Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
A DANGEROUS AsfnOp.
me =. & L. U, appasea to q l.r
e's'ns ceaa'y Courts Authority
TO Issue Raaas.
To the Eattor Of h.

| S~eses Ahth0fity
10 Issue Reaas.
10 TIE Edtter of the Ledger,
THOMPSON STATION, Mo-. March
I'll see in your paper some e,in.
pings from the Kansas City Star and
rut'on Sun eensaring the r. q I.
y, OF Audrainc County for some reso.
buttons they passed at their quarter.
iy meeting in january, opposing :
law giving County Courts the risht
TO Issue bonds. Now, the +. & L.
u Is sqaarely opposed to any law
mat has a tendency to increase the
power OF authority of anybody or SET
Of men to issue bonds or in any way
10 ooiigate the tax payers or increase
their obligations. If the editors Of
these papers will take the pains to
examine the actions of the F. 4 L.
U, either sub, county, State or Ma.
uonal, they will find the organiza,
uon has at ell times opposed con-
e~entrahng power in the hands of
anyone. We favor giving the PEG.
pie all the liberty consistent with
GOOD. government. We favor the
election by the popular vote of the
people of every officer from the Presi.
dent to the Postmaster. The men,
beers of the E. &L.-u- believe the
bond system to be the most danger
Gus and expensive method of rails
ing money that can be adopted by
any county or state or government.
we favor a direct tax for every pub
Tic expense. We believe, not only
believe but know, that bonds benefit
only n class of citizens and it is
the smallest in numbers of any.
They are those that the loaning of
money and collecting interest is their
only business. They do not add
one cent to the wealth of any COM
munlty or nation. They well know
that district, county state or patton
al bonds are the best securities they
can loan on and they virtually have
a mortgage on all the properly of
the entire community or county.
Not even the day laborer, widow or
invalid escapes their blasting and
deadly embrace; YET. knowing all
this, the Fulton Sun would advise
the hard working economical farm
ers OF Galloway to again load them
selves with bonds in order that thew
may have rock roads. The railroad
racket has become a little stale since
the experience of the st. Clair and
Cass County Court Judges in Jail
with the thieves, felons and crimi-
nails of the country. Some other
scheme must be worked to catch
them and fleece them of their hard
earnings. But l will assure the
Sun that the members of the F. &
L. U. of Galloway have not SO for
gotten the little bit of experience
they had recently with bonds to be
gulled into the trap again by any,
ONE, not even their trusted guide,
the Sun. And for the Kansas City
Star to accuse the members of the
F. & L. U. of mossbackism is so
groundless and absurd that it hard
ly deserves contradiction, for it is a
conceded fact that they are the most
independent men of the country,
voting, speaking and writing in
favor of principles and measures re-
CARELESS of men or parties. No,
sir; we are not Of the "yaller dog"
family; whatever else may be our
faults we don't have to ask the
bosses what we shall say and favor
or how we shall vote. And I give
notice to all, the Star not excepted,
that no sound Union man can be
found but that will oppose to the
bitter end any kind of legislation
that has the least appearance of
favoring the iosue of bonds for any
purpose. They have been and are
the curse of every people and ma
ton that has ever allowed them is
sued, and with the accumulated evil
dence of ages against them, why do
newspapers advise their readers to
load themselves with this same un-
profitable burden? The Star goes
further and says that because OF
such mossbackism Missouri has
failed to take her natural place in
the galaxy of states. [ would ask
if there is a state in the government
that has a lower rate OF taxes, fewer
mortgages, or one whose credit
stands higher on the markets than
Missouri.
We had a little experience OF that
kind of cant last Nouember when
the people were asked all over the
state to stand up for a new Missouri.
Judging from the way the people
spoke they were well satisfied with
Missouri as she is, and r willing
to try the present condition a while
longer. I have been a member OF
the f. & L. U. since its first exis-
tenee in this part of the state and
have never met but with one thing
that [ r~egret--that is, that every