Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21

an average are lower, but will
prove 20 you thSt it cost Li,a less and
that he lives better.
The breap in Mexico is the "tor.
tilla, made Of corn For l cent the
laborer can get three hot tortilIas
The size of big American pancake,
enousSh for meal. This tortilla is
by no means to be found Oh the Ia
bic OF the poor alone, but the rich
and President D;az has them served
regularly. The bean comos next
The good wholesome. nutritious.
brown "frijole,' cooked in any STYLE.
the laborer can get all he can cat for
2 cents. This is the potato of Mexi-
co, and everybody eats them, includ
ing foreigners, and they wind up the
meal at every hotel and restaurant
In the city. For 3 cents the laborer
gets enough meat to cook fine sopa
(soup,) seasoned with vegetables
and rice (caldo) and after be has
consumed that and wishes to be CT.
travagant, 2 cents worth of fruit will
Oil him up.
Coffee and milk are as cheap as in
the States, but the laborer prefers
and drink pulque, the national drink
OF the country, and found on the Ia
bic of the poor and rich alike. 1t is
a medicinal beverage of inestimable
value in kidney dcseBses. For ! cent
large glass. and if the laborer feels
like getting on spree five glasses
will put him to sleep for twenty four
hours. Pit three glasses in front of
Mexican, one of pulque at l cent,
one OF beer at 10 cents, and one of
champagne at 81, and ask him to
help himself and take his choice. and
he will jump in at the pulque every
time. He needs no luxuries import.
ed from gold countries at SIS per cent
premium and wants none. Thus for
IL cents the laborer in Mexico can
get good wholesome food meal and
jag thrown in, which the laborer
couldn't get in the States for $I3.
Will the New York World vo!un
teer to publish this for tho benefit of
American laborers? Will it take facts
and figures from the American bust
ness men III Mexico, who are on the
ground and know whereof they speak
or Go they prefer articles from the
Minister to Columbia, who holds bis
tenure under a gold standard admin
istration at Washington, and dare
not speak the truth and upholp the
the silver cause! Let us hope not.
The goeatest American newspaper
says it is open to argument and in
vites discussion from the people of
the common ranks on this great ques
ton 81 the day, and must aud will
publish the truth, and we firmly be
lieved and predict that before the
campaign has progressed much fur
ther, tho World will lie found on the
side of the people pulling for Bryan
and the platform he represents, not
only in support of the silver doctrine
but demanding as that platform, that
the wealthy as we'll as the poor shall
bear the just burdens of our great
government by paying an income
tax on a basis of equity and equality,
and thereby avert an impending con
hict gaeater and probably more dan
gerous than the threatened conflict
with England over Venezuela, that
timely interposition of the Worlds
great power and influence for con
ciiatory stiAed and boliterated, and
may continue to permit its great
voice OF thunder in opposition to
trust and mohoples which never
have and never will gain a foothold
on Mexican soil.
OTTO HFCKIFNAN