Mexico Missouri message., 1900-10-25
Price to Cross.

Editor MESSAGE: | wish to
comment on the letter written by
j. n. Cross in answer to what |
said in my letter written in Mon
tana, when | was there on n visit
with my children. Bro. Cross has
felt, | presume, as tho had tramp
led on the toes of his little god,
Democracy, and it seems to have
wonderfully stirred up his enthusi-
asm i'm favor of the Democratic
party, in so much that he drew
largely upon his Imagination. In
my letter my motive was to let it
be known where | stood relative
to politics, and not be classed as a
coward along with ex-President
Cleveland who is afraid to assert
his premises. | said nothing dis
paragingly of VIM. J. Bryan and
party only what the truth will bear
me out in. | honestly believe if
you should put both candidates for
the Presidency in Il sack for their
morality and give them good
shaking up one would be just as
liable to come out first rs the 9th
er.
When | used the quotation, Be
not deceived; God is not mockcd,"
| was speaking of Sunday school
work and the reward that some
Sunday school workers may expect,
and had said nothing about either
party. | assure you ! should con
slider rs wide a berth between Sun
day school work and modern poll
ties as Abraham spoke of between
Lazarus and the rich man.
Bro. Cross says | was praying
for the Republican party's success.
Well, it certainly needs praying
for, so does the Democratic party,
for they are both rotten as can be,
and they are wonderfully blessed
with adhcrcnts.
Oh, no, Bro. Cross, | am not
holding up either party as an en-
blem of purity, but when see the
laboring class, the back bone of our
country, employed under the Me-
Kinley administration | am glad
that such state of affairs exists.
But you and your Democratic par
ty want Il change, not satisfied
well enough, ever ready to sing
your old song. You have cried
imperialism ever since the taking
of Manila, and you punched ont
our pensions under Cleveland $
admin istration. OF course, as you
intimate, there may have been
more pensions granted under Cleve-
lands administration than were
dropped; but thousands We're
stricken off the pension roll who
were unable to earn Il livelihood.
Shame, shame, without any re-
course whatever. And that is not
all. The bones of one million men,
Democrats and Republicans, lie
bleaching beneath the sod of mo-
Their Earth, the result of that war,
and todoy there are no warmer
friends in existence than the Blue
and the Gray who stood face to
face with integrity, honestly main
tanning what they believed to be
right.
But there was Il class then, aS
now, calamity howlers, nothing
goes right, want to rule or ruin,
partyitcs. God help the people tC
look on the side of right and just
ice and let the parties go to the d
where it belongs. But a few years
ago the Democrats cried ont bank,
ruptcy in short time; today VT
are loaning money to foreign pow
ers-just negotiated loan of 500
DOC, 900 to Germany.
Come, now, Brother Cross, LEI
me implore you to shake off thu
old moss covered shell that has
been befogging your intellect, ant
let us look things squarely in tn,
face, in the interest of Nd anC
humanity and let side issueS~go.
We cannot tolerate n change
and you and every God loving
countryman knows it. Listen It
Mr.. Talmagc-"God's hand il
moving in the Christianity of ma
tons" Millions upon millions o
lives have bppn sacrificed to brin,