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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
The Railway Strike.

THE street railway strike is still
on in st. Louis. 1t is so serious
that good people, distant from the
scene of trouble, are beginning to
pray Divine guidance fora solution
of the matter. The strikers all
seem willing to arbitrate, but the
company has nothing to arbitrate.
Citizens and policemen wounded
by bullet, club and brickbat-thre t
strikers killed last Sunday. a few
ears run each day by imported
scabs, protected by the entire po-
lice force of the city. 1t is costing
the business interests of st. Louis
thousands of dollars every day.
How to solve the present difficult
ty is not the only question present
ing itsclf-how will Il similar Situa-
ton be prevented in the future?
\ Democratic legislation and Gov
crnor are blamed for the present
trouble, but they only stepped out
of the way of trust-cOmbinc, al
lowed the railway interests their
own sweet will-too much like Re
publlcans would have dome and
they have sure enough got
it. Got millions in franchises at
first, which are exempt from taxa
ton, and now they can cut the Ia
borcr's wages ut will and if pro-
test is made and trouble comes, the
city must protect their property
against violence. Is that not glOr-
iouS for the combine!
The MESSAGE sees the solution.
The st. Louis Republic ventured it
the other day, but with II calamity
howl against it. Declare the fran
chiSes forfeited and then the city
buy the railroads and run them in
the interest of the operators and
the owner alike. The st. Louis
public is beginning to see it, The
agitation has begun.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Here's The Truth.

THE Monroe county Appeal
prints this truthful editorial men
ton:
a conservative estimate puts the
number of people actually on the
verge of starvation in India at SO,
600, 900. Anoutlay of 500, 900, 600
would sustain them until after har-
vest but the British government is
too busy suppressing the God-fear-
ing Beers at II cost of 800 Il min
ute to make IN appropriation for
her vaSSals in India. While she
prosccutcs her dastardly war, her
American ally is expected to take
care of the famine sufferers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

other crops besides. Corn does
not yield large crops because the
nights are cool. but oats, wheat,
rye, etc., yield much larger crops
than here in Missouri and the land
does not deteriOrate.
After II close inspection of this
section our party visited Pueblo,
Colorado Springs, Denver, Cripple
Creek, Trinidad and other points.
| found two Audrain boys in Rocky
Ford; Ernest Leach, of Mexico, is
working in hardware store there
and Willis Eastman, of Lnddonia,
is working in Il bakery. At Pucb-
10 | found II large number of Mis-
SOurianS. several of whom were
from Audrain. spent part of my
time there with Geo. {. EriSman
and family. All of them are doing
we'll and expressed themselves as
we'll satisfied. | visited Manitou
and many points of interest in that
part Of Colorado and returned on
same route, stoppingagain ut Ord
way and several days with relatives
in Clinton county, Mo. The wheat
fields in Kansas are immense and
people along the route told me that
it is almost impossible to engage
enough help for harvesting the
great crop,
Nowhere on the trip did see
any better prospects for corn than
we have in Audrain county, nor
better blue grass. West of lis the
season has generally been too wet
for early planting. Resp.
j. y. Cross.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
A TRIP WEST.
Audrain County People in
Colorado and Kansas.

MEXICO, Mo-, June l2.-EDlrOR
MESSAGE: At your request note
a few items from my recent trip,
for the readers of your valuable pa
per. left Mexico May 10Th for IL
trip to the farming lands and
mountains of Colorado.
At Kansas City | was joined by
eleven other gentlemen from Mis-
souri,, Iowa and Nebraska, bent on
the same mission and all going ont
in the interest of James Jay Smith
of Chicago.
The first and prime object Of our
trip was to visit Ordway, Colorado,
and investigate the advantages
there offered new settlers by the
Twin Lakes Land 4 Water Co.
We arrived there without any Sc
riOuS accident and found Il thriv
ing little village of 80 inhabitants.
Ordway is located in II fine region
of farming lands, high above the
Arkansas River, which runs y
miles to the south, and is watercd
by the Colorado Canal which runs
3 miles to the north of Ordway
and taps the Arkansas River 30
miles TO the west. There is IN i'm
mensc future for this country. Su-
gar City, ) miles to the east, is
putting up Il million dollar beet
sugar factory and Rocky Ford, II
miles south, is puttingup factory
larger yet, and the country is be-
coming one of the most noted Sug-
ar beet sections of the west.
This season has been an unuSu-
ally rainy one and very little irri-
CATION has been needed. Several
thousand acres of bectS have been
planted and are looking we'll. The
farmer will continue to plant until
June 18th. The alfalfa crop is
immense and the first cutting has
just begun, 1t is the finest couu-
try for bees in the |. s., and poul-
try and stock of all kinds do well.
The country being new the orch
ards are not yet bearing; the dwell
lings generally are two to five
room houses and improvements
not very extensive, but the Oppor-
tunities for young man are far
better than in Missouri. He can
plant and reap with absolute GER
tainty. While land sells from So
to $50 per acre, yet man could
go in debt for his land and never
have moments fear as to his IL
bility to meet his payments. Forty
acres there would insure "a man a
competency for himself and family.
Everything that we raise in Mis-
souri, can be raised there and many
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

At present the two greatest railway
tunnels Of the world are those piercing
the st. Gothard and Mont Cents. 1t
will not now he manyyears before that
other great mountain of the Alpine
range, the SimplOn, will also be
pierced. SO that men may pass to and
fro in trains beneath its mighty sum
nit. The work is at present progress
ing at the rate OF five yards a day at
each end. 1t is impossible to foretell
the probable date of completion, ow-
ing to the changing nature OF the
strata, but when the two gangs OF
workmen meet IN the middle they will
have completed the longest tunnel in
the world, for they will have cut
through thirteen miles OF mountain.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

ticc, and is a thorn in the side of
Hanna, Carter and Co.
Senator Pcttigrew had some fun
last week in the closing hours of
Congress before final adjournment.
He INDUCED in IA little delving into
political history. He charged, on
the authority of one Mr.. Cramp,
himself, that Mr.. Cramp cOntribu-
ted 100000 To the Republican
campaign fund of 1892, with the
express understanding that he was
to be- repaid with profitable con
tracts to build ships. When Sen
ator Carter, who was chairman of
the Republican National Committee
which handled the campaign funds
of that year, denied that any such
agreement had been made with Mr..
Cramp-mind you, not that Mr..
Cramp had contributed the money
Mr.. Pcttigrew stated that he had
n conversation with Senator Car
ter, repeating to him what Mr..
Cramp had said, and that Carter
had replied laughingly, II guess
we did hit the old man pretty hard. "
Mr.. Pettigrew also gave Boss Han
ma n few swipes that even his thick
hide could not keep from hurting,
reading extracts from the memorial
presented to the Senate charging
Hanna with having bribed his way
into the Senate, dwelling with en-
phasis upon the charge that Rep
rcsentative Dick, now Secretary OF
the Republican National Committc,
and Maj. Rathbone, recently sus-
pended as director of posts in Gu
ba, were Hanna's agents in carry
ing out the bribery. Mr.. Petit
grew added as his own comment:
I'VE see now in what school this
man Rathbone was educated" Mr.
Hanna's reply consisted largely OF
calling Mr.. Pcttigrew n traitor t.
the Republican party, which, OF
course, was not very convincing.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

our civilization and Milwaukee,
beer into the Filipinos. In dcS-
peratc frcnzicd effort of II power
ful monarchy which has been Il
robber and oppressor of weak ma
tons, to crush by brute force a
weak people in South Africa who
are struggling, rs our forefathcrs
struggled four generations ago for
the right of self.government, the
devil would he on the side of mon
archy, and gloat over the downfall
of the republic. He would take
the position in his newspaper that
by the Providence of God Porto
Rico was the property of the
United States, and that her people
were our people, and by the same
Divine Providence, and by "bc-
ncvolent assimilation" and to i'm
press upon the Porto Ricans the
lesson, that whom the Lord low
eth he chastiseth," he would put Il
II per cent tariff on the product of
! their labor. He would indulge in
long prayers for temperance and
cditorially wink at the klondikc
jointists to close up during the
dull season, but throw their doors
wide open again just before the
veterans next pay day. He would
stand for Mckinley and bitterly
denouncc Bryan, and finally his
Satanic Majesty would make "A will
in which he would provide, that
in ease of his death or removal
from the United States, his news
paper should De turned over to
Mark Hanna.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Shifting Responsibility.

The Democrats could not make
the Republican majority in Con-
greSS remain in session and trans
act the business which they were
elected to transact, but they could,
and did, thOroly expose the hypoc-
risy of the Republican treatment
of such important matters as the
Nicaragua Canal bill, the trust
question and the reduction Of war
taxes before adjournment, and they
did more. In the debate on the
armOr plate clause of the Naval
appropriation bill, the Democratic
Senators made their fight on the
armOr trust 50 hot that Senators
Hanna and ElkinS actually champ
toned that trust on the floor of the
Senate, thus furnishing conclusive
proof that the iStratiOn and
the Republicans in Congress were
favorable to trusts in general, and
to that trust especially. Instead
of openly voting to pay the armor
trust the price it demands for arm
or plate, the Republican majority
whipped the devil around the
stump" by authorizing the secreta-
ny Of the navy to purchase the az
NOR that will be needed during the
coming fiscal year, if he can do so
at what he considers Il reasonable"
price; otherwise to establish Il
government aImOr plant. 1t is
dollars to brOOmStraws that the
secretary of the navy will consider
the trust price for the armor "rea-
sonable' and that he viii not use
the authority conferred upon him,
to establish II plant and break the
grasping monopoly. If Boss Hanna
had not been certain of that he
would not have allowed the power
TO be given him. Anyway it was
cowardly in the majority of Con-
gress to shift the responsibility for
favoring this trust from themselves
to Secretary Long.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

of her whole people instead of in
the interest of II few men, who are
in n great combine of the street
railway interests of st. Louis, and
who are having their own sweet
will in this strike; franchises worth
millions given to them, no taxes to
pay on them and the city compelled
to protect their property at the cost
of thousands of dollars every day.
Yes, the city needs some prayers
in this matter, but the street rail
way magnatcs are alright.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Killing People Legally.

HERE is an editorial from the
Columbia Missouri Herald against
capital punishment, and the Sug-
geStions the MESSAGE endorses in
toto. The editorial might well re-
ceive the attention of our lawmak-
ers in the Legislature next winter,
Right at the threshold of the TWEEN
tieth century, Missouri ought to
take the step toward higher things
with Kansas and Michigan and
other States, and see to the aboli-
ton of legal killing, II relic of the
bloody ages of the past. Hear:
Kansas, from which we may
learn many things besides how to
play football, abolished the death
penalty years ago, or rather sus-
pended its enforcement. Missouri
has kept the death penalty and
sends, rs frequently rs juries may
be found to convict, murderers to
the scaffold. Yet there has been
no increase of murders in Kansas
and no diminutiou of killings i'll
Missouri. Physical torture and
death have not been the detcrants
of crime which they have been sup
posed to be. Society is not pro-
tected by the death penalty.
In some states the electrician's
chair has taken the place of the
hangman's scaffold. The scaffold
has been sent to the museum of
horrors along with the block and
the thumb-screw and the garrote
and the wheel In ages we call
barbarous, men and women, too,
God save MS, were tortured and
broken and mangled and killed by
law with these terrible implements.
Now only the scaffold or the chair
remains. But is not substituting
one or the other of these for the
older aud more cruel forms of lc-
galized murder merely Guessing o.
YER the death penalty and retain
ing its real barbarism!
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
The Devil as an Editor.

The MESSAGE published the ar
ticle below sometime since. 1t or-
casioncd much lively comment, and
for fear that some may have over
looked the article, we are pcrSuad-
ed to give it space again. II gives
the political situation in anutshell.
The article was originated by the
editor of the Atchison Kansas
Champion asking Ex-Governor
John =. st. John his opinion as to
how the devil would conduct II
newspaper. st. John begins:
| have received yours of the 10Th
ult., asking me to give my opinion
as to "How the Devil Would Run
Il Paper" and in reply thereto |
desire to congratulate you on your
excellent Judgment in selecting me
to answer that question, for my
familiarity with his Satanic Maj
csty enables me to impart to You
IL lot of information that the ordi-
nary pious man knows but little
about.
The first thing the devil would
do would be to write II salutatory.
He would give it an intensely re-
ligious tone. He would shout for
void Glory and scream for lib
erty, and pitch into the Mormons,
but would not say II word about
the thousands of slaves, and our
government salaried Sultan and
his seventeen wives under the pro-
lection of the American flag on the
Island of Sulu. He would openly
favor bimcttalism, and secretly
work to put the government on II
single gold standard. He would
talk long and loud about the "pco-
pies money" but place them ut
the mercy of the national banks to
get it. He would declare that the
Cubans Were and of right ought
to be- free, - and then refuse them
their freedom. He would de-
nounce fraud and then send word
to the Gamers of rotten beef to
clean up and get ready to be white
washed. He would stand quietly
by, and, without even II protest,
see the organized trusts rob the
people of hundreds of millions an
nually and call it prosperity. lie
would advocate the lcvying of II
high tariff tax on the poor man =
food and clothing, and tell him it
was protection. He would be as
quiet ASA graveyard while we We're
burning negroes at the stake, and
punching their eyes out with
redhot irons, here in our own
country, but would make his scol-
umns speak in thunder tones in IA
vor of sending our fsoldiers eight
thousand miles from home to shoot
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Novel Funeral Service.

Lewiston (Maine) Spe. Chicago
Chronicle: A funeral service by tele-
phone is reported from Somerset
county. \ citizen of Eustis had died,
and his family desired that Elder Jac-
qGith, of Elnbden, should ofiiciate, as
he was an old schoolmate of the de-
cedent. Owing to bad roads the clergy
man was unable to get further than
North Newportland. At the hotel here
he met the superintendent OF the tele-
phone line which connects with the
Dead River region. and the latter came
to the rescue The superintendent
called up the Eustis station and or
dcreG an instrument transferred to the
house where the funeral was to be held
The clergyman then spoke into the
phone and deacon at the house of
mourning repeated his words to the
people assembled.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

THE administration is kowtowing
to monarchy. We do not hate
kings and dudish lords any more.
We are imperialists too, and we
would like slice of China next.
1t was alright for England to lush
n weak people struggling for free
dom in Africa: it gives England
greater land interests and another
opening To gather taxes and rcve-
nue..
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

THE ProhibitioniSts are with us
this week. A brainy and honor
able set of men. Their presence
is inspiring and uplifting. The
community will be bettered by
their having met here. Mexico
is glad to welcome them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

THE Christian Endcavor convcn-
ton held in Wcllsvillc last week
offered special prayer for the city
of st. Louis in her present street
ear strike trouble. st. Louis would
need no prayers in this direction if
her street railroads We're operated
in the interest and for the profit
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

ELD. JAMES BRADLEY. of this
city, will be candidate for rc-clcc-
ton as chaplain of the State Sen
ate. Ed. Bradley is IL high-mind-
ed man, true to Democratic prin-
ciples, and he ought to have the
election by unanimous vote.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Mexico Market.
STOCK AND PRICES.

- $500
j. 5. Brown, of northern Calla-
way county, last week sold four
shorthorn COWS to 7. II. Smith for
800.
VIM. Franklin, north of Laddo-
MIA bought 80 bushels Of corn Of
Nick Smith, paying 10 ct. per
bushcl.
Paris Appeal: J. y. Howell,
southeast of Paris, is feeding II
pair of September calves for the
Christmas market rs an expert
ment. He refused an offer of 500
for the pair some time ago and cX-
poets to get - per cwt for them
next Christmas.
Large run of native cattle on the
st. Louis market yesterday.
Sales included beef steers, 200
to | ,43l lbs. average, at a. 10 to
So 30; beef steers, 632 to | ,l91 lbs.
at 81 II to $3.50; butcher heifers
at So. - to - 50; COWS at Sl.2O
to - 30. the bulk at 81 30 To 81. 30;
stock steers and feeders at 50. -
to - 60; stock COWS and hcifcrs
at 81 - to $3.50; veal calves at
s.. 80 to Sc. -; bulls at 800 to
81 90, and mixers ut - to $4G.2j
per COW and calf.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

JOE FLORY, the Republican nom
inee for Governor of Missouri, will
campaign on railroad bycicle.
The machine was built to order
and has rubber tires. Joe is said
to be il good fellow, but he will
sure enough tirc(S) before he gets
to be Governor Of Missouri.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

THE Missouri Democracy is be-
ing congratulated on all sides for
the exceptionally strong ticket
nominated at Kansas City last week.
With Dockcry in the lead it is re-
gardcd Us the most formidable tick :
ct the party has put up in Nilsson
ri for years.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

Two good instances of Irish journal
Ism arc related by a writer in this
months Cornhill. One concerns sui
eide, and runs: 1T Is believed that the
deceased put the rope round his neck
as a joke, and found when too late that
he had made a fatal mistake" The
other, describing a storm, has this
statement: The heavy raindrops
varied in size from shilling to eigh-
tcenpence."
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Expresses Our Senti-
nentS.'

THAT is II heading used by the
Cedar City Chronicle in quoting
this editorial from the MESSAGE:
Sunday baseball playing in Mex
leo should have emphatic discour-
agement. We don't need it. 1t
looks bad for Il Christian commu-
nifty. Let's not have it.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

j. KELLY Pool says the whiskey
tubs and doodle pimps don't like
his Contralia Courier, Bro. Pool,
name any really good thing that
tribe does like.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

THE MESSAGE was the FIRST paper
in this county TO publish st, Johns
article on how the devil wouldedit
II newspaper, which article is at
tracing so much attention over
the country.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Ctomweii's Watch.

4 relic especially interesting to Eng.
lish Free Churchmen is at present in
England in the shape of oliver Crom-
wells watch. 1t is the shape and size
OF small hens egg, with an engrav-
Ing OF Worcester on the dial.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

MOBILES and lords living in Flu
rope own and control our railroads.
Those lords ought to pay this gov
eminent an income tax.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

The late grand jury was II whia-
ger. Now if their work sticks -
what for several people,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
,,.n $4,000, 900; Died I'm Alm.nou.s

old man named Anton Kahn, who
died recently in an Austrian aims
house, was found to be worth S.
100000
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Expert 0ptician

DIR. WHITE Is a graduate of the
best Optical College in the world
aud has had great deal of expert
ruce in hospital work. He uses
Finest Instruments aud Opthalmic
Apparatus, such rs is used by the
leading opticians of New York, st.
Louis and Chicago, Eyes exam
med FREE
Office over Morris & Abbay'S Store,
East Side Square,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

MEXICO extends Il hearty wei
come to the delegates to the State
Prohibition convention.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14
Senator Pettigrew.

He herds with the Republicans,
but he believes in decency and JUS
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

John Beal, Editor and Proprietor.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-14

eminent