Show A FABLE WHICH IN NOT A I 1 the writer was ayoung a young mom man t a good many years ap ago on an occasion of crossm crossing i g the Missia mississippi sippi river on a crowded ferry ferrea s violent dispute arose between two passengers which resulted in in their drawing off their coats and at starting arting to engage in blows from which they were prevented with apparent difficulty by the bystanders after the landing of the boat at the levee of a large city the two belli belligerent gerant fellows were soon boon lost in the crowd when it was ascertained that no less than five persons had their pockets pock ets picked while crossing the river river and it was further found out that it was all accomplished while the pretended quarrel and fight was going on J and that the two principals in in the fight together with their confederates badall had all met in i a saloon ral oon near nearby by and divided up their ill gotten gains morat MORAL Z in a large and proud city the capital of a populous and free nation under the dome of dt that magnificent tit building from which the goddess of liberty holds aloft the scales of justice the representatives of two hoary headed political parties are now striving to get up a sham fight over an ancient f feud called the tariff question on whereby they can divert public attention and enable the bankers and shylocks Shy locks of the east to reap eap arich a rich harvest arvest la by leaving undone the necessary financial legislation demanded in the int interest erist of the people signs of warning should lie be posted on the entrance of the capitol beware of picklock ieta ets and in the coming election the sign beware re of pick pickpockets PO pockets crets should be at every crossroad and ancl placed oyer over the door of evay every voting precinct in the united 8 tates states tariff is in no longer a serious question of Ai aisputne dia it is only the pretext or false alarm to mislead the voter I 1 and cause cans T him hi i ni to blindly I 1 follow the party war cry c ry we belie believe the time has come when the cry of a fight on the tariff wm will cause the voters to td turn way away with wit h a smile of scorn acorn at the gauziness of the sham of these diese nim elwers and protect their valuables by insisting insi atin 9 that these old ex champion cham pio shill shall be retired anda and a new champion brought b ro ugh t out 9 who will bear a shield of silver and gold aclid at the ratio of 16 to I 1 in the ile meantime e let the motto be ia conspicuously pons asly disla displayed to beware of tick Pick pickpockets pockets 2 1 |