sam