Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-03-26
VEST ROASTS CLEVELAND.
Sarcastic Comment on the Presidents
Carnegie Hall Home Missionary
Speech The Cause OF
the attack.


WASHINGTON, March IS This was
the fiity-ninth birthday Of PRESIDENT
Cleveland, and Senator est signaliz-
ed the evens~by electrifying the Sen
ate charIDer in three inmate speech
al the expense of the President A
Joint resolution introduced by Cannon
of Utah, instructing the Secretary of
the Interior to execute the law re-
garding the opening to settlement Of
the uncompahgre Indian Reservation,
was before the Senate. Some St.Louis
capitalists are interested in the open
ing of this reservation and have al
ready completed surveys to build
railroad into the great asphalt de-
posits that are known to exist there.
Senator Vest championed the reso-
luton, and in the course OF his re-
marks voiced the general Western
complaint of the administrations neg
lect of Western interests. The Mis-
souri, Senator referred to the recent
speech made by President Cleveland
at Carnegie Hall, and while on this
topic said:
"Mr. President: | am sorry to say
it, but there seems to be a disposition
on the part of the present administra-
tion to treat the Western people as if
they were in a condition OF pupIlage,
that they do not know their own
rights and their own interests, and
they must be informed ex cathedra
from the East in regard to what is
best for them, and what should be
done for them. Even the President
of the United States lately, on a mis-
sionary occasion (laughter), spoke of
the West as a land of immortality and
crime. He stood with the CHASTITY
light of the hell holes of the rumselleTs
of New York blazing upon him and
cantingly said home missions must be
used to civilize and Christianize the
men who have left their civilized
homes in the East and gone out
amongst the mountains and valleys of
that wild and woolly West daughter
Our President stood with DIR. Talmage
on one-side and the Rev. DIR. Shelton
Jackson on the other and gave us a
new version of that blessed old mis-
sionary hymn which we have heard go
often in our childhood:
"From Montana's sinful mountains, |
From Utah's wicked plains,
They call us to deliver
Their lands from errors chains.
"We are told by high ecclesiastical
authority that his Excellency has late
ly laid down his honors at the feet of |
Jesus. | am glad to know it. 1t has |
been the general impression of the
Democratic party that the mugwumps
and incense burners have got all those
honors, and intend to keep them. |
have great respect for the Christian
religion and missions, at home and |
abroad; but, Mr.. President, it is n |
slander upon the men who, with rifle
in one hand and AK in the other, have |
gone out and blazed the pathway of |
civilization in those Western wilds.
81 am Western man and went to |
Missouri when it was frontier in sight |
of the Indian and buffalo. have lived |
with those people nearly fifty years,
and say to our President now that if |
he will pretermit hunting ducks in
North Corolina and silver Democrats |
in Kentucky long enough to come out
West we will show him God-fearing, |
law abiding people; !
we will show him churches in which |
there is real and unaffected piety. We
will show him happy and christian
homes, where the son, the husband and |
the father pray. Our spirits may not
90 80 near heaven as do those of East
ern cities. We may not have organs
that roll delicious tones along fretted
aisles, but we have people who fear
God and observe the law, and all the
commandments as they are given unto
them. And, in comparison with this
homely, but real worship, am tempt
ed to quote those beautiful lines of the
Scotch poet
"Compared with this, how poor relig-
ious pride,
With all the pomp of method and art,
When men display to congregations
wide
Devotions every grace, except the
heart.
"This, Mr.. President, is what we
have come to at last, that the Presi-
dent of the United States in his official
says to the people of the
whole world that in one portion OF this
country their surroundings are such
that missions are necessary in order
to bring them to a proper knowledge
of what is right and true.
"But, did not rise for the purpose
of again criticising this administration.
! rose ia say, most emphatically, that
the habit of Secretaries or members of
the cabinet deliberately trampling up
on the laws of Congress and refusing
to carry them ont has gone to an ex-
tent that demands immediate notice