Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-08-24

If we obey their behes,,
enact the additional lepislss
in a hundred years the NV
will be reduced to the wr ssy
condition of Russian se,s
Mexican poems, and the
holders will have all the r.s
in the country; for, as DID,
Craig, of st. Joseph, was $
to say: "When a dollar !
down into their capaeious ~
cts the eagle on it sings: ~
we'll, vain world, I'm =
home!"J Laughter and apui.sa
The national banks are bs..
here and get what they s.s
The tariff barons are heard IS
and get what they want. n
self-constituted and multifs S
boards of trade are heard H.
and get what they want. 1
bondholders are heard herr :,
get what they want. The ,,s
corporations are heard here =
get what they want. The An
and Navy are heard here j.
get what they want. The 4.
sidized steamship mail coma
mics are heard here and get ss.
they want. These can AIM
offer a reason which carriess
slant conviction with it. r.
when the farmers of the counfs
through their representadrs
prefer a request that they BE- +
totally ruined, they are told )
work more and talk less. WI
millions of honest laborers !,
Congress to so order things a.
give them the poor priviiens
having a chance to toll, they, IS
denounced as tramps and snp
chists. Applause.
For thirty-two years the len
lation of this country appears
have had one end in view-As
of building up a moneyed ae
tocracy, the very danger wis
the fathers of the Republief oe
saw, against which they warus
us, and from which Jeffenn
thought he had saved the CON
try, when he abolished the In
of primogeniture. This cours
bodies no good to the RepubIS
Truly did Goldsmith say:
Ill fares the land. to Fastening ills a prev.
Where wealth aceumulates, and men dezx.
Princes and lords may flourish or may nd
A breath can make them, as a breath nns
But a bold ~peasantry, their country spa
When once destroyed can never be suppfa
AS To POPULAR DELUsIoNs. s
We have during this deba
heard many sneers at "popuk
delusions." The single standn
advocates roll that phrase iai
delicious morsel under tsS
tongues. They may learn to
the power of popular fury.
AT the beginning of theFrens
revolution the people set up
cry for bread that has sound
down the ages. An upstr
aristocrat responded: "Lett Il
people eat grass" Then can
the dies irde--the day of wsa
lat whose awful scenes d
world still shudders. Mar /.
merciful God lead us into mon
pacific and prosperous paths
Popular delusions.." ThosI
are sonorous words. We IN
gravely told by the single-stn
dard gold men that the peopk
do not know what is the matte
with them, can not understani
what is destroying them, do nd
know what they want, and mus
rely for information entirely up
Oh the leaders of the other side
That would certainly be repest
ing the ancient and futile per
Torrance of going to a gosts
house for wool.
Now, the average America
citizen may not be much ofap
litical economist or logician. b
may not know a syllogism whel
he sees it, and can not, in tech
nical terms, distinguish d majd
premise from a minor; but net
ertheless, in his own homel
way, he reasons a great de-
more than he gets credit for. b
knows when he is hurt and whel
his business is crippled. ZAP
plause. He understands chs
when, after toiling sixteen houn
a day through summers hes
and winters cold, and after prat
Using the severest economy, b
can not, at the end of the veal
make buckle and tongue meet
there is something radicallI
wrong and something rotten i
this state of Denmark"
He may be afflicted with''pop
ular decisions" but when he cal
not, in 1898, sell for $50 per aers
a farm which i'm 1872 cost hin
500 per acre, he will search TO
the authors of that unpleasaa
phenomenon, and punish than
when found. His weapon is tnl
ballot, which, in tie hands o
resolute men, is more effectlss
than shot and shell and Kruppt
big guns. Applause
And it is the toilers of tht
Countrywide farmers, the me
chanics, the merchants the shop
keepers, the wage earners--
rather than the boards of tradt
that finally make up the san
total of that public opinio.
against whose"pitiless peltings'
the gentleman from New Yors
warned us last Saturday. Th.
bulk of the people are not mucl
in the habit of memorializinl
Congress, but they are much .
the habit of thinking and OF Fos
ing. Applause.