Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
IS THIS DEMOCRACY
Centralia Courier Places Itself Before
the People in Its Proper Light.

The Centralia Courier, claiming to
be a Democratic organ, which, during
the last few months, has had much to
say in reference to the party policy to
be followed in Missouri, in its issue
this week, in reference to the Ken
lucky convention, says:
"When the convention met again
a majority were the chattles of Wall
street. A Republican platform was
adopted and Republican policies in
dorsed.
SIT is clearly the duty of every Dem
Ocrat and honest man to refuse to
support the ticket. The man who will
sell out his principles deserves to be a
slave"
Watt Hardin, of Kentucky, is a free
silver man and has been nominated
on the platform 30 severely abused in
the above. In the same issue of the
Courier we find the following interest
ing statement also:
"The Courier has its faults, but
lodging is not n of them. We will
never while the world stands support
a single gold standard man on a single
gold standard platform for any office
from dog pelter to President"
In view of the fact that the Courier
is and has been one of the strongest
advocates of calling an extraordinary
convention in Missouri this year, and
indorsing free silver at is to 1 with
out an international agreement wheth-
Ell or no, the above statements are
significant.
Buckner's is headquarters for ma
chine oils.
ONE of the most interesting, and
withal instructive things we have
lately anent the free silver agi-
~tation, is the following interview with
Jas. s. Stanton, a South American
mining expert, on a recent visit to
Washington City:
81 have watched" said Mr.. Stanton,
'iwith considerable interest the argu-
ments and the prophecies of the free
silver advocates, / have wondered
why some of them don't produce the
evidence of some one who has been an
actual resident of a free silver coun-
try. Free silver countries are numer-
Gus to the south of us, and, surely,
there must be a number of good peo-
pie close by who have had more or less
experience as residents of those coun-
tries. They r qualified to tell, not
how it might, could, would or should
work, but exactly how it does work.
From long continued daily intercourse
with merchants, clerks and laborers,
and people in all the vocations of life
in such countries, 1 know what are the
conditions of people in free silver
countries. Why elaborate on theories,
when the actual results and cold facts
are easily accessible and almost stare
us in the face? In the free silver lati-
tudes I have been honored with the
personal acquaintance of nice looking
dry goods clerks who had reached the
salary limit at So per week Gin u
money!. Digniied, barfooted police
men, at $12 per month (our money!.
The merchant has to depend on cable
quotations from foreign countries to
keep informed what his native money
is worth. The large mercantile houses
pay for regular advices SO many
times a week. He never knows when
he closes at night what his money will
be worth the next morning. 1 have
seen scores of payrolls paid out on
which all section laborers (railroad)
receive so cents per day in silver.
These countries had magnificent cities
before this government was formed,
and yet every nineteenth century i'm
provement has had to be proposed,
carried there, introduced and operated
by enterprising citizens from gold
countries. The free silver natives
often ask why their dollar is worth
tWo-thirds less than ours.n