From The Mexican Border

Dear comrades, suppose we abandon "Fighting Them Over" and flght our present popocratic eneuiies. Xot with bullets, but with ballots and good arguments. My lionie is only two miles froni Mexico, where they have free silver. We give thern 50 cents of our mone}r for $1 of their dollars, and the Mexican dollar has six cents more pure silver than our present silver dollar. The average wages for labor over there is 37X cents per day and board himself, and everything is twice as high in Mexico as it is here. My coinrades, if you could see what I see every daj' you would change your minds and never fchink of Bryan and popocracy again. That free trade bill called the Wilson bilí has ruined nearly all the sheep men of our beloved country. There are inany families here that four years ago were well-to-do, who have been on the point of starvation for the past two years. These same men are working for nothing, except cornmeal and a few cows are furnished by the men they work for, so the wife and childern can have cornbread and inilk. I ain talking with those men, and they say they have left Democracy for good and that they intend to vote for McKinley and something to eat. Give us protection and we have the best sheep country in America, and you can't get the tariff too high to snit us on bidés and livestock especialNow, my comrades, let's fire a full charge and 110 blanks, and our comrade will land high and dry without the solid south. Thank God, there are men vet in the south who will live and die by our old flag, and we will break the south square in the muidle on the 3d of next November. Let us give a strong pull and a long pull for Wm. McKinley and lie will get there with both feet, even in Democratie Texns. - Samual Armstrong, company G. Seventh lowa cavalry, Del Rio, Tex., in National Tribune.