Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-08-24

protected stilettos, signal Congress,
This day America expects every
Representative to do his duty
A~pplause,l
1t We do we will win such a va
tory Tor the prosperity and the hap
plness OF the human race as has
not been won since John SobieSki
defeated the Turks under the walls
OF Vienna, and thereby saved this
world from the baleful aud heart
less domination of the Mohamme-
dams.
All this talk about the Democrat
ic party gong to pieces on the tinan-
cial rock makes ii lover of his coun-
try sick at heart.
With the whole force of my be-
ing | believe that it will live up to
It's promises and redeem its pledges,
Oar friends, the enemy need not
lay the Gathering JUNCTION to their
souls that it is about to commit sui
eide by splitting into two warning
factions. 1t cannot, it must not, it
will not. Applause. 1t is the
great bulwark of civil liberty, and
the only hope of constitutional gov
ernment on the whole face of the
earth. In its early days it drank at
the fountain of perpetual youth; it
will be living i'll pristine vlgor when
the Youngest of us shall have moul-
dered into dust, and it is destined,
under God, to yet give the people
centuries of honest, benignant, in-
telIlgent. and patriotic admlnistra-
ton. Applause
MISSOURI WANTS SILVER.
The gentleman from Mary
land Mr.. Raynerl, who led the
advance guard of the single gold
standard cohorts, seems to be
harboring the delusion that no.
body is interested in silver coin
age except the silver producers
of the Rocky Mountain States
and Territories. He might as
we'll disabuse his mind of that
hallucination at once and for
ever.
Missouri is an imperial Com
monwealth. She is one of the
greatest agricultural States ever
formed by the hand of God. So
far as is now known, she has
not a paying gold or silver mine
within her borders.
These are about the only good
things with which she is not
bountifully provided. Laugh
ter. But she has what is far
better than gold and silver
mines. She has $500 square
miles of land, the richest under
beaverton the surface rich in
soil and beneath the surface
rich in coal, marble, onyx, build
ing stone, and all the baser use
full metals. She produces in
profusion wheat, oats, corn,
cotton, pork, beef, mutton, fruit,
and other commodities, which
she exchanges for gold and sill,
Yer, and her people want silver
coinage for the following rea,
sons: With all her accumulat.
ed wealth and her incalculable
natural resources, she is still a
debtor State. Her people be
lieve that silver is one of the
money metals of the Constitu.
'tion; they believe that the eX.
perience of four thousand years
has demonstrated it to be good
money [Applausel; they believe
that it was corruptly and wick
eddy demonetiZed in 1873.
Having contracted debts under
the double standard, they claim
that they have the indefeasible
right to pay them under the
same standard; they deem il
nothing short of robbery com
mitted under the forms of law
to have them doubled by act Of
Congress; they say that wher
they have mortgaged a farm fol
$4,000 to some Eastern com,
pany, their chosen servants
have no right by hostile legisla,
ton to practically raise the
mortgage to $4,000. Applause
they believe that the financial
paralysis and terror from which
the country is now suffering
have been produced by the twin
evils Of the high protective tar
1T and the constant contraction
of the currency; and they de-
clare that the clock has struck
the hour when Congress should
cease to legislate exclusively
for what Mr.. Blaine, for some
unaccountable reason, denomi,
mated the nine industrial States.
Applause
AS TO IGNORANCE.
The gentleman from Mary
land MIR. Raynerl, in his i'm
FASHIONED address the other
day, declared that our conten-
ton that gold and silver are the
money of the Constitution is an
argument constantly addressed
to the Ignorance of the country.
That is certainly a refreshing
sort OF statement. 1t appears
to me that somewhere | have
heard before of persons who ex-
plotted their superiority over
the remainder of mankind, and
who stood on the street corners
rolling their eyes to heaven and
thanking God they were not as
other people. Laughter. There
are unquestionably a great
many wise men in the East.
Laughter.
That proposition cannot be
gainsayed; for Solomon lived
there; Socrates lived there; Cato
lived there; Lord Bacon lived
there; and the gentleman from
Maryland lives there. Laugh
ter. But | beg leave to observe