Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1892-10-20

been able to amass fortune honest
ly, with this whole Government
against him, with laws that beat
him down and rob him by day and
rob him by night, ] look upon him
in wonder and admiration. / al
ways feel like taking his hand and
saying: 'Old fellow, here's my
hand. l glory in your spunk, your
nerve, and congratulate you upon
your success
81 am Democrat because under
Republican rule our country has
been for years filling up with
tramps; because from every quarter
hear ominous rumbllngs of dis
content, and because everywhere l
read Of strikes, lockouts, boycotts
and bread riots, and where half
starved workingmen are being shut
down by Pinkerton's detectives like
dogs because they complain. Every
where there are troubles and con-
fiicts between capital and labor,
threatening the very life of the coun-
try. Is not the situation serious?
Is not the Republican party respon-
sible for this state of affairs?
DEMOCRATIC RULE MEANS Low TAXES.
81 am Democrat because l want
the tax taken off the necessities of
life and placed upon the luxuries of
life, and l only want enough tax
levied and collected to meet the ex-
penses of the Government economi-
cally administered. Although Mr..
Harrison says "A cheap coat makes
a cheap man, and Mr.. Mckinley
says 'Cheapness is akin to nasti-
ness,' I for one want to get my
coat as cheap as possible, even
though I am to be branded as cheap
and nasty for doing 80 by the per-
fumed crowd of millionaires and
dudes, to whom / referred a few
moments ago.
"I am a Democrat because the
Republican party is without fixed
principles, and is inconsistent in all
things. 1t has never fulfilled sim
gle promise made US. 1t appears
to me to be party of fraud, hate,
deception, hypocrisy and extrava-
gance.. Its leaders and bosses have
grown insolent, defiant and corrupt,
and | believe it conducive to the
welfare of the people at large that
there should be change in the ad-
ministration of the national affairs.
''I am Democrat because l love
my country. I love the flag with
| its stars and stripes, and I love my
wife and 1 love my babies. l live
for them and 1 would die for them.
My happiness consists in their hap
mess. I am no pessimist. al
ways look upon the bright side of
things, and had rather bet on sun
shine than storm in America every
time, but l believe, fear: if our
principles don't soon prevail, the
country will be completely gobbled
up by Wall street, and instead OF
stars upon our flag there will be dol
lar marks, and wife and babies will
have to go down and suffer in the
crash that will come. 1t is not
strange that true and loyal Dem
ocrats, apprehensive as they have
ever cause to be, stimulated by a
consciousness that God and Right
are upon their side, are SO anxious
and determined.
THE FORCE BILL A DAMNABLE THING.
81 am Democrat because | am
opposed to the force bill and bay
onet rule. I am glad that it was
left for the Republican party
to produce the man with heart so
black and mind so depraved as to
bring into existence such a DANA
nable thing as the force bill. Its
authors hated humanity and they
hated their country because the
Southland is part of our beloved
country. There is no need for the
ill-feeling such bill would bring
about between North and South.
Is not the war over, and is it not
time that sectional strife was oblit-
Grated? Have the Southerners not
already suffered beyond their de-
serts? Have we not read of how
they returned from the war defeat
ed, to find homes in ruins, farms
devasted, comrades slain, money
worthless, credit gone, stock killed,
barns empty and trade destroyed?
Must they be further punished SIM
ply because they are voting the
Democratic ticket?
II think it was Grady, in a speech
delivered in a Northern city, who
said: Gentlemen, you at this mo-
ment stand in the gateway that leads
to the South. The wealth that is
there, hidden no longer from human
eyes, flashes in your face. You can
smell the roses of new hope that
Ifill the air. You can hear the heart
beats of progress that come as upon
the wings of heaven. You can
reach forth your hand and almost
clutch the gold that the sun rains
down with his beams as he takes
his daily journey between the cot
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