OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY. JUNE 30, 1899.
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OREGON CITY, JUNE 30, 1899.
An American Internal Policy.
Fibst Public ownership of public franolilses.
The values created by the community should be
long to the cammunity.
Bboosd Destruction of criminal trusts. No
monopolisation of the national resources by law
less private combinations more powerful than
tbe people's government.
Thisd A graduated lnoomelax. Every oltlzon
to contribute to the support of the government ao
oordlng to his maans, and not aooordlng to his ne
cessities. Fourth Election of senators by the people.
The senate, now becoming the private property
of corporations and bosses, to be made truly repre
sentative, and the state legislatures to be redeemed
from reourrlug scandals.
Fifth National, state and municipal Improve
ment of the public sohool system . As the duties
of citizenship are both general and local , every
government, both gjneral and local, should do
its share toward fitting every individual to per
form them.
Sixth Currency reform. All the nation's
money to be Issued by the nation's government
and Its supply to be rogulated by the people and
not by the banks.
Direct Legislation Lawmaking by the voters.
The Inituttvk The proposal of a law by a per
centage of the voters, which must then go to the
referendum.
Tu Bifebendcm- The vote at the polls of a
law proposed through the initiative, or on any
law passed by a lawmaking body, whose refer
ence is petitioned for by a percentage of the
voters.
Tbb Imperative Mandate Whenever a publlo
official shall be deemed dishonest, Inoompetent
in 1 1 1 m I I. Is duties the voters shall have
the right to retire hlra and elect one of their
choice. The people alone are sovereign.
Walla Walla people voted for muni
cipal ownership of the waterworks by 10
tol.
Tub Kentucky democrats have agreed
on an indorsement of the whole Chicago
platform and Mr. Bryan. And so it will
be throughout the South and West..
Direct legislation is the road over
which all reform forces must travel be
fore they can attain their objects.
Then why not all unite and construct
this road?
Intrinsic value does not regulate price.
Air possesses more intrinsic value than
any other thing known, but it has no
price. The Intrinsic value of a bushel
of wheat never changes, but its price
does.
Two or three military governments
with their accompanying patronage are
useful things to have on hand when an
important election is pending. Every
man who wauts a soft simp regrets that
he is not a resident of the state of
Ohio.
The beef investigating committee re
wrted that the beef was good, but that
X '8 what they were appointed for. The
ile, however, read the evidence, and
rdict is against canned beef. The
the Vb ,lW1(J wj 0HB tliousandB of dol
becKou fllSn, jj o euleg , llmt
la"; Wves.
is wlmt s.
. -J" ' McKinley fears that his
" riV8'f not sufficient to at
own popularity n. , peo),9 tQ ehwt
tract great crowds n vttwt opon
him and thin produce ft h vt 1)e uke
the Ohio campaign, why do.. ,i)m or
Alger and E:gan along with . .,'t tQ
Samoaon and Shatter? Pewey onu
l allowed a little time to rest btifnu
being thrust before the public as a caifi !
patgn attraction.
Washington correspondents of tbe
newspapers of the country are meeting
with great success in securing lucrative
positions for their brothers, sisters, cous
ins and aunts in the census office. Of
course the liberality of the administra
tion in distributing such valuable favors
among the members of the newspaper
liaternity Is not intended as a bribe to
influence them in the matter of giving
to the country correct and lull iniorma-
ti m upon all matter of public concom,
but merely to prove the affection of the
alministra ion for the relatives of the
ltii-n who are piofessional news gather
10,109 JOBS
On May 29, 1809, the prsident of the
United States issued an order amending
the civil-service rules, so that 10,509
offices and positions are banded over to
the politicians. Any time duiing the last
twelve months such an order has been
expected. Last October, tbe National
Civil Service Reform League sent a pro
test to tbe president against tbe expect
ed order. The politicians won and the
order has been issued.
It would seem that the republican
national convention, at St. Louis, resol
ved that the civil-service "shall be thor
oughly and honestly enforced and ex
tended wherever possible." It would
also seem tnat President M'Kinley made
the following promise, in his inaugural
address, in regard to the civil-service:
"I shall attempt its enforcement in the
spirit in which it was enacted. The best
interests of tbe country demand this."
The republican party made its promise
BEFORE election day; Mr. M'Kinley
made his promise AFTER he was elect
ed to the office of president of the United
States ! -. .- '
If TWO promises result in an order
giving 10,109 offices and positions to the
politicians, what would be the result of
TEN promises? Figure it out for your
selves! Henry Watterson after referring to
some prominent democratic flapdoo !le
who has recently discovered that silver is
a dead issue asks, in a sarcastic tone, if
the whangdoodle (meaning Bryan) is
the only free-silvente left. Alas, Henry,
lis sad to relate that there are other
pebbles on the beach, and much as you
dislike to admit it the number of whang
doodles is increasing rather than dimin
ishing. This present Mark M'Kinley
gold-Btandard administration is so much
in line with what the Courier-Journal
has advooated for vears that no one is
surprised at the loyal devotion accorded
it by the great Kentucky pencil pusher.
The poor political chump who is
afraid to quit his party for fear the other
party will get in and send the country
to the demnition bow-wows is to be pit
ied. He has tried his party for thirty
years; he has seen the other paity tried.
He knows that atl tbe time the people
have been deceived. That the promis
es made were not redeemed. That things
are growing worse all the time. Yet
the poor devil hangs on and votes er
straight votes for hard times and gets
it, too.
There is always commotion and ap
prehension in France when the Cabinet
is ripped up. In the United States per
fect safety would be in more ripping
than there is. Nearly every Cabinet is
originally organised on lines of party re
wards and punishments, and to make a
practical working establishment ought
to be overhauled in a few months, there
having been nominal payment of the
president's party debts.
How veer, we do not entirely agree
with the Peoria Herald that the great
rush of Americans to Europe this sea
son is inspired by a mad desire to get
away from Secretary Alger. Chicago
Tribune.
The G. O. 1'.
Editor Courier-Herald:
In the Qregonian of June 22, the ed
itor turns himself loose against McKin
ley, and it is not for the purpose of dis
puting any assertions made that I wish
to criticise the article, but it is to show
up to what lengths the republican party
will go to maintain its one idea of the
gold standard.
In the article is this statement: "The
McKinley administration has made
most disgraceful appointments to ollice
at the behest of unscrupulous politicians.
It has betrayed the civil service to the
spoilsmen, paralyzed the organization of
the army, violated its pledges as to cur
rency reform, humiliated iis most etli
cient servants and discredited American
intelligence and valor in the eye of the
civilized world."
The great majority of the people will
admit the facts of the statement, but,
when it Is further said in the article:
"If McKinley is nominated he will have
to be elected. It Is apparently impossi
ble now that the democrats can agree on
an honest-money man, and the gold
standard muBt be preserved at all naz
rarda," it plainly shows that there is
nothing too base for them to swallow if
by doing it that ine thing, the gold
standard, can bo preserved. The price
less privilege granted to a few individu
als to force Undo Sam to "swap dollars'
just at a time when It is the most incon
venient for Uncle Sara to have to do it,
is something that must be maintained,
even though the whole people have to
live on canned beef for another presi
dential term. Our financial integrity
must be maintained with other nations,
it is claimed, but it seems to me that it
is at a fearful price. As long as people
are inclined to want to eat wehn they
e Hungry our commercial relations
ntll.lR ...lt!...Q A.... I.n ... s ..... i :r
w' . I with anv kind of skill, whth
!!Se) T n ri.ht or nit. Tar-
8l'J to be the big
drum to be h'uO,er' t0 ral Ppla
together, but W i"':"on nas
ripened its fruit into ood. bl CP of
trusts, gold Btandard h.M used as
the drum now.
"If McKinley is nominated he will
have to be elected." llemetnber thai,
now. What's violated pledges, civil-service
reform, fat ppoilsmen, trusts lar
ger than white elephahts? all must go
down the republican gullet, hut the gold
standard must not le endangered. Ttie
"Bo it enacted," by Uncle Sam has no
potency, and the amlio by of the con
stitution no longer gives any weight. It
is gold ami gold alone before which we
bow. "These be thy Gods, Oh Israel."
Thomas Uuckxn.
Theosophy.
Editor Courier-Hehald :
An item in the editorial columns of
your paper states that a young art stu
dent in Brooklyn jumped into the river
after reading a book on theoeophy. You
also state that ne had punished him
Belf enough by reading a book on theoso
phy without jumping from tbe bridge.
Here are two statements that need
looking into. In the first place you
word tbe first item as though he jumped
because of his reading theosophy. That
is not plain. He might have done a
hundred things that morning, none of
which bad any relation to suicide. He
might have kissed bis mother, as young
students sometimes do. He might have
eaten oatmeal mush for breakfast, as
some people do. . He might have . read
the morning paper, as some people, es
pecially students of theosophy, do. Any
of these actions would aa likely cause a
person to jump tbe bridge as reading
theosophy. But who would claim any
of these to be the cause? Why single
out theosophy except to throw ridicule
on something wholly or only partly
misunderstood? How could theosophy
cause crime above any other high phil
osophy? Would you be willing to charge
a suicide to the reoding of Paul or Mark
or Plato or Sbakeapear? How can a
philosophy which teaches ethical causa
tion, the divinity of man, the brother
hood of all humanity, faith in ones aelf
instead of faith in some one else, kind
ness to ail creatures, the highest of all
moral codes ; a philosophy which teach
es immortality of the soul, salvation by
ones own efforts, a hell for nobody un
less you call this life bell for the misera
ble happiness as a result of right
thought and action ; how can such a
philosophy cause a man to act foolish ?
Would it not be more reasonable to be
lieve that such a philosophy would hin
der a man from jumping overboard and
doing other foolish things?
The world is searching for truth, for a
philosophy that can answer all question,
that can account for the present misery
wherever found, and in theosophy alone
can such an answer be found. Tho.se
persons who have patiently studied it
are not the ones to brush it away with
a flippant motion. Theosophy has come
to stay. It is already saturating the
thinking world and has already made
an impression on the thoughts of this
century that is permanent. No use in
quibbling over a name, truth under
whatsoever name, ia enduring. Many
accepted ideas of today were not known
when theosophy made its advent in this
century in 1875.
Some people have a queer idea of
what theosophy might be. Last week
the writer saw a man enter a bo ikstore
and heard him inquire for some book on
theosophy. His idea was to procure a
book from which he could learn how to
do tricks and thus astonish the natives.
Needless to say, theosophy has no more
to do with feats than with blood atone
ment. Certain fakirs and tricksters are
traveling over the country "performing'
and advertising themselves as theoso-
phists in order to draw a crowd. This is
pure rascility ; just as much so as were
the absolutions sola oy letzei.
Respectfully,
Earnest Barton.
Our Money System.
(7.)
Written for the flourler-Horald by Argus.J
All debts and taxes, our salaried offi
cers from McKinley down to the consta
ble, our court fees and fines, our law
yers and doctors, legal fees, even our
salaried preachers, all demand 100 cents
on the dollar in the highest money, li
is none too good for them, though it is
too good by half for the farmer and the
worker.
We cannot go to the store and demand
double ot sugar, coal oil, etc., with our
double value money.
Hundreds of trusts are taking care
that wt- have no silver markets to pur
chase in.
This juggling with our money, making
a 43 cent rate for the worker and a 100
cent rate for the schemer, is a repetition
of the old trick condemned in the old
book, "Divers weights and divers meas
ures are an abomination to the Lord,"
but on a colossal scale commensurate
with these latter-day times, and embrac
ing all the fields of labor in the thrall.
We pay about 400,000,00d annually
as interest on foreign borrowed capital.
We pay this Interests by our products
Bold on a silver basis, and bo mt of our
increased exports required to meet these
obligations. Fourteen hundred millions
in two years, on which we have lost over
$1,400,000,001 through the gold stand
are to the foreign capitalists. Our home
trade, generally computed at 20 times
our foreign trade, must have entailed a
proportionate loss. It is probibly safe
to compute the direct loss to the worker
and business man in the interest of the
idle capitalist at not less than ifl0,0J0,
IHK ,000 per annum, or more than twice
the sum of the combined amount of the
whole gold and silver money of the
world.
It appjars as if Carlisle's prediction
was being verified, that "This scheme
will bring more misery to the human
race than all the wars, pestilence and
famine that ever occurred."
The blunder of 1873 has proved more
disastrous to the people than the most
heinous crime recorded in the history
of nations. The blind leaders of the
blind, as our so-called financial experts
have proved themselves to be, show that
gross ignorance or the moat cruel cu
pidity is responsible for present condi
tions. A people cannot long be free and have
a free government without a general
knowledge of the science of government,
and the financial part is the chief ele
ment in good government, as it is in
that of any other business,
The peoole will have to learn their
own history of money matters and apply
their own common sense for correct con
clusions instead of accepting the dog
matic assertions of a class hich, how
ever honorable, aro yet tinjied with the
ordinary selfishness of human nature
enough to lead them, it may be in most
cases unknowingly, but none the less
surely, to work for class interests, which
are nil-taken for the general good of the
community. Even the preachers as a
class are not with the workers; but this
is not strange; lor the most part they
are occupied in a calling their very zeal
ousness in which blinds iliem to the
wider forces ihut affect huumniiy, bf
sid -a if takes a kindred suffering to
make the world akin, and these sa ari.-tl
men, especially the leading preachers m j
the large ioaiu and reh chuic'if are
amount the prosperous, Their nalar es I
an fnrtlier limn nvnr in liavintr for laboft
and produce and they cannot see what
these repudiating populists want, uniess
it. ia tttoii- inrmt.A ' wif.ltadneRS. which
would destroy all government and order
in society.
Even bo gallant a patriot as Governor
Rnnavalr. was no enamored of the false
glitter of the gold standard that he has
no idea ot the Buttering it entans, espec
ially on the Western and purely agricul
tural states of tbe Union, or he would
never have threatened to march a force
to Washington and prevent the seating
of one, if elected, equally honorable,
Animllv PAiirncrnnfl of lllfl OllinionS.
equally patriotic and understanding
much better the crying needs of the peo
plethe Hon. Wm. J. Bryan.
The Western people must endure and
persistently and patiently educate them
selves and others until our Eastern
friends, if not convinced, will learn to
awant tha innvituhln. This country
cannot long go on the gold standard, but
we want no not-neaaea aesoiees to pre
cipitate another civil war upon us. We
bad better "make haste alowly," and it
may be a blessing in disguise that the
questionable methods by which McKin
ley was elected were put in vogue.
(Continued next week.)
Going Too Far.
' Shubel, Ore., June 26, 1899.
Editor Courier-Herald :
Since we feel somewhat elated at the
grand success of our arms in the late
war, and that very success has prompted
those in authority to carry modern re
ligion and civilizat'on into the heathen
world at the point of the bayonet, a com
parison between the present period of
American existence and the period of
Spanish existence 400 years ago should
suffice to awaken the American people
to actual conditions ; and if we wish to
pass the rocks on which our conquered
foe has been wrecked, we must nyoid
her errors:
Spain 400 years ago was the foremost
nation of the world. Civilization and
religion were the grand eriterions of her
existence. Her ambition, if history is
true, was to Uhnstianize ttie world.
The new world was discovered; the
native population of the then new world
was well advanced in the arts, yes, the
highest arts, and had reached the very
height ot civilization. Thev were peace
ful citizens of their respective countries;
they were quiet, innocent, trusting peo
ple; and in their innocence they thought
the Spanish n aa come irom heaven i
But they had not the Spanish religion;
they had none of the Spanish religion.
Poor creatures 1 How Boon they were to
receive it. and die, alas I
Mr. Editor, we will say nothing of the
butcheries: nothing of the infamous
crimes; nothing of the fiendish decep
tions and inhuman methods these self
same civilizers employed to infuse their
religion into the already mutilated
bodies of these poor people ; but we do
most determinedly declare it unworthy
of the imitation in this age of the world
and by our own beloved country.
What, have we in all the years of our
progress and advancement just become
able to step into the footprints of the
Spain of 400 years ago? Have we with
all our grand educational opportunities
and treedom of Christian views, just
come up to the mark of ancient Spain?
Where have we been all these years and
where will we land? What means this
sending of armies into the Philippines?
Our good Christian(?) people bay we
must Christianize these poor heathens;
we must convert them to our faith, even
if we must exterminate them to do it.
In the name of our constitution, "where
are we at?" When ministers who fill
American pulpits declare that extermi
nation is the kind of policy to adminis
ter to a people who love freedom, to a
people who dislike to exchange native
contentment for civilized misery, I ask
whither haa the spirit of Christ flown?
Is not our beloved country in danger of
destruction by the very men who should
be its friends? And because a man re
fuses to indorse such un-American, un
christian, unmanly, uncivilized actions
and assertions, these same foul-mouthed
hypocrites apply to him all the foul epi
thots of their evil vocabulary. Was ever
bopacrisy more glaring? Was ever the
malign int. desires of Satan more fiend
ishly gratified? They tell us ours is a
grand, a noble country; its flag is the
symbol of all that is good and grand;
that no country has been so blessed as
ouis. I reply that our country is only
grand and good in proportion as it ad
heres to the constitation upon which it
rests anil is founded. Our flag is only a
symbol of goodness and Americanism so
long as it exemplifies and truly repre
sents the principles of the constitution.
Our country has been blessed with pros
perity only at such times when ihe prin
ciples of our constitution were in free
operation. But how often, oh, how of
ttn have they been violated! And be
cause American citizens dare denounce
these American(?) statesmen who so
boldly and defiantly cast aside the con
stitution they swore to support, he is
called a traitor, a copperhead, etc.
I ask, in the light of facts, who are
the traitors? Are they not those who
knowingly violate the constitution of
their adoption? or are they those who
oppose the men whose policies are not in
accordance with the constitution?
Mr. Editor, I can have patience with
the robbers of homes and speculators in
human life, because they are not en
tirely to blame for their voracious appe
tites; but when men who are supposed
to be the servants of God and the pro
plaitners of His divine purposes associ
ate with the despoilera of our knd and
become their humble servants and tools
and at the same time claim their utter
ances are inspired from on high instead
of from below, citizens have a right to
denounce such actions as hypocritical as
the term will admit.
In conclusion I wish to say that in my
opinion we who believe that the admin
istration of public affairs of our country
is being ust-d to bring atiout our fall are
too silent as individuals in the matter.
Very respectfully,
Robert Gi.nthkr.
Every boodle politician will oppose
the referendum, because he cannot then
sell franchises. The referendum gives
the veto power to the people and they
can reject all vicious legislation. They
can also force the passage of any laws
they favor. It w ill put an eml to brib
ery and boodleism in politics. It is the
means with w hich the government can '
be re.-ttired to the people and to its
original pur.ly. Work for the referen
duin.
GREAT CLEARANCE SALE
We realize that the summer season in our line of goods
. i . - l ' i- ...... r.. 1- r. i
is nearly over ana not wismug iu tany any sluik over lor
another season especially as we need room for our Fall and
Winter Stock which is now ready to be shipped from Eastern
Manufacturers and will arrive about July ioth we will sell all
our summer Stock at MANUFACTURING PRICES.
Clothing A Fine Line ot Ties
Furnishing Goods for Ladies' or Gent's
Shoes Etc. The Utest
We will call your attention to our line of Fine Pants the 3
best in the city and will be sold at cost of manufacturing. Don't 3
miss the opportunity.
A Soecialtv in Ladies'
Fine Ladies' Vici Kid Shoes Vesting
2.50. our m ice 12.00.
A very Fine Kid Hand Turn, black or
-.I... to KA ... iosn
ValUO fO.UV, UUI fill) .ww,
Others in proportion. Come and
goods, no matter if you buy today
satisfactory.
The Star Cothing House I
Strictly One
Commercial Bank. Oregon City, Or.
An Open Letter,
An open letter to the people o' the
United States, whether they are engag
ed in the unequal struggle for existence j
within the confines of this alleged repub
lic, or unlawfully exiled in the distant
tropics, and there compelled to assist in
strangling liberty at the behest of the
great American money power :
Our tiny war with Spain, over which
it seema we shall never cease to gush
and brag, was begun in the blessed
name of humanity and ended in the
infamous name of embalmed beef.
It ia doubtful whether the Cuban pa
triots have gained any thing by their
exchange of ma8ters. Time will tell. I
' am glad that I am not a Cuban ; I might
grow to dislike carpet-bag rule, and as a
choice of evils pray for Weyler to re
turn. Quien Sabe!
But in the Philippine8, those islands
distant eight thousand miles, that ma
larial archipelago, where our misguided,
mistreated and deceived volunteers and
regular? are forced by thiB Christian
government to "benevolently assimi
late" the breech-clouted natives. Ah,
"that is quite another story," aB Kipling
would say ; and such a story a story of
fiendish rapine and hor.ible slaughtsr
unequalled in the annals of bloodshed or
h stories of tyrante a ghastly narrative
of unnecessary woe, wherein for the first
time the stars and stripes are made the
emblem of slavery and imperialistic des
potism. In the days to come, citizens
of America, do not forget that it was
during the administration of William
McKinley that the flag of our country
was disgraced and degraded made no
more, no lesa, than a symbol of oppres
sion. Let no one forget this, whether
republican, democrat, populist or so
cialist. It must be remembered; it will
be remembered. Our flag stands for no
political party; it stands for our country,
and when it is scandalized honest men
bang their heads in shame.
Tbe head of this administration, this
pliant tool of trust magnates, bankers
and usurers, is alone responsible and
will be held accountable before the
t'irone of Almighty God for every hu
man life lost in this uncalled for strife
in the torrid tr jpics of the Orient.
I am told that President McKinley is
a"pions" man, a "church member."
If so, the particular brand of piety of
which he is said to be possessed, may
only be found flowing freely in worship
bouses where blasphemers expound
from the pulpit, mortgage sharks pass
the plate, and Mammon, not Christ, is
worshipped. No stretch of the imagi
nation can depict a consistent follower
of the Nazarene sanctioning this diabol
ical attempt at couquest this "war" in
the Philippines.
Than God! I am too loyal an Ameri
can to grow conceited and garrulous
over this crime ; too jealous of the honor
of my country to applaui our army in
its so-called war with half-armed na
tives. I would that our soldiers should
ever fight in a just Cause, and with a
foe comparatively their equal. Will the
living de.-i indents of revolutionary pa
triots sanction this dishonor of our
army? Would that we had with us a
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Paine
or Lincoln to grapple with this question,
instead of a sanctimonious reflection of
the industrial cannibal ot Ohio Mark
Hanna.
Siiuple-miuded people may be deceiv
ed with false messages, fa se doctrines,
false economy, and false patriotism ;
but individuals with full-grown intel
lects who are not ruseaU themselves
soon learn ihe Hue from the false. Show
me a thinking American who juslilies
mis uiueous crime in the Orient, and I
will show you a being at heart a mur
derer it matters not whether his form
H domed in hioaJcl Hh or gunny s.tcks ;
a p.-rsjii wiiu in hij b jv'ii'to I d tys lor
tjrvd tvery helpless living oteuure
wiihiu h.s reach, a.id prjiuhly prefjr
led the ioul purlieus of the vi.lag sUaui
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blea to the green fields, cool forests and
babbling brooks beyond.
And now, fellow citizens, it is said to
be a crime, it is said to be treason, to
publish to the world 'a protest such as I
have herein written this on the author
ity of Postmaster General Smith. I will
not argue the point with Mr. Smith, nor
will I write a Smithsonian essay on this
Smith. Such an effort would be a waste
of gray matter needed along other lines.
I do not suppose that this Smith, this
unimportant atom floating about on the
vast sea of Smitha, will like this epistle
any better than he did my book,
"Waiting for the Signal" (which, by the
way, I am told ia soon to be excluded
from the United States mails for alleged
treason), but until the ukase is issued,
both this letter and the book, "Waiting
for the Signal," will continue to go out
among the American people, regardless
of the entire Smith family. This is not
an empire not yet I
Edward Atkinson may crook the rusty
hinges of his attenuated legs, and cring
ingly pull his foretop to one of Uncle
Sam's hired men but I will not. I am
sorry, however, that on this expansion
business Edward Atkinson is for once
right. He has for bo many years beei t
making an ass of himaelf that a cause
no matter how righteous is Injured by
his championship. He is, be gad, al
most aa big a fool aa Smith Postmaster
General Smi;h.
Henry O. Morris.
Pueblo, Cohrado.
Shubel.
veil Meester Editor, I thought I vould
dell you, pefore your back, vot ginds of
beeplea live here, und dink you vil say I
know some here to vel some mans dinks
he makes vait, he und mr. Prownell
makes Road posses und blank roads
und everytinga yot is d ne veil, veil,
und the beeplea tink day make one, two
yack asses, day vanta to make von gon
gres8man und mr. timmick for broba
tion yudge day say it must be a Iyer
foryudge. vy? o because he must
he must know ven a mans ties ob he
leaves von vidowa und 8ometinga or two
widowa und notings the other mans vot
you call him ven you puts your close on,
he tinks ve must dink yoost like he or
ve are von tam fools, veil veil, de ly
ers come in the gountries und dall the
the beples you vont me for gongressman
und mr. timick for yndge und mr, vat
you gall-im some odder nice offls und
mr. dom veil ve vill get him on a yu
ry, or maype he bould like to be a poss
on de road or squwire. yell, veil, if we
gould only Bee them at dey see temsel
ves how pig dey vould be, but de bee
pies tidks dey are not a pig bunkins but
a leetle grooked squish, it makes me
dink of de hop' you Bee dey start to
climb a bole, pooty Boon dey are all
over de bole yoost like some mans who
dinks he is some hops und he is only
von boles und the odder mans is und he
gets all de hops, maype you see de
boint, if not yoost let some mans wit a
bitch fork stick yau in de rips und you
vill feel it auy way. next time I vill dell
you somting else.
good by
Patsy MoDugas.
Are McKinley and Alger afraid that
General Miles would end that trouble in
the Philippines and get some credit for
himself? If not, why is be not sent out
there? Atlanta Constitution.
Edward AtkInbos, the gentleman
whose literature the government has
suppressed from the Manila mails, is
the same identical chap that has been
figuring down the cost of liv.ng for the
laboring man. He bad it down pretty
low, but ciuldu't co u pete with the
Cleveland panic or McKinley prosperity
so he tunil h s attention to tha anti
imperial b isiness.
A full line of SpUd't'a "official"
baseball supplies iulo-.kat Huntley's
book store at E istt-rn prie. 8.
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