Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-08-24

ferred Moses to Darwin; but after
listening to the gentleman's speech,
l believe more firmly in the PEN
tateueh than ever-for il the sum-
um bonum--the chet-d9uvre--
the ultimate result--the highest
| product of all the evolutionary
process il q Wall street gold bug,
then the evolutionary process has
been of little benefit to the human
race. [Great laughter.
According to his rather curious
theory God Aimighty-and not the
Sherman LAWS responsible for
the condition that involves the
globe to-day and 10 therefore pre-
sumably in favor of the gold stand
ard.
] have in my time witnessed at.
tempts TO unload many of the er-
rors. sins and follles of men upon
the Creator; but to ask rational be.
ings to believe that he is the author
OF the direful calamities now op-
pressing mankind, and that he is
sponsor for the single gold stand
ard is certainly taxing human
credulity to its utmost limit.
Laughter. In the absence OF
revelation on the subject, and con-
sidering all the circumstantial evi'
dence in the case, it looks as
though he were on u side; be-
cause he is always on the right side.
Laughter And because In the
beginning, In his infinite wisdom,
he SO distributed the precious
metals throughout the world that
after six thousand years of cease.
less human endeavor the quanti-
ties of gold and silver in circula-
ton are almost precisely the same,
Is that a mere accident?
Was not the omnipotent finger OF
Almighty God visible in it from
the tirst2 There is. there can be
but one answer. He created man
and women to go in pairs,
and babe them "Go forth, null
tiply, and replenish the earth"
With alacrity has that com.
mand been obeyed. Laugh,
teri He also created silver and
golu to go in pairs, and sent them
forth on the mission of propagating,
multiplying and replenishing the
business of the world. Nobly have
they discharged that duty, and OF
them, as of the bride and BRIDE
groom at the marriage altar. may
it be appropriately said: "Whom
God hath joined together let no
man put asunder."
But we are Dramatically told
that these metals which have been
the faithful servants of humanity
from a time whereof the memory
OF man runneth not to the contrary,
must now, after being lawfully
welded for sixty centuries, be
divorced at the behest of England,
the bully and freebooter among
the nations of the earth.
l beg gentlemen to remember
that just as certainly as our mania
for divorce between husband and
wife is sapping the foundations of
our social and moral fabric, just SO
surely will the divorce of gold and
silver sap the foundations of our
business fabric and cause the
temple of our prosperity to topple
to the dust. The gentleman
assumes the role OF prophet. and
exhibits to US the happiness and
glory in store for us if we vote
with him, and the infamy and ex-
ecration to which We are heirs If
we vote as our constituents desire
us to vote. Indeed, all the gentle
men on that side of the question
indulge literally in prophecies.
They call to mind what Charles
Dickens says of David Copper
fields sitting night after night
under the gallery of the House of
Commons, recording predictions
that never came TO pass, prophe-
cies that were never fulfilled, end
explanations that were only meant
to mystify." Laughter.
He tells us that the panic was
brought about, not by reason of the
Sherman law, but because the Anglo
Saxon race has overdone the bust
ness of production. But he offered
no remedy for the evil. The Anglo
Saxons are an industrious, ambi-
tious, thrifty stock; but what would
he have them do-stop the pillow in
its furrow, the sickle in the swarth,
and the mill in its grinding? That
is decidedly rough on people who
want to work, who know how to
work, and who find their chief de-
light in work in the sweet hope of
making pleasant the lives of their
children.
But if the panic in the United
States is chargeable to the over-pro-
duction of Anglo-Saxons, how does
it happen that it came on first in
the South American republics, where
lew Anglo-Saxons find an abiding
place, and where Spanish-Ameri-
cans constitute the bulk of the
population?
He draws a graphic picture of
how the money kings of Lombard
street in London will jeer and boot
at us when they read of the four
proposed ratios and what he is pleas
ed to term the omnibus in which
all car ride. Let them jeer and
boot till the crack of doom. | thank
God my allegiance is not to the
money changers of Lombard street,
but to one hundred and seventy
eight thousand toiling freemen in
the great state of Missouri. TAP
plause.
He processes himself an interna-
tional b%imetallist, and wants silver
coinage postponed to a more con-
venlent season, ignoring the fact
that hope deferred maketh the
heart sick. He desires us to wait
and follow England, France, Ger
many, Russia, Austria-Hungary,
Italy, Spain, Holland, Portugal,
Switzerland and all other countries;
that is to say, that America, the
richest nation under the sun, pro-
ducing % per cent. of all the gold
and Al per cent. of all the silver of