The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-25
MEXICO BOOMING.
The United States Bankrupt-Cotton IA Cents
Pound in Mexico and Cents Pound


Editor Representative:
The following is clipping from the
Chicago Daily News appearing in their
evening issue of this date:
City of Mexico, March 11.-Fifteer hun
dred pilgrims arrived here today from
Penjamo on the Mexican Central railway
on their way to the shrine of our Lady of
Guadalupe.
Cotton mill dividends of 40 to so per
cent are reported, indicating that. not
withstanding the largely increased i'm
portation of cotton textiles the native
mills are prospecting. Manufacturing in
dustries were never so prosperous. Cot
Zee lands on the west coast are rapidly ris-
ing in price, some of the best lands COM
nanding 500 per acre in silver against
from 81 to $12 ON the Gulf coast. Large
investments are being made in country
lands by Americans.
How such a dispatch slipped through
the subsidized Associated Press is mar
vel. For is not Mexico a free silver coun-
try? How can all this prosperity and
good-times-business exist in a free silver
state? Mexico-composed of states, unit
ed under constitution fashioned after
ours, is preposterous! Free silver makes
that only William McKinley's protective
tariff can make us prosperous. In the
same Chicago paper of the same date is
another article jubilantly telling about
the great work done at the Columbus,
Ohio, convention, where the delegates to
the National Republican Pow Wow were
instructed for Mckinley md an honest
money platform adopted. Will these
wise delegates explain why the Mexican
farmer is selling cotton for Ia cents per
pound today in his free silver home while
the American farmer sold his on the mar
ket today for only to cents? Don't this
enable the Mexican to pay off just twice
as much debt with his cotton as the Unit
ed States citizen can pay off with his?
Will the worshipers of the golden calf
explain this? Why are the Americans
rushing into Mexico? They are simply SO
many fugitive slaves fleeing from the
honest money" masters of the United
States. Even Barney Barnato, the Kaffir
King, and his pals, the Rothschilds are
investing millions in free-silver Mexico!
They don't have to invest in the United
States-they acquire our lands and other
property by other means. In this city it
is the current talk that the Republican
bosses are trying to get all states possible
to name delegates instructed for McKin-
ley at an early date. This done, then the
hands of the Delegates will be tied. They
must nominate the man and swallow the
gold standard platform adopted by Nc
Kinley's own convention at Columbus,
Ohio, March II, 1896. This is the scheme
Will it work? How about the free-silver
Republicans of Minnesota? Will they
sacrifice home, honor and principle for
Mckinley? Will they allow the hoodwink
of protective tariff to be tied over their
eyes and go again to the slaughter? BY
the way, where are those neat little books
which were circulated so freely two years
ago, bearing on their covers these words:
What congress has done" On being
opened they showed nothing but pure,
white blank paper. That was Demo-
cratic congress. Wouldn't they do just as
well for this Republican congress? Posi-
bly, they are gettn out a new edition with
a few Spanish bull fight pictures in them.
Who would have thought that all the
prosperity would have gone over to Mexi-
co, and all the bull fights come over here!
We might as we'll kept our prize fights,
but even that went to Mexico. The ma
jority of all the business houses in Chi
cago are covered with debt in the nature
of liens and chattels Even the city
treasury Is bankrupt. Where are these
sleek, fat creditors? In Mexico, where
they are compelled to buy and pay for
what they want and get. They steal it
here. That's an easier and more conven-
lent and profitable process. In Mexico
they pay good cash price for what they
get and the Mexican laborer gets the ben
eft. Hurrah for the freedom and liberty
nd &c Y~sA
Mexico! Poor old America! The Jingoes
have got us. yours sincerely,
z. H. Austin,
Chicago ILL., March 18th 1895