Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-07-06
Our Distinguished Congressman Talks to
the Fasteners Of 1.-THE Transmits
sissippi Demoeracy"-Many
Notables Among the
Vast Crowd.

Every foot of that prince
Iy domain, in possibilities rich be-
yond the dreams of ~avarice and in
greater than owe which the
Roman eagles flew, or over which
the Martial Macedonian waved his
all conquering banner, was, thank
God, added to the Union and forever
dedicated to freedom through the
wisdom, courage and patriotism Of
Thomas Jefferson and James X.
Polk-two peerless Democrats.
Fifty years hence, a majority OF
all our people will dwell west of the
Father of Waters; the center of pop
ulation will be in magnificent Mis-
souri,, the imperial State of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, and the center of
wealth will be located in St. Louis,
the City of the Iron Crown.
If at that time Bishop Berkeley
could revisit the pale glimpses of the
moon, he would behold the fullest
justification for his poetic prophecy,
''Westward the Star of Empire takes
its way"
when Jefferson penned the fateful
sentence "The Mississippi must flow
unyexed and unfettered to the sea-
he issued the short, brief, terse proc
lamation of the fact that we intended
to dominate this entire continent.
1t was warning to all trespassers not
to poach on u preserves. 1t was a
notice in ejectment to all creation.
The Louisiana Purchase was the
largest transaction in real estate
since the devil took the Savior up to
the top of a high mountain and Of
fered him the dominion of the world
to fall down and worship him. Satan
didn't have even a tax title to a foot
of the earth which he was promising
so lavishly. The first consul's claim
to Louisiana was little better. On
paper he held by the feeble tenure
of the treaty of II Defonso, in reality
be held it by the strong grip of the
lions paw. But on the e~yer-glorl'
Gus Sth of January, still another
Democrat, Andrew Jackson by name,
converted Bonaparte's quit claim
into ageneral warranty deed, against
which even the Gates of He'll shall
not prevail, by fighting and gaining
with a handful of raw militia, the
10th decisive battle of the world
by humbling England's towering
pride to the very dust and by utterly
routing the picked veterans of the
Peninsula who had snatched the
Iron Crown of Charlemagne from
the brow of the Imperial Corsican
Napoleon's necessity was the grea'
Virginian's golden opportunity. The
need for ready money wherewith te
furnish the sinews for impendin!
war and the certainty that the Brit
ish would seize the Franco-Americar
Territory drove Napoleon into sell
ing for a song the richest portion o
the globe. When he had sorrowfully
signed the title deeds, he said tC
Livingston and Monroe, and it was
the only consolation for him in the
performance, "Now | have giver
England a maratime rival''-and sc
he had until an unjust tariff and
vicious shipping laws banished the
starry banner of the Republic from
the high seas. The great crime
against commerce, common sense
and patriotism the American people
will never, never condone.
The effects of the Louisiana pur,
chase on the trade, politics and bust.
ness of nations have been simply
incalculable. 1t changed not only
the map of the world but its destiny
also.
When asked as to her achieve,
ments, and questioned as to her
jewels, Democracy, followingthe ex-
ample of the illustrious mother OF
the heroic Gracchi, can, pointing to
her lusty children, Missouri, Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, Iowa, Minnesota,
the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico,
Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Utah, Arizona, Washington,
Nevada and California, with flashing
eyes and swelling heart, say
"These are my jewels"
Every square mile of that Trans
mississippi Empire is, by nature as
well as by present and future inter
est, democratic. She is, she must
be. The truth is that if a man ever
has the Democracy once its likely
to break out on him at any time.
From the Alleghanies westward,
people are coming back to their first
love in politics. Indiana is Dem
ocratic. Glorious old Palmer has
redeemed Illinois. Brave Horace
Boise snatehed Iowa as a brand from
the burning. Even bleeding Kan
sas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Mon
tana, Wyoming, Nevada and Cal
ifornia are breaking away from their
moorings. Arkansas and Louisiana
always stand by their colors. At
last accounts the st. Louis Globe
Democrat was praying that the