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JDLGKCL1KK IH MEXICO.
Free "olns:e of Stiver Make that Coun
try ropru,,icts of Tntereeit Ab ut
the People aut Th-lr Habits.
.-Associate Justice Walter Clark,
who is now in Mexico, has written
the following most interesting ltt ei
to the Ktieieh News & -Observer.
We commend -vry word of it to
our lv.iders. Judge Clurk says:
"Te cliroa'e is nearly perfect
Strawberries .-ire ripe, and flowers of
all kinds brings ten cents a basket.
They sav it is no warmer here in
sum our, and never sultry, as these
tabii1 iv : ,a, eiiioiaeiug i00,oUO
sqra:e r. es two thirds of Mexico
avcj age 7,000 feet above the sea
level, over three times as high as
AshevP H'l the snow on the taller
mom er me its.
Tin .ry is developing more
rapidly piooably than any other on
the i.lar.'t, and could not help being
prosperous a matters stand. The
dol nr is exac iv the same value it
wa ten or if teen ears ago, not
having been artificially doubled in
valii" by legislation, as has been the
cast- with 3 Consequently cotton
is si ill 1 cents, per pouud and
WIU ,11' Ucl" oUa'Loil Willie HXed
ch i' er, as taxes, passenger aud
frei.:!it rates, public and private
deb .-, etc., remain actually (as well
as nominally) the same. W.t i us
in tli e United St. ites, bv virtue of
the legislation in favor of the bond
holders, these fixed charges, while
nominally the same are, in fact,
donh'etl, as it takes twice the
amount, of cotton, corn, wheat, etc ,
to pay them. One does not get a
fuTi idea of the enormity of this
trni miction till he gets here aud
sees tne prosperity or tins country
and s .-es th
StrCU!
led
Mexico in spite of
veneration for relief-
v
- - - w - j M n UUlb UVJ fill
the very capitalists who, by j rigl ts of her people,
tliis 1 ,ii'.a'.!oi;, l ave doub- , priestly monopoly was
e
$1 1
'ne of their United States
rstigating the principal
fer :; of their enhanced value
"try at old prices, thus
v of property here for
i he Ignited States Gov--th.it
if, they will sell
' States bond for gold,
of silver, which remains
vt;iie, and invest in $2,-
(X . j.-: v here
of liome bv Gonseric
tls, of India by Hast-
of this very Mexico
the Spaniards, or of
to, all pale into insig
pared with the lmigni
stice of this robbery
1 upon the seveuty-five
.- e American people in
' ' id by the procurement
i i lion of millionaires
,ent.s and dependents,
simple device of so con
iation, that every dol
' il, State city and iudi-
.i iii( 'dness is doubled by
'r ' value of' the dollar.
v e. iive, Cortez, Pizarro,
1 t lives and had brave
l.vhi ' i hem. aud they at least
I rnfion. But thi
'i th manipu Ismon of
M'. the j'jud-holders. there
ro bing heroic and the
ness in it has been in the
of the plunder which
ill that has ever yet fallen
to a eonqueriug army in the wealth
iest "ouiitry.
There was no excuse for it, since
silv rvwheii demonetized, was worth
mojv than gold, and there has been
not' ing since to depreciate it. That
silv. !, in f u t, h is not depreciated
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d Hiro'H'bnt heuOf-
people living on this
south of the Ilio Grande
countries the silver dol
p i-v for vs much taxes, as
1 ;d freignt and passenger
h public and private in
k3 formerly and farm
i larid bring as much as
M !ier has silver depreciated
is the gold dollar which
ki bled in value; hence
: and private, taxes, rail
tc, are actually though
My doubled while the
'? to be sold at. half price
iii. Every farmer who
1 of cotton in the United
ear was in effect taxed 6
id, or $30 a bale, and 50
bushel on wheat. The
farmers
oetrated on the
of th.' South bv this legislation pro
cured by rhe machinations of the
combi't (' eapital of London and
New Y?-!-., on the cottou crop alone,
of 7,0- .o,; j bales at $30 per bale, is
,o. of) for the one year of
1895 alone. The profits reaped by
the c;q'if-' Msts by the legislation
which !; doubled the values of
their claims against the public, and
the public and individuals, is practi
cal! be X computation It "fa
tigues the imagination" to consider
it. 'i ii wonder is not that there is
widespread and incurable depression,
bui tistl can continue to exist
under such a state of things. Were
v e not t he -vealthiest and most en-cii-i-iu
i most patient people on
the fae- the globe, we would sink
under it.
It is by no means certain that we
shall continue always to be the most
pah'. iii. " nose who have thus pil-la0-
d who, elated with their
success so far, threaten to still fur
ther contract the currency by retir
ing the greenback and thus still
more increase the value of the dol
lar, may learn a lesson right
here in Mexico. TLe Catho
lic church, by three centuries
and a half of a policy as deliberate
and as carefully planned as of the
monopolies and the money powers of
the United States today, came to
own absolutely one third of all the
property in this country, and con
trolled the balance. The masses
were kept in ignorance and the lead
ers ard intelligence of the country
were intimidated or bought. But
there comes an end to such things.
In 1850 the property of the church
was confiscated. The church party
called in the English, the Spanish
and the French, and the latter gave
them an Emperor. But the French
have been driven out, the Emperor
has been shotand today throughout
this srreat country, four times as
large as France or Germany, the
Catholic church does not own a foot
of soil or a dollar of money. The
verv church buildings, hoary, some
of them, with nearly four centuries
of use, belong to the government
and services are conducted in them
onlv by permission of the authori
ties elected by the people. Not a
priest can walk the streets in his
official robes. Mexico remains Ro
man Catholic in her religion, but
when the alternative was presented
whether the church should own the
country or the country should own
the church,
centuries of
ious authority and the influence
of consolidated wealth aud the
iguorance aud poverty of her masses,
was a oie to vinuicaie me
What this
priestly monopoly was to Mexico,
the money power is to the United
States. The multi-millionaires, the
bond-holders, the trust and monopo
lies already own over one-third of
the property of .our country and are
reaching out for the rest. Miny
leaders they nominate and elect to
office, others they intimidate or cor
rupt. But our people, while patient,
are not ignorant, and if the course of
the monopolies and combinations
continues unchecked, they will wake
up some morning to find, as the Ca
tholic church did here, that the
sovereign people own the country
and all that in it is The Catholics
here venerated the church fully as
much as we ever did the rights of in
dividual ownership of any species of
property, but the welfare of the peo
ple is the highest law, and when that
becomes imperiled, as it was in Mex
ico by the money power in the shape
of the church, aud as it is in the
United States by the same deadly
euemy in the guise of multi million
aires and monopolies, the manhood
and the brains and the honesty of the
people will assert themselves an I we
shall not go down under the same
enemv that destroyed Rome, and so
msniv other nations in the past. The
world is older and wiser.
The gold dollar in the United
States may well be called a mythical
dollar. Not one man in a hundred
ever sees one. It is not used to buy
corn, or wheat, or flour, or railroad
tickets, or drygoods. It is only for
the sacred use of the idle rich when
they wish to measure by a high stand
ard, double in value the principal
and interest of oonds, which, on their
face, by the contract, are payable in
coin i. e. in either gold or silver.
In drawing these iessous from the
pu?t experience and the pr..seat pros
perity of Mexico, there are those who
will say Mexico is inferior to the Uni
ted States in educati on,in civilization,
aud iu many other respects. And so
it is and so much the worse for the
objectors. For if Mexico, notwith
standing all these disadvantages, is
prosperous and going forward by
leaps and bounds by keeping the
standard of values at the same level,
so much the greater is the condemna
tion for the men who, in spite of our
great and manifest superiority, have
brought the curse and blight of a
long enduring depression upon us by
robbing the wealth producers in the
interest of the wealth-consumers,
throngh the device of doubling, by
crooked legislation, the value of the
dollar. And if Mexico with 350
years of priestly rule, 300 of which
were also under a foreigh yoke, and
50 more passed amid international
dissentions, could assert themselves
and throttle the gigantic money
power which oppressed rhem, what
cannot, and what will not, 75 millions
of the foremost people of the earth
be able to do when satisfied that they
owe it to themselves and their pros
perity to break the yoke which galls
them.
Much more might be said, and
more forcibly.
Walter Clark.
' City of Mexico, Jan. 15, '95.
More "Bum" War News.
Havana, Feb 1 The Cuban's
cause is desperate. The marines
hope to snatch victory before the
arrival of Weylor. The Spanish
cavalry has been reinforced and a
new military line established to cor
ner Maceo, patrolled by horsemen.
Meanwhile the Spanish Generals
have kept the Cuban leaders apart.
HOMING INSTINCT OF Of?SKS.
They are Better Than Civil Engineers at
Finding Their Way.
Horses and mules are known by
all who have had much experience
with them as famous pathfinders. A
good story of this power in the horse
tribe is toM of a mule by John T.
Campbell, of Rockville, Ind. In the
early days of prospecting in Oregon
a party were in the field, and had
covered a very circuitous course,
which they depended on a civil en
gineer to" enable them to retrace,
should they see any objects worthy
of a revisit. Having decided to re
turn to the home camp by the most
direct route the engineer, after cal
culating latitudes and departures,
pointed out what he believed to be
the correct direction along which
they must proceed to lvach the de
sired point. When night overtook
them they found that they were not
at the home camp, as they had ex
pected to be, though the engineer
assumed them that they were not
far b way from t' e ' sirel poiuf, 1
t hough he was quite unable to suy in
whieh direction it was best to turn.
At this stage of their wanderings
the driver of the team turned one of
his mules loose; and at once, much
to the discomfiture of the engineer
and the amusement of the rest of
the party, it set off in a direction
that brought them to the home
camp, rsow, inis mine , nau never
before been allowed to wander in
this locality, for fear that it would
stray and become lost, nor had it
ever been over the route by which
they bad reached the point whe:e
the engineer was at fault. -It xt
after dark; there was no one at tbt
camp to make any noi.;e that its
sharp ears might detect, and the
way was entirely unkuswn to it.
How had it at once taken the route
that would lead to camps.
A case allied to ihis happened to
me in the Blue mountains of Jama
ica, where a pony that had never be
fore been in the parish, where I was
lost in a tropical storm, look me
back to the point from which we
bad started in the morning, and that
by a much nearer route, entirely new
to both of us. hile I was aware
by the growth of the trees that we
were headed in the right general di
rection, it was at anytime impossible
for me to see more than one hundred
yards ahead. At the time that I left
the main trail and srot on what after
ward proved to be a much shorter
cut. It was impossible for me to
see anything in the blinding furv of
the cloudburst. How the pony fc$md
its way with so much satisfaction to
itself it never for one instant ap
peared to falter on its course I was
unable to determine. It was more
than once my experience after that,
when we had any difference of opin
ion as to the ramified ways in those
Jamaica hilis, that its was the judg
ment best to depend upon, to find
the place where it last had ils fod
der, although it was at times annoy
ing, whe : that place was not where
I wanted to go Dr. Eugene Murray-Aaron
in Popular Science News.
A Bis Fire In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Feb. 2. The
fiercest, most stubborn and most
destructive fire that has visited
Philadelphia in years, broke out at
3:20 this morning in the cellar of the
Hazletine building Nos. 1416 and
1418 Chestnut streets and before it
had been subdued the Hazletine
building and the American Baptist
Publication society's building at 1420
and 1422 Chestnut street, were des
tioyed, the dry goods store of Homer
Leboutillier & Co., Nos 1412 and
1414 Chestnut wa3 badly damaged
and the rear of the Hotel Lafayette,
which faces on Broad street, was
damaged to the extent of $75,000.
The approximate total loss by the
fire is $L075,000; the greater part of
which is covered by insurance. The
cause of the, fire is not definitely
known. When the firemen arrived
the Hazeltine building was already a
mavs of flames in the interior. The
building was seven stories in height,
with ornate front of brick and terra
cotta. It was very substantially
built and at first the firemen thought
they could confine the fire within its
walls. The flames, however, spread
through the building with great fury
and the fire was soon beyond the
control of the Departement on the
ground. Soon alarms brought near
ly every fire company in the city to
the sceie. The flames leaped up
high into the air and burst out in
the rear of the building on Sansom
street and threatened the handsome
club house of the Union League
club with destruction.
Judge Ferry Kills Himself.
Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 1 Judge
Stepen Perry, late of San Diego,
committed suicide last night by
shooting himself through the head.
He was a native of Virginia. Ill
health is supposed to have been
cause.
Impure Blood
Was the cause of my not feeling very well
during the spring for several years past.
I had that tired
feeling,was
weak and so
tired that I
could not do
much work.
For several
years I have
taken Hood's
Bar sapar ilia
regularly and
it has cleansed
my blood,
driven off that
tired feeling and built up my whole sys
tem. Hood'aSarsaparilla has also benefited
other members of my family, so that we
would not be without a supply." Stephen
McClaee, Greenwood, Arkansas.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
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True Blood Purifier
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Hood's Pills
the after-dinner pill and
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talking of the square foot, it does the
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when discounts are taken off,
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the average. Here's where
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