Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-07-19
"HOme. Sweet Home"
HUNTING THE LUSCIOUS CLAM IN
THE SANDS ON THE LONG IS
LAND SEA-SHORE.
Chasing The Crafty Crab and DaIiying
with the Wiley Blue Fish the Pas
time of Editor White-In His
Pristine Gi0ry-I0W They
Farm i'm the East.

Editorial Correspondence of the Ledger.
SOUTHAMPTON, Long Island, n.
y, July 12.-After a nights ride
down Long Island Sound we are
sat home" in Southampton, the
writer's birthplace. This little city
Is a seml'summer resort by the sea.
A large number of wealthy New
Workers own fine cottages here some
costing as high as 5000, to be
used only two months in the year.
They bring down their servants, ve-
hlcles, horses, etc, and put on style
until you can't rest. During the
summer this is a most popular re-
sort, offering ali the advantages and
many of the disadvantages found at
many of the too popular sea side
cities. While the New Workers have
bought largely here the we'll to do
residents hold on to their farms and
houses and will not sell at any price.
They like to have the city folks here
but propose to stay with them. The
Lord never made Il better class of
people than the old residents of the
east end of Long Island and they de-
serve the many enloyments of life
which are theirs.
Most of the farmers here and
through the east own their farms
and while they do not farm on a
large scale make a good living and
save money. They work their small
farms for all they are worth, planting
a diversity of crops. The farmers
here, while they are great readers,
do not spend much time talking
politics and whittlingdry goods boxes
in town.
The soil here is not to be compared
to the broad rich prairies of Missou-
ri. Every foot has to be fertilized
and at the same time farming pays
here.
The people here and all along the
sea coast are greatly interested in the
racing of the Nigilant and Britannia.
The American yacht is getting beat
en- right along which does not suit
the Sons of the Revolution in this
part of the earth. 1t is claimed here
that the Vigilant has never had a
fair chance, that the Britannia is a
good drifter but when it comes to
sailing in an open sea the American
boat will prove the better. Every
true American hopes SO and at the
same time it looks as though the
Britannia was the best. If this is a
fact we should Immediately go to
work and build a better one.
We notice Debs is getting $4,000
and trimmings. If we did not have
strikes once in a while such men
would be out of a job and would have
to go to work. The strike gave
PETER, the Kansas Populist anarchist
Senator, a chance to expose his
whiskers to the breezes and he got a
cyclone Just where Rosie wore her
beads.
The cause of law and the suprem-
acy of the Federal authority
throughout the length and breadth
of this nation derived a notable and
lasting impulse from the u~tterances
evoked ON the floor of the United
States Senate.
Wrong headed, narrow Drained
Mr.. PETER builded better than he
knew when in a TRADE even more
s~enseless than those which he has
accustomed the country to expect
from him, he defended practical
anarchy and attacked the very
scheme and structure, as well as the
spirit of American popular govern
ment. Perhaps it is we'll that he
made his statements SO startling and
| so untenable that the bulk even o!
his Kansas Populist constituency
must shrink from them, with eyes
opened to the odious and disastrous
lengths to which this application o
Populist principles leads. The twin
ship of populism and anarchy wa'
never made, and never could bt
made more evident.
The best results, however, of Mr.
Peffer's inspired folly were the ring
ing denunciations which it evoked
from Senator Davis, of Minnesota
and from Senator Gordon, of Geor
gia. These gentlemen, represent
ing opposite poles in the body poll
tic and diverse sections of the coun
try, We'd with n another in thei
thrilling expressions of sublime AM
patriotic scorn of Mr.. Peffer's trea
sonable ideas.
Nothing has occurred since thu
close of this country's civil war s
qualified to reunite all its section
and all of its sane citizens in n clea
understanding of and allegiance t
the sanctity of the national author
ity for the upholding of the law