Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-20
VOL. XVIII.

through tne amDfOSeal peacelul
pastures of proesy, merely to air
my genius, as it We're.
But gentlemen, you see how
am taken at disadvantage. | am
caught as you see, with my gear
ing all unhitched. My imagina-
nation has no more wings than one
of these decoy ducks over here in
the gunshop. My Munchausen
proclivities are in fetters and in
chains. Like a cheap ticket | must |
go for a short time on one route.
Our State! Now why couldn't |
the committee have added Kansas |
as sort of waste and quiet place /
where my wearied fancy might
take refuge and find rest in case of
necessity? But no, am confined
to "Our State" What can | tell
editors about our state that they
don't know. They have dead
headed over every inch of our
thousands of miles of our railroads
and every square foot of our
majestic rivers. They have sur
veyed and measured our vast coal
fields, and weighed and estimated
all our iron mountains. By their
indefatigable efforts in putting
they have subdued our waste
places and caused them to bios
som as the rose. By their efforts
this whole state has been dotted
all over with towns, villages, cities,
schools and manufactures and
every enterprise of public worth.
By their instrumentality the tick
grass and the green head fly have
surrendered and our whole state
is one vast field of blooming cereals
laundering with the busy hum of
industry. They know of our
countless herds of Short Horns,
and have lost money on our bob
tailed racers. They know about
all our natural curiosities from our
Congressman, to the eyeless frogs
lin the caves of the Ozarks.
But, gentleman, she is grand
state. Got everything she wants,
or if she hasn't she just sends
across the river to Illinois and gets
it. She has got more corn and
more colonels than any other
state. Got more politicians and
more potato bugs than ten states
need.
l would not have you overlook
| her magnanimity. Have we moi
invited over the Yankee and sole
: him our wet and waste lands al
big prices, and then never com
planned of the strain upon our mag
( nifcent hospitality? Don't we lie
the Herr Mosts, the Nihilists, th'
dynamiter and the revolutions
drink beer and hatch villain.
: right under our noses and pay NJ
, more attention than if they wer
white? Why, even the editors il
+, our state are treated with toler
d alton, and even kindly. Then too
5 gentlemen, we never do anythin
p in little, mean and niggerly way
! When our state undertakes any
o thing we go the whole hog. Eve
l. our train robbers don't simpl
!, kill the fellow in the caboose an
, take the express money, they g
IS through the sghole train. Why, W
e talk about moving the Missou1
y river and Jefferson City over t
Is Sedalia. and if we wanted to W
+ would pull up the north pole an
t. plant it over there too, but W
IL don't want to do it.
N Now gentleman, what's the u:
rs to say more. If 1 were to talk a
'e night I stould still maintain tn;
al ours is a great state.
''THE CAMPAIGN LIE"
ie Mr.. PRESIDENT, GENTLEMEN
81 THE CONVENTION, CITIZENS An
: LADIES'
+ The campaign lie, like tobac
% and the American Eagle, is a pr
"a duct alone of the great Contine
'e which Columbus discovered on Il
~ 18th day of October, 1892, and v
- do not have to plow in the ferti
fields of ancient Greece and Rome
~ mediaevil Europe to find its orig
'ie or its like; but, the blame must
u ways be put where it belongs, u
IL on the discoverer of America, al
''' the subsequent founders of Anne
lean Independence and Liberty.
Il" 1t is an institution wholly of L
'h publican Government; took def
hs ate shape and form, coeval wi
he the declaration of Independent
's' lives side by side with the cons
"' tuition of our fore-f fathers ,and fea
We and fattens upon the Electi
Franchise. 1t is the constant co
ieu panion and compatriot of fl
he speech, and of the untrammel'
bold and independent press.
ND As man came into the world,
ted came sin; as our system Of sele
be- ing men for office by univer
me suffrage came into the world,
lit, came the campaign lie. 1t is
lie. peculiar kind of lie, differ
lb- from all other lies; yet, it is
OF BILE son of a noble sire, "the fat
md of all lies"