Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-05-23
What Of the Hour?
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rich and poor, high and low, These
aggregated statements include every |
thing that law governs ana preteets, |
not only domestic, bat all foreign re-
lations, including life, liberty and the
pursuits of happiness, Anything that
conflicts with the legitimate pursuit
and the accomplishment of these ends
Ii contrary to the spirit of true Demo-
cratic government and clearly anti
American. A disregard OF these fun
damental rights OF man by the English
people led the Colonial patriots in l77d
To make the Declaration of lndepend-
enoe at time when the odds were
largely against them; but firm reli-
anee in the justice OF their cause i'm
PEELED them TO take the step, and to-
day, for this step, their names are
imperishably written on the hearts of
every true man who has any concep-
ton OF human right, whether he
breathes the pure air of America or
the degrading atmosphere of the slav-
ihH vi iliC oANi "StiN -hiANA
seven years war, in which they per-
lied their all, even life itself, on the
altar of their country came off con-
| querors and transmitted to us the
grandest legacy in all the annals of
human government since time began.
Under the motto of equal rights to
all and special privilege to none,"
thirteen feeble colonies on the Atlantic
seaboard, with only three millions of
people, in little over one century,
have grown to forty five states and
several territories and to-day we have
seventy-tiye millions of people, while
our country stretches from the At
| Iantic to the Pacific oceans and en-
braces every variety of soil and eli
mate and produces every sort of crop
essential to the welfare of man, and
| the earth abounding in vast mines of
gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron,
coal, natural gas and oil. Not satisfied
by the war of 1875 England again, in
1912, sought to crafty her malignant
spirit by second war, but she was
again defeated and forced to caPitu-
| late. Thus weak but brave and honest
people met the tyrraneous crews of
an ungrateful mother and whipped
them in every battle field, and this
became the asylum of the oppressed
for the down -trodden from every 9TH
er land and cline. The men who made
this government were above price. A
Mr.. Reed, member of the Continental
Congress, was approached-as we
learn from history-by an agent OF
King George and his reply was, 81 am
not worth buying, but such as ! am
the King of England is not rich enough
to buy me-" Such an answer as that
ought to cause the cheeks of some OF
our late statesmen, who sell themselves
for railroad passes, to mantle with
eternal shame.
Defeated in two wars, President
Monroe warned England to "keep of
the grass and she has done so. Now
she tries a new plan. She sees thai
our people have become nation OF
money lovers and that our own rich
bankers and syndIcates are destitute
of every semblance of patriotism anC
would to-day sell Christ for half the
price Judas got, provided only the pay
was i'll gold. So England puts few
soyereigns in little tin box and fast
ems the box on the end of the British
lions tail, and as he approaches or
! deck of war ship to our shores his
keeper twists his tail and rattles the
box, and Cleveland and Carlisle, witt
their patent picker, snatch every
feather out of our eagle and bring hin
down and have him crawl under the
abdominal cavity of the British lion
Honest money! This is the altar al
which we worship. No other god but
gold. AS for this Moses we know not
what has become of him in the persons
of Washington, Jefferson, Madison
Monroe and "Old Hickory
No spectacle could be more humiIi,
ating than the people of this once free
land now present with President an6
Secretary, with their heads just under
the tail of the English lion, covering
and trembling at every shake of his
caudle appendage. Ye Godsl 1t doth
amaze us that 5000, 900 of free people
can't coin money without England's
permit. Tne patriotic fathers made q
constitution which declares that
Congress shall have power to coin
money and regulate the value thereoi
and foreign coin.'; Tet we have be-
come such base towards that we dare
not exercise our constitutional rights
without an international agreement
One per cent. of such infamous treach-
cry as we exhibit in our nation to- day
would have left our people as subjects
of old England. When old Packenham
sent word to jackson at New Orleans
on the 7th of January, 1915, that he
would eat breakfast in New Orleans
the next morning ''Old Hickory" sent
work back if he did he would eat his
supper in---. There was no British
gold about that nor did he have his
head under the tail of the lion. He
wasn't that sort of cat.
Cleveland swore that he would sup
port the constitution, yet he refused
to do so on this vital point, and now
sends out his Secretary to argue
against compliance with his oath,
Decency demands his resignation and
, duty calls on some grand jury for an
indictment. NJ. Y. DUNCAN.
Blew His Head OF.
Charles Littrell, living on the John