Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-04-21


there in the Bryan campaign and only
one In the recent campaign, and that
may have had something to do with
the result. II / had not spoken at all
in the campaign, the city might have
gone Democratic by 1000 majority,
instead of 426.
The fact is, that the money-mopg-
ers cannot make the people perma-
nently believe that money is not q
good thing, and that it is difficult to
get too much Of a good thing, and
that silver money IL not good money,
and that the people should not dig it
out Of the ground where God has put
it, and that they should be prevented
from taking it to the mints and coin
ing it into money and circulating it as
such.
They don't want a system of Euro
pean finances adopted in this country,
for they know that with such a system
will come the ways and customs of
m~onarchies and empires, of degraded
civilization, of chronic pauperism, of
child labor, of women working IN the
fields and mines, of men and women
yoked up in the fields beside domestic
animals, dragging plows or loaded
carts, of obsequious servility to
wealth, of a gradual monopolization
of all the title to the land by pluto
Gratis.
In the settlement of this country,
my fellow citizens, your ancestors
and mine originally came from Euro
pean countries. The first who came
did SO seeking religious liberty, but in
a hundred years past that has not
been the chief motive. In travelling
in Europe, the casual observer sees
or every hand evidences of great
wealth, art, refinement and luxury;
far more so than in this country.
There are magnificent boule wards and
drive ways, grand statues to states
men, warriors, poets and phlloso-
pliers, magnificent palaces, beautiful
private parks, servants in livery,
thousands of observation-disclosures
soldiers everywhere; and one wonders
why it is that any should desire to
leave such delightful surroundings to
come to the United States.
But turn over the beautiful page l
have shown you and look upon the
under side of European life, upon the
conditions of the plain people, who
work and toll and slave and suffer
that their plutocratic ~oppressors may
live in magnificence and luxury.
The young man who is growing up,
and whose highest ambition, whose
brightest hope, is to eventually get a
place to work wherein he can earn
about fifty cents a day!
Where the people live upon a diet
that is but little superior to that of
domestic animals in the United States
black bread without butter, tea
withont cream or sugar, meat proba-
bly, only once a week; where men
marry, not hoping to be able to care
| for and educate his children and to
| advance them beyond his sphere, but
so that he can have his wife to work
| and that his little children may be put
to work as soon as their strength ia
| sufficient! Where, before a child's
| spine has become firm, or its body
developed, or its mind informed, it is
doomed to a life of interminable toll
and hopeless bondage! Where young
eyes, which should be filed daily with
Gods beautiful sunlight, reflect back
from their dull pupils only the glare OF
the factory gas light! Where young
souls are imprisoned between the
dark prison walls of factories, when
they should be extending under the
teaching and guidance of more hui
name conditions.
where iliegitimacy of children is COM
mon! Where marriages among the
poor are regarded as almost financial
ly impossible! Where discomfort Of
the masses is hard to control, requir-
ing the constant vigilance of great
standing armies! Where intidelity
anarchy and immortality are constantly
increasing! Where the rich are grow
ing richer and the poor poorer!
Then do you wonder that the people
of Europe, your ancestors and mine
came to this country?
And yet these countries are now al
single gold standard countries, where
the medium of exchange and actua
per capita supply of money is smaller
than in the United States; where the
laws of primogeniture and the Gus
tom of classes and castles and combi'
nation and consolidation of great for
tunes and estates and evil and unjus
laws all go to produce the conditions
have described.
After Mr.. Lees speech Messrs. Hit
Cullen and McIntire INDUCED in {
good -natured discussion over thu
merits of the candidates for Circuit
Judge.
She'll Behave Now.
Mary Appleman, of Sailing, Audraii
county, was taken to the State Indus
trial Home for Girls atChillicotheMon
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