Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-10-08
BARKER AT BELLE FLOWER.
The Mexico Lawyer Addressed a Big
Crowd There Saturday Night
His Speech.

His speech.
Under the presiding genius OF those
young .heutenants of the Bry-
an hosts, Hensley and Harmon, the
big hall at Belle Flower, Mo-, was
packed to overlooking on last Satur-
day night, Oct. 8, to hear Hon. John
NJ. Barker on the financial question.
The following is a synopsis OF MIR.
Barker's address:
sFor thirty years the gold advocate
has held prosperity by the throat
while the people slept. He has pass
ed no laws except to legislate accen-
tuated values to gold and bonds and
to degrade and to destroy the value OF
labor, land and all their products. And
you little gold bug out of debt with a
four hundred acre farm and a mort
gage on your poor neighbours little
forty acre home-you little gold bug
greedily waitingforth triumph ofyour
Tory master-waiting for the chain of
bondage to be locked around the neck
of poverty so that you may swallow
up that little home and turn your
debtor, his wife and children into the
road homeless wanderers; swallow
his little patrimony. / want to tell
you your big farm will soon be worth
less if you succeed, and there is a gold
bug fish a little bigger than you are
right behind you who will then swal-
low you, while your corn and wheat is
rotting in the field, and in sight OF
sad-eyed, hopeless labor wandering in
the silent streets. My friends that is
true, for once when 1 was a boy not
far from here / went to tine river and
threw my hook in with a minnow on
it, and soon pulled out a bass as long
as my arm, and I cut him open and
found inside of him another bass as
long as my hand, and I cut him open
and found another little gold bug bass
in him, and that will be your richly de-
served fate Cheering and laughter);
that is the fate of all you poor, little
ignorant gold bugs of the West if you
get what you are now crying for. RE-
newed Iaughter.)
Nation after nation has ignobly
| yielded to the beck and call of the
governors of the English Bank. AT
the close of the campaigns of Napo-
leon all Europe was in debt to the
English bankers, and their bonded
debt against their W people was sc
vast they had ceased to even compute
it, but to make it an unending source
| of power over their own people, ant
to double it's value and its Interest
winning capacity they demonetizet
silver in 1915 and thus they hung
around the necks OF English children
then unborn a burden that will dras
them down as long as the English
government lives, and the same kint
| of governors of the same bank of Erg'
land IRE now engaged, with the helI
of their gold standard allies ofAmer'
lea, to fasten the same burden AROUND
the neck of your children and mine.
Those fnanciers hate Snly that kim
of money they cannot control. The!
demonetized silver an England be
cause it was the money of the multi
tude, and they desIonetized gold ant
substituted the silver roupee in Indi'
in order to drive it out of circulation
there and into their own Golfers, bu
they failed. The people of India, in
stead of surrsndering their gold 10th
melting pots of the English gold gam
blers. buried, it, and for these long
long wears the Indian gold lies beneatl
the Indus shores and will lie Their
deep and silept while the eddyinI
storms of Indus winds will roll in end
less waves of drifting sand as deep, a
silent, as unending--as intending hat
in Indian breast for the blood-staine
banner of st. George. perfect 81
lence.)
"And in order to alo tnese Iorelg
conspirators in enslsvIng and degrao
ing our great Republic, men VINO ono
pretended to be from the scnoois Q
jefferson have joined the ranks OF GU
a~dversaries, among nem bourk
Cochran, who, in a rev Gays, WI
plead their unholy cIusade at kansa
City, but I am glad 20 ell you tina
one of the greatest ofators OF the da,
will meet him. Champ CLARK WI
meet him (~tremendouf cheering) an
will take his hide of daughter an
cheering) and will hang 1t on tn
fence, where-tne dallying winds {
the wild and woody West will whisti
~-lkee Doodle over it till the hal
drops off, and you will see burne
deep in that hide Hanna's mark
Hanna's brand 90 the dollar mark.
(Tumultuous cheering for Bryan an
Clark