The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-01-25

November We would suggest that
they learn to keep step to such good
old-time tunes as Devil Up the Stove
pipe" and the tune the Old Cow
Died Or"
Remedy For Railroad Diseases.
If the Santa Fe Railroad had the
money for all the deadhead tickets it
has issued to 'tluence politics and bust
ness, it could pay it's debts and avoid
a receiver. The same remark will ap-
ply to other roads now in the cruel
clutches of the legal wreckcrs. Gov
ernment ownership is the only remedy
for these railroad diseases
Among Our Exchanges.
The Democratic train is now run
ming on Il tariff track, but is still
hauled by Wall Street engine. PEG
pies Pilot.
THERE never was an evil without
cause. The thoughtful man never
fights an evil. He goes for the cause.
New Charter.
The tramp is not bondholder. but
the bond with all the coupons clipped
and the face marked paid. Iowa
referendum.
WONDER if the Republican party in
Kansas will be included in the assets
of the Santa Fe that has just passed
into the hands of receivers ?-Com-
moncr.
If men commit offences, let them be
or poor, but let simple poverty cease
to be crime.-Governor dwellings
Tramp Circular.
THE Secretary of the United States
Treasury is attorney for the Kentucky
Lottery Company. Fancy Gladstone
acting counsel for gang Of bunco
stearers in Citizen, Oakland,
Cal.
INDIANAPOLIS bank wreckers want to
engage Benjamin Harrison for their
defense. They recall the United
States Treasury as Harrison received
it in 1889 and as he left it in 1S93.-
Chicago Times.
The Governor listened to the "bus-
mess men, in Denver Thursday, but
he did not hear many suggestions
| from them as to how the distress
among the poor could be alleviated.-
Journal, Monte Vista, Colo.
H. H. BoYcE, who owns a controll-
ing interest in that great reform
monthly, the Atena, has purchased a
like interest in the Boston Travell er
and it may be expected to advocate
the Populist demands ere long.-Ex-
ponent.
THE crisis of our fate is upon us. If
We do not shape or assist in shaping
our destinies, it will be done for us.
and done by those who will profit
themselves by our supineness. I'VE
must educate. B. Abbott, in Rural
! list.
WE have too much money, but
should issue bonds to buy more gold
that our credit may not suffer! This
is Secretary Carlisle's reasoning, and
shows what stupendous chump he
takes the average American citizen 10
be.-Western Advocate.
SAY, my old party friend, just shout
few times "over-produc1ion" or lack
of confidence, or some other pet
phrase put in your mouth by your po-
litical bosses, and then go and find
Solllt OliItI auA
compliments Charter.
Has anybody heard of a railway or
bank presidents salary being lowered
any Gu account of the hard times? Oh
no, it is the poor devil whose wages
are cut, and If he protests the Pinker-
tons are called on to silence him, and
the courts decide that he has nc
grievance Press, Roger, Ar.
kansas.
The many millions of unemployed
are deprived, robbed of an opportu
nifty TO consume the product of the
few, who assist the labor-saving ma.
chinery in the production OF the nee
essarv commodities as we'll as luxuries
The eight-hour law is inadequate t.
remedy this wrong. World, Spring
field. Mo.
CoTroN failed to advance on the re
peal of the purchasing clause of til.
Sherman law and when the Wilson
tariff bill was made public it con
, tinued to decline until it was II cent.
below what it was under the Sherman
, act and tariff protection less than tive
, months age. Where is the party Will
chance ?-Exponent, Comanche
: Texas.
The daily papers a few days ast
/ displayed conspicuously the following
| headlines: An Ohio Populist Fail
, In Business" This is a thing no Pop
ulist had any right to do. 1t is an in
E nova:lon of the rights of the priv
, LEGGED classes. That fellow shoul.
be read out of the party, and foreve
denied the fellowship of all true Pop
. ulists.-Topeka Advocate.