Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-05
A MINISTER'S VIEWS.
His Ideas Correct as to q News.
papers COlumns-ais
opinion as to Mr..
CIeveland'S
Letter
To the Editor of the Ledger.

To the Editor of the Ledger.
MEXICO, NO., March al do
not hesitate to say that the press
is the greatest power for good, or
the most fearful engine of corrup-
ton and evil of this or any other
age. The editor ought, therefore,
to be as he is becoming more and
more the mutually and coadjutor
of the pulpit and should be as
good and pu:e, and as sincerely
religious and as unfeignedly devot-
ed to truth and righteousness as
the pastor, Sunday School superin-
tendent, or as pure as any other
class of the disciples of our Lord.
So it will be seen that the exhor-
tation of the great apostle to his
son Timothy, should be the motto
of the editor as we'll as the minis
ter and physician, keep myself
pure" Keep thy paper pure,
issue a pure literature and God
will bless and prosper thee and
when the Chief Shepherd shall ap-
pear, He shall give thee a "crown
of life" Living questions and
live issues the editor must deal
with; he must take sides, but not
on every trivial matter. Mere DIS
putes cannot be proper matter
for discussion through the columns
of the newspaper, but a clear can
did statement of principles and
facts may have a place there and
60 very far to settle them and pour
modifying ointment on the trou-
bled waters and thereby make
peace. Low gossip and low come
dy should have no more place in
the columns of a newspaper than
that of profanity or that which is
obscure or vulgar. I close by
thanking you for your weekly
LEDGER and congratulate you on
your success and wonderful i'm.
provement, and would say to your
numerous readers, that it is not so
much a question as to who shall
be president of the U. s. A. in
1892, whether this or that man bnt
as to what principle, of government
and what policy of administration
subserve the best interests, SO
manifold and varied and of such
c%ontrarlety of character as that o.
the whole people of this grea'
country-east, west, north ane
; south-for we are one, "distin G.
: as the pillows, yet one as the sea-
. So the conclusion is clearly to b.
seen, that less of partyism ant
more of common senseism, clothes
j with a profound regard for trutl
: and honesty strengthened by 6deli
ty to the trusts committed to US
whether private or public, tn
S better will it be Tor US as a nation
Aud you will pardon me for on
other remark from my standpoint
r as a citizen. 1t is this: Anticipat
8 ing the prospective political revul
sion in 1892 in regard to Mr.
y Cleveland's SO called free colnag
e of silver letter, so much talked G
in all circles, thati if that gentlema'
n had been a politician, and ha,
studied closely for SIX months whs
be wrote to that club in New York
l doubt if he could have made
finer stroke of policy than to hav
uttered the sentiments with whic
he is credited in that letter, the
being the same substantially tina
were penned in one of his message
to Congress when he was president
Certainly no party in this country
q whether Democratic, Republican
y Prohibition or Farmers and Ii
IS, borers' Alliance, could think {
adopting the free and independer
n and unlimited coinage of silver il
this country without calling a
r international reciprocal siive
commission" I will call it, to frs
'r fix a standard dollar of that col
n worth one hundred cents all owe
o the habitable globe, and then til
Is measure would cease to be indie
y pendent but would be information.
e which would be so much better
ct 1t would then be reciprocal an
our inexhaustible mines woul
ii find an outlet among all nations.
n Mr.. Cleveland has certainl
% shown himself in this letter, &
well as his message to be more of
statesman than that of a mere pol
tician.
1t is strange Mr.. Editor .thatthes
- newly pledged politicians shout