Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-01
False Prophets.

False prophets.
From the Sheibina mo, J Democrat.
The Republican papers have been
compelled TO dry up to some extent
their calamity bowling; the signs OF
prosperity are too patent to every in
telligent reader and observer. The
increase in the wages of 2 million
workers is too strong evidence TO be
overlooked.
The fact is the editors of Republi-
can journals ought to be ashamed OF
themselves and ought to apologize for
trying SO hard to retard returning
confidence and thus injuring the bust
ness of the country.
They are proven to be false proph-
cts in every instance. They declare
the Mckinley bill would increase wa
ges and bring greater prosperity. 1t
operated the reverse of this. Wages
were cut, strikes, lockouts followed;
aud in little over a year from it's pas
sage business was tottering to its fall.
These false prophets declared the
democratic tariff would destroy man
ufacturing, ruin the Industries and
lower wages. Less than a year has
| passed since its enactment and behold
| what never was seen before in so shoft
a time, the wages of 2 million workers
increased 10 per cent. Instead of
manufacturing being ruined, there
never was such activity in starting
mills. During the past 6 months, Is
silk, 3S wooden, % cotton, II mis-
cellaneous and 81 knitting factories
have been erected, making 116
in all. Then too our manufactu-
rers are seeking foreign markets and
competing with other countries and
goods are much cheaper to the con-
sumner. All this is due to the reduc-
ton of the robber tariff which the
Republicans forced upon the country
and the people so vigorously and We
hemently repudiated.
These Republican prophets have
been such failures,s 80 false, why should
| people have any faith in their fore
east? Why should they not be utter
ly r~epudiated?
The Misstatements of the Gold Bugs.
To the Editor of the ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, July 26.-And now
comes Congressman U. S. Hall in yes
acknowledgements and says that if we es-
tablish free and unlimited silver coin
age 16 to 1 by this government alone
that ''this will force our government
to coin all the silver" ETC., and we
will still be "forced to pay them
(foreign c%reditors) in dollars worth
twice as much," etc.
This is enough to expose the wild
and unreasonable gold now on
it's last legs in this State. Mr. Hall and
everybody else who knows anything,
knows that our bonds are not payable
in gold. Ever Cleveland in all his
besotted determination to play into
the hands of the holders of bonds,
knew that this is not true, hence he
attempted to browbeat and threaten
Congress into allowing him to insert
in the last bonds farmed out to the
Rothschilds a provision to pay them
in gold and it was rejected almost in
d~ignantly.
Mr.. Hall belongs to that class of pa
triots along with Mr.. Carlisle who
constantly assert that our mighty
nation of seventy millions of people
| who pretend to be free are complete
ly at the mercy of foreign and domes-
tic bond gamblers and that we can be
"forced''to do more than the contract
called for.
The same patriots say that the Fed
eral Treasury and the vast revenues
| of our country are at the mercy of a
few spectators and a week scarcely
passes but what the dear people are
blandly informed by Wall Street or
their agents around the Treasury
that Carlisle is not ''alarmed" upon
having a few millions of g~old"forced''
| out of the Treasury with the blessed
assurance that the "friends" of our
national honor and credit stand ready
lowell, to take some more bonds in
a private deal at $.04 when they are
| worth 1920.
The astonishing part of the whole
miserable business is, that men who
appear to be honest and patriotic
should be willing and even clamorous
to perpetuate our present terrible
financial system, willing to load upon
the necks of their helpless and unborn
children's children, a frightful increas-
ing debt, for which no consideration
whatever is being given for the in
crease and when they know the whole
world does not produce enough golo
to pay the interest. If the gold bug
succeeds, I can look down the stream
of time and see a nation of serfs, witt
bending back and scowling brow,
with nothing but curses for forefath'
ers who would willingly, and without
a cause, load them with such grievoui
burdens. But it will not come to that
we will have revolution and repudia'
ton instead, if it is necessary to go t.
that extremity. We will all know
heap before 1900. JOHN M. BARKER.
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