Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-07-27
CHAMP GLAKS letter
New York's Easy Boss"
Shy on History.
AND SHERMAN.
Ohio Republicans Not a Very
Happy Family.
EVIL INFLUENCE OF THE TRUsR

PermeAtes the Whole Community
and PAralyEes Every Species Of
BssIAe4s RepssIiean Party VIII
ne Beaten In Isoe-Bavemeyer Ia
View Unpopular win the Hanna
Mckinley Combine.
Especial washlngtoa Ltsrl
What some distinguished Statesmen
do not know would make q large n
brary, Fer instance. there is the Hoa.
Thomas g PIatt. the Easy BossT OF
New York Republicans who appears
10 be decidedly short or information
touching the history Of his coantry. In
a recent interview be Is reported to
have sid: -If Il IS true that Governor
Roosevelt has any ambition TO Be the
| presidential nominee In 1904, Il Il hard
~ likely tbs; be viii be q candidate
for the vice presidential nomination
next year. l do not now recall a vice
president who has become president
except through the death OF a presi-
dent" That is certainly an astound-
ing statement from a nan OF the emil
nenee Of Senator Platt- Can It be pos
sible that be never heard Of John
Adams and Thomas Jeaersoa7 They
had considerable vogue in their day
and generation More wonderful stu,
II Senator Piatt has no recollection OF
one Martin Van Buren,. yciept .the
Sage Of Kinderhook.r who was not
only vice president and president, but
who was one OF the greatest political
bosses the Empire State eve had.
one Of two things is t~rue-either Sen
ator Platt's memory is failing or bis
historical education was sadly neg
lected
General Charles q. Grosvenor APP
pears TO be following the condemned
performance Of the celebrated parrot
which talked too much He always
talks Interestingly and is widely quot
ed. The Washington Times attributed
to him an interview in which he sheer
ed al poor old John Sherman" the
great deceived" affected not to re-
member who John was and, having
recoIlected, declared that Marcus A.
Hanna had been .totingr John around
on his broad and brawny shoulders
for, 10. these many years. When that
interview reached Ohio, 1t created
such a ruction that the general wrote
Sherman disavOwing the interview
and expressing his undying admiration
for Marks nlustrious victim, all Of
which goes far to show what a happy
family Ohio Republicans are anyway.
Wonder II the general has written
Colonel Dick disclaiming having called
him "a mere Instrument
Great Turkey sacriaee.
That the trusts are getting IN their
deadly work In every branch Of human
endeavor In this country is a fact po-
tent to all those who. having eyes.
see and. having ears. hear. What Is a
great deal more to the point. every
body appears to be getting his eyes
wide open to this unpalatable truth.
The result is that 10 1900 the Repub-
liean party. mother Of trusts, win
catch II where the turkey caught it,
that Is, In the neck-and, by q strange
coincidence. Il win happen IN the very
same month In which the great turkey
sacrifice takes plaee-fn November,
Thanksgiving month. II the Repub-
llean party is then overthrow, as I
confidently believe Il VIII be, there win
not be enough turkeys in the land TO
celebrate the greatest Of all Thanks
giving days.
once undertook to cipher out how
many people the building Of one house
would set TO work. | gave IT up,
finally. as a problem that could not be
solved, as the building Of one house
in its Industrial influence ramifed all
over the republic. In the immediate
vicinity when it is built it sets to work
the carpenters, stonemasons. brick
layers, painters paper hangers and
glaziers. Even before these begin 1t
sets to work men digging trenches for
foundations and others to hauling the
materials to the place Of building. But
back of these 1t sets to work the rail
roads and the steamboats,, hauling the
AANIAAoAo AOm AnCl kA1IE VI Plou1l-
ton. Stin back Of these it sets to
work the sawmiIls of the land and
runs back to the man who chops the
tree that makes the plank to go into
the house we are building. Another
branch runs through the rolling mills
and the nail mills back to the men
who are digging the ore from the
earth. But the good influence does not
stop even here, for all these persons
who do Al this work and contribute to
the building Of the house must be fed
and clothed, 50 that the building OF
the house sets to work farmers TO pro
duce the food to feed and the wool,
cotton and leather to clothe these
other people who do the work to con- |
struct a house. That's part Of the
good influence OF building a house in |
any community. It's like the story Of
the house that Jack built. Likewise
the evil influence Of trusts seems to
permeate the whole community. para
lying every species OF business from
the greatest TO the smallest. Recently, |
as everybody knows. the commercial
travellers have got on to their ears
about the trusts and are raising Cain
throughout all the confines of the re-
public. There are enough OF them I'M
aided and alone TO turn the govern.