Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-01-11
SUPPL- EGENT TO TEIE
Mexico, Mo-, Ledger.

ter the old Bank of the United States,
and its members fondly hoped that
they had thereby made their calling
and election sure, If not to mansions
in h skies, at least to good, fat Off
ces; but, fortunately for the cause of
constitutional government and of hui
man liberty, at that time there sat in
the Presidential chair one of the purest
and bravest patriots that ever lived,
the iron soldier of the Hermitage, An
drew jackson, of blessed and immor-
tai memory, who promptly vetoed that
OBNOXIOUS and dangerous measure.
Both parties to that Titantic strug-
gle appealed to the people, and after a
historical contest Jackson vas tri-
umphantly reelected by an overwhelm-
ing majority, receiving 239 electoral
votes to ~ for his opponent. The peo-
pie stood faithfully by Jackson be-
cause he stood unfiinchingly by the
people. Unfortunately we have no
Andrew Jackson in the White House
now to veto this infamous measure,
but upon the appeal to the people in
1900 William ]. Bryan will be Endorsed
by as great a majority as was Andrew
Jackson in 1882.
REPUBLICANS A THEIR OWN WORDS.
Nearly all the great Republicans who
have lived since 1873-Grant, Garfield,
Blaine, John Sherman, Logan, eros
vENoR, ALLISON, Don Cameron, Win
dom, JOSEPH G. CANNON L~laughterl,
HEPBURN, DoLLIvER [laughterl, Mat
thew Stanley Quay. WILLIAM E.
CHANDLER, and others, as the sale bills
say, ''too tedious to mention" laugh
teri have condemned the main features
of "the Atlantic City money bill" by
tongue or pen or vote. The silver
speeches, the greenback speeches, and
the MISUNDERSTANDING speeches
of Republican Senators and Represen-
t~atives, now stultifying themselves by
supporting this iniquitous measure,
would If collected make a volume larg-
err than the Bible. In the light of their
votes now those speeches will consti-
tute rare, rich, and racy reading when
their authors are arranged at the bar
of public opinion. Out of their own
mouths will these high and lofty polit-
icai somersaulters be condemned.
PRESIDENT M'KINLRy REcANTs.
OF all the eminent Republicans who.
first and last, have championed silver,
President William Mckinley is facile
princeps.
In Congress he not only spoke elo-
quently and unanswerably for silver,
but he voted for the Stanley Matthews
resolution, for the original Bland bill,
for the Bland bill with the Senate
amendments, and his name is recorded
in the roll of honor of those who voted
to pass the Bland-Allison bill over the
veto of pseudo-P President Hayes.
Here the hammer fell. BY unani-
nous consent, Mr.. CLARK was allowed
five minutes more timle.l
In Congress he made this wise and
patriotic u~tterance:
lam for the largest use of silver in the cur
reney OF the country. l would not dishonor II.
l would give 1t equal credit and honor with
gold. would make no discrimination. would
utilize both metals as money and diseredit
neither want the double STANDARD.
That is a sound declaration, we'll
worthy of remembrance.
At Toledo, Ohio, February IL, 1891,
he excoriated Grover Cleveland for be-
ing hostile to silver in a highly artistic
manner, as follows:
During all of his years at the head of the
Government he was dishonornig one OF our
precious metals, one OF our own great products,
discrediting silver and enhancing the price OF
gold. He endeavored, even before his inaugu- |
ration to once, TO stop the coinage OF silver
dollars, and afterwards, and to the end of his
Administration persistently used his power TO |
that end. He has termtne to contract the |
circulating medium and demonetize one OF the |
coins of commerce, limit the volume OF money
among the people, make money scarce and 1
therefore dear. He would have increased the
value Of money and diminished the value OF
everything else-money the master, everything |
else its servant, He was not thinking Of 1.-THE |
not standing forth In their defense" Cheap
coats, cheap labor, and dear money; the
sponsor and promoter Of these protesting TO
stand guard over the welfare Of the poor and
lowly. Was there ever more glaring inconsis-
teney or reckless assumption
In reading those glowing words / am
constrained to exclaim in the language
of the immortal Squeers: Here's rich
nessl" And it appears to me that the
President, having recanted the opiu-
ions he then held, should telegraph his
apologies to his great prototype, "the
Sage of Princeton, /" in whose footsteps
he is now walking so faithfully and so
enthusiastically. [Laughter.l
But an astounding change has come
over the spirit of his dream, and he
now urgently recommends, to support
the gold standard" a measure which
not only establishes by law the gold
standard, but which practically retites
the greenbaeks, thereby contracting