Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-07-13
SIMS NEVER WORE A COLLAR.
Isl. j." Rips ssU Bet" up the Back
Tor intimating That the r. 4
l.. U. Is Corpse.

so far as rings in the nose or collars
are concerned, have never had the
misfortune to wear one; and as to
bristles or feathers, if | ever bad any
or either my old friend, U Bet, could
not ruffie or raise them, although he
may try ever SO hard by suggesting
the amputation of my tongue. l
know this only comes from him be-
cause | criticise the actions and
words OF anyone that undertakes to
whitewash the misdeeds of men,
bers of their church or party or of
my own while U Bet at times and,
in fact almost all the time, some
times allows his passion to get away
with his judgment. l know he is
harmless. He has not forgotten
that he intimated that the Bean
Creek F. & L. U. had outIived its
usefulness and ought to die and
called on me to know it l had not
seen COWS or mules or other animals
that l thought ought to die. l said
yes, but did not think the Union
was in that condition. Then he says
in his last effort that when an arm
or limb becomes diseased so as to
endanger the body, amputation be-
comes necessary. l now know why
Bean Creek was cut off and buried.
U Bet tells us why. 1t was COM
posed of straight and stalwart Re-
publicans and Democrats and had
no use for anything else, as matter
of course, as the F. & l.. U. was
neither. 1t had outlived its useful
ness to either and ought to die.
Now, if this is not thoroughbred,
pedigreed and registered ''yaller
dog" politics, collar and all, then l
am mistaken in the flesh-marks of
the beast. Such sentiments as ex-
pressed by U Bet, if they predom-
mate in a Union and are tolerated,
are as certain to kill it as gangreen
or cholera is the human being. /
asked if it was not a case of pure
and malicious obstinacy that caused
the death, and might add, from
what U Bet says, that its parents
actually were guilty of choking it
with bone of partisan politics, for
a Union has no more chance of life
in such quagmires of selfishness than
a dolphin would in the dead sea. 1
can imagine how U Bet and friends
did at the funeral of the Union.
or burial of their own offspring, for
it was and is the legitimate child of
the farmers. The blue blood of the
Democratic and pure blood of the
Republican party in equal num-
bers stood on each side of the newly
made grave of their only child in
The shape of ali organization, and
the sound of the clods upon the cof-
fin had hardly ceased and the clay
still stuck to their spades and feet;
they looked at each other across the
newly-made grave, chuckled and
with a ghoulish grin of satisfaction
that would do honor to the stupidity
of pig, or ferocity of hyena, and
said to each other: "Thus perish
any that would dare oppose or crit
icise the action of our dear old par
ties" Every one of the forty doc
tors might have come forty times
each, but they could have done
nothing for the Bean Creek or any
other Union breathing an atmosphere
so poisoned with the dwarfing and
deadly fumes of partisanship. II
could not possibly survive. The
best men of this nation that
have ever appeared on the stage
of public action have warned us
of the dreadful effects Of parti.
! sanship, and yet there are those
who would brag and boast they
had never crossed 7 or dotted an
I, but voted her straight.
U Bet aims to manufacture feel.
} ings against the Union by saying 6
, part of the forty were at Mexico ir
September trying to deliver The
} Union over to the Alliance. There
was never a meeting for that pur
t pose, and U Bet must read up lit
| tie for 1t is humiliating to have one''
friends make such egregious mis-
: takes in public. I am not surprised
! at U Bet refusing to let the public
know the name of the disease tha
g killed the Union. He and every
member of Bean Greek or any UnioI
d ought to blush with shame wher
they think of the name Of the diseas,
e that killed it-one of the mos
: loathsome, Shiny. repulsive disease
known, the most hateful and mos
d disgraceful that can afflics any or
: ganization, a disease that is as de
J. void Of charity or principle as hade
It is of christianity will give th
l name: 1t is blind partisanship.
fear that the man that holds th
= $3.50 will follow in the footsteps Q
that other fellow that sold hi
. chances OF heaven for thirty piece
" of silver. / am sorry to say or hav
II to say that | have no apology t
make to Bean Greek or any othe
Union that has died from the sam
cause, and only regret that | am M
W able tn infuse that degree OF sham