Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-12-12
A LITTLE DOUBTFUL.
So Thinks Judge Kendall in Regard tt
tho Snccsss of the National Dem
0cratic Ticket.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
VANDALIA, Mo, Dec. 10.-DEAR SIR;
Since the Democrats have harmonizeG
it will be no trouble to control the
State at the next election if all vii
come out and do their duty. But az
to the National ticket | am not 80 sure,
AS Mr.. Cleveland's message does not
suit all our people, and unless he
changes his tactics, many Democrats
will not go to the polls, as they would
just as soon have Republican legisla-
ton by Republicans as to have the
same by Democrats. Many of Mr.,
Cleveland's recommendations do moi
meet the approval of but N class OF
our people. In other words, he is still
in the hands of his friends. He says
that it would not be true Americanisn
for our people to pay their debts will
a dollar of less value than it was wher
the debt was contracted. He seem:
to have the idea that all debts have
been contracted of recent years. He
don't consider that a vast amount o
the Indebtedness VA contracted priol
to the act of 1873, when silver was at
premium over gold. Since silver il
denied its rights under the constitu'
ton, thus depressing the debtor O.
one-half his ability to pay, in many
instances they have struggled along
keeping the interest paid up and by
often renewing, and now, after ex-
hausting all his he still owes
the debt, and with the present pros
poets and present policy he is liable to
owe it for sometime. The part of his
message pertaining to finance is
strongly endorsed by the money
power of all political parties, who
have already grown fat by sucking
the life's blood out of the nation. He
says retire the United States notes and
the Treasury notes, and recommends
that the National Banks be authorized
to issue the notes up to the full
amount OF their poncs IN 10 fur-
nish q currency.
Now, see how this looks: Their
non-taxable bonds drawing four per
cent interest and eight per cent on
the full amount of issue, this money
to do the business of the country
twelve per cent money and corn at
seventeen cents per bushel, and all
produce in proportion. His system
of fostering monopolies, producing the
Capitalization of money and the EN-
tralization of power, makes the mil
lionaire and the beggar. Already we
find that more than half of the wealth
OF the country is in the hands of
heartiess corporations that p~aralyze
all individual industries, and in the
main Is q system of legalized robbery
conducted by a band of free-booters
that would put to shame John A,
Murreli's bandits, as they never
molested the poor, and IL this system
OF robbery is not checked it will end
In q revolution at the hands of an u
ragged people as sure as the sun shines
Ii We were to look towards Washing
ton City we could see the noble old
eagle-the emblem OF Iberty-perch.
ed upon some high place watching the
inhuman vuitures getting ready e
swoop down upon their de~fenseles.
prey. The sight has made him sicl
and he 10 pluming his wings for ,
farewell flight across the continent I.
the setting sun, where he viii han,
his head In shame and take up hi
abode among the sad remnant of tn,
noble red man, who has been robbes
and driven hither by our so-calIe,
Christian civilization. Now, in con
clusion, I would ask in the languag
az an old California miner: aIs Their
no helif, Yours Respectfully,
8. g. KENDALL.