Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-08-24
GHAHP OAKS EIlER
Prosperity Is With Us In
Big Chunks.
LABOR TROUBLES PROVE IT.
A Suggestion For McKinley's
Consideration.
PREVENT PEOPLE FROM TALKING.

r1bN1AA 1ho1 1ALAlh0,
Make a statute Creating Crime Of
Lese Masessy, with Penaities-Thas
win Bring Thel 20 Their sense.
and Land Them In Jaii-senAters
Hoar and Chandler Promiaent
Kickers - Julius Caesar Burrers
Also = Traitor.
Especial washington Letter.l
Prosperity with q big big P Is upon
us There can be no question about
this. 1t is eonclusively proved by the
strikes In Cleveland, by the strikes in
Brooklyn, by the strikes In Arkansas,
by the strikes in Kansas and by the
strikes In Missouri. II any evidence
were lacking, It would be found ia the
following dispatch:
Chicago. July ae-More than 5o,eoo men Win he
thrown out Of employment MOnday, and work
win be stopped on every large building Ia the
city where brick made In nonunion yards is used
in its construction. & the business agents Of the
Bidding Trades Council carry cut their intea-
ton Al the headquarters Of the committee haF-
ing the strike in change it was said the mAuafac-
turers had tailed 70 send representatives to at
tend the conference. and, a. a result, the strike
would Be pushed vigorously forward ircgn now On
To-day being a half holiday, no attempt va
made to stop work On any Of the buildings; but,
beginning with Monday, II Is aid. every work
man VIII be withdraw from the buildings where
brick trom nonunion yards Is used
These are a few of the innumerable
proofs which indicate that we are rid
ing on the top of a great wave Of
prosperity, but the trouble about 1t is
that the more we have OF 1t the worse
we are of.
/ am neither the legal nor the spir-
itual adviser Of the Mckinley admin
istration; but, nevertheless, as a sort Of
amicus curiae, l make bold to suggest
that the administration can have no
permanent peace Of mind unless it rigs
up q statute creating the crime OF leze
majesty and providing penalties there
for. Press censorship in the Philip
pines VIII not do. 1t does very well
for the purpose intended so far as it
goes, but 1t does not go far enough.
II simply prevents Americans In the
Philippine Islands from telling what
they know, but II the administration
does not want to go to the bowwows
1t is painfully evident that some
scheme win have to be devised to pre-
vent Americans In America from talk
ing and telling what they know, espe-
cially Republican Americans. They
can't be reached by a press censorship
in the Philippines, and IL they are such
idiots, copperheads or traitors as to
keep on differing with the adminIstra-
ton the statute for leze majesty Is
perhaps the only thing that viii bring
them TO their senses. II would land
a very distinguished company behind
the bars, but as sure as water runs
down hill the administration win lose
prestige very rapidly II it does not
stop their tongues from running.
RepubIiean Copperheaas.
There is Senator George Frisbie
Hoar Of Massachusetts,. sometimes
hlppantly called 'the cherubic' by the
ungodly. Ny recollection Is that be
once boasted that be helped rock the
cradle Of the Republican party and did
not want TO follow its hearse. 1t may
have been Charles Sumner who said
that; but, anyway, Hoar looks old
enough to have rocked its cradle, and
from the present outlook he viii not
have to live much longer to have a
chance to follow the hearse. He has
become such a rantankerous antiex-
pansionist that the Washington Post
intlmates, by a cartoon at least, that
the senator is likely to be a delegate
to the next Democratic convention.
Then there is the Hon William f.
Chandler, senior senator from New
Hampshire, who, when not in training
for his pugilistic encounters with DR..
Gallinger, the junior senator from
New Hampshire, puts in most OF his
time explaining to his Republican
brethren that unless they declare bold
ly and at once for the free coinage OF
silver the party viii 90 to the deuce.
II these two ilustrious New England
senator's should both be clapped in fail
at once on a charge OF leze majesty, il
would be absolutely necessary to fur
nish them with separate eOmpart-
ments, otherwise they would bite,
gouge. kick and wool each other gen
orally on the question as to whether
Grant actually packed the supreme
court to obtain the legal tender deci-
-tr- CNowErn- oR--,- san4 - sta
while Senator Hoar Is perhaps the on
~ living human being who does not
agree with Chandler on that PROPOSE
ton, but because Senator Hoar had a
brother, Judge lockwood Hoar, who
was Grants attorney general, Chan
dler's charge makes him furious. So
to prevent the diffusion Of Mayfower
blood ] recommend the administration
to put these illustrious prisoners In
different cells. especially as there
would be plenty Of distinguished com
pany for them when the prosecutions
for leze majesty begin.
For instance. there is the Hon. YIN
Cumbaek OF Indiana, ex-lieutenant
governor Of Hooslerdom and ex4sev-
eral other things. Not long since the
Hon VIII took his pen In hand and In
formed a startled world that unless
Mark and Mack changed their ways
suddenly and radically Mack would
be shamefully overwhelmed and de-
feated In 1900, a thing that can't be
prevented. no matter what they do
now, but IT is too bad that Governor