Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1898-04-14
Mexico Audrain Thursday April H. 1898

ounty, NASSOur1, I0u
gressmen can heembraced in that term.
There are probably not a million gold
monometallists in America To place
them at a miIiion Is to overstate their
strength. Thereare not half that many
silver morometnilists. Nearly all the
Republicans in the house were elected
as bimetallists They could not have
been elected as anything else. They vo-
oiferousiy claimed chat they were the
genuine bimetaIs lists and that we were
silver monometAllists, thereby soaring
the timid, seoeising the stupid and Sc
curing seats in congress by false pre-
lenses. They are meditating a repetition
Of the performance, but Lyman has
blocked their game by his bold deolara-
tion that his bin sis intended to more
thoroughly establish the gold standard
in this country. II they do not drive
him out ct the cabinet when they un-
dertake to talk 3imetallism this fall,
they will be guyed off the stump and
buried under an avalanche Of ballots.
II not thing of beauty, he is a joy
forever to the Democrats--mark you,
not to the Republicans Job exclaimed,
"Oh, that mine enemy would write
bookin II thsssnan of Uz were living in
this country soday and were Demo-
crat, contemplating Lyman, he would
realize that his wish Is being partially
gratified; for, while that iilustrious
fnancier has written no book, he is for
ever making speeches. To Democrats in
the house, where there are all sorts of
limits ON free speech. the secretary of
treasury Is an refreshing as shower in
an August drought When in the
dumps, by being outvoted steadily by o
beastly Republican majority, a new
speech by McKinley's chancellor of the
exchequer starts hope to singing in our
| hearts, for we are always absolutely GER
tain that whenever he opens his mouth
he will put his foot in it. Lyman is stuck
| greatly on his talking apparatus. In the
beautiful words of the poet:
He loves his automatic mouth.
He loves its fluent flow,
he loves lis giddy gurgle,
| He loves to wind his mouth up, e.
He loves to hear it 60.
Like the Old Woman.
When / was boy in the hill country
Of Kentucky, knew an old woman
| who thus described another loquacious
| woman: Her tongue is tied in the
middle and loose at both ends" So
| with Lyman's lingual member-it goes
"like bell ciapper," !" and every time
| 1t claps it sounds the deathknell of q
| Republican representative or two; but
| his jabber is sweet music to Democratic
ears.
One of his latest performances is ex.
| plotted in Puck by cartoon in which
the great renegade free trader is repre-
sented as delivering speech to an audi
| ence composed Ct free silver senators
and representatives holding in his hand
I u roll of paper on which are printed
| these words: tfHad there been uni
form banking system specie payments
would have been maintained and hun
| dreds of millions lost through deprecia-
tion of government notes would have
been saved to the people" The legend
beneath this picture giorifying Lyman
runs in this wise, "Casting pearls be-
| fole-silverites, which is an adapta-
tion of the Scriptural phrase, Casting
pearls before swine." Evidently Puck
deemed that piece of whitening sar-
easm. AS matter of fact, it is a sacri.
lege in comparing this plutocrat to the
Saviour of mankind and an insult to
1000, 600 voters in virtually calling
them Swine" 1t was farfetched, for
/ II ~ atye tn cd l.
| verites," for the all sufficient reason
that they would not listen to him be-
cause they regard him as a renegade, q
turncoat, traitor. Moreover, he has
no ''pearls'' of speech to cast before
anybody. His talk is only "a sounding
brass and tinkling cymbal, and the
Swine before which it is least" are
the goldbugs. - r
| If Puck thinks the plutocrats wanted
ga uniform banking system" so that
"specie payments would have been
maintained, he is badly off his box.
The lack of uniform banking sys-
tenn" was the very thing that enabled
them to pile up abnormal fortunes dur
ing the civil war by gambling In the
honor of the nation and in the blood and
lives of the nations brave defenders.
"The depreciation of government notes"
| was the foundation of their i'll gotten
wealth. No such impudence has been
| seen among men since the devil offered
the Saviour the dominion of the world
| to not foot Of which did he own even
q tax title-to fall down and worship
him as is exhibited by goldbugs when
they prate about "upholding the ma
tion's honor" The happiest day they
ever saw was when the gleam of old
Jubal Early's bayonets could be seen
from the dome of the capitol. No Con-
federate prayed with such fervenoy for
a victory for Lee as did a holder Of gold;
for If Lee won gold went up, II Grant
trismphed gold went down.
| They are patriots when patriotism is
profitable and not one minute longer.
II Lyman ever "cast" such pearls
before that particular pen Of "swine, !"
some kind friend ought to make appli-
cation to the probate court for a "writ
de lunatico inquirendo, and have him
restrained from-making any more
speeches.
.Oratory is a new business for Lyman.
In the Fifty third congress there was
an old chap who made at least 100
speeches that nobody listened to except
the stenographer and be would not have
listened if he could have got his pay
any other way. I asked Mr.. Reed why
the old man made SO many speeches
"Ohi'' replied the Maine statesman.
she's very clever fellow, but he lived
60 years without finding out that be
was an orator. Having made that pleas.
ing discovery, be is trying In two years
to make up for so years Of lost time. !"
That was On explanation which ex-
planned so clearly that even the dullest
could comprehend, and it fits Lyman
like glove.