Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-18

haven't gathered in you may set down
as not worth stealing. They're on
the lookout for something all the time
and they generally find it, too.
PAwNING A PLoW.
eeLook at the haciendas all over the
country; they are like forts, not built
for protection from Indians, but from
their own people. Every night the
great gate is locked, and whatever is
behind those stone walls has to stay
in, and whatever is outside has to stay
out, till morning. Everything on the
farm is taken in under cover, not even
one of those old wooden plows, pat
termed after the first one Noah pat
ented in the ark, is left in the field;
at sunset you will see the laborers
driving home with the pillow beam over
the yoke, and in the morning he brings
it out again. If one of our American
plows was left in one of these fields
over night, it would be taken TO pieces
and distributed over the country
in forty places, and halt of it pawned.
And as for a harrow, they wouldn t
leave a tooth in i'll Speaking Of plows,
what do you suppose these brutes do
with one of our Yankee plows when
they get it? Why, the first thing they
do is to saw off one handle and make
it as near as possible like their old
wooden ones; then they do everything
thew can think of to break it, and fall
back on the wooden institution which
they've used a thousand years, It's
Just holy terrorl Here | am with
stock of machinery that would set up
frst-class establishment in the
States that is just rusting to pieces;
and these people are only waiting till
I'm tired out, when they expect to
getit all for nothing. Whenyou've been
amongst EN- year, as have, and
seen what sons of Satan they really
are, you'll change your mind about
EN-. You tourists, who only meet
'em on the street, and see em grin
ming and bowling and shaking hands
and embracing you as though YOU was
long lost brother, and telling you
their house is yours, and their wives
and daughters and everything they
own is at your disposition-yOu only
see one side of 'em. I've seen both
sides. I've tested their hospitality
and have found out that there amt
bit Of real genuine hospitality in Mex.
leo. They're the shrewdest people on
this continent, just rs long headed as
lawyers, and SO jealous Of as Ameri'
cans that they hate US.
This railroad business is just nuts
for them. They amt a going to stand
in the way of our building railroads
and opening their ports for 'em, just
so long as they don't put in am money
but get all the returns. They know
we'll enough that in case the roads are
a success they'll get the benefit Of it,
and if they fail they'll just rip up the
rails and sell 'em for old iron. And
rs for concessions; if you'll just name
any two points in Mexican territory
that ain already connected by pro
posed railroad, all you have to do is to
20 before Congress and ask permission
to make one; they'll give you a chance
to waste you. money and will throw in
any amount of subsidy you ask for. "
I'D they intend to pay all these
subsidies2"
well, what's the odds if they
don't. What are ne going to do about
it2 1t makes them feel good to grant
'em and gives EN- an Importance in
the eyes Of the world; and in any
event--a convenient little revolution,
for iustance-they have the railroads.