The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-26
THAT MEXICAN OBJECT LESSON.
Ono of Uncle Sans Old Soldiers Makes
Some Statements.

One of Uncle Sans Old Soldiers Makes
Some Statements.
VALLEY JUNCTION, Iowa, Aug. %
J, james Il. Kennedy, row resident
OF the town of~Sina!oa, state of Sina-
loa. Mexico, swear that am an Amer
lean by birth, that l served three
years in the Seventh Iowa daring the
late civil war. that | have always been
t IL republican. l have resided IN Mex
leo for twenty-five years. speak The
Spanish language as we'll or better
than l now do English. have tray
eled through twenty four of the twenty
seven states in Mexico in an official
capacity and as Interpreter for numer-
Gus syndicates. | have had access TO
almost all the archives OF that coun
try. l am better acquainted with the
customs and usages OF that country
than l am of my mother country. l
left Mexico on the ID day of March.
1896, coming to this country to visit
my friends. relatives and old comrades.
During the last month in Iowa l have
heard more absurd and utterly false
statements made in regard to Mexico
than ever thought could be conjured
up by mortal man, all to deceive the
voter.
| One most heard is that you can take |
| one American silver dollar to Mexico |
and get two Mexican silver dollars for |
| it, or that you can get meal and throw |
| down an American dollar and they |
| will give you back in. change Mexi-
can dollar 1 brand this as utterly
false in every respect, lie manufac-
tured out of whole cloth. 1 assert that
Mexican will not accept an American
dollar, either gold, silver, or paper,
for any amount, but will refer you to
broker, where you can sell your silver
dollars as bullion for Mexican money;
then they will trade with you. The
largest hotel in the city of Mexico will
not accept American money under any
circumstances, but will invariably re-
fer you to broker.
BY paying the mintage anyone can
take silver bullion to either OF the
mints in Mexico and get Mexican
silver dollars for it, and for 80 years
silver bullion has never luctuatcd up
or down to exceed cents.
1 hear it asserted that the national
debt is payable in gold. 1 brand this
as utterly false. Every dollar of the :
debt-S146, ,OOO,O ,OOO-ls and always has
been payable in the lawful money of :
that country, and we are now paying
our debt in Mexican silver dollars, the
money of the contract. ;
assert that Mexico in the present I
decade is making strides of advance q
ment greater than any other nation on !
earth. Twenty five years ago we had i
eighty miles of railroad-now we have T
near 5000 miles of railroad. We are C
building factories on every hand. Y
Twenty-eight years ago, when the o
French army was driven out we were b
left penniless-not 4 dollar in the b
treasury. We can now pay our d
national debt any day demand would I
be made for it. o
am now on my way to Mexico to
spend the rest of my life. Any one can
find me by addressing a letter to James
Il. Kennedy, Sinaloa, Mexico. A
In conclusion invite al honest and
thorough investigation into the facts
Of my statement, and 1 defy successful IL
1 am not the owner al
If mining stocks, and no personal in tt
crest has caused me to make this b.
but have given it by request ty
# an old comrade. sc
JAMES H., KENNEDY. CT
Subscribed in my presence and sworn ca
o by James Fl. Kennedy, this Both day al
# August, 1896. = a
(seal E. H. ENGLISH. is
Notary public in an for Polk county, bt
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The above is copied from the Cedar OF
,apids, Iowa, Gazette. n.