Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-13

iOl oil lHaG, ~ Is JUST III WcIu VIC
want. The LEDGER is g practical,
not q theoretical organ, and for that
reason, iffor no other, we will han.
die our text in q practical way-deal-
ing more with applications than ex-
plantations. "Hum'' is the down
east term for home-which tile Green
hackers have now not, politically
speaking. They whisper as they
gaze longingly at the two old parties,
'sThere is no place like home"
bug" is rather an indefinite word.
There are a great many kinds of
bugs, but none worse than the humbug.
A humbug is-well, it is the species
of bug which remains after all the
other bugs are classified. Humbugs
are harmless after they are once
classified SO you know them. They
sometimes do a great deal of harm
i'll the world, but it is always before
they are found out, ard, as a general
thing, they generally attack only
members of their own family. Hum
bugs, generally speaking, have two
legs, and it is q noted fact that
they mostly have cloven feet
"Rigbugs" are nearly all humbugs.
There is no true mark to know a
humbug. The safest way is to al
ways treat a bug like he was a hum
mer until you find he is not-then
you will never be fooled by them.
Sometimes you have a good deal of
trouble in finding the ear marks of a
humbug, but as soon as they open
their mouths you have them. A
humbug is a fraud and for this reason
easy to detect. They are like
flcas, hard to handle, not because
they are dangerous or powerful, but
because they are sly and slick.
When a man goes to church twice
on Sunday and once on Wednesday
night and swindles his fellow nan
during the rest Of the week, you may
mark HIM II. b.
When a newspaper man says in
his paper that his subscription list is
increasing 100 per week, and at the
same time tells his friends that he is
losing money, watch him.
When he tells you that he moves
his office to new and larger rooms
because his old quarters won't &C
commodate his business, when, as a
matter OF fact, he was told to get out
or the building would be torn down
over his mead, you Il mark that
man ii. L.
When a newspaper gives a man his
support and works personally and
professionally to elect a man of his
own party county surveyor and sue
cceds, and that man then gives all
his work and moral support to q pa
per that has all the moral support it
can stand up under, and would not
hardly condescend to look at a coun-
ty surveyor, much less give him its
support, you can bet that the county
surveyor has marked the paper that
supported him, H. b.
Whenever you see any nan Or
thing marked &. B., just step right
up and change the Ct. to Ii. and you
will have done your duty and the
world a favor.
If our memory rye us right and
our eyes have not failed u.s., it was
not more than two months ago when
the 1udrdin County Press, G.. Il.
and II. b., in a long-wInded editori-
al, such as only NJ. Y. d., III. b.,
can grind out, said, in a nost I'm
phatic style, IN about d column OF
space, that times were daily getting
tighter; the people daily getting
harder pressed for money; that eve
rything was contracting and that i'll
tiation was all that you'd save the
people, &C., &c, world without end.
Last week the eminent scripture
quoter set his swInct in another key.
The Press of last week says: Eve
rything booms; Mexico was never
more prosperous new buildings go
ing up; times easy plenty of money ;
no need Of imitation ;all facts we assure
you, but death to a party that wants
the people to swallow imitation like a
sick man would Cruel.
There is consistency for you, and
is what we would call q full-tledged,
full-grown humbug, of the most APP
proved character. If we had moth
ing else to do we would handle this
H. b. more thoroughly, but simply
have the space to say G.. Il. means
H. B. Keep your eyes open and
make no mistake.
We close our discourse with q sure
remedy for humbugs. A sure way
To exterminate them is simply to
brand them III. Il. and the world will
kick them to death.
EES1a H. EEeNE