Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-15
il. Phillip & Sons, The Clothiers!

state or persuasion, religious or
political; peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations; the pres
ervation of the general government
in its whole constitutional vigor as
the sheet anchor of our peace at home
and safety abroad; the honest pay
ment of our debts and sacred preser-
walton of the public faith"
These principles are chief among
the bright consultations that guided
the great Democratic party in its past
and will always guide it SO long rs it
is in the keeping of the true disciples
of Jefferson.
To our erring brothers gathered un-
der the wings of Organism and around
their festal boards tonight in other
places in meditation of this very i'm
portant subject allow us to point you
to Jefferson's own words when speak
ing of the thirteen cardinal principles
laid down by him for conducting the
administration of q government.
"They should be the creed of our po-
litical faith, the text of civic instruc-
ton, the touchstone by which to try
the services of those we trust; and
should we wander from them in mo-
ments of error or of alarm, let us
hasten to retrace our steps and to re-
gain the road which alone leads to
peace, liberty and safety"
There is not room in this country
for two parties OF paternalism. JEFF
fnraN IN x11r~ ntt1t rpna nnI fN~rnn that
conservative force in this land that is
needed and will reform the lines of a
broken and shattered Democracy.
That force in the last battle prevent
ed the triumph of Organism. There
was only a choice between Republican
paternalism with the reservations of
the maintenance of the public credit
and public order on the one hand, the
combine of free silver Republicans,
Populists and reactionary Democrats
with their paternalism, agrarianism
and threat against the currency and
the credit of the country, threat
against public order, threat to crumble
American institutions to the earth and
embodiment of dangers that we know
not of upon the other:
The evils contained in the Republic
can platform the country had with
stood. The menace of the combine
was immediate, direct and radical.
This condition furnished the main
spring for the Indianapolis convention
which presented the true faith of JEFF
fersonianism and enabled a million or
o of Democrats to make their
choice of n Ie5ser OF Two evils.
Every man of them is a Jeffersonian
Democrat and voted for Mckinley
1~1aI,r Tho saauon 80 nAvrn1 -n@nau
and public order. Not a man of them
then was nor is a man of them now a
protectionist, but is ready to do battle
for the time honored doctrine OF a
''tariff for revenue only"
The tariff was not the issue last fall.
The free-silverites had sent it to the
rear in order to form a junction with
the free silver Republican protection
lists.
Though not the issue it is the first
thing to receive attention at the hands
of the Republican President and Con-
gress, but in this they have not the
support of a single man of that con-
sentative force of this country that
aided in the overthrow of Organism.
A protective tariff law is in process
of formation under pretext of needed
revenue in the face of the fact that
the income of the Government for the
first month succeeding Mr.. McKinley's
induction into Office largely exceeds
the expenditures.
With the reins of the government
lately released by a Democratic ad-
ministration and without a single line
of Republican legislation prosperity is
slowly but surely settling down among
a doubling and mistrustful people as
the result of a victory over Organism
by a sound financial policy, and assur-
ance of a continued government of
law and order.
Within the last week I talked with
n of the largest and most intelligent
farmers of NorthMissouri,a man whose
interests are those of the farmer alone.
He admitted to me Il say admitted, for
he followed the flag of Bryanism) that
the farming interests are more pros
porous now than for a number of
years.
He said, Seattle and hogs were never
higher and so long as I can sell the
products of the farm for as good
prices as l am now getting and can
buy my necessaries at present prices
l shall not care to see times more
prosperous."
Yet the combine threatens to con-
tinue to combine, the Free Silver Clubs
are having spasms at the thought of
prosperous times and Organism
through its cowardly and demagogic
press still shoots out its screen of
At present it appears that part of
the combination recruited from the
with the Republican Free
Silver allies continues marching on to
the vortex of Populism.
Let them go where they will there
is still but one Je~ffersonian Democracy
and it stands now where it always
stood as the conserving force of the
government rolling back the tides of
upon the n side and
Dingley- billism upon the other. We
plant ourselves upon the doctrine that
the government should never levy q
dollar of taxes not needed for its own
support, nor coin a single dollar not
as good rs every other dollar and
equally as good abroad as at home.
These joined to the right and duty
of the general government to enforce
its own laws, protect its own property
and its own rights within the limits of
every State is the faith of the National