Show i POLITICAL SWINDLERS It If a mann nine caine to your hall for or toe ot of RAking asking for tor I a for tor some alleged object would yell your yur heart and your purse to hIm If you 01 were that ho he was Ir trying to obtain Our ur sympathy by false pretenses Suppose he were to appeal to your egotIsm m and by eloquent verbiage en endeavor delvor deavor to convInce you rOU that your our gift ho bo used entirelY for tor the further once or ct your own materIal would you Ol respond to thE call Would not the nauseating ot of rhetoric warn want the solicitor all ne a fraud Suppose ho be lIero to 10 tell you a 0 soul stirring story about a poor unfortunate barnum being that was to be by your our anti that or of others would iou u grant his request t it If you Jou happened to 10 know knol that the tho alleged poor unfortunate referred to either elthor not exist or that t the misery depicted was wao invented for tor the Iho or of softening your the tho fellow you were known knon to you Oll personally n net a 0 drunken worthless sot n a character like the tho Prodigal in the parable wasting his hili substance In riotous living hiving but bul un unlike unlike like hi his prototype In the matter of nt re you trust him with a 4 contribution for tor nn any worthy purpose No one onn would Such n a fellow tellow would bo be turned out ot of every Even Iv E EZ Z Is not caught hy 17 frauds and pretenders Scone Somo people trapped whet when time the disguise gulso Is verr thin OtherwIse the occupation ot of the beasts or of prey would not ho be zig permanent nil as It lu Is hut none rono cnn can he be Imposed upon when thom tho ques then Is of oC and cents by known to be impostors When Shen however tIme the question Is or the ot of civic duties many nn atom ore less cautious They lUll leso common 8 sense n o Everywhere In Ia the vast field neM or of this tact finds II Sometimes men appeal to for tor votes vote and give promises that thal everyone cannot be fulfilled The They prom promIse Ise Isa and hn him maculate In every branch of at Millennial condItions when their only object Is to obtain votes and per personal onal benefits And Ami Amito to such aunt hypocrites with oily tongues and slick cI many throw their rho rattlesnake is III 1111 It to warn the tho unwary or of Its presence by the noise It The hypocritical promise maker gives warning enough by his noisy tongue but many do not bent It Sometimes for Cor votes appeal tn to tIme tho on tIme tho ground that they are aro hero that have hao enga engaged In time the work ot of Te rescue cue ot of poor sufferers anti ami wrongs TImo Tho tales are uro known to be invented for the sake lInk of effect The alleged tyrants are uro 1 known to be hut but windmills and tho Iho exploits of chivalry are clearly only the tho yarns ot of the tho champion champlon village liar Yet some citizens Rive give them the tho they ask for tor as It If a eon ot of could bo be trusted lit III an any pUblic ot of importance Imparlance Still more Somo Ramo of at those who virn support arc oro notorious char actors that would not nol be left to them themselves selves behind the counter or of n a country store It if they svere covered wIth rAg In instead stead ot of costly broadcloth They are Bre known to be In riotous liv Irm but hul because e they happen to have havethe the tho to cover with ex pen e they mire not ashamed ot of coming belore time citizens and asking for tor their sup support Ort thou though h they still CAr CArry ry 17 wIth them the tho marks from the troughs And thoy time obtain ln II a followIng In Ht ot of common sense rh rIy would hie hI out It if they cre 10 regarded as And that to what the they ore nrc get gel ft at it some I different front the tho general bri brigan gan They ask for tor votes lest Oret These tJ I are aro easIer asler to obtain than money Y there Thero I nIl are more E Z Marks considered Whom When they have hae the stoa time the II their actual c The Willi only 1 |