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Show 7 it not so disasIt would me that the devil is gittin in more work FROM THE REFORM PRESS. do see to if mens here trously dont than down disgustinp, and patriotism SAM WALTER FOSS. you you are, The laborer fasts to pay what ought not to soon hell have the biggest mount on eagles wings, as it were, and brag lie paid rent; fasts to something purty pay interest, fasts to He bought in 1865 a farm of stumps and in this whole business. O Lord, if and bluster about what a great nation we redeem debts, fasst to interest stones, support the proprietor; and then in the very next breath de- and when His name was his surname you kin tell me why I have sich a hard time have, the crops fail, fasting becomes starit was Jones. while others have a good tix.e and more of clare that we are so insignificantly poor that vation; after having robbed the laHe put a mortgage on the farm, and then in this worlds goods than they kin use, Ill be the only way to get money with which to borer properly, by usury, murders him siowly by starconscious pride, on carry on the war is to borrow it! Such pa- vation. Proudhon. and to keep right mightily obliged you, In twenty years Ill pay it up, said workin for a golden harp and the blessed triots (?) ought to be kicked into kingdom Armour was a strong war advocate, and wolkin on the streets of gold come. They are a disgrace to any country, The mortgage had a hungry maw that swal- privilege of as soon as Congress and the President made and singin Thy praizes. But I wish you and especially to this one. lowed corn and wheats a formal and tech old Skinflint would declaration, this patriotic (?) man He toiled with patience night and day to let Twentyperup friends We advise the of true would advanced the price of meat two cents a the mortgage eat; cent in their tender places and make them He slowly worked himself to death; and on treat me a little better. Amen. Morgans American interests to withdraw their atten- pound. Public calamity is a private gain to tion from Sampson and Schley and centre it the few who control the the calm hillside, Buzz Saw. products of the laid the monsters reach good on matters closer home. Mark Hanna and world. Index, Medicine beyond They Lodge, Kan. SENATOR CANNONS POSITION ON his gang of treasury-lootinpirares are in a DIRECT LEGISLATION. And then the farm with all its incumbrances The Pittsburg, Pa , gas monopoly cleared position to do this country more harm in of mortgages, stumps and stones, of Pioneer The Direct Legislation Gub one than all the Spaniards on earth half a million last year. You would have hard It fell to young Melchizedek Paul Adoniram Utah, through its secretary, Mr. N. J. couldday do in a year. Sampson, Schley and work trying to convince its stockholders that Jones; Hansen, addressed a letter of inquiry to Melchizedek was a likely youth, a holy good-- . Hon. Frank Cannon, asking his views on Dewey will take care of the Spaniards. the country is not prospering they are the ly man. the subject of Direct Legislation. The fol- Watch Hanna. We say again, watch Hanna. country, dont you know. This is better to And he vowed to raise the mortgage like a lowing take out of the consumers pockets and put is the Senators reply in full: a noble puritan. minute and this ask Just stop into the speculators' purses than for it to go yourself WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 31, 1S0& food to into the public raise Mr. N. J. Hansen, Salt Lake City, Utah: farmers after question: Why, He went forth every morning to the rugged treasury I This is modern Dear Sir: the feed laborers and congratulations manufacture My my nation, Accept mountain side, statesmanship! Appeal to Reason. And he dug, as dug before him good old attended to yourself and your club upon the goods, houses, tools, furniture and all articles God-BGlorified. great work which you have undertaken. I of luxury, is it necessary to stand idle until a The Spanish government is laying heavier ' He raised pumpkins and potatoes down the look upon the direct participation of the few grains of worthless sand can be dug out taxes on the people to get labor to carry on monster's throat to pour, method election the as bowels the of by of the earth to be used as a the war but her wealthy people see to i being He gulped them down and smacked his jaws people our which we are to reach purification of medium to exchange all these varied pro- that it is laid on goods and not on their and calmly asked for more. system and justice in our laws and adminis- ducts one with another? The Fairbault Jef- property. We have the same kind of Span- He worked until his back was bent, until his tration. ish statesmen in Washington City who are Answering your questions more par- fersonian. hair was gray; the same kind ri tax on comsump-tio- n On the hillside through a snowdrift they dug ticularly, I have pleasure in stating: There was a time when the Repulicans laying Senof income tax. Tax the peoples instead in of I of election favor the am his grave one day. (1) who opposed the issue of charged everybody first-born His food, but let the rick go free! Appeal to son, Eliphalet, had no time to ators, Justices of the Supreme Court, and greenbocks with treasonable designs. Now direct weep and brood, Presidents and Reason, Girard, Kan. by they charge everybody who favors the issue For the monster by his doorstep growled for- vote of the t people. of greenbacks with treasonable designs. ever for his food. few thousand lives lost amount to The j (2) I am in favor of doing away with He fed him on his garden truck, he stuffed nominating conventions for the President. Thus do old party opinions change. South- nothing, for at no time in the history of the ern Mercury, Dallas, Tex. world has a slaughtered man been worth as him on his hay, is the place where corruption begins. This He fed him eggs and butter, but he would If we had no nominating conventions, but if The man who does the most work always much as a slaughtered ox. Christianity not go away. civilization and general education have not And Eliphalef he staggered with the burden the whole question of the election of a Preswhile least ths does for who he it, gets pay made his carcass worth any more than it wastf and then died, ident were submitted to popular vote, the no work about all that is loose. This in the gets days of Scipio Africanus. Dead heroes And slept with old Melchizedek and people and not the politicians would have same rule applies to the army. Those who only used by living jingoes to cite tty' their way, and we Vould invariably select a do all the fighting get the least pay, while death more heroes. Mudsiller Barnett Gibbs, Then the farm it fell to Thomas and from man whose life and character represent the those who do no fighting at all get the in The Real Republic, Amarillo, Tex., Thomas fell to John, best type of statesmanship. very largest. Then from John to Eleazer, but the mortgage (3) I am in favor of initial legislation by There are but two sources of wealth still lived on. in We with that the Tax be attained believe as as to Single the posspeedily people, land and labor. Gold and silver in their Then it fell to Ralph and Peter, Eli, Absalom would that or other ReferI In for the opetation, am the sible. system any meantime, and Paul, natural state are land which labor reduces to Down through all the generations, but the endum. It would afford to me great pleasure force open natural opportunities, this Nation elements of wealth. Besides their natural mortgage killed them all. to write you at greater length in substantia- could food 700,000,000 people better than it adaptability as money metals, they repreh that number. We not sent the About a score of years ago the farm came tion of the foregoing opinions, but at the now feeds days works of labor in reducing beleive we it it. know down to Jim, present moment I am greatly pressed for only them. But after all it is the open mint and And Jim called. in the mortgagee and' gave time. Most sincerely yours, stamp that gives them currency the farm to him. Edward Bellamy is dead, but his works government Fran Cannon. xfj.' in commerce as measures of value. Their Theres no human heart so empty that it has do follow him. His body is dead, but Edward "Intrinsic value, of which we hear so much, no ray of hope, LAGOONOPENS. Bellamy still lives. Looking Backward will So Jim gave up the ancient farm and went to in the stroke of the government die lies Lagoon opened last Monday under most be read a million years hence. He will be one making soap. which coins it, just the same as it does in favorable circumstances. There was a tre- of the few men whose names can never die. He grew a of bloated, pam- mendous crowd out all the greenback or the government gold or and evening. day nature; pered By the way, we would like to suggest to silver cetificaie. Fresno Watchman. He owned ten railroads, twenty mines, and Those who came expressed their delight at the many and magnificent improvements the starving Cubans, when they get tired of It is easy to get into war, but the whole State legislature; getting out And thousands did his gruff commands and that have been added since the closing of the Spanish oppression, that they can come to of it is another thing. Since 1865 this govlived upon his bounty, season of 1897. The grounds have been Pennsylvania. Sheriff Martin is still in office, ernment has paid in interest on bonds $3,075-00And he came home, bought back the farm beautified in a thousand ways. and doing business at the old stand. and enlarged or about $40 for each individual, allowand the entire county. ' The lake is twice its former size. In addition of 75,000,000. Yes, war is If any bonds are issued it will be done ing a population for OBADIAH POORDEVILS PRAYER. to the new shrubbery and flowers, there have those who have money over the solemn protest of every Populist a good thing added two These statues. been are bronze of O Lord, I haint got no education and I to loan, but what remains for the poor devils and are a combination of a lions Congressman and newspaper in America. who appearance, but much to not Ive do the fighting? After the war, pays sense, got eyes guess The Socialist papers are equally bitter an and a womans head, wings eagles body, feel it to see with and feelins interest on war bonds for at least half a cenwith, and against it. seems to me there is a mighty sight of and is supposed to represent speed, strength tury. While we heartily sympathize with the meekness. The menagerie is very atand is home who now at this in world. me are Heres as Congressman King, wrong things starving Cubans, we frankly admit that the workin days and nights and givin to old tractive. Among other things we note two for a few days, says that Jerry Simpson is starving American workingmen are entitled week-ol- d fawn elk, two deer, one of the best men in Congress. He Skinflint half what I raise, and payin old large elk and a to and should receive our first consideration. wild mountain two lions, a cat, three bears, praises the sockless Populist very highly. You balance. the of a It is true that Spain has been brutal in her part Twentypercent other minor animals. Also, there see I rent land of old Skinflint and I had to and many treatment of her subjects in Cuba, but what Almost anybody is good enough to make of the Latimer crime, which was committed borrer money of Twentypercent to buy a is quite a collection of rare and beautiful birds. The boating is most excellent, which a common soldier, but it takes team, and it seems like it takes all I kin by sworn peace officers of the United States? In line feature. of attractive is the of one a. the Hundred to draw the It is the mote in the Four very make to keep body and soul together. 0 eye of a neighbor tha j Mr. Bamberger has secured the larger salaries. worries mankind. We never think of tvuonj Lord, how is this? I read in my Bible that music, I0c, is the Hauerbach orchestra for each evening, which the earth with the fullness thereof the war close without an issue beam in our own. Texas Workman, Should all celebrated orchestrion furnishes the iH.( Lords. That was a long time ago, but what with Row Yd of the Mark Hanna of bonds, the bond-thiideal needed music make the to the is war The havoc with Lagoon the , playing I want to know is how did old Skinflint get as an of the West. Everybody will want to stripe would look upon patriotism resort of who those ment SocialisrbC00 how and is of he much it oppose so hold of long empty name. it? O Lord, did you give it to go to Lagoon this year, and when they go crying against paternalism in goverr to keep going all will to want once they as anything can 0'ut go again. him? If so, why didnt you give me some, It is so now that one cannot express their War is as paternal of the 1 nothis opponents and paternal govern m w fjay too? If didnt work ground patriotism to the extent of displaying 34x6 WHAT IS POPULISM ? word not a against government su.V.J'sion without patronizing the bunting trust. body else didnt, old Skinflint couldnt do it, features of Populism are: The flag The leading in the present emergency. And wnat has and it wouldnt bring him a cent. O Lord, of all of abolition the free silver, coinage become of our old the friend, sanctity of Herbert George, of The New Road of contract? why do I have to give old Skinflint half what banks of issue, the issuing of all money by when For the instance, slave? his be If to me make Did government do not I make? you the general government, opposition to interest-b- Denver, says that gold and patriotism notified the French cable company the other did what this him land, give in is you hand Mr. hand, right. George you gave earing bonds, and postal savings banks. go day that unless it furnished a satisfactory exhim so much for and me none? If somebody that it railroads teaches of the On question planation of the delay of a message to the else gave it to him, what right had they to AN EPICURES APPETITE such as gas, water, all monopolies public the corporations franchise do it? 0 Lord, these things are bothering is politely catered to and he dints sumptu- navy department, all of kinds railroads, including electricity, would be revoked and its cable cut. The me mightily. I want to know when you sold should be owned ously amidst all the surroundings of luxur- franchises of and the operated public by corporations have been decided the land, and who to, and what you got for in the interest of the It also favors ious comfort in the dining cars of the Union by the federal judiciary to be contracts public. and, it? And if you jist gave it to the people, why election of all officers by a direct vote Pacific R. R. No other line out of Utah car- therefore, endowed with the chilwhen the sanctity. Hence, the haint it lotted out like it was and that all laws should be ries them. Ticket office, 201 Main Street. the of people, cable would not have hesitated, we company dren of Israel went over into the Promised submitted to the for approval before people in to some of its federal needs? suppose, he what appealing man POPULISTS TAKE NOTICE. Land, giving to each land the become On quesoperative. for they an injunction restraining the cutA meeting of the members of the People's judges And O Lord, I went to know why old Twen- tion it in land, also alien monopoly opposes of work ting the cable. For our part we are very typercent has money to loan. He dont land. Is there anything wrong party is called for Tuesday evening, June 7, of ownership it has not occurred to the Spaniards to evof money and 1898, at the office of the Chairman, No. 76 glad any and always has plenty it? with a federal judge for an injunction refine buggies West Second South Street, Salt Lake City, apply to erything, and his girls ride in If Lincoln was President today, how Utah, to consider matters pertaining to the straining Admiral Sampson from interfering and cut up awful, and nobody says anything with the sanctity of their coal contracts. The about it because they are rich. If my girls many of the Wall Street gang would be meeting of the National Committee, which heieabouts seem to be entering did that they would git a bad name and be with him? Where would Mark Hanna be? meets at Omaha on June 15th. A full attend- Spaniards into a be? he would good many contracts for coal, the sancance is desired. II . W. Lawrence, talked about by everybody. And O Lord, And William McKinley, where of tity which is presumably beyond question. Chairman. theres so many things out of gear it makes Compare McKinley's recommendations with L. H. Gray, Secretary. Twentieth Century, New York. Bolt LaYe City, Utah, May II, l'OS. me dizzy to think about them. It seems to what Lincoln did, and you can readily see. THAT MORTGAGE. be funny, were d. d. g e 1 - - Vice-Presiden- ts k-ar- d. ' . one-tent- fifty-millionai- 0, $13-a-mont- h ef - e |