Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-16

chased with a price by saloon-keep-
RS, brewers and distillers, and with
heir gold in the pocket of the Mex
and Audrain county voter, he, of
course, will vote as a hireling, and
10 his masters business and bidding.
That our German population are
atheists, drunkards, vile and immoral,
seeking to rule the county and give
to It the regime and profllgacy of
France, where the Bible was publicly
burned in the streets of Paris and
her mad ~populace resolved that there
was no God and there should be no
Sabbath, and for dutch" gold the
Democratic and Republican parties
were yielding to their demand, and
Arnold-like were selling American
liberties for office and the Christian
churches were saying amen, and like
selling Christ for gold, and
Dutch gold at that, and so on until he
exhausted the adjectives in the Ian
guage.
This kind of talk brought him an
engagement at the Opera House at
ten dollars a night and side dishes,
and, from that time till this, lie has
nightly wrung the changes on these
charges, denunciations and epithets,
so vilely false, yet repeating them
ver and over again against a vast
majority of our citizens publicly, in
the presence of their sons and daugh-
tiers, wives and mothers. Boys and
girls, young ladies and some young
gentlemen, here and there a grown
up mar and a whole brood of women,
who have Mearled of the chaste and
refined chatter of a woman's sewing
circle, seem to have found a delight.
full subject in the scandal bearer
they have employed and feel entirely
confident that ten dollars a day to
the Capt" is cheap enough for the
sweet morsels of filthy denunciation
and scandal he furnishes them. So
completely have these people become
acquainted with the task of the
Capt" that they have adopted his
language and roll it as a sweet NOR
sci under their tongue. Gov. Hardin
does not fully agree with the Capt"
and is a Democrat sure enough !;
shouts the Capt" the "Dutch have
bought him" he hardly dare walk on
the street lest, SO full are his pockets
of German gold-the gold of saloon
keepers, d1stillers, brewers, and the
Benton mint drops will ring out
the fact, that as a citizen he has sold
out TO the Dutch as q Christian he
has sold Christ for foreign gold. So
of DR.. Miller, of the Methodist
church; so of Mayor Emmons; so
of Major Ricketts, and nine-tenths of
our citizens, Republicans as we'll as
Democrats; all this, in substance,
we hear all around us, from children,
women and some men.
So communicating, so completely
contagious Is the influence of evil
communication, and so completely
has it corrupted good manners, that
even my excellent, slow-going neigh
Dor and friend, Josiah Wright, has
caught the contagion and flies into
writing, as published in yesterdays
LEDGER, charging me, in so many
words, with having the gold of saloon
men in my pocket for working in their
interest. There are two things that
Josiah Wright knows better than any
thing else, and these are: that the
work which / have done in advocat-
ing and defending our city Coun-
Gil for licensing dram-shops and
resisting as well IS I might all efforts
of anybody to overcom the policy OF
the city in that regard, was not in
the interest either of intemperonce or
the liquor seller, but directly against
both. Mr.. Wright is an intelligent
and fair-minded gentleman, able to
comprehend a plain business pro-
position. He knew that a heavy
direct tax levied upon any business
is not in the interest Of that business;
as well does he know that to take
one-half of the customers of any bust.
ness man away from him would not
be in the interest Of such man. Sup.
pose the city should levy a tax of
1000 per annum upon Mr.. Wright's
lumber business and then under pains
and penalties prohibit one-half of the
people of Audrain county from visit
ing his place, from buying any lumber
from him or even hanging around his
yard; would he think such legislation
or taxation very much in favor OF
his business-very much in his inter-
est! Would he not say that such
burdens and determinations would
ultimately put an end to his business
This is all there is to the taxation
upon the liquor seller, and pre-
hibiting the youth to deal with the
s%ellerl.