Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-02-03
JUDGE 8. :. Krnsa,s
Writes the Ledger ! Lstt
Politics-Hs THINKS We -
Call q Han.

S0N40 4 49,
and see whittier We are ann
Boss Hanna's circus Ii 4.
Legislature was enough Is Il
devil himself-to see the sivss -
with his barrel, whip his 49,.
line and obtain for himself
the United States Senate.
was evident that II was not
OF . great majority Of the psoph
We find that the country /. i
hands of INSCRIPTIONS men
for nothing but self and Nm
every opportunity to protene a
money power. Our granafashsr
belled against the mother ccunl,,.s
broke the letters that enalaysd
and gave US An example, and g
defendants OF such men, -
each anniversary of our lndsps.s.
to celebrate in honor Of the q.
who had the courage to az. n.
Us liberty or DEATH Now, VI.
must admit that rebellion u hcpa,n
and often times iustifable, anl
being right at our DOOR.
struggling for three yeats
scenes of devastation, bloodrla
ruin, together with nsmelessernns
that cry ont 70 IL
for protection, and the man "
to represent the Amerioan
ahut their ears TO the appsab
people, because ~
says, "Hold %; w
spanish bonds. II Cuba i M
will lose cur money! u
ardsl Why don't you obey u
mands of nine-tentns Of our ~
and say, hands OF. On the iira (
9th President McKialsY q
dressed an audience, compoea
millionaires, bankers and manrirl
urers and among other thinn +
said that We should not BE- tsnpa1t
scale down the payment Of u =
lie debt through legal techninIur
or otherwise, but was mute !
scaling down the wages 81 l,7itn
people, who are on the pay II
these fine gentlamen-peoph
are reduced to poverty and
through the greed of these me1
der that they may have m0nsy i
dauch and control elections n
come the Republican papers M
that the Eastern manufactures
handicapped by cheap 6outhsn
gro labor. Oh, whstgall. Itmayef
right to have freed the nsgrA
the Republican party should y
last to cry out wolf, whenit Wa
that kept the country In IN upssRf
half q century. The Northern pm
ers would preach negro In The pa
and the fanatics supported suct !
az John Brown, who went 70 W.
with his abolition hordes md
forcible possession Of HarpsF'b N
to secure arms TO be put In ths -
of the ignorant negroes to muftr1
people, and when Gsu \
his neck he was pTsssAsd1
martyr from their pulpits. M
course, brought on the war and
1t all the woes of the nation. Yuf
read between the lines and ~.
fore the war you could stand "a
of the Mississippi RisW
never be ont Of sight OF schs -
water craft bearing our proda1
the Southern market, whsrs 10
ready sale at paying prices.
Now, instead OF this, what y!
see9 Our produce goes % -
markets and prices are % N
our farmers are weli-nigh baa1l
They have turned our Westen1
main over to the railroads aadeG
rations, where 1t, II II bad
,are, would have been homcsix
boys for . hundrsdys q
I would suggest y
saints that they r.
sye In the interest Of ~
of the East and he =
Of the West and put =
Uncle Toms Cabin on thar
here insert an article IN
Post Dispatch of January 81
"Cotton mill workers, and ~
arly women and children; ~
rom morning until nighs fs
'ance, and whose inadeQolte
we're cut to the stArvation renf
'ering worse than the n1are
nay be found In the sn11l1
wage earnsfs, mn
and wretohedlysfM
enormous fortunes were pted
To be sure, these ats ~
as were the 6outhsfa
'ver whose conditiod New e
over with righteoss =
ion; but the mass Of ~ e.
'njoyed as q means Of conps9s
kindly care, good food, bdtts
'lothing and inc sickness sse
medical attention and nufdle
White slaves of New Engsnd
he disadvantage Of indsps
vith none of it, joys szes
anne of freedom, and no e.
ion of ownership r~estrains ~
from absorbing
of health and strenp
an probably be used. I'M
D sell their time and enetf1ss
nat make life worth iislag
10 in wretchedness. Joyiese
,il and starve, women ds4
infer. The lash is supp
,e more cruel pangs
nd cold. And the mons
as In the gaunt wolf : 49,
ian the whip. But the $50
ngiand 10 not stirred % -
'iseries Of these slaves.
to the pitious cfiss =
rem, their sensibiIitiss ~ =
lie suffering and d~egrsdsiiss
omen. They do not shuoosu
bonds of manhood, y
rous tongues, that once
orror and vengeancs,
his slavery in New England
p and is piiing up Mo-
'rtunes. They say u u
I'd must be m~sintainsd.
srhaps, when all the mills
the South and the pre-.
ons prevail there, New
I'D some slumbertng
ludder over wage OPP
III find q tongue 70
Yours Reepe