Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-02-01

uoui W 4uit raising ana making
things here which we cannot make
and raise in fair and honest COM
petition with all creation and to turn
our attention and confine our ener-
gies to raising and making things
we can produce at a profit, thereby
commanding the markets of the
world.
There is absolutely no limit to the
ingenuity of man. We could n )t
raise oranges in Maine or upon Jay
Cookies banana belt along The
Northern Pacific Railway, but bar
rel of them would give William
Astor's pocketbook the sweeney.
Laughter and applause.) We could
rear elephants in the jungles of Yer
mont, but the tusk of one would
cost larger sum than was paid by
Jay Gould's estate under the in
heritance tax to the State of New
York. (Laughter.) We could
grow polar bears in equatorial re-
gions, but a choice steak from one
would be worth a kings ransom
(Laughter.) The Crertor never
meant that we should hog it all or
we would have been made with
snouts. (Laughter.) 1t was never
intended that one people should do
everything and we are flying in the
face of the divine plan when we at
tempt it. We had better observe
the bounds which nature has set to
| our endeavors. And God saw that
SIT was not good for the man to be
alone," and certainly he never in
tended that a nation should live
alone. If He had He would have
so ordained it for He could just as
easily have created the world with
the same temperature and climate
from pole to pole and thereby have
enabled each nation to minister to
its own wants, to be entirely neigh.
borless and absolutely independent
| of all other peoples, kindreds and
tongues. But He did not do it. Ir
His infinite love for us He made
every nation dependent upon every
other for something, thereby forcing
them into friendship and CONNER
cial relations with each other.
| Everything tends toward this de
sirable and philanthropic end. AL
the wonderful inventions of human
genius are but instruments Of full
filling the predestined plan. The
mariners compass, the steamship
the railroad, the telegraph, th'
telephone, the printing press and al
the glorious achievements of ou
race are breaking down the old wall
of partition and contributing to tn
universal brotherhood of man. Annie
all the multiplying evidences of tn
approaching commercial nuptials O
the nations, the hoarse and angr
voice of the pampered projections
is heard, high above the rush an
roar of the world rushing to bette
day, shouting 81 forbid the bans
1 forbid the bans!" He is a publ
nuisance and should be abated. II
/, is an obstacle to human progres
and should be removed. He is tn
big beggar-man. fattening upon til
peoples bounty, and he should b
choked from the public crib.
TIRED OF FALSE PHILOSOPHY.
We have tried long enough
/ lift ourselves over the fence by tug
ging at our own boot straps. "
have had surieit of that false theor
that the foreigner pays the tax. W
! are sick unto death of the astoand
ing philosophy which teaches TIL
. we may grow rich by piling up tt
taxes upon ourselves like Pelio
upon Ossa. Let us return to tt
, ways OF sanity and prosperit..
"Whom the gods would destro
they FIRST make mad" is a sayir
consecrated by time and full OF wi
!. dom. commend it to the caref1
: consideration of the tariff baroi
and their retainers. You are III
: willingly doing more to build u
!. radical free trade sentiments in th
country than all the Henry. Geors
, propagandists between the tn
. oceans. You decry philosopher
theorists and political economis