Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-05-25
CHAMP GLARES LETTER
Fine Phrase Originated
by a Trust.
GENTLEMAN's AGREEMENT.
So the Steel Combine Designates
It's Compact.
GENTLEMAE's AGREEMENT.
PROSPERITY RACKET OvEaDOER.

Supporters of Mckinley Must Take
the American People For Foois.
Absurd Statements as 10 Prevailing
business Conditions - labor Trou-
bIes II Various states - Hannn's
Election Aftermath.
Especial Washington letter.
One thing dead cure pop-Gark Han
ma and his CONDUCTORS will never have
the hardihood TO appropriate to them
selves that portion Of the sermon on
the mount which says blessed are the
pure in heart" When Mark had pur-
chased q seat in the senate, he tele-
graphed the president inter AHA, ssGod
still reigns. That dispatch reads rather
queer when compared with this:
clEcIEsAFI. April Is.-Judge Dempsey, in
the superior court. today decided against 7.
@ Campbell in the suit involving Si.7o aileg-
ed TO have been paid 20 Campbell AZ attorney
for Representative John O. Otis 10 induoe hin
to vote for Senator Hanna at the election IN
the legislature . year ago last January. When
the bribery story was made public, Colons,
Campbell said that he had Sl,SuQ which Henry
Harrison Boyce had paid him Is part price for
a vote for Hanna, Campbell stated that Boyce
could have his money on demand. George H.
Barker, to whom Boyce Is indebted. brought
suit and garnisheed the money in Campbeli's
hands Campbell soughf to eyade payment
into court. but today Judge Dempsey decided
that he must pay the money into court, after
which Bankers right to IL may be determined.
But to return to our prosperity NUT
ton. April 25 the more or less esteemed
Globe-D Democrat hoped me editorially
for having doubted the existence Of uni
versal prosperity. ''And the next day it
showed, for on the 26th this unequiv-
ocal evidence Of abundant prosperity
appeared in the st. Louis papers.
JoPLIs, Mo-. April 26-The miners on the
Sacred Nugget zinc mine at orOnogo struck
today for an increase in wages.
Such prosperity as that is not calcu-
lated to make cheerful hearts at Joplin.
A Humorous Trust.
The following brief dispatch from
the second city in the great state Of
Quaysylvania announces another fea-
ture Of that fructifying prosperity
which has come upon the masses and
should cause the telling taxpayers to
throw their sweaty caps high in air
and make the welkin ring:
PfrTsBuRG. April Sat the bimonthly
meeting Of the Association Of Steel Manufac-
turing Interests held here IL was decided to
make an advance in prices. The advance
varies with the size Of the shafting ind will
average about 8 per cent. While there Is no
actual combine Of the shafting interests the
manufacturers have a gentlemHn's agreement,
which is closely binding in all trade matters.
It Is well TO read that dispatch close
ly. A brand new contribution to litera-
ture-the literature Of economics--is
therein contained in the phrase. "a
gentleman's agreement. Write that,
o reader, on the tablets Of thy memory
ia gentleman's agreement" Hence
forth the members Of a trust are 10 be
gentlemen" in the new Republican
lexicon. and the rest Of us are to be Of
the rabble rabblish. The gentleman"
who wrote that dispatch is a genius,
a casuist Of amazing subtlety. No liter
ature ~nurturing trusts contains any
thing neater han the foregoing SEN
tence. "While there Is no actual COM
bine Of the shafting interests'-perish
the thoughti-''the manufacturers have
q gentleman's agreement. which Is
closely binding in all trade matters.
There you have it'll Certainly the most
fastidious can demand nothing more
ingenious and delicate than the distinc-
ton therein differentiated between "a
combine and 'ta gentleman's agree
ment" But 10 a plain. blunt man, not
in "the gentleman's agreement, it APP
pears to be only the difference betwixt
tweedledum and t~weedledee.
"A gentleman's agreement Of the
same tenor was. no doubt, had by Robin
Hood and his knights of the green
wood when they sailed forth in quest
of booty, and by John A. Murrell and
his band when they went out to pos
sess themselves Of their neighbors'
horses, and by Jesse James and his
gang when they looted a bank or held
up a train, and most certainly the
"gentleman's agreement" into which
they entered was closely binding in
all trade matters" just as the one en-
tered into at Pittsburg in Quaysylvania.
But, acting on the impulse of self pres
ervation, people not in ''the gentle
mans agreement rose up in their
might and rid the earth of the Robin
Hoods, John A. Murrells and Jesse
Jameses.
A Fize Phrase.
"a gentleman's agreement" Is a fine
phrase, History repeats itself. In 1912
Sir Robert Peel, in the campaign of
that year. boosted that be wal 'the head
Of the gentleman's party in England,
and that any man who would advocate
repeating the English tariff system, Of
which the corn laws were the most
salient feature, ought to be clapped into
the straight waistcoat and padded cell
Of a lunatic asylum. he was returned
to parliament with an immense Tory,
high tariff majority at his back, and
yet, before that parliament expired
namely, in ls47-this same Sir Robert
Peel repealed the corn laws Of which he
was so enamored in 1s42, thereby e.
tablishing free trade, and from that day
TO this no man has been heard 10 boast
that he or anybody else is "the head Of
the gentleman'H party In England.
"a gentleman's agreement in Amer