Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-01-17
A. FEW HOT SHOT FOR cLEEE,
LasD:Aap cARLIsLE FIRED ~
mo. N. HARkfR.
Mr.. Harker Gives Our Congressman
something 10 Think over lie TX.
poses The .fanai ssiadIe-ao
Itss Hedging ihr issues.
From the wentariile Union .

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been requested by n friend Of the
Cleveland Carlisle plan 10 suggest
something better, so | will answer
il by telling a little story. Years
ago | met 4 man in Arkansas whom
| hid prosecuted for stealing cattle.
He had been mereifully treated on
account bis youth and promises of
reformation, but he had not kept
his promise, and on meeting him |
remarked: "John, | hear you have
been stealing cattle again" He
replied: "Yes, | have, but | have
got nothing and what better can |
do?" "Well," told him, you
might try hog stealing for a while"
So l will say to all who favor the
Carlisle bill as being the best they
can propose, to try stealing, because
it will not iniure SO many people
and cannot be CLICKED at under the
hollow and false pretense Of it be-
ing done lawfully. However, if
the Cleveland. Carlisle scheme should
become a law l do not wish it under
stood that | would charge with dis
honesty any person who should
convert his mean and credit into
paper money, and thus treble his
wealth by the simple revolution of
a few cogs and the role RS OF a print
ing machine.
That is exactly what the propos-
ed Legislation means 1t is a vast
brIbe offered to thousands OF men
in every State, with the hope that
such an appeal to the avarice of the
human breast will result in perpet'
ually destroying silver coinage; will
perpetually establish a gold reserve
for the gold bug, and a perpetual
paper money for the people who
really carry on all the legitimate
commerce of the eaIth.
To establish a firm and everlast-
ing basis of gold upon which to
build the never ending, interest
bearing bonds of the shylocks of the
earth, the hyenas who have always
skulked in the smoke of battle, but
beyond the reach of common shot
for a thousand years.
The trouble now is that if any
man dares to expose the infamous
legislation at Washington for the
benefit of the gold bug, the bond
holder, the railroad corporations
and a hundred kinds of robbery
and stealing being enacted since
1868, he is Immediately set upon
as a crank or something worse
hence we, month after month, and
year after year, see or feel no re,
lief-onIy the pull and tedious
routine of a pretended attempt to
carry out some platform full of
double dealing and false pretense-
platforms made to deceive the peo-
pie, and yet deceiving nobody.
AS soon as one great scheme Of rob.
berry is consummated another one is
ready. We have two on hand now
the Carlisle bill and Canal bill.
The object of the last one is the
same as the U. P. r. K. bill that
was for the people of the United
States to build a railroad for q few
private individuals, and they did it.
The present one is to build a canal
worth a hundred millions for some
private persons and-well don't say
they won't do it yet. "It is in the
hands Of its friends"
Now, there is but two kinds OF
sensible and honest coin money.
That is silver and gold at a ratio OF
16 to /, or 15}s to l., as in Germany
and France. And there is but two
kinds of honest paper money. One
is such as may be issued directly by
the nation and the state, legal tender
bonds upon the wealth and credit of
the nation or state and redeemed
only in such time ard manner as
may be declared by the law creating
it, and without interest. And the
only other kind of honest paper
money is such as private banks and
persons may be able to induce the
people to take, and without any lie.
gal tender properties, SO that no man
is bound to take it any more than
he is the due bill OF his neighbor.
The state or nation has no business
to 60 security for any mans prom
ises to pay.
The appalling financial condition
of the Union to day is owing to the
fact that a venal Congress soon af-
ter the war, turned the treasury of
the United States over to the man.
agement OF as hungry and insatiate
gang of spectators and shylocks as
ever bankrupted a people since the
world began. And if there has been
any material difference in the past
twenty-six years in the manner or
way in which the people who create
The wealth have been treated, let
.ome one speak.
We have a few brave men at
Washington who have not forgotten
trust and it is to be hoped they
nay give the Carlisle Cleveland
scheme a broad road and a rapid ride