Railroading In Mexico

K. J. Condit, a railroad conductor, at one time employed on the Yellowstone división of the Northern Pacific, but who is now in Mexico running a train out of Rascón, has written a letter to an old friend concerning the condition of affairs in the country where Bryan's policy is in full control. The letter was not written for the public, but simply as a confidential communieation to a friend. It is a letter of advice from a man who knows what free silver means to a friend who should know. Mr. Condit while in this country was a Democrat from hair to heel, and for that reason the letter carrics additional weight. The leter in full is as follows: Rascón, Mexico, Aug. 22.- A. E. Anderson, Esq., Gleudive, Mont.- Dear Sir and Bro: I received your letter of the 15th lust. today, and as I have a few monaenta to spare I hastea to answer, In the first place this money question Is too (leep for me, and I eannot for an instant imagine what the outcome will De if the United States comes out for the free and unlimited colnage of silver. No country has ever prospered under it, but possibly America is powerful enough to stand alone upon this question and experience ao bad results, but I doubt t. As you may have heard around about the clubs, I have alwuys been a Democrat, but, my boy, if I was in tho United States lo November MeKlnley would gat my vote. Mexico, wlth lts free silver, is lesson enough for me, and I slncerely hope that I will never live to see the American workingman vote hiinself down to the level of a laborer in Mexico. I sent to Joe Widmyer [editor and proprietor of the Gleudive Iudependeat] last week a table of wages of this country, and It alone should convince any thinking man that free silver Is bad for them. ft wlll reduce your wages as iure as th gun shlnes. My run Is between Rascón and Tamplco, 200 kilometers or 125 miles, the same tance as from Glendive to Forsyth, Mout. For tbe round trip I recelvo $10, and If I niake ten trips recelve $100. If I ani thea called to the states or any other country 011 earth, except South America, I exchauffö ruy raoney and get $53. Whlla a frelglit conductor running from Glendive to Forsyth, same nuinber of trips, gets $73. SO, and they consider in Mexico that freight conductors on thls división are paid too much- best paid men on the system. Passenger conductors get $160 a month, r $82 In your country; englneers $6 a day, Mtnouutini; to $3 in the states. A porterhouse steak, baked potatoes and wheat bread will eost you $2. Canadlaa club whisky costs 40 cents a. drink. I have a pair of .$4 American tan-colored shocs that I paid $11.50 for. Stetson, Dunlap, Kiiüx, or, In fact, any malie of bats are $10. So, Gus, take my advlce and vote for MeKinley, and you owe lt to yourself to do all in your power to influenc your friencls to do likewise,, I know their cry, "We must have a chango, and if we do vote for Bryan lt can't be worse than it Is aow," but they don't know what they are talking about. The m:m who works for a living and casts lus vote for free sllver, thinking to better his conditiou. will live to bitterly recent lt. ïours truly. E. J. CONDIT.