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Show up and filled his lungs and thundered thunder-ed out, 'I want you to understand that wr; promised prosperity and we have no objection if God, in his wisdi-M, believes it just to assist the Republican party in such a holy and laudable - undertaking." The silver man lost his breath for a moment, but said: "It is a wonder you don't claim the Lord as a Republican." Re-publican." "We do," was the prompi reply. -Standard. AND HE IS A REPUBLICAN. The writer was in a town in Idho last week and while in a business house there, a McKinley Republican Repub-lican stepped into the store, and said to the proprietor. "Well, old man, wheat has touched one dollar;, how is that for our promised prosperity?" pros-perity?" The business man replied: re-plied: "I should think you fellows would be ashamed to claim credit for the prosperity created by the rise in wheat when that rise . is directly due to the famine and misfortune mis-fortune of millions of other human beings in other lands whose wheat crop has failed. If you were to say that God Almighty, for reasons best known to Him, has caused the wheat crop to fail in other nations, but has blessed the United States with a bounteous harvest; then you would come nearer crediting prosperity pros-perity to the right source." The McKinley man straightened himself |