The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-08-23
Stuck on a Party.

tailed cuckoOes, to the editor or orator
who don't know what is ment by pari-
ty. makes the man of even average
tired.
Cleveland was greatly perplexed
over the Halpin question in Buffalo,
but in time saw his way out and out he
popped.
Now he is worrying his massive
intellect over the parity question, as re-
late to gold and silver!
He says he is now ready to favor
and to use influence for silver as
money, if any one can show how to
maintain the parity of gold with sill
yer.
As there has never been and proba
bly, never will be a parity between
gold and silver, any more than be-
tween hewing gum and vile corks
(though, on pinch, each can be put to
the same use), we concede that he
means their parity as money.
Perhaps we can explain so the great
Gabbercrat can understand.
At our home in the city of New
York are four little children of the
editor hereof and his wife-three
girIs and one boy. The eldest girl,
now attending school and taking banjo
lessons, has just entered her teens.
The boy is nine years old and is al
ready our partner! We supply the
money and he spends it, at times, in
seeing the sights and studying the
lessons of the city, as he is to be a
printer and editor, some of these days.
Next on the family list IS promising
bundle of girls, full life, skipping hop.
ing and singing, rejoicing that she
has lately passed her seventh birth
day in good shape. Next on the list
is the little girl baby, now six months
old, and about as jolly as the jollies'
Hazel by name.
Those four children are strickly
legitimate, all of the same family and
all of parity, because they are al
treated alike and recognized at theil
face and heart value whenever they
come home. Now, should we dcclar,
that one or more, or all, of the chill
drcn were illegitmate, they would be
demonetizcd, and We should not cx
pect the neighbors all aruond, who nov
welcome the little ones to their heart
and homes, to give them any wei
come on their parents account. The.
would stand on their commercial
value, as it were.
| Created and Legitimate, they prov
the creative power, and reflect credi
thereon.
To declare either one of them lille
gitimate would be a dirty, cowardl
act, and one which should cost II
the friendship Of all our friends an
lose to US the respect Of all our a(
uuaintances. To divide the famil,
estate between the ones who wer
not demOnet,zed, or declared illegit
mate, would benefit them; but th
robbery of the one set apart to be dt
spoiled would be treason to the family
once beginning, no one could te
where it might end.
Again: Before us are two postag
stamps, each created BY our Cover
ment. Each is 4 two-cent staml
One in a sort Of Columbus brown {
purple color, and is twice the size {
its bright-red brother. The Cover
ment says that it is equally as potter
as the other. That size, coloring, pi
turing or shape has nothing to do ft
or against the efficiency Of each {
these two creations of law. So lou
a., as each is legal tender for letter carr
| Ing service of the same class, they al
: at parity with each other. Create
as equals, as they were AMI are a
that is to be done to preserve the
parity is simply to hands off and l.
them alone. Protect them from Il
touch Of Congressional action at Il
dictation of fashion makers al
money changers.
So with the silver dollar, the go
dollar, the paper dollar, or any eth
form or STYLE Of dollar, The stan