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

iaitSiti5 hS'tst'J taOy otdlu iOT
truth aud right and justice. The
gentleman from Iowa { (DollIver twas
particularly rough on them. But
you, by giving practical demon.
strations of the outrages OF a pro-
teetive tariff, contribute more to
your own undoing than all the po,
litical economists who have lived
since Adam Smith lifted the world
to a higher plane by writing ''The
Wealth of Nations. In time of
profound peace you refuse to give
up any of the rich largesses wrung
from the toiling millions amid dis
asters and necessities of the greatest
civil war that ever drenched the
earth in humanSblood.
On the contrary, your greed grow
ing with what it feeds on, you have
incre reased these exertions until the
iniquity cries to Heaven. Upon you
rests the curse placed upon those
who grind the faces of the poor.
You refused the just reductions of
the Morrison bill. You enacted the
infamous law of 1888. You rejected
the Mills bill with contume'y and
scorn. In the plentitude of your
powers and to reward those out of
whom the fat was fried in the cam
paign of 1888, in utter disregard
of both justice and public opion,
you fastened the Mckinley steal
upon the country and then patted
yourselves in congratulation on the
back. Ii anybody dared to suggest
that the great body of the people
had some natural and constitutional
rights which the tariff barons should
respect, you detiantly replied in the
language Of VIM. M. Tweed, "What
are you going to do about it?n
Tweed thought that piece of un-
equaled wit, but he found to his re-
gret what the people were going to
do about it and so did the authors
of The Mckinley bill.
MAKING FREE TRADERS.
The tariff baron proposes but God
disposes. All this time you were
building more wisely than you
knew. You were propagating free
traders more rapidly than rabbits
multiply in Australia. Laughter.
Eighteen hundred and ninety came
1892 followed Like Ephraim, you
are joined to your idols Like the
Bourbons, you learn nothing. You
are set in your ways. You are fight
ing the wholesome provisions of the
Wilson bill. You may defeat it
here or in the other end of the Cap.
itol. Treason did not go out OF
fashion with Iscariot and Arnold.
You may find enough renegade
Democrats TO enable you to do this
thing. Ii so, woe be unto you, and
woe be unto them, for if you succeed
in creating the people of this small
measure Of relief, just as certainly as
there is a future just so surely will
a free trade party arise in this coun
try, which will wipe the whole pro-
tective system off the earth suddenly
as a cyclone, ruthlessly as confa-
grafton, completely as if swallowed
up by the raging sea. Applause. ]
There will be no temporizing, no
compro missing, no dalliance in the
lap of the Delilah of protection then.
Men with brains in their heads, the
love of humanity in their souls and
the courage of their convictions in
their hearts will with eager hands
rend the temple of protection till
not one stone shall be left upon an
other in that robbers castle. God
speed the day.
Some gentlemen seem to be much
perturbed in spirit and wearied in
flesh in a futile attempt to find out
what tariff reformer is. They
have toiled as assiduously as any
crank ever did in the vain endeavor
to discover the secret Of perpetual
motion or any alchemist ever did
to transmute the base metals into
gold. The task of Sisyphus was a
holiday ami hilarious performance
compared with that which these
gentlemen have imposed upon
themselves. But they may now rest
from their labors and possess their
souls in peace, for | will tell them
and my language will be plain. l
am always glad TO impart informa-
ton to searchers after Truth. II
may not increase the sum total oi
their happiness, but it will augment
III zISTf.