Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-07-11

vast preparations for that
fearful contest which is imminent
and inevitable.
France, consumed with a burning
desire for revenge, is upon pow
der magazine with million luna
ties striking matches all around.
Young Altonzo sits unquiet upon
the throne of Ferdinand and Isa-
bella, while Don Carlos holds high
carnival in Paris.
The British lion is lashing him
selfinto an awful fury lest he should
not come in tor his traditional
share of the booty.
Denmark, Holland, Bulgaria.
Switzerland and the other small
States of Europe live in constant
horror lest their mighty neighbors
perform the great anaconda act
upon them and swallow them bod
ily without ceremony and without
leave. To use the rather peculiar
and grandiloquent expression of a
nameless orator, ''We alone are at
peace with all the world-and on
pretty good terms auith the balance Of
mankind" Our Uncle Sam looks
smilingly on all Europe, preparing
tor war and says: "Gentlemen,
Kings and Fools! You have my
permission to cut each others
throats and to impoverish each
others lands. Go in on your
muscle; and my factories will fur
nish you arms of any pattern-am-
unition warranted to kill and uni
forms of any color; and my grand
plantation will furnish you beef and
pork and bread and whisky and
cotton and wool-so long as you
pay for them. And Missourl alone
will send you over as a free will
offering generals and colonels
enough to officer all your armies!"
And then to the deluded subjects
of these consumers of men, he says
that is, long time ago he got in
the habit of saying and hasn't learn
ed how to quit-'come, ye slaves,
leave. your heartless taskmasters;
settle IN. my ample domain and
secure the blessings of liberty to
yourselves and your posterlty for
everl" Uncle Sans invitation
used to be broad as the English
language could make it. A few
years ago, his children began to
think there were enough of them
without his adopting any more.
So they kicked and he modified his
Invitation in this way: "All crea-
ton is invited-except the Heath
en- Chinee.' There is some more
kicking going on now. So few
months ago, Uncle Sam got up q
postscript which reads about this
way: ave will still take all re-
spectacle peeple-but we must
draw the line at beggars and thieves
in general and we are not par
ticularly struck on Hungarian
miners and Italian brigands anc
organ-grinders.
The truth is that while the ole
song "Uncle Sam is rich enough to
give US all a farm was true WheI
it was first sung; it Is no longer
true and many OF US are landless
and homeless and many of oul
children will never own an inch o.
ground.
| AN AMERICAN ABROAD.
l am certain that every Ameri
can, from Martha's Vineyard to the
Aleutian Islands. worthy of citizen
ship-whatever his political or re-
ligious opinions and whatever hi
personal feelings towards Genera
Grant-most heartily rejoices il
contemplating the reception ten
dered him in Europe within thu
present decade. twas not Genera
Grant who was feasted and winet
and dined-it was the American
Republic. 1t was not the Ex-Presi
dent that Queen Victoria welcomed
TO Buckingham Palace-it was th'
Goddess of Liberty entertained un
awares. 1t was not tribute alon'
to the man-it was an acknowledge
ment of the power and majesty o
the people over whose destinies h
had presided for eight years.
! A century ago, England woulc
have been delighted to receive
George Washington upon her sol
and W would have arranged a CRANE
Iiuhilee in honor of-his hnn1in1
but the 18th of his successors wa
treated with more cordlality, with
greater enthusiasm and with pro
founder respect than any other for
eigner that ever visited the eth
lSea-girt Isle" The great to d.
HIM honor took delight; and tn
plan, unassuming American, who
little while ago was engaged in
backwoods village in the unstates
manlike and unsoldiery occupation
of selling leather, outr anked Lord
and Earls and Dukes with all thei
} stars and gems and diadems. Tha
tour of Grant has always appeare,
to me to be in the nature of a sum
mons in an ejectment suit by tn
Democratic principle VS.. the Mon
archical idea. 1t was a notice t
all emperors, kings, princes an
potents to quito go and go a
once and not stand upon the orde
of their going.
And, as in General Grants per
son, it was the genius of eontitu
tional, representative governmen
! that was honored, it was a specta
Gle calculated to fill every tru
American heart with m easureles
pride and ineffable happiness.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
AS to the mental endowment
! and political opinions and caree
of Grover Cleveland, this crowd "a
any other assembled this da,
under like circumstances, i
divided. On some other occa
sion we might debate them-per
) haps with far more of violence thai
fIjustice or judgment. To-day it i
neither my privilege nor my pleas
J ure to say one word tounching eth
er the past or future career of tha
!, great man as a statesman. Blu
there is one incident in his life as
citizen to which it cannot be in
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