The representative., 1896-09-30
MEXICO'S DOLLARS.
The False Claims of the Sound
MOncyites.-AnOther Stats.
tical Lie Exploded.
An Affidavit That Settles the Mexican Dollar
Humbug as Foisted on Gullible Voters
by the Sound Money Fakirs.

The following dispatch was published in
the Chicago Record, Sept. 1:
Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 31.-J. II. Kenne-
dy, former resident of Iowa, has attacked
the statements so generally made regarding
Mexico and silver by making the following
affidavit before E. H. English, a notary
public at Valley Junction.:
a. James H. Kennedy now a resident Of
the town of Sinola, Mexico, do solemnly
swear that 1 am an American by BIRTH
that | served three years in the 7th Iowa
during the late civil war; that I have al
ways been Republican,; that 1 have re-
sided In Mexico for 25 years; that l speak
the Spanish language as well or better than
l now do the English. I have travelled
through "a of the p states in Mexico, in an
official capacity and as interpreter for num-
erous syndicates. l have had access to
almost all the archives of the country.
am better acquainted with the customs and
usages of that country than I am of my
mother country. / left Mexico on the Cd
day OF March, 1886. coming to this country
to visit my relatives, friends and old COM
rades. During the last month In Iowa I
have heard more absurd and utterly false
statements made in regard to Mexico than
l ever thought could be conjured up by
mortal man, all to deceive the Soter
Zone most heard is that you can take
one American silver dollar into Mexico and
get two Mexican silver dollars for it: or
that you can get a 50-cent meal and throw
down an American dollar and they will give
you back in change Mexican dollar. I
brand this as utterly false in every re-
spect, a lie manufactured out of the whole
cloth. assert that Mexican will not ac-
cept an American dollar, either gold silver
or paper, for any amount, but will refer you
to broker, where you can sell your silver
dollar bullion for Mexican money, then
they will trade with you. The largest ho-
tel in the City of Mexico will not accept
American money under any circumstances
but will invariably refer you to a broker
by paying the mintage any one can take
silver bullion to either Of the mints In Mex
leo and get silver dollars for it. and for 250
years silver bullion has never f1uctuated up
or down to exceed cents.
IT hear it asserted that the national
debt is payable in gold. I brand this as
utterly false. Every dollar Of the debt
STAG, 900, ,OOO is and always has been payable
in the lawful money Of that country, and
we are now paying our debt in Mexican sill
yer dollars, the money Of the contract.
II assert that Mexico in the present de-
cade Is making strides of advancement
greater than any other nation on EARTH
Twenty-fv years ago We had 80 miles of
railroad: now we have near 5000 miles Of
railroad. We are building factories on
every hand. Twenty-eight years ago, when
the French army was driven out, the Mex
lean government was left penniless, not a
dollar in the treasury. We can now pay
our entire national debt any day a de-
mand would be made to pay 1t.
II am now on my way to Mexico to
spend the rest Of my life. Any one can find
me by addressing q letter to James II.
Kennedy. Sinaloa, Mexico.
'In conclusion I invite an honest and
thorough investigation into the facts of my
statement, and defy successful contradic-
tion. 1 am not the owner Of mining