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Press of Oregon.
[trm the McMiunviIle ielephone-
Register, sept. L.. ioYU.
/. James II. Kennedy now a resident
of the town Of Sinaloa, in tile state of
Sindlod, Mexico, depose that am an
American 10y birth, that | served
three years in the Seventh Iowa during
the late Civil war. That 1 have al
ways been Republican. L have re-
sided in Mexico for twenty-five years.
l speak the Spanish language as we'll
or better than l now do the English.
have Travelled through twenty-four
of the twenty-seyen states in Mexico
in an official capacity and as inter-
prefer for numerous syndicates. L
have had access to almost all the arch
ives of that country. l am much bet
ter acquainted with the customs and
usuages Of that country than | am Of
my mother country. left Mexico on
the I'd day of March, 1896, coming to
this country to visit my friends, rela-
tives and old comrades. During the
last month in Iowa, have heard
more absurd and utterly false state
ments 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 into Mex
leo 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 a
Mexican dollar. l brand this as ut
terly false in every respect, lie man
ufactured out of whole cloth. l assert
that o 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 Mex
ican 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 refer you to broker.
By paying the mintage anyone can
take silver bullion to either of the
mints in Mexico and get Mexican sill
yer dollars for 1t and for 250 years sill
yer bullion has never fluctuated up or
down to exceed two cents.
hear it asserted that the national
debt is payable in gold l brand this
as utterly false. Every dollar of the
debt, S146, 100000, is 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
decade is making strides of advance
ment greater than any other nation
on earth. Twenty-Five years ago we
had eighty miles of railroad: now we
have eight thousand miles of railroad
We are building factories on every
hand. Twenty-eight years ago, when
the French army was driven out, the
Mexican government Was left penni-
less, not dollar in the treasury. We
can now pay our entire national debt
any day demand would be made for
it.
l am now on my way to Mexico &c
spend the rest of my life. Anyone
can find me by addressing letter to
James II. Kennedy, Sinaloa, Mexico.
In conclusion l invite anhonest and
thorough investigation into the facts
of my statement, and defy success
full contradiction. Am not the owner
of mining stocks and no persona in
terest has caused me to make this
statement, but have given it by re-
quest of an old comrade.
JAMES H. KENNEDY.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn
to by James IL. Kennedy, this the Goth
day of August, 1885,
Seal e. ii. ENGLISH,
Notary Public in and for Polk
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