The old Abe eagle. (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 189?-189?, 1894-11-29
OUR esteemed friend w. A. Rob

inson of Bonito, who made his sec
ond trip to this place on Friday
night before the election to brace
up the brethren for the final catas-
trophe, promised the faithful that
some evening after the struggle
for the offices was over and he had
a few minutes to spare he would
in that careless, rollicking, happy
go-lucky way of his swipe up the
EAGLE. But in his speech he set
himself right with his conscience
by conceding that the paper had
him down in it's discussion of the
principles" of his party. The
little off-hand job appeared
in the Lincoln Independent of last
week in the form of two and half
columns of pleasantrieS directed as
an oren letter to one PefHry in
whose pencil he had locsted the
source Of the undoing of the eff
fpctS of his first little talk of three
hours here, and his first article in
the Populist county organ. In
tLat article he had called the EA-
GLE both a parrot and a liar; and
in his speech he showed that it
was neither. The election is over
and Mr.. Robinson and his party
are wandering in the dank and
chilly shades where the woodbine
twineth and the owl gently hoot-
eth, and sympathy for those who
mourn prevents the scribe from
indulging in unseemly y levity at
the sepulchre where Great Expec-
tions lies cold and stiff. Our val
ued friend shows that he does not
feel as brave as he did when he
first attacked the EAGLE, for he
now singles out an individual for
the object of his sarcasm he
had inadvertently mistaken for a
gentleman and an ignoramus. He
has this individual sized up as an
ass clothed in a lions skin: and
while he may himself be lion he
is now mesquerading in the cpl
dermis of the ancestor cf a mule.
As to the charge of peddling polit-
cal principles which he makes, Mr..
Robinson certainly may speak ad-
visedly, for he has been hawking
his around at political county fairs
and circus parades for twenty
years or more Perhaps he is now
convinced that his shop worn stock
is of slow sale and small profits.
AS he has one by one conceded
the victory to the EAGLE on all the
issues raised in the discussion of
facts, except the last, in regard to
the importance of the greenback
in our monetary system, we feel
confident that he will come around
all right on that. In regard to
this question, Maurice l.. Muhle-
man, cashier of the sub-treasury
at New York, gives the history OF
the various issues OF these notes,
and shows that "in the aggregate,
therefore, S450,000,000 OF these
notes were authorized, and the larg.
est amount ever outstanding was
Oh January 3, 1864, when it stood
at S449, 33S 902." On December
81, 1867, but 356 millions were out
The law of February 4, 1868,
stopped the contraction of their
volume; and in 1873 40 millions
were added TO it. The amount
gradually decreased for twenty
years, and there was still ont June
30, 1893, $347,G31 ,Ol6. The state.
ment before was in regard to green
backs not discussion Of the Ma
tional debt. AS the discussion
has passed the stage of either pub.
lie interest or public good we must
kindly bid our friend adieu, with
thanks for his distinguished per-
sonal consideration and hopes tha,
he may have better luck in the va.
rious political parties he may vel
be permitted to affiliate with ia
the course Of long and prosper
oLs life.