Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
All, There! Mr.. Wilson.
THE LEXINGTON BANKER TRIES
HIS HAND AT WRITING AN
OTHER LETTER TO THE
CHRONICLE.
He Wants to Keep up That Ruler
Gag a Little Longer His "Beauti-
APPROPRIATIONS Are Astounding.

Mr.. Wilson, the Lexington banker,
has written a second letter to the st.
Louis Chronicle, which is as follows:
Editor Chronicle: Pleasant words
from womankind, that parto of the race
which yer 1t to cave us ! would not
care to live a day, are so enjoyable
that to me the opposite sort of words
from that quarter paralyze or hypno-
tie, and ali but nihilize me.
When oral they make me dumb and
leave me no but ga stony
Saxon stare'' trimmed with intense
unhappiness. If it were to try to have
the last word with a woman that I ask
more space, the Chronicle would be
right to say s'no." Bat it is not. The
managers of the Hardin College ought
to be ''horribly child" for using text
books that tell the girls that u pub
lie servants are s'rulers," but, as for
the school girls and the lady teachers
who r not in politics, 1, for my part,
would ''rear them as gently as any
sucking dove" yea, l would put Bot
tom himself in the shade with reas-
surfing prefaces like "ladies, or fair
ladies', / would wish you, or / would
request You or I would beseech YOU"
See even here how calamity / leave
an opening through which they can
come back at me anent the difference
between the two animals that roar.
The constitution says nothing about
the President being our "~ruler," but
rather as executive he executes the
will of his principals, the people and
the States. If the text books used in
the public schools of this State teach
that he is our ruler, it adds another to
the weighty reasons that / gave in the
Arena Magazine last June, why the
Democrats should be dumped out of
service in this State
My dictionary, the only English one
| have under a hundred years old,
says that ruler mea lone who rules
or governs one who exercises supreme
authority or power; a governor, 4
monarch or the like" ibid not know
what it said when l wrote the first
note, but did know that ruler is of the
same root as Latin rex and Sanskrit
raj. And as raj is used in a compound
word in Sauskrit thai is the poetical
name of the tiger, ''the ruler of the
Jungle" it is in a way right to call
him a ruler, who has in the last two
years spread d~esolation through the
country, causing over $4,000 business
failures. GEO. WILSON.
Lexington, Mo-, Jan. 2, 1896.
Now, gentle reader, r not these
lines beautiful? 1t is sad, indeed, that
Mr.. Wilson is so susceptible to hyp-
motto influence that he can be hypno-
tized by young ladies over a hundred
miles away from him. Possibly it
was under such influence that he
wrote this letter. Let us hope that
he was not in his right mind at the
time. Then, the way in which he
euloglzes womankind is truly touch
ing. 1t would be highly interesting to
know where he got all his quotations
from.
If Mr.. Wilson had hunted up the
word executive in the dictionary
he would have found that it means a
magistrate, or officer, who admins
tiers the government, whether king,
president or governor" And yet he
calls the president an executive when
a king could be called so with just as
much correctness. A king is certain
ly a ruler, and, as he is also an exec
utive, it stands to reason that a man
might easily be a ruler without being
a king or crowned monarch of any
kind. But perhaps Mr.. Wilson's die
tionary, 'sthe only n he has under a
hundred years DID," does not contain
the word executive.
The text books used in the schools
of our State are the same Is used in
many other States of the Union, Re-
publican as well as Democratic, and
yet he remarks that if they teach that
the president is our ruleri it is a weigh
ty reason why the Democrats in this
State should be dumped. Right here
it might be we'll to suggest Mr.. Wilson
for State superintendent Of Schools
at the next election. There's no dan
ger of his being elected.
Then MIR. Wilson goes on to give a
number of Latin and Sanskrit roots,
which heclause ends by stating that the
tiger is the ruler of the jungle. If
everybody in this country were like
himself he could certainly make no
complaint about the title 'ruler."
Then comes the most ridiculous
part of his whole political letter. He
says that it is in a way right to call
the president a ruler, as he has been
the cause of widespread desolation
throughout the nation and has caused
%, 200 failures since taking the presi-
Dental chair. 1t is to be hoped that
Mr.. Wilson's reason for mentioning
such a fact is not because he has been
caught in one of these failures. 1t is
a strange fact that a man should try
to denounce the president of SO great
a nation as this in a letter of this kind.
1t is a stranger fact that Mr.. Wilson
should attribute the desolation and
failures to one whose title Gas MI.
Wilson claims) only allows him to
execute the will of his principals, the
people and the States. But the day
of strange things Is not yet over, and
1t would not be at all surprising il Mr.
Wilson should write a text book on
civil government in the near future.
This would certainly be a curiosity
and much sought after.