Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-30
SAM. MORRIS, Agent, Mexico, Mo.

England. He has sense enough to
know that for So years NewEngland
has fattened and grown and flourish
ed at the expense of the remainder
of the country by reason OF the artl
fetal processes established by the
Morrill, tariff bill and perfected hy
the Mckinley bill. He knows that
the phenomenal growth of wealth in
New England is unnatural but he Is
anxious to see it continue. lie
knows that if the government would
take its heavy hand off of commerce
and trade and permit them to seek
their natural channels, the sceptre
would depart from the northeast
corner of the Republic.
In his celebrated speech at Boston
about a year ago. he warned New
Englanders that they should awake
and defeat the Wilson bill at all
hazards. He bluntly told them that
if they permitted it to become law,
New England's prosperity would de-
/ cline and her manufacturing institu-
tons would be transferred TO ''the
o~mniverous West
That warning was to NewEngland-
ers like Il fire bell at midnight. To lis
Democrats Of ''the omniverous
Vest it should be Il rainbow OF
promise in the sky. That utterance
of MIR. Reed should open the eyes OF
every man west OF the Mississippi
and should convert every Republican
and Populist into Il reliable Demo
crat; because most certainly we de-
sire to make this western countr; q
great manufacturing as we'll as &
great agricultural section.
In his latest speech Mr.. Reed
says that the Democratic party is in
capable of running this country in I
satisfactory manner.
That's the keynote Of his cam
paign for both the speakership ano
the Presidency. That's his battle
cry. The wish is father to the
thought. lie wants to make people
| believe what he himself most de-
sires.
Mr.. Reed has q well defined ide:
lurking in the recesses of his huge
skull that this country neve vii
be run in a manner entirely satisfac
tory to New Englanders in genera
and himself in particular until he i.
domiciled in the White House.
It is true that the Democratic
party has not run this country ii
a manner satisfactory to the army
of lobbyists hanging around Wash
ington, &c the innumerable host 0
'Ipublic p~luuderers who have fatten
ed off the great body of the people
to the Tariff Barons who have grown
rich off the earnings of the masses
to the jobbers of every size, style
and name who have grown with the
growth of the Republican party ant
strengthened with its strength; blu
undertake to say that the people
the plain people-came to under
stand what the Democrats have done
for them-understand that many
bad laws have been repealed ant
many good ones passed thai
the expenses of the government
have been reduced by 100000 0t
annually-that an army of super.
fluous Office holders have been Gu
off-that the surging tide Of extrav
agance has been turned hack-tha
elections are free-that honesty anc
dearer methods prevail-that L. S
Senators are to be elected by The
people.
When they come to comprehend
these things and that they are only
Il an earnest of reforms 10 come,
have an abiding faith that the plan
; people will conclude that the Demo
Gratis are running this country in
I manner satisfactory to the majority
; of the tax payers-Nr. Reeds die
| tum to the contrary notWithstand
ing.
i Mr.. Reed has a great deal to 81,
about the Sugar Trust. He hold
up his hands in holy horror at thu
=. bare mention of that dark blot o,
American civilization. Who are til,
: fathers Of the Sugar Trust? Tn,
Republican leaders Of the 51st Con
gress-that Congress over which
Mr.. Reed presided. They created
! the trust and breathed into it
nostriIs the breath of life by giviny
it e OF one cent per pound on re
fined sugar, thereby enabling it t.
rob the people of twenty millions
year. Then to put the conscience
of the sugar planters of Louisian;
to sleep, they paid them a bount,
of two cents per pound out of thu
treasury. Mr.. Reed should not b.
too hard on that child of Repuhli
canism. True it is a monster o
frightful mien-but | have Away
heard that parents loved deforme,
children the best.
i The IIouse-Democratic and hon
est-put sugar on the free lis
and knocked out the bounty-bu
in the Senate seven men calm,
themselves Democrats joined witt
5S Republicans to save something
to the trust, but they only sayct
to it onc-fourth of what Republi
5 cans gave it and they couldn't saw
/, the bounty at all. As Republicans
begot the Sugar Trust and all othe
trusts Mr.. Reed ought to 90 rathe
slow in undertaking to to unIoa,
them to the Democrats.
The Republicans have been abus
ing us for years for waving the
bloody shirt, and yet in his las
speech Mr.. Reed very skiifuliy ap
peals to the iprejudices OF 30 year:
ago ny holding the South up before
his New England audience as tht
great raw head and bloody bone:
which is to destroy them. In hi:
Boston speech it was "the omniY
erous West" In his Maine speech
it is ''the unbusinesslike South
Take those two speeches together
and you have complete the shadow
of the coming day which disturb;
the SAUNDERS Of Mr.. Reed and his
New ENGLAND fr;pnis II = 80,